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    Victor Davis Hanson: 25 Years After 9/11—Has America Forgotten?
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the latest 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:  It’s the 25th anniversary of 9/11, and I know that we’ve been watching New York…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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  • news

    What Trump Said to Families of 9/11 Victims
    At a 9/11 anniversary ceremony at the Pentagon, President Donald Trump paid tribute those who died 25 years ago. “We will honor their lives. We will cherish their beautiful memories, and we will protect this country and its freedoms for every future generation,” he said. “We will protect it like never before. For anyone who…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Reflections on 9/11 After 25 Years
    Twenty-five years later, the images remain seared into our national memory: A brilliant September sky blackened by smoke; office papers drifting through the canyons of lower Manhattan; strangers running toward danger while thousands fled from it; and, by evening, an America stunned, grieving, and suddenly united. Sept. 11, 2001, was not merely a date on…
    Cully Stimson
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    Saddles and Satellite Radios: The Heroism of 9/11’s Immediate Response
    Only three times in American history has the United States been attacked on its home soil: during the War of 1812, on Dec. 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor, and on Sept. 11, 2001. In every case, America fought back.  With roughly a third of the American population under 25 years old and living in a…
    Mike Jernigan
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  • opinion

    Remembering the Sept. 11 Attacks
    The largest terror attack in history and the deadliest attack on the United States since Pearl Harbor occurred 25 years ago on Sept. 11, 2001. In 2026, with a whole new generation who were either too young to remember the attacks or were born after they occurred, it is worth pausing to reflect as a…
    Wilson Beaver
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  • exclusive

    Congress Reflects: How Charlie Kirk Influenced Today’s Republican Lawmakers
    Charlie Kirk impacted millions of everyday Americans with his mission to bring civil political discourse to college campuses. But he also inspired and affected sitting members of Congress and elected officials across the country.   One year after Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, was killed during a campus debate at Utah Valley University, members of the Republican Study Committee, the largest Republican…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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  • opinion

    Charlie Kirk Is Dead, but the Movement Must Survive
    Charlie Kirk “made the winning difference” in President Donald Trump’s 2024 mandate, sweeping the swing states and winning the popular vote, according to none other than White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.  A year removed from Charlie’s death, Republicans from across the country are descending on Dallas to galvanize the party faithful ahead of…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Ukraine’s Drone Campaign Is a Road Map for the US
    “We learn, innovate, and adapt faster by pairing our human ingenuity and judgment with advanced technologies like autonomy and artificial intelligence,” stated a new guide for the U.S. Army that was published in August. This is exactly the playbook Ukraine has followed over the last four years. National security analysts have been astonished by how this…
    James S. Gilmore III
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  • opinion

    We Spend a Lot More on Welfare Than Bombs. That’s a Problem. 
    The other day, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani told Qatari state media that the United States was “spending tens of billions of dollars on killing people” when that money “could have been used to make life easier” for the public. “There always seems to be money for war,” he went on, “but not to…
    David Harsanyi
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    Mamdani’s Sick, Sly Slap in the Face to 9/11 Families
    On Friday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed a proclamation commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack. He then quickly ensured the pen used to sign the proclamation was given to a man who represented an al-Qaeda terrorist and a Gitmo detainee described as the “20th hijacker.” Mamdani may as well have…
    Al Perrotta
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    From Dance Floor to War: China Readies Humanoid Robots for Combat
    BEIJING, Sept 7 (Reuters)—At the World Humanoid Robot Games in China last month, robots jumped, boxed and danced. Some fleet-footed bots ran faster than Usain Bolt over 100 meters. Spectators cheered the machines’ improving capabilities and their meme-worthy stumbles. Two days after the Games ended, the People’s Liberation Army‘s official newspaper drew its own conclusions…
    Reuters
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    The Jokes of 9/11
    As someone paid to deal with the news each day, it is perhaps not in my best interest to admit that almost everything that comes across your X news feed is disposable. Whatever news has you hot and bothered today, whatever juicy entertainment gossip has you licking your chops, whatever fills the late-night comic’s monologue…
    Al Perrotta
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  • news

    Suspect Arrested After Allegedly Lunging at Amy Acton at Event
    Sunday’s afternoon campaign event for Amy Acton took a scary turn when an Ohio man allegedly “lunged” at the Democratic nominee for governor at the Canfield Fair in Mahoning County. The suspect has been identified as Patrick Havas, 38, of Canfield. Acton was unharmed, and the suspect did not draw the weapons he was found…
    Rebecca Downs
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    Markwayne Mullin, Local Leaders in Cincinnati Speak to 287g Program, Make Plea for Cooperation
    Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Friday appeared for a roundtable in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he met with local officials and addressed partnerships in Warren County under the 287g program. Mullin touted the Trump administration’s commitment and success on the issue of crime and illegal immigration, comparing that to “just four years ago”…
    Rebecca Downs
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  • opinion

    Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s, Bessent’s ‘Anaconda’ Strategy Is Tightening Around Iran
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript 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: Let’s turn then to somebody who’s not a lunatic, Scott Bessent, our treasury secretary. And he had a couple…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Iran’s 3 Possible Responses to Trump’s New Pressure
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript 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. Victor Davis Hanson: Just thinking about Iran, there’s some developments today that we, on one of the islands in the strait,…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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  • analysis

    How Indian Reforms Power US-India Defense Cooperation
    U.S.-India defense cooperation has accelerated in the past decade. Today, India conducts more military exercises with the United States than with any other country. American platforms also underpin some of India’s most important military capabilities. The Indian Navy flies P-8I maritime patrol aircraft, operates MH-60R helicopters, MQ-9B drones,  and uses sonobuoys. The Air Force operates C-17 and C-130J transports, Apache attack helicopters, and Chinooks….
    Kriti Upadhyaya
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  • opinion

    On 25th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks, Many Will Excise the Most Relevant Truth From National Memory: Islamist Ideology Still Motivates Mass Murder
    As America prepares to memorialize the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, expect a bright, glaring omission in the upcoming speeches, editorials, and televised survivor retrospectives about this history, important to tell for its warning that national vigilance remains necessary even now. Left on the cutting room floors will be the all-important, basic “why,”…
    Todd Bensman
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  • news

    Duffy and Mullin Target Illegal Immigrant Trucking, Immigration Fraud Network
    The Trump administration just announced an interagency effort to combat fraud in the trucking industry. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin are working with the Justice Department and the White House Fraud Task Force to get non-English-speaking commercial truck drivers, who they say are putting Americans in danger, off the road….
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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  • opinion

    Hasan Piker to Dems: Don’t Quit Me
    Hasan Piker, two weeks ago, delivered this message: “Democrats, listen to me, I know we don’t always see eye to eye on a lot of stuff, but you have to literally, at some point—I know you don’t want to do this—defend me. Not because you love what I have to say, not because I’m part…
    Larry Elder
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