The United Nations approved a resolution on March 24 authorizing a fact-finding mission into human rights violations in Burma. The resolution is the most serious intervention thus far in Rakhine State, where the majority of the 1.2 million Rohingya Muslim population resides. The resolution, adopted by consensus, addresses a wide range of human rights concerns. […]
President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee has an extensive record ruling on and free press and First Amendment issues. He has sided with the media in libel cases, against government searches of reporter notes and computers, and generally placed a high bar for suing news organization over privacy rights. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of […]
On Monday, the House of Representatives, following similar action last week by the Senate, voted to disapprove a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule on Internet privacy. The 400-page order had been rushed to completion by Obama-appointed FCC chairman Tom Wheeler in October on a 3-2 part-line vote. Among other things, it established a set of […]
Republican leaders are voicing disapproval of budget cuts proposed by President Donald Trump. “I doubt there’d be a lot of appetite for dramatic cuts this year,” Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, told Roll Call. “I just look at it as a conversation. They’ve got their views, we’ve got our views, and we need to […]
The influence of George Soros and his Open Society Foundations on U.S. foreign policy are the subject of an alert issued by members of the Senate. Six senators recently sent a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, asking him to investigate the numerous grants given over many years by the State Department and its […]
Democrats have successfully succeeded in delaying the committee vote for Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick. The Senate Judiciary Committee was scheduled to have a committee vote for Gorsuch on March 27, with a full Senate vote on April 3. Now, the full Senate vote will not take place until April 5. “Like […]
Editor’s note: The pretensions of the “mainstream media” remain on the minds of our audience. Today’s collection of mail kicks off with those concerns. Got an urge to write us? See how below.—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: The Washington Post’s attack on The Daily Signal’s participation in the White House press pool is an egregious confrontation […]
House Speaker Paul Ryan abruptly withdrew the GOP’s bill to repeal and replace Obamacare Friday afternoon after it became clear Republicans didn’t have the votes to pass the plan. The news came just minutes before the lower chamber was expected to vote on the bill, called the American Health Care Act, and after Ryan huddled […]
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, R-N.C., told reporters after a White House meeting that no deal had been reached on the House GOP’s health care bill. Meadows and members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus met with Trump and his key advisers Wednesday in the hours before the House was expected to vote on […]
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch responded to questions about end-of-life issues Wednesday during his second day of questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., questioned Gorsuch on his views on physician-assisted suicide. “You make the statement that there is no justification for having anything to do with the end of someone’s life, […]
