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Iran Will Fall Within the Year: Amit Segal and Josh Hammer
U.S.-Israeli military and diplomatic pressure will lead the Iranian regime to crumble within the next year, Israeli and Jewish American political commentators told the Daily Signal in Israel. That is, unless “Israel fatigue” undermines the effort. “Iran is losing $450 million [a day] through the blockade in the Strait of Hormuz,” Amit Segal told the… -
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How Open-Source Intelligence Is Defeating Hamas and Hezbollah
As hostilities and Iranian-funded terrorism against the state of Israel continue, the Israeli Defense Forces has resorted to using intercepted propaganda, known as open-source intelligence, from the radical Islamic regime in Iran and its proxy terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah to preempt future terror attacks. The use of open-source intelligence, or intercepted existing intelligence,… -
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Rubio Sanctions Cuba’s Oil Machine
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday announced multiple sanctions against the Cuban communist regime, this time targeting the regime’s cash cow. “Today, I am sanctioning Cuba’s state-owned energy company, Unión Cuba-Petróleo (CUPET), under President [Donald] Trump’s EO 14404,” Rubio wrote on X. “Cuba’s Communist elites have weaponized energy as a tool of social control… -
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Abdul El-Sayed Refutes Officer’s Claim That Staffer Charged With Conspiracy to Threaten Was ‘Full-Time’ Employee
A former staffer for Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has been charged by the Justice Department with conspiring to threaten University of Michigan leaders to pressure them to sever ties with Israel. The former staffer, Mariam Muhammed Odeh, 24, was a student at the University of Michigan and a resident of Dearborn, Michigan. El-Sayed… -
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Canada, Terrorist Group Welcome Alleged Terror-Tied FIFA Referee
Progressive politicians in Canada and the Islamic terrorist group Al-Shabaab have condemned the United States for denying entry to Omar Artan, a Somali-born FIFA World Cup 2026 referee with alleged ties to the terrorist group. “Denying entry to Omar Artan, who has earned his place on the world stage through hard work and perseverance, is… -
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US Will Hit Iran ‘Very Hard’ Tonight
DUBAI/WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters)—President Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States would hit Iran “very hard tonight” and wanted eventually to take Iran’s oil infrastructure hub Kharg Island, after tit-for-tat strikes in the Gulf that have undermined a shaky ceasefire. Iranian sources and Western officials said indirect U.S.-Iranian talks on a preliminary peace deal… -
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38 Days of Strikes, 60 Days of Negotiations—Is Iran Just Buying Time?
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. We talk about an Iran war, but as I speak on June 9, we haven’t had a real kinetic back-and-forth bombing… -
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HHS Secretary Kennedy Urges Rubio to Join CAIR Funding Probe After Chip Roy’s Request
After the Daily Signal first reported that the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ California chapter accepted millions in federal tax dollars to help resettle Afghans, the Department of Health and Human Services has announced that it will probe the funding. “HHS has requested a review of allegations involving @CAIRNational and its affiliates, @CAIRCalifornia and @CAIRWashington regarding… -
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Iran Fighting Intensifies With Congress Divided on War Power Questions
After weeks in which President Donald Trump has expressed cautious optimism about peace talks with Iran, the United States retaliated against an Iranian downing of an American aircraft, raising questions about the administration’s Iran exit plan and how it will work with Congress going forward. On Tuesday, the United States struck Iran in retaliation for… -
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Trump: Iran Will ‘Have to Pay the Price’ After Tit-for-Tat Strikes
DUBAI/WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters)—U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday Iran had taken too long to negotiate a deal and would now “have to pay the price,” while Tehran said it would reassess diplomatic engagement with Washington after overnight tit-for-tat strikes. Iran launched missile and drone attacks on U.S. bases in Jordan, Kuwait, and Bahrain… -
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UK HORROR: Belfast Attack Exposes the Cost of Mass Migration Without Assimilation
The corrosive drawbacks of the DEI mindset and mass migration without assimilation are being exposed in the U.K. The establishment is angry that people are angry about it. On Monday night, a man who police say was a Sudanese migrant was caught on camera sitting on top of a man in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and seemingly… -
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We Owe American Security to Those Boys on the Beaches of Normandy
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. This past week was June 6, 2026. That’s the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day landings in World War II that took… -
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US Considering Purchasing Chagos Islands, Telegraph Reports
June 7 (Reuters) – The White House is considering a plan to buy the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, the Telegraph reported on Sunday. U.S. officials have drawn up a proposal to bypass the U.K. and make their own deal to take control of Diego Garcia, the report said. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report…. -
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International Pressure Prolongs Human Suffering, IDF Sergeant Says
International pressure from Western media, politicians, and one-sided human rights organizations has prevented Israel from fully neutralizing threats—allowing them to resurface decades later and prolong unnecessary bloodshed, an intelligence officer with the Israel Defense Forces told the Daily Signal. Avraham Levine, who lost dozens of loved ones to attacks carried out in northern Israel by… -
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How Trump Plans to End Pro-Hamas Terrorism He Says Biden Ignored
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Trump administration convened a symposium Tuesday on combating threats posed by pro-Hamas terrorist groups that the State Department says were ignored for years by the Biden administration. The State Department held a “Symposium on the Rise of Far-Left Political Terrorism” at the Donald J. Trump United States Institute of Peace,… -
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Explaining Britain’s ‘Sickly Reversed’ George Floyd Moment
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. There was a murder in Britain in the town of Hampshire that’s got worldwide news because it’s kind of… -
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African Parliamentarians Gather to Defend Family and National Sovereignty
The fourth African Regional Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Family Values and Sovereignty is convening in Accra, Ghana, this week. There, parliamentarians and civil society leaders from across Africa will seek to respond to the many contemporary challenges affecting African families, cultural identity, and national sovereignty. Topping the agenda at the conference will be a discussion of… -
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Why Britain’s ‘DEI Police’ Watched a 19-Year-Old Boy Die in Front of Their Eyes
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition 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. Victor Davis Hanson: That’s the first video I couldn’t finish. It was just sick. To remind everybody what happened, we had… -
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Meta Accused of Discriminating Against Non-Chinese Workers
On May 20, Jeremy Bernier was laid off from his software engineering job at Meta. He immediately took to social media to accuse the Big Tech giant of discrimination against non-Chinese. Starting that day, he posted on social media about Meta and the discrimination he allegedly experienced and watched. “At Meta, 90% of my coworkers were Chinese, and non-Chinese were routinely excluded, disadvantaged, and targeted for layoffs,” he said… -
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Weak American Leaders Green-Light Bloodshed, IDF Major Says
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Weak American leaders open the door for global terror, a decorated member of the Israel Defense Forces told the Daily Signal. “Terrorists pray for weak leaders to control the strongest enforcer of world peace, the United States of America,” Shadi Khalloul, a decorated Aramaic Catholic IDF soldier, said. “Those terrorists use…