In this article MGM A Ladbrokes betting shop, operated by Entain Plc, in London, U.K., on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021. Chris J. Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images In a crowded gambling landscape, technology increasingly gives operators an edge. Global sports betting and gaming company Entain said Monday it is launching Ennovate, an innovation lab
An American man who spent nearly two decades in jail for a 2003 murder has been released years after his identical twin confessed to the crime. Kevin Dugar was convicted in 2005 over a deadly gang-related shooting and was sentenced to 54 years in prison. A gunman had opened fire on three people in Chicago‘s
Since LBJ created the so-called War on Poverty, the countless trillions spent on an endless array of government programs have not merely failed to improve the societal ills they were supposedly designed to address. By most measures, they have made them worse. But liberals never learn. Their solution to societal problems continues to be to
Bill Maher, the host of Real Time on HBO, tore into the political left again on his most recent show, noting how Fox News has praised him recently for criticizing liberals, whom Maher says “have their head of up their ass.” “In the space of 20 years, Bush press secretaries have gone from telling me
In a move that is not all too surprising considering the previous absurd requests, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has asked for more time than what the court ordered to release Pfizer documents. As many will recall, a group called Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT) submitted a Freedom of Information Act
An NYPD officer stands guard in an almost empty Times Square during the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, March 31, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) For many years, over the course of four jobs, I used to get off the subway at 50 Street and Seventh Avenue, and in the late Nineties (I think) I’d look
The snowballing situation surrounding Spotify and Joe Rogan was elevated on Sunday when the streaming behemoth unveiled sweeping new rules regarding “dangerous content” on the platform. Spotify rolled out new restrictions on content that the platform deems as “dangerous,” “deceptive,” sensitive,” and “illegal.” The rules will apply to musicians, podcasters, and other contributors. Spotify warned,
The first signs of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, surfaced in Wuhan, China, on Dec. 12, 2019. By December 2020, COVID-19 had reached every continent on the planet after the first cases were detected on Antarctica. Through the entire COVID-19 endemic and pandemic, the remote island nation of Kiribati had managed to not have a single
Just when you think CNN can’t go any lower they manage to prove us wrong. On Sunday afternoon’s CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta, the leftist anchor brought on Atlantic writer Kurt Anderson to claim that those who are skeptical of the Covid vaccines are akin to the Aztecs committing “mass human sacrifices.” Acosta commenced the
After being asked by MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski about the alleged misinformation spread by the popular “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast and Facebook users, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy responded with a homily about how “we” must “root out” misleading speech. “We” don’t have to do any such thing. Government officials have no role in dictating appropriate
A whopping 76 percent of Americans disagree with Joe Biden’s vow to only consider black women to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court. The findings from a newly released ABC News/Ipsos poll indicate that Biden’s attempt to virtue signal may very well fall flat — just like nearly everything else he does to
Sen. Susan Collins talks to reporters about the Supreme Court nomination of federal appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 17, 2018. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Senator Susan Collins (R., Maine) on Sunday criticized President Biden’s handling of the Supreme Court vacancy that will be left by Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement as
Going out is not only less common these days, it’s also a lot more expensive. In general, the prices that consumers pay for goods and services recently notched their largest year-over-year jump since 1982. Gas prices, alone, are up a whopping 58.1% over the past year, and that’s just to get to where you are going.
The East Coast is battling deep freeze conditions after a fierce storm barreled through several states on Saturday, flooding coastlines, dumping masses of snow and outing power for thousands. Officials in New York described conditions as “life-threatening“, five states declared an emergency and Rhode Island banned all non-emergency road travel as snow and high winds
On Friday’s PBS NewsHour, Washington Post columnist and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart was angry enough at his fellow panelist David Brooks that he claimed that President Biden’s still-unknown Supreme Court nominee would probably be “more brilliant than the folks who have come in before her” because she had to overcome all the racism that defines
Old Joe Biden is so avid to go to war in Ukraine that he tried to convince Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Thursday that a Russian invasion was “imminent” and that Cossack hordes would soon “sack Kyiv” if we didn’t send our woke Leftist American military flouncing in on its high heels to save the day.
In this installment of their weekly Sunday Six conversation, PF Whalen and Parker Beauregard of The Blue State Conservative discuss six conclusions they can draw from the continuing crisis in Ukraine with Russia’s military buildup. #6: The Russia Hoax narrative that President Trump was somehow beholden to Putin due to some nefarious side deals has
Empty patient beds are seen in a Maryland hospital as hospitals have limited visitors and cancelled elective surgery to make space for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, March 18, 2020. Picture taken March 18, 2020. (Rosem Morton/Reuters) In my first anti-euthanasia column, written for Newsweek in 1993, I warned that if assisted suicide/euthanasia became legal and
A New York City actress was abruptly fired after she complained on social media about the inconvenience of road closures in Manhattan as the New York Police Department honored slain officer Jason Rivera. What happened? According to the New York Post, actress Jacqueline Guzman lost her acting job after posting a video online Friday ranting
Truckers and protesters showed up in huge numbers as the Freedom Convoy descended upon Ottawa, Ontario. Despite subzero windchill temperatures on Saturday, Canadians mounted a large protest against vaccine mandates. Massive crowds peacefully protested against government overreach near Parliament Hill. Truckers were protesting an order that went into effect on Jan. 15, requiring unvaccinated Canadian
Things are going so bad for the Biden administration that for the second week in a row, one of the liberal Sunday morning talk shows was forced to lead with terrible polling numbers for Biden and the Democrats. On Sunday morning ABC’s This Week, anchor George Stephanopoulos led the show with the disastrous polling numbers.
Editor’s note: The Daily Signal’s audience continues to respond to our reporting on the Biden administration’s tracking of federal employees who apply for an exemption from its COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Here’s a sampling from the mailbag at [email protected]—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: We as Americans should all be disturbed by this trend reported by Sarah
A federal judge has blocked a Texas law being enforced against a Palestinian-American contractor that prohibits government agencies from doing business with companies that participated in the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) efforts against Israel. The judge ruled that the law infringed on the contractor’s First Amendment rights. The lawsuit was filed by A&R Engineering
2006—Senator Kerry’s Davos-led fili-bluster of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito fails. The Senate respects its longstanding tradition of providing an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor to Supreme Court nominees who have been reported to the full Senate. 2014—By a vote of 5-1, the Maine supreme court, purporting to reconcile two statutes, rules that a public school
Prosecutors said that officers obtained a ledger documenting profits in excess of $1.5 million from the alleged illegal activity. Office of the District Attorney County of Suffolk Two nurses on New York’s Long Island are being charged with forging Covid-19 vaccination cards and entering the fake jabs in the state’s database, a scam that allegedly
NFL legend Tom Brady is to retire after a remarkable 22-year career which saw him win seven Super Bowl titles. Brady’s company TB12sports tweeted to thank the 44-year-old for his career, confirming his retirement after it was first reported by ESPN. Brady is considered to be the greatest quarterback in NFL history, having made his
The country has largely forgiven country star Morgan Wallen for uttering a racial slur after a night out in Nashville last year. But The New York Times won’t let it go. In last Sunday’s “The Morgan Wallen Conundrum,” music critic Jon Caramanica spent a staggering 2,400 words condemning Wallen all over again for the one offensive
Social media was abuzz on Saturday following a report that “conservative activists” on the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee had removed the award-winning graphic novel Maus from the 8th-grade curriculum. The usual suspects on social media called this “book banning” or even “book burning.” “Books on race, gender pulled from schools amid conservative push against
Every year, a few vocal multimillionaires and billionaires publicly announce that there is nothing they would like more than to finally pay more taxes. Every such announcement attracts a great deal of media attention. After all, there is one rule journalists learn very early in their careers: “Dog bites postman is not a story, postman
Service members of the 92nd Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces take part in military drills in Kharkiv Region, Ukraine, December 20, 2021. (Press Service of the 92nd Separate Mechanized Brigade/Handout via Reuters) For reasons rooted in their countries’ long experience of Russian rule and Soviet occupation, when a politician from the Baltic