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Dems’ NYC Socialist Nominee Ducks and Weaves When Asked to Condemn Term Calling for Killing Jews

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Democratic New York mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani failed to directly condemn the controversial phrase “globalize the...

yesterday 20

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Mariane Angela

The Web of Activist Groups Backing ICE Riots, Hamas, and Iran

Promoting revolution never goes out of business, and lately, business is booming. Activists in the revolutionary ecosystem that organize street...

yesterday 10

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Mike Gonzalez

Trump’s Iran Strikes Were Masterful. Now His Dealmaking Skills Are Critical

President Donald Trump is not like his predecessors. Confronting a hostile regime in Tehran that has played American presidents for more than 35...

yesterday 10

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Kevin Roberts

Senate Fiscal Hawks Seek Partial Obamacare Repeal in One Big Beautiful Bill Act

Senate fiscal hawks are seeking a major concession in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act—a partial repeal of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care...

yesterday 3

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George Caldwell

As a New York Resident Here Is My Biggest Worry About Mamdani’s Socialism

New York’s socialist mayoral candidate’s ideas threaten to bring back the post-George Floyd riots surge in crime. Of all the terrible policies...

yesterday 10

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Jarrett Stepman

Canada and Mexico Want US Billions, but Also a Fight

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 6

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Victor Davis Hanson

Congress, Don’t Expand the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit

As President Donald Trump aims to make America affordable again and cut costs for American families, special interests are concurrently working...

yesterday 30

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Ethan Xu

Fact Check: Is Trump Administration Providing Citizenship Data to Election Officials a ‘Hair on Fire’ Development?

The Department of Homeland Security is advancing its system to share citizenship verification data with state and local election officials, which...

yesterday 2

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Fred Lucas

Why Trump’s Trip to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Could Boost ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’

President Donald Trump is visiting a detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” on Tuesday, which the White House contends backs up the need to...

yesterday 1

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Fred Lucas

Iranian Women Hold Babies Aloft as Symbolic Sacrifice in Ritual While Chanting ‘Death to America, Death to Israel’

Hundreds of Iranian mothers lifted their babies above their heads in a symbolic act of sacrifice during the annual Hosseini Infants Ceremony in...

yesterday 1

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Virginia Allen

High Court Won’t Hear Appeal of Teacher Fired Over ‘Political’ Social Media Posts

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear arguments in a case involving a teacher who claims she was fired over social media posts expressing...

yesterday 1

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Virginia Allen

3 Ways the Judicial Insurrection May Circumvent the Supreme Court’s Ruling Against Nationwide Injunctions

The Supreme Court case Trump v. CASA cut right to the heart of the judicial insurrection, the trend of district court judges siding with leftist...

yesterday 2

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Tyler Oneil

Who Are the Potential House GOP Holdouts on Senate Budget Bill?

With Senate Republican leadership hoping to send its version of the GOP budget reconciliation bill back to the House for final approval before...

yesterday 2

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Jacob Adams

Battle Begins for Open House Seat Long Held by Democrats

Following last week’s “firehouse primaries” in the race to fill a critical open seat in the tightly divided U.S. House of Representatives, the...

yesterday 2

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Christina Lewis

Justice Department Sues LA Over Sanctuary City Policies

THE CENTER SQUARE—The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles’ sanctuary city policies, citing the Supremacy...

yesterday 2

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Kenneth Schrupp

What Sen. Tillis’ Retirement Could Mean for GOP

Sen. Thom Tillis announced Sunday that he would not be seeking reelection, just one day after President Donald Trump threatened to support a...

yesterday 2

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George Caldwell

Heritage Action Endorses Senate’s Big Beautiful Bill

Heritage Action, which has 2.5 million grassroots activists nationwide, came out swinging for the U.S. Senate’s budget reconciliation bill in a...

yesterday 3

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Jacob Adams

Supreme Court Delays Delegation’s Reckoning for Another Day

The Supreme Court punctuated its 2024 term with a decision that allowed the Federal Communications Commission to continue charging Americans...

yesterday 1

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Jack Fitzhenry

A War on Children?

Before Robby Starbuck became a problem for leftist companies, alerting consumers to stupid woke indoctrination policies, he directed music videos....

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John Stossel

Senate Moves One Big Beautiful Bill to the Floor

The Senate is in the midst of up to 20 hours of floor debate on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act after Senate Democrats had clerks read the entire...

previous day 40

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Olivia Pero

Enduring Evil: Getting Put on a ‘Hate Map’ With the KKK Is Just One More Cancel Culture Attack for Focus on the Family

Enduring Evil: Getting Put on a ‘Hate Map’ With the KKK Is Just One More Cancel Culture Attack for Focus on the Family

When the Southern Poverty Law Center put Focus on the Family on its “hate map,” listing the conservative Christian nonprofit alongside chapters of...

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Tyler Oneil

Posting the Ten Commandments Does Not Establish a Religion

Posting the Ten Commandments Does Not Establish a Religion

When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was serving as his state’s attorney general in 2005, he appeared before the Supreme Court to argue Van Orden v. Perry....

previous day 1

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Terence Jeffrey

Trump Defends Iran Strike, Touts ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ to Avoid Massive Tax Hike in Fox Interview

Trump Defends Iran Strike, Touts ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ to Avoid Massive Tax Hike in Fox Interview

In his first interview since bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities, President Donald Trump discussed everything from the One Big Beautiful Bill...

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Olivia Pero

Roberts: Iran Leak Aimed at Undermining Trump’s Historic Week

Roberts: Iran Leak Aimed at Undermining Trump’s Historic Week

Whoever is behind the leak of the preliminary Iran damage assessment wants to undermine “one of the most successful weeks in American presidential...

previous day 3

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Olivia Pero

Shock-and-Awe ‘Midnight Hammer’ Iran Strike Encapsulates Trump Doctrine

Shock-and-Awe ‘Midnight Hammer’ Iran Strike Encapsulates Trump Doctrine

My young family and I were in Israel when the Israel Defense Forces and Mossad began their offensive operations against Iran on June 13, commencing...

previous day 9

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Josh Hammer

Is Trump’s DOJ Being Set Up to Lose?

Is Trump’s DOJ Being Set Up to Lose?

The Trump administration has made revitalizing American industry and taking on the Chinese Communist Party top priorities. But those efforts are...

previous day 5

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Stephen Moore

Twisting the Truth: Extreme Weather and the Climate Narrative

Twisting the Truth: Extreme Weather and the Climate Narrative

As America braces for another storm season, only the media storms are more predictable than upcoming hurricanes and tornadoes. Even before the dust...

previous day 30

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Diana Furchtgott-Roth

Senate’s ‘Conditional’ AI Moratorium Is a Trojan Horse

Tucked inside the Senate’s 940-page reconciliation package is a controversial provision that would discourage states from enforcing almost any law...

previous day 20

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Daniel Cochrane

How a Jewish-Christian Alliance Can Rescue the West

How a Jewish-Christian Alliance Can Rescue the West

Israel’s recent 12-day war with Iran once again focused Americans’ attention on the Middle East. But it’s what happened Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas...

saturday 3

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Victoria Coates

Media Flailing to Discredit Successful Iran Bombing

Media Flailing to Discredit Successful Iran Bombing

On Tuesday, in what it labeled an “exclusive,” CNN reported that initial intelligence assessments of the Iran bombing suggested Iran had been set...

saturday 10

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Erick Erickson

In the End, Everyone Hated the Iranian Theocracy

In the End, Everyone Hated the Iranian Theocracy

It is hard even to digest the incredible train of events of the last few days in the Middle East. Iran had been reduced to an anemic,...

saturday 3

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Victor Davis Hanson

Trump Scores 3 Major Foreign Policy Wins in One Week

Trump Scores 3 Major Foreign Policy Wins in One Week

President Donald Trump scored three major foreign policy victories this week.   Almost overlooked amid the successful military strikes on Iran’s...

saturday 3

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Virginia Allen

2 Lawmakers Nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

2 Lawmakers Nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

Rep. Claudia Tenney announced that she has “twice nominated” President Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, writing, “No modern leader has done more...

saturday 3

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Lorenzo Prieto

Trump Learned the Lessons of Iraq

Trump Learned the Lessons of Iraq

President Donald Trump has finally moved the United States past the traumas of the Iraq War. With the bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities in...

saturday 3

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David Harsanyi

Trump’s Iran Strike a Lesson in Executive Leadership Versus Autopen Presidency

Trump’s Iran Strike a Lesson in Executive Leadership Versus Autopen Presidency

“This wasn’t a Pentagon operation. This was a Donald Trump operation. He came up with the PR. He chose the plans. He chose the day.” That’s a quote...

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Jarrett Stepman

What Would Trump’s Reindustrialized America Look Like?

What Would Trump’s Reindustrialized America Look Like?

On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump repeatedly promised to restore America’s manufacturing base. But what exactly is his vision of a...

saturday 3

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George Caldwell

Maine House Restores Laurel Libby’s Speaking Privileges Just Before Adjournment

Maine House Restores Laurel Libby’s Speaking Privileges Just Before Adjournment

After months of persecution, Maine state Rep. Laurel Libby, a Republican, had her legislative rights fully restored at the end of the state’s...

saturday 4

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Joshua Arnold

DOJ Investigates University of California for Discrimination

DOJ Investigates University of California for Discrimination

THE CENTER SQUARE—The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has opened an investigation into the University of California system for...

saturday 1

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Kenneth Schrupp

Therapy Student Makes Waves in Her Profession, Fired From Internship for Revealing Sexually Explicit Lessons at University

Therapy Student Makes Waves in Her Profession, Fired From Internship for Revealing Sexually Explicit Lessons at University

Therapy student Naomi Epps Best was fired from her internship after she exposed her university’s program for forcing her to share sexual...

saturday 3

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Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

Keeping States From Governing AI Helps Big Tech and Harms Kids

Keeping States From Governing AI Helps Big Tech and Harms Kids

Today’s push for a 10-year artificial intelligence moratorium has been framed in legislation as a “temporary pause” on state AI and algorithmic...

saturday 1

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Annie Chestnut Tutor

The Barista Proletariat Wins in New York

The Barista Proletariat Wins in New York

Zohran Mamdani’s lead in first choices in New York City’s ranked-choice mayoral primary, and his inevitable victory when second, third, fourth, and...

saturday 10

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Michael Barone

Trump Announces Support for ‘No Tax Dollars for Riots’ Legislation

Trump Announces Support for ‘No Tax Dollars for Riots’ Legislation

President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he fully supported a California Republican congressman’s “No Tax Dollars for Riots” legislation. The...

saturday 9

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Lorenzo Prieto

BREAKING: Supreme Court Strikes Down Courts Applying Universal Injunctions

BREAKING: Supreme Court Strikes Down Courts Applying Universal Injunctions

The Supreme Court struck down a lower court injunction blocking the Trump administration’s executive order on birthright citizenship, laying out...

27.06.2025 80

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Tyler Oneil

EXCLUSIVE: House Panel’s Chairman Calls Out Boston University on Claims of ‘Weaponization of Academia’ 

EXCLUSIVE: House Panel’s Chairman Calls Out Boston University on Claims of ‘Weaponization of Academia’ 

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A Boston University professor is “spreading disinformation” about the results of funding cuts to the U.S. Agency for...

27.06.2025 4

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Virginia Allen

128 Democrats Reject Latest Trump Impeachment—Here’s the Major Reason Why

128 Democrats Reject Latest Trump Impeachment—Here’s the Major Reason Why

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

27.06.2025 50

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Victor Davis Hanson

How This Term’s Supreme Court Cases Are Reshaping America

How This Term’s Supreme Court Cases Are Reshaping America

The decisions of the Supreme Court reverberate throughout the nation, defining the limits of government power and often directing our culture. The...

27.06.2025 10

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Mark Guiney

Rep. Norman Puts Foot Down on Big, Beautiful Bill

Rep. Norman Puts Foot Down on Big, Beautiful Bill

Rep. Ralph Norman, one of the House of Representatives’ hard-line fiscal conservatives, is making it clear that he and a number of others in the...

27.06.2025 7

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George Caldwell

Budget Bill’s Ban on Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Draws States’ Ire

Budget Bill’s Ban on Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Draws States’ Ire

Some Republican officials are sounding the alarm about a provision tucked into the Senate budget reconciliation bill that would potentially...

27.06.2025 2

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Jacob Adams

Supreme Court Upholds Texas Age-Verification Law for Porn Sites

Supreme Court Upholds Texas Age-Verification Law for Porn Sites

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Friday regarding a Texas law that makes it more difficult for children to access pornography.  The ruling in the case...

27.06.2025 3

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Fred Lucas

House Oversight Calls Biden Chief of Staff, Press Secretary to Testify on Cognitive Decline

House Oversight Calls Biden Chief of Staff, Press Secretary to Testify on Cognitive Decline

The House Oversight Committee has expanded the scope of its probe into President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline to what White House spokespersons...

27.06.2025 3

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Fred Lucas