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Last Living American Israeli Hostage to Be Released Ahead of Trump’s Middle East Trip

Hamas has released Edan Alexander, the last living American Israeli hostage in Gaza, just as President Donald Trump departed the United States for...

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Virginia Allen

Justices to Weigh Birthright Citizenship-Related Injunctions, But Won’t Consider Underlying Issue

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Thursday in a case that stems from President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship. But the...

yesterday 10

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Virginia Allen

EXCLUSIVE: Anti-Trump Governors Scheduled Briefings on National Guard ‘Protections,’ ‘Deployments’

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A coalition of Democrat governors resisting the Trump administration scheduled at least two Zoom discussions focused on...

yesterday 3

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Fred Lucas

Trump Administration is Exposing the Hubris of Institutional DEI

Harvard University was likely in violation of civil rights law in the name of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and the school practically said so,...

yesterday 1

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Jarrett Stepman

EXCLUSIVE: Inside the $880 Billion Republican Plan for Medicaid Overhaul

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A key House committee has drafted a far-reaching proposal that would restructure Medicaid eligibility, restrict health...

yesterday 10

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Bradley Devlin

Congress Must End, or Radically Amend, Temporary Protected Status for Immigrants

The Temporary Protected Status immigration program was enacted into law in 1990. Its original intent was to give a brief safe haven to aliens in the...

yesterday 4

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Dan Cadman

Trump Can Still Lead Without a Third Term

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our...

yesterday 10

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Victor Davis Hanson

Biden Admin Loosened Restrictions on Student Loan Program After Unions’ ‘Utterly Self-Serving Request,’ Watchdog Says

The Department of Education under President Joe Biden loosened requirements for a student loan program specifically for public servants and...

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Tyler Oneil

Tariffs—When the Supreme Court Settled the Tomato, as Well as the Bean, Question

President Donald Trump has been using an old tool ignored by recent presidents to target trade abusers like China that impose significant barriers...

yesterday 30

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Hans Von Spakovsky

Coalition Calls for Lawmakers, Tech Industry to Make AI Safer for Kids

Representatives of more than 50 organizations spanning the political spectrum signed a declaration urging members of Congress and tech industry...

yesterday 0

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Fred Lucas

House Panel Unveils Raised SALT Deduction Cap Aimed at Placating NY GOP Lawmakers

House Republicans are proposing to raise the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap to $30,000, up from its current rate of $10,000. The move......

yesterday 1

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Jacob Adams

The International Attraction of US Stocks

President Donald Trump’s America First Investment Policy touts that welcoming foreign investment and strengthening the United States’...

yesterday 0

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Sanjai Bhagat

How Trump’s Drug Price Executive Order Will Affect Medicare

President Donald Trump will take action on Medicare if pharmaceutical companies don’t lower prices across markets in response to his Monday...

yesterday 0

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Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

Congress Moves to Defund Second Largest Child Sex Change Provider

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The House Energy and Commerce Committee has announced its portion of the reconciliation bill would slash Planned...

yesterday 0

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Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

Deal to Free Last Living American Hostage Another Sign of Strain in Trump-Netanyahu Relationship?

American negotiators sidelined Israel in securing the release of the last living American hostage held by Hamas in Gaza in yet another sign of...

yesterday 0

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Bradley Devlin

Crockett: Democrat Donors Want ‘Safest White Boy’ as 2028 Nominee

Democrat donors want the “safest white boy” as their presidential nominee in 2028, Texas Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett said on a radio show...

yesterday 0

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George Caldwell

Rejecting Calls for Medicaid Cuts, Hawley Castigates GOP’s ‘Wall Street Wing’

Sen. Josh Hawley is sounding the alarm that Republicans should avoid deep cuts to Medicaid in the budget reconciliation process. In an op-ed...

yesterday 0

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Jacob Adams

State Legislators From Across Country Urge End to Federal Funds for Planned Parenthood

More than 180 pro-life state legislators from 49 states have sent a letter to congressional leaders urging them to end Planned Parenthood’s receipt...

yesterday 0

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Jacob Adams

Too Much SALT Could Ruin the ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ 

President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” could be in jeopardy over a major SALT disagreement.   Not the kind of salt that you keep in a...

yesterday 0

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Preston Brashers

A Big Beautiful Idea to Cut Taxes, Regulation, Inflation, and the Trade Deficit

In recent comments marking the first 100 days of his second term, President Donald Trump stated that his attention will next focus on efforts to...

yesterday 0

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J. Kennerly Davis Jr.

House Panel’s Medicaid Reform Proposals Set Off Predictably Fierce Debate

The House Energy and Commerce Committee unveiled its proposals to revamp Medicaid on Sunday night, drawing the predictable cheers and jeers from...

yesterday 10

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George Caldwell

The Judicial Appointment Train Is Leaving the Station

President Donald Trump has announced his intention to nominate Whitney Hermandorfer to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. She will be...

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Thomas Jipping

Diversity Is Not Our Strength

That “diversity is our strength” is one of those obvious contradictions that people with common sense instantly recognize as hooey. It is poisonous...

previous day 10

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Mike Gonzalez

Louisiana Mustn’t Let GATOR Scholarships Get Swamped

Louisiana families are on the cusp of a transformative opportunity for their children—but that opportunity is in jeopardy of being swamped. Last...

previous day 10

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Jason Bedrick

Sanders and Tillis Top This Week’s Washington Head-Scratchers

I used to think I was losing my hair because of genetics. Now I believe the hair loss stems from the hours spent scratching my head over the...

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Al Perrotta

An Rx for What Ails the Centers for Disease Control

Seventy-five years of preparation for an outbreak like that of COVID-19—and yet, the CDC still failed to “reliably meet expectations” in addressing...

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Robert Redfield

The ‘N’ in SNAP Means Nutrition

SNAP, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, is one of the nation’s largest welfare programs. And, like all...

previous day 1

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Star Parker

How Wall Street Loopholes Funnel US Capital to Chinese Communist Party

American investors are unwittingly funding Chinese Communist Party activities through Wall Street loopholes, according to a securities expert who...

previous day 2

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Rob Bluey

Trump to Sign Executive Order to Slash Prescription Drug Prices

President Donald Trump says he will announce a new prescription drug initiative he promises will dramatically—and immediately—reduce the price of...

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Keith Koffler

Mutually Assured Law Enforcement Destruction

Earlier this week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided at least nine restaurants in the nation’s capital, requesting proof that...

saturday 2

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Josh Hammer

Bernie Sanders ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ Tour Is a Scam

Some people are more equal than others it seems according to the Senate’s most prominent avowed socialist. Sorry for using an overused “Animal...

saturday 7

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Jarrett Stepman

The Pulitzer Prizes Have Become a Sad Joke

Last week, Mosab Abu Toha, a Hamas apologist and serial fabricator who vilified female Israeli hostages and justified their kidnapping on Oct. 7,...

saturday 4

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David Harsanyi

Alcatraz: Should Congress Turn Part of a National Park Back Into a Prison?

President Richard Nixon, a native Californian, promoted an idea in 1972 to turn an iconic stretch of California’s coastline into a national park....

saturday 10

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Terence Jeffrey

DERELICTION OF DUTY: Chief Justice John Roberts Admits It’s His Job to Rein in the Judicial Insurrection—and He’s Not Doing It

The deep state and its allies have launched a judicial insurrection against President Donald Trump, and Chief Justice John Roberts effectively just...

saturday 3

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Tyler Oneil

European Elites Destroy Democracy in Order to Save It

If you are a graduate of Yale University, you can vote every spring for a member of the Yale Corporation, which selects the school’s president....

saturday 4

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Michael Barone

The Real Reason Universities Want Foreign Students and Oppose Deporting Troublemakers

The State Department had revoked about 1,500 visas throughout the United States as of late April, Inside Higher Ed estimates. Immigration and...

saturday 10

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Simon Hankinson

On the Consequences and ‘Cancel Culture’

This week saw two odd but parallel stories. The first featured a white Minnesota woman named Shiloh Hendrix, who allegedly spotted a Somali child...

09.05.2025 1

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Ben Shapiro

Former Hamas Hostage Bashes Pulitzer Board for Awarding ‘Modern-Day Equivalent of a Holocaust Denier’

Emily Damari spent nearly 500 days in Hamas captivity after terrorists shot her in the hand and forcibly took her from her home on Oct. 7, 2023....

09.05.2025 2

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Virginia Allen

The Real Cost of Student Loan Forgiveness

Each spring, as tassels are turned and degrees are conferred, college graduates across the country celebrate the culmination of years of study,...

09.05.2025 5

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Armstrong Williams

With Injunction Lifted, Pentagon Set to Remove Trans Service Members From Military

Days after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Pentagon’s ban on transgender-identifying service members, the Department of Defense will...

09.05.2025 1

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Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

Report Damns FBI Spin of 2017 Congressional Baseball Game Shooting

The FBI employed “false statements and manipulation of known facts” to downplay the significance of a 2017 assassination attempt on Republican...

09.05.2025 2

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Joshua Arnold

Silenced Dissenters: How Congressional Leadership Punishes Their Party Mavericks

After stepping out of the prescribed narrative of his political party, this member of Congress was assailed by rumors of dire problems within his...

09.05.2025 2

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Joe Thomas

Texas Rounds Up Public Officials in Alleged Vote Harvesting Scheme

A small county allegedly has a Texas-sized voter fraud problem, as a grand jury indicted six people, including local officials. The six were...

09.05.2025 20

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Fred Lucas

Spies on Campus: Chinese Espionage Exposed at Stanford

The Chinese Communist Party is “orchestrating a widespread intelligence-gathering campaign at Stanford,” according to The Stanford Review.  ...

09.05.2025 7

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Virginia Allen

Would the Left Finally Explain the Inexplicable?

Somewhere between 10 million and 12 million illegal aliens were invited into the United States by the Biden administration. As far as logistics go,...

09.05.2025 4

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Victor Davis Hanson

Colorado Trans Bill Makes ‘Deadnaming’ an Act of Discrimination

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, recently signed a bill forcing taxpayers to fund abortion. Now, a bill that classifies the refusal to use a...

09.05.2025 2

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Sarah Holliday

SALT in Speaker’s Wounds: Budget Bill Threatened by NY Republicans

House Speaker Mike Johnson is being pressured on multiple fronts in his efforts to pass a budget reconciliation bill by Independence Day.  Not only...

09.05.2025 1

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George Caldwell

This Mother’s Day Americans Should Remember What Makes Mothers So Special

If America wants to recover its former prosperity and strength, we should start by recovering our sense of what makes moms so important. Mother’s...

09.05.2025 1

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Kevin Roberts

California Energy Policies Are ‘Economically Destructive’ Beyond Its Borders, Expert Says

A policy expert has weighed in on the true cost of California’s energy policies as the Senate is set to vote on whether to revoke California’s...

09.05.2025 3

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Jacob Adams

Pope Leo’s First Message to Catholics and Christians Around the World: ‘Bear Witness to Our Joyful Faith in Jesus.’

It was the first homily delivered by Pope Leo, the first American to serve as leader of the Catholic Church. It was a clarion call not just to the...

09.05.2025 4

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Lee Habeeb