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Trump’s NASA Jettisons DEI Comic Book, ‘Environmental Justice’ Programs

During the first year of the Biden administration, NASA produced a comic book about how a “first woman and the first person of color will... Read...

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Why US Taxpayers Sent $13 Million to a Chinese University to Research Retirement 

For more than a decade, the United States has paid China for research into retirement.  That ended this year, when, through the urging of the... Read...

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EPA’s Climate ‘Justice’ Grant Promoted ‘Grassroots’ Climate Activity, Until DOGE Stopped It

EPA’s Climate ‘Justice’ Grant Promoted ‘Grassroots’ Climate Activity, Until DOGE Stopped It

The Environmental Protection Agency canceled a $3 million “climate justice” grant for Florida with a description that included “training...

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‘TOXIC’: Jasmine Crockett’s Ex-Staffers Describe Terrible Workplace

‘TOXIC’: Jasmine Crockett’s Ex-Staffers Describe Terrible Workplace

Former staffers of Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, has been described as a “rude” boss who would “scream” at employees and even reduced one to...

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How $81M in Taxes Are Wasted on Empty Government Buildings

How $81M in Taxes Are Wasted on Empty Government Buildings

Taxpayers are stuck paying more than $81 million per year for the maintenance or leasing of about 10,000 federal buildings sitting vacant or...

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Biden Made the ‘Important Decisions,’ Former Top Aide Insists

Biden Made the ‘Important Decisions,’ Former Top Aide Insists

A 10th former Joe Biden White House staffer took questions from House investigators on Thursday, insisting that the 46th president was up to the...

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EXCLUSIVE: How Dem Super Lawyer’s Organization Shaped California, Illinois Anti-Trump Lawfare

EXCLUSIVE: How Dem Super Lawyer’s Organization Shaped California, Illinois Anti-Trump Lawfare

A litigation group run by veteran Democrat election lawyer Marc Elias helped coordinate legal challenges from California and Illinois to stop...

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Mamdani Vows to Be Trump’s ‘Worst Nightmare’

Mamdani Vows to Be Trump’s ‘Worst Nightmare’

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani said he would be President “Donald Trump’s worst nightmare.” He also suggested that Trump is...

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EXCLUSIVE: After Trump Order, Conservative Group Issues ‘Woke Alert’ for JPMorganChase

EXCLUSIVE: After Trump Order, Conservative Group Issues ‘Woke Alert’ for JPMorganChase

A conservative group issued a “woke alert” on JPMorganChase, a bank that President Donald Trump said once tried to “debank” him. ...

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Millions in Defense Dollars Back Group Supporting ‘Safe Abortions’ Globally

Millions in Defense Dollars Back Group Supporting ‘Safe Abortions’ Globally

The Department of Defense has given multimillion-dollar grants in recent years to a health organization that promotes “safe abortions” and...

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Trump to Press Putin on Ukraine Peace Deal in Possible Meeting Next Week

Trump to Press Putin on Ukraine Peace Deal in Possible Meeting Next Week

President Donald Trump told European leaders he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin as early as next week.  This followed a meeting...

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What Biden Inner Circle Member Told Investigators About White House Doctor’s Advice

What Biden Inner Circle Member Told Investigators About White House Doctor’s Advice

The same doctor who invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination told former President Joe Biden’s inner circle that a cognitive...

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How DOGE Saves Taxpayers Almost $1 Billion by Cutting Energy Department Contracts

How DOGE Saves Taxpayers Almost $1 Billion by Cutting Energy Department Contracts

By the end of July, the Energy Department accrued more than $950 million in contract savings with assistance from the White House’s Department of...

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House Oversight Panel Subpoenas Clintons, Former AGs, in Epstein Probe

House Oversight Panel Subpoenas Clintons, Former AGs, in Epstein Probe

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has subpoenaed Bill and Hillary Clinton for depositions in its Jeffrey Epstein investigation. The...

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EXCLUSIVE: Why Soros Network Donated Over $1M to This Republican Organization

EXCLUSIVE: Why Soros Network Donated Over $1M to This Republican Organization

FIRST ON DAILY SIGNAL—A conservative watchdog is calling for a Republican organization that took more than $1 million from the Soros network’s...

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What to Know About Next 2 Biden Aides to Face Questions This Week on 46th President’s Decline

What to Know About Next 2 Biden Aides to Face Questions This Week on 46th President’s Decline

Two more senior aides who were longtime members of Joe Biden’s inner circle will take questions from the House Oversight and Government Reform...

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What Soros Group Says About Reputed Ties to Clinton Campaign in Pushing Russia Hoax

What Soros Group Says About Reputed Ties to Clinton Campaign in Pushing Russia Hoax

An executive with the George Soros-aligned Open Society Foundations appears to have coordinated with a staffer from the 2016 Hillary Clinton...

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting Shutting Down

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Shutting Down

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting–which funds NPR and PBS–is shutting down, it announced on Friday.  This follows the Congress voting to...

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Ex-Biden Adviser: Dems, Pundits Overreacted to Cognitive Decline in Pushing Him Out of Race

Ex-Biden Adviser: Dems, Pundits Overreacted to Cognitive Decline in Pushing Him Out of Race

A key campaign and White House adviser to former President Joe Biden complained to House investigators Thursday that Democrats in Congress and...

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Combative Biden White House Aide Disputes Cognitive Decline Claims

Combative Biden White House Aide Disputes Cognitive Decline Claims

A top White House official and campaign chief for former President Joe Biden took probing questions from House investigators on Wednesday, pushing...

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EXCLUSIVE: 1,500 Truck Drivers Taken Out of Service for Poor English Following Transportation Department Directive

EXCLUSIVE: 1,500 Truck Drivers Taken Out of Service for Poor English Following Transportation Department Directive

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The U.S. Department of Transportation has taken 1,500 commercial truck drivers who were not proficient in English out of...

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‘BOONDOGGLES’: See Where the Biggest Wastes of Tax Dollars Are Going, Besides Just California

‘BOONDOGGLES’: See Where the Biggest Wastes of Tax Dollars Are Going, Besides Just California

While President Donald Trump nixed funding for California’s “train to nowhere,” taxpayers remain on the hook for other projects that are...

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Longtime Biden Confidante Says Hillary Clinton Wanted Biden out in 2024 

Longtime Biden Confidante Says Hillary Clinton Wanted Biden out in 2024 

Joe Biden’s first White House chief of staff and longtime confidante told House of Representatives investigators Thursday that Biden became less...

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How Your Tax Dollars Pushed DEI in Schools

How Your Tax Dollars Pushed DEI in Schools

Taxpayers heavily subsidized the diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda in schools and nonprofits under the Biden administration’s Department of...

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Controversy-Plagued Penn Biden Center Now Buried by University

About a year after citizen Joe Biden was out of the vice presidency, his new endeavor was a Washington think tank called the Penn Biden... Read More...

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GOP Lags in Virginia Governor’s Race, but Same Was True at This Time in 2021

Democrat former U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger has captured a 12-point lead over her Republican opponent, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, in the Virginia...

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EXCLUSIVE: 3 Bills to Secure Elections Would End Noncitizen Voting, Ban Outside Meddling 

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—“Zuckerbucks” and “Bidenbucks” shouldn’t happen again and noncitizen voting shouldn’t continue, contends the...

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House Panel Probes Taxpayer Dollars Sent to Left-Wing Groups

Left-leaning nonprofits receive taxpayer dollars in three key ways—through government contracts and grants, indirectly through government unions,...

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‘Executive Action Without the President’s Approval’: Biden’s Own Words Spark Deeper Autopen Probe

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is skeptical about Joe Biden’s assertion published this weekend that, as president, he “made every...

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How DOJ Attorney-to-Leftwing Activist Pipeline Works to Oppose Trump

Media accounts have cast departing Justice Department lawyers as principled nonpartisan civil servants too conscientious to serve a politicized Trump...

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Battleground Georgia to Clean 478,000 Ineligible Voters From Rolls

The battleground state of Georgia is undertaking an effort to remove about 478,888 inactive or ineligible voters from the rolls, which includes people...

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‘One Big Beautiful Lawsuit’ Seeks to Eliminate Gun Control Law

Second Amendment advocates hope what they dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Lawsuit” will strike a final blow to a near century old gun control...

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Woman With ‘Urgent Message’ for Trump Arrested Outside Mar-a-Lago

Police arrested a Florida woman outside of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club on Monday after she told Secret Service agents she had an...

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White House Defends Bondi Amid Epstein Criticism From Right

Conservative pundits have been highly critical of the Trump administration and Attorney General Pam Bondi, specifically, regarding their conclusions...

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6 Things to Know About Judge Who Stopped Congress, Trump From Defunding Planned Parenthood

The Massachusetts federal judge who temporarily secured taxpayer dollars for Planned Parenthood after the “One Big Beautiful Bill” defunding of...

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EXCLUSIVE: Marc Elias-Led Group Guided Illinois on Anti-Trump Litigation, Documents Reveal

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL – A former Clinton election lawyer sought to team up with a key Democrat state attorney general to create litigation......

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Leading Anti-Trump Protest Organizer Engages With Socialist, Communist Groups on Social Media

A key organizer of anti-Trump protests—including the “No Kings” rallies last month—appears to have social media connections with far-left...

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Are China-Linked Organizations Affecting US Environmental Policies?

China-linked entities have their fingerprints on climate lobbying and lawsuits in the U.S., causing alarm among some lawmakers and watchdog...

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Increased Use of Paper Ballots, Electronic Poll Books Could Boost Election Security

A significant shift toward paper ballots and paper records of electronic votes to more easily audit election results, as well as electronic methods...

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11 States Urge Trump, Congress to Defund UN Climate Programs

Eleven state agriculture commissioners called on the Trump administration and Congress to yank funding from United Nations programs that they say are...

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Biden Chief of Staff Set to Testify in House Probe of Cognitive Decline, Autopen Use

Former White House chief of staff Ron Klain has agreed to take questions from congressional investigators probing former President Joe Biden’s...

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Grassley Reveals the FBI Suppressed Evidence of China Meddling in 2020 Election

The FBI suppressed intelligence about Chinese meddling in the 2020 election, according to emails released Tuesday by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck...

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88% of Seniors Won’t Pay Taxes on Social Security If One Big, Beautiful Bill Passes, Analysis Finds

More than 51 million seniors would pay no taxes on Social Security income under the proposed “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” according to a new...

01.07.2025 4

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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 has...

01.07.2025 3

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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...

30.06.2025 3

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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...

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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......

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House Oversight Panel Subpoenas Jill Biden’s ‘Work Husband’ Over Cover-Up

A House panel subpoenaed a top aide for former first lady Jill Biden on Thursday as part of the investigation into the cognitive decline of... Read...

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NYC Mayoral Candidate Vows $65 Million in Funds for ‘Transgender’ Care; Penalties for Noncompliant Hospitals

If elected mayor of New York City, Democrat candidate Zohran Mamdani is pledging to spend $65 million in city funds on “gender-affirming care” and...

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‘Rotten to the Core’: Kari Lake Details Federal Media Agency’s Problems

The parent agency of Voice of America and other taxpayer-funded media are “incompetent and mismanaged, deeply corrupt,” Kari Lake, senior adviser...

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