John Bolton, who was briefly President Donald Trump’s national security adviser in his first term, will resolve charges against him with a plea deal, according to a new report.

Bolton is expected to plead guilty to one count of retaining sensitive government information, according to The Washington Post.

The deal would vastly reduce any prison time Bolton would serve if found guilty at trial.

Bolton was accused of sending “diary-like” recollections of highly secret work to various relatives who he said would help him with his memoirs.

Bolton has agreed to pay a $2.25 million fine.

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Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson complained in a dissent released Thursday that the Supreme Court applying the Second Amendment involves throwing out unconstitutional gun laws.

The high court decided in Wolford v. Lopez that the state’s law requiring private property owners who wished to allow concealed carry on the premises to clearly post signs that carrying guns was allowed was a violation of the Second and 14th Amendments. Jackson argued in her lengthy dissent in the 6-3 opinion written by Associate Justice Samuel Alito, that the Supreme Court got it wrong in its June 2022 Bruen decision, as she did in a concurrence in Hemani v. United States released June 18.

“I think Bruen was wrongly decided. But if it is going to be our precedent, the majority should at least endeavor to apply it faithfully,” Jackson wrote in the dissent joined by Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor. “I respectfully dissent because the majority has failed to do so here, and its analysis and conclusion only further bind the hands of modern legislatures attempting to balance and protect their residents’ interests.”

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The Town of Pittsville will hold a public hearing on Thursday, July 2, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. at Pittsville Town Hall. The meeting will focus on the town’s State Fiscal Year 2027 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) application. Residents are invited to share their ideas about community, economic development, and housing needs.

A draft of the CDBG application will be available for public review at Town Hall from June 29 through July 6, 2026, during regular business hours. At the hearing, town officials will explain how much CDBG funding is available, what types of projects qualify, and which projects are being proposed.

The Maryland CDBG Program, managed by the Department of Housing and Community Development, helps towns improve neighborhoods, housing, and community facilities or support local economic growth. To qualify, projects must meet at least one of three national goals: benefit low- and moderate-income residents, remove slum or blight conditions, or address urgent community needs.

Residents who need disability accommodations or language assistance should contact Town Manager Joseph A. Mangini, Jr. at least five days before the hearing. The notice was issued by Sean McHugh, President of the Town Commissioners.

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With summer vacations in full swing and Maryland’s final free fishing day approaching on July 4th, there is no better time to grab your gear and head outdoors.

From massive red drum and cobia in the lower bay to jumbo blue crabs and deep-water reservoir bass, this week’s report delivers all the latest intel to help your family find the perfect bite.

Check out the full report.

Jesse Kelly of “The First” warned American citizens this week of the extreme danger of communism that is taking over the Democrat party.

He cited examples in history of small groups like the Nazis, the Bolsheviks, and Mao’s Communist movement that became big. The results were millions of innocent people who were murdered under those extreme ideologies.

Kelly explained that the communist movement in the Democrat party is starting in a few states, but warned that Americans should not dismiss the great threat that it is becoming.

“If you are at all a fan of history, or a student of history, you will see consistent themes,” Kelly said.

“Let’s talk for a second about the Nazis. Let’s start there,” Kelly said.

“Do you know what the Nazis were in the beginning? They were bar room entertainment for a lack of a better way to put it. They had all these beer halls in Germany, and they would go give these loud speeches in beer halls,” Kelly said.

“Just a small, barely insignificant group of committed people. Five minutes later they ran everything. Absolutely everything,” Kelly warned.

Eight North Carolina women pleaded guilty in a $25 million Covid fraud scheme.

And as they say, your name is your destiny.

Two of the defendants are named “Leach” and “Swindell.”

According to federal prosecutors a Robeson County woman who owned a tax return preparation business conspired with others to prepare false tax returns claiming fraudulent refunds based on Covid tax credits.

Seven other co-conspirators were arrested and charged for preparing federal tax returns for clients that included materially false items.

Per the DOJ:

A Robeson County woman who was the owner of a North Carolina tax return preparation business pleaded guilty to conspiring to prepare false returns claiming fraudulent refunds based on COVID-19 tax credits, and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns.

Mitchell, 48, faces a maximum term of eight years in prison, and a $500,000 fine when sentenced later this year. She will also be ordered to pay a Forfeiture Money Judgment of $13,890,697.00. Seven other tax return preparers have already pleaded guilty for their roles in the same fraud scheme.

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Stephen A Smith has questioned how former Democrat Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton became vastly richer after leaving the White House.

The ESPN commentator turned political pundit cited both men’s relatively humble beginnings before achieving much more money upon exiting office.

‘I’ll confess something to ya’ll. Clinton was a lawyer in Arkansas. Grew up poor, relatively broke. How the hell him and the Clinton Foundation is worth hundreds of millions of dollars beat me.’

A Forbes investigation in 2016 suggested both Bill and wife, former Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had made over $230 million in the years since President Clinton left Washington.

Smith then turned his attention to the next Democrat to win the presidency, Barack Obama.

‘Barack Obama was a community organizer who became the president of the United States and, last time I checked, that salary ain’t over $450,000, if I remember correctly,’ Smith argued.

Obama’s net worth went from $20 million throughout his presidency to $70million as recently as 2024, Forbes claimed.

They also notoriously enjoy a $12 million mansion at ritzy Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.

The United States has seized nearly ‌400 internet domains that were being used to illegally stream the World Cup, officials said on Friday, describing the move as one meant to disrupt international networks profiting from the popularity of ‌the tournament.

The Department of Justice said the ​domains were identified with the assistance of soccer governing body FIFA and others, including NBC Universal ⁠and Warner Brothers.

The domains were used to illegally offer ​users copyright-protected content in the form of real-time streams ⁠of the World Cup matches as they were being played and first broadcast, the department said.

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A 35-year-old nurse in Kentucky prepared her will. The single mother named a legal guardian for her four children and transferred her properties into their names.

She felt like she needed to prepare for death — in case she gets deported back to Haiti, a country she fled at 9 years old.

After the Supreme Court decided Thursday to allow the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disasters in Haiti and Syria, fear ricocheted through those communities across the United States. Hundreds of thousands of people now face the prospect of deportation.

“I have been living with this internal fear, it’s like preparing for a funeral, just in case I die when going to another country,” said the nurse, who asked not to be identified for fear of being targeted for deportation.

She is among about 350,000 Haitians granted Temporary Protected Status, many of whom have legally lived and worked in the U.S. for decades and have children who are U.S. citizens. Thursday’s decision, which is expected to take effect July 27, also applied to around 6,000 Syrians. It could also open the door to the administration unwinding protections for 1.3 million people from 17 countries.

Congress created Temporary Protected Status in 1990 to prevent deportations to countries deemed dangerous, because of disasters, civil war or other violence or instability. It permits people to work legally in the U.S. but does not provide a path to citizenship. It can be renewed in increments of up to 18 months if the homeland security secretary deems conditions unsafe for return.

The Biden administration roughly doubled the number of people covered by TPS. The Trump administration ended those protections, insisting it was meant to be temporary, the countries are now safe and that President Joe Biden’s administration expanded the destination and poorly vetted its recipients.

TPS beneficiaries have, by definition, been living in limbo and their futures have been especially precarious under President Donald Trump, but the Supreme Court ruling delivered what could be a crushing blow to living and working legally in the United States.

The Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio, became a particular target of the administration during the 2024 campaign, when Trump said Haitians there were eating people’s cats and dogs.

The community has been under intense pressure ever since, said Viles Dorsainvil, the executive director of the Haitian Community Help and Support Center in Springfield.

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The Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark continues to be a target of scorn in the WNBA, this time courtesy of the Phoenix Mercury’s official account on social media platform X.

Wednesday saw the Fever and Mercury face off at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Mercury’s Alyssa Thomas plunged a closed fist into Clark’s neck at the horn as she was getting off the ground.

Thomas subsequently received a Flagrant Foul 2 penalty and a one-game suspension. The WNBA described her actions as “recklessly making contact with her fist to the throat area.”

The WNBA’s statement from Thursday reads, “The incident, for which Thomas was deemed to have committed a non-basketball act, occurred with 6:52 remaining in the second quarter of the Mercury’s 111-109 win over the Fever last night at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.

“Per WNBA rule, the League Office has the option, following its review of any game, to reclassify a Flagrant foul or to classify as Flagrant any foul not called as such during a game and may impose a fine and/or suspension.”

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The Supreme Court recently cleared the way for the Trump administration to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Haitians.

And now, DHS General Counsel James Percival has a message for anyone who thinks there will be a grace period before deportations begin. A Semisonic message, as it were.

During an exchange with Fox News’ Bill Melugin, who asked about said grace period, Percival quoted the song “Closing Time.” Which you just know will infuriate bleeding hearts who undoubtedly will whine about what they perceive as a callous response.

Meh. One person’s callousness is another man’s humor. And this reply is comedy gold, Jerry.

“The ‘T’ in TPS stands for ‘temporary,’ yet many of these designations go back decades,” he said, pointing out that those affected already had a plethora of time to address their situations.

“President Trump has been trying to end these programs since 2017. So these people have been on notice for nine years that this day is coming,” he added. “So what we would say now is that it’s closing time, which means you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.”

The DHS official explained that those affected are free to voluntarily self-deport via the CBP Home app: “The good news is it’s not too late to get a $2,600 check and a free flight home.”

A second privately built nuclear reactor went critical this week in Utah. Less than three weeks ago, Antares Nuclear did it in Idaho, the first privately developed non-light-water reactor to reach criticality in the United States in more than 40 years. Now, Valar Atomics has done it too. The Trump administration set a July 4 deadline. Two companies have hit it.

The Ward 250 reactor completed a zero-power fueled criticality demonstration at the Utah San Rafael Energy Lab. DOE says it is the first reactor built and operated outside a national laboratory under Department of Energy (DOE) authorization.

Valar was founded in 2023. Stayed in stealth until February 2025. Broke ground in Emery County that September on what was, at that point, an empty field. Nine months later, the reactor on that site reached criticality.

Isaiah Taylor, Valar’s founder and CEO, demonstrated the timeline:

“Nine months ago, this was an empty site. Today, there’s a critical reactor on it, built and operated by the Valar team. We met the milestone the executive order set. This reactor was built to make power, and that’s exactly where we’re headed.”

Ward 250 is a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor with tri-structural isotropic (TRISO) fuel, helium coolant, and graphite moderation. Compact enough to ship in a minivan-sized envelope, designed to be operated remotely, and intended to scale to five megawatts of electricity when fully developed.

Before moving the full reactor to Utah, Valar ran a smaller test configuration, the NOVA Core, at the National Criticality Experiments Research Center in December 2025. Zero-power criticality. Physics confirmed. Then they built the real thing.

Getting Ward 250 to Utah required three U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster IIIs. The unfueled components were loaded in California and flown to the test site. DOE says it was the first time a small reactor had been airlifted on a U.S. military C-17.

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Stronger verification protocols have been restored after alleged scammers took advantage of the program on Biden’s watch

EXCLUSIVE: As part of an anti-fraud crackdown that spans the entirety of the federal government, the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) uncovered millions of alleged fraudsters on the Affordable Care Act rolls, according to a report obtained by Fox News Digital.

A Biden-era spike in Obamacare enrollments led to a probe into the veracity of millions of claims, a Trump administration official confirmed. At the beginning of Biden’s term, there were 10 million people enrolled in the government’s healthcare program, but that number drastically skyrocketed to 22 million at its 2024 peak.

Now, the Trump administration has removed nearly three million of the fraudulent enrollees, with a planned 2.6 million left to go.

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The Department of Homeland Security is telling Haitians who use Temporary Protected Status to remain in the United States that it is time to leave.

On Thursday, in the case of Mullin v. Doe, the Supreme Court overturned lower court rulings that tried to prevent the administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for Haitian and Syrian nationals who had been allowed to live in the United States indefinitely, due to what were considered hazardous conditions in their homelands when TPS was granted.

Trump administration officials said that leaves Haitian immigrants with the choice of leaving or being removed.

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Retired Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Boomer Esiason said the quiet part aloud — the treatment of the Indiana Fever point guard Caitlin Clark has to do with her being straight and white.

In a video clip from his radio program “Boomer and Gio,” Esiason told co-host Gregg “Gio” Giannotti, “If I were Caitlin Clark, I would seriously consider going to play overseas somewhere and get the royal treatment.”

After Gianotti sarcastically quipped Saudi Arabia as a possible option and Esiason ruled out Russia after the controversy stemming from the Brittany Griner conviction and prison sentence, he said, “A lot of the women actually do play in European leagues because they supplement their income.”

After acknowledging that “Caitlin makes a ton of money off the court,” he said “there’s a petty jealousy and she’s a straight, white basketball player, and she is not being treated with any sort of respect whatsoever.”

Diagnoses of gambling disorder have climbed sharply in states that legalized sports betting since the Supreme Court’s 2018 decision cleared the way for widespread online wagering, according to a recent study that’s renewing concerns about the industry’s rapid expansion.

Epic Research found gambling disorder diagnoses jumped more than 60% in states with legal sports betting, while diagnoses declined in the 11 states that have not legalized the practice.

The study reviewed electronic health records from more than 197 million U.S. adults between January 2018 and March 2026.

Diagnoses in states with legalized sports betting increased from 3.0 cases per 100,000 adults to 4.8 per 100,000, while cases in states without legalized sports betting fell by about 30%.

Young adults saw the steepest increase. Adults ages 18 to 29 — particularly men — experienced the largest jump in gambling disorder diagnoses, while adults ages 30 to 49 had the highest overall rate.

Epic Research said the findings “cannot be attributed to any single legal event,” pointing to factors such as expanded telehealth, increased clinician awareness, and changes in diagnostic coding.

Even so, researchers said the trend is consistent with other studies showing more people are seeking help for gambling problems in states that legalized sports betting.

“You increase access, you increase problems,” Rutgers University social work professor Mark van der Maas told NBC News.

“As soon as you introduce a new form of gambling or dramatically increase the availability of gambling, you will be increasing the number of people that are experiencing harm because of that gambling,” he added.

Harry Levant, director of gambling policy at the Public Health Advocacy Institute, argued that the findings underscore the risks of online gambling platforms.

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A female police officer has been indicted on assault charges after video showed her shoving and slapping a handcuffed woman who was nine months pregnant.

Surveillance video from the horrifying incident shows Officer Carri Carrico, 47, allegedly assaulting the 21-year-old victim at the booking facility in Buckeye, Arizona.

Carrico shoved the heavily pregnant woman against a wall and dragged her to a bench, video obtained by the Daily Mail showed.

She is then seen swinging her arm toward the woman’s head. The alleged victim told investigators that Carrico hit her, according to the indictment reviewed by ABC 15.

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Iranian dissidents are warning the Trump administration to stay tough and be wary of the Islamic Republic’s deception as it tries to end the war there.

Last week’s 14-point memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the US and Iran ended fighting and set the stage for 60 days of broader talks aimed at dismantling the regime’s nuclear program and reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

But members of the disapora say the US risks emboldening a regime that has repeatedly violated past commitments and has a long track record of repression and regional destabilization.

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Worcester County Commissioners Diana Purnell (top left), Ted Elder (top right), and Chip Bertino (bottom left) were on the ballot for reelection, while Commissioner Jim Bunting (bottom right) decided not to run again.

Worcester County voters ousted two longtime county commissioners in Tuesday’s primary, while a third incumbent trailed in a race too close to call.

New Analysis from 2020 Virginia Election Shows Over a Million Duplicate Applications – Matches Near Million Ballot Drop We Uncovered Right After Election

A new report shows that in Virginia in 2020, over a million duplicate ballots were processed in the election.

The heat is on. On Thursday, the ongoing discussion about the importance of the SAVE America Act got another boost, and from a state we normally think of as deep blue – Maryland. But Maryland’s Republican Representative Andy Harris (MD-01), Chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, is supporting the bill – and he’s laying down the reasons.

The post reads:

Andy Harris just ENDED the debate on the SAVE America Act:

“If you listen carefully to what the Democrat Socialists of America say, they want everybody to vote, but the American people don’t agree.”

“You can poll Democrats, Republicans, Independents, blacks, whites, Hispanics. EVERYBODY agrees that American citizens should be the ONLY ones voting in federal elections.”

That’s EXACTLY right.

Rep. Harris said:

If you listen carefully to what the Democrat Socialists of America say, they want everybody to vote. But the American people don’t agree. The American people… You can poll anywhere in this country. You can poll Democrats, Republicans, independents, blacks, whites, Hispanics, everybody agrees that American citizens should be the only ones voting in federal elections. That’s all this does. And it says, oh, by the way, you should actually have to show a voter ID. Hugely popular with the American people. That’s why the president backs it. That’s why we back it. That’s why the Senate has to do the right thing.

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It’s been one of the most frustrating conundrums for conservatives in the second Trump era: they control the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives, yet they can’t get the SAVE America Act, which would require voters to produce proof of citizenship to register and provide a photo ID to submit a ballot, passed.

Although the SAVE Act has passed the House, Republicans are short of the 60 votes needed in the Senate to get it done, and Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has refused to get rid of the filibuster, saying he can’t corral enough votes for that either.

As the Senate readies for another vacation, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (FL-13) and other conservatives have seen enough. She’s threatening to halt all House business until the Act is passed in the upper chamber.

She’s not playing games, she vowed:

“There’s going to be no votes this week, and it’s going to be as long as it takes,” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., who is leading the effort, told Fox News Digital in an interview.

The hardball tactics led House Republican leadership to pull a series of votes on Wednesday. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is expected to put legislation that had already been teed up for a vote Thursday, but it is unclear whether he will be able to convince Luna and other conservatives to end their blockade, effectively freezing the House floor.

“The president’s been very clear,” Luna told Fox News Digital. “He’s not playing these games anymore, and I’m going to fully back him, and I have the votes to do it.”

Postmaster General David Steiner confirmed that, under a new proposed rule, the U.S. Postal Service will deliver zero mail-in ballots to states that refuse to turn over their absentee voter data lists.

Such a commitment would be a major boost for election integrity.

“If a state refuses to turn their absentee voter list over to the federal government, will the Postal Service still mail their ballots under this … rule?” Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) asked during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday.

“Under our proposed regulation, no,” Steiner explained.

Steiner’s straightforward “no” leaves little room for ambiguity.

The move, which stems from an executive order signed by President Trump in March, requires states to provide names, addresses, and ballot details at least 60 days before federal elections so that only verified ballots reach eligible voters.

Steiner was pressed further on the logic behind the requirement for the data.

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Caitlin Clark has been urged to leave the WNBA behind after she was the victim of another sickening act of on-court violence.

The Indiana Fever superstar, who has transformed the fortunes of the WNBA since entering the league in 2024, appeared to be punched in the throat by Alyssa Thomas of the Phoenix Mercury.

It is the latest example of Clark falling victim to rough treatment from rivals, which also marred her rookie season in 2024.

But the WNBA continues to overlook the physicality imposed on Clark and referees didn’t even bother to call a foul for the incident involving Thomas.

That has prompted Boomer Esiason, the 1988 NFL MVP who now works as a New York sports radio host, to tell Clark to quit the WNBA for good.

He said on Thursday morning: ‘If I were Caitlin Clark, I would seriously consider going to play overseas somewhere and get the royal treatment and get real money.

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Dave Portnoy has blasted WNBA star Alyssa Thomas after she appeared to punch Caitlin Clark in the throat during their game on Wednesday night.

Clark was driving to the hoop when she fell to the ground in the paint while under pressure from a number of Phoenix Mercury defenders.

Three Mercury players were battling to strip the ball away from Clark and succeeded in doing so.

The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Trump Administration is allowed to end Temporary Restricted Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syria.

This is the second huge immigration win for the Trump Administration today.

The high court, in a 6-3 vote, ruled that the Temporary Protected Status is… temporary!

The three liberal justices Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson dissented.

The Trump Administration will strip TPS from 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians.

A federal judge earlier this year blocked the Department of Homeland Security from ending the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 350,000 Haitians.

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Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the law ‘violates the constitutional right to keep and bear arms’

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Hawaii on Thursday, handing concealed-carry permit holders a major victory in a 6-3 decision.

The Supreme Court sided with the plaintiff in Wolford v. Lopez, who contested Hawaii’s state law requiring a property owner’s explicit permission to allow lawful gun owners to bring firearms into public businesses.

“Hawaii’s law at issue here violates the constitutional right to keep and bear arms,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote. “This regime hobbles what the Second Amendment protects: the right of Americans to carry arms for self-defense as they go about their daily lives.”

The ruling reverses a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which had upheld Hawaii’s restrictions after the state enacted them in response to the Supreme Court’s 2022 Bruen decision.

After Bruen struck down New York’s “proper cause” licensing requirement and held that Americans have a constitutional right to carry handguns outside the home for self-defense, Hawaii overhauled its firearms laws.

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Justice Samuel Alito wrote both opinions, also holding that TPS recipients cannot block revocation of their status

The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump two major immigration victories on Thursday morning, both having to do with his administration’s efforts to reduce asylum claims.

In the first case, Mullin v. Al Otro Lado, the court held that migrants who are turned away at the border before entering the United States are not entitled to apply for asylum. In the second case, Mullin v. Doe, the court ruled that Haitian and Syrian nationals in the United States with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) could not receive judicial relief postponing the revocation of their status while they challenge the Trump administration’s efforts to revoke it in court.

Together, the rulings mark a shift in the legal fight over who can seek protection in the United States, giving the Trump administration a new avenue to limit asylum claims at the border and more leeway to move forward with ending temporary protections for certain migrants already in the country. The rulings also remove key legal obstacles to the administration’s broader push to reduce border crossings and accelerate removals.

Writing the opinion in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado, Justice Samuel Alito argued that a migrant who reaches the southern border but is turned away before entering has not, for legal purposes, “arrive[d] in” the United States. The holding is significant because current law provides that anyone who “arrives in the United States” has the right to apply for asylum.

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The Maryland Cannabis Administration (MCA) is currently accepting proposals for a pilot Cannabis Care Line (CCL) program, an initiative intended to complement the ongoing provider-patient relationship with certifying as well as other healthcare providers. The pilot program will supplement existing clinical director services being offered at Maryland licensed dispensaries. Guidance provided through the CCL will be free-of-charge to callers.

“This CCL pilot program is being launched in response to medical cannabis patient and provider feedback collected during MCA’s medical cannabis roundtables in 2025 as well as input from the 2025 Maryland Medical Cannabis Patient Survey,” said Tabatha Robinson, Maryland Cannabis Administration director. “The MCA has listened to what our more than 80,000 certified medical cannabis patients have to say. As a result, the CCL program was born to address those voices and enhance our medical cannabis program.”

The CCL program includes the provision of medical staff to answer each call. Staff are required to have designated clinical credentials and required training on medical cannabis use topics. Calls must be answered live a minimum of 12 hours per week. Hours of operation and call time hours may vary during the pilot program to target peak volume. In addition to assisting patients navigate key topics such as contraindications and side effects, CCL staff will be able to screen and make referrals for problem use and cannabis use disorder. While medical patients will be prioritized, adult-use customers will be able to contact the CCL for guidance on similar questions as well.

Please note: The guidance provided via the CCL is intended to be informational and is not intended to create an ongoing treatment relationship between the caller and provider or to replace medical care.

Proposals will be accepted through July 16, 2026. Any questions regarding this procurement should be directed to publichealth.mca@maryland.gov by July 8, 2026.

Click here to view the Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Cannabis Care Line.

On New York Democrat primary night, the Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) crazies swept their three targeted congressional races, while other DSA maniacs saw “fantastic” results. Soon after the final numbers were reported, the Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) gave a speech “cheering” the results. In response, the DSA crowd at a victory party booed and chanted “you’re next” at Jeffries, whom they loathe for his supposed “moderation.”

This, my friends, is a truly ironic development. Jeffries and the rest of the Democrat establishment have dug their own graves – their policies created the DSA and have fed its successes, so that they are now becoming the victims of it.

How did this happen? Here is the answer:

In my last column, I discussed the leftist educational mess that the Democrat establishment has made of our colleges and K-12. The Democrat establishment was eager to allow left-wingers to enmesh themselves in the educational system, to turn the successive generations into solid Democrat voters. Well, guess who came out to the polls in the low turnout NY primaries that powered the DSA triumph – the white hipster doofi who love socialism? In areas without them, the establishment Democrats easily held on.

Even more amusing is Hakeem Jeffries’ personal history in all this. Jeffries is the nephew of Lionel Jeffries, a professor at the City University of New York, who eventually lost his job over his bigoted comments against whites and Jews. Hakeem Jeffries — who was in college when his uncle’s controversy began — defended his uncle in a student newspaper and invited his uncle to give a speech on campus. Now, the students taught by Lionel Jeffries and the other leftist nuts are promising to remove Hakeem Jeffries from office.

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The Tennessee Valley Authority released its preliminary 2026 integrated resource plan on Monday, saying load growth in its footprint is already outpacing the reference case forecast in its draft IRP, and that it has incremental capacity needs for between 7 GW and 26 GW of natural gas between now and 2040.

“TVA’s actual and forecasted electricity demand has increased relative to the draft IRP’s Reference scenario and is approaching the Higher Growth Economy scenario primarily due to data center growth (e.g., artificial intelligence, hyperscaler, etc.),” the IRP said. The higher growth scenario “evaluates a higher gas price environment driven by substantial economic growth.”

The federally-owned utility also plans to add up to 5 GW of nuclear, 1-5 GW of storage, 2-5 GW of renewables (1-8 GW nameplate) and 2-3 GW of energy efficiency and demand response additions.

“New capacity is needed in all scenarios to support load growth or replace expiring and end of life capacity,” the IRP said.

TVA said that gas expansion is necessary to provide “firm, dispatchable capacity,” while new nuclear technologies “support load growth and reduce fuel volatility and regulatory risks” and solar expansion can play a “complementary role, meeting customer needs and providing economic energy.”

“Storage expansion continues, driven by both battery storage and the potential for additional pumped storage,” TVA said. “Energy efficiency deployment reduces energy needs, particularly between now and 2040, and demand response programs grow with the system and the use of smart technologies.”

TVA will take public comment on the preliminary final IRP until July 22, and will hold a public webinar on July 2 to discuss the plan. Final recommendations will be shared at the TVA Board meeting in August.

The IRP noted that the region has “recently experienced extreme winter temperatures in each of the last few years,” with a new winter peak record of 35,319 MW being set in January 2025, and for the 2026 IRP the utility used a 26% planning reserve margin target for winter, compared to its 18% planning reserve margin target for summer.

TVA established three potential strategies in the IRP: Strategy A, which sticks with TVA’s baseline and relies heavily on natural gas generation; Strategy B, which embraces technological innovation and nuclear expansion in particular; and Strategy C, which focuses on distributed energy and would increase renewables and storage.

Strategy A’s higher reliance on natural gas means it has a “higher financial risk exposure than alternative strategies,” while Strategy B is the most expensive overall, and Strategy C “increases the risk of unserved energy or energy curtailment,” TVA said.

The IRP recommends the utility “pursue solar to reduce total system costs or meet customer needs,” but “suspend wind additions given cost and portfolio fit challenges.” It also recommends investment in TVA’s hydro and nuclear fleets and pursuing “nuclear license extensions to maintain low-cost generation.”

In the IRP’s high growth forecast, the scenario which the region is edging closer to, nuclear capacity growth is the highest due in part to increases in the natural gas price forecast.

TVA noted changes in U.S. energy policy since its 2025 IRP, including the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s curtailment of the investment tax credits available to renewable projects, and the Trump administration’s focus on coal and gas generation.

President Donald Trump has pushed for TVA to turn back toward coal, and fired three Biden appointees from the TVA board in July after the board authorized the retirement of coal units at TVA’s Cumberland and Kingston power plants so natural gas could be developed there. After Trump appointed three replacements to the board, the board voted to operate Cumberland and Kingston’s coal plants past their retirement dates.

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The Department of Education (ED) on Tuesday announced new investigations into the Maryland State Department of Education and several Maryland school districts over policies that allegedly favor gender ideology over biological reality, at the expense of female students.

ED’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened the probes on the 54th anniversary of the signing of Title IX into state department of education, as well as Montgomery County Public Schools, Prince George’s County Public Schools, and Frederick County Public Schools (the Districts). OCR is looking to determine if the entities have violated Title IX by allowing boys to access girls’ intimate facilities and sports teams.

‘These policies are there to silence students who believe that sex cannot be changed’

The University of Minnesota forces students to adopt transgender ideology in the name of preventing “sexual harassment,” and students are suing, saying the policies violate their free speech rights under the First Amendment and prevent them from inviting speakers such as the detransitioner Chloe Cole.

“We live in fear of being disciplined and having our future ruined if we even accidentally use a pronoun someone doesn’t like,” Jackson Barrick, a University of Minnesota student entering his senior year, told the Daily Signal in a statement Tuesday. Young America’s Foundation, a conservative youth organization, represents Barrick and fellow students in the lawsuit, with lawyers from the Southeastern Legal Foundation.

“In the last two years, there have been nearly 20 complaints filed with the university that students violated these policies,” Barrick added. “These policies are there to silence students who believe that sex cannot be changed.”

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A Moorpark father who admitted to having an incestuous relationship with his 18-year-old biological dodged state prison this week, sparking outrage after prosecutors pushed for the maximum punishment, describing a clear abuse of trust and authority.

Stephen Vincent Chavez, 41, was sentenced to one year in jail and three years of felony probation after pleading guilty in May to one felony count of incest and one misdemeanor count of providing alcohol to a minor, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office.

Stephen Chavez, 41, of Moorpark, behind bars during his sentencing.Ventura County District Attorney’s Office

We can’t have nice things because orange man bad.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, has been neglected for decades, sadly, and it seems every attempt to restore it to glory has been doomed from the start. Former President Barack Obama tried and failed – and he wasn’t the first – but President Donald Trump said he would get it done quickly, without any fuss, and at relatively little cost. The renovation took longer than he claimed it would and cost considerably more than the figure he originally touted. But he did fix it, and, for a few days, it looked great. Still, it already needs repairs after allegedly being sabotaged – and, beyond the question of whether the famous landmark was deliberately damaged, reactions to the news tell us a great deal about the mind-altering effects of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

The first thing worth noting is that, when the Reflecting Pool was last renovated – the project was completed in late 2012 at a cost of $34 million – hardly anyone mentioned it. The media didn’t cover it to any great extent; Obama’s critics were not angry about it – or about the price tag – and when, just days after renovations were complete, the pool filled with algae, no one gleefully reported its failure.

Certainly, Obama didn’t accuse anyone of vandalizing the pool because the very notion would have been ridiculous. No one on the right, no matter how much they despised the then-president, would have even considered defacing a national landmark out of sheer spite.

Yet, the idea that Trump-deranged leftists would really do such a petty and reprehensible thing is entirely believable. And that in itself is a damning indictment of the 47th president’s haters.

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The Supreme Court should ensure that the National Voter Registration Act is properly applied by the federal judiciary.

here is a glaring election integrity problem that only the U.S. Supreme Court can remedy: federal courts are misinterpreting the public disclosure provision of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, frustrating the intent of Congress to enlist the public’s help in ensuring accurate and up-to-date voter rolls. By doing so, those courts are facilitating fraud.

Recent polling by Gallup shows that 43 percent of Americans are either “not at all confident” or “not too confident” in the security of our elections. One of the reasons is no doubt the recognized problem of sloppy registration lists. A 2012 study by Pew found that 24 million, or one in eight, voter registrations in the U.S. were “significantly inaccurate.”

This is a serious indictment of state election officials, who are obviously not doing what’s necessary to ensure those rolls are accurate. Inaccurate voter rolls can lead to fraud that endangers the integrity of the election process. A 2020 study by the Public Interest Legal Foundation that compared voter registration lists and voter histories from 42 states found more than 144,000 instances of potentially fraudulent voting during the 2016 and 2018 elections.

That included 14,608 deceased-but-registered voters who cast ballots; more than 81,000 voters registered twice at the same address who cast two votes; almost 8,400 individuals who voted twice because they were registered in two different states; 5,500 voters who cast two ballots because they were registered twice in the same state but at different addresses; and 34,000 individuals who cast ballots despite being registered at nonresidential addresses ranging from commercial establishments to vacant lots and parks.

But there is currently a split in the federal courts of appeal over whether the public and organizations concerned with election integrity have standing — that is, the ability to file a lawsuit — under the National Voter Registration Act to pursue claims against states that refuse to provide access to voter registration information, restrict the use of such information, or impose criminal and civil penalties for “misuse” of that information. The disagreement among the appellate courts means that the federal rights of voters and advocacy groups depend on where they live.

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“It was a public health issue being politicized for very much partisan gain,” said former Congressman Jason Lewis. However, Lewis said the bigger issue is “how many people it hurt.”

Jason Lewis joined Liz Collin on her podcast.

They are conspiracies until they aren’t. With more and more information about the COVID pandemic being released, former Minnesota Congressman Jason Lewis joined Liz Collin on her podcast to talk about his new feature film project, “State of Deception.”

Lewis, who represented Minnesota’s Second District in Congress from 2017 to 2019, said the film aims to provide much-needed perspective about COVID-era scandals in the style of “House of Cards meets The Manchurian Candidate.”

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While the project has been in the works for some time, Lewis said he is reassured given all of the information that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released last week on her last day on the job.

“I spoke with Tulsi about this a couple of years back, and she was very concerned then,” Lewis said.

By releasing the declassified information, Lewis said Gabbard did “a wonderful, wonderful thing for America in trying to uncover what is going to turn out to be one of the great scandals, one of the great conspiracies, of which, by the way, a lot of people’s lives are still impacted by.”

“What we experimented with is, quite frankly, martial law in Minnesota. And we’ve still yet to get all the information on how we fast tracked this vaccine. It was classified as experimental, and why somehow it was needed for everyone, including the young and the healthy. So you’ve got all of these things coming together,” Lewis explained.

“This is how I got on State of Deception. If you put this in a story and then you realize all the things that are coming out are proving this grand conspiracy, people wouldn’t believe it … so this is really something that I think is going to go down, quite frankly, as sort of the beginning of the end for my home state of Minnesota,” he added.

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The current political climate across the west is tumultuous and chaotic, largely due to one volatile issue causing deep divisions:  Mass immigration.  Not just mass immigration, but mass invasion from third-world countries and facilitated by liberal governments.

Leftists, driven by an obsession with multiculturalism and Marxism, desperately want mass immigration to continue unabated.  Conservatives and centrists want immigration stopped and, ideally, reversed.  Both sides refuse to budge which has created an explosive impasse.  The debate is on the verge of becoming a civil war.

In this debate, only one side is correct.  It is clear to the majority of western citizens that after a decade of migrant programs, there simply is no compatibility between European/American culture and third world cultures.  These cultures reside in regions of the world where authoritarianism and barbarism are ingrained in the public psyche; they have no conception of western ideals of individual freedom, meritocracy, high trust or “tolerance.”

They only view western empathy as a weakness that should be exploited.  Meaning, westerners and third worlders will never be able to coexist.  It’s simply not possible without one side dominating the other.

In the midst of this debate the political left has had the most control over popular media and which message gets the most exposure.  Pro-immigration and multicultural movies, TV shows and commercials saturate the market.  If any project criticizing immigration makes it to the light of day, it’s kind of a miracle.  Enter the independent film “Citizen Vigilante”.

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Hillary Clinton is once again aiming at the Electoral College, calling it an “abomination” in the new Netflix documentary The American Experiment.

The former Secretary of State makes her remarks while reflecting on her 2016 loss to Donald Trump, reviving her long-standing criticism of the presidential election system, as reported by Breitbart.

The film, directed by Brian Knappenberger, explores how Americans have chosen their presidents since the nation’s founding and features Clinton speaking candidly about her defeat.

Knappenberger said he expected “fireworks” when he asked Clinton to revisit election night in 2016. He explained that she had rarely discussed that period and that the project benefited from her willingness to do so

“She has rarely spoken candidly about that election night, and we’re really happy she talked about it for the series,” Knappenberger said.

“She has a unique perspective as one of only five people in American history to lose the presidency after winning the popular vote.”

Knappenberger also highlighted that the 2016 election stood out because Clinton defeated Trump in the popular vote by a significant margin but fell short in the Electoral College tally.

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Voter fraud: The thing that Democrats say doesn’t exist, except when it does, and when they go and prove it for you.

According to a report in the Tuesday U.K. Daily Mail, 36 voters — many of whom are celebrities — are registered at one suite on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California, including “Friends” actress Jennifer Aniston.

This is in spite of the fact that not only does Los Angeles require you to register to vote at your home address, it also requires you to sign an affidavit avowing that’s your official place of residence. For those of you not associated with the law, signing an affidavit under false pretenses is — dum dum dum! — perjury!

And shocker of all shockers, Suite 600 at 9200 Sunset Boulevard is not a residential address or some sort of polycule commune for celebs. It’s the business address of Michael Ullman, who runs Platinum Financial Management, Inc.

He’s described by the Mail as the “money manager to the stars,” and unless he has a lot of sleeping bags on the floor of his office, some Angeleno-area voters have some ‘splainin’ to do.

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A troubling pattern appears to be emerging.

In a recent foiled terror plot targeting UFC Freedom 250 at the White House, authorities said the suspect of an underground network, led by an illegal alien ringleader, planned to use suicide drones and a sniper team against “capitalist elites.” Separately, Rebel News described the Montreal shooter earlier this week as an “antisemitic Communist.”

While the cases appear separate, both point to a broader concern: revolutionary and radical-left rhetoric is increasingly bleeding into real-world violence, with younger and younger extremists resorting to violence targeting wealthy individuals or even right-leaning political figures.

Earlier this week, Rebel News released the full 104-page manifesto of the “antisemitic Communist” shooter, who was killed after shooting and killing a Montreal police officer in a Jewish neighborhood, killing a local suit seller, and leaving behind a manifesto railing against capitalism and law enforcement, among other things.

“Be unflinching, go forth, and KILL THEM ALL!” Seth Hatfield, the shooter, wrote in the manifesto.

Rebel News pointed out, “He was an antisemitic Communist.”

Why is that important? Just days earlier, news broke in the US that Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, an illegal alien, was the ringleader of a foiled terror attack targeting “billionaires” and “capitalist elites” at UFC Freedom 250 at the White House.

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Trump has been given an important role for the 2026 World Cup Final later this summe

President Donald Trump is now expected to attend the 2026 World Cup final and present the trophy to the winning country on July 19, 2026, at MetLife Stadium.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino confirmed earlier this week that Trump will join him in handing the trophy to the captain of the global tournament’s winner. The FIFA president appeared on “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday morning to confirm the rumor.

“We will be together with the president, enjoying the final and handing the trophy to the winner, of course, together,” Infantino said on air. “We are together all the time.”

Democrats have been losing their minds for days now over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

The only reason they cared was that they thought they could attack President Donald Trump over the algae bloom in the pool, after he had said how beautiful it looked immediately after it was done.

They were even freaking out over three dead ducks found in the area. Now we don’t know why the ducks were dead. Folks on the Left immediately tried to blame the use of the hydrogen peroxide to treat the algae in the pool.

But that didn’t fly.

“I know a few more dead ducks have been found, but hydrogen peroxide remains an extremely unlikely cause,” said Brad Bortner, the former national division chief of migratory bird management at FWS. “They [would] have to pour hundreds or thousands of gallons of industrial-strength hydrogen peroxide into the reflecting pool to reach a concentration that would kill a bird.”

The Democrats didn’t give a darn about when Barack Obama spent $34 million on it, had algae within a month, and didn’t resolve

Oh, and the ducks? Here’s what happened under the Obama administration: 80 dead ducks from a parasite.

CNN reported on 80 ducks dying in one weekend and recurring algae problems during the Obama administration.

Now one duck dies or algae appears, and it’s suddenly treated like a national emergency.

The difference isn’t the ducks or the algae.

The difference is who’s in the White House.

Bottom line? Algae is a natural process, and it can occur in any pool. It’s just something with which you have to deal.

But guess what? After all that, Democrats are going to have a fit because it looks like the pool is looking “awesome” again, according to TMZ’s Charlie Cotton. “The Reflecting Pool is looking magnificent this morning.”

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A federal judge on Wednesday permanently banned Trump from implementing his executive order that required proof of citizenship when they register to vote.

Boston-based US District Judge Denise Casper, an Obama appointee, said the Constitution “does not grant the President any specific powers over elections.”

The DOJ will immediately appeal.

Democracy depends on a simple bargain: citizens elect leaders, leaders make decisions, and voters can remove them when those decisions fail.

But what happens when people no longer believe that bargain exists?

For many Illinois residents, that question is becoming increasingly urgent.

As a lifelong Illinoisan and Cook County resident, I am not writing as an outside observer. Like millions of Illinois residents, I live with the consequences of the policies enacted in our name and have watched public confidence in government steadily erode.

The old saying to “vote early and vote often” was once treated as a joke. Today, many citizens no longer find it amusing.

When voters lose confidence that elections are transparent, competitive, and meaningful, elected officials become insulated from the consequences of their actions. Policies can fail. Communities can suffer. Families can be devastated. Yet those responsible often face little political risk.

My family understands that reality all too well.

My daughter, Katie Abraham, was killed on January 19, 2025, while visiting friends at the University of Illinois in Urbana. She was a passenger in a vehicle stopped at a red light when an intoxicated driver struck it at nearly 80 miles per hour.

According to court records, the driver had previously been deported, later re-entered the United States illegally, and used a false identity or alias while living in Illinois. Despite multiple apparent red flags—including questions surrounding his identity, significant language barriers, and a complex immigration history—he ultimately obtained an Illinois driver’s license.

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This should make Second Amendment supporters a little more cheerful. President Trump, speaking on Tuesday to Mack Trucks manufacturing facility employees and supporters in Macungie, Pennsylvania, gave a ringing endorsement for what he called the national right to carry.

The president said:

The (National Rifle Association) NRA, everybody, they really have been, they’ve been with me right from the beginning. And Bill asked me would I support the national right to carry legislation, how do you feel about national right to carry? (Cheers) That’s my free poll. You know what that is? That’s the free poll. You don’t have to pay $300,000 to somebody that doesn’t even do polling. To give you phony numbers. See, those are real numbers. National right to carry. Yeah, we’re working on it.

Here’s the question: What manner of national concealed-carry is being worked on, here?

There are, pretty much, two possibilities.

First, the president may be referring to proposed legislation that would extend reciprocity of any state’s concealed-carry permits to all states; this is already the case with state-issued permits and licenses like driver’s licenses. Bills like the 2025 H.R.38 – Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2025 have been introduced, but haven’t gone anywhere – yet

Second, the president may be describing a national law establishing constitutional carry, or no-permit carry, which is already in place in 29 states, including my own Alaska. At present, there appear to be no proposed bills that would establish this, so the president is likely referring to the first option.

As a matter of “politics is the art of the possible,” most of us in the Second Amendment movement would be happy to have option 1. We’d be happier with option 2, but that’s probably not in the cards. We’d be downright delighted if the federal government and the 50 state governments would just consider the constitutional language that would seem to make either option 1 or 2 unnecessary:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

That’s pretty plain language, not that the Constitution’s generally plain language ever stopped any politician from proposing all manner of unconstitutional rubbish. But much as we would like any gun-grabbing politician being directed to the 2nd Amendment and being told, “No, you won’t,” this is still a battle that we need to fight. And the reciprocity argument is a strong one; the Constitution, in Article IV, Section 1, says:

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General Motors has sparked outrage after sidelining more than 1,000 workers at its flagship Detroit assembly plant on Friday and announcing they’d be installing 50 new robots.

The so-called ‘cobots’ were installed on the assembly line at GM’s Factory Zero in Michigan as the automaker slashes costs amid weakening demand for its electric vehicles, according to reports.

The robots now work alongside the remaining employees, helping attach vehicle body panels as cars move down the production line, AutoBlog reported.

The number of labor hours required to build a car has fallen by 50 percent to 70 percent since the 1980s, Crain’s reported.

But that efficiency shift has not translated into lower wages for workers; UAW pay rose significantly in its 2023 contract win, with the union expected to push for stronger protections ahead of its 2028 negotiations.

Cotton also raised safety concerns about robots operating in close proximity to human workers, disputing GM’s claims that the technology improves conditions on the line.

He said the union has since filed grievances against the company over the deployment of cobots.

The cobots arrive as GM scales back its once-aggressive electric vehicle push, which has been pressured by slowing demand and high production costs.

The automaker has also paused production at its Factory ZERO plant multiple times over the past year amid the shifting EV landscape.

The latest developments are consistent with plans GM executives have discussed for several years.

During the company’s GM Forward event in late 2025, leadership emphasized the growing role of artificial intelligence, automation and advanced manufacturing technologies.

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The FBI has captured one of its Most Wanted Fraudsters, who allegedly defrauded the government of more than $1.2 billion in Medicare funds. 

Herbert Leon Kimble, 60, is accused of running a fraudulent healthcare enterprise that resulted in “more than $1.2 billion in Medicare charges and affected thousands of Medicare beneficiaries, many of whom were elderly victims,” according to the FBI.

Previously, the FBI offered a $ 150,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.

The Department of Justice on Tuesday announced that 455 defendants have been charged with stealing over $6.5 billion in healthcare fraud schemes across 45 states. 

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the results of the DOJ’s “2026 national health care fraud takedown” during a press conference on Tuesday.

He credited the work to the “greatest combined federal and state effort in combating health care fraud in history.”

“This team is working tirelessly to take down fraudsters who steal from taxpayer-funded programs and prey on vulnerable Americans,” he said. Blanche further highlighted the nine “health care fraud strike forces,” 57 US Attorney’s Offices, 41 state Attorney General’s offices, and multiple federal agencies involved in the busts.

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In January, The Gateway Pundit reported that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a crackdown on partisan talk shows in both daytime and late-night in an effort to provide equal treatment for political candidates.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said at the time, “For years, legacy TV networks assumed that their late night & daytime talk shows qualify as “bona fide news” programs – even when motivated by purely partisan political purposes.”

In February, the FCC is launched an investigation into ABC’s “The View” following an appearance by Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico, the first political candidate to appear on the program following the announcement in January.

At the time, Talarico was facing other candidates, including Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), in the Democrat primary. Republicans Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), state Attorney General Ken Paxton, and Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) faced off in the GOP primary.

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Eight of the ten Antifa members convicted of terrorism charges for an attack on a Texas ICE detention center were sentenced to at least 50 years in prison on Tuesday.

The Antifa ringleader Benjamin Song was sentenced to 100 years in prison.

CBS News reported:

Eight people who were found guilty of terrorism-related charges earlier this year for a 2025 attack on an ICE detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, learned their punishments on Tuesday. One member of the group, identified as the group’s leader, was sentenced to a century in prison.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas said on Monday that sentencing for the defendants would happen Tuesday morning. The verdicts, handed down in March, came as the defendants stood accused in the July 4, 2025, plot targeting the Prairieland ICE detention center following weeks of testimony from investigators, law enforcement and cooperating witnesses.

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier blasted Major League Baseball on Tuesday morning after Commissioner Robert Manfred doubled down on its restriction of faith messages on team uniforms. 

Uthmeier announced a formal probe into the MLB and issued a subpoena last week after San Francisco Giants pitchers were threatened for wearing Bible verses on their Pride Night hats. The MLB is also under investigation by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Major League Baseball Commissioner Robert Manfred responded to a letter from Senator Josh Hawley, saying that “the players were neither fined nor disciplined, nor will they ever be.”

Hawley celebrated a win, falsely claiming Manfred “admits they were wrong to threaten the Giants players over Bible verses and promises never to fine or discipline these players – or any players for their religious beliefs.” But he ignored what Manfred actually wrote.

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The O’Keefe Media Group caught a Las Vegas middle school teacher breaking policies and pushing LGBTQ+ propaganda onto 11-year-old children.

Christopher Segal, an English teacher at Gunderson Middle School was caught on hidden camera admitting he coaches minors on coming out as queer.

The teacher, who goes by “Mx” also admitted to condemning black “MAGA” kids and lashed out at parents for not being supportive of their queer kids.

“I’ve had kids ask me, like, coach them on coming out [as Queer],” Christopher Segal told the undercover OMG journalist.

President Trump was criticized for cutting USAID funding shortly after taking office in his second term. He argued that USAID was plagued by waste, fraud, and corruption, with taxpayer money funding projects such as DEI workplace training in Serbia and transgender theater productions in Ireland.

The White House released a documented list of expenditures that included hundreds of thousands of dollars to a nonprofit linked to designated terrorist organizations after an OIG investigation had been launched, millions to EcoHealth Alliance, which was involved in research related to the Wuhan lab, and funding that resulted in hundreds of thousands of meals being distributed to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria.

Beyond waste and fraud, USAID funds also flowed to organizations that were at odds with U.S. interests, including groups that funded protests against U.S. policies within the United States and undermined US policy abroad.

George Soros, one of the largest donors to the Democratic Party and left-wing causes in the United States, became a central figure in the USAID corruption debate. Open Society Foundations has stated that claims it receives USAID funds or directs USAID spending are “manifestly false.” However, the organization’s own records and federal grant data indicate a financial relationship with USAID.

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A federal appeals court on Tuesday sided with Trump and ruled that ICE may resume swift deportations.

In January 2025, President Trump signed an executive order titled, “Protecting the American People Against Invasion.”

Last August, a federal judge blocked President Trump from rapidly deporting illegal aliens.

US District Judge Jia Cobb, a Biden appointee, called President Trump’s expedited removal of illegal aliens from the interior of the US a “skimpy process.”

“The procedures the Government currently uses in expedited removal, however, create a significant risk that it will not identify these disqualifying criteria before quickly ordering someone removed. And the lack of available review means that once the removal happens, it is largely too late to correct the error,” Judge Cobb wrote in a 48-page opinion.

On Tuesday, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision threw out a lower court ruling that blocked Trump from carrying out mass deportations.

The three judge panel included: Majority: Walker (Trump), Rao (Trump) and Dissent: Wilkins (Obama).

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The U.S. Supreme Court delivered another significant immigration victory for the Trump administration on Tuesday, ruling 6-3 that federal immigration officials do not need “clear and convincing evidence” at the border before treating a lawful permanent resident accused of certain crimes as an applicant for admission.

Justice Clarence Thomas delivers the hammer: Border officers making “quick judgments on the spot” do NOT need clear and convincing evidence of guilt at the moment of parole. Proof can come later at removal proceedings.

The Court sided with the Trump administration in Blanche v. Lau, rejecting activist attempts to tie the hands of border officers and making it significantly easier to remove lawful permanent residents who commit serious crimes.

The case involved Muk Choi Lau, a Chinese national who became a green card holder in 2007. In May 2012, while facing criminal charges in New Jersey for selling nearly $300,000 worth of counterfeit clothing (a clear crime involving moral turpitude), Lau took a trip to China.

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President Donald Trump hilariously roasted men competing in women’s sports during a speech Tuesday at the Mack Trucks manufacturing facility in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, specifically calling out transgender weightlifters and declaring the practice insane.

The president also mimicked a struggling transgender weightlifter, in a moment that quickly went viral.

“Are we crazy? Men should not be able to participate in women’s sports,” Trump said.

The president added that claims this is only an “eighty-twenty issue” are wrong, insisting instead it is a “ninety-nine to one” issue in favor of protecting women’s categories.

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Rosie O’Donnell and former CNN White House reporter Jim Acosta put their Trump Derangement Syndrome on full display this week, teaming up to push what has been referred to as “election denialism” and a “threat to democracy.”

During an interview on Acosta’s show, Rosie declared that Trump stole the election from Kamala Harris. Though Acosta was skeptical about the theory, he endorsed the idea that the midterms will be stolen or outright canceled by Trump.

“So most people are very, very, very shocked, scared, and absolutely astonished that he is the President of the United States, and I think I am too. I mean, part of the reason that I left is I never in a million years thought we would put a convicted felon who tried to start an insurrection back in office,” O’Donnell said. Very ironic considering Trump saying the election was stolen is what these people considered insurrection.

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Just how much say should a parent have when it comes to their child’s exposure to transgenderism and gender ideology?

President Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission is taking a maximalist approach to answer the question about parental rights.

But if you were to ask dozens of Democratic lawmakers, the answer to the question is apparently, “As little as possible.”

Back in April, FCC Chair Brendan Carr began pushing for stricter — or at least more comprehensive — television ratings for children’s shows, to better inform parents about the shows’ contents as well as combat what is being called “ratings creep.”

“Years ago, Congress passed a law that empowers parents to decide the types of TV programs that are appropriate for their kids by standing up a TV show ratings system,” Carr posted in April. “But recently, parents have raised concerns with the industry’s approach — including with ratings creep.”

He added, “Specifically, they argue that New York & Hollywood programmers are promoting controversial issues in kids programming without providing any transparency or disclosures to parents.”

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