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    Aaron Rodgers Says What Millions of Americans Think About Fauci
    LATROBE, Pa.—I was standing a few feet behind Pat McAfee’s stage at Saint Vincent College on Monday afternoon when Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers delivered one of the most candid and authentic interviews you’ll ever watch. The Steelers had just finished their first padded practice of training camp, and McAfee was welcoming coaches and players…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Fact Check: The SAVE America Act Doesn’t Prevent Women From Voting
    One of the Left’s most common arguments against the SAVE America Act is the claim that it prevents married women from voting. Digital fellow Emma Dayton fact-checked this claim in a recent explainer video. She mentions a C-SPAN host who says the network has been getting calls asking about married women who have changed their…
    Daily Signal Staff
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    ‘Pay to Pray’? El-Sayed Allegedly Paid Black Pastor $75K Before Endorsement
    Horace Sheffield III, a prominent Detroit-based pastor and radio host who said he would put “his full force” behind Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, received $75,000 from the candidate’s campaign beforehand, a Washington Free Beacon review of finance records found. Ecumenical Ministers Alliance, the pastor’s nonprofit that Sheffield incorporated in 2010, did not respond to…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    White House Slams Dems for Voting Against Health Care Price Transparency Bill
    House Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats voted against a provision of President Donald Trump’s health care plan requiring hospitals to prominently display pricing for services. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks’ Prices on the Wall Act would require hospitals, labs, imaging centers, and other providers of routine medical services to post their prices where patients can see them….
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell | Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs Gives Grassroots Leaders Optimistic Inside Look at ‘Battle’ for America’s Future
    Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., told conservative grassroots leaders in Phoenix Saturday to “never give up” in the “battle” for America’s future, as upcoming November elections could shake up control of Congress. Biggs spoke at Heritage Action’s Southwest Sentinel Summit, designed to train grassroots leaders on key policy issues and strategies for rallying the conservative movement….
    Emma Dayton
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    Blanche Secures Deal With Skeptical GOP Senators, Confirmation Vote Set
    Republican Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina have reached a deal with the Department of Justice, agreeing to advance acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for official confirmation by the U.S. Senate. Following weeks of negotiations and threats from the president to withdraw his nomination over the contested anti-weaponization fund, the…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Social Security’s Countdown Clock Just Got Louder
    Somewhere inside the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget this week, an analyst hit “publish” on a paper that should have led the evening news. The finding: no single change to how Washington taxes Social Security benefits will save the program. Reforming benefit taxation could help, the group said, in its July 30 paper on the subject, but only as…
    Jay Rogers
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    Fox News Delivered Its Highest-Rated Fourth of July in Network History During America 250
    Fox News Channel dominated television ratings in July, highlighted by its highest-rated Fourth of July coverage in network history, according to Nielsen Media Research. Several broadcast networks, conversely, suffered historic lows, further demonstrating the steady shift in American TV viewing habits. Record Fourth of July Ratings After America celebrated its 250th anniversary with, in all…
    Andrew Phelan
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    Fetterman Does the Unthinkable in Washington: Show Contrition
    During Dr. Anthony Fauci’s appearance on Wednesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, we witnessed one of the most astonishing things we’ve seen recently in Washington, D.C.—perhaps in decades. No, it was not the smug and cowardly Fauci pleading the Fifth 111 times. Washington does smug and cowardly the way Ocean City…
    Al Perrotta
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    Moreno Says Ex-Son-In-Law Is a ‘Danger’ Who Should Not Serve in Congress
    NEW YORK, Aug 2 (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Max Miller of Ohio “is a danger” to his ex-wife and should not serve in Congress, U.S. Senator Bernie Moreno, a fellow Ohio Republican, said on Sunday while addressing abuse allegations lodged against his former son-in-law.   Moreno, whose daughter Emily was married to Miller until last year,…
    Reuters
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    Rubio, Trump Unveil $175 Million Counter-China Plan, Documents Show
    President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to spend almost $200 million on programs aimed at countering China’s growing influence in Central America. According to a congressional notification obtained by The Associated Press, the State Department could oversee $175.8 million in an effort to replace aging undersea telecommunications cables in the Caribbean and Central America. The…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Taxpayer-Funded Islamic Commission Raises ‘Preferential Treatment’ Concerns
    Massachusetts lawmakers are taking steps toward using taxpayer dollars to prioritize the hiring of American Muslims for state government positions through a permanent so-called Islamic commission, sparking concerns that the Left is prioritizing a religion that contradicts its own political agenda. If enacted, Bill S.2134, “An Act promoting the civil rights and inclusion of American…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Gov. Andy Beshear’s Urgent Blast to McConnell for Neglecting His Duty
    Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has spent the week hounding Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. to do “the bare minimum” and go on camera to prove he is alive. McConnell’s unexplained absence undermines the work he’s done as senator, Beshear said in a SiriusXM podcast yesterday. “I don’t think it’s a positive legacy, but I know he…
    Francesca Cella
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    Where Each Senate Republican Stands on the SAVE Act
    Ahead of the August recess, Senate Republicans remain divided over how to proceed with the SAVE America Act, legislation championed by President Donald Trump that aims to ban mail-in ballots and require identification and proof of citizenship for voters. In response to a Daily Signal questionnaire sent to all Republican Senate offices, staunch allies of…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Hearing Represented ‘Complete Career and Personal Destruction of Anthony Fauci’
    Dr. Anthony Fauci’s appearance at a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday was the perfect encapsulation of what Tony Kinnett referred to later that day on “The Tony Kinnett Cast” as the “complete chaos” of COVID-19 policies. Victor Davis Hanson, senior contributor to the Daily Signal, joined Kinnett to share his own exclusive assessment of Fauci’s…
    Rebecca Downs
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    ‘Democrats Want Illegal Aliens to Vote’: Cruz Pushes GOP to Pass SAVE America Act
    Sen. Ted Cruz is calling for Senate Republicans to do “everything humanly possible to pass the SAVE America Act.” With only one week left, the Texas lawmaker is intensifying pressure on his colleagues to act. Cruz appeared on “Mornings with Maria” on Fox Business today to urgently repeat a demand he has made for months:…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Voter Perception Leans Toward El-Sayed After ‘Abolish ICE’ Comment During Debate
    Abdul El-Sayed is leading Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., by 15 points ahead of next week’s Democrat primary for the open Senate seat, according to a new poll, marking a sharp rise in support for the progressive candidate after Tuesday night’s Democrat debate. An Emerson College Polling/WLNS/WOODTV survey released Thursday showed El-Sayed handily defeating Stevens in…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    SCOOP: The New Ban Hawley Wants After Fauci’s Senate Appearance
    Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is set to announce legislation to bar all federal employees from soliciting cash prizes while they are in office. The announcement follows the senator grilling Dr. Anthony Fauci about the millions of dollars he pocketed while allegedly contributing to the spread and cover-up of the COVID-19 pandemic. “No federal bureaucrat should…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Trump Threatens to Pull Blanche Nomination
    Amid weeks of Senate GOP infighting to confirm Todd Blanche, President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, the president is now threatening to postpone the nomination until problem senators are out of office in 2027.  “I have no objection to temporarily withdrawing Todd’s name, if they do not do the right thing, and putting him…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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  • opinion

    Fauci’s Downfall Reveals the Danger of Rule by ‘Experts’
    The rise and fall of Fauci is one of the great political lessons of our time about the folly and destructiveness of rule by so-called expertise. On Wednesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in his appearance before…
    Jarrett Stepman
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