1+ week, 4+ day ago (323+ words) Rob Bluey / @RobertBluey Rob Bluey is president and executive editor of The Daily Signal. Send an email to Rob. Tyler O'Neil, a senior editor at The Daily Signal, has been selected as a finalist for a 2025 Dao Prize in the category of best reporting on DOGE. Winners of the Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism will be announced at a Wednesday night gala held at the Waldorf-Astoria in Washington, D.C. The prizes, which are administered by the National Journalism Center in partnership with the Dao Feng & Angela Foundation, recognize outstanding investigative journalism across multiple categories. This year's awards put a particular emphasis on government accountability. O'Neil's reporting on the Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, exposed the Left's stranglehold on bureaucracy. O'Neil's Daily Signal series, "Your Money, Their Agenda: The Left's Taxpayer-Funded War on Trump," is among the finalists…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago (414+ words) As is often the case, you have to watch the'videos'to really get a true picture of what happened at University of California, Berkeley on Nov.... Read More The post Apathetic Administrators Are Endangering Much More Than Free Speech on Campus appeared first on The Daily Signal. As is often the case, you have to watch the videos to really get a true picture of what happened at University of California, Berkeley on Nov. 10. In the days that have transpired since the event, many newspaper accounts have made it sound like a tempest in a teapot, as if a couple of hotheads disrupted the otherwise quiet, if intense, protests at a Turning Point USA event on campus.No. The videos reveal, in fact, a slew of violence: smoke bombs and glass bottles flying, fights breaking out, angry students pushing back on…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago (407+ words) Swedish climate and political activist Greta Thunberg during a protest organized by climate protest group Extinction Rebellion at an oil refinery in Norway. (Paul S. Amundsen/NTB/AFP via Getty Images) Tate Miller is a contributor to The Center Square. THE CENTER SQUARE'An energy worker advocacy group sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security urging it to review whether climate advocate Greta Thunberg'along with others'should be allowed entry to the nation due to safety concerns arising after recent bannings she has faced elsewhere and the pattern of "disruption" that appears to follow her. Founder and executive director of energy group Power the Future Daniel Turner told The Center Square: "Secretary [Kristi] Noem and the Trump Administration are working tirelessly to keep America safe, and we urge them to take a hard look at whether agitators like Thunberg should be…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago (217+ words) Tony Kinnett covers the 2025 election results LIVE for The Daily Signal on "The Tony Kinnett Cast." Tune in at 7 p.m. ET to hear... Read More The post LIVE ELECTION COVERAGE: Tony Kinnett Joined by VDH, Scott Jennings, and More appeared first on The Daily Signal. Tony Kinnett covers the 2025 election results LIVE for The Daily Signal on "The Tony Kinnett Cast." Tune in at 7 p.m. ET to hear thought-provoking analysis from all-star guests: Victor Davis Hanson, Scott Jennings, and former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. Follow along with Tony and company as the results come pouring in from all across the country. Be sure to watch for Daily Signal personalities joining the show! Virginia Allen on the ground at Republican Virginia gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears" election party and George Caldwell on the ground in New York to provide moment-by-moment reporting of the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago (922+ words) Demonstrators gather in front of the Supreme Court. (Anna Rose Layden via Getty Images) A Toledo surgical resident has had his medical license suspended after he allegedly forced a woman he impregnated to take abortion-inducing drugs. In pro-life circles around the state and around the country, this "horrific case" has reignited calls to end Biden-era policies that they claim lead to the proliferation and abuse of these drugs. Dr. Hassan-James Abbas, a surgical resident at the University of Toledo Medical Center, had his medical license suspended after allegedly forcing the woman he impregnated to take the drugs, which he reportedly ordered under his estranged wife's name. Ohio Right to Life Executive Director Carrie Snyder said in a press release that "If the allegations are true, this is attempted murder, plain and simple. "The Attorney General has full confidence in local…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago (489+ words) Kena Betancur via Getty Images Al Perrotta is a contributing editor for The Daily Signal. He is the creator of the daily Bananas Republic Substack, former managing editor and writer of The Brew newsletter for The Stream, co-author of "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration" and "Hostile Intent," former vice president and creative director for All Comedy Radio, and writer-producer for the Voice of America. Tell me, how do you reach across the aisle with people who want to see you dead and your children dead in your spouse's arms? How do you break bread with people who can know full well Jones' deadly desires and go, "I'm fine with that, I'll vote for him for attorney general? That makes for a tough pill for us to digest. But all is not lost. Who were the big winners last night?...

3+ week, 4+ day ago (456+ words) Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, and his wife, podcaster Katie Miller, attend the White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, April 21, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) Nicole Silverio is a contributor to The Daily Caller News Foundation. DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION'A woman in Virginia distributed leaflets that listed White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller's address and labeled him as a Nazi," court documents show. Miller's wife, Katie, informed the police about the leaflet and said that she witnessed Wien make a gesture at her by "pointing her index and middle fingers to her own eyes and then pointing directly," according to the Times. Secret Service camera footage appeared to confirm this, which Katie interpreted as "a threatening act intended to intimidate or harass her." "Mrs. Miller interpreted this gesture to…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago (413+ words) Katelynn Richardson covers courts as a reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation. DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION'Judge James Boasberg, an Obama appointee who serves as chief judge of the D.C. District Court, is facing an ethics complaint for "political bias" against President Donald Trump and his administration. Boasberg approved nondisclosure orders in 2023 that kept nearly a dozen Republican members of Congress from knowing their cellphone records had been secretly obtained by the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ), documents released by Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley recently'revealed. Special counsel Jack Smith subpoenaed the lawmakers" phone records as part of the "Arctic Frost" investigation, which became his 2020 election case against President Donald Trump. He sought "detailed records for inbound and outbound calls, text messages, direct connect, and voicemail messages" between Jan. 4 and Jan. 7, 2021. While Verizon compiled with Smith"s subpoena, AT&T decided…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago (628+ words) Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., questioning TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on March 23, 2023. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) A bipartisan bill is making its way through Congress that could have major ramifications for how Big Tech operates in the United States. The legislation is called the App Store Freedom Act, and was introduced in the House of Representatives back in May by Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla. In a press conference hosted by Cammack on Friday, the Florida congresswoman explained the reasoning behind her bill, which is cosponsored by three Democrats and two Republicans. "Imagine for a moment if parents got together and said, "We're going to build a marketplace that is built of apps that kids will be safe on," Cammack said. According to Cammack's office the bill would create more consumer choice in the app store marketplace by…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago (718+ words) Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on Aug. 21, 2024 in Chicago. (Justin Sullivan via Getty Images) The American Freedom Law Center is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to grant oral arguments in its First Amendment lawsuit against Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel for the "irreparable harm" of her endorsing the Southern Poverty Law Center's claim that AFLC is a "hate group." "From the very beginning, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has politicized and weaponized her office and abused her government authority to target political opponents," AFLC co-founder Robert Muise told The Daily Signal in a statement Wednesday." AFLC sued, claiming Nessel's endorsement of the SPLC accusation "irreparably harmed" its reputation. (The lawsuit also involves Arbulu's successor, John Johnson Jr.) While District Judge Paul L. Maloney (a George W. Bush appointee) allowed the case to move to discovery in January 2020, he…...