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‘Judicial Coup d’é·tat’: Lower Court Judges Reach Record Nationwide Injunctions on Trump

A House panel heard Tuesday from experts about curbing the ability of district court judges to impose nationwide injunctions, which have been a thorny...

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Bill Amending Oklahoma’s Anti-ESG Law Dies

Bill Amending Oklahoma’s Anti-ESG Law Dies

A bill in the Oklahoma Legislature to amend the state’s three-year-old anti-ESG law died last week after criticism that it would water down efforts...

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Left-Wing Groups Call on Federal Election Agency to Defy Trump Executive Order

Left-Wing Groups Call on Federal Election Agency to Defy Trump Executive Order

A coalition of left-leaning organizations is urging the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to defy President Donald Trump’s executive order on...

31.03.2025 5

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Euro-Lawfare? France Bans Nationalist Candidate From Running for Office

Euro-Lawfare? France Bans Nationalist Candidate From Running for Office

A French court banned the leader of France’s conservative nationalist party–Marine Le Pen–from running for public office for the next five years...

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Trump Appeals Deportation Case to Supreme Court

Trump Appeals Deportation Case to Supreme Court

The Trump administration made an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court hear its case for using the Alien Enemies Act to deport members of a...

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Report: Medicaid Misspent $4.3 Billion in Duplicate Payments

Report: Medicaid Misspent $4.3 Billion in Duplicate Payments

Taxpayers spent at least $4.3 billion over a three-year period covering the same Medicaid patients twice, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. ...

27.03.2025 2

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4 Takeaways as House DOGE Panel Grills NPR, PBS Chiefs

4 Takeaways as House DOGE Panel Grills NPR, PBS Chiefs

The heads of National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service testified about content and fielded questions about bias in a hearing...

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EXCLUSIVE: Conservative Group Seeks DOJ, FEC Probes of Jasmine Crockett

EXCLUSIVE: Conservative Group Seeks DOJ, FEC Probes of Jasmine Crockett

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A conservative organization filed requests for federal investigations into Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, regarding...

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EXCLUSIVE: ESG Ruling Puts New Pressure on Public Pension Funds and BlackRock

EXCLUSIVE: ESG Ruling Puts New Pressure on Public Pension Funds and BlackRock

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A federal court ruling regarding ESG investing with BlackRock could put public pension funds on the defense, a consumer...

26.03.2025 8

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‘Waste of Money’: Trump Calls for Defunding NPR, PBS Ahead of House DOGE Hearing

‘Waste of Money’: Trump Calls for Defunding NPR, PBS Ahead of House DOGE Hearing

President Donald Trump said National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service are a “waste of money” and that he would “be honored” to...

26.03.2025 7

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Obama-Appointed Judge to Trump Team: ‘Nazis Got Better Treatment’

Obama-Appointed Judge to Trump Team: ‘Nazis Got Better Treatment’

An Obama-appointed judge on a Washington, D.C., appeals court Monday brought up the U.S. government’s treatment of Nazis amid World War II under the...

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Bank of America CEO Faces Shareholder After Trump Denunciation of Debanking Conservatives

Bank of America CEO Faces Shareholder After Trump Denunciation of Debanking Conservatives

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump called out Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan over reports of “debanking” conservatives—and...

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USAID Coordinated With Censorship Agency, Documents Show

USAID Coordinated With Censorship Agency, Documents Show

The U.S. Agency for International Development coordinated closely with a State Department program to block what it considered “misinformation,”...

22.03.2025 4

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Oklahoma Debates How to Fight ESG, Amid AG-Treasurer Clash

Oklahoma Debates How to Fight ESG, Amid AG-Treasurer Clash

Oklahoma lawmakers advanced legislation that could “gut” a three-year-old anti-ESG law and leave state taxpayers vulnerable to environmental,...

22.03.2025 7

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Inspector General Report Backs DOGE, Reveals Unused IRS Space Wastes Millions

Inspector General Report Backs DOGE, Reveals Unused IRS Space Wastes Millions

The Department of Government Efficiency’s cutting of Internal Revenue Service office space is consistent with the federal government’s earlier...

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EXCLUSIVE: House Oversight Probes EPA Waste, Financial Conflicts

EXCLUSIVE: House Oversight Probes EPA Waste, Financial Conflicts

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL–Financial conflicts of interest and billions of questionable expenditures under the Biden administration’s Environmental...

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Biden Autopen Actions ‘Non-Delegable’ and ‘Invalid,’ Legal Analysis Finds

Biden Autopen Actions ‘Non-Delegable’ and ‘Invalid,’ Legal Analysis Finds

The pardon authority is the president’s alone and cannot be delegated, according to a legal analysis by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight...

19.03.2025 10

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JFK Assassination Documents Made Public

JFK Assassination Documents Made Public

The declassified files on the assassination of the 39th president, John F. Kennedy, more than 60 years ago were released Tuesday, in response to an......

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Could the Bluest State in the Nation Get Voter ID?

Could the Bluest State in the Nation Get Voter ID?

California, one of the most solidly blue states in the nation, could be voting on adopting voter ID—an initiative that President Donald Trump called...

19.03.2025 10

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California Poised to Disbar Trump 2020 Lawyer John Eastman 

California Poised to Disbar Trump 2020 Lawyer John Eastman 

The irony is striking for John Eastman, a constitutional attorney and one of President Donald Trump’s lawyers in the litigated post-2020 election. ...

17.03.2025 5

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What Trump Said in Justice Department Speech

What Trump Said in Justice Department Speech

President Donald Trump said the Justice Department is “turning the page on four long years of corruption and weaponization.”  Trump spoke Friday...

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EXCLUSIVE: Dem Governors Get Strategy for National Guard Deployment, Executive Orders to Resist Trump

EXCLUSIVE: Dem Governors Get Strategy for National Guard Deployment, Executive Orders to Resist Trump

Democrat governors have a “resistance” playbook created for them that includes draft executive orders to defy the administration’s immigration...

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Concrete Climate Action? Rainforest Paved for Global Elite Global Warming Gathering

In preparation for an international climate summit this fall, Brazilian state officials are clearing tens of thousands of acres of the Amazon...

12.03.2025 4

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Inspector General Could Probe $6B in Tax Dollars Fueling Immigration Crisis

The government should investigate how $6 billion in tax dollars funded the nongovernmental organizations to move illegal immigrants across the...

12.03.2025 9

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EXCLUSIVE: As DOGE Targets Spending, 2 State Attorneys General Groups Seek to Protect Foreign Grants

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—As the Department of Government Efficiency continues to flag unusual federal government expenditures, state attorneys...

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Countdown to Shutdown? Trump Backs Spending Deal, Dems Opposed

Despite President Donald Trump urging Republicans to unite behind a continuing resolution spending proposal to keep the government open, some GOP...

10.03.2025 10

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Trump Justice Department Could Enforce Expiration Date for Mail-In Ballots

A new Trump administration Justice Department could enforce a federal court’s ruling requiring only ballots arriving on or before Election Day to be...

08.03.2025 10

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‘Off the Hook’: SEC Sides With Major Bank on Government Weaponization Inquiry

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Bank of America will not conduct a review regarding customer data policies highlighted by a congressional investigation on...

07.03.2025 7

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‘Surveillance State’: Bill Would Tackle Government Collection of Investor Data

Republicans in Congress are pushing back on what some consider another front on the surveillance state–in this case Security and Exchange Commission...

07.03.2025 5

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‘Very Effective’: GOP Senators Talk About DOGE

Canceling federal contracts and grants are real savings that can be done at the executive level through the White House’s Department of Government...

06.03.2025 6

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Tuberville: Democrats’ Transgender Sports Move Prove They Learned Nothing From 2024

Democrats proved they learned nothing from the 2024 election by unanimously blocking a bill to keep biological men from playing women’s...

05.03.2025 6

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How Biden’s Pardons Could Mean Congress Learns More About Jan. 6 Committee Controversies

After a congressional report alleged that Jan. 6 committee members deleted documents and tampered with a witness, outgoing President Joe Biden...

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Lawmakers Look to Work With Musk to Codify Into Law DOGE’s Efforts to Rein in Bureaucracy

Legislation in the U.S. House and Senate to rein in the federal bureaucracy and allow poor performers to be fired or disciplined would “codify”...

01.03.2025 2

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Trump’s VOA Pick Kari Lake Also Named Adviser to Global Media Agency

Kari Lake, who is President Donald Trump’s choice to run the Voice of America, will become a senior adviser to the U.S. Agency for Global... Read...

28.02.2025 2

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Money Trails and Backgrounds of 10 Democrat-Appointed Judges Blocking Trump Policies

Federal judges ruling against President Donald Trump’s recent executive actions have been almost entirely appointees of his two Democrat...

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Germany—Like Most Democracies—Counted Votes on Election Night. Why Can’t the US Do the Same?

Germany’s election this week marked another reminder that most industrialized democratic countries tend to call the results of their elections on...

27.02.2025 8

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5 Big Controversies Facing the Fed’s ‘Consumer Watchdog’ Agency as DOGE Eyes Its End

Democrats and the media—along with federal employee unions—have rallied around the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency that has been...

26.02.2025 8

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Government Watchdog’s Waste List Buttresses Trump Complaints About FEMA, Telework

Improper payments, empty federal buildings, and fragmented disaster response are among the key drivers of waste and inefficiency in the federal...

25.02.2025 6

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Comer: DOGE Follows GAO in ‘Identifying Trillions of Dollars Lost’

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—As the Trump administration is homing in on how trillions of tax dollars are being misspent, the Government Accountability...

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Kari Lake: Voice of America Winning ‘Information War’ Can Stop Trillion-Dollar Wars

Kari Lake blasted the legacy media Friday but vowed a “golden age in journalism” as President Donald Trump’s choice to head the Voice of...

22.02.2025 4

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Deep State Accountability? GOP Lawmakers Push Measure Amid DOGE Audits

As the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency duel with bureaucrats over waste, House and Senate Republicans are pushing...

22.02.2025 4

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After Censorship Scandal, Are CISA Staffers Off the Hook After 130 Were Fired?

The firing of federal bureaucrats from an agency a congressional panel accused of engaging in a broad censorship effort may be too light a...

22.02.2025 5

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Nigel Farage Draws Inspiration From Trump to ‘Make Britain Great Again’ in UK Elections

Nigel Farage, leader of the Brexit effort and a member of the United Kingdom Parliament, predicted his country would follow the trend of the U.S.......

21.02.2025 4

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Senate Confirms Kash Patel as FBI Director

The Senate confirmed Kash Patel to become FBI director today on a narrow vote of 51-49. Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski......

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‘Utter Fabrication’: What One Former FAA Chief Says About Media’s Claim About Elon Musk and Air Safety

A former Federal Aviation Administration chief said Wednesday that it’s a “complete and utter fabrication” that entrepreneur Elon Musk forced...

20.02.2025 5

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‘Trump Effect’: Illegal Border Crossings Could Be on Track to Hit Near 50-Year Low

The White House has touted January’s 36% decline in border apprehensions—the lowest number of illegal aliens apprehended along the border in...

19.02.2025 3

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EXCLUSIVE: Democrat Governors Arranged Meeting With Biden White House to Thwart Trump Agenda, Emails Show

White House officials under outgoing President Joe Biden may have colluded with staffers representing a coalition of Democrat governors planning to...

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FACT CHECK: Left, Legacy Media Claim GOP Wants to Block Women Voting

Legacy media outlets and liberal interest groups have recently claimed that a proposal requiring proof of citizenship to vote could actually prevent...

14.02.2025 5

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Ernst Seeks to Crack Down on Government Employees Doing Union Activities During Work Hours

Republican lawmakers want to rein in the amount of time federal employees spend on union time—including activities such as lobbying Congress and...

13.02.2025 4

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LAWFARE: Web of Leftist Groups Working in Tandem to Tie Up Trump Agenda in Court

Lawfare hasn’t stopped since Donald Trump became president again, but has been repackaged into civil litigation to stop his second term agenda—and...

12.02.2025 4

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