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INTERVIEW: Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday was indicted for a third time, and "it's striking that there's really nothing new in the indictment," Steven Bradbury says. The latest indictment by special counsel Jack Smith is "all based on what we already knew publicly from the work of the Jan. 6 committee and from all the news coverage," Bradbury said, adding that the new indictment is "holl...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: President Donald Trump’s third indictment Lawmakers and 2024 presidential candidates reactions to the former president’s third indictment  Vice President Kamala Harris does not have plans to meet with Gov. Ron DeSantis after he offered to meet with her to discuss the state’s new black history teaching standards.  The shooter responsible f...

Protests and riots erupted following the police-involved fatal shooting of 17-year-old French citizen Nahel Merzouk, who was of Moroccan and Algerian descent, on June 27 in France. Lora Ries, director of the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation, says “certainly what happened in France takes us directly back to 2020” after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. (The...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Our colleague Kate Trinko reports that President Joe Biden’s administration will no longer move the U.S. Space Command to Huntsville, Alabama, despite the government’s own analysis showing the move made sense. Our colleague Fred Lucas reports that then-Vice President Joe Biden communicated more than 20 times, either in person or on speake...

INTERVIEW: Russian officials say three Ukrainian drones targeted Moscow over the weekend, and one of those drones struck a skyscraper in the city. Ukraine has now taken responsibility for the attack. “Gradually, the war is returning to the territory of Russia—to its symbolic centers and military bases, and this is an inevitable, natural, and absolutely fair process,” Ukraine President Volodymyr Ze...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The House Oversight Committee holds a closed door hearing with Hunter Biden’s longtime business associate Devon Archer.  Former President Donald Trump tried to stop the investigation into his actions in Georgia after the 2020 election.  X Corp. threatens to sue an organization that claims to track hate speech.  A suicide bombing at an Isl...

Hunter Biden and his lawyers walked into a courtroom prepared to enter a plea deal with the Justice Department last week. The deal fell through.  President Joe Biden’s son was prepared to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and to lying on a gun purchase form. The DOJ lawyers and the younger Biden’s attorneys were ready to sign off on the deal in court, but U.S. District Court Judge Maryel...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The Senate passes a version of the National Defense Authorization Act but with key omissions.  Former President Donald Trump allegedly tried to delete surveillance footage from Mar-a-Lago that is part of the investigation into his handling of classified documents.  The Secret Service refuses to turn over the list of individuals who may ha...

INTERVIEW | Tom Lewis is among America’s most generous philanthropists. Over more than 20 years, his T.W. Lewis Foundation has funded causes helping children and families, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations like The Heritage Foundation. But he’s now taking a different approach with colleges and universities after a controversy at Arizona State University. Lewis pulled his fundin...

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Detransitioner Chloe Cole testified before Congress.  What happens now after Hunter Biden’s plea deal fell through?  Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell freezes during a press conference.    A third indictment of former President Donald Trump may be coming.  Starbucks faces legal trouble after hiring Eric Holder to address the civil...

INTERVIEW | Christopher Rufo is at the forefront of exposing critical race theory, DEI, and the radical Left’s agenda to undermine traditional American values. His new book, “America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything,” is a history of the Left’s key figures and its playbook for infiltrating America’s institutions and indoctrinating our children. The book, which debut...

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The Daily Signal’s Fred Lucas reports that Hunter Biden’s plea agreement with federal prosecutors–panned by critics as a sweetheart deal–fell apart in federal court in Wilmington, Del. on Wednesday after a judge scrutinized the agreement.  A donor of President Joe Biden and appointee purchased artwork by the president’s son, which some ethics expert...

Parents are losing the right to parent in California, according to Karen England.  A bill has been introduced in California stating that if parents “do not affirm your child's gender confusion, it's put in the same category as abuse, and it is supposed to be considered when you're battling in a custody battle,” England says. According to England, head of the policy, research, and education organiz...

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., floats impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden President Biden signs a proclamation to create a monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley Democrat Reps. Summer Lee of Pennsylvania, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Robert Garcia of California have introduced legislation known as...

Chadwick Moore appeared on the final episode of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on that fateful night in April, just days before Fox News abruptly canceled the show April 24. Carlson and Moore didn’t know it would their last time on Fox News, but it makes Moore’s biography of Carlson all the most interesting—and fortuitous. Moore is the author of “Tucker,” a biography that’s available for pre-order ahead...

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The Senate considers the Military spending bill known as the NDAA.  Israeli lawmakers vote to limit the power of their Judicial branch.  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. calls for a corruption investigation into President Joe Biden. The film “Sound of Freedom” performs even better during its third weekend in theaters than during its opening weekend.  Relevant...

It's the duty of Congress to use American tax dollars responsibly, Richard Stern says. American taxpayers deserve to know where their money's going because “the government doesn't have the moral right to walk up and take whatever it wants of your labors because a bureaucrat thinks they know better than you how to use the resources you produced,” says Stern, director of the Grover M. Hermann Center...

Olivia Krolczyk is a sophomore at the University of Cincinnati, whose professor of women’s gender studies failed her for using the term “biological women.” Since exposing the professor’s political aggression, she has encouraged thousands of women to stand up and speak out. She joins Tony Kinnett at the Turning Point Action conference in Palm Beach, Florida to tell her story and make an announcemen...

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The trial date for former President Donald Trump is set for May 20, 2024. Lawmakers  say the White House changed its press pass policy knowing it would limit the access of conservative reporters. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis asks the head of Florida’s State Board of Administration to review its shareholdings with Bud Light’s parent company AB InBev.  T...

Julio Rosas, senior writer for Townhall and the author of "Fiery but Mostly Peaceful: The 2020 Riots and the Gaslighting of America," joined me at the Turning Point Action Conference in Palm Beach, Florida, to delve into the rise of citizen journalism and the necessity of wading into the most dangerous situations to expose the worst behavior—even if that means filming the riots from inside the rag...

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says Democrats tried to censor him during a censorship hearing.  The Senate Judiciary Committee votes 11 to 10 to approve the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act.  Sen. Chuck Grassley releases an FBI form that includes an alleged $10 million bribery scheme involving both Hunter and Joe Biden.  Presidential candi...

President Joe Biden has a lot in common with one of his fellow Democratic White House predecessors, according to columnist and author Kimberley Strassel.  In her new book “The Biden Malaise: How America Bounces Back From Joe Biden's Dismal Repeat of the Jimmy Carter Years,” Strassel details the parallels between Jimmy Carter's 1977-1981 presidency and Biden’s today. Of course, after Carter came Pr...

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: – The White House is further limiting media access, which will affect The Daily Signal’s chief news correspondent, Fred Lucas. – An anonymous IRS whistleblower has now shared his name and testified before Congress today about the Hunter Biden case. – Israeli President Isaac Herzog addressed Congress today. – Another detransitioner is suing medical p...

Will Hild, executive director of Consumers’ Research, has a message for everyday Americans. “Here’s the only definition of ESG you really need to remember,” Hild says, talking about environmental, social, and governance standards. “ESG is when the financial services industry uses their market power to push through environmental and social policy that they could not get passed through the ballot bo...

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: President Donald Trump announced on TruthSocial he has received a target letter from Special Counsel Jack Smith.  The former president’s lawyers appeared before a court today for the classified documents case.  Ohio Republican Sen. JD Vance has unveiled legislation aimed at banning gender reassignment surgeries for minors,according to exclusive repo...