Trust, but Don’t Verify? FDA’s New Inspection Policy Causing Dramatic Increase in Food Recalls A century ago, the U.S. federal government made a straightforward decision: If you sell food to Americans, the government will verify that it is safe. Not by reviewing self-submissions. Not by relying on self-representations, but by showing up and seeing for […]
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Trump’s Border Policies Deliver What Biden’s Never Could The Department of Homeland Security dropped the April 2026 southwest border numbers on May 15, and they are nothing short of historic. U.S. Border Patrol recorded just 8,943 apprehensions — a 94% drop from the Biden administration’s monthly average and 96% below the December 2023 peak. Daily […]
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Because America Clearly Needs More Lectures on Socialism. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent years insisting she had zero interest in higher office beyond her safe House seat. Now the signals scream otherwise. The 36-year-old democratic socialist is leaving the door wide open for a 2028 presidential run, despite her earlier hand-wringing about the hatred women of color […]
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Governor Abigail Spanberger, the former CIA officer turned Virginia Democrat, couldn’t wait to sign another gun-control bill that treats law-abiding citizens like potential criminals while criminals keep their illegal guns anyway. On May 15 she inked legislation banning the future sale, manufacture, transfer, and importation of so-called “assault firearms” and magazines holding more than 15 […]
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Fauci & Top Officials Under Fire Over COVID-19 Claims Jack Fowler: OK, Victor, just to torture people further with the sound of my voice, here’s the headline: CIA whistleblower alleges cover-up of COVID-19 lab leak intelligence by scientists who repeatedly concluded that a lab accident caused the COVID-19 pandemic, but more senior bureaucrats watered down and suppressed their […]
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Recently, at the U.S.-China summit in Beijing, Premier Xi [Jinping] mentioned that he hoped that both parties, the United States and China, could avoid the Thucydides Trap. 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. Hello, this […]
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But It’s the Desperation Move of a Bankrupt Regime, Not a Serious Threat to America The bankrupt communist outpost 90 miles from Florida is playing with fire again. Cuba has quietly assembled a stockpile of more than 300 military drones since 2023, sourced primarily from Russia and Iran, and stashed them in strategic locations across […]
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Democrats Just Can’t Help but Signal How They Plan to Lock in Permanent Power “Mainstream” Democrats are doing a good job right now of telegraphing to America what they plan to do with national power the second they get it back. They plan to make it permanently theirs, by any means necessary. You can be sure […]
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Divers doing routine maintenance at a critical dam in Mobile, Alabama, just pulled a live grenade-type improvised explosive device out of the water. The device was sitting right there on the Converse Reservoir dam at Big Creek Lake, the sole drinking-water source for roughly 350,000 people in the Mobile area. This isn’t some Hollywood thriller. […]
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Trump’s Border Czar Has a Smart Surprise for Sanctuary Cities Trying to Hide Criminals Editor’s note: This is an excerpt of an interview with President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan by the Daily Signal’s Senior National Security and Legal Analyst Mehek Cooke. Mehek Cooke: Well, let’s expand on that, because I look at sanctuary cities today, and the worst offenders—that’s who […]