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Six-Figure Ad Buy Calls Trump to Send This Message to China on AI Threats
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Alliance for a Better Future will run a six-figure ad campaign urging President Donald Trump to discuss AI safety with China’s Xi Jinping during Thursday’s state visit. The ad will encourage Trump to continue “beating China on AI without becoming China.” “President Trump knows America wins by building AI that Americans… -
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‘They Said Voter Fraud Didn’t Exist’: Federal Authorities Make Wave of Election Crime Arrests Ahead of Midterms
Just this month, the Justice Department arrested or charged at least 22 individuals in voter fraud-related crimes, while the Department of Homeland Security arrested and moved to deport at least four noncitizen voters. The enforcement comes with weeks to go before the midterm elections, and as Senate Republicans have been unable to pass the SAVE… -
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Store Owner Once Sued by Biden Labor Department Holds Fundraiser for El-Sayed
A 7-Eleven franchisee, sued by former President Joe Biden’s administration, held a fundraiser for Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed earlier this month. Ali Haider, the owner of multiple 7-Eleven stores in western Michigan, was sued by the Department of Labor in 2023 after he allegedly denied 13 employees overtime pay. Haider eventually agreed to… -
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President Trump’s Fraud Ledger Is a Good Start, but Now Congress Must Act
Washington has never had much trouble spending taxpayer money, but keeping track of where it goes has proved considerably harder. Thankfully, the Trump administration has been extremely aggressive in tackling fraud wherever it occurs as the White House’s new Fraud Ledger shows. The ledger currently reports an estimated $245.7 billion in fraud uncovered since January… -
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California Risks Killing the Golden Goose With Proposition 40
This November, California voters will choose whether to implement Proposition 40, a one-time 5% wealth tax on billionaires to fund a failing health care system. It’s part of a disturbing trend toward socialism in the U.S., wherein people misunderstand basic incentives and how taxes that target the wealthy end up harming everyone. High net-wealth folks… -
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Utopian Net Zero Just Got Riskier
Consider the argument that net-zero commitments by U.S. companies are indefensible. First, it is possible that every U.S. corporation could meet its net-zero commitments and yet have no impact on global warming so long as other countries keep emitting greenhouse gases. Second, one of the primary beneficiaries of corporate net-zero commitments is China, arguably the… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Left’s Psychodrama Cycle Designed to Win It Elections
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript 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: The Anthropic CEO came out, Dario Amodei, and said that there was going to be an AI apocalypse by… -
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America’s Chronic Disease Crisis Is Largely Man-Made—and Reversible
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has done many things in a year and a half in office. But perhaps none is more important than highlighting our man-made chronic disease crisis. Modern life has brought countless blessings. Clean water, sewage systems, antibiotics, refrigeration, and more have tamed many deadly diseases. In the… -
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Conservative Lawmakers Demand the WNBA Define What a Woman Is
A group of House Republican lawmakers sent a letter to the Women’s National Basketball Association on Friday, demanding that the league define what a woman is. The letter, drafted by Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., and signed by Reps. Erin Houchin, R-Ind.; John Rose, R-Tenn.; Zach Nunn, R-Iowa; and Sheri Biggs, R-S.C., sent the letter to… -
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Media Outlets Sue White House for Revoking Credentials
Politico, MS NOW, and CNN are suing the White House after President Donald Trump announced he was banning the three outlets. “This morning, we notified the government that we are filing a lawsuit today to protect our First Amendment rights and defend the principle that the government does not decide what the press reports or… -
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Is ‘Neurodiversity’ the New DEI in Education?
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A parental rights group is accusing the nation’s largest school counselors association of repackaging critical race theory and queer theory under the banner of “neurodiversity” and “neuro-affirming counseling.” The parental rights group Courage Is a Habit warns in a new report that the American School Counselor Association‘s neurodiversity framework effectively turns… -
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Vermont Teachers Union Pushes Gender Identity in Sports, Raises Alarms About ‘White Privilege’
The Vermont teachers union formally recognizes students’ right to play sports based on “gender identity,” rather than biological sex. The National Education Association Vermont chapter also asserts that the state’s public school teachers must acknowledge the nation’s “white supremacy culture” as responsible for “white privilege” that is “conferred irrespective of wealth, gender, and other factors.”… -
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I Debated One of Charlie Kirk’s Rivals. Her Response Was Shocking.
Gen Z leads every generation on markers of progressive politics: support for more expansive government, LGBTQ+ identification, and even a rejection of religion—especially among young women. Maybe our parents are right about those phones: In 2026, social media and video networks became the world’s most widely used news source. More people than ever now get… -
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The ‘Modern-Day Lynching’ Hoax—and the Elephant in the Room
Nearly 60 Democrat members of Congress signed a letter to sound an alarm: Black Americans are being found hanging, including some from trees, in a wave of possible “modern-day lynchings.” Their letter to the Justice Department and the FBI stated, “The series of deaths raise significant suspicion of foul play given the role of lynching… -
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Network of State Conservatives Advance SAVE Laws
Ensuring America has secure elections might be the largest and most consequential fight for conservatives ahead of the November 2026 midterm elections. Requiring identification and proof of citizenship to vote is an 80-20 issue for Americans, and conservatives are fighting to deliver it. The SAVE Act, which would establish a requirement for voter ID and… -
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Both Parties Aiming to Lose the Midterm Election
This election is a contest to see which party can do its best to lose. Looking forward from mid-September, President Donald Trump’s Republicans seem to be well ahead at this. But the Resistance (or don’t they call themselves that anymore?) Democrats are putting up a contest. Second-term presidents tend to make political mistakes by doing… -
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What Would a Truly Independent AI Watchdog Look Like?
In case you haven’t heard, Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei has published a new essay about the need to “pace” the class of products his own firm is pioneering. Amodei’s essay, plus a highly-orchestrated whistleblower campaign about the supposedly existential AI threat has elevated the debate about regulating frontier AI models. A consensus seems to be… -
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Dismisses ‘Doomsday Narratives’ Surrounding AI Development
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismissed warnings arising about the pace of artificial intelligence’s development as “doomsday narratives” in a Friday interview. “2030 is not going to be the end of the world. There is 0% chance that’s going to be the end of the world,” the CEO of the world’s largest… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: 5 Reasons Mark Carney’s Animosity Toward the US Will Backfire
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney now believes he is more than just the Western foil to President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement—he is the global one. Accordingly, he seems determined to demonstrate to the world how to stand up to Trump, to force Trump to lose the midterms, and to hurt the U.S. economy… -
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What to Expect From Trump’s Summit With Xi
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinpeng will likely confront China’s ties to Iran, the artificial intelligence race, Chinese prisoners, and Taiwan policy in their meeting in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 24. Adam Savit, director for China Policy at America First Policy Institute, said the summit should be viewed as a follow-up to Trump’s May…
