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Republican Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, join today's episode of "The Daily Signal Podcast." President Joe Biden’s decision to authorize reserve troops to be sent to Europe is “a sign that the Ukraine policy has become just another endless war,” Sen. Josh Hawley says. “I mean, this is all about Ukraine. This is exactly what I said would happen, that we have to send more tr...

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy released a list of judges Monday that he will consider for top judicial appointments should he become president of the United States, according to our colleague Mary Margaret Olohan.  In a speech to college students and conservative Americans on Saturday evening, former President Donald Trump promised that he w...

The Daily Signal’s Mary Margaret Olohan sat down with field reporter Savanah Hernandez in West Palm Beach to discuss a massive protest against the anti-Catholic "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence," a group of queer and trans-identifying people mocking the Catholic faith. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: After a lot of debate and negotiations, the House passes the annual national defense bill.  Tucker Carlson interviews six GOP 2024 presidential candidates during an event in Iowa. President Biden’s Department of Education will forgive $39 billion in student loan debt to more than 800,000 borrowers.  The Daily Signal is going to be at the Turning Poi...

The FBI needs to be fixed, because it has become a threat to the fundamental liberties of Americans, Steve Bradbury of The Heritage Foundation argues in a lengthy new white paper released this week.  "The liberty of the American people is under threat from politicized national security agencies, exemplified by the abuses of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” Bradbury writes.  The Heritage Found...

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The Secret Service concludes its investigation into the cocaine found in the White House and finds no suspect.  The FDA approves the first non-prescription birth control pill. Hollywood Actors are going on Strike. The ​​Pittsburgh synagogue shooter who killed 11 people in 2018 may be face the death penalty.  The ​​House Select Committee on China to...

A proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule that “would limit tailpipe emissions so that in order to comply, auto companies would have to sell 60% of new vehicles as electric by 2030” would adversely affect the safety of cars. So says Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment. (The Daily Signal is The Heritage Foundation’s news out...

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the inflation numbers for last month and President Biden is claiming victory for “Bidenomics,” even as economists note that inflation remains higher than when the president took office. FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of th...

The anti-human trafficking film “Sound of Freedom” has raked in more than $41 million since opening on July 4th.  Variety has praised the movie, saying it “makes the desire to “take action” seem more than an action-movie gesture.” And World magazine called the movie a “wake-up call, reminding Americans of the evil that’s perpetrated both inside and outside our borders.” But not all reviews have be...

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Tyler O’Neil reports that the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released a report on Monday, revealing that the FBI under President Joe Biden urged Meta, Instagram’s parent company, to remove the U.S. State Department’s official Russian-language Instagram account. Tyler’s article: https://www.dailysignal.com/20...

The Biden administration's embrace of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives represents an effort to “create equality of outcomes rather than equality of opportunity,” Tarren Bragdon says.  Bragdon, president and CEO of the Foundation for Government Accountability, says the current administration has taken actions to “use the power of the federal government to force certain political goals t...

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: President Joe Biden meets with English Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and King Charles III.  Biden is reportedly prone to yelling profanity at his staff.  Well-known attorney Todd McMurtry joins a lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center.  An academic publisher retracts a scholarly article on rapid onset gender dysphoria.  The former disgraced Ol...

Last week, a federal judge ordered the Biden administration to stop strong-arming Big Tech into silencing Americans' free speech online in a first-of-its-kind temporary injunction. Rather than celebrating this move to uphold free speech, many legacy media outlets appear to be demonizing the very idea of protecting speech from government censorship, according to one of the lead attorneys in the cas...

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is in China for a four-day visit to meet with Premier Li Qiang, U.S. businesses operating in China, and Ambassador from the People’s Republic of China Xie Feng.  The Biden administration gears up to send cluster munitions to Ukraine. Henry Rodger’s story: ​​https://dailycaller.com/2023/07/06/jim-jordan-house-republica...

The State Department has released an After Action Review on Afghanistannearly two years after the U.S.’ catastrophic military withdrawal from that country, which concluded on Aug. 30, 2021. The report was released following a 90-day review and included more than “150 interviews with current and former State Department officials at all levels of the organization and reviewed relevant documents and...

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Our colleague Fred Lucas is reporting that a personal aide to Donald Trump in the White House and after his presidency pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court in Miami, in a delayed development in Trump’s classified documents case.  2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump raised over $35 million in the second quarter.  Eric Holder, who served...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas grew up with little. He and his younger brother slept on a dirt floor, and their mother struggled to make enough money to feed them. When he was a boy, Thomas’ mother sent him and his brother to live with his grandparents in hopes of a better life.  Thomas’ “grandfather raised them with an iron fist,” federal appeals court Judge Amul Thapar says, “and thi...

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: A federal judge condemns the Biden administration as being “Orwellian.”  Cocaine is found in the White House, but culprit remains unknown.  Business platform conducts study of resumes with they/them preferred pronouns.   Israel ends its two day military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin.  Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily...

An ancestry service based in Israel aims to connect people across the globe, helping them explore their family trees and see whether they have any relatives living in the Holy Land today. "People believe that they have a connection to the Holy Land, and I think one of the things we have now through DNA and through family trees is a way to perhaps see whether there's more to that connection than ju...

The American Revolution served as a test to see if the 13 colonies could come together to “identity as a people, as a nation,” Richard Reinsch says. The question after the war was “had they actually become in effect one people and no longer 13 separate colonies or even 13 separate states?” After the war, the Articles of Confederation served as America’s frame of government, but it quickly became a...

Many Americans at the time didn't think it was possible to defeat a military power as great as Britain at the start of the Revolutionary War, according to Paul Moreno. "I think just about any historian looking backwards would say, 'Yeah, the odds were certainly very overwhelmingly against the Colonists,'" says Moreno, a professor of history and dean of social sciences at Hillsdale College. The Fou...

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s student loan “forgiveness” plan and ruled in favor of graphic designed Lorie Smith on Friday Our colleague Tony Kinnett reports that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican candidate for president, addressed a packed, cheering crowd Friday at Moms for Liberty’s Joyful Warriors National Summit here....

Taxation was not the only reason the colonists declared their independence from Britain, but it was certainly a factor, according to Bill McClay. "Americans believed in self-government because they lived self-government," says McClay, the Victor Davis Hansen Chair in classical history and western civilization at Hillsdale College. The colonist's desire to maintain self government played a critical...

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The Supreme Court justices rule against affirmative action.  The justices rule in favor of Christian mail carrier.  Former Vice President and 2024 presidential candidate Mike Pence visits Ukraine.   There are questions over the promotion of several FBI officers, and Rep. Matt Gaetz is trying to get to the bottom of it.  Relevant Links Listen to othe...

New England fishermen are facing growing regulations—from the amount of fish they are allowed to catch to large sections of ocean they can no longer work because of “offshore wind development.”  “The New England fishermen are the most regulated fishermen in the world,” Jerry Leeman says. Leeman has been fishing in Maine his entire life. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all fishe...