The U.S. Department of Justice is taking action against La Mara Salvatrucha, MS-13, an international criminal organization whose members authorities say are involved in committing murder and other violent crimes in at least 10 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Under the Trump administration, MS-13 was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. The DOJ […]
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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and other members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet have launched a task force to address anti-Christian bias in federal agencies that they argue escalated under the Biden administration. The goal of the task force is to identify any unlawful, anti-Christian policies, practices or conduct across the government; seek input from […]
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Years before he ran for office, Donald Trump cultivated a style of speaking that was brash, blunt, and (in his opinion) totally honest. “I tell it like it is,” Trump said repeatedly on the campaign trail in 2016, breathing new life into a slogan used by politicians dating back to Richard Nixon, and hinting at […]
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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 […]