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  • Trump’s Base Wants Accountability—So What Happened at Pam Bondi’s DOJ?

    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.  Jack Fowler: Pam Bondi has been given the boot as attorney general. Do you have any thoughts on that, Victor?   Victor Davis Hanson: Well, I don’t know…
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  • As Trump Seeks Iran Deal, Congress Wants Say on Foreign Policy

    As President Donald Trump seeks a deal to end the conflict with Iran and curtail the nation’s nuclear ambitions, some in Congress are trying to assert their power over the executive branch.  On Thursday, House Democrats attempted to advance a War Powers Resolution that would restrain the president’s ability to use force against Iran.  Rep….
    George Caldwell
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  • Melania Trump Says She Never Had a Connection to Epstein

    WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters)—First lady Melania Trump on Thursday denied ever having a connection to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and said claims about it are defaming her. “The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today,” President Donald Trump’s wife said in a rare address from the White…
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  • Trump Admin Claims Victory in Iran But Prepares for More

    The White House is declaring Operation Epic Fury a success and pushing for a negotiated peace, while also making clear that U.S. forces are prepared to escalate if Iran fails to comply.  The White House said on Wednesday the joint military operation with Israel achieved its core objectives “with overwhelming strength and lethal precision,” and press secretary Karoline Leavitt called it “a victory for the United…
    Mehek Cooke
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  • US Fertility Rates Drop to Record Low in 2025 as Births Fall

    April 9 (Reuters)—The U.S. fertility rate hit a record low last year, extending a nearly two-decade decline, provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed on Thursday. The decline also reflects global trends, as fewer women choose to have children against a changing social backdrop. In the U.S., the general fertility rate…
    Mariam Sunny
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  • Finland Study Exposes the Harms of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ and Hints at the Real Cause of Gender Dysphoria

    Imagine you are confused about your gender, and you think you were “born in the wrong body.” Do you really think a series of experimental drugs and surgeries to erase your biology and make you appear as the opposite sex would improve your psychological condition? It should come as no surprise that a landmark study…
    Tyler O’Neil
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  • Dangerous Test Still Ahead for Artemis II Crew

    The Artemis II crew are on their way home after completing a record-breaking mission around the moon, but their ship’s re-entry to Earth’s atmosphere will be the most dangerous part yet. The Orion spacecraft is set to splash down in the Pacific Ocean at approximately 8:07 p.m. EDT on Friday, just off the coast of…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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  • Trump White House to Preserve Records Despite DOJ Opinion

    The White House says that President Donald Trump will preserve his administration’s records, despite the legal opinion of his Justice Department that he doesn’t need to comply with the Presidential Records Act. The Justice Department’s opinion last week stated the “president need not further comply” with the 1978 law requiring a president to preserve all…
    Fred Lucas
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  • DOJ: Bondi Does Not Need to Testify Before Congress

    The Department of Justice is arguing that former Attorney General Pam Bondi no longer needs to testify before Congress in compliance with a March subpoena, since she is no longer top cop. The move has drawn the ire of Democrats on the House oversight committee, who are now threatening legal consequences for Bondi if she…
    George Caldwell
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  • Trump Administration Announces 3 Wins and $500M Recovered in ‘War on Fraud’

    The Justice Department this week wrapped up health care fraud investigations in California, Florida, and Nevada, saying it recovered about $500 million. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, chaired by Vice President JD Vance, and the Justice Department are together “supercharging efforts to take down every fraudster and bring…
    Fred Lucas
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  • 5.4 Million People Have Migrated to Pro-Trump Counties Since 2020 as the Great Divorce Continues

    The past five years have seen a massive migration of Americans out of heavily Democratic counties and into ones where Donald Trump won majorities in each of the past three elections. That’s according to an exclusive analysis by Issues & Insights of the latest Census Bureau and election data. Most analyses of internal migration patterns…
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  • Trump Bullish on Iran Deal, but Uncertainty Remains

    President Donald Trump and his administration hailed a ceasefire with Iran on Wednesday morning—despite uncertainty about the terms and durability of the peace. “The United States will work closely with Iran, which we have determined has gone through what will be a very productive Regime Change!” wrote Trump in a Wednesday social media post.  The…
    George Caldwell
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  • Trump Announces Major Step on Iran, Strait of Hormuz Crisises

    Iran has agreed to open the Strait of Hormuz and the United States and Israel will engage in a two-week ceasefire, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday. President Trump said that Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir helped him orchestrate the deal. “Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field…
    Tyler O’Neil
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  • Trump Admin Takes Big Step Toward Axing Federal Abortion Funding

    The Department of Health and Human Services has issued new guidelines that set the stage for defunding Planned Parenthood and reshaping a federal family planning program. The agency issued a notice of funding opportunity Friday with new guidelines for grant recipients under the Title X family planning program. The notice prohibits awardees from spending the…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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  • Is the End of the American Federation of Teachers in Sight? 

    A recent poll found that a clear majority of Americans favor limiting politics in the classroom. This is bad news for teachers’ unions, who often advocate against that very thing.  Consider the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). With 1.8 million members, the AFT is one of the largest teachers’ unions in the country. It has gained prominence less for advancing classroom outcomes and more for engaging in political activism far removed from instruction. This political activism has been evident recently, as illustrated…
    Madison Marino Doan
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  • Research Sheds Light on the Promise and Peril of AI

    A new study finds some popular artificial intelligence chatbots tell us what we want to hear—even if we need to hear something different. Such sycophancy can cause people to make irresponsible decisions, a troubling research finding for everyone, but especially for educators using AI in classrooms with young children. Stanford researchers hypothesized that AI chatbots,…
    Jonathan Butcher
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  • Trump’s Election Integrity Order Faces Wave of Lawsuits Before Dem-Appointed Judges

    Opposition from the left is mounting against President Donald Trump’s mail-in ballot executive order, with two potential 2028 Democrat presidential candidates filing legal challenges before Democrat-appointed federal judges. At least five lawsuits, all filed in federal district courts for the District of Columbia and Massachusetts, aim to block the executive order that directs the Department…
    Fred Lucas
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  • Trump Issues Chilling Threat to Iran: ‘A Whole Civilization Will Die’

    President Donald Trump threatened massive attacks on Iran if the regime does not open the Strait of Hormuz. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” Trump wrote Tuesday on Truth Social. “I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.” “However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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  • EXCLUSIVE: Why Largest Protestant Denomination Opposes Trump’s Surgeon General Pick

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Southern Baptist Convention’s public policy arm opposes President Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, according to a letter obtained by The Daily Signal. The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the public policy arm of the SBC, wrote a letter to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee expressing “deep…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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  • Supreme Court Clears Way for Dismissal of Case Against Trump Ally Steve Bannon

    WASHINGTON, April 6 (Reuters)—The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Monday for the Justice Department to move forward with dismissing a criminal case in which Steve Bannon, an influential ally of President Donald Trump, was convicted after defying a congressional subpoena. Bannon was convicted by a jury in Washington in 2022 on two counts…
    John Kruzel
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