The crash happened near Butler Memorial Airport, roughly 65 miles south of Kansas City

Missouri authorities announced Sunday that 12 people were killed in a plane crash in a “mass casualty” event that left everyone on board dead.

Sources told Fox 4 Kansas City that 11 of the victims were skydivers and the 12th was the pilot.

The crash happened near Butler Memorial Airport, about 65 miles south of Kansas City, according to a statement from the Missouri State Highway Patrol on X.

The plane was engulfed in flames after the crash, but emergency responders were able to extinguish the fire shortly after impact, Bates County Sheriff Chad Anderson said.

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Migrant populations continue to “enrich” Europe as a homeless man from North Africa beheaded a 44-year-old German woman, also believed to be homeless.

A report from February by ANSA says the man, a 30-year-old from Morocco, is suspected of committing the crime. He was hospitalized after police found him in a “disturbed state,” according to the outlet.

Per Alarabiya, the two were involved in some sort of relationship, living in an abandoned area in Scandicci near Florence, Italy.

The woman was known to local charities, and the outlet Italien News identified her as Silke Sauer.

The man had “multiple traces of blood” on his person before police “found the decapitated body of a woman” where the two were staying.

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The San Francisco Giants have worn rainbow-colored hats on their annual celebration of the LGBTQIA+ community since 2021. But when Pride Night came to Oracle Park for 2026 on Friday, four of the five pitchers the Giants used in the game doctored their uniforms in what has been become an increasingly common form of protest from MLB players.

Giants starter Landon Roupp and relievers JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker had verses from the Bible written on their hats, with Roupp and Brubaker writing on the front panels of the hat next to the rainbow-colored SF logo, while Walker wrote his on the side of his hat. Left-handed reliever Sam Hentges didn’t wear the rainbow hat at all, sticking with the usual orange SF logo hat that the team otherwise wears.

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In the space of hours, Britain endured yet more random barbaric violence. A 17-year-old girl was stabbed in the neck on a quiet residential street in Burnley, Lancashire, and a 21-year-old man was murdered in Central Park, Chelmsford, Essex. These incidents form part of a relentless pattern of attacks that former Prime Minister Liz Truss directly links to mass migration policies and the deliberate undermining of British society.

Truss described institutions corrupted by leftist ideology that suppress facts about the root cause – mass migration – while left-wing politicians weaponise immigration to erode the nation state itself. The public is livid. The official response under Keir Starmer has been to target those exposing the problem rather than the problem itself.

On Friday afternoon, a 17-year-old girl was walking alone on a street in Burnley, a small town in northern England, when a man approached from behind and stabbed her in the back of the neck. Armed police responded swiftly. The victim was treated in hospital; her injuries were miraculously not life-threatening. A 30-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

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Toyota issued a recall for more than 43,000 Tundra trucks because of an engine problem that could lead to drive power being lost.

The recall order, submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on May 20, said the recall impacts Toyota Tundra trucks made between Feb. 7, 2024, and Aug. 5, 2024.

“The subject vehicles are equipped with a specific V35A engine that contains crankshaft main bearings which allow the crankshaft to rotate within the engine assembly while running,” the order described.

“During a specific production period, there is a possibility that engine machining debris of a particular size and amount may not have been cleared from the engine during manufacturing and subsequently contaminated the engine assembly during the production process.”

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President Donald Trump said this week that the federal government might have to take over Washington, D.C., if the Democratic socialist candidate currently leading in polling wins the race for city mayor.

A White House reporter on Thursday told Trump that candidate Janeese Lewis George, currently a Democratic member of the D.C. City Council, “is running a Zohran Mamdani campaign, focused on socialist policies.”

“How would you feel if she emerges victorious in next Tuesday’s primary?” the reporter asked.

“I wouldn’t like it — and maybe we take back Washington, run it on the federal basis. We won’t put up with it. We’re not going to lose our businesses,” Trump responded.

Americans — including Democrats — have grown more supportive of mass deporting illegal immigrants and booting those who have broken the law out of the country, according to a new poll.

The survey found that some 80% of voters supported “deporting immigrants who are here illegally and have committed crimes” — a five-point jump from April when just 75% of those polled favored giving the “worst of their worst” a one-way ticket out of the US, a new Harvard/Harris a new Harvard University/Harris poll shows.

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The uptick since April was seen across party lines, and was most pronounced among Democrats, many of whom have vehemently opposed President Trump’s nationwide illegal immigration crackdown.

According to the poll, 71% of Democrats now support deporting criminal migrants, compared to 63% in April — an 8-point increase in just one month.

Republican support held steady but still inched up from 89% in April to 90% in May, and the proportion of independents in favor jumped from 73% in April to 79% a month later.

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Sweden’s parliament, presently controlled by center-right forces, has voted to abolish permanent residence permits for asylum seekers and several other groups with migration backgrounds, a stunning reversal for a country once praised by Europe’s liberal establishment as the moral showcase of mass immigration.

The new law, set to take effect on July 12, will restrict those covered by the reform to temporary residence permits only. Those who already hold valid permanent residence statuses will not be affected.

The government says the reform “eliminates the possibility of granting permanent residence permits to asylum seekers” and other specified groups. With this, Sweden is ending the idea that entry through the asylum system should become a permanent path to settlement by default.

Temporary permits have already become common in Sweden, but the new measure goes further. It blocks certain migrants from turning temporary protection into permanent legal status—a major break with the old settlement model.

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Arrests span from New York to California, with convictions including manslaughter, rape and meth trafficking

Federal immigration agents arrested several convicted killers, a rapist and multiple drug traffickers in a single day Thursday, underscoring the Trump administration’s push to target what Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials call the “worst of the worst” criminal illegal immigrants living in the U.S.

“Yesterday, [Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)] arrested multiple murderers, rapists, and drug traffickers from our communities,” Homeland Security Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis told Fox News Digital.

“Nearly 70% of ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S.,” she said. “Every day, our officers are putting their lives on the line to remove criminals from our communities.”

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The FBI raided the Cleveland headquarters of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative (OOC) on Thursday, as part of an ongoing federal investigation into suspected ballot harvesting and voter fraud operations in the key swing state of Ohio.

Agents also fanned out across the state, showing up at the homes of OOC leaders, staff members, volunteers, and connected community organizers in places like Columbus, Dayton, and Cincinnati. They served subpoenas, seized electronic devices, and questioned people directly about voter fraud.

The Ohio Organizing Collaborative presents itself as a “pro-democracy” voter registration nonprofit focused on underrepresented communities. In reality, it functions as a Democrat-aligned operation deeply embedded in progressive get-out-the-vote efforts across Ohio’s major cities.

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The annual Republicans versus Democrats baseball game was held in Washington DC on Wednesday night.

Republicans won  in a blowout 11-2 to extend their winning streak to six games.

Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt dazzled the crowd when he dove for a catch near the left field line and took away a hit from Democrats in the third inning.

This was a major-league play by the Missouri senator

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Country superstar John Rich has been tapped by President Trump to serve as a Special Envoy for American Landowners, the Agriculture Department (USDA) announced in a press release this week.

Rich hoppedon  X on June 8 to tell fans how honored he was to serve as a conduit between the federal government and the long-silenced voices of farmers, ranchers, and other landowners.

The post, which ended with an emoji of an American flag, read:

President Trump has afforded me the great honor to serve in his administration as the “Special Envoy for American Landowners.” In this role, I look forward to representing and advocating for landowners’ rights against any entity that chooses to harass or intimidate them in an effort to achieve goals contrary to those of the President. I look forward to defending our farmers and ranchers

Rich already seems aware of some of the issues with which many farmers and landowners are burdened in relation to the Left’s wrongheaded green energy policies. For example, on June 7, he wrote on an X post by GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman:

A fight for the ages is brewing over the destruction of Upstate New York’s farmland. I’ll put my boots on the ground there soon. @GovKathyHochul is allowing foreign entities to overrun American farmers with 50 square miles of Chinese solar panels. “Love Thy Neighbor” is now the official battle cry.

A 26-year-old Jamaican national living in Charlotte has been federally indicted for a calculated, multi-year scheme involving sham marriage immigration fraud, lying under oath to obtain U.S. citizenship, and then using that fraudulently acquired status to improperly claim VA disability benefits by listing her never-cohabitating “husband” as a dependent.

Britney Sherene Curry entered the United States on a six-month B-2 tourist visa on August 27, 2015 and promptly overstayed it by more than a decade. Rather than face deportation, she allegedly paid a third party to arrange a fraudulent marriage to a U.S. citizen.

According to the Department of Justice, Curry and her “husband” met for the first time on their wedding day and never lived together before or after the marriage.

After the sham marriage, Curry became a lawful permanent resident. That status allowed her to enlist in the U.S. Army, which in turn let her apply for naturalization almost immediately, bypassing the normal three-year waiting period for spouses of citizens.

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The Metropolitan Police Department on Thursday announced the arrest of three teen suspects involved in a violent assault that occurred at the Chipotle in Navy Yard last month.

All hell broke loose at the DC Navy Yard Chipotle restaurant last month after a group of ‘youths’ got into a violent brawl.

A group of terrified patrons, including children, was pushed to the corner of the restaurant as the teen thugs threw chairs at each other.

It is unclear what caused the brawl.

US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro recently announced her office will be charging parents of ‘youths’ who violate curfew amid a disturbing trend of ‘teen takeovers.

Mobs of teens are rampaging through the streets of DC and other cities across the country, terrifying residents and causing major damage.

Three teens were arrested in connection with the violent brawl at the Navy Yard Chipotle.

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A disturbing video has gone viral showing a black female in Florida approaching a seated white man, accusing him of serving on the jury that convicted Karmelo Anthony of murder, then punching him in the face.

This is the second viral video in as many days of a white person being attacked and falsely accused of being on the Anthony jury.

The victim was not, and could not have been, on the jury. The murder trial took place in Collin County, Texas, not Florida.

The video was uploaded to Facebook by a woman named Mesha Keaton, of Tampa, who appears to be the attacker.

In the footage, Keaton approaches the man, who is sitting outdoors, and demands: “Hey, hey, weren’t you on the motherfucking jury selection?”

When he denies it, she insists, “Yes, you was,” before physically assaulting him.

She continues ranting during the attack.

I have worked with drug-affected people for fifty years.  In the last 30 years, I have conducted 300,000 – 400,000 consultations in addiction medicine.  I have over 160 peer-reviewed scientific papers, including more than 80 on cannabis, and two papers in Nature family journals. Our 2,500-page book on the epidemiology and epigenetics of cannabis was recently published by Elsevier Press.  I am a Professor of Medicine at two Australian universities.

Because of new results from Harvard research and NIH affiliate data, I lie awake at night worrying about the USA.  In a universe saturated by cannabis insanity, we have all heard the industry spin. Is it possible to bring the power of Science to bear on the unholy trinity of addiction, namely deception (lies), seduction (the high, the cash), and manipulation (the cash), all shrouded in fear (and death)???

Cannabis Use Curves

US National 2024-2025 cannabis industry data shows the industry surging strongly forward, driven by an army of 440,000 employees pumping almost 6 million pounds of cannabis from 128 million square feet of canopy into 40,000 dispensaries for a wholesale value of $6Billion and a retail value of $31Billion (note the 500% markup); yielding a mere $5Billion tax revenue. This industry publicly boasts that it is the fastest-growing industry in history. Or as Charlie Kirk famously quipped “Everything smells like weed now.”

The National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) is an annual nationally representative survey of the non-institutionalized US population. Three key indices of cannabis use are monitored longitudinally, which are last year’s use, last month’s use, and cannabis use on most days.  The most days index is key and is widely regarded as a direct measure of cannabis addiction in the general community.  All three indices are rising exponentially.

The index for habitual use doubled from 2007 through 2017, and then doubled again to 2023 — representing a terrifying shortening of doubling times from ten years down to five.  Importantly, all three curves show upticks about 2007 and 2017, presumably due to either changes in policy and / or perception. Importantly the most recent data is for 2024 which shows last year cannabis use of 22.2%, last month cannabis use of 15.4% and most days cannabis use of 7.5% nationally.  This indicates that two-thirds of all cannabis users actually use at least monthly, and half of all monthly users are actually habitual users.  Such data proves and documents the addictive nature of modern cannabis on the national stage.

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Republican Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt posted a video on Friday acknowledging his campaign is now over, but promising to release compromising recordings or perhaps video footage that will cause Mayor Karen Bass and/or Councilwoman Nithya Raman to “resign in shame.”

Bass, a Democrat, and Raman, a Democratic socialist, were the top two finishers in the Los Angeles mayoral jungle primary last week, meaning they will advance to November’s general election.

Raman overcame nearly a double-digit deficit to Pratt on election night to be declared the second place winner earlier this week after mail-in ballots broke strongly in her favor, over both Bass and Pratt.

In his Friday video, Pratt said he was moving on from the LA mayor’s race to what he labeled as “Phase III” in his post on X.

“Angelinos are now stuck with two morons responsible for all their problems, and they have to choose between Dumb and Dumber. That’s not a choice. That’s the machine protecting the machine, and now every problem that plagues Los Angeles because of these two corrupt communists is going to accelerate,” he said.

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Thoughts and prayers for the folks over at “60 Minutes,” who have been subjected to a bit of a shake-up due to Bari Weiss and actual journalistic standards being introduced.

As you’ve probably heard, the biggest departure was host Scott Pelley, who whinged to The New York Times this weekend about how he could berate management, have it somehow leaked to the media as if he were a hero (a leak which I’m sure had nothing to do with Pelley or his camp), and somehow get fired. Why, the nerve of these folks!

For those of you who missed it, your 21st-century Ted Baxter, America:

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Last week exposed the utter hypocrisy of Democrats who scream about “free and fair elections” and demand that we get dark money out of politics.

Specifically, the House Administration Committee shined a spotlight on the Dems’ major fund-raising platform, ActBlue, and its apparent efforts to end-run the federal laws that Dems insist are all about “clean campaigns.”

The Justice Department is investigating ActBlue’s role in the use of straw donors to launder illegal giving;  a larger federal probe is looking into the platform’s alleged efforts to help funnel illegal foreign donations to Democratic candidates.

ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones appeared Wednesday to answer questions about how her company abetted illegal donations — only to repeatedly plead the Fifth.

A terrible look, but probably wise, since she gave false testimony to the same committee in 2023.

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All five pitches Kyle Schwarber faced in the at-bat were north of 103 mph, with two reaching 104

There’s about to be a lot of focus on soccer for the next month, what with the World Cup getting underway, but MLB is scoring itself some heat by bringing some serious heat.

How does the fastest pitch ever thrown by a starter sound?

Well, we got it, and it came courtesy of Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Jacob Misiorowski and that cannon he calls his right arm.

The Brewers hosted the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday, and at the top of the first inning, Misiorowski came up against Phillies leadoff hitter Kyle Schwarber.

The 2-2 pitch seemed to just catch the lower outside corner of the strike zone, with Schwarber getting a piece of it on a check swing, which was snagged and held onto by catcher William Contreras.

While Schwarber went ahead and started arguing about the call, everyone else’s attention was preoccupied by the pitch’s speed.

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Publishers Notes: Who is this Idiot? She’s clearly from the hood. My guess is she is a product from WiHi, if she ever got that far.

She feels the need to call the Mayor out, so let us know who she is so we can look up her family too.

Kash Patel warns the days of Washington ‘turning a blind eye to fraud are over’

The new Department of Justice Team tackling America’s “Most Wanted Fraudsters” has made its first arrest and it’s a big one.

Said Abdullahi Ereg has been arrested after turning himself in, after being wanted on federal charges since 2024.

According FBI chief Kash Patel, “Ereg allegedly stole over $4 million from the Federal Child Nutrition Program in Minneapolis during the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020-2021. He allegedly falsely claimed to have served meals to children in need, claiming fake reimbursements from the government, then laundered the money through foreign accounts to fund a lavish lifestyle.”

He’s facing charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and money laundering.

The White House Taks Force to Eliminate Fraud just released its “most wanted” list a week ago.

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California is home to the lion’s share of illegal immigrant families in the United States with children who received federal welfare assistance in 2024, according to a federal report published on June 10.

More than 80 percent of all nationwide cash assistance allocated to such households was spent in California. The report tracked $759 million in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) spent in 2024 on families headed by a parent living in the country illegally.

In those cases, the child qualified for federal welfare, even though the parent was excluded from the federal program because of immigration status.

“These cases receive relatively little public attention, yet … data show that they are far from a negligible part of the program,” wrote authors David Swegle, director of the Office of Family Assistance at the Administration for Children and Families under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Alex J. Adams, assistant secretary at the Administration for Children and Families, in the report.

Nationally, the federal government paid 85,000 households with qualifying children receiving assistance who were living with their illegal immigrant parents in the U.S. in 2024.

“Although the benefit is formally paid on behalf of the child, it still supports a household that includes an immigration-status-ineligible parent,” the authors stated. “The significance of these cases therefore cannot be judged solely by the fact that the adult is not the formal recipient.”

The cases are also significant because they don’t have to adhere to the TANF rules requiring work expectations, such as regularly applying for jobs, and the payments aren’t limited to the federal 60-month lifetime limit, according to the report. The illegal immigrant families, therefore, can receive federal welfare until the child turns 18 years old.

Low-income American families are held to the federal welfare restrictions that require work participation and are restricted to a 60-month lifetime limit, the authors said.

The number of TANF cases involving an illegal immigrant parent reached nearly 850,000—or 10 percent of all cases—in 2024, up from nearly 6 percent in 2001.

Of those, nearly 78,000 households—or about 91 percent—also received federal food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the report revealed.

Most of the illegal immigrant parents—over 106,000—identified as Hispanic, while 5.3 percent were White, 4.3 percent were Black, and 2 percent were Asian, the report stated.

California was the primary driver of the national totals, according to the report.

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Now that primaries are winding down and Democrats are starting to look more intently at the general election for the midterms, their strategies are coming to light. The first part is a repeat of the last strategy: Trump Derangement Syndrome. But unlike in 2024, Democrats have the advantage of a weakened sentiment towards Trump from Independents and moderate Democrats. The Iran war has taken its toll which has made the President less popular than he’s ever been. His base still loves him, but the coalition that put him back in the Oval Office is currently not as behind him and the GOP as they were in 2024.

That can change, especially once the war is finally over. But for now, Democrats are still leaning on it hoping it will work out better for them this time.

They’re also going after another race war similar to the George Floyd BLM days of 2020. The difference this time is that they’re fomenting a lower key version. Less burning down cities, more screaming about racism.

Gaslighting and deflecting are part of the strategy. That’s always the case, but considering how well they’ve mastered cheating, they’re already pointing at Republicans and claiming they’re the ones who are going to cheat.

We will end today’s show with the winning strategy Republicans should adopt sooner rather than later if they want to retain control of the House and Senate as well as make gains at the state level.

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Much like the feminist movement (or any leftist movement), black rights activism in America has mutated from its original form into something bizarre and monstrous.  Civil rights conflicts tend to be born from legitimate grievances if a society’s intention is to create general “equality” under the law.  But this is only the surface view, the lipstick, the young and naive version of what these movements are all about.

They appeal to the western sense of honor, reason and fairness. However, there is such a thing as suicidal empathy.  The western world has become so infatuated with the idea of total equality that many people are willing to overlook the undeniable and sometimes dangerous differences between ethnic groups and their subcultures.

Lacking the ability to discern and yes, discriminate to a logical degree, is not something the west can afford to do.  What happens when civil rights become a license for cultural elimination?  White people, a minority in decline with 11% of the global population, have to stop exercising empathy and start exercising caution.

The Karmelo Anthony case is just one of many examples of expansive minority violence against white Americans being justified in the name of civil rights.  To be sure, there are many black conservatives out there who do not agree and they are being targeted by left-wing activists for speaking out.  But sadly, a vast majority of blacks in the US are captured by the far-left plantation.

They don’t want to leave, because woke ideology tells them they are perpetual victims.  And in the mind of perpetual victims everything is permissible.  All behavior is justified, including murder and the destruction of the host civilization.  Even Austin Metcalf’s family, the true victims in this situation, are not safe.

The interesting thing about the political left and minority movements in general is that they reveal their hand every time they suffer a loss, as much as when they celebrate a win.  These are frothing and rabidly emotional groups and they cannot control themselves in the slightest.  With the sentencing of Karmelo Anthony for the murder of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, the “champions” of civil rights are out in force threatening mob violence, attacks on innocent white bystanders and they are calling for more murders.

In other words, they want revenge for Karmelo Anthony being rightfully punished.  They believe they are above punishment.  They believe they are beyond the law.  They think they should be allowed to do whatever they want to white people because they see themselves as victims of white society.  This kind of mentality only ever leads to one thing: Tragedy.

President Trump threatened to invoke the DC Home Rule Act on Thursday and “take back Washington” again if DC elects a Socialist mayor in the upcoming election. 

Democratic Socialist DC Councilmember Janeese Lewis George is widely considered the frontrunner in next week’s election.

Asked about how he would feel if she won, Trump told reporters, “I wouldn’t like it.” He continued, “Maybe we’ll take back Washington, run it on a federal basis. We won’t put up with it. We’re not going to lose our businesses.”

Previously, signed an executive order declaring a “crime emergency” and invoking powers under section 740 of the DC Home Rule Act to federalize the police. He also deployed hundreds of federal agents and National Guard troops across the capital.

According to socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, New York City is dead broke, facing a history budget crisis.

So, what should they do? Quick! Invest $15,000,000 into taxpayer-funded bodily destruction surgeries, that will fix it!

The Gateway Pundit reported,

Back in April, New York City’s new Democratic Socialist (communist) Mayor Zohran Mamdani declared that the city was in the midst of an ‘historic’ budget crisis. He framed it as a very serious problem and even claimed that unless new sources of revenue were found, people would be denied various services.

Now, the mayor is announcing that his administration is making a $15 million ‘investment’ in providing ‘gender affirming care’ a term that is flowery language used to describe genital mutilation and the prescribing of hormones.

So which is it? Is the city really that broke, or is there really enough money to spend a cool $15 million on trans drugs and surgeries? And since when was it the responsibility of a city government to provide ANY of this to the people who live there?

Mamdani made the comments at a ‘Pride’ party at city hall.

The instant that Democrats come back into power, they will bring back the gender transitioning of children. They will be pressured into doing so by far left and LGBT activists.

Maybe having the taxpayer foot the bill for their radical transgender ideology will somehow save NYC from their economic disaster.

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The reaction to 19-year-old Karmello Anthony’s conviction for the murder of Austin Metcalf has been pure lunacy bordering on psychosis from Anthony’s supporters. One would believe the Metcalf family would be afforded empathy after a mother and father lost their son and Hunter Metcalf lost his twin brother.

Instead, we’re seeing the torches and pitchforks come out in one of the most outrageously inept, callous, and illogical moves possible: There are now calls to charge Hunter Metcalf with assault.

Assault for what exactly? How does a child watching his brother get stabbed and seeing him die in his arms warrant an assault charge? These are the right questions, but the wrong ones in being generous enough to Anthony’s supporters to assume reason has dictated any decision they’ve made since the verdict and sentencing.

These people are acting like bloodthirsty animals.

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Nearly half of Americans say they have no interest in the FIFA World Cup as the global soccer tournament gets underway Thursday, according to a new Emerson College poll.

The poll found that 45% are not at all interested in the men’s soccer tournament. Another 33% said they are somewhat interested, while just 22% said they are very interested.

The tournament opens with co-host Mexico facing South Africa in Mexico City. The World Cup is being co-hosted by Mexico, the United States, and Canada.

The U.S. men’s national team opens play Friday night against Paraguay in Los Angeles. The Americans are grouped with Paraguay, Turkey, and Australia in Group D.

If the U.S. advances to the round of 32, it will have an opportunity to earn its first World Cup knockout-round victory in nearly 25 years.

The poll revealed a significant age gap in enthusiasm for the tournament.

More than 80% of respondents aged 18-29 said they are either very or somewhat interested in the World Cup, while just 19% said they are not interested at all.

Among respondents ages 60-69, however, 58% said they are not interested in the event, compared with 31% who are somewhat interested and 11% who are very interested.

Interest also varied across demographic groups. Six in 10 Hispanic respondents and 63% of Black respondents said they plan to follow the tournament somewhat or very closely. By comparison, 35% of White respondents said the same.

The event comes as some foreign visitors have encountered visa-related hurdles entering the United States, including members of Iran’s delegation and a Somali referee.

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Race-hustling apologists for convicted murderer Karmelo Anthony beclowned themselves by insisting that the knife Anthony used to kill high school track star Austin Metcalf was not a “deadly weapon” because it looked like a Swiss Army Knife multitool.

The harebrained gaslighting unfolded Wednesday during a virtual panel discussion hosted by Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas.

Crockett — whom President Donald Trump called a “very low-IQ person — try to downplay the lethality of the murder weapon by claiming it was too small to be deadly

‘So it was small,” the congresswoman said.

“Well, I would have argued the size of it alone, you wouldn’t even think it’s a deadly weapon.’”

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The US Postal Service (USPS) has proposed a new rule requiring states to share voter information related to mail-in and absentee voting. The proposal follows a March executive order from Trump aimed at tightening regulations governing mail-in voting in federal elections.

Trump has made election integrity a central focus of his second administration, issuing executive orders designed to require proof of citizenship for voters and combat mail-in voting fraud. The administration has argued that stronger verification measures are necessary to restore confidence in elections and safeguard the voting process.

Several of those initiatives have faced legal challenges. Courts have blocked certain provisions, including proof-of-citizenship requirements, while appeals remain pending. Democratic-led states have also filed lawsuits challenging the administration’s mail-in voting policies.

As litigation continues, the Postal Service has moved forward with a proposal directing states and the USPS to coordinate on identifying eligible mail-in and absentee voters.

Under the proposed rule, states would submit lists of voters requesting mail-in ballots, along with personalized barcodes assigned to each ballot.

The Postal Service would then return a finalized “Mail-In and Absentee Participation List” to each state’s chief election official. The list would contain the names of approved voters and the corresponding ballot barcodes associated with each voter.

Under the proposal, only voters included on the final participation list would be eligible to receive mail-in or absentee ballots.

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Summary

• Trump Talks Endgame In Iran: Says ‘we’ll have a signing very soon.’
• TACO SEASONING: Trump tells NY Post that Iran deal “pretty much all wrapped up,” but FARS news agency says no deal has been approved. 
• TACO: Trump Cancels Strikes After All Day Bluster About ‘Bigger’ Strikes on Iran Tonight (shocking TACO!)
• Iran Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf says “Wrong strategies and impulsive decisions will reset the entire board for the worse, explode energy infrastructure and markets & create an endless quagmire that you will be stuck in for years.”
• Trump follows with mention of “bigger, more powerful” bombing of Iran tonight. He pledged “they’re finished”.
• Trump announces intent to hit the Iranians “VERY HARD TONIGHT” (surely there will be no TACO?)

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Summer Fishing Highlights

The summer months offer a wide range of recreational fishing and crabbing opportunities in Maryland, whether it be the nontidal waters, the Chesapeake Bay, or the waters near Ocean City and Assateague Island.

Freshwater Fishing

In the nontidal or what are commonly called freshwater fishing areas there are a world of possibilities. Starting from the far western regions of Maryland, there is Deep Creek Lake, which is a popular summer vacation destination. Deep Creek Lake holds a wide variety of fish species, just waiting for anglers. Several reservoirs in the central region of Maryland hold excellent populations of freshwater fish. The smaller lakes and ponds that are spread across Maryland all offer fun fishing and are often close to home. The freshwater hot spots webpage can take you to some of the freshwater fishing destinations.

Chesapeake Bay 

Fishing in the Chesapeake during the summer months always hold adventure for anglers. There are smaller fish such as spot, croaker and white perch and larger fish in the form of striped bass and bluefish. Large red drum and cobia await the more adventurous anglers. Anglers can also set out on their own or hire a fishing charter or guide to show them their expertise. Then there is recreational crabbing for Maryland’s famous blue crab. Recreational crabbing can be as simple as a few hand lines with bait off a dock to using collapsible crab traps or trotlines if one has a recreational crabbing license.

On The Coast
The popular summer vacation destination of Ocean City awaits anglers wishing to try their luck at fishing for flounder in the coastal bays and inlet area at Ocean City. The beaches of Assateague Island await surf anglers trying their luck for a variety of large and medium-sized fish. Ocean City has a large fleet of charter boats ready to take anglers to the offshore waters for species such as tuna and marlin. Anglers wishing to jump aboard a day fishing boat, often called party boats, can fish for black sea bass and flounder.

This summer, Youth Fishing rodeos continue to provide anglers aged 5-13 the chance to practice fishing. Check the Fishing Events page for updates on other fishing events.

June  Events

• June 13 – Free Fishing Day
• June 13 – Snakes on the Dundee
• June 13 – Eric Altemus Memorial Catfish Tournament
• June 13 – Battie Mixon Youth Fishing Rodeo
• June 13 – DeSimon Pond Youth Fishing Rodeo
• June 13 – Bynum Run Youth Fishing Rodeo
• June 13 – Spring Valley Fishing Lake Youth Fishing Rodeo
• June 20 – Youth Bass Bash – Sharpsburg Pond
• June 20 – Brownsville Pond Youth Fishing Rodeo
• June 20 – South Pond Youth Fishing Rodeo
• June 20 – Burkittsville Town Pond Youth Fishing Rodeo
• June 21 – Catfish Pond Youth Fishing Rodeo
• June 27 – Youth Bass Bash – Woodsboro Pond

July  Events

• July 4   – Free Fishing Day
• July 12 – Lake Halcyon Youth Fishing Rodeo
• July 18 – South Pond Youth Fishing Rodeo

August Events

• August 14 – Bynum Run Pond Youth Fishing Rodeo
• August 15 – Catfish Pond Youth Fishing Rodeo

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President Donald Trump on Thursday offered a preview of what is in store for Iran, outlining a one-two punch that would lead to American control of Iran’s energy production.

“The United States will be hitting Iran (Whose Navy, Air Force, Radar, Anti Aircraft, and all other forms of Defense, together with most of its offensive capability, are GONE!), VERY HARD TONIGHT,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

“At some point in the not too distant future, we will be taking Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets.”

Trump said taking control will work “much like we have with Venezuela, which is working out brilliantly for both Venezuela and the United States of America.”

According to CNBC, about 90 percent of Iran’s oil exports went through Kharg Island before the war.

CNBC reported that Trump told Fox News said he is unsure “America has the stomach” to carry out his plan.

“I think they’d like to see us come home, but we did it with Venezuela,” Trump said. “Venezuela’s worked out great for everybody.”

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El Nino has arrived, and weather experts fear the global climate phenomenon may be primed to match a deadly event that led to the deaths of more than 50 million people.

The natural climate pattern occurs when warmer-than-usual waters in the Pacific change the weather around the world for a minimum of several months.

Ocean conditions have now warmed to the point where El Nino is active and will likely continue well into next year, officials declared on Thursday.

A spokesman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said: ‘El Nino conditions are present and expected to strengthen into the Northern Hemisphere winter 2026-27.’

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In response to a question on the topic posed by ZeroHedge reporter Liam Cosgrove, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently addressed the astronomical increase in alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-borne infection that causes potentially life-threatening allergic reactions to red meat:

“Last week, I went to New Hampshire… to address this explosion of alpha-gal, and we take it very seriously. One of the epicenters is Martha’s Vineyard where 50% of the adult population is now affected. It is really a devastating disease. You can’t eat red meat for the rest of your life. We are looking at medications that can serve as both prophylactics and also potentially cures for it. We’re funding those studies now and we’re working with the companies that are making those. We’ve also launched a major effort on tick control through a number of different strategies that address deer populations… Three ticks that are causing these, most of the tick-borne diseases, all breed on deer. And we’re looking at strategies for eliminating their breeding capacity.”

Over the last month, a groundswell of anecdotal accounts and videos from farmers and ranchers across the country have flooded social media, depicting massive tick infestations on their properties.

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A beautiful young life was snuffed out in the most senseless way possible — knifed in the heart in what should have been a completely safe place: a high school track meet.

And another young man, seemingly once promising, is going to prison for 35 years for fatally stabbing him.

It truly cannot get more depressing than the case of Austin Metcalf, killed by Karmelo Anthony in 2025.

But because Metcalf was white and Anthony is black, this  has been turned into a toxic stew of racial grievances, exacerbating an already heartbreaking story.

Outside Karmelo Anthony’s trial, protesters called out to “Free Karmelo” and called the verdict racist.The Dallas Morning News via Getty Images

Throughout the trial, protesters have demonstrated outside the Collin County courthouse, ranting that a guilty verdict would be racism. On social media, some have ghoulishly celebrated Metcalf’s death, while race hustlers like US Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) are trying to turn this avoidable tragedy into a racial reckoning for a broken nation.

“Black women live in fear and agony every single day. A fear and agony, I promise you the Metcalfs probably never spent a day living that way,” she so callously said in an episode of her podcast, “Clock It with Crockett.”

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Do Libtards even know what “PHOBE” means? While you call us fake names we are not in fear/phobe of any of you. 

Why does your party keep trying to imply you are all about loving others? Peaceful protests, while you destroy and burn.

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California Democrats have rigged another election, and outsider Spencer Pratt has been bumped from the Los Angeles mayoral race.  On Election Day, Pratt’s lead over third-place Nithya Raman was so large that she publicly cried over her loss.  After a week of mail-in-ballot shenanigans, Raman has surged to secure a coveted spot on the November ballot — a statistical improbability in any jurisdiction familiar with arithmetic and basic ethics.

This “come from behind victory” has made it difficult for the usual election-fraud-deniers to pretend that California’s elections are free, fair, legal, or remotely based in reality.  I noticed that National Review writer Dan McLaughlin — who spent a lot of time after 2020’s stolen election defending Joe Biden’s “victory” — felt compelled to make this small concession: “I’m suspicious of the voting in LA.  For now, in the absence of evidence, that’s just vague suspicion unsupported by proof, but the vote-counting process reeks.”

I wrote a number of essays describing the historic irregularities of the 2020 election after Joe Biden supposedly “won” more than fifteen million extra votes than Barack Obama had secured in his re-election victory.  In the 2020 election, President Trump won almost every traditional bellwether county across the country by double-digits.  He expanded his voter support in almost every demographic and did better with black voters than any Republican since Eisenhower.  He exceeded expectations in swing states.

Economic variables and historic precedent strongly forecast a Trump victory.  It was entirely reasonable to look at the statistical improbabilities of the 2020 election outcome (another race that was “decided” more than four days after Election “Day”) and conclude that the numbers did not make sense.

It was entirely appropriate for Americans to gather outside the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and demand that Congress refrain from certifying an election irreparably tainted by mail-in-ballot fraud.  Nevertheless, McLaughlin took time to mock me (and many others) and suggest that I had never heard of “split-ticket” voting.  McLaughlin-type pundits have a difficult time understanding anybody who doesn’t blithely repeat back talking points mass-distributed by the corporate “news” machine.

It strikes me as ridiculous that McLaughlin finds it necessary to couch his “suspicions” about California’s elections behind verbal acknowledgments that, absent “evidence” and “proof” of fraud, no clear conclusions can be drawn.  If you arrive home to find your front door smashed open, your house ransacked, and all your valuables missing, it is not a “vague suspicion” to conclude that your home has been burgled.

I get the sense that McLaughlin would tell police, “In the absence of evidence, any conclusion that I’m the victim of burglary is just vague suspicion unsupported by proof.”  I think this is why common-sense Americans have no interest in listening to pundits these days; doing so requires a level of pretending that makes most people feel dirty.

I don’t know Dan.  Maybe he’s a nice guy.  Maybe he believes what he writes.  But he seems like somebody who would defend a future Democrat president who rounds all of us up into “MAGA Camps,” so long as CNN quoted Eric Holder as saying that the whole thing was legal and right.  At some point, a person has to put his “thinking cap” on and start asking questions.

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Democrats defended the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and its mission to manufacture hate hoaxes and target conservatives by claiming Tuesday that the SPLC is basically a government law enforcement agency and also not at all anything like a government law enforcement agency.

At the second edition of the House Judiciary Committee hearing series “The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate,” Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., indicated the SPLC has the same power and authority as the FBI or other government law enforcement agencies to maintain confidential informants in extremist groups — and, ostensibly, to then fundraise off the manufactured chaos.

In an exchange with Georgetown Law Professor Mary McCord, a Democrat witness, Raskin justified the SPLC’s alleged funding of people to be “undercover as informants to find out what these groups are doing.”

“It is a very useful law enforcement tool to use informants and … cooperators to learn more, not just about hate groups and potential domestic violent extremism, but also as a tool to dismantle drug trafficking groups and human trafficking,” McCord said, listing other law enforcement activities.

Raskin then drew a direct comparison to the FBI, stating, “If the FBI sent someone undercover to expose a mafia organization, narco-traffickers, international human traffickers, that wouldn’t mean that the FBI is supporting those groups, would it?”

McCord also shrugged at violence against conservatives, stating a Trump memorandum about combatting left-wing domestic terrorism “relies for support on the murder of Charlie Kirk, assassination attempts against the president and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and the so-called riots in protest of ICE activity.”

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Bill Gates told a House committee Wednesday that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein tried to leverage information about marital infidelity by the Microsoft founder against him.

The billionaire told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that the infidelity was separate from his ties with Epstein, who was charged in 2019 with sex trafficking of minors. Gates added that he was not aware of any criminal activity by Epstein while they maintained a relationship.

“I learned Epstein had become aware of sensitive information about my personal life, including the fact that I had been unfaithful in my marriage,” Gates said. “These affairs had nothing to do with my interactions with Epstein, but they were painful for my family.”

This marked the committee’s 15th interview in its investigation of Epstein’s ties to powerful individuals and how the government handled its probe of Epstein. Epstein was known for spending time with leaders in the corporate and political world, including Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.

While Gates’ interview with committee members was behind closed doors, and members were given one hour of question time, his written opening statement was made public. A full transcript of the interview will be released at a later date.

Gates said he initially thought Epstein would be a financial supporter of charitable efforts by the Gates Foundation. He said he later “concluded Epstein would never deliver on his promises.”

Gates said in his statement that it was a “grave error” to ever talk with Epstein. They first talked three years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction in Florida.

Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to felony solicitation of prostitution, as well as procurement of minors to engage in prostitution. He was arrested again in 2019 on new sex trafficking charges. Epstein died in a New York prison cell in 2019, which investigators determined was a suicide. His business associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, was sentenced in 2022 for conspiring with Epstein to sexually exploit and abuse minor girls.

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The Department of Homeland Security is “ahead of schedule and… below budget on building the border wall” from California’s beaches to the Texas coast, says Rodney Scott, the nation’s top border patrol leader.

“We’ll have the entire system — to include a secondary barrier in places we need it, the water barrier in the Rio Grande River, and the [monitoring] technology that was paid for by OB3 [One Big Beautiful Bill Act] — done by July 2028,” he told Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies.

Scott explained:

Trump 45 got a bunch of border wall money in place, OB3 added to that. The [Joe] Biden administration did everything they could to prevent the border wall from being built, but Congress never rescinded that money, so they could not legally shut off the contracts. They couldn’t legally officially stop it, they just slow-rolled it for four years and wasted millions, actually probably billions of dollars.

We turned that back on on January 20. We kicked that back into place and started leveraging that money. And then the Big Beautiful Bill provided $46.5 billion to finish building out the smart border wall system.

It’s not just a wall… It is a barrier. There’s a 30-foot-high bollard wall that everybody’s familiar with. They see it. But I call it a smart wall because it’s infused with technology that allows our agents to be spread out farther. It cues them when anybody’s even close to it. It also includes some camera systems. The primary border wall will — I’ve made a commitment to the president — be done by the end of 2027.

Everywhere the border patrol has plans to build that wall will be done in 2027.

There are a couple of gaps, but basically from San Diego all the way to the Gulf. The only places we’re not building a border wall is places where we’ve made a conscious decision that we don’t need it. Big Bend National Park, for example, super remote area with very high cliffs, you can’t drive through the area… I’m not into wasting taxpayers’ money.

The barrier will be deepened by July 2028, he said:

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Hersheypark, the iconic chocolate-themed Pennsylvania amusement park, turned into a frightening chaos for families on opening day when dozens of kids and teens began fighting and forcing rides to stop.

Nearly two months later, Derry Township Police announced that 55 individuals between the ages of 12 and 19 had been criminally charged in connection with the brawl. Just three of those charged are adults: Omar Ibraham, 19; Jerome Ross III, 18; and Quaneek Williams, 18.

Charges include simple assault, conspiracy, theft, failure to disperse, disorderly conduct, aggravated assault, riot, and other misdemeanor and felony offenses.

The incident took place on Friday, April 3, during the park’s 120th season opener.

Park security reported multiple groups of teenagers fighting in various areas.

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Ever since his firing from 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley has been on a personal press tour, bellyaching about CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss wrecking – in his belief – one of the last bastions of truth in the news media.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

From the infamous Rathergate – where former CBS News anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes used forged documents in a hit piece about President George W. Bush’s National Guard Service to correspondent Lesley Stahl dismissing President Donald Trump on Hunter Biden’s laptop – even editing out his responses – the long-running show has abandoned journalistic ethics when it comes to covering conservatives and Republicans.

On the flipside, it’s run cover and offered softball coverage for Democrats like President Barack Obama, both Bill and Hillary Clinton, and used deceptive editing tactics to cover up former Vice President Kamala Harris’s gaffes.

NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham put it best in this 2024 column: “Nobody in TV news has been more overpraised than 60 Minutes. This horde of urbane leftist snobs has concocted syrupy minutes for Democrats (especially Barack Obama) and salty minutes for Republicans (especially Trump).”

What follows is just a sampling of leftist agenda (via the MRC archives) forwarded by Pelley and his fellow 60 Minutes blabbers Lesley Stahl, Morley Safer, Mike Wallace and Andy Rooney:

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The extravagant self-righteousness and social engineering of the progressive elite, who celebrate multiculturalism as the pinnacle of civilization, come at a high price in human lives.

Henry Nowak was an 18-year-old university student from Essex. On December 3, 2025, he died on the streets of Southampton, stabbed to death by Vickrum Digwa. To carry out his crime, the latter used a 21-cm long blade carried under the auspices of Sikh religious exemption. The murder has become another harrowing emblem of Britain’s descent into multicultural anarchy.

To evade justice, Digwa and his family—living nearby—swiftly coordinated a grotesque deception. While his mother concealed the murder weapon, his brother called the police. Fabricating the seductive narrative of something as reprehensible as a “racist attack,” he cast Nowak as the aggressor. The authorities, conditioned by years of institutional hypersensitivity to racism allegations, accepted this inversion at face value. When officers arrived, they neglected the physical condition of the dying young Englishman. Indifferent to his tormented expression, anemic skin, and prostration, they resorted to force as they recorded the attacker’s mendacious claims.

At the same time, Nowak’s murder is an incomprehensible tragedy and a predictable symptom of a deeper civilizational malaise: the deliberate subordination of native British life, rooted in Judeo-Christian traditions of ordered liberty, individual dignity, and equal justice, to a relativist-destructive ideology of anti-Western pluralism that privileges imported customs over public safety and cultural cohesion.

A young man of promise—ambitious, kind, the first in his family to attend university—was savagely cut down. In his dying moments, adding insult to injury, Nowak suffered the inhumane and degrading spectacle of police manhandling him on the word of his attacker, the latter clinging unmoved to his false narrative.

The family’s grief, articulated with raw eloquence by Nowak’s sister Olivia and mother Lucy Ross, reveals a pain that “a lot of myself died when he died,” a void that no multicultural platitude can fill.

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With expectations of a 4%-plus print, all eyes are on this morning’s CPI report as we move past April’s shutdown-related distortions.

Headline CPI rose 0.5% MoM (as expected) in May, lifting prices 4.2% YoY (also as expected). The first 4%-plus print since April 2023…

Core Goods prices deflated in May while Energy remains a notable contributor…

CPI details:

Headline: The all items index rose 4.2 percent for the 12 months ending May, after rising 3.8 percent for the 12 months ending April. The all items less food and energy index rose 2.9 percent over the year, following a 2.8-percent increase over the 12 months ending April. The energy index increased 23.5 percent for the 12 months ending May. The food index increased 3.1 percent over the last year

• The index for energy rose 3.9% in May, after rising 3.8% in April and 10.9% in March. The energy index accounted for over 60% of the monthly all items increase. The index for shelter also increased in May, rising 0.3 percent.
• The food index increased 0.2% over the month as the food at home index rose 0.1% and the food away from home index increased 0.3%.

This is the first deflationary print for goods prices in a year…

• Household furnishings and Supplies -0.042%
• Transportation Commodities less motor oil: -0.49%
• Medical Care Commodities -0.54%

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Summary

• Trump to FOX: ‘We’ll bomb the shit out of them tomorrow night.’” The president declared “we’ll bomb them to rubble” again tomorrow night if there is no deal by then. US says strikes completed tonight.
• The IRGC is claiming to have struck 18 US military targets in two waves – including attack on Bahrain’s US Fifth Fleet HQ.
• US begins strikes on Iran for second straight night: according to Centcom, “US forces began launching additional self-defense strikes today at 5:15 p.m. ET against multiple targets in Iran at the Commander in Chief’s direction. The strikes are in response to Iran’s unwarranted and continued aggression.”
• Explosions had been heard in the Iranian towns of Sirik, Manab, Bandar Abbas and Bushehr,
• Hegseth confirms imminent attacks on key Iranian facilities
• Trump says “Will be attacking Iran hard again today”
• Trump says “secret mission” has reopened the Strait
• Trump tells Fox he “may keep going” with strikes.
• Trump says Iran took too long to negotiate, and now “will have to pay the price”.
• Tehran claims prior night attacks in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan as fulfilment of its previously vowed ‘retaliation’ – targeted the Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama, footage shows.
• Iran again signals it could cut off all indirect talks & any negotiations, says it is ‘reviewing’ US talks after latest exchange of missiles.

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Trump Warns: “We’ll Bomb the Shit Out of Them” if No Deal

Fox News’ Trey Yingst has issued a new reporting update, quickly on the heels of a fresh Trump-ordered bombing of Iran. He says: “I asked the president what will happen if the Iranians don’t sign an agreement that was put forward by American negotiators. President Trump said, ‘We’ll bomb the shit out of them tomorrow night.’” The president declared “we’ll bomb them to rubble” again tomorrow night if there is no deal by then.

US MILITARY SAYS IT HAS COMPLETED LATEST STRIKES IN IRAN

Tonight’s aggression has prompted Tehran to once again declare the Strait of Hormuz closed to “all types of vessels”. Bombs have not yet fallen directly on the capital, but reportedly outside of it. This could quickly change. Importantly concerning Trump’s latest claims, Iranian leadership is denying that it engaged Trump directly tonight. The highlights from Fox’s Yingst:

• The President told me he spoke directly with Iranian officials tonight who asked him to stop bombing.
• 49 Tomahawk missiles had been fired by the United States at the time we spoke, along with bombing from fighter jets.
• Closest target to Tehran was approximately 40 miles outside of the city.
• Trump added that the bombing will stop shortly, but that if they don’t sign the agreement, “we’ll bomb the shit out of them.”
• President Trump called this “the most violated ceasefire in the history of the world.” V
• Vice President JD Vance told me the United States is dealing with both moderate and more extreme voices in Iran as part of the negotiation process.

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Drinks can spike blood sugar and increase risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease, doctors say

The latest beverage trend is far from clean – and it’s raising red flags with doctors.

Known as a “dirty soda,” it’s a soft drink that also includes a combination of added ingredients, such as flavored syrups, creamers, fruit juices and other garnishes. The result is a sweet beverage that’s a combination of a soda, mocktail and dessert.

Dirty sodas can easily deliver 250-400 calories and 55-70 grams of sugar in a single drink – which is often more than double the American Heart Association’s daily added sugar limit, according to Erin Palinski-Wade, a New Jersey-based registered dietitian.

“It’s more like a dessert beverage than a soft drink, even if people use diet soda as the base,” she told Fox News Digital.

The drinks are most dangerous for those with insulin resistance, prediabetes or diabetes, Palinski-Wade warned.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) could be “in a lot of trouble” for allegedly steering taxpayer money toward “fraudulent schemes,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said in the latest episode of “Pod Force One.”

The Kentucky Republican lauded the Trump administration’s latest efforts “to prosecute people in Minnesota” for alleged fraud and making an example out of “that Somali crime ring up there,” before suggesting Omar could eventually be a target of the crackdown.

“I do think Ilhan Omar is in a lot of trouble,” Comer told “Pod Force One” host Miranda Devine.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) could be “in a lot of trouble” for allegedly steering taxpayer money toward “fraudulent schemes,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said in the latest episode of “Pod Force One.”

The Kentucky Republican lauded the Trump administration’s latest efforts “to prosecute people in Minnesota” for alleged fraud and making an example out of “that Somali crime ring up there,” before suggesting Omar could eventually be a target of the crackdown.

“I do think Ilhan Omar is in a lot of trouble,” Comer told “Pod Force One” host Miranda Devine.

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“The United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack,” President Trump announced Tuesday of Iran’s shootdown of a US Apache attack chopper over the Strait of Hormuz.

Central Command soon launched “proportional strikes,” which don’t sound like enough: The prez needs to show he’s serious, or Tehran will keep trying to play him for a sucker as it has every president going back to Jimmy Carter.

Consider: Trump told the press just hours before that attack, “We’re very close to having a very, very good, strong, powerful deal.”

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Vice President Vance said late Monday that he will refer Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz 

The report said Walz and Ellison were aware of widespread fraud and government failures that led to an estimated $300 million in federal child nutrition funds and potentially $9 billion in Medicaid-related funds to be “lost” or placed at “serious risk.”

In a letter to Vance, whom President Trump tapped to serve as fraud czar, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) asked the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud and the Trump administration to investigate Minnesota’s social service programs.

“I’ve referred these allegations to DOJ’s new Fraud Division for criminal investigation,” the vice president wrote on social platform X.

“Minnesota state officials are not above the law, and if they facilitated fraud, lied under oath about what they knew, or harassed and intimated whistleblowers, they must face justice,” he added.

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A county executive in Maryland denied the existence of nude photographs of herself that were allegedly sent to a sheriff’s deputy, but a letter she wrote that was recently made public contradicts her claim.

Wicomico County Executive Julie Giordano gave a fiery press conference on Wednesday morning, during which she attempted to put to rest a years-old local sex scandal involving herself and the Wicomico Sheriff’s Office.

‘These allegations are false,’ Giordano said. ‘The alleged photographs have never been produced because they do not exist. And as county executive, I have never sent inappropriate photographs to a deputy or to anybody else.’

But later that same day, Spotlight on Maryland obtained a copy of a letter penned by Giordano in which she appeared to admit that the photos did exist and requested that an investigation into ‘alleged sharing of pornographic images of me’ be conducted.

The letter, which was obtained through a public records request, was dated September 12, 2024, and written on official county letterhead. It was addressed to Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis.

‘I am writing to formally request an investigation into the alleged sharing of pornographic images of me by one of your deputies,’ the county executive wrote.

‘It is deeply concerning that a deputy would share such a photo, and even more troubling that you have acknowledged possessing such an image.’

Giordano accused a deputy of sharing the nude photos as a form of ‘revenge porn’ and said that Sheriff Lewis told another local official that under state law, revenge porn only applies if the involved parties were in an intimate relationship.

Julie Giordano, Maryland’s Wicomico County executive, denied the existence of nude photographs of herself at a press conference on Wednesday

A letter written by Giordano and sent to Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis contradicts her claim that the photos do not exist

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Outgoing Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) went on an unhinged screaming rant against White men on Tuesday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, probing the Southern Poverty Law Center’s funding of extremist groups to weaponize the government against conservatives. 

Crockett will be leaving Congress after losing her primary for US Senate in Texas.

A federal indictment charges the SPLC with wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering after funneling millions in tax-exempt funds to neo-Nazi groups and manufacturing the hate they claim to combat. The group used its power over the Biden Justice Department and FBI to target conservative groups like Moms for Liberty, Turning Point USA, Alliance Defending Freedom, and pro-life Catholics.

Crockett used her time during the hearing to rail against Republicans for questioning the SPLC’s illegal tactics and scream about “White men.” Using her heavily emphasized fake black accent, Crockett launched her racist attack, saying Republicans on the Committee are not credible because “the vast majority of them are White men.”

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