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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The Supreme Court will hear a case determining if states can ban transagender procedures for minors.  South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declares martial law. Gov. Gavin Newsom wants 25 million in funding for legal battles against the incoming Trump administration.  New Jersey resident punished for waving American flag.  DOJ revisits gag order against transgender children’s hospital whistleblower, Dr. Eithan Haim.  Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription   Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is defending President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon Hunter Biden. President-elect Donald Trump caused plenty of stir over the long holiday weekend by naming Kash Patel to head the FBI.  Israeli American hostage Omer Neutra is confirmed dead.  Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription   Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lora Ries, Director of The Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, joins Bradley Devlin on “The Signal Sitdown,” a Daily Signal original podcast series, to discuss exactly how President-Elect Donald Trump might execute his “mass deportation” program.  You can listen to “The Signal Sitdown” wherever podcasts are heard

In April, the Biden-Harris administration finalized a rule requiring foster parents to affirm a child’s gender ideology.  “The provider must commit to establishing an environment that supports the child’s LGBTQI+ status or identity,” according to the rule issued by the Department of Health and Human Services.  The policy, according to Herbie Newell, president and executive director of Lifeline Children’s Services, “made people of faith into a different category of foster and adoptive parent, saying that because they didn't give in to this pro-radical LGBTQ+ agenda, that they couldn't foster any child with gender dysphoria or any child that might be having any questions about their LGBTQ status.”  “Faith-based Christian people were put on the sidelines and not able to participate in our foster care and adoption system in the same way,” according to Newell.  With over 350,000 children in the U.S. foster care system, and over 100,000 of whom are waiting to be adopted, Newell says he is hopeful the incoming Trump

Last week, Russia fired an intermediate range ballistic missile at Ukraine. The missile, according to nuclear deterrence and missile defense expert Robert Peters, is designed to carry multiple nuclear warheads, sending a clear message to Washington to “knock it off.”  Since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, America has told Ukraine that it could use the provided weapons only within the “borders of Ukraine to expel the Russian forces,” says Peters, who before becoming a research fellow at The Heritage Foundation served as the lead strategist at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.  Then, in mid-November, President Joe Biden gave Ukraine permission to use U.S.-supplied long-range missiles to hit targets inside Russia. Ukraine wasted no time in firing one.  Almost immediately afterward, Russia issued a new doctrine on its use of nuclear weapons. As Peters summarizes it, Russia warns “that if anyone conducts deep, penetrating strikes inside of Russia to include using conventional missiles or aircraft or even d

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Special Council Jack Smith has taken action to drop all charges against Donald Trump.  It appears that Israel and Lebanon have reached a ceasefire agreement. The agreement would end the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.  The pentagon has lost $2.5 trillion.  Relevant Links:  https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/11/25/pentagon-lost-track-2-5-trillion/  Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special interview edition of "The Daily Signal Podcast," Rob Bluey interviews Jonathan Baron, founder of Baron Public Affairs and host of "The Political Risk Brief" podcast. Baron reveals his firm's groundbreaking research on the conservative influencers who helped fuel Trump's electoral victory using a parallel conservative media ecosystem that bypassed traditional outlets. He details the three key groups of influencers—amplifiers, specialists, and mavericks—who shaped the media narrative. Baron believes four major "betrayals" of the American public set the stage for Trump's rise. Since then, Trump has used his unique abilities to position himself as a "centrist" while still taking strong stances on controversial issues. Listen to learn more about the new media landscape and how it will impact Trump's second term. Keep tabs on Baron's work by subscribing to "The Political Risk Brief" podcast: https://www.baronpa.com/the-political-risk-brief/ Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German theologian, a pastor, an anti-Nazi dissident, and a spy who took part in an assassination plot against Adolf Hitler. Bonhoeffer, an author himself, has had many books written about his life and now, his story is being told on the big screen. This Thanksgiving, Angel Studios is bringing “Bonhoeffer” to theaters. “The beauty of Bonhoeffer's story is that it shows what a real Christian should be like, and it shows a failed church, so you see both,” Camille Kampouris, one of the film’s producers, told The Daily Signal Podcast. Because of this duality, Kampouris says the film should appeal “to everyone.” Kampouris and her husband, Emmanuel Kampouris, set out to make a film about Bonhoeffer's life a decade ago with the famous last words, “how hard could it be.” Camille and Emmanuel Kampouris join “The Daily Signal Podcast” to share about the long, and sometimes harrowing, journey of making the movie, and what they hope audiences take from it. Learn more about your ad choices. V

Today's top news: Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general and prosecutor for nearly 20 years, is Trump’s new pick for U.S. attorney general. Trump specifically hailed Bondi as a force against the weaponization of the federal government against conservatives. Trump scored a “decisive win” today in a New York courtroom. Judge Juan Merchan won’t hold a sentencing hearing next week as planned. Instead, today the embattled judge granted the Trump legal team’s request to file a motion to dismiss the case. Senator Mike Rounds, a Republican from South Dakota, introduced a bill that would eliminate the U.S. Department of Education. It’s called the Returning Education to Our States Act, and it could serve as the legislative vehicle to carry out Trump’s promise. Plus, coming up tomorrow our special Saturday interview edition, my colleague Virginia Allen speaks with Camille and Emmanuel Kampouris, producers of the new movie about German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Thanks for making “The Daily Signal Podcast” you

Nuclear power stands at a critical crossroads in America. With growing demands for electricity and a desire from the incoming Trump administration to bolster America’s energy independence, nuclear energy has the potential to transform our future. So what’s preventing the United States from experiencing a nuclear revolution? In a groundbreaking new book, Heritage Foundation senior research fellow Jack Spencer argues nuclear power can be a dynamic, market-driven energy source—but only if government gets out of the way. “Nuclear Revolution: Powering the Next Generation” (Optimum Publishing International) makes the case that regulatory barriers have made nuclear power unnecessarily expensive rather than the economically competitive energy source it should be. Purchase your copy: https://www.heritage.org/NuclearRevolution Today, a maze of outdated regulations are stifling innovation while doing little to enhance safety. Spencer spoke with The Daily Signal to explain the challenges facing the nuclear industry and h

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Matt Gaetz has withdrawn his name as Trump’s Attorney General nominee.  President Joe Biden quietly awarded the ​​former CEO of Planned Parenthood with the nation's highest civilian award, according to Life News.  The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu.  Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription   Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Laken Riley’s murderer was convicted and sentenced.  A new bill would ban biological males from all federal women’s bathrooms.  President Elect Donald Trump announced the nominations of Linda McMahon and Michael Whitaker. The majority of American medical societies have released statements infusing political ideology into their missions. The United States shut its embassy in Kyiv. Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription   Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Laken Riley’s alleged murderer is on trial for the third day.  President-elect Donald Trump nominated billionaire Howard Lutnick to lead the Commerce Department.  The far-left Southern Poverty Law Center has set its sights on Not the Bee, the real-news partner of the Christian satire site The Babylon Bee. New York prosecutors are requesting a stay until at least 2029 in New York v. Trump. President Barack Obama praised Trump’s border czar nominee Tom Homan in 2016. Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription   Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: President Joe Biden has given Ukraine permission to use U.S. made long range missiles to strike targets inside Russia.  Over the weekend, Trump announced that he has tapped Chris Wright to serve as secretary of Energy. Wright is the CEO of a fracking and oilfield company called Liberty Energy.  Trump confirms he plans to declare an emergency over the crisis at the border and use military assets to deport illegal aliens.  Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription   Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this Sunday edition of The Daily Signal Podcast, we bring you a conversation with Hannah-Claire Brimelow on the Problematic Women podcast. It's a crossover episode! “Well, I didn't see that coming” has been a somewhat common refrain on Capitol Hill this week as President-elect Donald Trump announces his picks to lead his forthcoming administration. Trump has built his brand on breaking the mold of politics and continues the trend with his Cabinet appointments.  Not every choice has been a surprise. Susie Wiles has long been on Trump’s short list to be his chief of staff, given her years of loyalty to the president and her success in managing Trump’s reelection campaign. Wiles will make history as the first female chief of a president's staff.  And Tom Homan’s experience in Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, coupled with his positive relationship with Trump, made him an obvious choice for “border czar.” But some of Trump’s picks were unexpected, though not necessarily in a bad way. On th

It's a crossover! On this weekend edition of The Daily Signal Podcast, we bring you Bradley Devlin's interview with Rachel Bovard from The Signal Sitdown. President-Elect Donald Trump’s picks for his Cabinet—Pete Hegseth, Rep. Matt Gaetz, and Marco Rubio, among others—have caught most people off guard. But there’s more than meets the eye to these picks. Rachel Bovard joins this week’s “The Signal Sitdown” to discuss the Senate’s leadership election, the Trump-Vance transition team, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Top News for Friday, Nov. 15, 2024.    On today’s show, we cover these stories making news:    President-elect Donald Trump announced more appointments for his incoming administration, including former Rep. Doug Collins to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. His choice of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the Department of Health and Human Services sparked a sharp rebuke from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Subscribe to The Daily Signal’s breaking news alerts to keep tabs on the latest news: https://www.dailysignal.com/email/    The Federal Emergency Management Agency is under fire again after a supervisor directed staff to avoid helping Florida residents who displayed signs supporting Donald Trump. The Daily Signal’s Tyler O’Neil joins the show to explain why this latest incident illustrates a larger culture of woke priorities undermining FEMA’s central mission. Read his exclusive report: https://dailysign.al/3Z7p4Kf     Democrats have less than two months before they lose control of the U.S. Senate. And in that

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: President-elect Donald Trump taps Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his Secretary of Health and Human Services. Lawmakers and officials in Washington D.C. are still reeling after Trump announced yesterday that Rep. Matt Gaetz is his pick for attorney general. Biden has appointed 215 judges during his presidency and is likely to try to get a few more in before he leaves office.  The attorney general of Florida files a lawsuit against FEMA. Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription   Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: For the first time in 18 years, Republicans in the Senate have a new leader. President-elect Donald Trump appoints Tulsi Gabbard, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, and others to cabinet.  The Department of Health and Human Services spends tens of millions of dollars annually on DEI expenses. The president of the host country of the 2024 U.N. climate change conference defends fossil fuels. A federal judge temporarily halts a Louisiana law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom  Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription   Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Learn more about