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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Google fires 28 employees who were involved in an anti-Israel protest.  Jury selection continues in former President Donald Trump’s criminal case. Congress moves one step closer toward passing the TikTok bill. Challenges continue for House Speaker Mike Johnson.  The Senate impeachment trial against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Ma...

The Supreme Court will determine the fate of a major Jan. 6 Capitol riot-related case. The ruling could affect hundreds of people who were in the Capitol that day in 2021, and at the center of the case is the applicability of a federal statute.  The Justice Department has been using a statute enacted in the early 2000s to prosecute those in the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The statute makes it a crime...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: ·         Speaker Mike Johnson will back four foreign aid bills that includes nearly $100 billion in spending. ·         The Columbia University president is grilled in a House hearing on antisemitism ·         Lawmakers react to a Daily Signal story about an NGO distributing flyers urging illegal aliens to vote for Biden. ·         NPR w...

A new bill in Congress would stop illegal aliens from squatting in U.S. homes.  “We're trying to get out in front of it to protect American homeowners,” Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Pa., says. Leonel Moreno, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, recently went viral on social media after a video post explaining how to take advantage of squatting laws in the U.S.  Under U.S. law, Moreno told his followers that...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: ·       Rep. Thomas Massie joined the movement to call for a motion to vacate the Speaker’s office. ·       A National Public Radio whistleblower has been suspended by the news network ·       President Joe Biden has refused to appear before the House committee involved in his impeachment investigation. ·       The Supreme Court heard a c...

Israeli leaders say the nation will respond to Iran’s weekend attack, but what that response will entail remains unclear. “I can see a number of scenarios in which this does escalate to a regional and potentially even a global conflict,” says a former member of the National Security Council, Robert Greenway, adding, “I can see fewer ways in which we prevent that from occurring.”  Over the weekend,...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Israel says it must respond to Iran’s attack.  Former President Donald Trump’s criminal case in New York City begins. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas missed oral argument at the court and no explanation was given.  The FBI opens a criminal investigation into the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. Relevant Links Listen...

Among all the legal charges facing former President Donald Trump, the criminal case out of New York City that begins Monday “is the most bogus,” according to legal expert Hans von Spakovsky.  Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Trump in 2023 with 34 counts of falsifying business records supposedly to cover up “hush money” payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.  “This case is just bogus...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The biggest news out of D.C. today was the House vote to renew the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Conservative legal advocate and co-chairman of the Federalist Society Leonard Leo refuses to comply with a Senate subpoena.  The White House announces another $7.4 billion in loan forgiveness.  California has spent about $24 billion t...

Garret O'Boyle and Stephen Friend dedicated years of their lives to serving their country in the FBI. But when they began to question some of the decisions being made within the bureau, they were suspended.  After joining the FBI, O'Boyle says he “immediately saw that other agents [and] supervisors didn't have a solid grasp of people's civil rights.”  “Having sworn that oath to the Constitution mu...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: President Joe Biden says he may take executive action on the southern border.  O.J. Simpson dies of prostate cancer. The Anti-Defamation League has gives Harvard and 12 other colleges failing grades for the policies on antisemitism.  Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge testified before Congress on the need for the PRESS Act.  Rele...

The list of alleged instances of a weaponized federal government is getting longer, Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., says. “The problem of the federal government being weaponized against the American people's fundamental constitutional rights is pervasive and it seems, although I think we've done some things good to uncover and deter it, it is a constant problem and growing,” Bishop says.  As recent examp...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: A new study confirms that most children showing sudden onset gender dysphoria are actually suffering from other mental health conditions. Idaho has a new law that prevents teachers and college professors from “knowingly and intentionally” addressing a minor by a name or pronoun that doesn’t align with the student’s actual sex. The U.S. se...

Two months ago, the House voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Next week, the Senate will receive the two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas, but Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is expected to dismiss the charges just as quickly as he receives them.  “Schumer is going to table it,” Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., says of the impeachment articles. The ar...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: ​​The House has delayed the delivery of the two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The Arizona Supreme Court issues a ruling upholding a ​​1864 abortion law A Daily Signal investigation has found that drivers of two-wheeled motorized vehicles are breaking the law in D.C. A National Public Radio...

The pro-life community can be the answer for thousands of children in need of loving foster parents or adoptive families, according to Prestonwood Baptist Church Associate Pastor Jeremiah Johnston. “We have 400,000 children in foster care nationally,” Johnston says, adding that “about 100,000 of those 400,000 are available for adoption and just waiting for a 'forever family' right now.” “The need...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Former President Donald Trump clarifies his view on abortion. The Vatican declares transgender surgery and surrogacy to be grave violations of human dignity. President Joe Biden announces a new student loan forgiveness plan. During a protest in Dearborn, Michigan on Friday, people were heard chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israe...

Doctors across the country have seemingly thrown caution to the wind, prescribing experimental drugs to block puberty and to chemically alter young people's bodies in the name of a nebulous gender identity, but rising rates for medical malpractice insurance may cause them to think twice. "If the Hippocratic oath, if basic high school ninth grade biology, if the moral natural law theory of human be...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Calls for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step down are increasing The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports big job gains in March, but there is more to the story.  The Israeli military says it has fired two officers over the drone strike in Gaza that killed seven aid workers. The Northeast experiences an earthquake.  On April 8, t...

The places where they were raised and to which they traveled formed the Founding Fathers’ geographic orientation, which influenced their view of the nation and what the country could become, according to Michael Barone.  While George Washington had “a map that goes north by northwest,” Thomas Jefferson “saw the country from [the] perspective of the West,” says Barone, a senior political analyst fo...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, agenda, has become a means to power at Boeing, according to one Boeing insider who spoke with Christopher Rufo.  An effort backed by former President Donald Trump to rework Nebraska’s electoral votes fails. A prisoner in Utah who is male but identified as female has castrated himself, and now...

There is a rare bipartisan agreement in Washington D.C. around the social media app TikTok. The app’s parent company, ByteDance, is headquartered in Beijing and is subject to Chinese law that requires companies to make their users’ data available to the Chinese Communist Party.  In March, the House passed a bill in a 352-65 vote, with the help of 197 Republicans and 155 Democrats, that gives TikTo...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: A professional development conference heavily used the book, “Gender Queer’ to instruct teachers. China deployed planes and warships around Taiwan after Chinese leader Xi Jinping speaks to Biden. The Biden administration canceled plans to restock strategic petroleum reserve. UT Austin fired dozens of DEI employees to comply with a new sta...

Wind, solar, and electric vehicles aren't the clean energy accomplishments that many claim, climatologist David Legates says. “The lithium, the atrium, all of the rare earth minerals that are necessary for the batteries, that are necessary for the solar panels, that are necessary for the wind turbines … are called rare earths,” Legates explains on “The Daily Signal Podcast.”  These rare earth mine...

Our colleague Fred Lucas reports that newly released records offer a glimpse of how federal public health officials reacted when questioned by Congress about an illegal, China-tied biolab in California. https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/04/01/how-cdc-handled-congress-probe-of-china-tied-lab-in-california/  Democratic Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek signed legislation on Monday that reverses a law known as M...