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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Secretary of State Antony Blinken appeared before the Senate Appropriations Committee today and was repeatedly interrupted by protesters.  President Joe Biden is facing scrutiny over news about 82,000 pages of emails he sent or received while serving as vice president.   FBI Director Christopher Wray testified today in front of the Senate...

The U.N. General Assembly called Friday for a “humanitarian truce” between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers, but a cease-fire isn't an option for the Jewish nation, activist Boris Zilberman says.  If the Israel-Hamas war is put on pause, Zilberman says, Hamas terrorists will use the time “to retool.”  Zilberman, director of public policy and strategy at Christians United for Israel Action Fund since...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: After a slew of Antisemitic events on college campuses across the country, the Biden administration rolls out a plan to combat antisemitism.  Middle school students are asked to sign a gag order following an antisemitic bullying incident.  Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not agree to a cease-fire. Pro-Palestine m...

Since she began serving on her local school board in Arizona in January, Heather Rooks has made it a practice to begin her meeting comments by reading a Scripture verse she found encouraging. Rooks says citing Scriptures such as Isaiah 41:10—“Do not fear for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God”—served as an inspiration to her. “I continued to do it, because it really...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says America has carried out two strikes on Iran-linked targets in Syria. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis explains what his foreign policy toward China would be if elected president.  The Biden administration urges Congress to pass gun control measures following the mass shooting in Maine.  A Pennsylvania Jewish c...

There is still hope religious liberty will prevail in America even though many wish to tear it down, including some in government, according to the president of the religious freedom law firm the Becket Fund. Many religious liberty cases succeed because they tap into the “live and let live instinct” of Americans, Mark Rienzi told Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts on “The Kevin Roberts Sh...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Left-wing media and organizations rush to criticize the new Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson. Police in Maine continue to hunt for a mass shooting suspect named Robert Card.  According to Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, the FBI received 'criminal information' from over 40 confidential sources on President Joe Biden.  A group of...

Snowboarding coach David Bloch was fired after acknowledging biological differences exist between men and women.  Bloch worked as a coach at Woodstock Union High School in Woodstock, Vermont, for 12 years and says he loved being in the snow and watching the kids he coached grow.  “I think it's so incredible to watch the progress,” Bloch said, adding that he loves watching students “sit on top of a...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., is elected House speaker. Israel reportedly delays its ground invasion of Gaza at the United States' request A committee votes to move forward the nomination of Jack Lew, President Biden's pick for ambassador to Israel. Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/pod...

There are growing concerns over who is crossing America’s border with Mexico in light of the war between Hamas and Israel.  “This is absolutely a concern,” Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham says of the threat of terrorists taking advantage of the lack of security along America’s southern border.  “We are seeing over 200 people on the terrorist Most Wanted List that we have caught alone this...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Congressman Tom Emmer of Minnesota won the House speaker nomination and then dropped out of the race only a few hours later.  Former Trump Attorney Jenna Ellis pleads guilty to charges in the Georgia election interference case. Hamas releases two elderly women on health grounds.  Secretary of State Antony Blinken sends a clear message to...

West Virginia is feeling the worst effects of illicit fentanyl flowing across America’s southern border, according to state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey.  Fentanyl is “ravaging our state,” Morrisey says, noting that is “in part because West Virginia for many decades really has had the highest drug-overdose death rate in the nation.” And now, the Mountain State has “the highest fentanyl death...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: There are now nine GOP members running for House speaker.  The Biden administration proposes a $105 billion spending package with aid for Ukraine and Israel.  Israel’s ground offensive has appeared imminent, but may be delayed.  The Southern Poverty Law Center’s labor union takes a public stance on Israel’s war with Hamas. Over 3.2 millio...

“Average” is not the adjective that comes to mind when talking about an American who took a religious freedom case all the way to the Supreme Court, but football coach Joe Kennedy says he identified with the word.  “I’ve always looked at myself actually [as] below average,” Kennedy says. “I really had no idea that God was going to take my life in this way, in this path.”  In his new book, “Average...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: After three rounds of voting, there is still no speaker of the House and there is now no GOP nominee.  The war between Israel and Hamas rages on as the two-week mark approaches since the terrorist organization launched its Oct. 7 attack. President Joe Biden’s delivers a speech from the Oval Office on Thursday evening. Tyler O’Neil reports...

For Rabbi Scott Kahn, Oct. 7 was a holy day, the Sabbath. He went to an early morning service at his synagogue and standing outside for a moment, he saw something strange. “We suddenly heard booms overhead in our city of Ramat Beit Shemesh. So we looked up, and we saw smoke just randomly. It wasn’t a plane. It was just like bursts of smoke,” he tells The Daily Signal. Soon, he heard about how his...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The House moves ahead with a plan to place North Carolina Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry in the position of speaker pro-tempore. Sidney Powell pleads guilty to six misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit election interference in Geprgia’s Fulton County Superior Court. U.S. Capitol Police arrest hundreds of protesters in a congressiona...

“Israel is a country who cherishes life,” Yael Eckstein says, “and our enemies know that." Those enemies use that fact as a tool against Israel, adds Eckstein, president and CEO of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, who is today's guest on "The Daily Signal Podcast."   Hamas killed 1,300 Israelis and took hostage about 200 “elderly, babies, children, women, [and] handicapped” in...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: GOP House Speaker nominee Jim Jordan falls short of the 217 votes needed to win the position in the second vote Wednesday.  President Joe Biden lands in Israel and delivers remarks alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. U.S. intelligence shows the deadly blast at the Gaza hospital appeared to have been caused by terrorist Hamas mili...

Field reporter and former U.S. Marine Julio Rosas, who has been in Israel since Wednesday, is sharing details from the ground as the war between Hamas and Israel continues.  "Just before I signed on to join this podcast, there was—I got alerts on my phone that there were rockets being launched further to the south of us, and so that is currently the biggest threat," said Rosas, author of "Fiery Bu...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Fred Lucas reports that Senate Republicans today called for the Biden administration to refreeze $6 billion in Iranian funds amid the Israel-Hamas war, citing indications that Iran helped Hamas plan its Oct. 7 terrorist attack on the Jewish state. https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/10/17/gop-senators-demand-biden-refreeze-6b-for-iran/  Just...

As the war between Hamas and Israel continues, President Joe Biden is set to visit Israel on Wednesday following an invitation from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday.  “I think it’s important for any American president to show support for, and solidarity with, Israel in its darkest hour. I mean, this is the darkest day in Israeli history,” Nathan Sales, former ambassador-at-lar...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Former President Donald Trump is facing new restrictions regarding what he can and cannot say.  Congressman Jim Jordan may have acquired the votes he needs to become the next speaker of the House.  Confusion looms as to whether the Rafah Crossing is open to those fleeing Gaza.  A catholic bishop offers to trade himself in exchange for the...

A freelance writer and editor is speaking out about the negative effects of a recent California law, saying she questioned how she was “going to survive” after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the legislation, known as AB 5.  “The law ... was signed … on Sept. 18, 2019, and when I woke up that morning and I read about it, you know, the next day, I thought, ‘This is going to be an existential threat to my...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Georgia Republican Rep. Austin Scott announces he will be running against Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, for the speakership. The United Nations says Israel gave notice that all civilians living in northern Gaza should evacuate. Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley seeks answers regarding who is funding anti-Israel protests on college campuses.  Law...