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High Tariff Could Harm American Semiconductor Industry. Here’s How to Get the Policy Right.
All Americans should congratulate President Donald J. Trump on his progress to insource more American manufacturing. That being said, tariffs are tricky things. If a country imposes no tariffs, it may well see its domestic industry bleed away to other countries. America saw a lot of that in recent decades. However, raise tariffs too high… -
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Blanche: AI Shouldn’t Be ‘Breaking News’
Attorney General Todd Blanche said fears about artificial intelligence “should not be breaking news.” “This AI issue that’s suddenly come up two months before our election is being—the president calls it a hoax,” he said. “The way this has come around today and not three months ago. I mean, I was watching the news today…. -
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Hearing on America’s Bad Actors Examines Islamic Extremism
A top Heritage Foundation scholar sounded the alarm to a key House panel on Tuesday about the merger of Islamism and Marxism, which he said has been fabricated in the United States by Islamic groups that seek to weaken America and “sow chaos.” Throughout the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on South and Central Asia’s hearing,… -
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Patel: FBI Purged Political Weaponization to Focus on Violent Crime
FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau has held bad actors accountable for political weaponization under the Biden administration and touted the success of arresting the entire FBI Most Wanted list. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., asked Patel to “walk me through what you have done, what steps you have taken to remove weaponization from the… -
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Kappa Kappa Gamma Violated Its Own Rules to Admit Men Into the Sorority: Lawsuit
Kappa Kappa Gamma alumnae are suing the national sorority for changing its own rules to allow men to join, and a circuit court heard the case Monday. “When Kappa tells you, we promise you a sisterhood of women, and a man shows up, that is the opposite. It is breaking the contract,” Allie Coghan, one… -
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‘Medicare for All’ Means More Government Control—Just Look at Monoclonal Antibodies
Here we are in another election cycle, and just like the migratory birds that return every season, so has the progressive cause célèbre of single-payer universal health coverage, also being marketed as “Medicare for All.” This has become a central part of the socialist platform and is the cornerstone of the Senate campaigns of Abdul… -
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Massie Moves to Impeach Hegseth, Citing ‘Illegal’ Military Operations
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., is working to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth for “high crimes and misdemeanors.” The Republican congressman brought the charges to the House floor on Tuesday and is attempting to force a vote in the next two days. “By engaging in hostilities in Iran for more than 90 days without congressional… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Kennedy Treated LBJ Worse Than Biden Treated Harris
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: Well, Victor, I was thinking about Zachary Taylor, and then, off the top of my head, I was going,… -
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SCOOP: Freedom Caucus Chair Pushes for Gas Tax Relief Before Recess
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Daily Signal has learned that a leading House Republican plans to force a vote on legislation he introduced on Tuesday to suspend the federal gas tax for the rest of 2026. Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., told the Daily Signal that he believes that if the lower chamber were… -
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Trump Slams Supreme Court Mail-In Voting Decision
President Donald Trump slammed the Supreme Court for rejecting his bid to restrict mail-in ballots before the midterm elections. “Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Court, one that the Court System took forever to give, and then blamed it, in part, on no time left to implement a solution to our totally… -
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FBI Agent Compared Musk’s DOGE Effort to Clinton Email Scandal to Justify Probe, Records Reveal
A former FBI agent attempted to launch an investigation into Elon Musk when the billionaire was leading the Department of Government Efficiency’s cost-cutting efforts. The former special agent compared Musk’s use of X to promote DOGE (which the agent still referred to in an email as Twitter) as being similar to former Secretary of State… -
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Citizenship Verification Laws Among Factors Propelling Tennessee, Arkansas to Top Election Integrity Scorecard
Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida are the leading states in The Heritage Foundation’s 2026 Election Integrity Scorecard, which was released on Tuesday. The key drivers behind the rankings this year were stronger citizenship-verification laws and state laws protecting against foreign funding of elections or ballot initiatives. The scorecard ranks states based on the strength… -
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Warner’s Opponent Is No Murkowski on the SAVE America Act
In a master class on controlling the narrative, the American Left has so convincingly gaslit the political class into believing that the SAVE America Act would be viewed by their constituents as voter suppression that more GOP leaders are creating increasingly convoluted stories to justify why they oppose making sure that only U.S. citizens vote… -
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Rep. Beyer Seeks September Hearings About AI Regulation
Rep. Don Beyer, a Democrat who is seeking a seventh term in Virginia’s 8th Congressional District, is warning that lawmakers should act quickly to maintain control over the growth of artificial intelligence. “Far too often Congress reacts AFTER a disaster. We must not only be reactive with artificial intelligence, we can’t wait for an AI… -
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BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules on Trump Mail-In Ballot Rules
The Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump’s mail-in ballot rules to go into effect Monday, upholding a federal judge’s preliminary injunction blocking them. “The government is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge to the district court’s preliminary injunction,” the court ruled in an unsigned order. The court ruled that “the equitable factors… -
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Jeffries Says Democrats Will Win Because of National Nightmare
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said on Monday that Republicans will lose control of the lower chamber in November because of the “national nightmare” President Donald Trump and Republicans have inflicted on Americans. The spokesman for the House Democratic Caucus blamed “every single policy decision” made by the Republican majority, such as the war… -
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Professor Who Celebrated Charlie Kirk Murder and Villainized ‘White Men’ Still Works for University
Carnegie Mellon University has not fired professor Uju Anya, instead allowing her to take “voluntary professional leave” after a string of “offensive and objectionable” social media posts celebrating the anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. A Daily Signal review of publicly available university records shows that Anya is still an associate professor of second-language acquisition and… -
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‘People Could Die’: Mamdani Sounds Alarm as Cities Sue Trump Administration Over Immigrant Welfare Benefits
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Monday he was leading a coalition of cities suing over the Trump administration’s effort to block welfare benefits for certain immigrants. Other plaintiffs suing the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York are… -
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EPA Moves to Scrap Biden Power Plant Rule, Saying Federal Law Doesn’t Allow Climate Change Regulations
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it is moving to repeal a greenhouse gas regulation the EPA imposed under President Joe Biden, saying federal law does not allow the agency to regulate power plant emissions in order to fight climate change. “The proposed rule takes the position that it is beyond our authority in… -
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Kemp Endorses Collins in Georgia Senate Race
In one of the most scrutinized midterm races across the country, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has endorsed Rep. Mike Collins, the Republican candidate running for Senate against Democrat Sen. Jon Ossoff. According to a Collins campaign press release, Kemp commended Collins for his sound leadership, good results, and pledge to put the state above all…