U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly blocked part of President Donald Trump’s executive order on election integrity. Kollar-Kotelly, who was appointed to the District Court for the District of Columbia by President Bill Clinton in 1997, has a history of left-leaning decisions on free speech, transgender policy, terrorist detention, and more recently, the Department of Government Efficiency, […]
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Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Where are we in the trade wars, the tariff wars? The stock market recently has recovered somewhat. We’re about where it was in August. I didn’t think […]
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Federal regulations cost taxpayers trillions of dollars annually, with the average American household paying roughly $16,000 per year in hidden costs, according to a new report. The nonpartisan Competitive Enterprise Institute released its annual Ten Thousand Commandments report Thursday. It shows that total compliance costs and economic effects of federal regulations exceed $2.1 trillion annually, with the Federal […]
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One thing that President Donald Trump has proven since taking office is that to secure the border, all it takes is a president with the political will to do what is necessary, with encounters on the southwest border in March down to 11,017, a 94 percent decrease from 189,359 encounters in March 2024, according to data […]
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President Donald Trump will sign a presidential memorandum Thursday launching an investigation into ActBlue for potentially illegal methods of fundraising for Democrats, The Daily Signal has learned. The memo directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate and take appropriate action concerning allegations regarding the use of online fundraising platforms to make “straw” or “dummy” contributions and to make foreign […]
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called on the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to return to their original missions and hasten to restore balance to the global financial system. In a keynote address at the Institute of International Finance’s Global Outlook Forum on Wednesday, Bessent reinforced the administration’s stance that other countries’ trade policies […]
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The U.S. Department of Education in February warned colleges and universities that if they did not eliminate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs, they could risk losing federal funding. Now, two months later, many universities around the country still boast of their DEI programs and employ DEI staff, raising questions about whether the Department of Education […]
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has declassified a shocking plan by former President Joe Biden’s administration for dealing with domestic terrorists. Last Wednesday, Gabbard released a June 2021 document titled “Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism” (henceforth “the Plan”). But despite the release receiving over 6.3 million views on X by Monday morning, […]
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Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, born in 1944 in Austria, is a businessman appointed interim chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in April 2025, following Klaus Schwab’s resignation. His role is temporary, with a committee tasked to select a permanent chair. He last made headlines when he declared that access to clean water was not a “human right” and […]
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The U.S. Supreme Court upheld by a 7-2 majority expedited removals of illegal aliens without a hearing under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 in the case Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam in 2020. Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito noted that the entire intent of the legislation was to expedite removals: “In […]