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House Comes Together to Protect Americans from Parkinson’s Disease and China
Amid massive party infighting, the U.S. House of Representatives is coming together to put a bipartisan end to chemicals poisoning Americans with Parkinson’s disease. The bipartisan Paraquat Prevention Act would cancel all legal use of the herbicide paraquat, which has been linked to the neurological disorder and is massively produced by China. “The United States… -
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Politics and Parenthood: Why Liberals Are Having Fewer Kids Than Conservatives
America’s cultural divide now extends to parenthood. A new report from the Institute for Family Studies states that a fertility gap has opened up between the Left and the Right. Based on a survey of 7,000 Americans, age 18 to 54, the study found that conservative respondents had on average 1.40 children, compared to 1.09… -
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House Committees Threaten ActBlue With Contempt Charge to Gain 400 Documents on Potential Misconduct
Three House committees have threatened to hold the Democrat fundraising platform ActBlue in contempt of Congress for withholding hundreds of subpoenaed documents. The three committees have investigated ActBlue for more than a year, primarily focusing on whether the organization that solicits and accepts online campaign donations screens for potential foreign donors. “For more than a… -
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Trump to Attend Wednesday Senate Lunch to Discuss Embattled Election Integrity Measure
President Donald Trump will discuss the SAVE America Act with senators at Wednesday’s closed-door luncheon, at the invitation of Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott. “He wants, we all want to get the SAVE America Act done,” Scott told Fox News’ Kayleigh McEnany on Saturday. “I’ve invited him to lunch on Wednesday to meet with Republican… -
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Drug Epidemic Drops to Historic Low as Admin Makes Huge Recovery Push
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced more than $700 million in federal funding Wednesday aimed at addressing addiction, mental illness, and homelessness, advancing President Donald Trump’s Great American Recovery Initiative. This investment from the Trump administration draws a sharp contrast from the counterdrug addiction initiatives made by former President Joe Biden… -
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Trump’s Iran Gamble
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. Sami Winc: Victor, let’s go ahead and get to the memorandum of understanding. It was a very short two-page document, easy to read through,… -
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UK’s Starmer Resigns, Paving Way for Orderly Transfer of Power
LONDON, June 22 (Reuters)—Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday he was quitting, paving the way for what is expected to be an orderly transfer of power to front-runner Andy Burnham, who could become Britain’s seventh leader in 10 years as early as next month. In an emotional speech, Starmer said he had listened to… -
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State Department Cracks Down on Foreign Fraudsters
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump is revoking the visas of three foreign nationals charged with defrauding the American people, the Daily Signal can first report. Three foreign nationals who the State Department says “swindled investors, looted taxpayer-funded programs, and abused the system” will no longer be allowed to enter the United States. “The… -
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Virginia and the Color Purple
Virginians are facing some tough battles this year, and it didn’t have to be that way. Republican leaders are getting heat for two votes taken on June 13 at the Republican Party of Virginia State Central Committee meeting. That’s not fair. They should take heat for the fact that neither of them should have been… -
Canadian Prime Minister Blames Recession on … Too Little Immigration?
Canada is headed for yet another recession, and their globalist prime minister is blaming immigrants—but not in the way you’d expect. He’s not pointing to the millions of people from the third world who flooded in, gutting wages and driving home prices to Hong Kong levels. Instead, it’s the opposite. The immigrants that Liberals imported… -
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A Socialist Wave Continues Crashing Through America’s Big, Blue Cities
Democrats are quickly moving away from denying their socialist connections to openly embracing them. That’s a lesson to be learned from a clear trend taking hold in America’s most populous, blue bastions. Janeese Lewis George, a democratic socialist member of the District of Columbia City Council, looks to be the favorite to become the next… -
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Father’s Day: The Old Man’s Mighty Swing
It was a father-son game at a picnic with my Little League team. I was about 10. I was playing catcher for the first … and last … time in my life. Up to the plate strolled my dad, who at that time would have been in his early 50s, his hair silver, his waist… -
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‘Men Matter’: HHS Highlights Fatherhood and Men Throughout June
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—As the Department of Health and Human Services continues to commemorate Men’s Health Month, the department’s assistant secretary for health told the Daily Signal that President Donald Trump’s administration is focused on revitalizing fatherhood for the benefit of the nation. “We want to make a positive impact on men’s health during… -
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What Fathers Leave Behind
June 18, 2026, marks 15 years since my father died, and as Father’s Day approaches, I find myself thinking less about the day he left us and more about what he left behind. My father, Dennis Joseph Gerber Sr., was known by many as Big Dennis. I was Little Dennis. From the time I was… -
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How One Leftist Group Prevents Corporate Employees From Supporting Conservative Nonprofits
Major employers systematically—though perhaps unintentionally—blacklist conservative nonprofits from their employee charitable giving programs through a third party. Corporate generosity platforms such as Benevity act as middlemen, connecting employers such as AT&T, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, and Starbucks to a host of nonprofits. Benevity, for example, connects “nearly 1,000 enterprise companies” to a network of 513,000 nonprofits after… -
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Taxpayer Dollars Backed Parts of Coalition Suing Over Trump Immigration Enforcement
A coalition of litigation groups, at least two of which have been backed by taxpayer dollars, is targeting the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement in court. The two leading organizations are Democracy Forward, chaired by Democratic lawyer Marc Elias, and UnidosUS, a Hispanic left-of-center group that has reportedly received millions in government funding in previous years…. -
DC’s Hobson’s Choice Mayor
Hobson was an English horse dealer who famously gave customers only one horse to pick from, hence Hobson’s Choice. The expression sums up the mayoral contests in many American cities. In Los Angeles, voters can choose between incumbent Karen Bass, whose “friend and mentor” was a communist, or Nithya Raman, who “has been aligned with… -
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Millionaire ‘Lilo’ Star Died Homeless—Progressive Compassion Is the Problem
A 35-year-old woman was found wasting away to skin and bones on Los Angeles’ Skid Row, barely conscious on the floor of a fetid tent, nodding in and out amid the fentanyl haze. She died on June 17, 2026, in a hospital bed of meningitis and sepsis triggered by terminal malnutrition. Her body surrendered. The woman was… -
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‘ESG Hasn’t Gone Away’: Group Urges Trump, SEC to Rein In ‘Big Three’ Asset Managers’ Voting Power Long Term
Social activism among corporate elites isn’t going away, but the Trump administration and the Securities and Exchange Commission have a solution to curb the influence of Wall Street’s largest asset managers, a conservative policy group argues. The Bull Moose Project says that, in the past, the investment firms BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street amassed significant… -
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Ohio Republicans on the Death Penalty: The General Assembly ‘Has Already Spoken’
Gov. Mike DeWine on Tuesday revealed his stance on the death penalty, ruffling the feathers of many Ohio Republicans in the process. “I believe Ohio should abolish the death penalty. The Legislature could take this action, and I think they should take this action,” the governor said during a press conference. DeWine, a Republican leader…