The government of Lithuania hosted an event on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly alongside Costa Rica and America announcing the creation of an initiative called "Nations for a Free Cuba."

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A federal appeals court has for now reinstated an Ohio law requiring residents to present documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote at the state's motor vehicle offices — a boost for allies of President Donald Trump who aim for tighter voter registration rules.

First Lady Melania Trump paid a subtle nod to Chinese tradition while hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping and First Lady Peng Liyuan at the White House for a state visit on Thursday. 

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A federal appellate court ruled on Wednesday that Ohio can enforce its law requiring proof-of-citizenship to vote in the midterm elections. In a 2-1 decision, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals paused a preliminary injunction issued by Ohio-based Senior District Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. last month. The Obama appointee’s order sought to block the Buckeye […]

HUD Secretary Scott Turner said Thursday the Trump administration is trying to make homeownership attainable for more Americans by lowering construction costs, cutting regulations and improving access to mortgage credit.

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Daily Signal has learned that two outspoken conservative senators introduced legislation Thursday to block potential child predators from obtaining U.S. visas.

The Strengthened Checks for Reliable Evaluation of Entrants Nationwide (SCREEN) Act, introduced by Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Ted Budd, R-N.C., would help keep foreign child predators from obtaining visas and gaining access to American children by granting the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department access to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children database when vetting visa applicants.

The senators introduced the legislation after they found recent reports that foreign workers hired by major cruise lines under C-1/D visas were found guilty of possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material.

“The greatest country in the history of the world should have 100% certainty that we aren’t letting child predators come here on work visas,” Scott wrote in a press release exclusively obtained by the Daily Signal. “It’s inexcusable that we have let bureaucracy fail our children and put them in danger. It’s time to fix that.”

Scott continued, adding that the interagency coordination this legislation would create is “vital to both our national security and the safety of American children,” which the United States needs “more of.”

In the same press release, Budd added that those who “prey on children represent the very worst of society,” and that he is “proud” to join Scott “to ensure that State and DHS have access to critical NCMEC data to identify travelers and visa applicants in possession of illicit material exploiting children and prevent these criminals from entering the United States.”

Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., introduced a companion version of the bill in the U.S. House of Representatives.

“The criminals who exploit innocent children online cannot be allowed to hide behind our borders or take advantage of gaps in our screening systems,” the congressman said, adding that the bill gives the proper agencies “critical information” to “help identify dangerous predators before they can enter or remain in our communities.”

“I’m proud to join with my colleagues like Sen. Budd and Rep. Gimenez to fix this glaring oversight and keep American kids safe from these despicable people,” Scott concluded.

The bill now awaits referral by House and Senate leadership to a committee.

Alaska Democrat Senate candidate Mary Peltola was the subject of a devastating New York Times profile on Wednesday, September 23 which described a pattern of angry outbursts, physical abuse, and slurs for years while serving in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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The impartiality of British police forces has been undermined by the proliferation of the institutional collectivisation of special interest staff network groups, particularly the association which represents Muslim officers, a report from a leading think tank has claimed.

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A Tennessee judge granted a temporary restraining order Wednesday against Dolly Parton's nephew and his private security company following allegations that he made violent threats against the late country music icon's estate.The legal action targets Bryan Seaver and his...

New York is losing "hundreds of thousands of people" annually because "it's so expensive" to live under Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul, state GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman told Newsmax on Thursday.

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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.

Jack Fowler: Douglas Murray’s a friend, a great writer. He’s written this essay for The Free Press, “The 9/11 Failure That Still Haunts America,” and here’s one paragraph from it, Victor: 

“Like many people, I used to spend considerable amounts of time following the progress of the dozens of al-Qaeda detainees originally held in an American military prison in Guantanamo Bay. The first of them was brought into what was then called Camp X-Ray in 2002. The first images released of these, of the prisoners shackled and in orange jumpsuits caused a significant backlash in public opinion as audiences recoiled at their sometimes harsh treatment. But the U.S. could have quickly overcome any unease about these detentions if the terrorists had swiftly faced the full force of American justice. The families of their victims were promised that they would live to see that resolution. But after 25 years and five presidential administrations in Washington, most of the accused are still unbelievably in the pretrial phase.” 

I don’t see what there is to argue with that— 

Victor Davis Hanson: Disappointment. 

Jack Fowler: Disappointment, it’s a weak word, but what are your thoughts, Victor? 

Hanson: Well, we know in the left-wing mind, it’s unhinged. There’s something wrong with it. So, the same mental tendencies that make you want to identify with Lindsay, the same sympathies you have for Lindsay Clancy. And when you say things like she’s already suffered enough because she’s not going to have the comfort of her children anymore, think of that statement.  

That same tendency applies to the American legal system. No matter how horrific, and we’re talking about Luigi Mangione, people like Tyler Robinson, who blew the neck off of Charlie Kirk, the people who tried to kill Donald Trump, that same attitude of the Left is deeply ingrained.  

And so, when they see people who murdered 3,000 people, their little brains go: victim? Check. Nonwhite? Check. Middle East Muslims? Check. They are victims? Check. I will get notoriety. I will get virtue signaling. I will square my moral circle and feel good about myself. I’m gonna use the full weight of the American legal system to subvert it and delay justice and wait, wait until a whole generation comes of age that wasn’t even alive when 9/11. They have no memory of it. They don’t know the feelings, the passions, the trauma, and I’m going to be famous and get him off and I’m gonna feel so good about myself that I’m morally superior. And that’s what you have. 

They don’t ever think about what they—and remember, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed wanted to do, he wanted to get a lot of airlines. Was it 11 in the Philippines? Blow them up. He wanted to kill a lot more people. And they had a big—  

Fowler: Over the Pacific, right?  

Hanson: They had a big argument over the Capitol or the White House, and they were very angry they didn’t have five planes. And they finally, I think Bin Laden said the Capitol dome would do more damage than the White House. And that that had not been stopped over Pennsylvania. They could have killed a lot more people than 3,000. 

And so, that tendency to feel so good about yourself when you defend, like it’s when [New York City Mayor] Zohran Mamdani handed that honorific pen through Jessica Tisch, and she’s the police commissioner, the NYPD overseer, and she’s Jewish, and he said, would you hand this? OK, little servant, ha ha ha, little NYPD representative, ha ha, which I said was basically a criminal organization years ago and should be defunded, and which I said I’m going to arrest the president, the prime minister, president of Israel when he comes, ha ha. Would you hand that over to my chief legal counsel, who, by the way, defended the brother-in-law of one of the 9/11 killers?  

And that’s what Douglas Murray is talking about. How did we get to this place? After 9/11. I thought we were going to remember it forever. And I don’t understand that. 

There have been some shocking, in a related development, I don’t know if you saw these clips that some filmmakers have left out, have started to publish some of the 9/11 incidents. Excuse me, the October 7th. And they are horrific, with people shot, kicked, beheaded, etc.  

And we forget all of that October 7th, that you take away October 7th, 12,000 people brutally murdered, raped, decapitated, mutilated, children destroyed, tortured. Two hundred forty-something hostages taken, 40 Americans, most of them killed. You take that away, and there wouldn’t be… Gaza would be fine today.  

There wasn’t any Jews in Gaza. There will never be any Jews in Gaza. They didn’t want to go in there. They didn’t want anything to do with Gaza. They put, they supplied the fuel and the power and the water and the sewage for Gaza, but they didn’t want it. They begged the Egyptians to take it. They begged the Jordanians to take—nobody wanted it.  

And we wouldn’t have had any of this problem had they not decided to go kill Jews, and they would have killed a lot more if it had not been for about two or three hundred, very heroic people within the kibbutz and within the [Israel Defense Forces] that came there and fought them off. 

Fowler: Right.  

Hanson: And they don’t get that. 

Well, you know, and by the way, when they say genocide, genocide, genocide, they don’t really talk about October 8th. Three weeks before the Israelis went in, and they did not want to go in there, three weeks before that, they were talking about how wonderful October 7th was.  

And when Israel—and I asked somebody at Stanford once when I was walking by this, I said, “What would you have done if somebody had done this and gone in and killed 12,000 and butchered in a time of peace?” And I said, “Would you have asked for the perpetrators?” Yes. I said, “Israel did. Would you ask for  extraditions?” Yes. Turn over the perpetrators. “Would you ask for trials of these people?” Yes. “Would you go to the U.N.?” Yes. Well, they did all of that. And the Gazans were so celebratory in their bloodlust. They were so happy. 

And by the way, when they talk about the poor collateral damage, nobody wants civilians, but they never break down how many people were in Hamas or were supporters or were aiding and abetting Hamas or cheering them on or were used as human shields.  

And they never ask two questions. What would you do if that happened to your country and you had to go, deal with the perpetrators who refuse to give back hostages and refuse to turn over the culpable people? 

Well, I know what we would do. I remember World War II. I can tell you what we did over Japan and what we did over Germany. I can tell you what we did in Fallujah. I flew right over Fallujah in a helicopter. I went to Taji. I went to a lot of those cities in Iraq twice. And we went into those cities. 

And I don’t think that the U.S. Marines, heroic as they are and as humane as they are, ever even thought in their wildest imagination they were going to get the phones of all of the al-Qaeda and sons of Saddam terrorists in those buildings who had them booby-trapped waiting for them, and text to them a message and said, “We’re coming. Would you please get out in 10 minutes?” And that’s what the IDF did on so many occasions. 

So, it really gets numbing that the majority of the country, and you mentioned that poll, Jack, where Israel has almost no supporters. It’s got like 35% of the population. 

Fowler: Yeah. Well, Victor, these videos you mentioned are so powerful and disgusting, but to the made-up mind of the ideologue, I just don’t, I don’t know that there’s anything you can show them, any hard evidence, that they will say is a lie.  

And you and I were talking yesterday about a conspiracy theory related to Charlie Kirk’s murder. Here he is, he’s murdered right in front of you. You see it, you know? He’s shot, but yet people have these— 

I investigated. I investigated. I went online when a person told me this, explained this conspiracy theory, and I didn’t know there’s a lot of podcasters. I don’t know if Tucker’s one of them, but they do believe that his security detail were Mossad agents, and Tyler Robinson either had nothing to do with it, even though we have him on tape, even though he admitted to his trans lover that he had killed Charlie Kirk, and even though his parents had admitted it, and even though we know the gun he used came from his grandfather’s arsenal.  

We know all of that, but they still believe that Mossad, packed … I guess the one I saw the most, they packed a microphone with explosives, and then they had someone shoot it, and the fragments, carotid artery of Charlie’s was hit by shrapnel, and then this other guy was a dupe they either hired or they just shot in the air or something. 

Hanson: To take the mental effort to craft that entire conspiracy is such that you have to be filled with a lot of hate of Jews and Israel, and to come up with such an elaborate conspiracy when all of the facts say otherwise, and they’re out there in the public domain. 

Fowler: As Pontius Pilate once said, “What is truth?” And a lot of people don’t care what the truth is because it disrupts the narrative. 

Hanson: Quid verum. Yeah, quid veritas est? 

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(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that a federal judge in Washington, DC has ordered a status conference in its lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for all records related to events on January 6, 2021, in the U.S. Capitol. The status conference is set for today, September 24.

U.S. District Judge Jia M. Cobb ordered the hearing at the request of Judicial Watch in its August 2024 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for all records related to any shots fired inside the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021, and records of requests for CIA support including bomb technicians and bomb-detecting dogs placed on standby or used in response to the massive protests in and around Washington, DC (Judicial Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency (No. 1:24-cv-02172)).

In March, Judicial Watch received 88 pages of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) records from the Department of Justice in a FOIA lawsuit that show the CIA deployed personnel to Washington, DC on January 6, 2021.

The records include a series of text messages under the heading “January 7 Intel Chain” in which two separate references to participation by the CIA are made. One states that “two CIA bomb techs” are assisting with “a pipe bomb scene on New Jersey and D ST SE.” Another record references “several CIA dog teams on standby.”

In a Joint Status Report filed with the court on September 2, 2026, Judicial Watch argues:

More than two years after this lawsuit was filed, the agency states that it is still not finished with its search. Notably the agency does not claim that this is because the request was overbroad or otherwise unmanageable. It simply has not finished the search after more than two years.

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Accordingly, pursuant to the Court’s June 15, 2026 Minute Order, Plaintiff proposes that the agency be ordered to provide a detailed description of the status of its efforts, including but not limited to descriptions of the searches conducted and remaining to be conducted, and a date certain when the searches will be complete. The agency also should be ordered to disclose the number of records located and reviewed, the rate at which the records are being reviewed, and a date certain when the review will be complete. Finally, the agency should be ordered to provide a date certain when interim productions will begin. Alternatively, Plaintiff requests an in-person status conference to further address these matters.

“The CIA has demonstrated absolute contempt for the people’s right to know what it was up to on at the US Capitol on January 6,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “Why is the CIA stonewalling the release of any documents about this important issue for over half-a-decade!”

Judicial Watch has pursued details of January 6 on several fronts.

In July 2026, it forced the release of over 1,000 hours of Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department body-worn camera footage   from the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol event.

In April 2026, Judicial Watch filed a (FOIA) lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to obtain records related to possible improper targeting of January 6, 2021, Capitol protesters, their supporters, and related nonprofits.

In July 2025, Judicial Watch sued the U.S. Department of Justice for records on accelerated January 6 prosecutions after Donald Trump was elected president in November 2024.

In October 2023, Judicial Watch received the declaration of James W. Joyce, senior counsel in the Office of the General Counsel for the Capitol Police, in which he describes emails among senior officials of the United States Capitol Police (USCP) in January 2021 that show warnings of possible January 6 protests that could lead to serious disruptions at the U.S. Capitol.

In June 2025, Judicial Watch concluded a $4.975 million settlement in the wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S. Government filed on behalf of the family of Ashli Babbitt, the U.S. Air Force veteran who was shot and killed inside the U.S. Capitol by then-Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd on January 6, 2021. Ashli Babbitt was the only January 6 homicide victim.

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Left-wing comedian Bill Burr is claiming President Donald Trump and Republicans will eventually put MAGA fans and white Americans in the ICE vans to get rid of them. The "Social Reckoning" star also falsely claimed illegal migrants don't drive up the cost of housing.

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