It’s not often that we’re able to write words of praise for ABC News’ Jon Karl on the pages of RedState, but fair play to the co-host of the Sunday show This Week for actually holding a Democrat accountable for their lies.

Karl’s guest on this week’s show was Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and one of the topics discussed was voter ID and the SAVE America Act. Warner was there, of course, to rebut President Trump’s assertions during his Thursday night speech from the White House that American elections have been compromised – and will continue to be compromised – due to foreign influence. Influence, it could be argued, that’s been covered up by the Deep State. Put a pin in that, we’ll revisit it in a moment.

According to Warner, everything is hunky dory with our election system, and, hey, just look his home state of Virginia. The Old Dominion, claimed Warner, requires voters to present an ID in order to cast their ballot, so no one can say we Democrats don’t support this!

There’s just one thing, noted Karl. That’s simply not true.

Here’s the exchange:

After a year-long redistricting blitz, Republicans have moved on to phase two of their election strategy: securing Americans’ ballots. After the Supreme Court delivered a surprising blow to the GOP in June, allowing mail-in votes to be counted almost a week after Election Day, there’s an understandable concern that the upcoming midterms will be ripe for fraud. While conservatives are making a desperate push for the SAVE America Act to address some of that panic, that’s not the only play in the Right’s book.

President Trump, frustrated by the tight margins in the House and Senate that are bogging down these bills, has gotten creative with the problems plaguing our elections — issuing several executive orders and rules that would close the loopholes Democrats are using to undermine legitimate voters. Of course, the courts have put the brakes on some of the White House’s ideas, including one very interesting plan to involve the U.S. Postal Service (USPS).

Piggybacking on a March 31 EO, the administration instructed the USPS to oversee and streamline the states’ mail-in ballots, putting it in charge of “standard[izing] envelope design for mailed ballots” and helping states use “a unique barcode to track ballots, thus significantly reducing the chain-of-custody problem” that makes it easier to cheat. “The rule would also create, for the first time, a standardized, nationwide auditing mechanism for mail-in voting,” Alabama’s attorney general’s office points out.

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On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a temporary order allowing the Postal Service to move forward with a proposed rule requiring states to verify voter registration data before mailing federal election ballots. A three-judge panel, ruling per curiam, granted USPS’s request to stay a district court injunction that had blocked the rule earlier this month in a lawsuit brought by the NAACP.

The panel decided the challenge was premature since the rule remains in proposed form, and it found the measure unlikely to violate the 2021 agreement obligating USPS to prioritize timely delivery of election mail through 2028.

The D.C. Circuit granted a stay pending appeal, ruling that the appellants had met the “stringent requirements” required to pause the lower court’s order while the case proceeds. In its order, the court wrote that the appellants “have made a strong showing that they will likely succeed on two of their arguments.”

The rule traces back to Executive Order 14399, signed March 31, 2026, which directed federal agencies to compile and share state-by-state “citizenship lists” of eligible U.S. citizens using federal databases, to help states verify that only citizens vote in federal elections. It instructs the U.S. Postal Service to tighten rules and tracking for mail-in and absentee ballots, including rejecting ballots from people who are not on these federal-state eligibility lists or otherwise properly enrolled for mail voting. It also directs the Department of Justice to prioritize enforcement of federal election laws against officials who provide ballots to ineligible voters and to use the threat of withholding federal election funds to pressure states to comply with these new verification measures.

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CENTCOM Says US Forces Launch New Strike On Iran

CENTCOM said US forces struck Iranian missile and radar systems stationed along the Strait of Hormuz, further dismantling Tehran’s surveillance and strike capabilities while eroding its ability to control the maritime chokepoint.

“Today at 6 p.m. ET, U.S. forces began launching new airstrikes against Iran at the Commander in Chief’s direction,” CENTCOM wrote on X.

CENTCOM added, “The strikes are designed to further degrade Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and swiftly punish Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces who launched attacks against American service members in Jordan last night.”

State Department Issues “Worldwide Caution”

Two death row inmates are scheduled to be put to death on the same day in Florida — the first double execution in the Sunshine State in over six decades.

Governor Ron DeSantis rescheduled the execution of former police officer and convicted child murderer James Duckett for 12 p.m. on July 28, exactly six hours before Dominick Anthony Occhicone Jr. is also set to be put to death, USA Today reported.

The 68-year-old former cop was set to be executed in March for murdering an 11-year-old girl in 1987, but he received a rare and temporary reprieve from the Florida Supreme Court, pending the results of new DNA testing.

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The US has launched a fresh wave of airstrikes on Iran in retaliation for the deaths of two American service members who were killed in a missile attack on an air base in Jordan.

Central Command vowed to ‘punish’ Tehran with a new barrage of strikes which began at 6pm EST on Saturday, marking the eighth consecutive night of attacks against Iran.

‘The strikes are designed to further degrade Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and swiftly punish Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces who launched attacks against American service members in Jordan last night,’ CENTCOM said in a statement.

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It’s no secret that money is crucial in politics.

But with the midterm elections looming, the national Democratic Party is trying to keep a secret on how bad its money problems are, according to a new report.

And top officials are being asked to put it in writing.

Leaders of the Democratic National Committee have been asked to sign nondisclosure agreements to keep a lid on the party’s financial condition, the Beltway-centric news outlet Axios reported Thursday.

Paul Pelosi, the husband of Nancy Pelosi, has been charged in his hit-and-run crash over the Fourth of July weekend.

Allison Haley, the District Attorney of Napa County, filed charges against Pelosi Friday. He was hit with one count of misdemeanor hit-and-run driving and hit with one infraction for an unlawful turning movement.

Shocking photographs, obtained by The California Post, revealed the bashed-up Tesla that Pelosi allegedly slammed into before driving away.

Authorities said the 86-year-old husband of the former House Speaker struck the parked vehicle with his brown convertible before fleeing the scene on July 3. Napa County Sheriff’s deputies responded to reports of the hit-and-run on the 6700 block of Yount Street in Yountville, around 2:30 p.m.

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Fox News has largely covered President Donald Trump’s war against Iran and his other recent actions in office favorably.

When it comes to election integrity, however, the otherwise conservative network appears to prefer radio silence.

Late Thursday and early Friday on the social media platform X, users noted that Fox News had shown a “strange” indifference to Trump’s election integrity speech, prompting one user to declare that the network had “joined the fake media.”

In a Thursday primetime address to the nation, Trump announced that a Department of Homeland Security investigation had identified at least 278,000 non-citizens registered to vote in federal elections across the country.

Moreover, that number represents only a partial count.

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All of us on the pro-Second Amendment side of things have sure been racking up the wins, most notably since the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision. The latest such win comes to us from the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, which has struck down a New Jersey “assault weapon” and “high-capacity magazine” ban as unconstitutional under the Second Amendment.

It’s a great win for liberty.

A federal appeals court on Friday ruled that New Jersey’s assault-weapons law barring possession of semiautomatic rifles like AR-15s and large ‌capacity magazines containing more than 10 rounds of ammunition is unconstitutional.

The ruling by the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals marked the first time a federal appeals court had ruled that a state’s assault weapons ban violated the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment, which ⁠guarantees the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense.

Not just for self-defense, but we’ll overlook that for now.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) was quick to weigh in.

In an email sent out Friday, the NRA’s Executive Director of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action, John Commerford, writes:

Today marks a historic victory for the NRA, the Second Amendment, and law-abiding Americans. The Third Circuit has struck down these unconstitutional so-called assault weapons bans and magazine bans in New Jersey, affirming what we’ve always known: the right to keep and bear arms, including commonly-owned rifles and standard-capacity magazines, is fundamental and cannot be infringed by politicians who prioritize control over constitutional freedoms. This ruling protects the rights of millions of responsible gun owners in the Garden State and serves as another benchmark in our efforts to dismantle gun control across the country.

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Teachers Union President Randi Weingarten railed against Trump at the American Federation of Teachers national convention in Washington, DC, jumping up and down as she screamed. 

Per American Federation of Teachers:

Delivering her State of the Union address before thousands of educators, healthcare professionals and public employees at the AFT’s national convention in Washington, D.C., AFT President Randi Weingarten delivered a powerful message: “We will change the trajectory of this nation and secure a better future for all.”

Calling on delegates to harness “the power of the people,” Weingarten said unions remain one of the few forces capable of standing up to concentrated wealth and political power.

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A federal court has declined, for now, to block a U.S. Postal Service rule tied to President Donald Trump’s executive order on election administration, allowing the policy to remain in place while legal challenges continue.

The ruling clears the way for the USPS to move forward with rules that force states to submit their voter rolls for citizenship checks if they expect the Postal Service to deliver mail-in and absentee ballots for the November midterms.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, President Trump signed the landmark Executive Order “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections” on March 31, 2026.

The order directs the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and the USPS to work together to verify citizenship and prevent ineligible voters from receiving and casting mail ballots in federal elections.

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A total of 227,548 properties in the United States made foreclosure filings in the first six months of this year, a 21 percent increase from the same period last year, according to real estate analytics company ATTOM.

The first half foreclosure filings are also up by 28 percent from the same period two years back, ATTOM said in a July 16 report.

In states with a minimum of 500 foreclosure filings, Idaho registered the largest year-over-year increase: 59 percent. This was closely followed by Colorado with 57 percent, Georgia with 52 percent, and North Carolina with 47 percent.

Foreclosure is a legal process by which a mortgage lender repossesses a property after the borrower fails to make mortgage payments on time. Initially, the lender issues a notice of default once payments are missed for 90 days. If the borrower fails to settle the claim within 30 days, the lender can repossess the property and sell it off.

In the first half of the year, 0.16 percent of all housing units made a foreclosure filing, according to ATTOM.

Florida had the highest rate, with 0.27 percent of housing units making a filing. South Carolina was in the second spot with a 0.26 percent rate, followed by Indiana and Delaware, both with a rate of 0.25 percent.

“Foreclosure activity continued to increase in the first half of 2026, but the broader picture remains one of a market that is gradually returning to more typical patterns,” Rob Barber, CEO at ATTOM, said in a statement.

Foreclosure filings in a year’s first half hit their lowest level in 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but have risen since. Prior to the pandemic, first-half filing numbers were higher than the 2026 figure for every single year between 2008 and 2019.

However, the filing increase in the first half of 2026 also suggests “that some homeowners may be facing greater financial strain than they were a year ago,” Barber said.

In a June 12 post, legal services company Nolo predicted foreclosure rates would gradually rise in the latter part of 2026.

The company cited factors such as high interest rates and reduced buyer demand as contributing to a growing housing crisis. Unless there is significant relief or intervention, the trend of rising foreclosures is likely to continue, it said.

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Senate Democrats shunned a Wednesday hearing called to hear testimony about allegations of fraud.

As noted in a post on X, the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing Wednesday without any Democrats attending.

In his prepared testimony, journalist Nick Shirley, who helped expose social services fraud in Minnesota, said fraud is being publicized because it is so pervasive and easy to find.

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The RNC called Rep Vasquez’s remarks ‘DEI-fueled racism’ as the congressman faces Marine veteran Greg Cunningham in November

A vulnerable Democrat seeking re-election in a battleground district repeatedly complained that outdoor recreation has long been dominated by White males and called for “equitable access” to those spaces, according to unearthed podcast appearances reviewed by Fox News Digital.

Rep. Gabe Vasquez, D-N.M., who previously referred to New Mexico as “stolen land,” praised national conservation organizations during a June 2020 appearance on the “Mountain & Prairie” podcast for adopting what he described as more “equitable” policies aimed at expanding access to the outdoors for people of color.

“People of color are getting outdoors,” Vasquez said in remarks first reported by The Daily Wire. “There’s amazing organizations out there that are just promoting diversity amongst the outdoors and big national organizations that are slowly and finally starting to get it and actually promote policies that create more equitable access and opportunities.”

“Spaces that have been traditionally White will no longer be White,” Vasquez continued. “Secret spots will no longer be secret. And hunters and anglers and hikers and everybody in between will look different. And so, not only should you be OK with that, not only should you tolerate that, but you should embrace that.”

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The Department of Justice has sued to end Maryland’s law that allows illegal immigrants to get in-state tuition rates, saying it violates a federal law that limits states’ ability to grant that benefit to those in the country illegally.

Maryland’s law, enacted in 2011, allows illegal immigrants who graduated from a school in the state, who attend a state college and whose parents have been paying taxes in the state to pay the same rates as legal state residents.

Justice Department officials said that amounts to discrimination against U.S. citizens from other states — and it breaks a federal law to that effect.

“This is a simple matter of federal law: Colleges cannot provide benefits to illegal aliens that they do not provide to U.S. citizens,” said Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate.

The lawsuit also seeks to block Maryland’s policy of allowing illegal immigrants access to scholarships and financial assistance.

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown denounced the lawsuit as an attack on the students.

“Today, the Department of Justice sued to take away an opportunity from Maryland students who grew up here, graduated from school here, and are working to pursue something more for themselves, their families, and the communities in which they live,” said Mr. Brown, a Democrat.

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Massachusetts awarded a contract to rebuild decaying Springfield courthouse to a firm tied to Rep Ayanna Pressley’s husband

A company where the husband of Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., is a partner was selected for a nearly $2 billion deal to build a new courthouse in Springfield, Massachusetts — a decision now being challenged in court by rejected bidders who allege conflicts of interest tainted the process.

Conan Harris, who has been married to the Massachusetts Democrat for more than a decade, is a partner with John Barros in CoJo Real Estate, which is part of the Liberty Junction team selected in early July for the 40-year courthouse lease, according to the lawsuit.

The plaintiffs allege Barros’ role as interim executive director of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (MCCA) created a conflict of interest because several members of that agency’s board also serve on the Massachusetts Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance, the state agency that selected Liberty Junction.

The lawsuit also described Harris as having “deep conflicts,” but its most detailed allegations center on Barros’ leadership role at the MCCA, another state agency.

A collection of Democrat candidates who are running to replace Graham Platner as the party’s U.S. Senate candidate in Maine held a debate on Thursday night which aired on News Center Maine.

One of the candidates is Ashley Webb, who was asked at one point about qualifications to run for a senate seat.

Webb responded by talking about writing music and books. Then, this person added a point about not lying or deceiving anyone.

This is real. Watch:

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President Trump walked into the East Room Thursday night and did the one thing his critics have insisted for years he could not do. He produced documents. Not rally-stage assertions, not dueling affidavits, but declassified intelligence assessments, FBI case files, and Department of Homeland Security findings, all posted for public download at whitehouse.gov.

For the better part of six years, every conversation about securing American elections has been strangled in the crib by two talking points. There is no evidence of a problem, and there is no path to fix it anyway. In the span of about 48 hours, both of those excuses died.

I will be talking about all of this in detail on today’s episode of The JD Rucker Show at noon Pacific.

The evidence half collapsed when the White House released files covering five areas of concern, from foreign acquisition of American voter data to buried fraud investigations to hundreds of thousands of noncitizens sitting on state voter rolls. The path half collapsed when the House Budget Committee advanced a budget resolution designed to carry the SAVE America Act through the Senate on a simple majority. The floor vote on that resolution could come as early as next week.

What remains between the American people and the election security they overwhelmingly demand is not a shortage of proof and not a procedural dead end. It is a handful of people in the United States Senate, and the question of whether they have the spine to act.

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Senator Thom Tillis (NC) on Thursday went ballistic in a long-winded rant against the SAVE America Act from the Senate floor.

The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the SAVE America Act as part of a National Security bill.

On Thursday the House Budget Committee advanced the SAVE and Protect America Act through the budget reconciliation process.

The House Budget Committee advanced a framework for a third reconciliation bill.

The reconciliation strategy is designed to allow the measure to pass the Senate with a simple majority rather than the traditional 60 votes required to overcome a filibuster, although Senate rules will ultimately determine which provisions qualify.

Tillis, a bitter Trump hater and RINO of all RINOs who announced he is not seeking reelection this year, vowed to block the bill as he went off on President Trump.

“If I see a reconciliation bill come from the House with another failed attempt to confuse this election, I will use every device I have available to slow down the wheels of government until people cop a clue and do the math,” Tillis said.

The New York Times spent three years printing classified secrets and calling it journalism.

He partnered with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to build something no defense secretary has ever had – and the people who have been talking to reporters are about to wish they hadn’t.

Effective immediately, the Pentagon’s Office of General Counsel has full authority to request and receive every record, every communication, every file across the entire Department of War tied to media leak investigations.

Every department component.

Every Pentagon employee.

They now have 48 hours to respond – completely – to any OGC request.

That’s not a policy adjustment.

That’s a dragnet.

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A new report said that the Federal Communications Commission is likely to decide that the ABC show “The View” should not be classified as a “bona fide” news show.

The action is expected by the end of August, according to Bloomberg.

The FCC is also expected to move its investigation of several Disney-owned ABC stations to the next level.

Citing sources it did not name, Bloomberg said the FCC will move the review to an agency hearing, which is one step closer to revoking the licenses.

The ABC stations include outlets in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Houston, San Francisco, Raleigh-Durham, and Fresno, California.

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Salisbury, MD – Wicomico County is pleased to announce that beginning Monday, July 20, the box office at the Wicomico Civic Center will relocate to its permanent location at the front entrance of the venue, marking another significant milestone in the facility’s ongoing renovation project.

Visitors are encouraged to continue using caution and following all posted wayfinding signage as the final phases of construction are completed. While work is still underway, this transition represents another exciting step toward the completion of the Civic Center’s transformation.

“The relocation of the box office is another visible sign that we are getting closer to unveiling a fully renovated facility that our community can be proud of,” said Wicomico County Executive Julie Giordano. “This project is about far more than updating a building. We are investing in a premier destination that will serve our residents for generations, attract new visitors to our county, and continue to strengthen our local economy.”

The renovation of the Wicomico Civic Center is designed to enhance the experience for everyone who visits the venue, with improved accessibility, upgraded amenities, and modernized spaces that better accommodate concerts, sporting events, trade shows, community gatherings, and family entertainment.

As one of the region’s premier event venues, the Civic Center plays a vital role in bringing people together while supporting local businesses through tourism and economic activity. The improvements will ensure the facility continues to serve as a centerpiece for entertainment, recreation, and community events throughout the Lower Eastern Shore.

Wicomico County appreciates the public’s patience throughout the construction process and looks forward to welcoming residents and visitors to enjoy the enhanced facility as the renovation project reaches completion.

For updates on upcoming events and facility information, please visit the Wicomico Civic Center website or follow Wicomico County Government on social media.

England World Cup winner Nobby Stiles died with a brain condition caused by repeatedly heading a football, a coroner has ruled.

Stiles, 78, a former Manchester United footballer and 1966 World Cup winner, died with severe dementia and had headed a football around 140,000 times during the course of his career, Stockport Coroner’s Court heard at the inquest into his death.

Expert analysis of his brain showed his severe dementia was as a result of Alzheimer’s disease but also the condition, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which has been associated with head trauma from heading a ball.

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The summer heat is on, but there is plenty of great fishing to be had throughout Maryland. Make sure your fishing license is up to date!

As a reminder, under new regulations the Chesapeake Bay striped bass fishery is open to harvest through July 31 and then closed the entire month of August, reopening Sept. 1.

This is a great time to pursue the multiple other species in Maryland waters – particularly blue catfish found in almost every tidal river, and the challenging Chesapeake Channa, or northern snakehead, which is very active in warm temperatures.

Read more about the week ahead!

Democratic National Committee leaders were asked to sign non-disclosure agreements before a private meeting on the party’s finances last month, while Chairman Ken Martin continues to face scrutiny over the party’s fundraising and financial position ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

Axios, citing two people familiar with the discussions, reported on Thursday that the request marked a departure from past practice for DNC officers and reflected concerns about keeping internal financial discussions confidential.

The June 25 meeting came as Martin has faced criticism from some Democrat donors, strategists and DNC members over the committee’s fundraising efforts while Republicans maintain a significant financial advantage.

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International students previously could stay as long as their program lasted. The Trump administration is ending that 1978 policy.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday scrapped a long-standing policy that allowed international students to stay in the U.S. until they finish their program of study. The new rule will limit their stay in the country to just four years unless they receive an extension, as well as restrict students’ ability to change majors and institutions once they’ve arrived.

International education leaders and experts have argued that four years is not enough time for a significant number of students to complete their degrees; almost all Ph.D. programs are longer than four years, while the average undergraduate takes more than four years to complete their bachelor’s degree. Additionally, students pursuing optional practical training, the work authorization for F-1 students following their graduation, typically stay in the U.S. more than four years.

But the government has argued that the old policy known as duration of status allowed students to stay in the U.S. indefinitely without having to interact with immigration officials, leading to overstays and national security concerns. According to DHS, 2,100 international students who entered the country on an F-1 visa between 2000 and 2010 are still in the country with F-1 status.

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A newly released 799-page report titled “An Attack Upon U.S Critical Infrastructure” details the 2020 election corruption and beyond.

It provides a list of 18 prioritized and recommended election investigations, along with 8 search warrants. Entities named include Runbeck Election Services, Elections Group LLC, The Office of Georgia SOS, Tyler Technologies, Associated Press, and many others.

All assertions in the report are drawn from forensic analyses, sworn legislative testimony, court filings, IG investigations, vendor invoices, open-source intelligence, government communications obtained through litigation and FOIA, and more

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Legally entering and living in the United States, sometimes years at a time, is a privilege, not a right. That’s something that foreigners are learning isn’t taken lightly with President Trump back in the White House since Jan. 2025. And on Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security announced plans to crack down on those visitors who just refuse to leave.

For decades, foreign students have been admitted into the U.S. for an unspecified period, enabling thousands to abuse the system and become “forever students” by perpetually enrolling in courses to avoid leaving our nation.

By implementing clear, finite limits on these visas, the United States is reclaiming its ability to properly screen, vet, and monitor individuals within our borders.

The new limits on foreign visa holders would not affect only foreign students, though:

The Trump administration moved on Thursday to tighten the duration of visas for foreign students, cultural exchange visitors and journalists.

The new final rule from the Department of Homeland Security creates a fixed time period for F visas for international students, J visas that allow ‌visitors on cultural exchange programs to work in the U.S., and I visas for members of the media. Those visas are currently available for the duration of the program or employment in the U.S.

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Under the new regulations, the student and exchange visa periods would be no longer than four years. The visa for journalists – which c

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The violent attack comes as Mayor Brandon M Scott announced a reported drop in homicides and violent crime.

Police are searching for a group of suspects accused of beating up an elderly man and attempting to rob him outside a gas station in Baltimore.

Surveillance video shows the group run up to the man outside a 7-Eleven and proceed to attack him and display weapons.

The six unknown suspects wearing hooded sweatshirts appear to have knocked the man to the ground several times while also throwing various objects at him.

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A self-described “witchy woman” filmed herself at work mocking Pam Bondi’s  cancer diagnosis using astrology.

Now she’s the second leftist in four days to lose her job over it.

The left has picked a strange hill – and employers keep burying them on it.

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Rosalyn Holt was the business office manager at Helena Square Assisted Living in Port Royal, South Carolina.

She filmed a TikTok at work – surrounded by elderly residents who depended on her – featuring an image of Bondi alongside text suggesting her  thyroid cancer was spiritual payback for working on the Epstein case.

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Taco Bell lettuce supplied by a popular produce company has been identified as a potential source of contamination behind the parasitic illness saddling thousands of Americans with explosive diarrhea, according to a new report.

Shredded iceberg lettuce supplied to the fast food chain by Taylor Farms has been linked to this summer’s outbreak of cyclosporiasis, according to two individuals familiar with the investigation, The Washington Post reported.

“The signal we have gotten is that there is a very high percentage of people who got sick at Taco Bell, and when investigators asked what their menu items were in common, lettuce came up frequently,” said one of the individuals who spoke to the outlet on the condition of anonymity due to the ongoing investigation.

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President Trump is expected to reveal during his primetime speech Thursday on election security that at least 278,000 noncitizens are registered to vote in US federal elections.

The shocking number is part of a forthcoming report by the Department of Homeland Security, a source familiar told The Post.

It is the highest ever publicly reported in US history, but the source said it remains unclear how many of those registrants may have voted illegally and what the administration plans to do about it.

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Helen Comperatore, the wife of slain firefighter and Trump supporter Corey Comperatore sat down with NewsNation recently and gave her thoughts on the Trump Butler Rally shooting.

Former fire chief Corey Comperatore was shot and killed on July 14, 2024 while attending Trump’s Rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Since the shooting, numerous questions have been raised about the Secret Service’s security failures at the rally.

Among the most talked about is why agents did not secure the rooftop from which 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to open fire on President Trump and several rally attendees.

Helen Comperatore, in a sit-down interview, claimed the security lapses were due to the shooting being an “inside job.”

Helen stated, “I don’t believe there was another shooter there, but I believe he (Crooks) was working with somebody. I believe it was an inside job inside the government.”

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Just as a fictional U.S. soldier was brainwashed into becoming an enemy of the U.S., so too has the Democrat party made that transition over the last 25 years.

Richard Condon’s The Manchurian Candidate was published in 1959 during the Cold War. The novel told the story of an American soldier whom the Chinese and North Koreans brainwashed into becoming a political assassin as part of their attempt to overthrow America. Its power came from a simple but frightening idea: the greatest threat to a nation doesn’t necessarily come from outside its borders; sometimes a country can be manipulated into tearing itself apart.

In 2026, America may not be facing a single Manchurian Candidate but, instead, something more consequential: the metamorphosis of the Democrat party into a Manchurian Party.

The Democrat party shows no signs of disappearing. Instead, I’m concerned that it is becoming something fundamentally different from the institution Americans have known—and many respect and are loyal to—for generations.

That matters because America’s political system has always depended on constructive competition between parties that, despite deep disagreements, accepted the legitimacy of our constitutional underpinnings and at times even worked collegially with one another. Republicans and Democrats frequently argued over the proper role of government, even as they generally agreed on our constitutional framework.

It’s an open question whether that agreement still exists.

The Democrat party is undergoing a sharp break from its traditional platform. Leadership has stopped acting as the institution’s steward and now chases tactical wins, distorting the party’s long-term identity. Formerly fringe factions have been absorbed, supplying energy, money, and turnout. What started as Big Tent tolerance has morphed into reliance, and that reliance is now allowing those factions to consume the old party.

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A terrifying warning has sent shockwaves through Wall Street as financial experts warn that a stock market crash is looming on the horizon.

At the eye of the hurricane is tech giant Oracle, which veteran financial analyst David Desjardins fears will be the ‘first domino to fall’ in a brutal tech market collapse.

The company’s stock has already taken a massive beating, with shares of Oracle down almost 50 percent since the beginning of June as panicked investors rush for the exits.

In a devastating blow to its reputation, ratings agency S&P Global downgraded Oracle’s credit rating to BBB- on July 9, leaving it just one step above junk bond status.

Desjardins warns that the company’s success is now almost completely tied to the performance of artificial intelligence darling OpenAI.

Oracle has effectively bet the farm on the AI revolution, building colossal data centers to power the technology, but experts warn this high-stakes gamble could backfire spectacularly.

‘OpenAI is entirely dependent on capital markets remaining wide open to meet its financial obligations,’ wrote Desjardins, who warned that if the company had trouble raising money, ‘Oracle would be in the eye of the storm.’

The collapse would not just destroy Oracle, it could take down the rest of the AI market and touch off a massive stock market meltdown.

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We’ve extensively discussed how the Trump coalition is not reliably Republican. They can and will vote for Democrats, just as they did in the 2018 midterms, and a significant part of the base considers themselves economically progressive. These individuals are similar to the old Ross Perot voters, so, to the surprise of the political elite, Republicans need to actively work to retain their votes. Otherwise, they might shift toward interesting alternatives, such as Francesca Hong, who’s running for governor in Wisconsin.

Hong identifies as a democratic socialist, so why is she gaining support from Trump supporters? This is an issue expected to grow in importance in future elections, and we’re already seeing early signs. It’s subtle, but locally, it’s becoming part of the bigger conversation—specifically, data centers. Hong has made campaigning for a statewide moratorium a key focus. The New York Times published an interesting piece on July 3 that discussed Hong’s messaging to those outside her usual voter base. People, she has appeal. It’s not certain she will win the crowded Democratic primary on August 11, but Hong is making every effort to attract support across party lines. She has built bridges with Trump supporters, and love her or hate her, her story resonates with millions: she’s a working American, a chef by trade, her restaurant failed, she sank deep into debt, and got sued over it. It’s a life experience not exactly alien to most (via NYT):

Speaker Mike Johnson Surpasses a Record $135 Million in Fundraising for 2026 Midterms

But the bigger news is that, for this election cycle, Speaker Johnson has raised over $135 million for the 2026 midterms.

Here’s more from Johnson’s office:

Speaker Mike Johnson announced today he raised $19.1 million in the second quarter of 2026, bringing his total hard-dollar fundraising this year to over $53 million and this cycle to over $135 million. This is the most raised in an election year and at this point in a cycle by a Republican Speaker or Leader, and it does not include the hundreds of millions of additional funds raised by the Speaker’s endorsed Super PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund.

Speaker Johnson has now surpassed over $200 million raised for House Republicans in just over two and a half years since becoming Speaker.

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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and journalist Nick Shirley blew the lid open on how fraudsters in Minnesota used taxpayer funds to support a vicious radical terrorist group in Somalia.

Johnson questioned Shirley during a Wednesday Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) hearing on government fraud.

“I mean, $700 million in cash flowing out of the Minneapolis airport back to, you know, countries in Africa,” Johnson said. “Have either of you gentlemen kind of investigated the foreign sourcing or an organization of a lot of this fraud? I mean, we’re opening up to foreign governments to fund their own operations.”

Shirley responded by saying “it’s been proven that a lot of the money in suitcases that left Minnesota went back into the hands of people inside Somalia.”

He further explained that in New York, daycare fraud is so rampant that at many facilities, nobody “actually knows who the owner is.”

When the massive fraud issue in Minnesota was revealed last year, it also became apparent that not all of the fraudsters were perpetrating their schemes for personal reason. Many sent the money they defrauded from government welfare programs to support Al-Shabaab, one of the most notorious radical Islamic terrorist groups on the African continent. In fact, one confidential source said, “The largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer.”

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The PBS News Hour marked its 50^th anniversary last year (and the show’s first year deprived of taxpayer funding) with a clip package of its coverage of various historical events, while declaring the program had traditionally strove to be “even-handed to a fault.” If that were ever true, the current version of the show, co-anchored by Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz, certainly can’t make that claim.

A new Media Research Center study tracked and labeled every guest that appeared on the News Hour over the first six months of 2026 — January 1 through June 30 — and found that liberal-Democratic leaning guests outnumbered conservative-Republican leaning guests by 234–45, a ratio of 5.2 to 1 (186 guests were rated either neutral or nonpolitical).

That ratio surpasses findings from two previous MRC studies (3.7 to 1 in March 2023 and 4.2 to 1 in May 2025), meaning the bias has gone from bad to worse since PBS lost its government subsidy.

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Former Obama press secretary fired from Minneapolis post amid allegations he stole colleagues’ credit cards to buy kratom

Adam Fetcher, the 42-year-old former deputy national press secretary for the Obama administration, was fired from his role as Minneapolis Chief  Communications Officer on July 1 after city employees accused him of stealing cash and  credit cards from their desks and purses, allegedly to fund purchases of kratom at a nearby smoke shop.

Minneapolis police have submitted a case file to the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office for potential criminal charges. The case remains under review. No charges had been filed as of this week.

The New York Post reported that Fetcher, who earned close to $190,000 a year, allegedly targeted three city hall employees over a period spanning May and June, just weeks after he returned from a nine-week stint in rehab for an unspecified substance use disorder.

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Former President Joe Biden will publish a memoir this fall, publisher Little, Brown and Company told The Associated Press.

“Promise Me, America,” which Biden says will touch upon everything from the economy to his decision to drop his bid for reelection, is scheduled to come out Nov. 17.

The timing of the book — two weeks after midterm elections in which Democrats seek to regain control of Congress — could raise concerns within his party. Many Democrats remain divided on Biden’s legacy and his ill-fated determination to seek a second term in the White House, and leaders hope to keep the fall campaign focused on the record of Republican President Donald Trump.

“’Promise Me, America’ is about the challenges we faced as a nation. It’s about the decisions I made and why I made them,” Biden said in a video statement accompanying Wednesday’s announcement. “Most of all, it’s about my faith in the promise of America.”

Reports of Biden’s book have circulated for more than a year, and the former president himself has referred to it during public remarks, appearing to suggest it would be released before November’s election.

Biden, who will turn 84 three days after the publication of “Promise Me, America,” has long presented himself as an upholder of standards and traditions; presidential memoirs are one of them. With a handful of exceptions, modern presidents since Harry Truman in the 1950s have published books about their White House years. Little, Brown declined to release financial details for ”Promise Me, America,” although presidents have usually reached deals worth at least seven figures.

The book’s title echoes a 2017 memoir by Biden, “Promise Me, Dad,” which centered on the death of his son, Beau Biden.

Vowing as a candidate to “restore the soul” of his country, Biden was sworn into office in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, breach on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters seeking to stop his certification as president.

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Plus, UCLA and UCSF med schools abandon required DEI courses following Free Beacon investigations

Abdul El-Sayed is campaigning for Senate in Michigan as a populist who rails against the wealthy. “Why do we have a trillionaire when the rest of us can barely afford groceries or healthcare?” he asked earlier this week. He has even bemoaned the “perverse psychological consequences” of Rolex advertisements on the Michigan freeway, asking in his 2020 book, “How many people who drive this road can actually afford one of those”

“As it turns out, El-Sayed, who described himself in an interview with LGBTDetroit in May as a ‘sucker for automatic watches’ and ‘classic watches,’ can afford some pricey wristwear,” our Alana Goodman reports. He’s been photographed on the campaign trail wearing an array of luxury watches worth thousands of dollars, a Free Beacon review found.

El-Sayed even earned a shout-out from a watch podcast for “rocking what looks like the Sinn U-1 SE,” a German diver’s watch that costs roughly $4,000. “Badass stealthy pick, well done Doc!” an Instagram post from the Lan Jam podcast, “a friendly discussion between two blokes on watches, cars, aviation, movies, and everything in between,” declared. El-Sayed has also posted videos in which he appears to be wearing at least two Omega watches, a German nautical watch known as the S.A.R. Rescue-Timer, and a vintage 1950s Elgin “Doctors Watch.” The pieces are worth a total of roughly $20,000.

El-Sayed has “said he has maximalist political views but a minimalist style and has lacerated American ‘oligarchs,’ saying, ‘We finally need to start taxing billionaire wealth,’” Goodman writes. “El-Sayed participated in an Instagram video with a self-described ‘stylist for regular people,’ Sophie Strauss, in which she attempted to dress him in a manner that matches his radical politics. When Strauss suggested he wear ‘something green since you support climate justice,’ El-Sayed responded, ‘Of course, but this feels like money green, and I’m trying to get that out of politics.’”

A campaign spokeswoman, Roxie Richner, confirmed that El-Sayed “regularly wears a SAR Rescue Timer on the campaign trail because he is trying to rescue our politics from corporate corruption” and sometimes “wears a vintage doctor’s watch because he is a doctor,” Richner said. El-Sayed attended medical school at Columbia University but has never been licensed to practice medicine, though he has referred to himself as a “physician” on the campaign trail.

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MSNBC became MS NOW, and while they try to take comfort in routinely spanking CNN, they perennially lose in the ratings to the Fox News Channel. Their strongest stars are Rachel Maddow (only on Monday nights) and Nicolle Wallace in the late afternoon.

Recently, they shook up the lineup with new shows, and these new shows aren’t catching on. New Nielsen numbers show they’re falling off, in some cases with double-digit declines:

— Money, Power & Politics with Stephanie Ruhle airs weekdays from 9 to 11 a.m.) has averaged 710,000 total viewers, a 6 percent decline compared to the 9 a.m.-11 a.m. year-to-date timeslot prior to the lineup change. Among the 25-54 demographic, the program is down 16 percent, averaging 68,000 viewers.

— On the Line with Alicia Menendez (weekdays from noon to 2 p.m.) has averaged 602,000 total viewers, a 5 percent decrease compared to the YTD timeslot prior to the programming remix. Among the 25-54 set, it is down 15 percent, averaging 56,000 viewers.

— The Moment with Katy Tur (weekdays from 2 to 4 p.m.) has averaged 718,000 total viewers, a 5 percent decrease compared to the YTD timeslot prior to the programming changes. Among those aged 25-54, it is down 15 percent, averaging 60,000 viewers.

It isn’t better at night

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While Republicans, including Speaker Mike Johnson, are warning Americans about the dangers of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), it seems few Democrats are making the same statements publicly. But Al Mottur, a former advisor to Hillary Clinton, is warning his fellow Democrats of the socialist takeover.

“These people, they’re not crazy, they’re ideologues. They don’t love America, let me say that,” said Mottur. “A lot of these people do not love America and I’m not team Democrat, I’m team America. And if we have people in our party who are so far Left, that they are saying we don’t want to protect people from crime, well, that’s just absurd. And, by the way, we’re not going to win a national election, let alone an election in Michigan, if that’s our position.”

He’s correct.

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A bull bison hooked a retired grandfather near the hip and hurled him several feet into the air at a Yellowstone National Park campground on a Friday evening, leaving the man with multiple broken bones, but his grandson walked away uninjured. The eyewitness who filmed the attack believes that outcome was no accident.

Carl Isom-McDaniel, a retiree in his mid-60s from Kendall, Washington, was walking with his grandson near Bridge Bay Campground when the animal charged without provocation, Fox News Digital reported. Photographer Mike MacLeod, a Bozeman, Montana, veteran who captured the attack on video, said it looked like the grandfather positioned himself between the bison and the boy.

“It really felt to me like the grandfather kind of saved his grandson,” MacLeod said. “[He’d] taken the brunt of the attack.”

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Senate Democrats shunned a Wednesday hearing called to hear testimony about allegations of fraud.

As noted in a post on X, the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing Wednesday without any Democrats attending.

In his prepared testimony, journalist Nick Shirley, who helped expose social services fraud in Minnesota, said fraud is being publicized because it is so pervasive and easy to find.

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No matter how hard they try, Democrats cannot convince the Bidens to go away.

This time, at least, former President Joe Biden will delay reimposing himself on the public until after the midterm elections.

According to the Associated Press, Little, Brown and Company will publish the former president’s memoir, “Promise Me, America,” on Nov. 17, which gives the reading public exactly four months and two days to decide for themselves whether Biden actually wrote part or all of the book.

“I’ve written a book about my time as President,” Biden insisted Wednesday on the social media platform X.

A promotional video accompanied the former president’s post.

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

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Jashanpreet Singh, the 21-year-old illegal alien semi-truck driver who killed three people on a Southern California freeway last October was sentenced to under 5 years in prison on Tuesday.

Singh previously pleaded guilty to three counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.

Superior Court Judge Shannon Faherty (D) (she was previously appointed by Governor Newsom to fill a vacancy), sentenced Singh to 4 years and eight months in prison after he killed three people and injured several others in a multi-vehicle pile-up crash.

According to Fox News reporter Bill Melugin, Singh is an Indian illegal alien who was caught and released by border patrol agents at the El Centro, California, sector by the Biden administration in March 2022.

Anthony Fauci’s time has come. He’s heading into the hot seat, and questions about what he did and didn’t do and how much that “autopen pardon” really matters are about to come into the light.

According to Senator Rand Paul, Fauci will testify publicly before his committee, and this time, the questions are going straight to the heart of the COVID scandal, gain-of-function research, the Wuhan lab, and what Fauci allegedly told the American people while sitting at the center of the storm.

This is huge for so many reasons.

Fauci spent years being treated by legacy media like some untouchable medical saint, floating angelically above all the politics in his little white lab coat and halo, while Americans who had legit questions about him were mocked and labeled as conspiracy theorists, anti-science lunatics, and granny killers.

But a lot of those “conspiracy theories” actually aged pretty damn well.

Now, Rand Paul says declassified documents show Fauci didn’t just fund gain-of-function research connected to the Wuhan lab, he also helped shape what the intelligence community told Americans about COVID’s origins.

And yes, like we mentioned, Fauci has that autopen pardon hanging around in the background. But a bizarre, controversial pardon doesn’t erase the truth, and it sure as hell doesn’t erase the American people’s right to know who lied, who covered, who profited, and who helped steer the official story very far away from the truth.

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Veteran Democrat strategist James Carville is warning that socialist insurgents are endangering his party’s chances after a recent wave of far-left primary victories.

Carville, the former Bill Clinton strategist known as “The Ragin’ Cajun,” unloaded on “left-wing idiots” Friday during a “Presidential History Lesson” appearance for Politicon’s YouTube channel.

His comments came after socialist Democrat candidates scored primary wins in New York, Colorado, and Washington, D.C.

The surge has been triggering growing concern among establishment Democrats.

“These people are so f**king stupid, I don’t know what to say about it,” Carville said.

He said the far-left candidates are more focused on attacking Democrats than defeating Republicans.

“So now we have this idea that these insurgent Democrats — and what is their solution?” Carville said.

“Is their solution to beat Republicans, to run against Republicans? No!”

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The recent New York Democratic primary results reveal more than typical political turnover. They expose a dangerous realignment within the American Left. What we’re witnessing is the systematic mobilization of Islamist organizations forging strategic alliances with democratic socialists and far-left activists, creating a powerful coalition that threatens the party’s traditional center.

The deliberate targeting and defeat of Assemblymember Jenifer Rajkumar exemplifies this troubling trend. As a moderate Democrat and the first South Asian woman elected to the state legislature, Rajkumar embodied the pragmatic wing of her party.

Her loss wasn’t an isolated upset. It represents part of a coordinated effort to purge moderate voices from Democratic politics. Across New York, we’re seeing well-funded insurgent campaign machines systematically target and eliminate centrist Democrats, replacing them with candidates who embrace increasingly radical positions.

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Now we are going to get to see what really happens to the global economy when the Strait of Hormuz is completely closed for an extended period of time. Before the war, approximately 45 percent of all Asian oil imports traveled through the Strait of Hormuz. The Chinese normally get more oil from the Middle East than anyone else, and the amount of crude oil that they have been importing has collapsed. That is not sustainable for the Chinese, and they are getting very angry. At the same time, relentless drone attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure have forced the Russians to buy gasoline from India. If the Strait of Hormuz remains completely closed for months, global energy supplies will get extremely tight and the price of oil will go into unprecedented territory.

On Monday, the world was shocked when two oil tankers from the United Arab Emirates were struck by Iranian cruise missiles…

Iranian cruise missiles hit two oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, killing one crew member and injuring eight, the United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Defense said Monday.

The attacks took place when the tankers — Mombasa and Al Bahiyah — were sailing through the strait’s southern shipping lane, which hugs the coast of Oman, the defense ministry said. Iran has insisted that commercial ships use a separate lane near the Iranian coastline and seek permission from Iranian authorities. Iran has not publicly commented on the apparent attacks.

The deceased crew member and six injured crew members were Indian nationals, and two of those injured were from Ukraine, according to the United Arab Emirates.

The Iranians have warned that any commercial vessels that attempt to travel through the Strait of Hormuz without their permission are subject to attack, and they were not bluffing.

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