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After Legal Setback, What’s Next for Trump’s Effort to Deport Illegal Alien Gang Members?

President Donald Trump’s use of a 1798 law to expedite deportations of foreign gang members is almost certainly headed for the Supreme Court, where...

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‘Stay Tuned’: 4 Keys to Understanding What’s Next in Epstein Probe

‘Stay Tuned’: 4 Keys to Understanding What’s Next in Epstein Probe

Amid new information on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein coming to light this week, one thing is certain: Much more is still to... Read...

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Left’s Litigators, Federal Union Launch New Alliance to Protect ‘Deep State’

Left’s Litigators, Federal Union Launch New Alliance to Protect ‘Deep State’

Left-leaning organizations launched a partnership to provide legal support and advice to “deep state” employees ousted during President Donald...

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Feds Launch Probe of House Democrat’s Campaign Spending

Feds Launch Probe of House Democrat’s Campaign Spending

The Federal Election Commission confirmed it opened an investigation into Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., for allegedly taking illegal...

29.08.2025 6

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Trump Wants US to ‘Get Rid of Mail-in Ballots.’ Most Countries Already Have.

Trump Wants US to ‘Get Rid of Mail-in Ballots.’ Most Countries Already Have.

The United States is an outlier in the world when it comes to mail-in voting, as most industrialized democracies either ban it or require photo......

24.08.2025 5

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Trump Admin Finds University’s DEI Policies Violate Civil Rights Act

Trump Admin Finds University’s DEI Policies Violate Civil Rights Act

The U.S. Department of Education found that George Mason University violated civil rights laws in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion...

23.08.2025 3

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House Vows to Make Epstein Documents Public After Review

House Vows to Make Epstein Documents Public After Review

The Justice Department released the first installment of documents on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to House of Representatives investigators...

23.08.2025 2

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Ex-White House Official Who Defended Biden’s Mental Acuity Met With Him Only Twice

Ex-White House Official Who Defended Biden’s Mental Acuity Met With Him Only Twice

A former White House spokesperson who staunchly defended Joe Biden’s mental acuity—attacking a former federal prosecutor who raised questions...

22.08.2025 2

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Rep. Chip Roy Running for Texas Attorney General in 2026

Rep. Chip Roy Running for Texas Attorney General in 2026

U.S. Rep. Chip Roy announced Thursday he’s running for Texas attorney general.  First elected to the U.S. House from the 21st District of Texas...

21.08.2025 2

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In NYC Mayor’s Race, Adams Asks Mamdani ‘Where in His Quran’ Prostitution is OK

In NYC Mayor’s Race, Adams Asks Mamdani ‘Where in His Quran’ Prostitution is OK

Prostitution has taken center stage in the New York mayor’s race, as front-runner Zohran Mamdani is pushing to decriminalize it in the city.  This...

21.08.2025 5

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‘DEEP TROUBLE’: 4 Things to Know About Legal Probes of Adam Schiff

Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., already facing two Justice Department investigations, could soon face another on Capitol Hill, legal experts say. A...

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Will He or Won’t He? Does Elon Musk Still Have Plans for a Third Party?

Will He or Won’t He? Does Elon Musk Still Have Plans for a Third Party?

Elon Musk seemed to shrug off a report that he’s abandoning plans to build a third political party but did not outright assert he was moving...

20.08.2025 2

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‘HIGHLY PROBLEMATIC’: DOJ Raised Concerns Over Biden Autopen Clemencies

The Biden administration’s Justice Department raised concerns about the Biden White House using broad categories to grant clemency to groups of...

20.08.2025 5

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Democrats Lost Voters During Biden-Harris Years While GOP Registrations Surged

Democrats Lost Voters During Biden-Harris Years While GOP Registrations Surged

The Democratic Party saw an excessive loss of registered voters across battleground states, blue states, and red states over the course of Joe...

20.08.2025 4

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Why JB Pritzker Doesn’t Want the DOJ to Look at Illinois’ Voter Rolls

Illinois has until Thursday to provide the Justice Department with more voter information about whether it’s complying with federal law on...

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Suspicious Ballot-Stuffing Caught on Video in This Battleground State

Suspicious Ballot-Stuffing Caught on Video in This Battleground State

A city council member in Michigan was reportedly seen on video helping to drop what appear to be several absentee ballots into a ballot drop... Read...

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What Former Attorney General Barr Told House Investigators About Trump and Jeffrey Epstein

President Donald Trump never provided views or instructions relating to the prosecution of the criminal case against convicted sex offender Jeffrey...

19.08.2025 8

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HONESTY FOR 2026 ELECTIONS: How Trump Vows to Reform Voting

HONESTY FOR 2026 ELECTIONS: How Trump Vows to Reform Voting

President Donald Trump promised another executive order to “bring honesty” to the 2026 midterm elections, when the Republican congressional...

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What to Know and What’s Ahead in the Biden Mental Decline Probe

What to Know and What’s Ahead in the Biden Mental Decline Probe

President Joe Biden’s former White House chief of staff and former press secretary are among the final four witnesses set to take questions from...

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EXCLUSIVE: What Alaska’s Governor Expects From Trump-Putin Summit

EXCLUSIVE: What Alaska’s Governor Expects From Trump-Putin Summit

FIRST ON DAILY SIGNAL—Reports that the Trump administration might strike a deal granting Russia access to Alaskan minerals are “fake news,”...

16.08.2025 5

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4 Takeaways From Trump-Putin Summit in Alaska

4 Takeaways From Trump-Putin Summit in Alaska

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin both professed to have made progress, but did not reach an agreement on how to end...

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Obama Called Mamdani, Opening Up More Potential Dem Establishment Backing

Obama Called Mamdani, Opening Up More Potential Dem Establishment Backing

Even though some Democrats on the national stage seemed to dodge associating with openly socialist New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, former...

14.08.2025 3

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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...

13.08.2025 4

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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...

13.08.2025 5

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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...

12.08.2025 10

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‘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...

08.08.2025 3

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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...

08.08.2025 2

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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

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’

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

08.08.2025 3

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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. ...

08.08.2025 10

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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

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

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

06.08.2025 20

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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

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

05.08.2025 2

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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...

05.08.2025 10

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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...

04.08.2025 10

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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...

01.08.2025 4

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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...

01.08.2025 4

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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...

01.08.2025 7

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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

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

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 

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

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

23.07.2025 4

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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...

17.07.2025 3

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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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