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    Why Trump Delayed an Executive Order to Protect America From Cyber Threats

    President Donald Trump on Thursday delayed signing an executive order regulating artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, citing the AI race with China. “I think it gets in the way of … we’re leading China, we’re leading everybody, and I don’t want to do anything that’s going to get in the way of that lead,” Trump told…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Thune Stalls DHS Funding Bill Again, Sending Congress Home

    The long-stalled Department of Homeland Security immigration funding bill unexpectedly stalled again Thursday afternoon. Senate Majority Leader John Thune delayed the vote until after the long weekend and the even longer recess, missing President Donald Trump’s June 1 deadline. On Tuesday, Thune told the press that senators were going to vote this week on the…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    SCOOP: Trump AI Executive Order Will Likely Punt on Security Concerns

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on artificial intelligence safety later this week, but sources familiar with the draft say the directive won’t answer key questions about how to contain potential national security risks posed by new models.  Trump is slated to sign an executive order in…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Pro-Mangione NYC ‘Journalists’ Gloating Over Murder Demonstrate That Assassination Culture Is No Longer Fringe

    Sometimes evil isn’t just banal. It’s direct, open, and unrepentant. That was the case on Monday afternoon as three “credentialed” journalists showed up to cover the Luigi Mangione trial in New York and revealed that they were happy he allegedly shot and killed UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson. The self-described “Mangionistas”—and dedicated fans of democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani—were unrepentant in…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Hawley, Tim Tebow Win Child Protection in Senate DHS Funding Bill, Reconciliation 2.0

    The Senate GOP is taking the next steps to pass legislation to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security this week. Thanks to pro-family GOP senators, key legislation to protect children will be included in the long-awaited Reconciliation 2.0. Senate Majority Leader John Thune announced that the Secure America Act will “hopefully” be voted on…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    San Diego Mosque Shooting Exposes the Left’s Two-Tiered Outrage Machine

    Monday’s massacre at the Islamic Center of San Diego was pure evil. Two teenage suspects reportedly opened fire outside the mosque at 11:43 a.m., and a school with kindergarten through third-grade children was on the grounds. Three men are dead, including a heroic security guard who stood his ground to protect those little kids inside. The shooters…
    Drew Allen
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    New Bill Would Ban Radical Religious Leaders From Entering the United States

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Rep. Chip Roy introduced the Inhibiting Militant Adversarial Mullahs (IMAM) Act on Monday, which would bar radicalized leaders of certain religious denominations from being admitted into the United States. “The United States should never roll out the red carpet for foreign clerics who preach anti-American hatred, celebrate terrorism, or serve as…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Tensions Between CIA and Congress Flare

    Tensions have flared between Capitol Hill Republicans and the intelligence community after the Central Intelligence Agency harshly criticized a committee for subpoenaing an agent and denied reports of a cover-up of declassified material. On Wednesday, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, chaired by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., heard the testimony of subpoenaed…
    George Caldwell
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    SPY WARS: Former CIA Covert Operations Officer Explains How Intelligence Is Influencing the Iran War

    Former CIA covert operations officer Mike Baker gives an inside look at how the CIA, Mossad, and other intelligence agencies are influencing the Iran war, and where the contest between America and China is heading, in this preview from the latest “Signal Sitdown” podcast with Bradley Devlin. Bradley Devlin: One of the big reporting pieces that we’ve seen kinda come out over…
    Bradley Devlin
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    ‘You Hear the Screams’: New Report Details Hamas’ Oct. 7 Sexual Violence Strategy

    Warning: This article contains graphic content. A new 300-page report details the sexual atrocities committed by Hamas against Israeli women and children on Oct. 7 and in the months of captivity that followed, including forcing family members to commit acts of sexual abuse on each other. The Civil Commission on October 7 Crimes by Hamas…
    Al Perrotta
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    What Are the Current US and Iranian Strategies in the War?

    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.    I’m speaking on the 71st day of the Iran war, but of course, it hasn’t been 71 days. The last real date…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Balancing Religious Liberty and National Security: A Lesson From Ancient Greece

    Pericles, a leader of the first democracy in Athens, gave a famous speech extolling Athenian greatness at a funeral for fallen soldiers. “Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighboring states; we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves,” Pericles boasted in Thucydides’ account of the speech. Athens served as the “school”…
    Matthew Ladner
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    Netanyahu Insists Iran War Is ‘Not Over,’ Says Trump Wants to ‘Physically’ Remove Uranium

    THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a “60 Minutes” interview airing Sunday that President Donald Trump wanted to remove Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium. The United States and Israel launched military strikes against Iran on Feb. 28 after talks regarding the Islamic regime’s nuclear program broke down. Netanyahu told CBS News reporter…
    Harold Hutchison
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  • Ohio Warning, Iran Threat: Mehek Cooke Says Midterms Could Change Everything

    The Daily Signal’s Senior National Security and Legal Analyst Mehek Cooke warned after the May 5 primary vote that Ohio’s status as a Republican state is more fragile than many voters assume, saying that Democrats are organized and working to reclaim ground ahead of critical midterm elections. Appearing on “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton…
    Daily Signal Staff
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    Trump White House Takes Transgender-Motivated Terror Threat Seriously

    America’s counterterror forces can no longer ignore the threat of extremism motivated by transgender ideology, and President Donald Trump’s new counterterrorism strategy rightly addresses this threat. The counterterrorism strategy, released Wednesday, outlines three major threats: narcoterrorists and transnational gangs; legacy Islamist terrorists; and violent left-wing extremists, including anarchists and anti-fascists. That third category includes transgender…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    On Iran, Battleground District Republican Stakes Own Path

    Michigan Republican Rep. Tom Barrett, seeking reelection in one of the nation’s most competitive congressional districts, is attempting to stake a new path on the Iran issue that would empower the president but forbid a lengthy engagement. Barrett has introduced a bill that would authorize the use of military force against Iran. However, the bill…
    George Caldwell
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    CORRECTING THE RECORD: The Palisades Fire Was Yet Another Example of Leftist Political Violence

    Democrats’ heated rhetoric may have contributed to the Palisades Fire—but not by warming the global climate. When the Los Angeles-area fire burned 23,707 acres, destroyed 6,833 structures, and killed 12 people, those on the left rushed to blame it on man-made climate change. Only later did we learn that the human causation was far more…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Homan: ‘Mass Deportations Are Coming’

    “Mass deportations are coming,” border czar Tom Homan declared Tuesday during his keynote speech at the Border Security Expo in Phoenix, Arizona. “If you think last year’s historic number was good, wait until next year, when we have 10,000 agents,” he told the more than 2,200 attendees. “You ain’t seen (expletive) yet.” Homan specifically put…
    Al Perrotta
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    Trump: ‘Project Freedom’ on Hold Amid Iran Talks

    President Donald Trump says he is putting a pause on his “Project Freedom” operation to restore commerce in the Strait of Hormuz, instead seeking to finalize a deal with Iranian officials for longer-term stability in the global shipping lane. Citing as his motivation “Great Progress” in talks with Iran, Trump wrote on Truth Social on…
    George Caldwell
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    The Iran War and the Energy Transition’s Missing Math

    The Iran conflict has delivered an uncomfortable reminder that energy is not an environmental talking point but a matter of national survival. Nations without reliable, affordable energy do not just struggle economically. They become vulnerable. Yet even as missiles fly and shipping lanes tighten, the green energy chorus is back at the microphone, insisting this…
    Frank Lasee
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