A federal appeals court on Friday declined to block a Defense Department order blacklisting Anthropic from military contracts and deeming ​the AI startup a national security risk.

‘Going at the dad and yelling at the dad’

President Donald Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping at a White House state dinner Thursday, joined by the Masters of the AI Universe. Anthropic's Dario Amodei was notably missing from the guest list that features Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk amongst others.

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Police are investigating suspected hazing after about 30 partially-clothed young men covered in food, condiments and other liquids were found in the basement of a fraternity house near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus this week.

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An Episcopal priest in New York City declared that Jesus is "transgender" and told the congregation that if they deny this, they are denying the "divinity" of Christ.

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For the first time in weeks, longtime Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins is pulling ahead of Democrat opponent Troy Jackson in the November midterm election.

All eyes are on Maine ahead of the election, as it could be the seat that determines which party holds the majority in the 120th Congress.

The poll shows Maine favoring Collins, who is running for her sixth term in the U.S. Senate, at 49% among likely voters; Jackson, who was previously endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, at 46%; and 5% undecided. However, the race remains close, as the margin of error was 4.9 percentage points which is not uncommon.

“If this November’s general election for U.S. Senate were held today, which candidate would you be more likely to vote for,” The New York Times, the Portland Press Herald, and Siena College Research Institute asked 619 voters from Sept. 15 to Sept. 22.

Pollsters also tracked how many likely voters plan to switch party alignment from how they voted in 2024. The results show that more Democrats plan to vote for Collins than Republicans plan to switch sides and vote for Jackson. Specifically, 12% of 2024 Harris voters polled plan to vote for Collins, while only 3% of 2024 Trump voters plan to vote for Jackson. Given his ties to the Democratic Socialists of America, it is not surprising that some Democrats would vote for the moderate Collins over Jackson.

“In Maine, Susan Collins is up three points over Democratic challenger Troy Jackson in a poll completed prior to new pay-to-play allegations recently reported about Senator Collins,” Siena Research Institute Executive Director Don Levy said.

While the poll was published Thursday, it was completed Tuesday, the day before Collins was accused of involvement in a pay-to-play scheme. A report by ProPublica said that former defense contractor CEO Martin Kao, a convicted fraudster, told the FBI his company gave a Collins super PAC $150,000 through a shell company.

“I’ve got to say, I do not understand how anyone would take the word of a felon who’s been convicted twice—twice, two separate cases—of five counts of money laundering, counts of bank fraud, false submissions to the FEC. He is a convicted liar,” Collins told The Wall Street Journal, denying the claims.

President Trump’s America First foreign policy asks a simple question of every foreign engagement: What does it do for the American people? A trifecta of developments in July 2026 highlights a threefold answer to this question in regard to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the central European country formed by the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement, which ended the Balkan War and created two legal entities: Republika Srpska, consisting mostly of Serbian Orthodox Christians; and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, consisting mostly of Muslims (called Bosniaks), with a significant minority of ethnically Croat Roman Catholic Christians.

First, on July 1, 2026, as we were celebrating 250 years of independence from a tyrant named King George III, a non-elected German “High Representative” in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Christian Schmidt, who, like George III, has been enacting what our July 4, 1776, Declaration called “Acts of pretended Legislation,” resigned.

Second, our 250th commemoration of the beginning of our Revolutionary War reminds us that wars happen, and our security can never be taken for granted.

Third, on July 13, 2026, leaders of two political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina, one representing Serb Orthodox Christians (the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, also known as “SNSD”) and one representing Croat Roman Catholic Christians (the Croatian Democratic Union, also known as “HDZ”), in a joint public statement essentially agreed with the February 13, 2026, Opinion of the Constitutional-Law Committee of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina that “the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina does not possess constitutional authority to enact laws.” According to one press report, “SNSD leader Milorad Dodik and HDZ BiH leader Dragan Čović stated in Mostar that they agreed all decisions imposed by the High Representatives should be annulled.”

Apropos this first-of-its-kind Serb Orthodox-Croat Roman Catholic joint statement, the first encyclical by the first American-born pope, Magnifica Humanitas: Humanity In Its Grandeur by Pope Leo XIV, highlights one of the keys to solving 30 years of failed nation-building in Bosnia and Herzegovina: “The principle of subsidiarity…encourages us to move beyond any form of paternalistic or welfare-based management of social life, but instead to promote a culture of shared responsibility in a State that values citizens’ initiative, and…decisions are made at the closest level possible to the persons involved.”

To elaborate on why Bosnia and Herzegovina matters to the American people, American security is at stake: according to The 9/11 Commission Report, two of the 19 terrorist hijackers on September 11, 2001, were Saudi nationals who “had traveled together to fight in Bosnia in a group that journeyed to the Balkans in 1995.” According to Giorgio Cafiero’s article, “In the Rearview Mirror: The Case of Iranian Influence in Bosnia”: “During the 1992-95 Bosnian War…Iran’s government intervened to stop the carnage. Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati coordinated assistance to the Bosniaks and justified the intercession as keeping with the Islamic Republic’s concept of defending the mostazafan (oppressed) across the world, from Palestine to South Africa.”

Today, the three distinct peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina offer three strategic relationships waiting to be cultivated: Catholic Christian Croats, kinsmen of our NATO ally Croatia; Orthodox Christian Serbs, who have repeatedly elected a pro-Trump leader named Milorad Dodik; and the Muslim Bosniaks, whose prosperity is better secured by American trade and investment than by the patronage of Turkey, the Gulf states, or Iran. A sovereign, self-governing, and prosperous Bosnia and Herzegovina means new markets for American energy and capital, new sources of the strategic minerals the American people need, and one less breeding ground for Islamic terrorists.

For nearly three decades, this European country of three distinct peoples has been governed not by the leaders those peoples elect, but by a non-elected foreign bureaucrat known as the High Representative—for the last five years a German former politician—wielding the same model of unaccountable, top-down bureaucratic rule that has given Europe stagnant economies, energy dependency, de-industrialization, and the managed decline of its middle class. The results are predictable: the U.S. State Department’s 2025 Investment Climate Statement describes a country whose “complex and fragmented legal and regulatory framework,” weak judiciary, and political instability drive away investors, while a single 2005 decree of the High Representative freezing the disposition of “state property” has locked up an estimated “$15 billion in potential investment…a sum approaching half of the country’s 2026 GDP.” American taxpayers have underwritten this failed nation-building experiment since 1995; they are entitled to ask what it has bought them, and what’s in it for Americans going forward.

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a place where American economic and strategic interests converge. Republika Srpska, according to Mining Weekly, holds one of Europe’s richest deposits of critical minerals, resources essential to America’s industrial and defense base, which Brussels and Beijing are already maneuvering to control.

Most importantly, these developments in Bosnia and Herzegovina have opened the door for President Donald Trump to reciprocate the support he has received repeatedly from President Milorad Dodik; if he does that, America will have in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in our ongoing global competition for critical strategic resources, a new Central European friend and partner.

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The Rev. Babs Miller, a chaplain at Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico's church, says Jesus did not die for the sins of humanity and that she is not sure whether God's Son even really existed at all.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge has overturned President Donald Trump's ban on assassins being allowed into the White House.

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts says Congress has delivered key policy wins during President Donald Trump’s second term on issues ranging from the economy to border security. 

Roberts joined co-host Larry O’Connor on the latest episode of “The Kevin Roberts Show” to tout conservative legislative accomplishments, which could play a decisive role in Republicans’ quest to keep their congressional majority in the upcoming November midterms.  

In particular, Roberts emphasized how well Congress has aligned with the Trump administration’s legislative agenda. 

“This Congress, this administration,” Roberts said, “are implementing exactly what they said they would in 2024.” 

Policy Accomplishments

Specifically, Roberts pointed to congressional approval of over 700 miles of border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, substantial immigration security personnel increases, and, most notably, the Laken Riley Act, which passed less than a month after its introduction. 

“It puts real teeth into the enforcement,” Roberts said. “The kind of thing that ought to transcend so much our partisan politics, but there’s no doubt that if a democrat socialist of America Left comes into power in Congress, they’re going to work to chip away at it.” 

On the economy, Roberts said the greatest thing Congress did was pass Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” also known as the Working Families Tax Cuts Act. 

“Had they not passed the One Big, Beautiful Bill,” Roberts said, “there would have been a $4 trillion tax increase on the American people—the bulk of that would have gone to working-class and middle-class American families.”  

The law renewed and permanently established Trump’s 2017 tax cuts as law, including a tax cut, a standard deduction for single and married couples, and a child tax credit.  

“That would not have happened were it not for, not just a conservative majority in Congress,” Roberts said, “but the most conservatives of the conservatives in Congress.”

A Warning for America

Roberts and O’Connor lauded House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., for his role despite a narrow congressional majority—one of the smallest ever for a speaker to manage. 

“The thing he has been emphasizing for the last few weeks,” Roberts said, “the contrast between, not just the aspirations of conservatives on Capitol Hill, but what they’ve actually done with what the Left wants to do.”  

Speaker Mike Johnson and President Donald Trump (Annabelle Gordon/AFP via Getty Images)

Roberts warned that Democrats, if given power, would almost immediately undo all the progress advanced by conservatives.  

“All the economic benefits, that is going to go away,” Roberts said. “It is the economic policies of the Left that will arrest that trajectory [of growth] and actually reverse it.” 

Fighting for Conservative Policy

The best thing for America, Roberts said, would be even more conservative wins on the border and the economy.  

“We want conservative policymakers in D.C.,” Roberts said. “It’s vital that we maximize the number who are so willing to fight on a good policy that they would take barbs and slings and arrows from the press.” 

While recent polls and history suggest the opposing party will make gains in this year’s midterm elections, Roberts painted his best-case scenario for the next few years should conservatives score an upset victory in November. 

“What if we’ve got a decade to work on this, and grassroots activists and the American people are able to hold our politicians’ feet to the fire, including and especially those on our side?” Roberts proposed. “Man, this might just be the golden age of America.” 

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Department of Homeland Security to continue its citizenship verification program. 

In a 6-3 shadow docket ruling in the case of DHS v. League of Women Voters, the justices allowed the Trump administration to expand the program that allows states to use Social Security records and other information to check voters’ citizenship status. 

“By prohibiting interference with the disclosure of information regarding citizenship status to DHS—’notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law’—Congress necessarily authorized DHS to request and receive that information,” the majority opinion says.

The three liberals, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented. 

The majority held that a 1996 federal law banning noncitizen voting likely authorizes DHS to obtain citizenship information from other agencies, including state agencies.

A shadow docket ruling is a Supreme Court order, often issued on an expedited basis without full oral arguments.

“In 1996, Congress, however, separately and expressly authorized DHS to request and receive information relating to citizenship and immigration status from other agencies, including SSA, in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA),” the majority opinion says.

Plaintiffs, led by the League of Women Voters, argued this could violate privacy rights. They also argued that the SAVE database, short for Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, is unreliable and risks purging eligible voters.

In June, U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan of the District of Columbia ruled that a portion of President Donald Trump’s March 2025 executive order on election integrity was unlawful. Earlier this month, a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel denied the administration’s motion to stay the district court ruling pending appeal in a 2-1 ruling.

The case centered on a partnership between the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration to expand the SAVE database. The expansion allowed agencies to search individuals using Social Security numbers, aggregate large amounts of data, and function as a citizenship verification tool to screen voter eligibility. 

James Copenhaver, who was “wounded while protecting his family” during the Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt on Donald Trump, has died, according to the president. Copenhaver died on Wednesday “surrounded by his loved ones,” his family said in a statement to Fox News. “James was a devoted husband, father, and grandfather … His family was the […]

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript 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.

Sami Winc: Quickly, on [President] Donald Trump’s speech, I thought some of the more strident things were that he basically was showing we entered a new era. We’re beyond the Cold War paradigm, and we’re into a whole new paradigm, and I think he’s right about it, where our strategic interests are going to play out for us on the world stage. 

And then, yeah, I was wondering about—I thought that was a great speech. 

Victor Davis Hanson: I’m really worried about the midterms, not because of the record, but because they’re not getting the message out. And I know we’re going to talk about the midterms, but it reminds me so much of 1992. George H.W. Bush was running for reelection. The recession, the ’90-’91 recession, kind of caused by a similar thing, the First Gulf War, where there was a disruption. The Kuwaiti oil fields were up in, everybody panicked. It caused a recession. 

And three things happened. Three things happened. They’re all instructive for this year, for the midterms. 

No. 1, the Democrats demagogued the economy. So, Al Gore stormed the country and said, “This is the worst recession since the Great Depression.” James Carville: “It’s economy, stupid.” Bill Clinton: “I just want to say we’re, we’re in depression level.” 

And then you looked at the actual data. The economy in 1992 grew by 3.5%, not two quarters. The recession had been over for a year and a half. 

No. 2, the inflation, despite the oil spikes, was about 3.5%. Unemployment was high, about seven, but it was going down. And the stock market, the Standard & Poor’s and the Dow Jones, had gone up by 10% that year. So, it was recovering. 

The [gross domestic product] in ’92 was higher than it was under the first year of Clinton. 

But you know what? They didn’t reply to it. They did not reply to it. 

You know, there were a couple of reasons why they didn’t reply to it. No. 1, the architect of the ’88 victory, Lee Atwater, who was a crude guy, and he ran the Willie Horton ads, he ran the Boston Harbor ads, and the thing that sunk [Michael] Dukakis, who left the Democratic Convention nomination with a 17-point lead over George H.W. Bush. 

Lee Atwater said, “I’m gonna take the bark off that guy. I’m gonna take the … ” And he did. And they showed that tank ad with that bobblehead helmet. It was so sad. Dukakis was a fine person. I didn’t like what he did, but he won ugly. 

In 1991, when he was getting ready for ’92, he got a brain tumor, and he died at 40 years old. 

And you know what the Republican establishment was? “Woo. We don’t have that embarrassment anymore. We can go back to, we can get back to Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter, and we’re gonna lose nobly, and that’s what we wanna do. We do not wanna win ugly. We play by the Marquess of Queensberry rules.” 

And so, they didn’t have that guy. 

And then there was a third party, Ross Perot, that sucked off 19% of the vote. So Bill Clinton won by 43%. 

So, what I’m getting at in these midterms, if you don’t get the message out about the economy. And what is the message? We just released, as of Sept. 20, we have the lowest poverty rate in history. It’s down to 10.2. We have the lowest child poverty rate in history. 

The Left said, “If you cut DOGE, if DOGE cuts these things, and you uncover all this fraud, and you, you deport illegal aliens, you’re gonna—I mean, we’re gonna spike the poverty rate.” 

No, it had just the opposite effect. It freed up cash for the people who needed it, and the economy is starting to boom. 

And then second, we had the highest per capita income. It went up over 2.6% so far this year. Eighty-seven thousand five hundred. It’s the highest income in the world if you take away artificial incomes like the Swiss, tax-free foreign investment, or tax havens like Liechtenstein, or the petro, you know, like Saudi or UAE, just major industrial nations. It’s not even close: 8,700. 

And we’re not hearing that. 

And then the Atlanta Federal Reserve just issued its third-quarter, and that would be for July, August, September. September’s not over. 

And guess what they said? We guessed on … Based on the data that we have for 90% of the third quarter ending, we predict when it’s ended, the economy, the GDP, will have grown at an annual rate of 5.1. That is blistering. 

So, my point is, the economy is sound, and we have a little blip, as George H.W. Bush in ’92 did after the ’91 war because of the oil price. Same thing. Oil’s up to about $4.50 a gallon. It was down to almost $3. 

But you’d think that would spike inflation, but the inflation rate is still about 3%. It’s a little high, but you’d think it would go, that shows you that all those tax reductions, all those deregulations, the trillion dollars of foreign investment, the deportation of 500,000 criminals, and the vast reduction in the… well, all of that is synchronistic. 

And what it shows you, even with high oil prices at $100-plus a barrel, the inflation rate didn’t spike. 

And so when this war is over, and I think it’s gonna be over pretty soon because this regime is getting desperate, when it collapses or whatever negotiation follows, you’re gonna have a glut of oil on there, and it’s going to take off. 

But they need to say that. 

And then the other thing about it, very quickly, is what happened in ’92. And this is my example, and I’m doing this by memory, but what happened in ’92 was George Bush had a fantastic foreign record. 

He came in in ’89, and he oversaw the end of the Cold War because [Ronald] Reagan had broken the Soviet Union, but he didn’t get credit for it. The Berlin Wall fell in ’89 during Bush’s first year. 

But he did navigate. There were calls for people to punish the Soviet Union or to put NATO right on the frontier. And he was very careful about that. He got criticized about that, but he navigated very well. 

And everybody said, if you remember the ’91 Gulf War, they said, “Saddam Hussein has 3,000 tanks. He’s taken Kuwait. It’s gone. Just let it go.” 

And Bush himself wavered a little bit. And remember Margaret Thatcher said, “Don’t go wobbly on me, George.” 

But he came around. And that was a brilliant campaign. 

You have to give credit to Colin Powell and Dick Cheney and George H.W. Bush and Norman Schwarzkopf. Very few casualties. They did what they wanted. 

I had criticized him because they left him in power and we had to go back. But the point is, he had a lot of foreign-policy achievements, like [Donald] Trump does, flipping all of Latin America so there’s only five communist countries left, reinstating the Monroe Doctrine, getting Greenland basically in a brilliant move so that Denmark can brag to everybody that it owns Greenland. 

And the Greenlanders are going to say, “Yes, we’re sovereign and independent and we’re Denmark, but we’re also going to be infused with billions of dollars of U.S. bases and trade and everything. And the Russians and the Chinese are going to be out.” 

And it’s all done. 

And the same thing with NATO, boosting NATO. So now it’s spending 2% and 3% GDP, and it wouldn’t do that before. 

And if he wins the Iran war, and I think he will, that whole Middle East will flip. 

But all of that’s going to be disguised and covered and forgotten unless they say there is good economic… 

I know we have a problem with affordability, but it’s temporary. But look at the poverty rate, look at the income rate, look at the stock market, look at GDP. 

And they’re not doing that. 

And if you don’t do that, you get what I call midterm apostates. These are people in purple states that have to be reelected, and they start distancing themselves. 

And to their credit, Mike Rogers, [Lisa] Murkowski, Susan Collins, all those, and most of the House people, they call up the president, no doubt, and they say, “Look, Don, Mr. President, I’m gonna trash you. I’m gonna say the war’s gone on too long. We’ve gotta, we’ve got to get out. I’m gonna say everything I can to distance myself. Then I’m gonna get elected, then I’m gonna vote for you, 95% of the time.” 

That’s what they’re saying. 

Yeah. But we’ll see. 

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Nigeria has made improvements in addressing the pervasive jihadist campaigns against Christians nationwide, but skyrocketing kidnapping rates should not be treated as a mere "security" problem when victims say their captors demand they convert, Ryan Brown, the CEO of the Christian aid organization Open Doors US, told Breitbart News this week.

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Amid nonstop anti-ICE agitation, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement continues to remove dangerous illegal aliens from American communities, including five more “worst of the worst” […]

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Americans grew more pessimistic about the economy in September as inflation expectations surged and views of future conditions deteriorated.