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    Trump Says He Will Hold Off on Fresh Iran Attack in Hope of Quick Deal
    CAIRO, Aug 2 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump has said the U.S. will hold off on a fresh attack on Iran as long as a deal can be reached quickly to halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Trump said late on Saturday on his Truth Social platform that Iran and other…
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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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    Space Innovation Continues: Duffy Removes Barriers for Rocket Launches
    Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced this week that the Federal Aviation Administration launched a new initiative to “streamline commercial space licensing.” The decision removes barriers for companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin to further advance space exploration. “America won the first Space Race, and we can do it again—but only if we get…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    First Use of Alien Terrorist Removal Court Targets Woman Accused in Family’s ISIS Election Day Plot
    An Afghan woman living in Texas, whose son and son-in-law were convicted of plotting an Election Day mass killing in 2024, had a public removal hearing Thursday, the first case before the Alien Terrorist Removal Court. The Justice Department says Nazira Haji Zada, 47, of Fort Worth, Texas, is being removed for her role in…
    Fred Lucas
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The Strange Alliance Between Islam and Socialism
    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. One of the things that is perplexing and often a topic of conversation is this new American-Western European alliance or absorption of Islam and Marxism-socialism-communism. In other…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    The Strategic Relevance of the Abraham Accords Matters Now More Than Ever
    The practical and strategic utility of the Abraham Accords matters more than ever despite the ongoing geoeconomic and security challenges. Victoria Coates, vice president of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation, underscored this reality in the preface of the recently published annual report on…
    Natalie Stratton | Anthony B. Kim
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    Report: Violent Antisemitic Attacks on the Rise Worldwide
    On Sydney’s Bondi Beach last December, two gunmen opened fire on Jews gathered for the first night of Hanukkah, killing 15 and wounding more than 40. It was no random, isolated incident, an alarming new report says. The year 2025 was the deadliest for antisemitic attacks since 1994 in the seven nations outside Israel that…
    Al Perrotta
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    TPS Is Over, It’s Time to Go Home
    Springfield, Ohio, and its Haitian population have been in the news all year as the fate of individuals granted Temporary Protected Status hung in the balance. A ruling last month from the U.S. Supreme Court, however, allowed the Trump administration to end the status, which came to an end on Monday. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine offered…
    Rebecca Downs
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    ‘Pontiac Platner’: Fetterman Responds to El-Sayed ‘Ogre on a Pike’ Remark
    “I’d rather be Senator Shrek than Pontiac Platner any day,” Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., said in response to Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed telling donors he’d be happy to see Fetterman primaried, putting one “ogre on a pike.” Fetterman’s response tied the radical El-Sayed to the Nazi-tattooed Graham Platner, who had been Maine’s Democratic nominee…
    Al Perrotta
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    Trump Greenlighting Ukrainian Patriot Missile Production Is a Good Move
    President Donald Trump announced during the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, this month that the United States will grant Ukraine a license to manufacture Patriot missile interceptors domestically, saying to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that “We’ll show them how to do it. It’s very complex actually, but you’ll figure out the complexity quickly.” This decision…
    Wilson Beaver | Erik Cotter
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    From Lawsuits to Begrudging Admissions, a Crazy Week for Dems on Election Integrity
    Last week brought several developments regarding Democrats on election integrity, demonstrating the party is falling into disarray over what is a widely supported issue for Americans. Some were not shocking, such as a lawsuit from Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro. Others were a bit surprising, like strategist James Carville coming out in support of voter ID….
    Rebecca Downs
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    ‘It Is Allah Who Commanded Me’: Knife-Wielding Man Attacks Three Women in Paris
    PARIS, July 27 (Reuters)—French police detained a man on Monday after he attacked three women with knives near Porte de Clichy in Paris, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told reporters. The man attacked the three women, who were aged 19, 24 and 36, with two kitchen knives, severely wounding two of them, Nunez said. Video aired…
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    After Trump Pauses Bombing, Iran Signals It Will Halt Strikes as Well
    DUBAI/WASHINGTON, July 26 (Reuters)—Iran will halt its own attacks as long as the United States maintains its latest pause on airstrikes, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Sunday, after President Donald Trump abruptly called off his two-week-old bombing campaign.   After 13 nights of intensifying U.S. airstrikes on Iran, the Pentagon abruptly suspended the campaign…
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    Trump’s VA Reforms Are Working. Now Finish the Job.
    Since President Donald Trump returned to office, his administration has continued advancing reforms that have strengthened performance across the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA has reduced the disability claims backlog by roughly 70%, opened 35 new health care facilities, completed more than 82 million appointments in fiscal year 2025, and permanently housed more than…
    Neely Grantham
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  • Voter ID, Citizenship Verification Measures Head to Ballots Across America
    As Congress struggles to pass the SAVE America Act, voters in states across the nation will decide this November on election procedures such as photo ID requirements, citizenship verification, and other election security matters. Two states feature ballot initiatives with both voter ID requirements and calls for some form of citizenship verification and voter list…
    Fred Lucas
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    10 States Checked Their Voter Rolls With a DHS Database to Find Startling Info
    Twenty-five states, with the help of a Department of Homeland Security database, have identified hundreds of thousands of dead people and noncitizens registered to vote, and they haven’t finished counting yet. So far, just 10 states—including key battlegrounds Georgia and North Carolina—have fully processed the voter data through the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Returns to White House Correspondents’ Dinner After Foiled Assassination Attempt
    President Donald Trump will address the White House Correspondents’ Association at a rescheduled dinner on Friday, nearly three months after a shooting at the Washington Hilton hotel interrupted the event. The black-tie gathering of journalists, politicians, and administration officials was called off on April 25 after a man tried to force his way through a…
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    Trump-Backed Budget Skims Past House
    The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a concurrent budget resolution package, that sets the framework and instructions for what has been dubbed Reconciliation 3.0. The $95 billion framework would provide new spending for the military, intelligence and agriculture. The package also contains the SAVE America Act, a key legislation that would require proof of…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Maine Democrat Troy Jackson Under Fire for Reported Outburst, Mortgage Fraud Claims
    Troy Jackson, a progressive Democrat, has effectively clinched the nomination for U.S. Senate in Maine after Graham Platner dropped out earlier this month following allegations of sexual assault. Now, Jackson is facing accusations of violence with a female colleague. Allegations of Jackson throwing a water bottle at a female colleague have been widely reported this…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Trump Threatens Iranian Infrastructure After Houthis Block Red Sea Artery
    DUBAI/MANILA, July 22 (Reuters)—U.S. President Donald Trump vowed on Wednesday to destroy an Iranian bridge or power plant every time Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, raising the stakes after Iranian-allied Houthis in Yemen threatened a second vital energy route. Seven tankers have changed course in the Red Sea to avoid…
    Reuters
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