Family members revealed the relationship between the teenager and the elderly couple he’s accused of killing

A teenager in Mississippi knew the elderly couple he’s accused of killing before sparking a standoff with law enforcement, according to new testimony in court.

Cordarius Hobbs, 17, is charged with killing 74-year-old Billy Blair and his 71-year-old wife Virginia Carol Blair during a home break-in on June 3 in Mendenhall, Mississippi. Family members of Hobbs testified during the Thursday preliminary hearing that he knew the couple.

Family members testified that Hobbs did work for the Blairs for things like cleaning around the house before the alleged shooting, according to WAPT. Billy Newsome, Hobbs’ grandfather, said he believes his grandson was called to work on the day of the alleged shooting but believes he’s innocent.

“My grandson used to work for the man, why you gone rob a man that you work for,” Newsome said. “Why you gone stay there that long and you know the police out there, and then you gone wait until everybody gets there to run, it just ain’t adding up, something just ain’t right here.”

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The largest US power grid failed for a third straight year to secure enough future supply commitments to ensure reliability for the future amid a historic boom in data center demand.

PJM Interconnection, the largest US power grid (Regional Transmission Organization), which serves 67 million customers in 13 states and Washington, DC, said its auction to procure power for the year starting June 2028 fell 6.8 gigawatts short of what it will need to guarantee system reliability during demand spikes, in a statement released Tuesday. The shortfall is equivalent to almost seven traditional nuclear reactors.

The result ramps up pressure on a grid that’s home to Virginia’s Data Center Alley, the biggest concentration of data centers in the US, and has borne the brunt of criticism for the struggle to manage the AI boom and sufficiently protect customers from soaring costs. Attention now shifts to an emergency procurement mechanism later this year that aims to shift the burden of ramping up power generation to hyperscalers.

6.831 Megawatt Shortfall

PJM Interconnection today announced the results of its 2028/2029 Base Residual Auction (BRA), which secured 138,318 MW of unforced capacity generation (UCAP) and demand response to meet projected electricity needs for the more than 67 million people across 13 states and the District of Columbia, which fall under the RTO’s umbrella.

Regions under the Fixed Resource Requirement (FRR) acquired an additional 10,864 MW in UCAP, for a total of 149,182 MW in UCAP available to serve forecasted peak electricity demand, plus a reserve margin. UCAP represents a generation resource’s maximum output adjusted for its estimated ability to reliably perform at times of highest system risk. The capacity of the resources procured in the auction, plus FRR resources, is short of PJM’s reliability requirement by 6,831 MW, meaning that the committed supply is less than what would be required to meet the one-event-in-10-year reliability standard (and with electricity-guzzling data centers popping up almost daily these days, the one-event-in-10-year has become a daily occurrence).

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From 1926 through 2025, just 27.6% of stocks beat the broader market. Nearly 60% actually destroyed shareholder wealth, and the median stock delivered a lifetime return of -6.9%. Yet despite those sobering odds, U.S. stocks collectively created roughly $91 trillion in wealth over the last century, with just 46 companies responsible for half of it.

Those are some of the headline findings from a new study by Hendrik Bessembinder of Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business, who examined the performance of nearly 30,000 U.S. stocks over the last century. The research paints a striking picture of how wealth is actually created in the stock market: while broad market indexes have generated exceptional long-term returns, the vast majority of individual stocks have failed to keep pace.

Bessembinder analyzed 29,754 publicly traded U.S. stocks between 1926 and 2025. Over that period, the overall stock market produced an annualized return of about 10.1%, turning every dollar invested into more than $15,000, according to the study, detailed in this white paper.

But those impressive aggregate returns mask an uncomfortable reality. The typical stock fared far worse. In fact, the median stock lost 6.9% over its lifetime, fewer than half of all stocks generated a positive lifetime return, only about 41% outperformed Treasury bills during the time they were publicly traded, and just 27.6% managed to outperform the market itself.

The reason is simple: stock market returns are incredibly uneven. While any stock can fall to zero, there is effectively no limit to how much a winner can rise. Over long periods, a tiny number of extraordinary companies generate gains so large that they more than offset the thousands of stocks that stagnate, disappoint, or disappear altogether. Those rare winners account for an outsized share of the market’s overall success.

Perhaps the most surprising finding is that this concentration has become even more extreme. In Bessembinder’s original research covering 1926 through 2016, 89 companies accounted for half of all shareholder wealth created by the U.S. stock market. After adding the last nine years of data, total wealth creation more than doubled to roughly $91 trillion, yet the number of companies responsible for half of it fell to just 46.

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IRGC: Iran to ‘Control Entire Strait in Wartime’

Amid ongoing cross-Gulf attacks today between Iranian and US forces, the IRGC says they targeted enemy weapons and parts storages in Bahrain and Kuwait. This after the US appeared to attack some critical Iranian infrastructure on coastal islands.

The IRGC has issued a fresh statement via state media on Tuesday, saying that “as long as the US evil stays in the region, not a drop of oil and gas will be exported from the region.” It said further, per the press release:

• US aggression will have no result other than delaying the opening of the Strait of Hormuz.
• Targeted drone ramp in Kuwait’s Ali Al Salem air base; today’s attacks in response to US attacks on Iran.

ABC is meanwhile reporting during the mid-afternoon (US time) that American airstrikes on Iran have been underway for the last couple of course. And yet still, Iran’s IRIB has said that the Islamic Republic “must control the entire Hormuz Strait in wartime”.

The region is being plunged back into full-fledged war, also as fighting between the Saudis and Houthis in Yemen appears to be breaking out.

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A Florida judge sentenced a young man to 45 years behind bars for his role in the fatal tire iron beating of a man in 2022 while he was on probation.

Judge Elizabeth Jack threw the book at Savonne Morrison, 21, for his part in the heinous killing of Jeffrey Chapman, 49, in Clearwater.

Morrison was just 18 at the time of Chapman’s killing and was four months into probation for a carjacking when the murder took place.

According to the Tampa Bay Times, Morrison was slapped with the large sentence in court on Monday after a lengthy hearing.

Morrison’s mother and father addressed the court via letters during the hearing, WFLAreported, with his father saying that his son was misunderstood.

‘Throughout this case, it has been heartbreaking to watch my son be portrayed as someone that he is not’, his father said.

Chapman was killed after Morrison was contacted by his friend Jermaine Bennett, who asked Morrison to help him beat up his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend.

Morrison and Bennett failed to track their intended victim down, then binged on booze and cocaine as they drove around St. Petersburg.

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Whenever big data center developers roll into town, their pitch ends up sounding something like this: hand over your land and your resources, throw in a decade of government subsidies, and we’ll give your ailing little burg some jobs, tax revenue, and a shiny new facility to boost the local economy.

Sounds like a no-brainer, right? Not so fast, cowboy.

In theory, more tax revenue means money for schools, roads, and first responders. In practice, states and counties are waving those taxes in order to entice tech companies to set up shop — while existing campuses put major strain on local communities. One analysis found that Georgia, Virginia, and Texas each lose over $1 billion a year to state data center incentives, while at least fourteen states don’t even disclose data center tax breaks in the first place.

The down-stream impacts don’t really materialize either. Researchers at Georgia Tech found that in rural areas, data centers typically employ fewer than 100 permanent workers and are likely to import specialized services from outside the community.

While this can temporarily boost unemployment numbers, any broader, long-term impacts are not guaranteed and are highly dependent on local conditions. As the Georgia Tech researchers explain, “the sweeping job and wage growth often promised during local recruitment efforts is unlikely to arrive on its own.”

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No palace intrigue. No political favors. No more Giordano-style politics.

No palace intrigue. No political favors. No more Giordano-style politics.

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I just brought on hundreds of mint condition rock albums, (this is just a small sample) to the Route 346 Emporium 32993 Old Ocean City Road Parsonsburg, MD. 21849.

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South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster announced Monday that he will appoint the late Senator Lindsey Graham’s sister, Darline Graham Nordone, to temporarily represent the state in the United States Senate.

The announcement came shortly after President Donald Trump publicly called on McMaster to select Nordone as a tribute to Graham, who passed away unexpectedly over the weekend at the age of 71.

“I recommended, to Governor Henry McMaster, Lindsey Graham’s wonderful sister, Darline, to serve as interim Senator from the Great State of South Carolina,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “This would be a fabulous tribute to Lindsey, who loved her dearly!”

McMaster accepted the president’s recommendation and selected Nordone to serve through the conclusion of Graham’s current term in January.

Nordone is expected to be sworn into office Wednesday. The appointment carries enormous personal significance.

After Graham’s mother and father died within approximately 15 months of one another, the future senator assumed responsibility for raising his younger sister. Graham became Nordone’s legal guardian while she was still a teenager, and the siblings remained exceptionally close throughout his life.

Free-market competition is, and always has been, the great driver of optimal outcomes for consumers. Judge Robert Bork argued for a consumer welfare standard to examine business behavior in his book “The Antitrust Paradox.” Bork argues that antitrust regulators should focus on the impact that corporate behavior is having on consumers rather than protecting obsolete business models.

Recently, Rep. Ben Cline urged the Federal Trade Commission to investigate online real estate platforms for alleged misconduct that harms homebuyers. His letter outlines the kind of action that consumers and conservatives should rally around.

Cline asks regulators to consider two areas of concern in the online real estate market: First, deceptive referral tools that direct buyers to affiliated agents, and, second, financing options that steer buyers toward lenders that pay the platforms a kickback. I agree with Cline that we should be wary of companies becoming so dominant that consumer welfare is harmed.

Without naming names, Cline’s letter draws attention to Zillow, the largest online real estate broker. The platform’s “contact agent” feature, the letter notes, connects users with agents who pay Zillow, rather than the selling agent, for priority status. This online feature increases commission fees for buyers.

Likewise, the site allegedly encourages agents to push buyers to its mortgage lending division, in return for a steady stream of leads. Zillow does not charge agents for the leads but does take a cut of commissions that result from them — as much as 40%, according to another lawsuit filed against the real estate leader late last year.

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Decades of broken promises prove diplomacy cannot succeed while the current regime remains in power.

One has to wonder why President Trump is still negotiating with Iran. Mr. Trump has said that the cease-fire is over because Iran is still launching missiles and drones against our bases in Qatar, Bahrain, and Jordan and shooting at ships in the Strait of Hormuz. We have undertaken several nights of air raids against Iran, hitting dozens of military targets. But he has agreed with the Iranians that negotiations toward a peace deal will continue.

Why?

The regime in Tehran has threatened to assassinate Mr. Trump which is the rough equivalent of a declaration of war. Wars throughout history — including World War One — were started (or widened) by such assassinations.

We cannot take those threats lightly as evidenced by the fact that the president returned from the recent NATO meeting not aboard the fancy new Air Force One that the Qataris gave him but an older aircraft which had better missile defenses aboard. Mr. Trump’s aircraft should never go anywhere without fighter escorts.

The Tehran regime is expert at stalling negotiations and then ignoring the result. They want to drag out negotiations as long as they can, then agree to some deal that they have no intention of abiding by. It’s what they do as the past 47 years have proved beyond doubt.

Many famous people are misquoted regularly. In the case of Albert Einstein, perhaps the most famous misquote that’s attributed to him is his definition of insanity.

Mr. Einstein purportedly said, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” There’s no evidence that he actually said or wrote that, but it’s still called his theory of insanity.

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I watched the New York Pride Parade on livestream. The parade is a major event in NYC, attended by well over a million people. Today, 11 years after Obergefell v. Hodges legalized same-sex marriage, the movement that once celebrated equality alongside most Democrats looks very different. The near-complete embrace of trans rights as seen in the parade, especially as it affects children, is likely to harm the Democratic Party in coming elections. (FYI, I’ll use the word “gay” as shorthand here for the various constructions, the most complete of which is the unhandy LGBTQQIP2SAA+.)

One of the most noticeable changes in the Pride Parade was the replacement of the once-ubiquitous rainbow flag with the “trans flag,” adding pink, brown, white, and black. Trans people were present in large numbers, had their own floats, and were noticeably name-checked by most of the speakers and signs I saw.

As in years before, Democratic politicians were also quite visible. But this year the senior pol, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), was booed. Some in the crowd turned their backs on him, and when the parade paused, they shouted out about how he did not support trans rights. Chuck yelled back he was the first major politician to ever attend a Pride Parade, back in the ’90s. Meanwhile, the all-in, modern trans-supporter Mayor Zohran Mamdani got some of the biggest applause of the day.

In Gallup polls from 1996 only about a third of Americans supported same-sex marriage. But by the mid-2010s, the figure had flipped and remained about two-thirds into the 2020s. This change culminated in the 2015 Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. In 2024 the Republican Party even removed opposition to marriage equality from its platform. Importantly, the Court ruling followed—not preceded—the broader cultural shift.

The emphasis that led to acceptance of gay rights was driven by several factors, key among which was the emphasis on marriage involving consenting adults, many of whom were already cohabitating in various statuses. Advocacy focused on the universal human rights already part of American law and society, such as the right to work, to own property jointly, and so on—nothing more than asking people to accept someone else’s private life. It did not include sexual “rights” for children.

Then something happened concurrent with the first election of Donald Trump. While it once was sufficient to support basic rights, the Pride Parade started to include overt anti-Trump messages. Signs started to read “Trans rights are human rights,” and the new flag was debuted. Far from “celebrating victory, defending the gains, and staying vigilant while winding down as a movement that had achieved its core objectives,” many gay groups did the opposite. They radicalized.

Democrats increasingly viewed gay activism as an important component of their electoral coalition. The letter Q and the term “queer” came to symbolize the idea that one’s sexuality was a political act. In the 2016 presidential election, gay voters embraced Hillary Clinton, promoting irrational fears as bizarre as Trump endorsing imprisoning gays in concentration camps. This voting pattern reflected a broader social shift, where identity-based politics became increasingly central to how one voted. The Democrats took full advantage of this, fanning the flames further in the next election cycle with careful allotments by gender identity (as well as race, disability, etc.) throughout the Biden administration, especially in the military.

The move from basic rights to gender identity made things much more complex as Trump took office a second time.

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emocrats have many problems, not the least of which is an inability to understand, and for some the refusal to accept, basic economics. If they did, there wouldn’t be proposals to raise the federal minimum wage to a preposterous $25 an hour.

House Resolution 8555 would “place the federal minimum wage on a durable path toward a living wage,” requiring “large, highly profitable corporations to lead the transition.” Under its yoke, large employers would have to raise their lowest wage from the current $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour on Jan. 1, 2027, a more-than-double spike that would shock the market.

Large companies, defined as those with annual gross revenues in excess of $1 billion (there are more than 6,000 of them) or with 500 or more employees nationwide, will have to ramp up their minimum wage every Jan. 1 thereafter until the minimum hits $25 an hour on Jan. 1, 2031. Smaller companies will have to boost their hourly minimum to $14 next New Year’s Day and will have to meet the $25-an-hour standard by 2038.

“We can afford it,” declares Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy, who late last month introduced a similar bill in the Senate. “It’s not like we can’t pay a $25 minimum wage, we just choose not to because we’ve become okay with dozens and dozens of people in this country making hundreds of billions of dollars.”

Who is “we,” Senator? Which company do you own? Which business did you start that will fall under the government’s wage boot? When was the last time you had to meet a company payroll? Anyone who would say “we” in this context is definitionally low-minded.

Minimum-wage hikes are a combination of economic tyranny (there is no moral authority for lawmakers to tell private businesses how much they have to pay their workers, so they simply delegated the power to themselves) and economic lunacy.

Raising the cost of anything, including labor, will lower demand, and in the case of a government-mandated minimum wage, that would be the demand for workers in the private sector.

In late 2023, the Congressional Budget Office said if the Raise the Wage Act of 2023 were passed and the federal minimum wage were increased in yearly increments to $17 per hour by July 2029 — just 18 months before the $25-an-hour wage floor of HR 8555 would kick in — there would be blood.

“Employment would be reduced because employers would respond by reducing their workforces,” says the CBO. “As a result, 0.7 million additional workers (or 0.4% of the overall workforce) would be jobless.”

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If states are responsible for running SNAP, they should be responsible for getting it right. Accountability isn’t a cut—it’s common sense.

or sixty years, the food stamp program has operated under an arrangement no family and no business would ever accept: one level of government runs the program, and another level of government pays for it. States sign people up, calculate benefits, and process the paperwork while federal taxpayers cover the bill. When the people writing the checks and the people doing the work are in different buildings, nobody watches the register.

The results are exactly what you’d expect. In fiscal year 2024, the federal government spent roughly $100 billion on SNAP, and at least $10.5 billion of it was lost to improper payments, according to the Government Accountability Office. That’s at least one dollar out of every nine going out the door in the wrong amount, to the wrong people, or both. Year after year, the error rates barely move because for the states responsible for them, errors are free.

This lack of accountability is what feeds the fraud we’ve seen in states like Minnesota, where fraudsters stole as much as $9 billion in taxpayer money while state officials either neglected to do their job or turned a blind eye. Some of the money may have even ended up in the pockets of terrorist groups like al-Shabaab. As the inspector general responsible for investigating the SNAP program recently testified to Congress, “Proceeds of SNAP fraud have gone to individuals linked to terrorist groups, foreign adversary nations, and transnational criminal organizations.”

President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act finally fixed the incentive by requiring states with payment error rates of 6 percent or higher to pay 5 to 15 percent of benefit costs, and every state will cover a larger share of administrative expenses. For the first time since the program was introduced, a state that tolerates sloppy rolls will feel it in its own budget. Senate Agriculture Chairman John Boozman, describing why the provision exists, put it plainly: “It is clear that improvements were needed to ensure SNAP is administered as intended to support those truly in need while protecting taxpayer dollars.”

And here is the remarkable part: the reform is working before a single dollar changes hands. Because the 2028 cost share is calculated from each state’s error rate in fiscal year 2025 or 2026, the measurement window is open right now. States that spent decades shrugging at their error rates are suddenly tightening income verification, cleaning ineligible recipients off their rolls, and investigating why errors happen. That is the mechanism doing exactly what it was designed to do.

So naturally, Washington wants to kill it.

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One of the most enduring creations of the English language is the Declaration of Independence, posted on July 4, 1776.  It is a polemic masterpiece justifying revolution.  “A candid world”  is informed that the “political bands” uniting America and England are “dissolved” due to a “history of repeated injuries and usurpations” that were evidence of “an absolute tyranny.”  The great legacy of the American Revolution is the recognition of rights: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”  Protection of these rights is the essence and purpose of American government.  At least it should be.

Liberty is embodied in the First Amendment of the Constitution which ensures freedom of religion, speech, and the press, peaceful assembly, and the right of the people to petition their government to voice their grievances.  Americans are free to acquire and disseminate knowledge, establish facts, and develop ideas so they may freely pursue the life they choose.

This stands in contrast to the socialist movement, which can trace its roots to the French Revolution.  The motto of France, “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité” (liberty, equality, fraternity), exhibits a similar sentiment, but the concept of fraternity, or brotherhood, doesn’t exist in the Declaration.  There is significant tension between the competing ideas.  American government was established to protect individual liberty, not the brotherhood of man.

Socialism is a complex construct.  Karl Marx and a litany of disciples and acolytes devoted countless hours to propagate millions of pages of confusing propositions, instructions, manifestos, plans, and propaganda to support a theory that has meant many things to many people.  The foundation, which is to say the shifting sand, of Marxism is the theories of dialectical materialism and historical materialism.  The simplified premise is that human history is the result of the struggles of people obtaining and consuming material.  History is an evolutionary progression of primitive communism, slavery, feudalism, capitalism, socialism, all culminating in utopian communism.  Marx predicted that humanity’s struggles would cease when society operated according to his communist credo: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”

From time to time, there is confusion regarding the words socialism and communism.  Communism is associated with the dictators of Soviet Russia or China, whereas socialism is perceived as a kinder socioeconomic scheme.  Don’t be fooled.  Socialism and communism are different sides of the same coin.  According to Marx, communism is the utopian conclusion of the human struggle for material.  It has never been achieved.  Nations that branded themselves as communist, like the Soviet Union, China, and numerous other socialist experiments, are examples of the failures of socialism.

For those who consider China a successful communist state, consider for a moment its sordid history.  Chairman Mao envisioned China as an agrarian society.  China, like Soviet Russia, collectivized agriculture, with the predictable result of famine and the starvation of at least forty-five million people.  Mao, like Stalin, insisted on purity of thought and unleashed the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) to ensure that his policies were accepted.  Anyone who objected was “rehabilitated” or murdered.  The path to communism is stained with blood, imprisonment, and misery.

China changed direction in 1982 under Deng Xiaoping.  China had emerged from its revolution as a feudal state determined to make the “great leap forward” to communist utopia, only to achieve failure and the death of millions of its citizens.  To alleviate these failures, Deng injected capitalism into China’s economy by offering cheap labor for Western capital.  Private property was allowed, huge apartment buildings were constructed, factories were assembled, and modern industrial process were delivered to the country by Western manufacturers.  The result has been the success that only capitalism can provide, masked with the purity of thought that socialism demands.  The Chinese people are better off financially but are denied the blessings of liberty.

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CNN issued an on-air correction Thursday morning after featuring a satirical quote from a parody social media account the day before.“CNN This Morning” host Audie Cornish admitted to the mistake about 24 hours after her show’s previous episode showed part of a Tuesday X post from Jack Kimble, an account on the platform parodying a U.S. congressman. The quote was shown alongside statements from spokespersons for top Senate Republicans and conservative commentator Scott Jennings.

“Yesterday on the show, we displayed quotes from some Republicans about [Republican Kentucky] Senator Mitch McConnell’s stay in the Hospital,” Cornish said. “One of them was mistakenly taken from a parody account on Twitter.”

“Obviously, we should not have done that, and we regret the error,” she said.

The parody post aired on-screen Wednesday during a segment about 84-year-old McConnell’s current health situation.

“I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 45 minutes,” read Jack Kimble’s parody post featured on the Wednesday morning segment.

The stunning transformation of Great Britain in recent years – from a beacon of decorum and stiff upper lips to a cautionary tale of wokeness run amok – has been blamed on everything from socialism to satanism.

However, Rupert Lowe, a member of the British Parliament and founder of the organization Restore Britain, said the reality may be even more sinister.

In a recent appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, he said a shadowy group of elites known as the Fabian Society was deliberately trying to wreck the country.

“I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of the Fabian Society, but if you go and have a look at it, it was basically most of the Labour Party for many, many years,” Lowe said, referring to England’s leading left-wing party, the equivalent of U.S. Democrats.

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President Trump is expected to announce foreign interference in the 2020 election during Thursday night’s speech.

Earlier Monday, President Trump said he will be delivering a speech this Thursday at 9 pm ET.

According to MS NOW, Trump will speak about the newly declassified intelligence.

The Democrat Party spent four years calling voter fraud a myth.

Now the Justice Department just told every single secretary of state in America they can go to prison for ignoring it.

Harmeet Dhillon dropped the hammer this week – and Democrats suddenly have a lot to explain.

Criminal Charges on the Table

Trump’s top civil rights enforcer, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, sent identical letters to all 50 states and Washington, D.C. on July 7.

The message was simple: clean up your voter rolls or face criminal prosecution.

“Any election officer, including the chief election officer of the state, who knowingly retains noncitizens on the state’s [voter registration list] or facilitates noncitizens in receiving and casting ballots could be subject to criminal liability,” Dhillon wrote to Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.

States got five days to explain exactly how they plan to comply with federal voter eligibility laws.

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The city of Sarasota, Florida, has around 55,000 people in it. Sarasota County, though, has about 480,000 people. That’s a lot of folks, but even in Sarasota itself, it’s not exactly Tiny Town, USA. And, as it’s in Florida, there are probably a whole lot of guns floating around town, both legal and not so legal.

But never fear, Sarasota just had a gun “buyback,” where they bought back things the government never owned in the first place. The goal of such events, as always, is to reduce the number of guns that criminals might gain access to.

And did this one make a dent? Not in the least.

 The Sarasota Police Department hosted its annual “Done with the Gun” firearm turn-in event Saturday, providing an anonymous way to safely dispose of unwanted firearms.

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Police said that 12 firearms were turned in this year.

Police accepted a variety of items, including non-working firearms, antique firearms, replica firearms, pellet guns and BB guns.

What they got was a double-barrel shotgun, a break-action shotgun, a bolt-action .22 rifle, an air rifle, five revolvers–including one that didn’t even seem to have a grip on it–and three semi-auto handguns.

Of these firearms, the semi-autos and a couple of the revolvers, which were snub-noses, might be useful to a modern criminal.

That’s it. That’s the potential impact, and since I’m pretty sure these were all from lawful owners who just didn’t want them anymore for whatever reason, there will be zero impact on crime.

Then again, that’s true of buybacks as a whole. The research, which routinely seems to find a convoluted way to advance the anti-gun narrative, has come right out and proven time and time again that buybacks don’t reduce crime. The only example that a study has ever suggested otherwise was one where the buyback was held in conjunction with other efforts, but the researchers made no effort to see if it was the buyback itself or the other efforts that made a difference.

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Donald Trump has reinstated his naval blockade of Iran, barring ships from entering or leaving their ports, days after Tehran attacked another commercial vessel and declared the Strait of Hormuz closed.

The President also claimed the US would be paid a 20 percent tariff for securing safe passage for commercial vessels through the Persian Gulf. The details of Trump’s demand were not immediately clear.

Trump wrote on Truth Social that the US ‘will be, from this point forward, known as “The Guardian of the Hormuz Strait.”‘

‘The process and formation will begin immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter!’

The blockade will not take effect immediately: shipowners must be given 24 hours’ notice under maritime law.

Oil prices spiked by 5 percent, with Brent crude, the global benchmark, hitting $79.93 – its highest price since June 19.

Saudi Arabia launched strikes on Iran’s Houthi proxy terror group in Yemen, opening a new front in the war after Iran launched strikes against five US allies in the region.

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels say Saudi warplanes bombarded Sanaa International Airport in Yemen. The group’s spokesman declared an ‘end to the de-escalation phase’ and warned that the ‘aggression will not go unanswered or unpunished.’

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WASHINGTON — President Trump declared Monday that the US will be “taking over” the Strait of Hormuz following another round of airstrikes against Iran overnight.

“We’re taking over the strait. They have nothing. They’ve got nothing,” Trump, 80, told “Fox & Friends” when asked about Iran’s claims to have closed the critical waterway.

“So we’re just going to hit them very hard, and we’re going to, we’re going to keep the strait, and we’ll probably run it,” the president later added. “We’ll become the guardian of the strait. Maybe we’ll call it the guardian angel of the strait, and we should be reimbursed for that … We guarded it for nothing, and now we’re going to guard it — we’re going to get paid for guarding it.”

Before the beginning of Operation Epic Fury, Feb. 28, nearly a fifth of the world’s seaborne oil flowed through the Strait of Hormuz annually.

Prosecutors charged five former Georgia police officers over the alleged misuse of Flock Safety license plate reader camera system data.

On June 25, the Albany Police Department asked that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) investigate several officers after an internal audit of its automatic plate reader camera system, according to a GBI press release.

The audit allegedly found that the officers had repeatedly gone into the Flock system and used stored license plate information for purposes unrelated to official police duties.

The five former Albany police officers arrested were Tytianna Davis, 27; Jade Jackson, 32; Nicholas Richardson, 30; Brittney Smith, 23; and Issac Whitus, 24, according to the GBI. Davis faces five counts of misusing license plate data, Richardson faces 11 counts, Jackson and Whitus face two counts each, and Smith faces one count. All five were also charged with violating their oaths of office.

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(BERLIN, MD) – Maryland State Police are investigating a trooper-involved crash that occurred shortly before 8:30 p.m. yesterday in Worcester County.

A Maryland State Trooper was transported by ambulance to a local hospital, and later flown by Maryland State Police Aviation Command to a local trauma center for treatment of his injuries. The driver of a Land Rover, a 16-year-old male, was also flown by Maryland State Police helicopter to a local trauma center for treatment of his injuries.

Shortly before 8:30 p.m. yesterday, troopers from the Maryland State Police Berlin Barrack responded to the area of eastbound U.S. Route 50 at Maryland Route 818 for a report of a two-vehicle crash. According to a preliminary investigation, the Land Rover was traveling northbound on MD Route 818, attempting to cross the intersection and failed to yield to oncoming traffic, subsequently striking the Maryland State Trooper, who was traveling eastbound on U.S. Route 50. The Maryland State Trooper was traveling in his marked patrol vehicle at the time of the crash.

Assistance on scene was provided by personnel from the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration, Worcester County Sheriff’s Office, Berlin Police Department, and Berlin Fire Company.

The Maryland State Police Crash Team is leading the active and ongoing investigation. Upon completion, the investigation will be presented to the Office of the State’s Attorney in Worcester County to determine whether charges will be filed.

The FBI is investigating Senator Lindsey Graham’s sudden death.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham died Saturday night after a brief, sudden illness.

The South Carolina Senator just turned 71 on July 9.

“On the evening of Saturday, July 11, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham passed away from a brief and sudden illness. Senator Graham’s family appreciates prayers at this time and asks for privacy during this incredibly difficult period,” Graham’s office said.

Audio of the 911 dispatch call reveals Lindsey Graham had chest pains before going into cardiac arrest.

Lindsey Graham recently returned from a trip to Kiev, Ukraine, where he met with Ukrainian President Zelensky.

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Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger says concertgoers want to escape from politics and everyday worries rather than sit through political speeches.

Jagger made the remarks during an interview on The New York Times podcast after being asked about Bruce Springsteen, who has repeatedly used his current tour to lambast President Trump.

Host David Marchese noted that Springsteen “clearly sees his job as engaging in a meaningful back and forth” with audiences before asking Jagger what his own relationship with fans means to him.

Jagger said his priority is giving audiences a break from the outside world.

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We’re still a few weeks away from Michigan’s Aug. 4 primary, but the insurgent Senate campaign of far-left contender Abdul El-Sayed has Democratic Party officials worried, again, about an extremist who could usurp a nomination in a state they need to win.

The favorite to win the nomination was Democratic U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens, seemingly the perfect candidate for Dems in a state that’s gone for Donald Trump in both of his presidential victories and which has swung to the right in recent years. But, as CNN reports, El-Sayed is tapping into the party’s radical base, following the path of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other successful Democratic Socialists of America candidates. (Not to mention, ahem, Maine’s Graham Platner.)

Democratic state Sen. Mallory McMorrow was supposed to be a middle ground between the Democratic Socialists of America-backed El-Sayed and the very non-progressive Stevens, but McMorrow has withdrawn from the race after failing to gain traction. It’s not hard to see why when you look at some of her attempts to drum up energy — literally, here — on the campaign trail:

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Obamacare rates are experiencing massive, consecutive premium hikes, with insurers proposing a median rate increase of 14% for 2027 plans, building on a massive 20% surge in 2026. These soaring costs are driven by the expiration of taxpayer-funded subsidies, general inflation, and skyrocketing medical and prescription drug costs.

Obamacare was never going to work. This should give people a glimpse of how Medicare for All will work. Taxpayers will be on the hook for unaffordable, ever-increasing payments.

People with lower incomes still qualify for subsidies under Obamacare. However, Obamacare was providing enhanced subsidies for people with average and better incomes.

Millions of people dropped Obamacare once they lost the welfare subsidies. That has increased costs.

Obamacare has ruined healthcare and health insurance.

Large companies can get healthcare plans, but smaller ones can’t afford to.

The ACA Was Planned to Destroy Healthcare 

The Affordable Care Act was intended to drive up healthcare costs so the government could take over healthcare. It was meant to destroy the current healthcare system.

Obamacare was a halfway point to the government-funded healthcare and was never meant to last.

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Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) is pushing to BAN Sharia Law nationwide, calls out the GENOCIDE of Christians by Muslims

“This extreme ideology is straight from the pit of HELL, and it has no place in American society!”

“You won’t hear from Democrats about how radical Islamic terrorists are currently carrying out a mass genocide of Christians in Nigeria.”

“Think about this. More than 62,000 Christians have been slaughtered since 2000 by radical Islamic terrorists in Nigeria. You heard that right, 62,000.”

“And just this year alone, more than 7,000 Nigerian Christians have been murdered because of their faith alone. You can’t turn on the TV without hearing about Israel’s so-called mass genocide of Palestinians every day. And yet when it comes to 62,000 Christians being slaughtered by radical Muslims, it’s radio silence.”

A single state university in Michigan is spending close to $1 million on just five employees in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) positions that federal standards no longer allow.

Campus Reform filed a public records request and uncovered the information about the salaries at Michigan State University’s (MSU) Office for Inclusive Excellence and Impact. Altogether, MSU is spending $879,194.81 on salaries for five employees at the office. Notably, the university has attempted to remove some DEI language and masked its DEI strategic planning in order not to lose federal funding after the Trump administration insisted on elimination of the poisonous woke ideology from taxpayer-funded academia.

There are many reasons that college is overpriced in America, with some of the biggest factors being government interference and bureaucratic financial incompetence. Another reason is that many universities spend a considerable amount of money on employees and programs that should never have existed in academia to start with.

There is absolutely zero need for DEI employees at any university, and indeed they do a great deal of harm. Yet Campus Reform reports on MSU:

The highest-paid employee identified in the records is Vice President and Chief Inclusion Officer Jabbar Bennett, who earns $383,721.15 annually. Other employees reviewed by Campus Reforminclude Diversity Research Network Director Deborah Johnson ($239,309.12), Outreach and Engagement Manager Florensio Hernandez ($91,710), Assistant Director of the Diversity Research Network Micaela Flores ($89,304.14), and Staff Assistant Lisa Fuentes ($75,150.40).

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Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina died Saturday evening at his Capitol Hill home at the age of 71. His office attributed the death to a “brief and sudden illness,” and police scanner audio from Saturday night indicates emergency personnel were dispatched to the residence for cardiac arrest. No further details have been released, and funeral arrangements have not been announced.

The suddenness is difficult to overstate. Graham had returned from Kyiv that same day after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday and touring a Ukrainian drone production facility. He was booked to appear on NBC’s “Meet the Press” this morning.

President Trump, who called Graham “one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known” in a tribute posted to Truth Social, is expected to appear on the program instead to discuss his death.

Governor Henry McMaster said in a statement, “Lindsey Graham is irreplaceable. The fiercest of fighters for South Carolina and America, and a loyal and steadfast friend.”

The personal tributes will continue for days. The institutional consequences began the moment he died, and they are considerable. Graham chaired the Senate Budget Committee, sat on Appropriations, Judiciary, and Environment and Public Works, and was four months away from a general election in which he was the Republican nominee for a fifth term. His death sets multiple processes in motion simultaneously, on different clocks, with different decision makers.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a chilling warning that cancer cases are exploding around the world, with the disease expected to soon affect more than 90 percent of the global population.

The WHO said cancer remains the world’s second-leading cause of death after cardiovascular disease.

The disease is already killing more than 26,000 people every day.

According to the agency, the world is now seeing nearly 10 million cancer deaths and 20.6 million new cases every year.

Without urgent action, the WHO warns that the number of new cancer cases will soar to 35 million annually by 2050.

That means new cancer cases are projected to nearly double worldwide in less than three decades.

The WHO estimates that one in five people will develop cancer during their lifetime.

Lung cancer remains the deadliest form of the disease.

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Nick Shirley has once again dropped a bombshell that Democrats and bureaucrats are going to hate.

His latest hour long expose dives into what appears to be a massive Medicare fraud ring operating through senior centers catering to elderly Koreans and Chinese Americans. It is not pretty, and it is your tax dollars footing the bill.

Shirley’s video is already making the rounds online, not only for what it reveals but for how flagrantly the scam seems to operate.

“Your tax dollars are paying for elderly Koreans and Chinese to play ping pong and do tai chi, while the fraudsters give kickbacks to those who enroll,” Shirley wrote as he released the segment.

Even for the hardened political observer, it is jaw dropping.

The footage shows Shirley walking into a facility in Flushing, New York, one that has somehow billed millions through Medicare programs under the pretense of community wellness.

Shirley asked a staff member if it was true that over seven thousand people were registered there.

The man insisted that number was wrong.

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While some of us might be pleased to see former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei removed from the earth — he was a murderous despot, after all — it’s pretty sick stuff to celebrate the death of a fellow American citizen just because you don’t like their politics, or because they’re not in the political party you prefer.

I consider Joe Biden to have been one of the worst presidents in the modern era, and yet I will not pop the champagne when he dies. Nor will I laugh at the pain of his family as they say goodbye.

Then again, I am not a liberal, and the Left in this country has gone so wacko in recent times that they routinely put on the party hats when awful tragedies strike, like the assassination of father, husband, and Turning Point co-founder Charlie Kirk or the cold-blooded murder of a healthcare executive allegedly carried out by Luigi Mangione.

With the sad news of South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham’s surprise death, we are once again seeing the ghoulish leftist psychos come out from their closets to mock him less than 24 hours after his passing.

How do these people live with themselves?

Here’s social media personality and “Trump Resistance” hall monitor Brian Krassenstein. If you find his words beyond merely “poor taste,” you should blame Trump, he ludicrously argues:

The Department of Education’s (ED) Office for Civil Rights on July 10 launched an initiative cracking down on sexual predators in K–12 schools.

“The Trump Administration has observed a troubling and recurring pattern in schools across the nation of credible reports of sexual abuse and harassment by adults in positions of authority going uninvestigated or of suspected offenders being transferred to new schools or roles in the district,” the department said in a statement.

“When school administrators protect adults accused of assaulting or harassing children from meaningful consequences, enabling them to continue harming kids in another environment, it is referred to as ‘passing the trash.’”

In a July 10 guidance letter issued to educational institutions receiving federal funding, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon reminded schools of their legal obligation to safeguard children and appropriately respond to sexual misconduct allegations in line with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

In the letter, McMahon cited a 2003 study that found that 9.6 percent of students in grades eight to 11 reported some sexual misconduct involving an educator. McMahon pointed out that such a stat would have led to a national outcry in “any other setting.”

McMahon said the department will “vigorously enforce” Title IX and ESEA obligations to all applicable institutions. Her letter asked schools to ensure their policies comply with these regulations.

Officials with authority to take corrective actions on sexual misconduct allegations should be trained to identify and respond to such incidents. Schools must make sure that investigations are “thorough, timely, and genuinely responsive,” she wrote.

Institutions that fail to comply with these federal laws risk losing funding from the Trump administration, McMahon warned.

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“People stopped parking here. People are scared to park here.”

A homeless encampment on Manhattan’s West Side has grown to span roughly 12 city blocks, prompting complaints from residents, workers, and tourist officials over alleged crime, including drug activity and prostitution.

According to a report by the New York Post, dozens of tents and makeshift shelters now stretch from 34th Street to 46th Street along 11th Avenue. The sight has caused issues for local workers and residents, as well as tourists visiting the Intrepid museum.

“We can’t get rid of them,” an unidentified city parks enforcement officer told the outlet. “These ones here are stealing everything… They take what they can. And there are escorts in there too. Prostitutes. I see them, they’re right there.”

“Definitely getting worse,” she added. “People stopped parking here. People are scared to park here.”

Nearby workers have said that open drug dealing and prostitution have become commonplace, with one tent reportedly serving as a gathering place for sex work, drug transactions, or both.

“This is crazy,” said one supervisor at the Jacob Javits Center nearby. “The cops and the sanitation guys and the outreach guys, they clean up one spot and after that day, the next day they’re over here. Then they’re over there. They’re kind of just spreading around.”

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Martha Lillard, the last known American polio patient who depended on an iron lung to breathe, died June 26 in Shawnee, Oklahoma. She was 78 years old, nearly six decades past the age doctors once told her family she would reach.

Her sister, Cindy McVey, told the Associated Press that Lillard’s death certificate lists chronic pulmonary failure and post-polio syndrome as causes. McVey said long COVID contributed as well, after Lillard contracted COVID-19 twice during the pandemic. In her final two years, the disease and post-polio syndrome left her confined to the iron lung nearly around the clock.

With Lillard’s passing, a machine whose parts date to the 1940s falls silent for the last time in America. Her sister acknowledged as much through tears.

“But since she’s the last one, we don’t need that anymore.”

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The FBI has reportedly fired two intelligence analysts after they refused to participate in the bureau’s investigation into Georgia’s 2020 presidential election.

According to multiple reports, the Atlanta-based analysts, a husband and wife, told colleagues they did not believe the investigation was justified and declined to work on the case.

They were reportedly escorted from the FBI office after refusing the assignment.

The FBI did not confirm the firings but defended its decision.

“The FBI will always investigate credible allegations of matters related to federal elections,” an FBI spokesperson said.

“Every employee at this FBI is to uphold our mission and adhere to our standards, any deviation will not be tolerated.”

Earlier this month, the FBI assigned 260 investigative analysts to assist with its ongoing investigation into the fraud that took place in Fulton County, Georgia, during the 2020 presidential election.

These Brooklyn cops made the mistake of pulling over and handing out bogus traffic tickets to the wrong reporter.

My driving drama began April 12, a bright Sunday afternoon, during a trip to the gym for a quick workout. I was rudely interrupted at Fourth Avenue and 86^th Street in Bay Ridge by about a half-dozen young NYPD officers who said they pulled me over for a “random traffic-safety check.”

After making me wait 20 minutes, a female officer shlepped out of a police car and slapped me with two summonses. They were for having “illegal” dealership frames on the front and rear license plates of my 2019 Infiniti.

I was shocked. I actually laughed, and told her she must be misinterpreting the law

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President Donald Trump shared a simple video of a Minnesota kindergarten graduation, one that captured a striking visual shift in American public education. Dozens of young girls, many in hijabs, marked the end of their first year of formal schooling.

Rather than reflect on what this image reveals about rapid demographic transformation and cultural integration, children’s YouTube sensation Ms. Rachel rushed to Instagram with a message celebrating the head coverings while implicitly scolding the president.

The federal government is working on a database of injuries from the shots delivered to people, some of them unwilling recipients, during the COVID-19 China virus pandemic.

It’s so that there is a determination on what injuries are compensable under the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program.

“The Table will list and explain injuries that, based on compelling, reliable, valid, medical, and scientific evidence, are presumed to be caused by covered COVID-19 countermeasures, and set forth the time periods in which the onset of these injuries must occur after the administration or use of these covered COVID-19 countermeasures,” a summary of the still-developing rule explains.

A report at the Epoch Times said the Department of Health and Human Services and one of its divisions have confirmed the proposal.

Injuries from COVID-19 shots – they’re more DNA treatments than vaccinations – fall under the CICP because “previous health secretaries declared and extended emergency declarations for COVID-19, which opened up the option of emergency clearance of vaccines and other countermeasures under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act,” the report explained.

“Under the leadership of Secretary Kennedy, HHS is restoring transparency and accountability because the American people deserve clear, evidence-based information about both the benefits and the known risks associated with medical countermeasures,” HHS confirmed to the publication.

Under the law the HHS chief “shall by regulation establish a table identifying covered injuries that shall be presumed to be directly caused by the administration or use of a covered countermeasure.”

Dr. Joel Wallskog, who sustained the neurological disorder transverse myelitis from the shots and has sued, said more needs to be done, as the main injuries like anaphylaxis and myocarditis/pericarditis, already are recognized.

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California has once again ignited concerns over election integrity after revelations that the state is recruiting noncitizen teenagers to work inside polling places during elections.

Natalie Winters first reported this outrageous development out of the Golden State.

Green card holders as young as 16, noncitizens who cannot legally vote in American elections, are being recruited to check voters off official rosters, distribute ballots, handle election equipment, assist voters, and help close polling locations.

The state admits it does not fully track how many of these noncitizen teenagers are being used in these sensitive positions of trust.

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There are stupid takes, and then there are STUPID TAKES.

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Official Office for National Statistics (ONS) data released today shows Muhammad – including variant spellings – has once again claimed the top spot as the most popular name for newborn boys in England and Wales.

This marks the third consecutive year Muhammad has led the boys’ chart, continuing a trend that has drawn significant public attention and debate about demographic changes.

The ONS figures for 2025 births confirm Muhammad’s dominant position. In previous years, when spellings are combined, it has frequently outranked traditional English names like Oliver and Noah.

Commentators have linked the sustained popularity to the UK’s growing Muslim population, which now makes up a significant and increasing share of births in many areas.

Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe responded strongly to the news, posting: “Muhammad has comfortably topped the list for the most popular boy name for the third year running. You can call me Islamophobic, I really don’t care… This is awful and demonstrates the rapidly changing demographics of our country.”

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The battery recycler Ascend Elements was riding high in 2023, flush with hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding.

The seed money provided to the Massachusetts company, which launched in 2017, was one of several large bets the Biden administration placed on the green future as it essentially created a venture capital arm at the Department of Energy and other agencies. In the movies, VCs almost always score big through their early investments in future behemoths (e.g., PayPal or Meta when it was Facebook). In real life, those jackpots are the exception, not the rule – many of the deals go south.

Alas, Washington isn’t Hollywood, and the government isn’t spending celluloid dollars. In April, Ascend Elements filed for bankruptcy, leaving U.S. taxpayers out nearly $320 million.

Government funding of private companies is receiving new scrutiny as the Trump administration is upping the ante on such efforts by demanding that the feds receive an equity stake for their largesse. While this approach is leading the government into uncharted waters, experts say the operative concept – using taxpayer money to make risky bets on private companies – has a long and troubled history. The bankruptcy of Solyndra, a maker of niche solar panels the Obama administration had given $535 million in 2009, became shorthand for the problems that occur when government tries to pick winners and losers in the marketplace.

“It generally doesn’t work,” said Steven Neil Kaplan, a professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at the University of Chicago’s Booth business school. “There are three problems with it, namely that the government doesn’t usually have the best information; two, it’s going to be political; and three, the incentives aren’t in place to pay for performance.”

It is still too early to assess the Trump administration’s investments in private corporations, but the hundreds of billions of dollars shoveled out the door by the Biden administration through the Investment Infrastructure and Jobs Act provide some insight into the challenges the government faces when it turns into a venture capitalist. RealClearInvestigations’ review of one sliver of that spending – $1.68 billion in grants awarded in 2023 under the umbrella of “Energy, Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Energy Programs, Energy” – demonstrates how difficult it can be to follow the money and assess the impact when taxpayer funds are doled out to private corporations.

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If only the victims were as protected as the illegal immigrants.

The Haitian man who has confessed to the caught-on-camera hammer killing of a Florida woman in April was already the suspect in another killing earlier in the year.

But he was free on the streets thanks to his “temporary protected status as a Haitian,” according to a June report by southwest Florida news station WZVN-TV.

Now, he’s facing charges in the first death, too.

Former Democratic Jackson, Mississippi, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy in a six-figure real estate bribery scheme.

Lumumba accepted $50,000 in campaign contributions from undercover FBI agents posing as real estate developers, Fox News reported. Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens, who funneled the bribes, pleaded guilty on June 29.

Lumumba and Owens each face five years in prison, the outlet reported.

“Lumumba accepted the checks knowing and understanding that the money was from the Developers, and that it was being offered in exchange for official action from Lumumba in favor of the Developers’ proposed development project,” the indictment said.

Lumumba’s primary legal counsel, Owens’ office, and the City of Jackson each did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comment.

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The podcaster warned a Democrat win in 2028 would reopen borders and revive USAID’s far-left foreign meddling

Podcaster Joe Rogan warned on Wednesday that President Donald Trump may have accidentally handed the presidency back to Democrats in 2028 by starting an unpopular war in Iran.

Trump may have brought some normality since taking office, but he also has paved the way for the Democrats to return to power all over again, Rogan warned guest Rupert Lowe.

“For now, but if we don’t f— it, I mean, we might have f—– it up by going to Iran,” Rogan said. “I mean, this war is not something anybody that’s conservative wanted. Most people don’t want it – except supporters of Israel. They’re the only people that seem to be thinking it’s a good idea in this country.”

Podcaster Joe Rogan warned on Wednesday that President Donald Trump may have accidentally handed the presidency back to Democrats in 2028 by starting an unpopular war in Iran.

Trump may have brought some normality since taking office, but he also has paved the way for the Democrats to return to power all over again, Rogan warned guest Rupert Lowe.

“For now, but if we don’t f— it, I mean, we might have f—– it up by going to Iran,” Rogan said. “I mean, this war is not something anybody that’s conservative wanted. Most people don’t want it – except supporters of Israel. They’re the only people that seem to be thinking it’s a good idea in this country.”

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The WNBA player who was banned for punching Caitlin Clark in the throat has been slammed for yet more violence in her latest game against the Indiana Fever.

The Phoenix Mercury’s Alyssa Thomas served a one-game suspension without pay for the ‘non-basketball act’, after a postgame review determined that she had recklessly made contact with Clark’s throat with her closed fist.

Less than two weeks on from the unsavory incident – which sparked a nationwide storm, accusations of racial profiling and involvement from politicians – the rivalry continued on Thursday night when the Fever once again took on the Mercury.

Clark was not playing in the game due to her ongoing injury recovery, so this time it was a teammate on the end of some physical play from Thomas.

Midway through the third quarter, the Fever’s Lexie Hull – who is one of Clark’s closest friends off the court – competed for the loose ball with Thomas, before appearing to receive an elbow to the nose.

In the aftermath, she appeared bloodied as she wiped her face with a towel, and soon after was seen on the bench with tissue stuffed up her nose to stem the flow of blood.

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Nicolas “Sneako” Kenn De Balinthazy is, if you listen to any mainstream account, some sort of fringe conservative figure other conservatives ought to be apologizing for and drumming out of the movement.

I take from his Wikipedia page, if just because that represents what most people will see about this dude if they search for him and represents a decent approximation of the left-of-center view on the man: “He initially gained prominence on YouTube in the mid-2010s for lifestyle content, video essays, and street interviews. His content then shifted to far-right trolling and politics, including misogyny and antisemitism, collaborating with figures like white nationalist Nick Fuentes and influencer Andrew Tate.”

There’s a whole discussion to be had here about so-called “horseshoe theory” — that the so-called far-right and far-left aren’t that different — or even whether traditional left-right dichotomies work with people like Mr. Sneako.

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At least three people were shot at a Maryland shopping center after several gunmen opened fire forcing terrified customers to flee for their lives.

The chaos unfolded at around 4.40pm on Friday afternoon in Northeast Baltimore near the Coldspring Shopping Center, according to CBS Baltimore. 

The victims were two 24–year–old men and another 25–year–old man, the outlet reported.

They were taken to the hospital with with life–threatening injuries and listed in stable condition.

City police were called to the area near the HipHop Fish & Chicken fast food chain at the mall to reports of a shooting, SKY 11 reported.

Morgan State University police said that three unknown suspects had displayed and then fired a weapon, according to the Baltimore Sun.

After that, the suspects fled in unknown directions, per a campus police notice cited by the outlet. The university is located a few blocks from the mall.

Baltimore police are still searching the area for victims after the shooting.

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A San Francisco Giants baseball game devolved into chaos when a fight broke out among multiple fans in the stands at Oracle Park.

The incident took place moments after a game between the Giants and Colorado Rockies ended on Thursday evening.

Video captured a moment where a sizeable group of fans broke into an all-out donnybrook tumbling over rows of seats at the ballpark.

The clip begins in the middle of the action and does not show what led to the confrontation starting.

While a group of men off to the side begin shoving each other and speaking aggressively, two women begin throwing wild punches.

Two men – one wearing an Oakland Raiders Khalil Mack jersey – step in to attempt to separate the two, but to no avail.

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A black feminist historian whose work is being labeled as misleading — and who may have lost her cushy academic job — says it all comes down to an attack on black women.

The New York Times tells the tale of Kerri Greenidge, whose 2022 book “The Grimkes” was hailed for its narrative about a slaveholding family and its work in the abolitionist movement.

Publishers Weekly put the book on its list of that year’s top books, while the American Historical Association handed Greenidge the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, which honors scholars in women’s history and feminist theory.

But the glow has dimmed as the furor over her flimsy factual foundation is being linked to the end of her gig as a tenured associate professor in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University — and the loss of a book deal.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar’s 2024 financial disclosure listed household assets as high as $30 million. Her revised 2025 filing puts that figure at no more than $125,000, a gap of nearly $29.9 million. When Fox News Digital pressed her on camera about the discrepancy, the Minnesota Democrat said nothing at all.

Not a denial. Not a clarification. Silence.

The numbers alone demand an explanation. Omar’s original 2024 report valued her husband Tim Mynett’s share in a venture capital advisory firm at between $5 million and $25 million. His stake in a winery was listed at $1 million to $5 million. The revised filing zeroed both out, listing Mynett’s equity interests in each business at $0. Combined household debt now sits between $30,000 and $100,000, split between Omar’s student loans and Mynett’s credit card balances. By the revised numbers, Omar may carry a negative net worth.

A 3,500 percent swing, blamed on an ‘accounting error’

Omar’s office has offered a partial explanation. A spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the original filing was “inaccurate” and contained “incomplete” information. The office said Mynett “has partners in both businesses” and that the earlier disclosure “mistakenly reflected the businesses’ total equity rather than his ownership interest.” The original filing, the office added, “listed assets without accounting for liabilities.”

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An indictment says Fahad Mohamed Nur’s company received “more than $9.9 million fraudulently from sites or entities involved in the Federal Child Nutrition Program.”

Most wanted poster for Fahad Mohamed Nur/FBI

A defendant in the high-profile Feeding Our Future scandal who has been on the run since 2022 was added this week to the FBI’s “Most Wanted Fraudsters” list.

The FBI is offering a reward of up to $150,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Fahad Mohamed Nur, a naturalized U.S. citizen who has ties to Somalia and may be living there.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has died from a “brief and sudden illness” Saturday evening, his office said in a statement.

“On the evening of Saturday, July 11, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham passed away from a brief and sudden illness,” the statement shared on X read. “Senator Graham’s family appreciates prayers at the time and asks for privacy during this incredibly difficult period.”

The 71 year old was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2002. During President Donald Trump’s second term, Graham was a close ally, supporting the president’s military actions against the Iranian regime.

A longtime hawk on Iran, Graham leaves a legacy of backing policies aimed at isolating the country and limiting its missile and nuclear programs.

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President Trump again sent warnings to America about communism during a Q&A with Iris Tao of NTD.

“Communism’s easy to sell…. You’ve got free rent for the rest of your life. What they don’t say is that you’ll be living in squalor in 12 months.

You’ve got a free house. Would anybody like to have a free house? We’ll take it away from somebody. We’ll give it to you.

You’ll have murders all over the place. Communism’s a disaster. It’s been proven to be for thousands of years under different names, but same thing….

It’s never worked and it’s not going to work. What is working is the United States. So, think of it, we have more jobs than we’ve ever had. People are making more money than they’ve ever made.

I’m talking about workers now, talking about workers. They’re making higher salaries than they’ve ever made before.

It’s just the best system and it’s got flaws, but everything’s going to have a little flaw, but it’s been amazing.

I think this country with this thing that’s going around is in more danger than it was during World War I, World War II. If you talk about September 11th, if you talk about Pearl Harbor, that was big danger.

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Seeks to block military force against groups such as drug cartels

Democrat Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar is seeking to amend the National Defense Authorization Act to potentially block the Trump administration from using military force against congressionally designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations, such as foreign drug cartels.

A press release from Omar’s office claims her amendment, Amendment #1273, “expresses the sense of Congress that designation of a foreign terrorist organization does not constitute an authorization for the use of military force.”

While Omar’s office did not respond to the Daily Signal’s request for comment and offered no public explanation of why she introduced the amendment, Matt O’Brien, Federation of American Immigration Reform deputy executive director and former immigration judge, told the Daily Signal that he believes the representative “is clearly seeking to curtail any legal authorities that permit the president to control the borders and prohibit foreign national security and public safety threats from entering the United States.”

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As America navigates a world still reeling from conflict in the Middle East, Israeli intelligence has delivered a sobering warning to Washington: Iran is actively weighing yet another scheme to assassinate President Donald Trump. This revelation arrives amid Iran’s national mourning for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose death in earlier U.S. and Israeli strikes has done nothing to dampen the regime’s bloodlust.

The timing is no coincidence. While crowds in Tehran chanted “Death to America” and paraded effigies of Trump through the streets, hardliners openly called for missiles targeting the U.S. leader. Posters with crosshairs over Trump’s face and warnings that “your heads will roll” were not subtle expressions of grief—they were declarations of intent.

Far from a grieving nation seeking peace, the Islamic Republic remains a theocratic tyranny fixated on exporting terror and eliminating those who stand in its way.

President Trump, speaking after coordination with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has been characteristically direct. He referenced being atop Iran’s target list and the need to excise such threats like a cancer before they metastasize. His administration’s recent strikes on Iranian assets in response to attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz underscore a refusal to tolerate weakness.

The ceasefire, fragile from the start, is now declared over—a necessary reset against a regime that respects only strength.

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A 36-year-old illegal alien was arrested after throwing improvised explosives at two churches in Queens, New York, on Wednesday night.

Yogesh Sayrange is a Guyanese citizen who is considered “unauthorized” in the US because his childhood arrival protection expired.

Surveillance footage from one of the churches shows three individuals outside the Iglesia Bautista El Mesias church when the man, dressed in a dark hoodie and pants, appears to throw a Molotov cocktail at the building.

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A seasonal railway conductor for Tennessee’s Incline Railway at Lookout Mountain has been fired after making now-viral comments, wishing riders a happy Independence Day, which triggered some passengers.

The conductor, identified as Jack Peterson, is clearly fed up with mass migration policies that are ruining our country. He hilariously told passengers on the Fourth of July, “To the very, very few Americans in here, happy Independence Day.”

He continued, “To the rest of you, welcome to the greatest country on the face of the planet, and if you disagree, you can leave.”

It is unclear how many foreigners were on board the train.

The conductor was fired almost immediately after father Charles Scherer and son Nathan Scherer caught the moment on camera and promptly reported Peterson to the Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority (CARTA), which operates the train.

Nathan Scherer described the comments as “disparaging remarks about foreigners” in an interview, adding, “Even if you were critical of the country, the idea that you have to leave if you have any complaints… the whole thing is weird to me.”

“He doesn’t really know who is American and who’s not just by the way they look, so that kind of floored us,” Nathan’s father, Charles, said. While discussing Peterson’s immediate firing on the same day as the incident, Charles said, “That made me feel really good about CARTA and about their responsiveness to this and believing it should have been handled.

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One lawmaker called to end the H-1B foreign worker visa program entirely to prioritize hiring American workers

A popular U.S.-based gaming brand owned by Microsoft is facing fury after mass employee layoffs occurred in the wake of the company being approved for thousands of foreign worker visas.

Microsoft announced that it will lay off 4,800 people total and 1,600 from the corporation’s XBOX division, which makes and sells the dominant video game console.

Meanwhile, Microsoft has been approved this year to hire from foreign countries 2,273 employer-sponsored, non-immigrant workers under what is known as the H-1B visa program, according to data from U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS).

Furious online critics claim that American jobs are being unfairly handed to foreigners in an effort to cut labor costs but at the cost of leaving U.S. workers in the lurch.

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