It’s hot NILF summer for American workers.

The number of adults who are “not in the labor force” (NILF) surged to an all-time high in June to 105.8 million, according to figures from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

The record comes after a massive surge of 832,000 workers dropping out of the labor force in June alone. The overall number of NILFs is higher than at the height of the Great Recession or the COVID pandemic.

Lines of job seekers waiting to enter the Mega Job News USA South Florida Job Fair in Sunrise, Fla. on April 30, 2026.Getty Images

The definition is broad — it covers all Americans age 16 and over who aren’t currently working, including retirees and students.

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The death of 78-year-old Ann Widdecombe should cause both ends of the political spectrum to recoil in horror and sadness. Instead, leftists are taking the alleged killer’s means of committing the act as a page to add to their playbook.

Widdecombe was discovered in her home in Devon, England, on July 9 by a gardener after an assistant became concerned when she did not make a media appearance, according to GB News. Police took 28-year-old Joshua Kerry into custody on suspicion of murder on July 11, tracing Widdecombe’s death to midday on July 8.

The alleged killer’s method was beating Widdecombe 21 times with a hammer. According to the U.K.’s Daily Mail, investigators found communist literature in Kerry’s home along with newspaper clippings about Reform U.K.’s leader Nigel Farage. This was the party Widdecombe had been serving as an immigration spokeswoman.

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As the Gateway Pundit reported earlier today, thousands of non-citizen voters were discovered in New Jersey, allegedly due to a software error.

This is one of those problems that Democrats assure us never happens. It’s one of the main reasons that conservatives want congress to pass the SAVE America Act.

Over on CNN, Jake Tapper responded to the news today by saying that this is ‘not good news for Democrats.’

How about the country, Jake?

Columnist Ingrid Jacques says liberal ideology, anti-male media fuel a growing divide between the sexes

A growing anti-marriage movement is being fueled by viral TikTok trends and high-profile celebrities painting men as the enemy, but according to a new column, women may ultimately be the ones losing out.

In a USA Today op-ed, columnist Ingrid Jacques warned of a rising wave of “heteropessimism,” defining it as women’s growing feelings of disappointment and antagonism toward relationships with men. She argued that viral trends like “divorce glow-ups” and anti-male literature have actively widened the divide between the sexes.

“Studies show that married women are not only happier but also live longer and earn more than their single counterparts,” Jacques wrote on Tuesday.

She explained that the media modern women consume is increasingly hostile toward traditional relationships, pointing to bestselling books like “Yesteryear,” which centers on a “tradwife” influencer.

In that novel, Jacques notes, men are reduced to lazy or toxic tropes: “Either a man is an idiotic man-baby who lacks ambition and a brain, or he’s a quintessential patriarch who pals around with other sexist pigs in the manosphere. Husbands are at one point referred to as ‘freaks.’”

On Amazon, the book’s description includes, “A gripping, electrifying novel that is as darkly funny as it is frightening, ‘Yesteryear’ is a gimlet-eyed look at tradition, fame, faith, and the grand performance of womanhood.”

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Residents at two swanky North Carolina communities have sounded the alarm over alleged trespassers taking over their pools, claiming that their homeowners associations (HOA) are not doing enough to stop the rowdiness.

The complaints have emerged at Edge of Auburn in Garner and Trace at Olde Towne in nearby Raleigh, with residents saying they have become afraid to use their amenities funded through hefty HOA dues.

Dramatic footage from one of the pool areas showed a spat between residents and nonresidents, WRAL reported.

It was not clear how or why the confrontation started, but homeowners described how it embodied the tension inside the placid communities.

Ben Myer, who lives at the Edge of Auburn, said his ‘beautiful community’ was now seeing parties of ‘between 20 and 50 teens’ on what seemed like a weekly basis without an apparent solution in sight.

‘We’re paying for a pool, we’re paying for a basketball court, beautiful development, walking trails and people are scared out of using it,’ Myer told the outlet.

A separate video shot by a Ring doorbell camera showed a group of about 20 people showing up to an unauthorized gathering.

The crowd walked calmly in the middle of the street and chatted among themselves before allegedly partying.

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Data centers are responsible for $6.3 billion, or 38%, of the $16.4 billion in charges from the PJM Interconnection’s just-held capacity auction, Joseph Bowring, president of Monitoring Analytics, said in an email to Utility Dive. Monitoring Analytics is the grid operator’s independent market monitor.

In PJM’s last four base capacity auctions, data center-driven capacity charges totaled $29.4 billion — 46% of the $63.6 billion in total capacity charges in that period, Bowring said. Monitoring Analytics plans to publish its analysis of the most recent auction in a few weeks, he said.

PJM isn’t fully grappling with the ramifications of data center development, according to Bowring. “PJM is continuing to act like it’s business as usual,” he said in an interview on Friday. “You have to open your eyes and recognize that it is really a paradigm shift, and failing to do that imposes costs on other customers.”

Ratepayers in PJM are not only paying capacity charges for existing and potential data centers, they are paying for higher energy and transmission costs data centers have caused, according to Bowring.

PJM’s capacity auctions and the price of electricity has become a major political issue in the grid operator’s footprint, which includes 13 Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern states and the District of Columbia. In September, governors from PJM states formed a collaborative to advocate for their interests with the grid operator.

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President Trump has formally approved a landmark 30-year civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia that could be worth tens of billions of dollars and put American companies at the center of the kingdom’s nuclear buildout, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The accord is expected to be signed Wednesday by US Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, then head to Congress for a 90-day review. Lawmakers could block it through a joint resolution, but overriding a Trump veto would require two-thirds majorities in both chambers.

There is plenty to like here. A Section 123 agreement creates a legal framework for peaceful use, safeguards, and nonproliferation. American involvement also gives Washington more influence over Riyadh’s program than it would have if Saudi Arabia turned to China or Russia.

The agreement is the latest step in a rapidly deepening relationship. The administration previously delinked Saudi nuclear talks from normalization with Israel, while Trump later designated the kingdom a major non-NATO ally after Mohammed bin Salman’s return to the White House.

Yet one provision is difficult to support: “A key provision of the new accord would have American companies build an uranium enrichment facility in Saudi Arabia if a joint U.S.-Saudi study determines such a step would be warranted.”

The 123 accord is not a turnkey export license, and any technology transfer would still require separate federal approval, but the policy direction is clear.

The strongest argument for this arrangement is that US technology and oversight would keep Washington inside the tent and make diversion harder. That is a legitimate advantage, but it doesn’t eliminate the underlying risk.

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Give it time, folks. In the Trump era, that’s all we can say—when the president makes a claim, the Democrats go crazy, and in the end, Trump was right all along. Our election system is vulnerable. Voter data has been compromised, and New Jersey’s Mikie Sherrill was forced to admit that after reviewing their state’s voter rolls.

It turns out thousands of non-citizens are registered to vote. The governor announced that an independent firm will handle the investigation into this oversight, but it reinforced President Trump’s main message from his primetime address last Thursday—that voter fraud is real, happening, and we must do everything possible to protect the integrity of our election system. Democrats mocked it, and in less than a week, he was proven right (via NY Post):

As four more American families grieve the deaths of soldiers killed in the war on Iran, one of the top-ranking ministers in Israel’s cabinet told an Israeli audience that having America do all the fighting and dying is “the best for us.” Israel had intensely lobbied President Trump to launch a joint war on Iran on Feb 22, and traded blows with Iran up until early June. Since Trump restarted intense, daily bombardment of Iran 11 days ago, however, Israel has sat out the action, sparing Israelis from lethal Iranian retaliation.

“The State of Israel has no interest in joining the contained confrontation between Iran and the United States,” far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said in a session at the Katif Conference for National Responsibility, which endorses Jewish settlement in Palestinian territories. “The current situation is the best one for us.”

Smotrich is generally regarded as the second-most powerful cabinet member in Israel, and is a vital linchpin in Netanyahu’s government that took power in January 2023. Lacking an outright majority, Netanyahu was forced to build a ruling coalition that gives unprecedented power to religious and ultra-nationalist extremists. Smotrich leads the Religious Zionism party. He personally aspires to make Israel a theocracy, wants Israel to annex the West Bank and Gaza while barring most Palestinians from citizenship, and has said it would be “just and moral” to starve two million Palestinian men, women and children in Gaza.

In his latest remarks, Smotrich candidly acknowledged that Israel and the United States have different goals vis a vis Iran, but said America’s continued military engagement furthers the Israeli agenda. “[We] must remember that the ultimate goal of Israel, and not necessarily the United States, is to undermine and weaken the regime in Iran – to the point of overthrowing it,” Smotrich said.

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A massive Medicaid fraud scheme in Arizona has left up to 2,000 Native Americans feared dead or missing, with whistleblowers and attorneys sounding the alarm that the nightmare is still ongoing.

New whistleblower allegations claim vulnerable Native Americans were allegedly lured into white vans with promises of treatment, then plied with fentanyl, methamphetamine, alcohol, and other drugs before being imprisoned inside fake behavioral health homes where operators allegedly billed Medicaid for months of fraudulent “treatment.”

Arizona officials have previously estimated the fraud exceeded $2.5 to $2.8 billion, while the latest whistleblower allegations contend the broader network may have generated up to $12 billion in fraudulent Medicaid claims over time.

Even more chilling, as many as 2,000 Native Americans may be dead or missing as a result of the sprawling scheme, according to NewsNation Now.

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The headline is accurate, but with limited space, I couldn’t really note that they didn’t do it by choice. See, Montgomery County decided to make a whole lot of places gun-free zones. As this is Maryland, it’s likely they didn’t figure the state would have any issues with what they were doing. After all, they love gun control there.

But they went too far. They flew too close to the anti-gun sun, and the state Supreme Court slapped them down.

That meant they needed to make some…adjustments, which is what they just did.

To comply with a court ruling, the Montgomery County Council voted 10-1 Tuesday to pare back some of its restrictions on guns.

Among other changes, it shortened the list of places near which a person can carry guns and removed a restriction on purchasing and selling ghost guns in the presence of a minor.

These changes do not significantly affect the county’s gun restrictions, but rather tweak them to comply with the state’s existing laws.

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• Banned all firearms within 100 yards of most public spaces — including schools, houses of worship, courthouses, libraries and parks — but removed a ban on them in the vicinity of hospitals, child care centers and long-term care centers. This change was made because the state has its own law that bans firearms within those establishments
• Created an exemption on the above ban for people who are traveling through the county and could be driving on a public highway with a gun or are driving on a road within 100 yards of a public space.
• Bans gifting, selling, renting or lending guns, ammunition and gun parts to minors, but removes a provision that prohibited these activities pertaining to ghost guns in the presence of minors.

Is this a victory for gun rights? Hardly. This is nothing but Montgomery County trying to comply with the state’s regulations on the matter and nothing else. They’re restricting as much as they think they can simply because they can.

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President Trump highlighted the massive number of illegal voters across the country in a renewed push for Republicans to pass the SAVE America Act. 

The Department of Homeland Security recently said that “preliminary reviews” of voter records in California, New Jersey, Nevada, and Pennsylvania found the following.

• 190,832 non-citizens registered to vote in California.
• 35,152 non-citizens registered to vote in New Jersey.
• 15,903 non-citizens registered to vote in Nevada.
• 14,576 non-citizens registered to vote in Pennsylvania.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin sent letters to the four Secretaries of State, calling on them to work with DHS to clean their voter rolls last week.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump revealed that 278,000 illegal voters have been discovered on state voter rolls during an address to the nation on Thursday. But the number is “actually much higher than that,” Trump said, noting that Democratic states have refused to comply with DHS’s investigations.

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The Supreme Court will decide whether Alaska can forfeit an 82-year-old bush pilot’s $95,000 Cessna over a misdemeanor alcohol charge, a case that could reshape government asset forfeiture powers nationwide.

Kenneth Jouppi has spent more than a decade fighting the State of Alaska for his 1969 Cessna. The plane was grounded and marked for seizure after Alaska State Troopers found beer in a passenger’s luggage before a 2012 flight from Fairbanks to Beaver, a remote village of fewer than 100 people that had voted to ban alcohol. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take up his case, setting the stage for what legal analysts on both sides of the aisle call a potentially landmark ruling on the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause.

Jouppi was convicted of a misdemeanor alcohol-importation offense and sentenced to three days in jail and a $1,500 fine. The state then pursued civil forfeiture of his aircraft, valued at roughly $95,000. His passenger, who owned the beer, pleaded guilty. But the state wants the pilot’s plane, too, and Alaska’s highest court said that was constitutional.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar posted a short video to Facebook this week declaring that Minnesota had “defeated ICE’s racist terror campaign”, a claim that drew swift mockery online and raised fresh questions about how a sitting member of Congress defines victory over federal  law enforcement.

The roughly ten-second clip, first reported by the New York Post, shows the 43-year-old Minnesota Democrat sitting in a chair, adjusting her blazer, fidgeting with a microphone, and taking a deep breath while dramatic instrumental music plays. A text overlay reads: “Me preparing for the documentary on how we defeated ICE’s racist terror campaign in Minnesota.” Her caption added: “We’re built different in Minnesota.”

The format mimics a viral documentary confessional trend popular on social media. But the substance, a congresswoman boasting about obstructing a federal immigration operation, is something else entirely.

What Omar calls a ‘defeat’

The video appears to reference Operation Metro Surge, the ICE enforcement action carried out in Minnesota in early 2026. The White House said at the time that the operation resulted in the arrest of more than 4,000 illegal immigrants in the state. That is not a small number. It is, by any conventional measure, a large-scale federal enforcement success.

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Nate Silver identifies lower-income, highly educated voters as the core demographic of the Democratic Socialists of America, revealing a striking breakdown in the traditional relationship between education and higher income.

“Income and education are usually positively correlated. But sometimes the relationship breaks down. What’s the most Democratic voting group in America? People with post-graduate degrees but lower-to-middle incomes,” Silver wrote on X.

One explanation: newly minted graduates burdened by student debt, holding low-value liberal arts and other worthless woke degrees, and working multiple service-sector jobs. The result is a cohort driven by progressive ideology but denied the prosperity they were promised, creating fertile recruiting ground for far-left movements.

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Latest survey shows Trump approval stuck near record low

Several findings in the latest Fox News Poll show voters are unhappy and want major change, which bodes well for Democrats in November: President Donald Trump’s job approval remains near a record low, more Democrats are motivated to vote, Republicans join Democrats and independents in rating the economy negatively, and 4 in 10 voters want “dramatic” or “revolutionary” change. Plus, more view the GOP as tied to elites than the Democratic Party.

Voters say Democrats can better handle income inequality (+22 points), healthcare (+21), inflation (+10), the economy (+9), and foreign policy (+7).  Republicans hold the advantage on crime (+7 points), while government spending (Democrats +3) and national security (R +2) are more evenly divided. On immigration, the GOP had an 8-point edge in April. Now, Democrats are preferred by one point.

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A July audit from the state of Maryland found that the government paid Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to someone who won $2 million in the lottery and often failed to properly pay out benefits.

 The 56-page audit vetted $1.9 billion of payments through public assistance programs through the Department of Human Services from June 1, 2021 through Feb. 28, 2025. The Family Investment Administration oversees public assistance programs administered by 24 local social services departments, including SNAP, temporary cash assistance, temporary disability assistance program, and home energy assistance programs.

A historic church in Buffalo, New York, caught fire again this week, and it was determined to be the result of arson.

St. Ann’s Catholic Church was built in 1886.

It permanently closed down in August 2024 and was sold to an Islamic community for $250,000.

There is now a push to turn the historic Catholic church into a mosque.

On Tuesday, a second fire tore through the church in one week.

Last weekend, firefighters battled a three-alarm fire at the church.

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The recent news of illegal aliens registering in mass in NJ, and then voting, is not a surprise and is almost expected.

New Jersey is one of many States that DO NOT use the free Federal SAVE system to check for illegal aliens in their voter registrations or existing voter rolls.

SAVE is an online service administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that provides immigration status and U.S. citizenship information. SAVE only returns verification information. The decision to register or remove a voter remains with state or local election officials.

As of June 30th, there are 26 states using SAVE for voter-registration or voter-list-maintenance purposes. It processed 198 million cases in 2025.

The remaining 24 states have no public info that their election authority uses SAVE. Most of these 24 states are left-leaning.

New Jersey joined the non-profit ERIC in August of 2022 to help clean their voter rolls. Secretary of State Tahesha Way said, “ERIC is a powerful step to strengthen New Jersey’s elections by increasing our ability to support eligible voters while also improving the accuracy of our voting rolls.”

Obviously, this isn’t working.

Their agreement (Section B, pg. 17) with the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) does not allow NJ, or any other members of ERIC, to communicate or notate to ERIC that a person is a non-citizen.

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A divided federal appeals court ruled against former President Joe Biden’s attempt to keep audio recordings and transcripts of his ghostwriter interviews sealed, a legal defeat that could expose the full extent of the memory lapses Special Counsel Robert Hur documented.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit handed down a 2-1 decision Monday rejecting Biden’s privacy claims and finding that the public’s interest in the material outweighs whatever personal embarrassment the recordings might cause. Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan, an Obama appointee, joined with Judge Gregory Katsas, a Trump appointee, in the majority. The lone dissenter: Judge Florence Pan, the only Biden appointee on the panel.

The recordings at issue capture Biden’s private conversations with author Mark Zwonitzer, who ghostwrote the former president’s 2017 memoir “Promise Me, Dad.” Those sessions, conducted at Biden’s home after he left the vice presidency, were later obtained by Hur’s team during its investigation into Biden’s handling of classified information. The Heritage Foundation sued the Justice Department in March 2024 under the Freedom of Information Act to force their release.

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The Trump administration announced denaturalization proceedings against 10 naturalized citizens convicted of crimes ranging from child sex abuse to nearly $900,000 in Medicare fraud, part of what officials call the largest effort to revoke fraudulently obtained citizenship in American history.

The Department of Justice filed civil complaints in federal court against all 10 individuals within a 30-day window, targeting naturalized citizens from Cuba, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, and Poland who allegedly concealed serious criminal conduct during the citizenship application process. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin jointly announced the actions Monday, framing them as a direct strike against people who exploited the immigration system to gain rights they never legally deserved.

The cases read like a catalog of the worst abuses the naturalization process was designed to screen out: a fake medical clinic billing taxpayers for bogus prescriptions, priests who sexually abused children in their own congregations, a cocaine trafficking conspiracy, and identity fraud schemes built on purchased documents. Each defendant obtained U.S. citizenship while hiding conduct that, under federal law, should have disqualified them on the grounds of lacking “good moral character.”

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The Trump administration just put a hard stop on more than a billion dollars in Medicaid cash headed to California and Minnesota. Not a negotiation. Not a suggestion. A freeze. And the reason is as plain as the paperwork the two blue-state governors still cannot produce.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood up Tuesday and said the quiet part out loud. California is on the hook for more than $867 million. Minnesota for more than $200 million. The money sits frozen until Gavin Newsom and Tim Walz can show the payments are legitimate. Kennedy did not mince the moral point.

That is not bureaucratic language. That is a man describing theft dressed up as compassion.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz walked through the numbers. In Minnesota, the problems clustered in 14 high-risk programs, mostly personal care and home health services. Claims for treatment given to a person already dead. Documentation gaps so large you could drive a truck through them. In California the picture is even uglier. Spending on in-home services jumped 24 percent over two years—double the national rate—accounting for $391 million of the deferred funds. Providers billing more than a year after services. Providers billing for more than four patients at the same time. And a significant slice of the fraud tied to people with what Oz politely called “unsatisfactory immigration status.”

“We can’t prove that they’re supposed to be in America and that they’re eligible for these services because this is an ongoing, massive problem for California.”

Unsatisfactory immigration status. Let us call it what it is. Illegal aliens. California has spent years turning its Medicaid program into an open invitation for people who have no legal right to be here, let alone to draw taxpayer-funded care. The state expanded benefits, looked the other way on eligibility, and then acted shocked when the bill came due.

Kennedy put the choice squarely on the governors. Provide the documentation that the services were real, the beneficiaries were eligible, and the money was not stolen, and the funds can flow again. Refuse, and the freeze stays. Deputy CMS Administrator Dan Brillman reminded everyone what those dollars were supposed to buy.

“Every dollar lost to fraud is $1 that cannot pay for a child with complex medical needs, an adult with intellectual disabilities, or a veteran… waiting to receive services at home.”

Hundreds of thousands of American citizens sit on waitlists while blue-state machines keep writing checks that cannot survive basic scrutiny. That is not compassion. That is redistribution from the honest to the fraudulent.

Newsom called the announcement a “recycled political stunt.” Walz’s office claimed the administration is cutting more healthcare money than it has prosecuted in fraud cases. Both responses miss the point by a country mile. The point is not the volume of prosecutions. The point is whether the states will stop treating federal Medicaid dollars like a political slush fund for illegal aliens and careless providers.

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Clandestine strategy for transforming the greatest nation on earth into a Marxist ‘paradise’

For those fortunate enough to have lived in America during more unified, patriotic and hopeful times, today’s ever-growing chaos and ubiquitous pathological anger are not only troubling, but an ever-growing mystery.

Where exactly is all this madness truly coming from? And how can it be remedied so this nation can experience genuine healing, reconciliation and peace?

Incredibly, lurking just beneath the surface of many of the most horrifying, civilization-destroying events and trends unfolding in today’s America is one single but extraordinarily powerful – albeit cleverly disguised and therefore widely unrecognized – common denominator.

But first, before we get there: What kind of events and trends? Here are just a few:

* The full-scale foreign invasion of the United States of America across its southern border, reaching an estimated 14 million illegal aliens during the Joe Biden presidency, which purposely permitted and enabled the human tsunami that included thousands of convicted murderers and rapists, kidnappers and gang members, sex-traffickers, drug-dealers, Chinese spies and Islamic terrorists. Top investigative journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author Peter Schweizer recently likened this gargantuan influx of criminal illegal aliens to an “attack” on America on par with 9/11 and Pearl Harbor.

* Major riots in recent months in key American cities from New York City to San Francisco, but most notoriously Minneapolis – all in response to the deployment of federal law enforcement to apprehend, arrest and deport criminal illegals in hopes of mitigating the upsurge in violent crime they are causing. Officials with the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement cited over 10,000 arrests of “criminal illegal aliens” in Minnesota alone – and yet, the police were treated as the villains and the illegal-alien criminals as the innocent victims.

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Both want to change our system of law. Both hate the United States and Western civilization. And both detest Christianity. They also, by forming an alliance, become the strangest of bedfellows. They are socialism and Islamic supremacism in America — and both forces are growing.

Socialism, under the name “Democratic Socialists of America” (DSA), is quickly dropping its mask. Its new platform, released last week, calls for eliminating the Senate and having a wholly empowered Congress choose the president and Supreme Court. The DSA also wants to convene a second constitutional convention to make the preceding possible. The idea is to draft new founding documents guaranteeing a “socialist democracy.”

Political activist and Islamic supremacist Linda Sarsour is a bit less ambitious — at least in her overt pronouncements. She at this moment just wants to replace the Declaration of Independence with a document reflecting “our [read: their] values.” Whether this would be a Declaration of Dependence or a Declaration of Dependence on Allah, she didn’t say.

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Four in ten Americans view communists in the United States as posing a major or moderate threat, a recent weekly survey from the Economist/YouGov found.

The survey asked respondents, “How much of a threat, if any, do Communists in the United States pose today?”

Across the board, 43 percent considered communists in the U.S. as at least a moderate threat. More specifically, 18 percent consider it a “major” threat, and 25 percent consider it a “moderate” threat.

Another 23 percent consider it a “minor” threat, and 33 percent said communists in the U.S. pose no threat at all.

A majority of Republicans, 64 percent, believe communists in the U.S. pose at least a moderate threat. Of those, 34 percent said they pose a “major” threat, and 30 percent said they post a “moderate” threat. A quarter of independents see it as a moderate threat, as do 22 percent of Democrats. However, only seven percent of Democrats view communists in the U.S. as a major threat, as do 15 percent of independents. Notably, half of Democrats, 50 percent, do not believe communists in the U.S. are a threat at all.

The survey was taken July 17 – 20, 2026, among 1,602 U.S. adult citizens. It has a +/- 3.3 percent margin of error.

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New York City communist Mayor Zohran Mamdani spent months promising to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. His lawyers finally delivered the answer anybody familiar with American law could see coming.

“We do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant,” Mamdani admitted Tuesday.

His administration reviewed “every avenue” for using the International Criminal Court warrant if Netanyahu visits New York for the United Nations General Assembly in September. City lawyers found no legal path, proving that Mamdani’s campaign pledge was never within the mayor’s power.

Mamdani still called Netanyahu a war criminal and demanded that the federal government join the ICC and execute the warrant, while also declaring Netanyahu unwelcome in New York.

I hate to be the one to break it to the Democratic Socialist, but mayors don’t decide who enters the United States. They don’t join international courts, recognize foreign warrants, conduct diplomacy, or set federal criminal policy.

All Mamdani can do is offer his opinion, but City Hall has no separate foreign policy.

Neither the United States nor Israel is a party to the Rome Statute, which created the ICC. Congress also barred state and local agencies from cooperating with ICC requests, providing support to the court, or helping surrender people to its custody.

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A Missouri prosecutor has been removed from her job amid an avalanche of misconduct allegations.

Ray County Prosecutor Camille Johnston has been removed as the process against her moves forward, according to a news release from Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway’s office.

“When an elected official treats public office like their personal playground, betraying the public trust, ignoring legal obligations, and putting self-interest first, removal isn’t a suggestion, it’s a necessity,” Hanaway said.

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WASHINGTON — Approximately 400 non-citizens cast ballots illegally in New Jersey elections since 2023 after more than 6,000 immigrants were wrongly added to the Garden State’s voter rolls, Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill admitted Tuesday.

Despite the mortifying disclosure, Sherrill managed to use her press conference about the fumble to take a swipe at President Trump.

When asked about the possibility of Trump using New Jersey as an example of vulnerable elections, she declared: “I think that Donald Trump has done more to undermine free elections in this country than certainly anyone in my lifetime, including [Russian President] Vladimir Putin.”

She added that Trump “has zero credibility on the issue of election integrity.”

In a prime-time address to the nation last week, Trump claimed nearly 250,000 non-citizens were registered to vote in California, New Jersey, Nevada, and Pennsylvania, with up to 35,152 wrongly enrolled in the Garden State.

Sherrill confirmed Tuesday she had received a letter from the Department of Homeland Security quoting that same figure and said that “we have asked them for any evidence of this, where they got that number, who this is. We’ve received nothing back yet.”

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Two weeks after the latest ceasefire collapsed, Donald Trump‘s handling of the Iran war continues to face broad public skepticism, pushing down his approval rating and leaving Americans with little hope it will end soon.

Only 32 percent of voters approve of the President’s handling of the war with Iran, and 49 percent believe he was wrong to launch military action that’s resulted in the deaths of 17 US troops, with over 100 injured, a Daily Mail/JL Partners poll shows.

Trump’s approval rating stands at 44 percent, slightly down from 47 percent in mid-June after a peace deal framework was announced.

The sit-down sent shockwaves around the world when it was aired on March 7, 2021, after the Duchess of Sussex claimed there had been ‘concerns’ within the Palace about the colour of their son Archie, while accusing The Firm of ‘perpetuating falsehoods about us’.

She highlighted the ‘sad irony’ of being ‘silent’ during her time as a royal, considering ‘I’ve always been outspoken about women’s rights‘, when Oprah asked Meghan: ‘Were you silent or were you silenced?’

‘The latter,’ the duchess replied, explaining how ‘everyone in my world was given a very clear directive, from the moment the world knew Harry and I were dating, to say “No comment”‘.

Five years later, Oprah told Vanity Fair she asked Meghan that because ‘I wanted to be clear’.

‘I wanted to be clear because…was she silenced? Were people telling her not to talk? That’s why I said that,’ the billionaire media mogul explained.

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The Democratic Party’s money problems have been an open secret for months. Federal Election Commission filings from around six months ago showed the Democratic National Committee entering the final stretch of last year with barely $12 million in its campaign account and nearly $16 million in debt, most of it stemming from a loan the committee took out the previous month. Donations had slumped just as the party needed them most.

Since then, the political environment has arguably been extremely beneficial for Democrats, with President Donald Trump’s low approval ratings, the war with Iran, and high gas prices. Any one of those should have been enough to give the party the momentum necessary to get them out of their financial slump. Now, instead of turning the financial picture around, the DNC appears to be doing something stranger: hiding it.

According to a report from Axios, DNC officials required senior leadership to sign non-disclosure agreements before a private meeting on the party’s finances, a departure from the committee’s usual practice. Two people familiar with the conversations said the DNC requested the NDAs ahead of the recent finance meeting. The DNC asked its officers, high-ranking members of chair Ken Martin’s own team, to sign the agreements, the kind of people who typically never sign confidentiality paperwork before sitting down to talk numbers.

The senior officers’ meeting took place on June 25, five days before the Supreme Court handed down a ruling that upended the rules governing how parties fund their candidates. The timing alone tells its own story about how the DNC is managing its message heading into a midterm cycle it can’t afford to fumble.

Martin has spent months fending off a quiet but persistent crisis of confidence among Democratic donors, operatives, and even members of his own committee, all of them watching the Republican National Committee build a fundraising advantage heading into the Nov. 3 midterms that keeps getting harder to explain away. The numbers through the end of May make the gap plain. The DNC held just under $15 million on hand against $18 million in debt, while the RNC sat on $125 million with no debt at all.

The DNC declined to comment on why it required only its officers to sign confidentiality agreements before the finance meeting, and they’re trying to pass it off as inconsequential. Chris Lowe, the committee’s national finance co-chair, claimed that requiring officers and board-meeting attendees to sign NDAs is standard practice in the corporate world. Lowe added that senior DNC staff already operate under confidentiality agreements and argued it would be poor practice to discuss finance and political strategy at the highest levels without them in place.

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Joe Biden opened the border and stuck you with the  hospital bill.

Now Chip Roy wants to know exactly how much it cost you.

And  hospitals that refuse to answer will lose their federal  healthcare funding entirely.

Washington Has Been Running a Cover-Up

For decades, American taxpayers have paid the bill for illegal alien healthcare – and Washington made sure you never knew how much it was.

No national data.

No federal reporting requirements.

Just crowded emergency rooms, exploding healthcare costs, and your insurance premiums going up every year while politicians told you illegal immigration was essentially free.

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Pete Hegseth cleaned house at the military academies.

Now a West Point Ranger is telling Congress it wasn’t enough.

And his blueprint just mapped out exactly how Democrats get it all back.

Donald Trump is preparing to unleash a fresh wave of tariffs on dozens of countries within days, brushing aside warnings from his own advisers that a renewed trade war could rattle the economy ahead of the midterms.

The President hammered Canada with a 50 percent levy on a sweep of goods on Monday, days after slapping 25 percent duties on Brazilian imports.

Now officials have drawn up options for Trump to hit dozens more nations as his blanket 10 percent global tariff is set to lapse on Friday, the Financial Times reports

Senior officials have privately urged the President to keep the peace with trading partners and honor the deals Washington cut in 2025 to bring their rates down, according to the FT.

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Former aides claim the 2024 Democratic presidential candidate could be a contender for the 2028 nomination

Multiple Democratic aides and strategists suggested Monday that former Vice President Kamala Harris is the “fairly obvious” frontrunner for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination.

New York Magazine’s Intelligencer spoke to several Harris aides regarding her potential chances if she chooses to enter the race after her defeat in the 2024 presidential election.

Despite her loss, some anonymous Democratic supporters believe, according to the report, that Harris has the upper hand over other party candidates based on her name recognition and recent public appearances.

“She walks in as the front-runner. It is fairly obvious she is followed wherever she goes,” one former aide said. “And I don’t want to upset any narratives that any of the other candidates are pushing, but she comes in with 99% name ID and everyone else is going to have to raise money and buy it.”

“She is looking for where the wave is going and is determined to ride it,” another supporter said. “Her mindset is that I should have won, and I am going to do it my way because my way would have won, and it was all these consultants that were telling me to take this position or that position, and it was their fault.”

Though some were concerned that Harris could be bogged down by her past support for the Biden administration and controversial viewpoints, others suggested that voters will be more forgiving of the former vice president after the second Trump administration.

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A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Monday denied former Joe Biden’s emergency motion for an injunction pending appeal that sought to block the Justice Department from releasing redacted transcripts and audio recordings of his private conversations with ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer.

The 2-1 order, in Heritage Foundation and Mike Howell v. United States Department of Justice, was signed by Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan (Obama appointee) and Judge Gregory Katsas (Trump appointee). Judge Florence Pan (Biden appointee) dissented and would have granted the injunction.

The materials at issue are hours of recordings and transcripts from 2016 and 2017 sessions in which Biden spoke with Zwonitzer while preparing his memoir Promise Me, Dad.

Special Counsel Robert Hur obtained the recordings during his investigation into Biden’s unauthorized retention and disclosure of classified documents.

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Salisbury, Md. — Wicomico County is celebrating another significant achievement in its long-term dredge management strategy as the Department of Public Works (DPW) has successfully completed Phase II of the County’s dredge material recovery and relocation program—delivering the project on time and on budget.

The milestone represents another major step in ensuring the continued maintenance and economic viability of the Port of Salisbury while advancing Wicomico County’s long-term vision for responsible dredge management and future beneficial reuse opportunities.
Following the successful completion of Phase I in November 2025, which included the recovery and relocation of more than 100,000 cubic yards of stored dredge material from the Sharp’s Point Dredge Management Facility, DPW continued building momentum. After prescribed burns and enhanced aerial survey work conducted in the spring of 2026 provided a clearer path for future maintenance dredging operations, the department launched Phase II under an accelerated schedule.

This week, DPW completed the recovery and relocation of an additional 110,000 cubic yards of dredge material to County-owned property immediately adjacent to the Roads Division and Solid Waste campus. The effort was made possible through close coordination with the County’s contractor, neighboring municipalities, and state and federal regulatory agencies.

“This is another example of Wicomico County taking a proactive approach to infrastructure and long-term planning,” said County Executive Julie Giordano. “Our Department of Public Works has demonstrated exceptional leadership and collaboration to ensure this project was completed efficiently and responsibly. By preparing the Sharp’s Point Dredge Management Facility for future dredging operations, we are protecting a critical economic asset while positioning our County for future opportunities.”

“The completion of Phase II marks a significant achievement for Wicomico County’s long-term dredge management strategy,” said Adam Corry, Deputy Director of Public Works. “This project required extensive planning, coordination, and collaboration with our contractor, neighboring municipalities, and regulatory agencies. By completing this work on time and within budget, we have successfully prepared the Sharp’s Point Dredge Management Facility for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ upcoming maintenance dredging while also strategically positioning dredge material for future beneficial reuse projects. It is a testament to the dedication of our team and the County’s commitment to thoughtful infrastructure planning.”

The completion of Phase II secures the County’s primary objective of creating more than 370,000 cubic yards of available capacity at the Sharp’s Point Dredge Management Facility, ensuring the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has the space necessary to conduct scheduled maintenance dredging operations this season. The project also strategically positions dredge material closer to future beneficial reuse projects, reducing transportation costs and improving logistical efficiency.

The County’s enhanced focus on dredge management over the past two years has established a sustainable framework for maintaining navigation channels while creating opportunities for future environmental and infrastructure projects. Through strategic planning, innovative partnerships, and disciplined project management, Wicomico County continues to make measurable progress toward protecting the region’s maritime infrastructure and supporting future economic growth.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a new program requiring annual testosterone screening for all U.S. service members over 30, with testosterone replacement therapy available to those diagnosed as deficient. Hegseth framed the initiative as a combat-readiness measure, not a performance-enhancement scheme, and Democrats immediately tried to turn it into a culture-war talking point.

Hegseth posted a video to X on Wednesday under the headline “The High-T Department of War,” laying out the program’s rationale in direct terms. Troops aged 30 and older will undergo testosterone testing as part of their existing periodic  health assessments. Service members under 30 can volunteer for the screening. Treatment, for those who qualify, remains entirely optional.

The policy sits at the intersection of military medicine and  political theater. On the substance, testosterone deficiency affects roughly 5.6 percent of men between 30 and 79 and can cause muscle loss, fatigue, weight gain, depression, cardiovascular disease, and osteoporosis, as The Hill has reported. On the politics, the announcement drew instant fire from congressional Democrats who compared it, without apparent irony, to “gender-affirming care.”

Hegseth’s case: warfighter health, not enhancement

Hegseth built his argument around a simple premise: the Pentagon invests billions in hardware but has neglected the biological foundation of the people who operate it.

“While we invest heavily in our weapon systems, platforms and gear, our most decisive tactical advantage will always be the individual warfighter.”

He tied the initiative directly to long-term force readiness, noting that testosterone levels naturally decline with age, a fact backed by mainstream endocrinology. The screening, he said, is about catching deficiencies early rather than waiting for symptoms to degrade performance.

“This initiative, it’s not about artificial enhancement; it’s about restoring and optimizing your natural capabilities, protecting your longevity, ensuring you have the biological foundation required to sustain and fight.”

That distinction matters. Testosterone replacement therapy for clinically diagnosed deficiency is a standard medical treatment prescribed by civilian physicians every day. Hegseth positioned the military program as extending the same standard of care to troops who might otherwise go undiagnosed.

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Vice President JD Vance sat down with podcaster Joe Rogan and delivered the bluntest public case yet against regime change in Iran, warning that toppling Tehran’s government would send 94 million desperate people streaming toward Europe and the United States, and hand  terrorist networks exactly the kind of failed-state chaos they need to rebuild.

The interview, published Wednesday on Fox News, also saw Vance take direct aim at hawkish Republicans he accused of trying to sabotage the administration’s diplomatic negotiations with Iran, and of deliberately lying about the terms of a memorandum of understanding that would channel $300 billion in Gulf-state investment into Iran.

The vice president did not name the hawks in question. He did not pull the punch, either.

Vance lays out the regime-change trap

Vance framed the argument in terms no foreign-policy realist could miss: the United States has run the regime-change experiment before, and the results are on the record. He pointed to Libya and Syria as twin case studies in what happens when Washington removes a government without a plan for what comes next.

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IRS leak was ‘attack on our constitutional democracy,’ with aim ‘to influence an election through illegal activity’

A federal appeals court is affirming a five-year prison sentence for Charles Littlejohn, a consultant to the IRS who leaked President Trump’s tax return information to the New York Times and tax information about thousands of the richest Americans including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffett to ProPublica.

The 16-page opinion by a three-judge panel—Justin Walker, Neomi Rao, and Judith Rogers—found that the sentence was reasonable. It offers a scathing narrative of Littlejohn’s behavior. At this writing, the decision hasn’t been reported in either the New York Times or ProPublica, which describes itself as “a nonprofit, investigative newsroom that exposes corruption.”

“In 2017, Charles Littlejohn obtained a job as a consultant to the Internal Revenue Service so that he could steal and leak the tax returns of President Donald Trump,” the opinion says. “Two years into his elaborate scheme, in 2019, Littlejohn gave President Trump’s tax return and return information to a reporter for the New York Times. He then helped the reporter analyze the data and leaked more tax returns and return information to supplement his original leak. Finally, just weeks before the 2020 presidential election, the New York Times began publishing articles based on what Littlejohn had stolen,” the opinion says.

It continues, “he used his ‘skills to systematically violate the privacy of thousands of innocent people’ by stealing the tax returns and return information of about 600 entities and about 7,600 of the wealthiest Americans. He then leaked what he stole to ProPublica, which used data regarding at least 152 of his victims in about 50 articles,” the opinion says. A company I owned was among those affected.

“As a result of Littlejohn’s crime, his victims lost business. They were disparaged countless times. And their families were physically threatened,” the opinion says. “To this day, ProPublica is sitting on the private, as-yet unpublished data of other taxpayers stolen by Littlejohn. But those taxpayers continue to fear that ProPublica will publish their data in the future.”

Littlejohn pleaded guilty in 2023 to one count of unlawfully disclosing tax information. Prosecutors asked for, and got, the maximum five-year prison sentence, a $5,000 fine, a $100 special assessment and three years of supervised release despite the guilty plea. That prompted Littlejohn’s appeal.

The appeals panel found, “his crime was politically motivated, at least in part because one of his motives was to change tax policy by (in Littlejohn’s words) showing ‘just how easy it was for the wealthiest among us to avoid paying into our system.’”

It also found, “his crime was an attack on a sitting president because he wanted to inform voters about (in his words) ‘the tax returns of the sitting president before they decided on how they were going to vote.’”

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ANNAPOLIS, MD – Governor Moore today toured the progress being made on the Francis Scott Key Bridge rebuild with members of the Maryland congressional delegation and other congressional leaders to highlight the critical importance of the bridge both to the State and to the entire nation. The governor was joined by Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and Chair of the House Appropriations Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Subcommittee Representative Steve Womack (R-AR-03), as well as Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), Representative Kweisi Mfume (D-MD-07), Representative Johnny Olszewski (D-MD-02), Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD-05)Representative Glenn Ivey (D-MD-04), and Former Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD).

“The Francis Scott Key Bridge was a vital economic engine and our commitment to rebuilding it is crucial to the continued prosperity of our nation,” said Gov. Moore. “Together with our federal and regional partners, we will rebuild this bridge as quickly, safely, and cost efficiently as possible to ensure that this vital corridor bounces back stronger for generations to come.”

The governor’s engagements today reflect the State’s ongoing commitment to restore the Francis Scott Key Bridge as the integral link between communities throughout the region and Maryland’s economy.

“I am grateful to Governor Moore and his administration for their transparency about the rebuilding of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and for inviting me to tour the site in-person today,” said Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV). “As Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, I look forward to continuing to partner with Governor Moore and the U.S. Department of Transportation to ensure that congressional funding is used effectively to reopen this critical pathway for people and goods across the region.”

“Proper oversight of the American taxpayer dollars being used to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge is a responsibility I do not take lightly,” said Housing and Urban Development Subcommittee Representative Steve Womack (R-AR-03). “This bridge is a vital artery for the movement of people and goods, and its success unlocks the full potential of commerce along our Eastern seaboard. As Chair of the House Appropriations Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Subcommittee, I am committed to working with President Trump, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, and Maryland Governor Wes Moore to ensure this project receives the necessary resources for a safe and efficient rebuild that will prevent a future catastrophe.”

“We’ve always known Team Maryland will fight to rebuild our Francis Scott Key Bridge, and we won’t rest until it’s done. We won’t rest because we’re doing it for all of Maryland: the six Marylanders that lost their lives that day, the brave Marylanders that dove into the frigid water during the rescue operation, and the strong Marylanders whose businesses and livelihoods were impacted by the collapse,” said Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD). “We’re also doing it for our regional and national economy and everyone who depends upon the Port of Baltimore, which supports our national agriculture and auto industries among many others. It is so exciting to see construction actively underway today. This project highlights what strong federal partnership can accomplish as we remain focused on ensuring taxpayer dollars are spent responsibly while delivering a safe, sustainable bridge.”

“The rebuilding of the Francis Scott Key Bridge represents what can be accomplished when leaders at every level of government come together with a shared purpose,” said Representative Kweisi Mfume (D-MD-07). “I am thankful for Governor Moore’s partnership and the unwavering commitment of our federal delegation to restore this critical transportation corridor as safely and as quickly as possible. This project is about restoring economic opportunity, strengthening our supply chain, and reaffirming our commitment to the workers, families, businesses, and communities that depend on the Port of Baltimore. Together, we are delivering on our promise to rebuild stronger than before.”

“Today’s tour underscored what we’ve known from the beginning: rebuilding the Key Bridge is not just a Maryland priority — it’s a national and bipartisan imperative,” said Representative Johnny Olszewski (D-MD-02). “We have to keep the momentum going and do everything possible to rebuild it as quickly, safely and cost-effectively as we can.”

“From day one, Team Maryland has worked together closely to ensure that the Key Bridge is rebuilt as safely, quickly, and cost-effectively as possible,” said Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD-05). “I thank Governor Moore and my colleagues for their efforts to ensure proper Congressional oversight for this critical project for Maryland and the nation.”

“The progress being made on the Francis Scott Key Bridge is a testament to what can be accomplished when federal, state, and local partners work together,” said Representative Glenn Ivey (D-MD-04). “As Congress continues to support this effort, we have a responsibility to work with Governor Moore to ensure taxpayer dollars are invested wisely and that this project moves forward safely, efficiently, and without delay. I look forward to continuing our partnership to rebuild this bridge and restore the critical connection that supports Maryland families, businesses, the Port of Baltimore, and our nation’s economy.”

“Thanks to Governor Moore’s leadership, Maryland is working around the clock to rebuild the Key Bridge,” said Maryland Transportation Secretary Katie Thomson. “We appreciated the opportunity to show our congressional partners the significant progress our teams are making as we continue to work together on this nationally significant project.”

“It was a pleasure to show our federal partners the ongoing construction of the bridge as we serve as good stewards of both federal funding and the settlement secured by the State through Attorney General Anthony Brown,” said Maryland Transportation Authority Executive Director Bruce Gartner. “The tour highlighted the tremendous scale of work underway across the Key Bridge Rebuild project, and our crews are making strong progress as we work to safely and efficiently reconnect our communities.”

The Francis Scott Key Bridge was a vital economic and transportation artery for the region, connecting thousands of Maryland commuters and commercial vehicles daily. Its critical function supported the Port of Baltimore, which generates an annual economic impact of more than $70 billion and links more than 273,000 jobs to its activities.

Immediately following the collapse of the bridge, state, local, and federal partners worked tirelessly to advance recovery operations. In only 78 days, the Unified Command removed more than 50,000 tons of debris from the Patapsco River to restore the Fort McHenry Federal Channel, welcoming back global shipping businesses and cruises and getting Marylanders back to work.

The recovery mission included the distribution of more than $42 million in emergency funding from State agencies to keep impacted businesses open and support affected workers in surrounding communities. The rapid response to the crisis—driven by more than 1,500 people from federal, state, and local agencies—allowed the rebuilding to start quickly, while jumpstarting the Port of Baltimore’s recovery.

Pre-construction activities for the rebuild began in January 2025, including detailed engineering tests that provided vital data points to inform design and construction decisions. The project’s test pile program—a critical process to ensure a sound foundation design—began in the fall of 2025 and reached completion ahead of schedule last month. January of this year marked the beginning of platform construction, which will allow supplies, construction personnel, and equipment to reach the pier sites more efficiently to accelerate the construction process.

It wrote on Instagram that the family ordered multiple dishes and appeared to enjoy a leisurely meal before carrying out their premeditated escape in stages.

The restaurant, which shared footage of the incident, alleged that staff only realized what had happened after the group had already left the premises, leaving servers scrambling to work out what had gone wrong.

In the clip, a man wearing a white vest is seen leading the group’s exit, handing another woman in the group car keys as she slips away before pulling up in the getaway car outside.

Moments later, he quickly follows behind with a young boy in tow.

The clip shows the rest of the group remaining at the table, eagerly helping themselves to the extensive spread before another woman and a young girl make their move towards the exit.

A family of seven were apparently caught on surveillance footage eating $300 worth of food before leaving without paying at @ The Diner in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday

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A new report from the State Financial Officers Foundation and Open the Books uncovered nearly 90 alleged fraud schemes involving roughly $225 million across American schools since 2019.

The report alleges that school districts have been embezzling funds, creating fake invoices and then pocketing the money, lying about student enrollment numbers to collect more aid, bid-rigging and receiving kickbacks.

The SFOF and Open the Books reviewed the U.S. Department of Education Office of Inspector General’s semiannual report to Congress between 2019 and 2026 — finding that fraud has taken place in 24 states and Puerto Rico.

“All fraud is harmful, but defrauding education dollars meant to help kids learn and succeed is especially hideous. The findings in this report should alarm every family, teacher, and civic leader, especially since they only scratch the surface of the problem,” SFOF CEO OJ Oleka said in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Indiana schools received $44 million more funding from the state than they should have by inflating their enrollment numbers between 2016 and 2018, according to the report. Indiana Virtual School and Indiana Virtual Pathways Academy faced fraud schemes from four individuals within the educational institution including the founders, a director of one school, the superintendents, and an operations manager.

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The Texas Public Utility Commission on Thursday unanimously approved rules that will require large computational loads, like data centers and crypto-mining facilities, within the Electric Reliability Council of Texas footprint to stay stable and connected to the grid through disruptions.

Modern computational loads, Kenteel Engineering said in a June blog, are “engineered to protect extremely sensitive and expensive equipment,” and during a voltage dip are programmed to disconnect or enter momentary cessation.

However, this presents a reliability problem, Kenteel Engineering said, as when “several hundred — or several thousand — megawatts of computational load all detect the same sag and drop simultaneously, the grid experiences a sudden, large loss of demand.”

“As LCLs increase on the ERCOT System, similar events would be expected to increase in magnitude and frequency, leading to frequency instability and other reliability problems absent frequency and voltage ride-through requirements,” the Texas PUC rules state.

The rules don’t immediately penalize facilities that fail to ride through a qualifying event, Kenteel Engineering noted, but instead put them “on the clock” to investigate and report the root cause within 90 days of ERCOT’s request, “develop a corrective plan within 90 days of completing that investigation, and implement the approved plan within 180 days unless ERCOT grants more time.”

“Overriding all of that, if ERCOT judges that continued operation poses an imminent risk to local or system reliability, it can order the [large electric load] — and keep it disconnected — until the Customer demonstrates compliance to ERCOT’s satisfaction,” Kenteel Engineering said.

In comments, the Data Center Coalition argued that the PUC lacks the statutory authority to “impose the binding and ongoing operational requirements contained in [the rules] directly on retail customers — a category of entity that the Legislature deliberately excluded from ERCOT’s authority.”

Texas Industrial Energy Consumers made similar comments, writing, “Unlike Market Participants who must agree to comply with and be bound by all ERCOT Protocols as a condition of participating in the wholesale market, pure retail loads have made no such commitment and have no such obligation.”

TIEC also argued that ERCOT lacks the expertise to “develop reasonable operational requirements for complex, costly manufacturing equipment. It is completely inappropriate to give ERCOT the ability to directly regulate businesses who are not participating in the wholesale market and are not otherwise regulated entities.”

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As Republicans expose fraud in the tens of billions in Medicaid and other welfare programs, Democrats’ response is to . . . duck.

They made it glaringly obvious last week as Sen. Rand Paul chaired a Senate Homeland Security Committee meeting: Nearly all the panel’s Dem members were total no-shows; only Sen. Gary Peters attended at all, and only long enough to ask a few questions before heading for the door.

The hearing actually covered two very different fraud topics:

• Independent journalist Nick Shirley reviewed his welfare-fraud discoveries, including blatant abuses of Medicaid by New York adult day cares.

• Undercover-video specialist James O’Keefe testified about his recordings uncovering voter bribery on LA’s Skid Row.

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Here is a BRILLIANT video created by American Nightmare on X.

The video collage includes dozens of Democrats claiming the 2016 election was stolen – many blame this on Russia, Russia, Russia.

They all knew it was a lie but pushed this wicked narrative anyway.

America suffered for years as Democrats and the fake news pushed this nonsense on the American people.

Notice that these are the same liars that downplayed the 2020 election fraud.

These are the same liars that are sooo worried about the truth coming out that they refused to air President Trump’s speech on their channels.

What horrible people.

As seen first at The War Room.

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A blue-haired socialist activist who goes by the name “Doomsday” just got absolutely obliterated on camera by financial content creator Caleb Hammer.

The 25-year-old from South Dakota, who identifies as a member of the “queer community” and says her name was given to her by her “chosen family,” sits there spewing the usual leftist talking points about how Americans are forced to work multiple jobs just to survive under evil capitalism.

There’s just one problem: she works in corporate finance while claiming to hate the system that pays her.

According to the episode, “Doomsday” works in corporate finance connected to stadiums, earns approximately $60,000 annually, lives in a converted ambulance, and was carrying significant consumer debt while advocating against capitalism.

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President Donald Trump dropped a major bombshell on Truth Social Sunday night, revealing that the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has been caught publishing fraudulent, biased, and misleading “scientific” manuals on climate change that federal judges relied upon to greenlight massive climate cases.

For years, everyday Americans have been forced to sit back and watch as radical left-wing activists, rogue activist judges, and entrenched bureaucrats used junk science to destroy energy independence, cripple domestic manufacturing, and force the fraudulent “Green New Scam” down our throats.

These bogus manuals, Trump announced, have created huge losses across our country. He is now ordering Federal Suspension and Debarment Officials to review the conduct. Taxpayers will no longer fund this climate fraud, and judges will no longer be allowed to treat political propaganda as science.

Trump wrote:

“The National Academy of Sciences has historically published analytical Scientific Manuals expressly for our Federal Judiciary. Of course, the Academy has been run by Radical Left Dumocrats who, it turns out, published fraudulent, biased, and misleading Manuals on Climate Change.

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President Trump brought up the MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN 2020 coordinated election fraud scheme – buried by Biden admin – during his address to the country on Thursday.

This massive ballot registration scandal was first reported by The Gateway Pundit in August 2023 thanks to Michigan activists who tipped us off to this massive voter registration scandal.

The Gateway Pundit showed that a left-wing outfit named GBI Strategies, that was funded by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign, was attempting to fraudulently register up to 10,000 voters in a city with only 30,000 eligible voters.

The report on systemic voter fraud in the 2020 election has never been refuted or debunked; it was simply ignored and suppressed by legacy media. The blithe answer from Michigan’s corrupt far-left Attorney General is that they ‘referred it to the FBI.‘

There’s an increasingly open and unapologetic brand of racism coming out of South Africa targeting white people, and it’s being espoused by prominent cultural figures.

In February 2025, South African rapper, music producer, and commentator Nota Baloyi made an appearance on “The Hustler’s Corner Podcast” with host DJ Sbu. The duo discussed a number of topics, including rapper Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show performance and other rappers like Ye and Drake.

Just over the halfway mark of the episode, Baloyi went into a bizarre racist and pseudoscientific rant about the inferiority of the white race.

“The problem that South Africans have right now is that we don’t understand white people. White people are [an] inferior species to us. We are Homo sapiens. They’ve got Neanderthal blood in them.

“This is the science, and this is not science that was done by black people. It was done by them,” he told Sbu.

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A 29-year-old Turkish migrant living in Germany refused to sit next to a woman on a flight because of Sharia law, then punched or slapped the female flight attendant who dared to confront him.

According to BILD, the suspect was arrested after the June 1 flight landed in Düsseldorf.

Police say witnesses told investigators the man refused to remain in his assigned seat because it was next to a woman, claiming his actions were based on Sharia law.

When a female flight attendant approached him in an effort to defuse the situation, the passenger allegedly punched or slapped her in the face, according to police.

German Federal Police took the suspect into custody immediately after the aircraft landed. Authorities say he later admitted to assaulting the flight attendant during questioning.

The incident reportedly escalated further during police questioning when the suspect allegedly insulted officers in Turkish, apparently unaware that one of the federal officers understood the language. He now faces charges related to both the alleged assault and insulting law enforcement officers.

Sharia law has zero legal standing in Germany. Yet this migrant felt entitled to impose it mid-flight and then attack a woman who wouldn’t accommodate his demands.

The New York Times is at it again, pushing anonymous-sourced garbage designed to smear the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement and protect those who attack federal officers.

According to the Times, federal agents around the country were supposedly told in recent days that the FBI would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents, cases that “sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute DHS agents implicated in violent encounters.”

According to the news outlet:

If enacted, such a change would sharply limit law enforcement scrutiny of immigration agents, as the Trump administration draws mounting criticism over killings at the hands of federal officers. In the last two weeks, two fatal shootings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Texas and Maine have thrust the government’s tactics back into the spotlight.

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The FDNY has now confirmed what many suspected from the start: the massive fire that gutted the historic South Bushwick Reform Church in Brooklyn was intentionally set. The 1853 landmark, a Greek Revival structure that served generations of worshippers as both a house of faith and a community hub, is a total loss, and it will be completely torn down.

CBS New York reported the determination this week. Pastor James E. Steward II made clear the congregation never saw it coming.

“It was more than just a building. It’s lives and generations of lives that have been touched,” Steward said. “We have no known enemies.”

He added: “Now we understand it is intentional, which brings another layer of grief to myself, as well as the congregation and the community.” And: “Whoever is responsible for this ultimately has to answer to God.”

No arrests have been made. Investigators previously noted a person of interest seen fleeing the scene on video shortly before the June 19 blaze erupted. The three-alarm fire brought down the steeple and left the wooden structure irreparable in the eyes of city officials.

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A Massachusetts woman was sentenced earlier this week in federal court in Worcester for fraudulently receiving Social Security disability benefits for 10 years.

Michelle M. DiSalvo, 53, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Margaret R. Guzman to one day of prison deemed served, three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $100,080 in restitution.

In March 2026, DiSalvo pleaded guilty to one count of receipt of stolen government money or property; one count of Social Security fraud; and one count of false statements. DiSalvo was charged in February 2026.

In 2001, DiSalvo began receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability benefits from the Social Security Administration (SSA). Eligibility for SSI is based, in part, on the applicant having limited income and resources. In assessing a married individual’s eligibility for SSI, the income and resources of the applicant’s spouse are considered if they live together.

If an applicant is awarded SSI, they have a continuing obligation to notify SSA of any changes in their marital status, living arrangements, and household income and resources.

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The newest update from Cook Political Report is here, and it shows a clear pathway to victory for Republicans to maintain control of the House of Representatives as we head into the November midterm election season.

The July 16 report shows that Republicans are likely to come away with 212 seats, and have classified a further 18 as “tossups.” 14 of those tossup seats are either currently held by a Republican incumbent or are now open seats that were previously held by a Republican.

Both Democrats and Republicans are campaigning hard to control these seats, with some of the most heavily-watched House bouts appearing on the list. Notable races include Colorado’s 8th District held by Republican Gabe Evans, Wisconsin’s 3rd District held by Republican Derri

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The backlash against the AI data-center build-out – which we’ve been tracking since it was a smattering of county fights across 28 states – staged its first coordinated day of action on Saturday: 142 protests across 42 states, from Wasilla, Alaska to Naples, Florida, organized by Humans First, the nonprofit that Tea Party veteran Amy Kremer co-founded and chairs. The crowds spanned both sides of the aisle…uniting a MAGA stalwart in a ‘faith, family, freedom’ T-shirt in New Jersey, a first-time activist in Texas, and a left-leaning organizer in California’s Imperial Valley.

The fight looked like Kenilworth, New Jersey. Residents of the 8,500-person borough gathered outside the municipal court at mid-morning with drums, plastic horns, and sidewalk chalk to protest the $1.8 billion CoreWeave AI data center their planning board approved in May 2025 on the former Merck campus – a project that has since drawn more than 12,000 petition signatures against it, several thousand more names than the town has people. The woman in the “faith, family, freedom” T-shirt marched beside neighbors holding “Build community, not data centers” signs. When heavy rain arrived later in the day, they pulled on ponchos, shared umbrellas, and kept marching. One sign, caught by Business Insider’s photographer on the scene: “You think this is pressure? Wait ’til there’s no water pressure.”

Texas, the country’s hottest data-center market, hosted the most rallies – 18 – with Georgia at 11, California at eight, and Pennsylvania, Florida, and Indiana at seven apiece. In Imperial Valley, where a proposed facility could pull 260 million gallons a year from the Colorado River, Ivan DelSol, 54, told Reuters that around 50 people turned out in 100-degree heat. “It’s dystopian that you would use this much fresh water for AI,” he said. Organizers released no headcounts; turnout ran below expectations in some rural areas and in Atlanta, where about a dozen showed – most of them, a volunteer there said, driving in from the smaller Georgia towns where the biggest data centers are going up.

Kremer is a founding figure of the Tea Party movement who went on to found Women for Trump, and an organizer of the January 6, 2021 rally that preceded the Capitol riot (she neither planned nor took part in the riot itself). She has spent months calling data centers the defining fight of her lifetime, warning the technology could threaten humanity itself, and she is open about running the old playbook: grassroots pressure, town by town, aimed at both parties.

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Investigators trace Legionella bacteria to dozens of cooling towers, including the Guggenheim Museu

New York City health officials announced Saturday that a second person has died in connection with a growing Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on Manhattan’s Upper East Side as the number of confirmed infections continued to rise.

“We are heartbroken to learn that another New Yorker has lost their life to Legionnaires’ disease on the Upper East Side. Our deepest condolences are with their loved ones as they grieve,” New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Alister F. Martin said in a statement.

“While we mourn this loss, the data are also encouraging,” Martin continued. “Our aggressive strategy of testing, enforcement, and remediation appears to have stopped the source of exposure.”

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