Author: Daily Caller News Foundation

As American families are looking to cut costs amid historically high inflation, shopping at dollar and discount stores has increased precipitously. Spending on grocery products at discount chains surged by 71% from October 2021 to June 2022, while the same spending in traditional grocery stores decreased by 5% during...

Multiple former senators and staffers were revealed to lobby for the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, which has ramped up its lobbying efforts this year, according to the Washington Examiner. Former Republican Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi and former Democratic Sen. John Breaux of Louisiana lobby for the app on “issues...

Former Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker thinks it would be good for the GOP to have a competitive presidential primary in 2024, he told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The comments came at the National Conservative Student Conference and reflected a common sentiment among speakers former President Donald Trump...

Credit card debt amongst young consumers surged in the second quarter as high inflation caused challenges at the cash register and led to increased debt delinquency, Reuters reported Monday. Cardholders under 25-years-old saw their credit card debt increase by 30% in the second quarter, much greater than the national average...

Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan believes that the conservative movement should continue to embrace populist tendencies.  Jordan acknowledged that populist conservatism could open the door to increased government intervention in areas that traditional conservatives normally would reject, including the push to ban abortion at the federal level and undercutting “big...

Oklahoma’s largest school district is being punished after Oklahoma’s State Board of Education found the school violated the state’s critical race theory (CRT) law, according to Fox 25. On a 4-2 vote, Oklahoma’s State Board of Education determined Thursday that Tulsa Public Schools and Mustang Public Schools, in Mustang,...

Idaho, Tennessee and Texas are moving to enact “trigger bans” restricting abortions after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade June 24, ending the precedent which had banned states from restricting abortion throughout the first six months of pregnancy. The bans in these three states will take effect 30...

Russia continued to bomb Ukrainian ports before the first ship carrying Ukrainian grain, the Rozoni, set sail Monday, threatening an international agreement that could ease a deepening global food shortage. The Rozoni’s departure represents the end of a five-month blockade that contributed to rising global food prices and a...

Left-wing activist Shaun King welcomed a new show dog to his family just days after his political action committee (PAC) gave thousands to a dog breeder company, the Washington Free Beacon reported. Grassroots Law PAC, a group backing political candidates who “fight to end oppressive policing, incarceration and injustice,” contributed almost $31,000...

Vendors have flooded the internet with illegal, unregulated chemical abortion pills, according to Politico, after corporate media outlets openly promoted do-it-yourself chemical abortions. Unregulated online vendors pose a threat to the health of women by illegally selling abortion pills which may be expired or counterfeit, according to Politico. Several...

The new reconciliation bill backed by Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia contains funding provisions that could allow the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to work around the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that reduced the agency’s ability to regulate emissions from coal plants. The economic package will make $45 million...

President Joe Biden has completed his sixth quarter in office with a historically low average approval rating of 40%, according to a Friday Gallup poll. This average represents the lowest sixth-quarter (which spans April 20 to July 19) results for a first-term president, and comes on the back of...

Blake Masters is the top candidate for likely voters in Arizona a day before the Republican Senate primary, according to an Emerson College poll released Sunday. Masters leads with 40% of likely voters’ support, according to a poll sampling “very likely Republican primary voters” and people who already cast...

A guest on MSNBC said Saturday that Republicans backed former running back Herschel Walker for a United States Senate seat because he was a black candidate who “lacks independent thoughts.” “Walker’s gonna do what he’s told and that’s what Republicans like,” Elie Mystal, the justice correspondent for The Nation,...

The U.S. has held back on sanctioning foreign firms involved in illicit Iranian oil exports as it tries to pressure Iran into renegotiating a cap on Iran’s nuclear program, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. Officials within the Biden administration have debated sanctions against Iraqi and Emirati firms helping...

The U.S. government started the largest wildfire in New Mexico’s recorded history this April, but is now asking victims to share in the recovery costs, according to Reuters. U.S. Forest Service (USFS) officials lost control of two controlled burns in April, destroying 341,000 acres and 432 homes in northeastern...

Another Democratic congressman slammed his party for meddling in Republican primaries during a Sunday appearance on ABC. “It’s embarrassingly hypocritical,” Democratic Rep. Ritchie Torres of New York told “This Week” host Jon Karl. “I mean, we cannot credibly defend democracy and then prop up candidates who are an existential...

An elementary school principal issued an apology Friday after promoting a book about a transgender child to students as young as five years old. Stacy DeCorsey, principal of Excelsior Elementary School in Excelsior, Minnesota, suggested kindergarten through second grade students read “Jack (Not Jackie),” a story about a young...

Neel Kashkari, president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve, poured cold water on optimism that the Fed could rein in inflation and begin lowering interest rates by 2023 during an appearance on CBS News’ Face the Nation Sunday. Bond market prices imply that following consecutive interest rate hikes of 0.75%...

New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman said the reason Americans believe the United States is in a recession is due to a “media failure” during a Sunday appearance on CNN. “I think that the big problem has been that the coverage has tended — you know, kind...