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    ‘We’re Going to Find You’: DOJ Takes Decisive Action Against Criminals Who Smuggled Illegal Alien Children
    Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced on Thursday that the Department of Justice has indicted three illegal aliens for allegedly smuggling more than a dozen unaccompanied alien children into the United States.  The aliens from Guatemala “allegedly took part in a wide-ranging conspiracy to smuggle more than a dozen children into the United States by…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    US Will Hit Iran ‘Very Hard’ Tonight
    DUBAI/WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters)—President Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States would hit Iran “very hard tonight” and wanted eventually to take Iran’s oil infrastructure hub Kharg Island, after tit-for-tat strikes in the Gulf that have undermined a shaky ceasefire. Iranian sources and Western officials said indirect U.S.-Iranian talks on a preliminary peace deal…
    Parisa Hafezi | John Irish | Susan Heavey
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    38 Days of Strikes, 60 Days of Negotiations—Is Iran Just Buying Time?
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.  We talk about an Iran war, but as I speak on June 9, we haven’t had a real kinetic back-and-forth bombing…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Iran Fighting Intensifies With Congress Divided on War Power Questions
    After weeks in which President Donald Trump has expressed cautious optimism about peace talks with Iran, the United States retaliated against an Iranian downing of an American aircraft, raising questions about the administration’s Iran exit plan and how it will work with Congress going forward. On Tuesday, the United States struck Iran in retaliation for…
    George Caldwell
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    Trump: Iran Will ‘Have to Pay the Price’ After Tit-for-Tat Strikes
    DUBAI/WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters)—U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday Iran had taken too long to negotiate a deal and would now “have to pay the price,” while Tehran said it would reassess diplomatic engagement with Washington after overnight tit-for-tat strikes. Iran launched missile and drone attacks on U.S. bases in Jordan, Kuwait, and Bahrain…
    Enas Alashray | Elwely Elwelly  | Phil Stewart
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    Can Republicans Pull Off One Last Big Bill Before August? Pfluger Says They Can
    After nearly a year, House Republicans are finally gaining momentum on Reconciliation 3.0, an affordability, anti-fraud bill that has the potential to save the party in the midterms. With their self-imposed deadline of “before the end of summer”—meaning before campaign season ramps up in August—the window isn’t open long. Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger,…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    We Owe American Security to Those Boys on the Beaches of Normandy
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.   This past week was June 6, 2026. That’s the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day landings in World War II that took…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Storm Clouds Over Spy Power Talks in Congress
    With an end-of-the-week expiration of a federal spy program rapidly approaching, some in Congress are threatening to tank talks over the man the Trump administration has appointed to the nation’s highest surveillance position. On Friday, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which grants the federal government the authority to surveil foreigners without a…
    George Caldwell
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    US Considering Purchasing Chagos Islands, Telegraph Reports
    June 7 (Reuters) – The White House is considering a plan to buy the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, the Telegraph reported on Sunday. U.S. officials have drawn up a proposal to bypass the U.K. and make their own deal to take control of Diego Garcia, the report said.  Reuters could not immediately confirm the report….
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    Antifa Mob Gathers Outside TPUSA Event, Violence and Arrests Quickly Unfold
    SAN ANTONIO—A violent Antifa protest erupted outside the Turning Point Women’s Leadership Summit in San Antonio, Texas on Saturday. After protesters attempted, but failed, to storm into the event through a police blockade, the violence escalated. One man, who had been pepper-sprayed for storming police, was seen washing his eyes with water from a plastic…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Protester on Trial for Pepper-Spraying Police at ‘Fascist’ Heritage Foundation Makes His Defense in Court
    This article has been updated with a comment from Nathaniel Wetter Taylor. Nathaniel Wetter Taylor, the protester who allegedly pepper-sprayed two special police officers outside of the Heritage Foundation last year, delivered his own opening statement before a jury Thursday, attacking Heritage as “fascist” and claiming that the officers violated his rights. Appearing in the D.C. Superior Court,…
    Joseph Buff | Andrew Phelan
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    ‘We Refuse to Be Silenced’: Turning Point Event Continues After Bomb Threat
    SAN ANTONIO—Despite a bomb threat, Turning Point USA is bringing together thousands of conservative women this weekend to hear from the movement’s leading female speakers at its 11th annual Women’s Leadership Summit—and the Daily Signal is on the ground reporting live. Running today through Sunday, the summit aims to equip women to “strengthen their minds,…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    How Trump Plans to End Pro-Hamas Terrorism He Says Biden Ignored
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Trump administration convened a symposium Tuesday on combating threats posed by pro-Hamas terrorist groups that the State Department says were ignored for years by the Biden administration. The State Department held a “Symposium on the Rise of Far-Left Political Terrorism” at the Donald J. Trump United States Institute of Peace,…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Senate Passes Border Funding Megabill
    The Senate passed a major immigration enforcement funding bill early Friday morning, marking a major step forward for the effort to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as well as Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for the rest of President Donald Trump’s term. The chamber voted 52-47 to pass the $70 billion party-line budget bill,…
    George Caldwell
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    ‘UNHINGED’: Green Screams for DHS Secretary to ‘Shut Up!’ After Labeling Him a Racist
    Rep. Al Green, best known for shaking a cane at President Donald Trump and filing several articles of impeachment, is being mocked for labeling Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin a racist, then screaming at him to “shut up” when he tried to respond. It happened Wednesday at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing, but the…
    Al Perrotta
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    The Real Victims of Biden’s Border Crisis
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’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. Jack Fowler: This Antifa punk, who was caught on video yelling at an [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] officer, said,…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Amid War in Iran and Funding Ukraine, Rubio Tells Congress the State Department Is ‘America First’
    Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday to testify about his 2027 “America First” State Department budget request. While most department budgets increase significantly, this is the second consecutive year the State Department continues to make significant cuts, no longer operating as “the world’s ATM.” “Our foreign policy…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Trump to Attend Rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Dinner
    Reuters—U.S. President Donald Trump will attend the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on July 24, he said in a Truth Social post on Tuesday, nearly three months after the annual event was postponed following a shooting. The black-tie gathering of journalists and politicians in Washington was postponed after a suspect stormed a security checkpoint and fired a…
    Helen Coster
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  • Wes Moore Faces More Questions About His Military Service
    Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is facing fresh allegations of having exaggerated his military experience, after a yearlong Spotlight on Maryland investigation yielded “no documentary evidence” to support his claim of having “led soldiers into combat in Afghanistan.” Spotlight on Maryland is a joint venture between the Baltimore Sun and the TV news stations FOX 45…
    Al Perrotta
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    Trump Announces Shocking New Acting Director of National Intelligence
    President Donald Trump announced that Bill Pulte will serve as acting director of national intelligence following the resignation of Tulsi Gabbard, who is stepping down to care for her husband after his cancer diagnosis. Pulte is currently the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In his…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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