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 […]
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Florida Republicans redrew the congressional map earlier this year. The goal was simple: turn competitive or Democratic-leaning districts into safer Republican ones and create more pickup opportunities. Tuesday’s primaries showed the map is working. Most incumbents survived, Trump-endorsed candidates took some losses where personal baggage was heavy, and several November matchups now favor the GOP […]
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Alexander Vindman spent years positioning himself as the heroic whistleblower who stood up to Donald Trump. Last night Florida Democrats reminded him that fame and millions of dollars still cannot buy affection from a party that has lurched hard left. The retired lieutenant colonel lost the Democratic Senate primary to state Representative Angie Nixon, a […]
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Salman Ahmed Elmi, 30, of St. Paul, Minnesota, has been charged with eight felony counts: three of aiding and abetting theft by swindle and five of aiding and abetting theft by false representation. Prosecutors allege he co-owned Reva Health, a Golden Valley company providing autism and adult rehabilitative mental health services, and billed Medicaid for […]
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Melissa L. Farris, 41, of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, was charged with two federal felonies after allegedly vandalizing the World War II Memorial on the National Mall. On August 13 she is accused of spray-painting “Clean Hands Dirty $” and other graffiti across the stonework while dumping dish soap into the fountain so it overflowed with foam. […]
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A new report from Defending Education has identified at least 83 universities and 26 K-12 schools across 30 states that exposed their students to Chinese Communist Party propaganda through the Young Envoys Scholarship program. According to the report, titled “Little Red Classrooms: China’s Infiltration of American K-12 Schools,” the program is monitored by the China Education Association […]
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Large-scale destructive riots have been less common this summer than in peak years like 2020. Anti-ICE demonstrations have occurred, some turning violent or involving street takeovers and barricades, but they have not produced the sustained, multi-city arson and occupation cycles of prior cycles. The difference is real. The causes are multiple. The Funding Ecosystem That […]
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The Department of Defense has directed 30 American universities and research institutes to complete a full security audit of their academic, financial, and research collaborations with foreign entities of concern. The deadline is August 31. Institutions that fail to comply or refuse to terminate problematic partnerships risk losing eligibility for future federal research funding. UNIVERSITY […]