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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The Justice Department investigation finds that there were a number of “cascading failures” that contributed to 21 lives lost in Uvalde on May 24, 2022.  Heritage Foundation President Dr. Kevin Roberts speaks at the World Economic Forum. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis accused of having a romantic relationship with the top pro...

Israeli leaders such as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “look like shells of their former selves,” commentator Morgan Ortagus says, following meetings in Israel earlier this month.  But Ortagus, who was State Department spokesperson under President Donald Trump, says the weariness extends to the people of Israel, many of whom remain “traumatized” from the Hamas terrorist attacks Oct. 7.  “The ve...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Speaker Mike Johnson says he wouldn’t discuss comprehensive immigration reform and that the border must be secured. Sen. Ted. Cruz endorses Trump after Iowa caucus China knew Covid-19 sequence weeks before telling the world about it. China’s population continues to shrink. Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: htt...

USA Boxing has changed its rules to allow men who identify as women to compete in the female category, a change that coach Cary Williams warns could be deadly.  Even one man competing against women is “all it takes to do damage; that’s all it takes to kill a woman,” says Williams, a USA Olympic-level female boxing coach.  “I’m extremely scared for the safety of our girls and our women in boxing,”...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The Supreme Court announces it won't be taking up a case on whether male students can use women’s bathrooms at school and vice versa.  The Biden administration threatens to sue the state of Texas over access to a park along the Rio Grande River.  Trump wins the Iowa caucuses by a landslide.  A majority of Americans oppose schools forcing...

The polls didn't lie. Former President Donald Trump was projected to be the winner of the Iowa caucuses Monday night just about 30 minutes after they began. In the polls, Trump had a 30-point lead, give or take, over former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as Iowans arrived at their caucus locations at 7 p.m. local time.  Following his win, Trump told Fox News Digital...

For years, especially during the Cold War, Hungary looked to America as an example of freedom, but now it might be time for the U.S. to take notes from Hungary, according to Shea Bradley-Farrell.  Bradley-Farrell, president of the Counterpoint Institute for Policy, Research and Education, recently spent several months in Hungary doing research for her new book. While in the European nation formerl...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The U.S. and U.K. carry out airstrikes against Yemen’s Houthi rebels.  House Speaker Mike Johnson releases a document detailing 64 ways the Biden administration has weakened America’s border.  Jewish students at Harvard University sue their school. Member of the Finnish parliament Päivi Räsänen is being dragged back to court after winning...

Claudine Gay resigned Jan. 2 as Harvard’s president following outrage over antisemitism at the Ivy League school and amid claims that Gay plagiarized in her academic writings. Her resignation provides higher education institutions an opportunity to reconsider the leftist agenda-laden waters most “elite” colleges and universities swim in.  As more people realize the true agenda of diversity, equity...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Inflation rises higher than was projected.  Closing arguments take place in former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud case in New York City.  Leading candidates took one more opportunity to appeal to voters on a national stage before the Iowa Caucuses.  Iran seizes an American oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman. A video indicates the Biden...

Fifteen years ago, Allen Estrin and Dennis Prager founded an organization called PragerU with the goal of providing easily digestible commonsense ideas to young people. Estrin, producer of “The Dennis Prager Show,” and the namesake Prager struck gold. Today, PragerU produces five-minute videos and other content that have more than 9 billion views since its founding in 2009. It’s an incredible stor...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Hunter Biden’s surprise appearance before the House Oversight Committee that was voting to hold him in contempt of Congress A top House Democrat saying President Biden should evaluate firing Defense Secretary Austin after he went missing for several days The US and UK repelling the largest Houthi drone and missile attack yet on commercial...

On Friday, Ohio's Republican governor, Mike DeWine, issued an “emergency” executive order to ban sex-reassignment surgeries for minors just one week after he vetoed a bill that would have banned those same surgeries and addressed related issues. The General Assembly is expected to begin the process of overriding his veto Wednesday. Why did DeWine sign the order so quickly after vetoing the bill? ...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: At a trial in Washington, D.C. Trump’s lawyer says his client is being targeted before an election Rep. Ocasio-Cortez says Justice Clarence Thomas must recuse himself in a Colorado Trump ballot case Conservatives are unhappy with recent congressional budget deal Biden administration announces new law that with put a damper on the gig econ...

Hamas and Israel have been at war for three months. The Houthis are firing rockets at ships in the Red Sea. Lebanon is firing rockets into Israel. And internal violence is growing in Iran between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. As tension builds in the Middle East, the most common thread in the conflict is Iran, according to Victoria Coates, former deputy national security advisor to President Donald Tr...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Congress reaches an agreement on a $1.6 trillion spending bill for 2024.  Multiple GOP lawmakers called on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to resign after he was hospitalized and senior defense officials and the White House were informed for days.  The House Oversight and Accountability Committee released its resolution recommending Congre...

Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass were both dedicated to bringing about an America that was colorblind, Andre Archie says, but their work is being undermined.  “When I say colorblind, it's not naive at all,” says Archie, an author and professor at Colorado State University. “It speaks to a tradition that we find with MLK, with Frederick Douglass, with the Founders, right, in principle....

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Massachusetts voters are trying to get former President Donald Trump’s name off the primary ballot in the commonwealth.  House Speaker Mike Johnson fires back at the White House after the Biden administration claims the crisis at the border is the fault of Republicans.  Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, signs an “emergency” executive order  banning...

The climate is changing, but is the change cause for concern?  “There are natural climate cycles, which are normal,” research scientist Roy Spencer says, adding that “If you move beyond the temperature to things like storminess, you know, hurricane activity, there have been no demonstrable, long-term changes in anything other than a modest, relatively benign increase in temperature." When it comes...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Documents related to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein mention former President Bill Clinton 73 times.  The Biden administration may be in violation of the Hatch Act over employee election policies.  House Democrats release a report alleging that former President Donald Trump unlawfully benefited financially from foreign nations wh...

The scientific community doesn't all agree on the core causes of climate change, and according to climate expert Willie Soon, humanity should look beyond Earth to find the source. The Earth’s rotation around the sun affects the planet’s temperature, says Soon, a visiting fellow on the Science Advisory Committee of the Center for Energy, Climate and Environment at The Heritage Foundation. (The Dail...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The fallout from Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation continues. Gay keep position, salary at Harvard. Blasts near grave of Iranian general kills, injures hundreds. A lawsuit in a civil trial against Trump is dismissed by federal court. Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podc...

Climate change has strayed from being a scientific conversation to a hot-button political debate. But what are the facts surrounding climate change? Is climate change real? And if it is, what is causing the climate to change? Do we need to live in fear of climate change? In a three-part "Daily Signal Podcast" series, experts in the fields of climate and meteorology join the show to explain the his...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Claudine Gay resigns as the President of Harvard Former President Donald Trump will participate in town hall on Jan. 10. Hamas deputy killed in Lebanon blast New Jersey becomes conduit for illegal immigrants coming to New York City New laws go into effect Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your a...

The House will be back in session on Jan. 9, and the new leader of the House Freedom Caucus says border security will be a top priority when they return.  “Of the many crises that this president and these Democrats have created that the country is suffering under now,” says Rep. Bob Good, the newly elected chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, “the border … may be the greatest issue, the greatest...