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Trump Concludes Meetings with Zelenskyy, Netanyahu
President Donald Trump held meetings Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as the United States considers further military action in Iran and aid to Ukraine. “President Trump has concluded his meetings in the Oval Office with President Zelenskyy and Prime Minister Netanyahu,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X… -
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‘This is Classified’: What Biden Told His Ghostwriter, and What Redactions Tell About Materials He Shared
Long before he ran for president, Joe Biden made several references to both classified and potentially classified material in his interviews with a ghostwriter. The tapes of the interviews were released as part of a Freedom of Information Act request from the Oversight Project, a watchdog group formerly part of The Heritage Foundation. Biden intervened… -
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Moderate GOP Senators Try to Block Shutdown of Dept. of Ed
Moderate Republicans in the Senate Committee on Health, Education and Pensions have introduced two bills that would prohibit outsourcing certain education programs from the U.S. Department of Education to other federal agencies, blocking a complete shutdown of the federal agency. Under bill S. 5046, sponsored by Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lisa… -
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Will Apathy Cost Ossoff His Senate Seat? New Polling Shows Collins in Lead Among Older Voters
A recent poll on Georgia elections shows Rep. Mike Collins leads Sen. Jon Ossoff among older voters in the race for U.S. Senate. Will votes by older Georgians cost the incumbent senator his job? In a poll conducted July 13-16 by Fabrizio Ward and Impact Research for AARP, Rep. Mike Collins leads voters over the… -
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Senate Leadership Begs Colleagues to Deflect on SAVE America Act
The Senate Republican Conference, chaired by Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and co-chaired by James Lankford, R-Okla., sent an internal communication to Senate Republicans urging them to deflect any and all media questions about the SAVE America Act, according to a document obtained by the Daily Signal. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, described the communication in a… -
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HHS Announces New Pledge to Improve Mental Health, Addiction Care
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Health and Human Services will announce Wednesday that health care stakeholders have signed a first-of-its-kind pledge to improve mental health and addiction care nationwide. Insurers, health systems, provider organizations, medical societies, and behavioral health partners will sign the voluntary pledge to advance evidence-based, high-quality behavioral health care across… -
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Trump Talks Auto Industry, Rallies for Republican Candidates
The American auto industry is protected and thriving—and that’s thanks to Republicans in Congress doing their job, President Donald Trump said in a rally on July 27. Trump spoke at the General Motors facility in Milford, Michigan on Monday ahead of the Senate primary debate to come later that evening. The president emphasized that America… -
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Ossoff Outspent Tlaib and AOC on Makeup
Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., has spent more campaign funds on makeup services this year than any other federal candidate, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis of the senator’s campaign finance records. According to its analysis, Ossoff’s campaign has paid Atlanta-based makeup artist Stephanie Ponder $2,887 since February for “makeup services.” That total exceeds spending… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: California Is Becoming a Warning for America
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of Thursday’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: Let’s turn to California, and California seems to be a petri dish of all those ideas that the Democrats have… -
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Democratic Socialists Reveal Their Plan to Reshape America
The Democratic Socialists of America are not hiding their plan to reshape America. On Sunday, their co-chair joined Fox News and openly confirmed that their long-term goals ahead of the midterm elections include abolishing parts of the U.S. government. Megan Romer appeared on Shannon Bream’s “Fox News Sunday,” saying the organization’s goals include abolishing the… -
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Fauci Diaries Reveal Gloating About Lockdowns, Fame Seeking
The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, as early as January 2020 did not believe that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese wet market. He later publicly insisted that a wet market was the likely origin of the virus while dismissing a theory that the virus had a… -
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How Are Detransitioners Faring in Medical Malpractice Cases Across the Country?
Many of those who underwent experimental medical “treatments” to make their bodies resemble those of the opposite sex later reject their transgender identities, and some of these detransitioners are now suing for medical malpractice. Josh Payne, founding partner of the law firm Campbell Miller Payne, which exists to represent these detransitioners, briefed the Daily Signal… -
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Trump Wants Senate to Stay in Session Until Voter ID Legislation Passes
President Donald Trump called for the Senate to suspend its approaching August recess to pass the SAVE America Act, which mandates voter ID and prohibits mail-in voting. “John Thune should not allow the United States Senate to ‘leave town’ until it passes The Save America Act or, far better still, TERMINATES THE FILIBUSTER, where Republicans… -
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2 Million Visits to Voter Homes: A Pro-Life Group’s Huge Canvassing Push
America’s largest pro-life voter contact program announced that their canvassers have already made more than two million visits to voters’ homes this election cycle, according to an exclusive press release obtained by the Daily Signal. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and its partner Women Speak Out PAC contact low-turnout voters through door-knocking, advertising, voter contact… -
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What the Nation’s Report Card Teaches Us About Repairing the Human Soul
Stories bemoaning U.S. student test scores have become a bromide. But some reports on student achievement offer a glimpse into the reasons why achievement is so poor. So it is with the latest Long Term Trend report from the Nation’s Report Card, the National Assessment of Education Progress. First, the results: Reading and math scores among 9-year-olds improved slightly over scores from 2022,… -
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Homan Spars With CNN’s Bash Over ‘Deadly Mistakes’ By ICE
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—White House Border Czar Tom Homan insisted Sunday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will keep conducting vehicle stops. The stops were briefly paused after agents were involved in two fatal shootings. President Donald Trump reversed the directive roughly a day after it was issued, Axios reported. While a broader review… -
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AP Report on ‘LGBT’ USAID Workers in Nepal Reveals True Agenda of the Shuttered Program
Remember how the Left said that eliminating USAID would lead to “devastating” consequences? It certainly did, but for their global cultural aspirations, not for our country. The Associated Press published a lengthy report on Thursday—and I can’t believe this is real—highlighting how shutting down USAID in Nepal led to “around 100 LGBTQ+” now-unemployed workers to… -
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DeWine Takes Action on Data Centers
Gov. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, on Thursday joined nearly half of the governors in the country in signing onto President Donald Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge. The pledge would require AI companies and data center operators pay the utility and infrastructure costs of data centers, not consumers. “America’s continued economic and technological leadership depends on reliable, large-scale… -
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100 Days From Election Day, New Ad ‘Holds the Line’ Against Socialism
One hundred days away from the midterm elections, the National Republican Senatorial Committee is launching a new ad highlighting the rise of socialism across the country. The ad, titled “Hold the Line,” will run across North Carolina, Ohio, Iowa, Alaska, Michigan, Georgia, and New Hampshire. These are their key Senate races that could keep Republicans… -
Voter ID, Citizenship Verification Measures Head to Ballots Across America
As Congress struggles to pass the SAVE America Act, voters in states across the nation will decide this November on election procedures such as photo ID requirements, citizenship verification, and other election security matters. Two states feature ballot initiatives with both voter ID requirements and calls for some form of citizenship verification and voter list…