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    Trump to Attend Rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Dinner
    Reuters—U.S. President Donald Trump will attend the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on July 24, he said in a Truth Social post on Tuesday, nearly three months after the annual event was postponed following a shooting. The black-tie gathering of journalists and politicians in Washington was postponed after a suspect stormed a security checkpoint and fired a…
    Helen Coster
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  • Dr. Oz Reveals Plan to Cut Illegal Immigrants From Taxpayer-Funded Health Care
    The nation’s top Medicaid official said he is upgrading the government’s technology to stop illegal immigrants from receiving Medicaid. “We now can do it a very straightforward way for the 44 states that don’t have state-based Medicaid plans for us to be able to audit it,” Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Signs Scaled-Back Executive Order on Preventing AI Cyber Threats
    President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday asking some artificial intelligence companies to give the federal government 30 days to review their frontier models before release. Trump had been scheduled to sign a broader version of the order on May 21, but he delayed the signing, saying he did not like “certain aspects” of…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Announces Shocking New Acting Director of National Intelligence
    President Donald Trump announced that Bill Pulte will serve as acting director of national intelligence following the resignation of Tulsi Gabbard, who is stepping down to care for her husband after his cancer diagnosis. Pulte is currently the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In his…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Reconciliation 3.0 Is the Best 250th Birthday Present Congress Can Give America
    Leave it to the legacy media to turn a commemorative currency proposal into a five-alarm constitutional crisis. By now, you’ve probably heard about the scene at last week’s White House press briefing when CNN’s Kaitlan Collins confronted Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent about a proposed $250 bill featuring President Donald Trump. “Do you think politically it’s…
    Robert B. Bluey
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  • opinion

    Is the Government Still Funding the Immigration Industrial Complex? Trump Wants Answers
    Is the federal government still funneling taxpayer dollars to some of the leftist activist groups that called the shots during President Joe Biden’s administration? The Trump White House is asking federal agencies to investigate past and potentially continuing funding for a host of nonprofits, many of which are associated with aggressive promotion of leftist causes….
    Tyler O’Neil
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  • opinion

    Debunking 3 Myths From the Trump-Xi Summit
    The recent Trump-Xi summit in Beijing featured grand ceremonies, red-carpet pomp, and diplomatic flair, but it produced no major breakthroughs. This has allowed some media and analysts to promote distorted narratives about U.S.-China relations, the Iran conflict, and global power dynamics. Here is a clear-eyed debunking of the three most misleading myths. Myth 1: The…
    Helen Raleigh
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  • opinion

    No, Iran and China Are Not ‘Winning’
    For years, much of the American media has operated under a peculiar assumption: that the best way to confront adversaries such as China and Iran is to accommodate them. If the United States applies pressure, the narrative quickly becomes that America is overextended, losing leverage, or somehow empowering its enemies. That narrative has resurfaced during…
    Ben Shapiro
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    Anti-ICE Protesters Just Exposed the Democrats’ Working-Class Problem
    Mehek Cooke, senior national security and legal analyst for the Daily Signal, said that recent anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protests in New Jersey are part of a broader pattern of organized agitation aimed at undermining law enforcement and President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda. Appearing Thursday on NewsNation’s “Katie Pavlich Tonight,” Cooke responded to video of…
    Daily Signal Staff
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    Abolishing Filibuster Becomes Pivotal Point in Georgia Senate Race
    The controversial 60-vote threshold needed in the Senate in order to pass legislation, which could be removed by Senate majority leadership, has become a vital point in the Georgia Senate race. Derek Dooley, who is competing against Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., for the Republican nomination to face Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., in November for his…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Artists Pull Out of Great American State Fair, Citing Partisanship and ‘Threats’
    Several musical artists scheduled to perform at the Great American State Fair in honor of America’s 250th birthday have withdrawn from the event after SPIN Magazine highlighted President Donald Trump’s connection to the fair. The Great American State Fair will showcase all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. It…
    Al Perrotta
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  • opinion

    Clemson Hires New President. What Does This Mean for DEI on Campus?
    Last fall, Clemson University officials announced the end of a sordid list of diversity, equity, and inclusion “commissions.” But news of DEI’s death at the college may be premature: The school’s board of trustees hired a new president with a checkered past of applying racial preferences. Are the trustees and administrators serious about civil rights…
    Jonathan Butcher
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    US Judge Won’t Block Trump’s Mail-In Voting Executive Order for Now
    REUTERS—A U.S. judge on Thursday declined to immediately block President Donald Trump’s executive order tightening rules on mail-in voting, but left the door open for the Democratic Party to challenge it again after the administration takes further steps to implement the measure. Washington-based U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols’ order did not address whether Trump’s March 31…
    Luc Cohen
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  • opinion

    Colombia, the US, and the New Hemispheric Vision
    As Colombia nears a momentous election decision on May 31, conservative Abelardo de la Espriella vaults to the lead in polling and prediction markets. Known as “The Tiger,” he channels much of the energy and philosophy of another Latin American populist-right renegade, Javier Milei, who similarly uses lion imagery and themes in his campaigns. De…
    Steve Cortes
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    REVAMPING DOGE: White House to Overhaul Grantmaking Process to Root Out ‘Woke’ Abuse
    The White House’s budget office will overhaul the way the federal government awards grants, grafting in English-only requirements and E-Verify requirements to combat illegal immigration while cutting out woke agenda items. The Office of Management and Budget will implement a wide-ranging slate of reforms to Title 2 of the Code of Federal Regulations, an OMB…
    Tyler O’Neil
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  • opinion

    Victor Davis Hanson Exposes What Fascism Actually Looks Like
    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. Victor Davis Hanson: The fascists in this country are not going to be orange-colored and, you know, crude…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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  • opinion

    The DNC’s Stephen Miller Meltdown Exposes a Party in Messaging Collapse
    As Democrats continue sneering their way back to power, they sound less like a political party and more like an angry rage machine. They have a serious messaging, communications, and discipline problem. On the heels of a vile Memorial Day post blaming President Donald Trump for the deaths of fallen soldiers—which it later deleted—the Democratic…
    Mehek Cooke
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  • news

    Iran Strikes Threaten Fragile Peace Efforts
    As the United States seeks a peace agreement with Iran to reopen the global oil trade and set conditions on the theocratic state’s nuclear ambitions, continued strikes are straining the fragile “ceasefire” serving as the basis for negotiations. On Thursday, U.S. Central Command announced “Iran launched a ballistic missile toward Kuwait that was successfully intercepted by…
    George Caldwell
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  • analysis

    Mehek Cooke: Trump’s Endorsements Caused ‘Earthquake’ in Primaries
    Mehek Cooke, senior national security and legal analyst for The Daily Signal, said President Donald Trump’s endorsement in the Texas Senate race is a direct message to Republican incumbents that voters are no longer satisfied with party labels but instead desire results. Appearing on ABC News’ election coverage Tuesday, Cooke argued that Trump has become…
    Daily Signal Staff
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  • exclusive

    Zeldin Vows to Prevent Another 9/11 Air Poisoning Disaster After LA Fires
    The Environmental Protection Agency misled the public about the dangerous air in New York City following the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001, Commissioner Lee Zeldin said. He vowed to prevent a repeat of this disaster in the aftermath of the 2025 California wildfires. “I actually think that’s the worst moment of EPA history was misleading…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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