Federal agents stopped former California Congressman Eric Swalwell at San Francisco International Airport over the weekend, served him a search warrant, and walked off with his iPhone and MacBook Pro. The next day they hit his Washington residence. This is not a fishing expedition. It is a targeted seizure in an active federal criminal investigation […]
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If you looked only at the U.S. government’s official books, you’d think America’s entire gold stockpile is worth about $11 billion. That number is almost comically outdated — and understanding why reveals a strange quirk of federal accounting that’s been making headlines again in 2026. A Price Frozen in 1973 The United States owns roughly […]
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Alexis Antonio Cedillos-Campos, a 19-year-old illegal immigrant from El Salvador, appeared in court in Maryland on Thursday for a hearing related to the heinous murder of Carmen Lizet Puch. He is scheduled for another appearance on Sept. 18 ahead of his possible extradition to Virginia. The victim, a 42-year-old mother, was stabbed to death in Great Falls […]
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COVID-19 Scammers Among Families That Cost Taxpayers $50 Million About $50 million in federal fraud could have been avoided if grants were blocked for people living with convicted fraudsters, according to a new Senate report. The office of Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, chairwoman of the Senate Small Business Committee as well as the Senate DOGE […]
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During this midterm summer and fall, don’t fall for the doom and gloom that we hear so often about America’s in decline or we’re bogged down in Iran. In actuality, due to new deregulation, emphasis on energy production, deregulation, pruning back the federal government, and winning over the confidence of our tech sectors, the United […]
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El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells got a tip from federal authorities. Roughly fifty-two unaccompanied children in his city might be victims of sex trafficking involving illegal immigrants. He wanted his police to do the most basic thing possible: welfare checks. Knock on the door. See if the kids were safe. Get them out if they […]
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is running a campaign video that should make every working taxpayer choke on their coffee. Donate five bucks to her re-election effort, she says, and the city turns it into thirty-five. Chip in twenty-five and the city kicks in one hundred seventy-five. It is not a private matching gift from […]
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North Carolina’s Democratic governor just vetoed a bill that would have shortened the longest primary early-voting window in the country, required regular independent audits of county election systems, and given election officials better tools to scrub dead people and ineligible names off the voter rolls. The veto came days after state officials confirmed roughly 34,000 […]
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Americans are waking up to a low, constant drone that never stops. It rolls out of massive windowless buildings rising on farmland and industrial edges from Virginia to Texas to the Midwest. The servers inside never sleep. Neither does the noise. Neither, increasingly, do the neighbors. Data centers powering the artificial intelligence boom have become […]
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The anticipation of the November midterms is mounting every day, and the polls show that, typically, in midterm elections, the in-party in the White House, i.e., the Republicans and Donald Trump, are going to lose seats. 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 […]