By Jack Fitzhenry via The Daily Signal | June 24, 2025 There is a new co-leader in The Heritage Foundation’s Election Integrity Scorecard. Since 2021, Heritage has been tracking the laws of every state (and the District of Columbia) governing the conduct of local, state, and federal elections. And for
By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, The Daily Signal | June 24, 2025 President Donald Trump is “not happy” that Israel fired rockets at Iran shortly after the nation’s ceasefire with Iran took effect. “Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped the load of bombs,
By Virginia Allen, The Daily Signal | June 24, 2025 In a win for President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court issued a brief order Monday allowing the Trump administration to restart deportation flights of illegal aliens to nations other than their own. The high court’s order lifts, for now, a
By Cully Stimson & Brooklynn Scott, The Daily Signal | June 24, 2025 For nearly three decades, it has been an uphill battle to give immigration judges their fair share of judicial tools to do their ever-increasingly difficult job. A big step in the right direction happened this April, when the
By Jacob Adams, The Daily Signal | June 24, 2025 Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., are spearheading a war powers resolution that would direct President Donald Trump to cease using the military against Iran without congressional approval. But it might not get a vote in the House, if
By George Caldwell, The Daily Signal | June 24, 2025 House Speaker Mike Johnson delivered a plain message at his weekly press conference Tuesday: Congress must pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act by Independence Day, July 4. Johnson, R-La., has labored over the legislation since before President Donald Trump’s
By George Caldwell, The Daily Signal | June 24, 2025 In the wake of Israel’s and the United States’ successful interception of Iranian missile strikes, Senate Republicans are renewing their push for a “Golden Dome” that would shield the United States from ballistic missiles. The Golden Dome Act, inspired by
By Tyler O'Neil, The Daily Signal | June 24, 2025 District court judges aren’t just striking down President Donald Trump’s orders, arguably taking presidential power on themselves. In at least one case, a district judge appears to have openly defied the Supreme Court itself. The Supreme Court
By Jacob Adams, The Daily Signal | June 24, 2025 The Heritage Foundation presented five special Innovation Prizes on Tuesday to organizations dedicated to educating audiences about America’s founding ideals. The awards were given to honor the upcoming 250th anniversary of America’s founding. They come as Heritage—which has
By Jacob Ogan via The Daily Signal | June 24, 2025 The Southern Baptist Convention—the largest Protestant denomination in the world—had its annual meeting this month in Dallas. The most internally controversial issues involved a potential amendment on female pastors, abolishing the convention’s public policy arm, and a
By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell | June 24, 2025 The U.S. Department of Justice is “digging and looking” into the Biden administration’s weaponization of school boards against parents, DOJ official Ed Martin said. Former Attorney General Merrick Garland sent a memo in 2021 directing the DOJ and the FBI to
By Victor Davis Hanson, The Daily Signal | June 24, 2025 Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. What will be the reaction, here and abroad, in the coming days and weeks to the June 21, Saturday night destruction—for all practical purposes—of the Iranian nuclear program
By Virginia Allen, The Daily Signal | June 24, 2025 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 11 Iranian nationals over two days, the Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday. Among those in custody is Ribvar Karimi, who “reportedly served as an Iranian army sniper from 2018 to 2021,” according to
By Jacob Adams, The Daily Signal | June 24, 2025 Senate Majority Leader John Thune appeared determined on Tuesday to keep the budget reconciliation bill on track to be passed in the Senate by July 4, even as he acknowledged that some Senate Republicans might in the end vote against the
By Virginia Allen, The Daily Signal | June 24, 2025 A member of Congress introduced a bill Tuesday asking the secretary of state to consider designating the Council on American-Islamic Relations as a foreign terrorist organization. The Council on American-Islamic Relations brands itself as a 501(c)(3) Muslim civil rights
By Lorenzo Prieto, The Daily Signal | June 24, 2025 President Donald Trump shared early Tuesday his disappointment with Israel for launching missiles at Iran, hours after reaching a temporary ceasefire with Iran. “We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t
