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Tim Murtaugh became a familiar face to many Americans as President Donald Trump’s communications director for his 2020 reelection campaign. As one of Trump’s most visible spokesmen, Murtaugh had a front-row seat to the most-watched campaign in history. But just a mere four years earlier, Murtaugh found himself in a much different spot. After struggling with alcoholism for years, he was jailed in 2...

After spending years serving the needs of the poor and homeless through nonprofit ministry, James Whitford says he learned that “it's good for nonprofits … to stay away from government funding.”  Whitford, the co-founder and CEO of True Charity, a national initiative to reform charity work, started serving the poor through a ministry called Watered Gardens Ministries in Joplin, Missouri, over two...

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Description:  The House of Representatives is moving ahead with the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.  Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.  A judge in Fulton County Georgia heard arguments today for the case involving former President Donald Trump’s alleged election interference in the 2020 election. Fulton County District Attorne...

On today’s edition of “The Daily Signal Podcast,” Virginia Allen and Simon Hankinson, senior research fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, discuss their recent trip to the southern border in San Diego County and what they learned from their ride-along with retired Border Patrol agent Mike Syzdek. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation...

Description:  As recovery efforts continue and questions remain following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday morning, a truck has been recovered from the Patapsco River.  A special report released by The Heritage Foundation on Wednesday lays out how U.S. national security could be impacted should China take over the self-governing democratic island of Taiwan. h...

How could America shift so babies were more welcomed, less dreaded? Tim Carney, author of the new book “Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be,” has a few ideas. He’d like to see corporations offer parents their child’s birthday off every year. He wants parents to not work so hard at parenting—and to never, ever, sign up their kids for a travel sports...

The Daily Signal’s Mary Margaret Olohan reports the United States Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments today in a case dealing with the Food and Drug Administration’s removal of safeguards on chemical abortion drugs.  Recovery efforts are underway after the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, collapsed early Tuesday morning.  Our colleague Fred Lucas reports that an Interior Dep...

The Islamic extremist group ISIS took responsibility for a terrorist attack in Russia on Friday that left nearly 140 people dead. The deadly incident is one the United States should take “extremely seriously,” according to national security expert Robert Greenway. The deadly attack confirms that “the level of threat to the United States from terrorist attack has not been at this level for decades,...

Appeals court reduces former President Donald Trump’s bond to $175 million Earlier today, the United Nations Security Council voted and adopted “a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the immediate, unconditional release of all hostages,” according to the UN’s X page. The US abstained from the vote Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is not happy with Democratic st...

Why do some women choose to have large families? As the American birth rate declines, academic Catherine Ruth Pakaluk decided to look at the 5% of American women who are outliers, and who have five or more children. With a colleague, she interviewed 55 of those women, and shares their reasons and experiences in her new book, "Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth." These wo...

By a vote of 286-134 over conservatives’ objections, the House passed a $1.2 trillion spending package late Friday morning avoiding a partial government shutdown.  Will House Speaker Mike Johnson be ousted from his position? Former President Donald Trump may soon be a whole lot richer – roughly $3 billion richer.  Axios reports that Russia and China “vetoed a U.S. draft UN Security Council resolut...

The threat of terrorism first touched Arlene Foster’s life when she was just a child. Her father was serving as a police officer in the United Kingdom when he was shot in his own home by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1979. The Provisional Irish Republican Army group was seeking to end British rule in Northern Ireland. The U.K. designated it a terrorist organization. Law enforcement, acc...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: As the clock ticks closer to a potential government shutdown, lawmakers in Washington, DC have released a spending package valued at $1.2 trillion.  Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin says he isn’t going to support President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees if they don’t receive support from at least one Republican senator.  Washingto...

When veteran pollster Scott Rasmussen surveyed a group of Americans he calls the elite 1% earlier this year, he discovered a startling number who say it's OK to win an election by cheating.  The elite 1%—individuals who make over $150,000 a year, live in densely populated areas, and have postgraduate degrees—are overwhelmingly liberal. They give President Joe Biden an 82% approval rating, compared...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: ·         A New York nonprofit dedicated to helping illegal immigrants was caught on video illegally distributing residency documents. ·         A Court shuts down Texas’ immigration law. ·         Bobolinski speaks at Hunter Biden hearing. ·         A Georgia judge allows Trump to appeal in DA Fani Willis case.   Relevant Links   Listen...

This is the third in a three-part series on the movement for religious freedom in the U.S. legal system today. Check out the first part about how Christians who refuse to take a COVID-19 vaccine face "medical death row" hereand the second part about the "rise of global censorship" here. Mike Farris, general counsel with the National Religious Broadcasters and the founder of Patrick Henry College,...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: President Joe Biden has evacuated 11 embassies, a presidential record. The father of nursing student Laken Riley speaks out. Trump may be forced to sell properties to pay legal fees. Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro surrenders to authorities. Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podc...

Today's show is the second in a three-part series on the movement for religious freedom in the U.S. legal system today. Check out the first part about how Christians who refuse to take a COVID-19 vaccine face “medical death row” here. Ryan Bangert, senior vice president at the religious freedom law firm Alliance Defending Freedom, breaks down a troubling phenomenon he calls the “rise of global cen...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Did the Biden administration violate the first amendment? That is and was the question before the Supreme Court today in a major free speech case known as Murthy v. Missouri.  Former President Donald Trump has been unsuccessful in securing the hundreds of millions of dollars he needs to post bail after a New York civil fraud ruling agains...

This is the first in a three-part series on the movement for religious freedom in the U.S. legal system today. Stay tuned for the next two installments. NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute, represents Americans in religious freedom cases who have been turned away from hospitals because they refuse to take a vaccine for COVID-19. "It's disgraceful to put anyone o...

Fulton County Superior Court Trial Judge Scott McAfee made a decision earlier today about the Georgia election interference case involving former president Donald Trump. Vice President Kamala Harris’s visit to a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Minnesota. https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/14/kamala-harris-makes-celebratory-visit-planned-parenthood-abortion-clinic/ On Thursday, James Crumble...

China knows that a weakened American society will mean an easier path for China to triumph on the international stage. In his explosive new book "Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans," Peter Schweizer chronicles China's surprising ties to the Ferguson protests and the 2020 riots. "Blood Money" also exposes how China is pushing fentanyl to the United States, kn...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: England’s National Health Service has declared that there’s not enough evidence of “safety and clinical effectiveness” for children and young people to be given puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria.  https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/13/england-banning-puberty-blockers-kids-will-save-lives-experts-predict/ Former President Donald...

For nearly a decade, the House Freedom Caucus has disrupted the way business is done in Congress. Now, that same model is spreading to state capitals across America. State Freedom Caucus Network President Andy Roth is no stranger to Washington’s policy fights after spending years with the Club for Growth. A few years ago, he decided it was time to turn his attention to the states. Today, the State...