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Trump Allies Tackle Birthright Tourism in New Initiatives
President Donald Trump’s administration and allies on Capitol Hill have put forth efforts to crack down on the practice of traveling to the United States to give birth to an American citizen, known as birthright tourism. As announced in a Tuesday statement, the State Department created the Birthright Tourism Prevention Taskforce to work with the… -
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Trump Asks Supreme Court to Fast-Track Fight Over Mail-In Ballot Order
Solicitor General John Sauer asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to expedite review of a court order blocking President Donald Trump’s mail-in ballot policy. In June, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani of Massachusetts, a Barack Obama appointee, blocked Trump’s mail ballot order for 23 states challenging the policy. The president’s order prevents the U.S. Postal Service… -
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Trump Confirms Karoline Leavitt’s White House Departure
President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday the departure of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. Leavitt is leaving at the end of the month “so she can spend more time with her beautiful young children and family, a decision I totally understand and respect!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. The president added that… -
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Progressive Flank of the Democratic Party Scores Big in Minnesota
On Tuesday, Minnesota’s far-left progressive Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan secured her party’s nomination for a soon-to-be-vacant U.S. Senate seat. Flanagan was declared the victor in her race against Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., after receiving the backing of 59% of primary voters. “For months now, I have been telling you that this campaign was about the… -
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BREAKING: Former SPLC CFO Arrested, AG Blanche Confirms
Authorities arrested Heidi Beirich, the former chief financial officer of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Tuesday as part of the fraud case against the SPLC, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced. “My understanding is, today there was an arrest made and there is a new indictment that includes the former CFO of SPLC,” Blanche said in… -
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WPATH Just Made an Earth-Shattering Admission in Court
Democrats, activist groups, and medical associations have long cited the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s Standards of Care as the ultimate authority on a scientific “consensus” for sex-rejecting procedures, but WPATH just made an admission in court that threatens to undermine that exalted authority. The Federal Trade Commission and four state attorneys general sued… -
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Where Did All of California’s Students Go?
Between falling birth rates, net out-migration, and the aftermath of COVID-19, California is running out of students. According to a recent Public Policy Institute of California report, K-12 enrollment statewide has dropped 8% since 2015 and is expected to continue declining over the next decade. Julien Lafortune, senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of… -
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Watchdog Group Says Appeals Court Must Revisit Navarro Conviction
A conservative watchdog group called for a federal appeals court to reconsider a ruling upholding the conviction of Peter Navarro, one of President Donald Trump’s closest advisers in both his first and second terms. The Oversight Project filed an amicus brief late Tuesday in Navarro’s appeal to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Navarro spent… -
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DSA Dealt Major Loss in Wisconsin
Democratic Socialists of America member and Wisconsin state legislator Francesca Hong has lost the Democrat nomination to be the state’s gubernatorial candidate. In Tuesday night’s Wisconsin Democrat gubernatorial primary, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley was declared the victor by the Associated Press early Wednesday morning at 3:34 a.m. EDT, capturing 39.8% of the vote to… -
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SCOOP: New Country Joins US-Led Coalition Declaring No International Right to Abortion
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Argentina has signed the Geneva Consensus Declaration, joining a U.S.-led coalition of 40 countries that declare there is no international right to abortion. Led by Javier Milei, Argentina is the first country to join the coalition while the United States is serving as secretariat. The U.S. assumed the position of secretariat… -
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Why Don Lemon’s 3 Legal Maneuvers Are Doomed to Fail
Former CNN host Don Lemon is testing three strategies to escape criminal charges for his role in a January church invasion, and a conservative attorney expects all three of them to fail. “I find it very hard to believe that this is going to work,” Josh Hammer, senior counsel at the Article III Project, told… -
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Supreme Court to Hear Case of Catholic Preschool Excluded From Colorado Program Over State’s LGBTQ Policy
The Supreme Court in November will hear the case of a Catholic school excluded from Colorado’s universal preschool program over its views on LGBTQ issues. On Tuesday, the high court released its calendar of arguments for November that includes the case of St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, scheduled for Nov. 3. The calendar also… -
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One Year After Trump Sent National Guard to DC, Homicides Plunge 41%, Overall Crime Stats Mixed
Murder rates, carjackings, and other crimes dropped significantly in the nation’s capital a year after President Donald Trump deployed National Guard troops in the city, but crime stats still show a mixed picture. Tuesday marks one year since Trump announced he would deploy National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., to combat crime as part of… -
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New Report Exposes the Foreign Cash Behind ‘Extremist Climate Activist Movement’
Foreign donors have poured over $130 million into U.S.-based climate activist nonprofits, according to a new database tracking over $5 billion in foreign funding. “Our database makes it clear foreign cash is bankrolling much of the extremist climate activist movement in America,” Caitlin Sutherland, executive director of Americans for Public Trust, told the Daily Signal…. -
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What Might Explain the Steep Decline of Obamacare Enrollment in Ohio?
Recent data on Obamacare enrollment suggests that Ohio has seen the largest declines in the nation. But experts say the numbers may be skewed, and fraud may have had a significant impact as well. Based on data from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, between February 2025 and February 2026, Affordable Care Act… -
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What El-Sayed’s Victory and the DSA’s Rise Could Do to the Economy
Last week, democratic socialist Abdul El-Sayed narrowly defeated Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Democrat primary for U.S. Senate, securing 48.5% of the vote. El-Sayed will now face former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers in a toss-up November race that could determine control of the Senate. This result is not an isolated event. Across the country, socialists… -
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Trump Took Secret Backup Plane After Iran Threat, Report Says
President Donald Trump secretly boarded an alternate military aircraft for his July 8 flight from Ankara, Turkey, due to an assassination threat from Iran, The Washington Post first reported. At the end of his trip to the 2026 NATO summit in Turkey, Trump boarded Air Force One as usual, then slipped into a catering truck… -
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Noncitizen Voting Cases Contradict Democrats’ Claims They Don’t Happen
Sen. Bernie Sanders claimed on the Senate floor that noncitizen voting is a myth, just months before New Jersey officials admitted about 400 noncitizens had voted in state elections. “The good news is that noncitizens do not vote in American elections,” the Vermont independent who caucuses with Democrats asserted in a March 19 floor speech…. -
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‘One of the Greatest Ironies in the Universe’: Will Don Lemon Overturn the Central Law Defending Abortion Clinics?
Former CNN host Don Lemon did something unusual Friday—he asked a court to invalidate part of a major law that protects abortion clinics. That’s right, the left-leaning opponent of President Donald Trump is aiming to overturn part of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, the notorious FACE Act that abortion activist groups urged… -
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Trump Adds Flexibility to Childhood Vaccine Schedule in Attempt to Combat Autism
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday calling for changes to the child vaccine schedule, including splitting up one vaccine into separate shots spaced out over time. “My administration is recognizing gold standard childhood vaccine recommendations for only 11 core vaccinations against the most serious and dangerous diseases, along with the [measles, mumps, and…