Prince Harry and Meghan arrived back in Britain on Wednesday with their two children after six years in California.

A source close to the couple told NBC News last week that the family was returning for an “extended period,” not to resume official royal work.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, 41 and 45, flew privately from California with Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5, according to British news outlets.

The Telegraph reported they landed around midday at Birmingham Airport.

A Sussex representative would not say where they will live, citing privacy and security.

The same representative confirmed the family brought their dogs and left their chickens at the Montecito, California, estate they have occupied since 2020.

They are expected to keep that house and a property in Portugal while basing themselves at a private, non-royal home outside London, the Associated Press reported.

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Independent journalist Nick Shirley turned the tables on a New York Times reporter who repeatedly pushed the Democrat defense of California’s so-called “Stop Nick Shirley Act.”

Independent journalist Nick Shirley, the 24-year-old YouTuber whose viral reporting on empty Somali-run “learing centers” in Minnesota and hospice schemes in California helped blow open a national fraud scandal, was interviewed by NYT reporter Laurel Rosenhall outside the State Capitol after a rally against Assembly Bill 2624.

Rosenhall is The Times’ Sacramento-based California politics correspondent. She showed up with a notepad. Shirley showed up with a camera, a “Califraudia Republic” hoodie, and a simple question the paper of record could not answer: why is California writing a law that protects the people spending public money instead of the people exposing how that money disappears?

Shirley posted the clip Thursday with a caption that said it all:

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In a key clinical trial, patients receiving the drug achieved a median overall survival of 13.2 months, compared to 6.7 months for patients offered standard chemotherapy.

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a new treatment for advanced pancreatic cancer, which is the first to attack a genetic cause of the aggressive, highly lethal disease.

The drug, called daraxonrasib, will be sold under the brand name Rasonque, was developed by biotech company Revolution Medicines, the New York Times reported.

The drug, which is taken as two pills per day, is not a cure, but it is the first treatment to substantially extend the lives of patients with pancreatic cancer. In a key clinical trial, patients receiving the drug achieved a median overall survival of 13.2 months, compared to 6.7 months for patients offered standard chemotherapy.

Some of the patients taking the drug through clinical trials lived for years.

While the company didn’t announce how much it plans to charge for the drug, Wall Street analysts have said they expect the drug to cost several hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Insurance is expected to cover most of that cost, with varying out-of-pocket costs for patients.

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There is a growing national outcry to ban Flock cameras. We do not give up our constitutional rights when we get into our vehicles, and we do not want authoritarian control freaks watching us, monitoring us and tracking us everywhere that we go.

This is an issue that is uniting people all over the country, and so you would think that politicians from both parties would be getting on board. Unfortunately, that is not the case at all. Many top Republicans are coming out against Flock cameras very strongly, but the silence from the left has been deafening. Yes, there are a few voices on the far left that appear to be concerned about our civil liberties, but most prominent Democrats have been eerily silent about Flock cameras. Why is that?

If you want cameras to watch you everywhere that you go, move to China.

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The agency referred a former United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees school teacher and Hamas operative for debarment for allegedly receiving and holding civilian hostages beginning on October 7, 2023.

The United States’ Agency for International Development’s Inspector General’s office announced Wednesday that it has referred more than 100 current or former employees of a United Nations relief agency to the State Department over their participation in the October 7 terror attacks in Israel.

The referrals include three people they suggested be debarred by the department, including a former United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees school teacher and Hamas operative who allegedly received and held civilian hostages beginning on October 7, 2023.

The agency did not give a full number of employees it referred, but said its investigation has resulted in one total debarment so far, after the individual was found to have coordinated communications with other suspected Hamas members during the terror attacks while serving as an UNRWA school principal.

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If there is something that is causing only slightly less angst in the general public’s equilibrium than the current wars over data centers, I would have to guess it’s the ongoing battle against the proliferation of these Flock cameras. The supposed ‘license plate’ readers that are capable of doing so much more [CUE: evil laugh], which are popping up like mushrooms on poles in what seems like every town in the country.

The only reason they don’t get the attention that data centers do, I think, is because people don’t really understand the capabilities of these insidious technological marvels and they’re nowhere near as big and splashy a target.

I’m kind of thinking their time may be coming.

Much like the subversive war on the ULEZ cameras in London, where a stealthy gang of midnight raiders has been cutting them down and carting them off for a couple of years now, the Flock cameras are starting to garner their own guerrilla gang of raiders.

The tactics are ranging from outright vandalism…

…to more of a passive resistance movement that can become a community involvement effort with no imminent arrests.

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America’s new home market is showing fresh signs of strain, with sales plunging in July even as the typical price of a newly built house fell to its lowest level in five years.

The median sales price of a new home dropped to $393,800 last month, down 2.3 percent from June and the lowest figure recorded since July 2021, according to newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development.

But while the falling price tag may sound like good news for would-be homeowners, there is a catch: buyers are still staying away in large numbers.

Fishing for Chesapeake Channa in the middle to upper sections of the region’s tidal rivers is good. Anglers are targeting the grass flats with chatterbaits, soft frogs, and buzzbaits with good success.

White perch offer some fishing action in the tidal rivers and creeks. The early morning and late evening hours offer the best fishing opportunities.

Deep Creek Lake and similar western region reservoirs are offering good fishing for largemouth and smallmouth bass, walleye, holdover trout, and depending on your location, other species like yellow perch, northern pike, chain pickerel, crappie, and of course bluegill sunfish.

Read more about the week ahead!

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources announces that, following our scoping and proposal process, the following regulation changes will be effective August 31, 2026:

This idea is effective. The graphic (left) demonstrates where this falls in the five steps it takes for ideas to become effective regulations. Visit our regulation definitions page to learn about each step of the process.

Soda purchases fell about 13 percent among Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) beneficiaries after 10 states restricted purchases of sugary drinks with SNAP funds in 2026, a study found.

SNAP restriction waivers banned non-nutritious items like soda and candy to ensure that taxpayer dollars are directed toward nutritious options that improve health outcomes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture stated on its website.

The August study from the National Bureau of Economic Research – not yet peer-reviewed – evaluated the immediate effects of SNAP food restriction waivers in 10 states that implemented the bans.

Researchers used a Nielsen consumer dataset of about 5,000 SNAP households from July 2025 to June 2026.

Before the ban, the average SNAP household bought about 185 ounces of soda per month. That’s about 15 cans. The 13 percent drop is about 24 ounces, or two cans less per month.

Purchases of energy drinks also decreased by 4 ounces per household per month.

Interestingly, as Sylvia Xu reports for The Epoch Times, the study found that even households having enough cash to offset the restrictions reduced soda consumption by 18.5 percent, down 40 ounces per month.

When states labeled soda as an unapproved purchase, it acted as a powerful psychological signal, according to the report.

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Jonhatan Anguiano, 29, was pronounced dead at scene after officers confronted him inside restaurant

A California McDonald’s employee allegedly shot a co-worker inside the restaurant Monday morning before the armed suspect was killed when responding officers confronted him, authorities said.

The Lodi Police Department said officers responded to the McDonald’s on West Lodi Avenue at approximately 9:30 a.m. after dispatchers received a report of an armed suspect inside the restaurant.

When officers arrived, they heard gunfire coming from inside and discovered an employee who had been shot, according to police.

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Company to produce steel, titanium components for military’s armored vehicles

Judges say Worcester commissioners failed to explain decision

A federal judge in Boston has again blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with new mail-in voting restrictions ahead of the November midterms for at least another two weeks.

Judge Indira Talwani ruled Thursday night that a group of blue states and private voting rights groups were likely to succeed in their claims that the U.S. Postal Service rule is unconstitutional, and that the agency lacked authority to issue it.

The temporary restraining order blocks enforcement of the rule for 14 days, which extends beyond when some of the first states begin sending out absentee and overseas ballots.

“Based on the record presently before the court, Plaintiff States face irreparable harm where they are required to comply with a likely unconstitutional regulation for which compliance is practically impossible as to the 2026 midterm elections, now little more than two months away,” Talwani wrote.

The Postal Service published its final rule in the Federal Register Wednesday, which requires that mail ballots have certain designs and specifications, including a unique logo and barcode with an embedded ZIP code.

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Another appeal, another defeat.

Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in a scheme to sexually exploit and abuse multiple minor girls with Jeffrey Epstein over the course of a decade.

Following a blockbuster one-month jury trial, Maxwell was found guilty on December 29, 2021, of ‘conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, conspiracy to transport minors to participate in illegal sex acts, transporting a minor to participate in illegal sex acts, sex trafficking conspiracy, and sex trafficking of a minor’.

So, that’s the end of her, right? Wrong.

Ever since her conviction, Maxwell is devoted to a seemingly endless series of appeals, trying to overturn both conviction and sentencing.

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The FBI arrested Massachusetts State Rep. Francisco Paulino (D-Methuen) on Wednesday morning after a federal grand jury indicted the second-term Democrat on 11 counts of wire fraud and money laundering.

Prosecutors say Paulino treated COVID relief programs like an ATM, fraudulently obtaining more than $700,000 in pandemic unemployment benefits and Small Business Administration disaster loans.

Paulino represents the 16th Essex District, which includes Methuen and Lawrence, the same Merrimack Valley corridor that just saw Lawrence Mayor Brian DePeña arrested two weeks ago on separate $1.5 million-plus COVID loan fraud and money-laundering charges.

Both men are Dominican-born Democrats. Both, prosecutors allege, used the pandemic as their “personal cash cows.”

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Violent crime fell at a record rate in President Trump’s first year back in office. It was the largest year-to-year decline since the Bureau began estimating crime trends in 1936, according to newly released FBI data.

Violent crime numbers decreased by 9.3% from 2024 to 2025.

The FBI reported:

The Indiana Fever-Chicago Sky game was the most watched WNBA game since the league’s opening weekend in 1997, averaging 3.31 million viewers on NBC and Peacock on Sunday.

At one point in the game the audience size surged to 3.8 million viewers, another record for a regular season contest.

The game included the league’s second-most popular player Sophie Cunningham, a tough Midwestern woman who recently spoke out against biological men in women’s sports.

And, the game was not without its drama when former NBA great Enes Kantor Freedom was escorted from the building after Sky player Natasha Cloud started screaming at him for wearing a T-shirt with the definition of woman on it.

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A 28-year-old Houston man already free on a $600,000 bond in a murder case is now accused of running a nearly $24 million check-theft ring, by recruiting U.S. Postal Service mail carriers to steal checks off their own routes and selling the loot on Telegram.

Tryston Tremaine Vaughn, 28, is alleged to have recruited USPS mail carriers to steal checks on their delivery routes, the DOJ said in an August 25 statement.

Those checks were then allegedly bought from the postal workers by Vaughn and others, advertised on a Telegram channel called “slipsandchips,” and shipped to buyers across the country via FedEx.

Prosecutors say the haul totaled approximately $23,973,338.15. One stolen check was for $1.5 million.

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Lots of people who live in Los Angeles are disgusted by the two choices they have for mayor this year, Democrat incumbent Karen Bass and radical DSA candidate Nithya Raman.

It is still amazing to think that leftists managed to bump Republican Spencer Pratt off the ballot, leaving voters with the choices of far left or super far left.

The city is in need of rescuing, but no one is coming to the rescue. The left made sure of that by removing Pratt from the race.

FOX News reports:

Los Angeles’ Democratic mayoral candidates were torched by residents after a debate night in America’s second-most populous city that one voter described as “disgraceful.”

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Virtually everyone agrees that our public schools are in a state of decline. Needless to say, it isn’t because we aren’t spending enough money. The federal government, our state governments and our local governments are collectively spending nearly a trillion dollars a year on public education. That is a colossal pile of money. Since 1960, spending per student has increased by 350 percent. That is even after adjusting for inflation.

At this stage, we spend more money per student than any other nation on the entire planet other than Luxembourg. Anyone that believes that we can solve our education crisis by spending even more money is simply being delusional.

For nearly a trillion dollars a year, we should be getting a world class education system.

But we aren’t.

In fact, students in the U.S. just keep dropping down the global rankings.

Urgent action is required if we are going to turn this around.

Gallup conducted a survey that discovered that an all-time low 35 percent of U.S. adults are satisfied with the quality of public education in the United States.

There appears to be a growing consensus that we have a major national crisis on our hands, and those that are responsible for this crisis need to be held accountable. The following are 16 facts about the shocking decline of public education in the U.S. that every American should know…

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UPDATE: The deceased is identified as Timothy David Wolfe, Jr., 35.

(CHURCH CREEK, MD) The Maryland State Police Homicide Unit continues a death investigation in Dorchester County.

The identity of the deceased is pending autopsy results.  Investigators are also waiting on autopsy results to determine cause and manner of death.

At approximately 1:50 p.m. on August 15, 2026, deputies from the Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office responded to the report of a body of a man located in the phragmites in the area of Golden Hill Road in Church Creek, Maryland. The preliminary investigation indicates a passerby located the body and subsequently called police.

At the request of the Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office, the Maryland State Police Homicide Unit responded to lead the investigation.  The circumstances surrounding the death of the unidentified man remain under investigation. There are no further details at this time.

Anyone with information relevant to this investigation is urged to call 202-953-1903.  All calls may remain confidential.

The investigation continues.

A Colorado man who suffocated his healthy 91-year-old mother to death by placing a plastic bag over her head has avoided prison with a slap on the wrist and is now set to inherit a fortune from his dead mom’s estate.

Instead of jailing David Norton for his crime, a liberal judge ordered him to donate $25,000 to an organization that promotes “assisted suicide.”

In a cushy plea deal, Norton, 68, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by aiding suicide and tampering with physical evidence after the death of his mother, Mildred Roller.

Norton and his sister, Kim Roller, were accused of conspiring to end the elderly woman’s life.

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Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf did not write a speech this time. He posted the email.

Last week the sheriff said a whistleblower inside Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s office had shown him how non-citizens, including illegal aliens, get swept onto the voter file when they change an address. Skeptics wanted paper.

On August 26 he put a redacted message from a Michigan Department of State employee on X and let the words do the work. The Gateway Pundit published the screenshot.

I honestly think it is a CARS programming error that anytime anyone that changes their address, that document prints off and if/when it hits the county clerks office, nothing happens. As in she is not actually going to be registered to vote because they will see she is not a citizen. If that makes sense to you.

It does not make sense. That is the point.

The same employee then described the new default. Register everyone. Mail a paper. Hope the ineligible person bothers to send it back and say no.

With the new way of registering EVERYONE and requiring them to send back a paper to NOT be registered we are going to have so many people on the voter file who shouldn’t be. I am not a fan of this new way – as you can probably see. It just creates errors that can be possibly not caught.

An insider in Benson’s own department is telling a sheriff the machine is built to load the file first and sort citizenship later. Later never comes.

Congratulations, You Are Going to Be Registered

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At least 31 people were confirmed dead, and hundreds of tourists and travelers remained missing after a catastrophic flash flood tore through Nepal’s border region with Tibet.

The South China Morning Post shared horrifying security-camera footage circulating online that appeared to show people fleeing as a giant wall of water, mud, and debris crashed through a checkpoint on the China-Nepal border.

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The absolutely devastating floods and mudslides that we just witnessed along the border between Nepal and Tibet look like something out of a science fiction movie. It is a tragedy of epic proportions, and it has made us forget all of the other catastrophic disasters that have been hitting our planet recently. Unfortunately, the victims in Nepal and Tibet will also soon be forgotten because more catastrophic disasters are on the way.

We live at a time when global weather patterns have gone absolutely nuts, giant earthquakes are occurring with alarming regularity, the northern hemisphere is experiencing the worst wildfire season in history, and our overheating oceans threaten to kill billions of fish.

I have never seen anything quite like the disaster that just occurred along the border between Nepal and Tibet on Wednesday.

The footage that one camera captured is particularly horrifying…

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Meta Platforms has reached a $16.7 billion settlement to resolve a landmark claim brought by several states that the company designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children, improperly collected children’s personal data, and misled consumers about their safety.

The deal was in a Wednesday court filing in California after a lawsuit was brought by 29 states – with attorneys for  Colorado, California, New Jersey and Kentucky – leading the group. The states argued that features like infinite scroll were purposely engineered to keep young users hooked, that Meta misled the public about the safety of its platforms for adolescents, and that the company improperly collected and monetized children’s personal data in violation of federal law.

As part of the settlement, Meta must implement daily usage limits and ‘nighttime blocks’ for teenagers who use the company’s apps like Facebook and Instagram, as well as “enhanced age assurance measures” that would prevent children from using them, and also providing parents with additional tools, CNBC reports.

Additionally, Meta is tying another $5.3 billion of the settlement to Google and TikTok adopting similar teen safety measures – cutting default teen time limits from 2 hours to 1 hour per day.

The attorneys general of Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming joined the settlement.

Prior to the settlement, Meta warned that maximum statutory penalties could theoretically reach $1.4 trillion, while the attorneys general have indicated they may seek around $200 billion. That said, the company still faces thousands of lawsuits filed by school districts and individual plaintiffs alleging harms from social media.

While shares spiked as much as 5% premarket on the news, the move was quickly reversed at market open.

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The Trump administration has paused visa appointments for applicants worldwide as the State Department launches a global training initiative at all U.S. embassies and consulates, according to a department spokesperson. Appointments for visa services will be rescheduled to accommodate the training.

The State Department offered no specific details on the training or its timeline. Officials said the initiative aims to help consular officers screen out applicants deemed likely to become dependent on U.S. public benefits. It is also intended to ensure evaluation of visa applicants comprehensively and consistently.

“A more prosperous America means ensuring that visa applicants are not likely to become a public charge, as defined under U.S. law and regulation, and not likely to become dependent on U.S. public benefits reserved for qualified Americans in need,” a State Department spokesperson said in an emailed statement to The Epoch Times.

Immigrant visa applicants with scheduled interviews at U.S. embassies and consulates have been contacted about any changes to their appointments, the spokesperson said.

The State Department has not indicated how long the adjustments will last.

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A major fissure within the LGBTQ+ movement burst into public view last week when Log Cabin Republicans abandoned transgender advocacy and the Human Rights Campaign condemned the move.

Log Cabin Republicans, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary next year, voted to remove the “T” from its advocacy. Ross Hemminger, the group’s president, announced the move in a Townhall op-ed last week.

Hemminger noted that Log Cabin Republicans added the “T” to its mission in 2015, but he attacked the transgender movement for focusing “nearly all of their efforts” on minors, rather than consenting adults.

“They push schools to teach radical gender ideology; they want biological men in women’s sports regardless of the consequences; perhaps most offensively, they support gender reassignment treatments for minors, often without the knowledge or consent of the parents, knowing full well these treatments are mostly irreversible,” he added.

“That is why, after significant discussion with our membership, our Board of Directors voted to refine Log Cabin Republicans’ national advocacy focus to concentrate specifically on issues of sexual orientation and conservative values—in other words, we are an LGB advocacy organization, as our founders envisioned and as our moral center calls us to be,” Hemminger announced.

He said the decision does not mean Log Cabin Republicans will exclude members who identify as transgender, but that the organization will focus on “issues of sexual orientation.”

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On Monday the WNBA has ruled that former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White are ineligible to enter the league’s draft or play in the women’s circuit after both men announced they identify as women and formally declared for the 2027 draft.

The league has reportedly dismissed the moves as publicity stunts intended to mock the organization.

According to reports from Front Office Sports, the WNBA stated it “is not going to give oxygen to efforts designed to mock the league or use this topic to demean and marginalize others” and “will not allow outside pressure or manufactured controversy to dictate league processes.”

It was another preachy nothingburger from the world’s most dysfunctional sports league.

“17 years old, and now he could spend most of his life in prison. That is a hell of a sentence for a teenager.”

In the wake of a judge denying Karmelo Anthony a new trial for the killing of Austin Metcalf, Don Lemon has complained about how the convicted murderer will have to serve 35 years in prison.

“Breaking and it’s complicated, so make sure you pay attention. Karmelo Anthony is not getting a new trial,” Lemon said. “And after what came out of the court last week, I have questions. We learned there was a private, off-the-record agreement to keep the troubled youth’s backgrounds—both teenagers—away from the jury. Austin Metcalf had allegations involving racial slurs, bullying, and assault. Karmelo had allegations involving threatening texts, stalking, and assault. None of that came in.

“And Karmelo’s former lawyer says that they had planned to put him on the stand, but all of this helped change that decision. So now the defense says the first trial was too controlled, too secretive, and unfair. The judge said no. 35 years still stands. And I’m still stuck on one thing: he was 17. 17 years old, and now he could spend most of his life in prison. That is a hell of a sentence for a teenager.”

In April of 2025, Anthony, who is now 19, fatally stabbed Austin Metcalf, also 17, at a Texas track meet. Anthony had sat under another team’s tent, where Metcalf had been, and did not leave despite multiple people asking him to. Anthony had claimed that he acted in self-defense, a claim that was rejected by the jury, which handed down a guilty verdict. He was later sentenced to 35 years in prison.

Anthony’s team had sought a new trial, alleging that their client’s rights had been violated, but the judge rejected the motion. The order stated, “Upon reviewing the motion, the record, the evidence and argument, the briefs, and the relevant case law, the Court has determined that the motion should be denied. It is therefore considered, ordered, and adjudged by the Court that the Motion for New Trial is denied.”

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The US Supreme Court on Monday upheld President Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in ballots ahead of the midterm elections.

Earlier this month, US District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, expanded her previous block on President Trump’s executive order on mail-in voting.

The Boston-based Judge previously blocked President Trump’s March 2025 executive order, specifically his attempt to create a federal voter list.

In March 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14248: Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections.

“Free, fair, and honest elections unmarred by fraud, errors, or suspicion are fundamental to maintaining our constitutional Republic. The right of American citizens to have their votes properly counted and tabulated, without illegal dilution, is vital to determining the rightful winner of an election,” the executive order said.

“Under the Constitution, State governments must safeguard American elections in compliance with Federal laws that protect Americans’ voting rights and guard against dilution by illegal voting, discrimination, fraud, and other forms of malfeasance and error. Yet the United States has not adequately enforced Federal election requirements that, for example, prohibit States from counting ballots received after Election Day or prohibit non-citizens from registering to vote,” the executive order said.

“Several Federal laws, including 18 U.S.C. 1015 and 611, prohibit foreign nationals from registering to vote or voting in Federal elections,” Trump said.

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Most people have seen a rally. Everyone in the same colors, chanting the same lines, clapping before they can realize if they even agree with what they just heard.

In the center of the rally a man wears a shirt that reads I AM AN INDIVIDUAL. He believes that the shirt proves he is a sore thumb.

It does not. Thousands of people can buy the same shirt and wear it to the same rally.

And that’s what happens. The same man goes to a later rally and finds many people wearing the same shirt. They all chant in unison “I AM AN INDIVIDUAL.” They believe their words but deep down they hope they just became the tribe’s latest colors.

We never ask what the tribe demands from us before we are granted a place within it. The price is always the same. It demands the individual sacrifice their individualism .

Do not confuse the individual with personality. Personality is a style. Nor is the individual a set of preferences, a person’s taste, or their biography. The individual is something more fundamental: the unrepeatable particularity of a human being. It’s a specific configuration that makes one person this person and not that person a specific arrangement of experience and perception that only exists once in reality and is never seen again.

Some believe that society bestows dignity upon an individual through rights, recognition, and laws. These things matter as they can protect dignity. But they do not create it. Before any government or constitutions there were particular human beings whose existence mattered simply because no one else could occupy the specific space that they occupied. Each of those people carried something that had no duplicate. They carried something that if lost would leave a particular shape of absence in the world.

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If you live in an Islamic or communist society and you feel like somebody’s always watching you, you’re right because both systems demand it.

In revealing the commonalities of the Reds and the Greens in the Red-Green Axis, we have elucidated the shared goals of communists and Muslims, including violence, monopoly rule by elites, slaughter, etc. (See the full list of essays exposing these commonalities at the end of this article.) Here, we explore surveillance, informants, and social enforcement networks.

Islamic political systems and Marxist-Leninist communism both built what have, through the present, been permanent institutions for watching their own populations and enlisting ordinary members to report on one another. Neither could rely on voluntary conformity alone. Each system claims jurisdiction over belief and private conduct.

Ordinary law enforcement cannot reach that far into a household, so each ideology had to invent two further instruments: an office charged with monitoring public behavior and a wider practice of recruiting believers or citizens to inform on deviation among their neighbors, coworkers, and kin. This is not incidental to either project.

A system that claims comprehensive authority over conscience and conduct must continuously find out, at the level of the individual household, whether that authority is actually being honored. That requirement produces surveillance and informants as a matter of structural necessity, not administrative preference.

Writing in Abbasid Baghdad in the mid-eleventh century, the jurist Abu al-Hasan al-Mawardi (974–1058), in his treatise al-Ahkam al-Sultaniyya (The Ordinances of Government), set out the first systematic legal description of hisba, the caliphal office of commanding right and forbidding wrong, as a standing branch of government rather than a personal virtue.

Al-Mawardi’s muhtasib, the officer who carried out hisba, was unlike a judge: he could act on his own observation, without waiting for a plaintiff to bring a complaint, and could appoint assistants to extend his reach through the markets and public spaces of the city. This is the institutional core of the mechanism.

Because hisba authorized officials to investigate suspected wrongdoing before anyone had accused anyone of anything, it built continuous, proactive watching into the structure of Islamic governance. It did so with the explicit sanction of the Quranic duty known as al-amr bi-l-maʿruf wa-l-nahy ʿan al-munkar, which scripture and prophetic practice had already established as an obligation on the community itself, not merely its rulers.

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The Conference Board’s measure of Americans’ Consumer Confidence fell from a revised-lower 90.2 to 89.4 in August (below the 90.2 exp) – the lowest since January.

Interestingly, under the hood, we saw Expectations plunge to January lows while Present Situation spiked from 5 year lows…

“Consumer confidence moderated slightly in August for a second consecutive month,” said Dana M Peterson, Chief Economist, The Conference Board.

“The Expectations Index slipped further into negative territory, which was offset by a moderate rise in the Present Situation Index after declining in the past three months. Consumer appraisals of current business conditions were mildly positive. Perceptions of the current labor market improved, reversing three months of moderate decline. Looking ahead, consumers were more pessimistic about business conditions and the labor market over the next six months. Expectations for household incomes moderated but remained optimistic overall.”

On a six-month moving average basis, confidence across all age groups trended down slightly, remaining highest among consumers under 35.

By income, confidence was mixed, but generally higher-income groups were more optimistic.

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American car buyers could be hit with an unwelcome price shock if President Donald Trump follows through on his threat to double tariffs on Canadian cars, trucks and auto parts to 50 percent next year.

Trump announced the threat on Monday, writing on Truth Social that tariffs on ‘all Cars, Trucks, both large and small, Automotive Parts, and Steel’ would rise from 25 percent to 50 percent.

Trump said the higher tariffs would take effect on January 1, 2027, escalating an already bitter trade dispute with one of America’s biggest trading partners.

The deep integration of North American auto manufacturing means that almost no cars sold in the US are 100 percent made in America.

Auto parts and sub-assemblies crisscross the Canada-US border – and the Mexico-US border – throughout the manufacturing process, so the tariff impact would certainly not be limited to vehicles that see final assembly in Canada.

Automakers could face higher costs for parts, components and finished vehicles – costs that can ultimately feed through to consumers in the form of higher prices.

According to an analysis by Wolfe Research from the first round of Trump tariffs in 2025, average US retail car prices would have risen by $3,000 from the administration’s 25 percent tariff on Canadian autos – suggesting that could be at least $6,000 this time around, if not more.

‘In the event of strong counteractions, severe trade dislocations and significant economic consequences would occur, leading to collapsing demand in all three countries,’ TD Economics wrote of last year’s round of 25 percent tariffs – suggesting that this week’s version could be even more harmful.

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The NFL’s biggest health issue is much worse than doctors and researchers initially feared.

A study published on Tuesday by the British Medical Journal found that at least one in four NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 had developed the brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.

The research focused on the commonality of CTE in NFL players and found that of the 878 former football players that appeared in at least one NFL game and died in that six-year span, at least 25 percent had the disease.

CTE is a disease that can only be diagnosed after death, meaning research on the subject depends on brains donated by players or their families.

Researcher Dr Daniel Daneshvar warns that the estimate of 25 percent is on the ‘low end’ and found that the maximum possible prevalence of CTE in NFL players came in at 97 percent.

However, he believes the real number is ‘somewhere in the middle’ of those two figures.

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Governor Moore released the following statement after DHS officials announced mass deportation operations in Maryland without notifying state officials:

“Public safety is my top priority, and Marylanders know I have neither patience nor tolerance for violent criminals. When federal law enforcement takes violent offenders off our streets and lawfully removes them from our country, that makes our communities safer. Maryland will continue working with our federal partners to do exactly that.

“But ICE’s own numbers tell a very different story. According to them, a mere fraction of the more than 1,300 people they arrested in the past two weeks had ever been convicted of or charged with any crimes. We’ve seen frightening footage of older women being taken from their apartment buildings, workers chased in residential neighborhoods, parents separated from American children – and we are deeply concerned by reports that an individual suffered a broken neck during an ICE arrest. 

“These actions also undermine our economy.  I’ve heard firsthand from business leaders across the State that these immigration policies are taking legal workers out of our nursing homes, scaring farmworkers from showing up to work, and making the cost of everything from groceries to delivery services higher.

“Deploying untrained, unqualified, and unaccountable agents to sweep through our communities and spread fear is not a public safety strategy. It undermines trust between law enforcement and the people they serve, and it does not make us safer.

“We do not have to choose between holding violent offenders accountable and protecting the constitutional rights and basic dignity of our neighbors. In Maryland, we will continue to do both.” 

A North Carolina doctor was arrested Aug. 22 after he allegedly fired into a Jeep during an interstate road rage incident, wounding two sisters, ages 12 and 20, according to Virginia State Police.

Dr. Richard Thomas Arriviello, 61, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was driving north on Interstate 77 in his Mercedes-Benz around 8:50 a.m. when gunfire erupted about three miles north of the North Carolina-Virginia state line.

State police said in a press release that Arriviello fired into the moving Jeep, striking both sisters in the legs.

Both victims were airlifted to a hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening, according to police.

Arriviello then fled in his Mercedes-Benz, police said.

Troopers spotted and stopped the Mercedes-Benz about 15 miles away and took Arriviello into custody.

Arriviello faces several felony charges, including malicious shooting into an occupied vehicle, maliciously causing bodily harm to another with intent to maim and use of a firearm while committing a felony.

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A beloved couple were killed in a horrific car crash after a Mercedes G-Wagon, allegedly occupied by four teens who were fleeing police in New Jersey, smashed head-on into their vehicle.

Alice Stilwell, 67, and Robert Barr Jr, 54, died Saturday in Mays Landing, about 18 miles from Atlantic City.

Surveillance footage of the crash appeared to show the Mercedes crossing the center line on Route 50 before colliding head-on with a sedan.

Police officers spotted the G-Wagon moments before the crash, according to charging documents cited by Action News.

At about 3.45am, Longport police attempted to stop the Mercedes. However, the driver fled, and officials later determined the vehicle had been stolen.

About four hours later, the roughly 6,000-pound SUV was spotted by Hamilton Township police, who attempted a traffic stop but were unsuccessful after the driver fled.

Moments later, officers were responding to the crash, according to the outlet.

Footage showed at least one of the teens attempting to flee the scene after the crash. The teen appeared uninjured, and all four suspects were arrested.

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Danny Conservative: For the past 25 years the push to “Transition” from Traditional Energy to Renewables in the Country.

The push since 2000 to move from “Traditional Energy’ to “Renewables” wind & solar has led to the “Retiring” of 780 coal power units, individual generators capable of producing energy, have retired, according to The New York Times. Energy nonprofit organization Resources for the Future estimated in 2017 that around 816 natural gas units and 791 petroleum-fired units had retired since 2005. With the plan to replace all of that with windmills and solar panels.

Here in Maryland “In Maryland, 16 coal-fired units have shuttered since 2012, representing 3,866 megawatts of electricity, according to the industry tracker Global Energy Monitor. Experts say the trend is fueled by the emergence of cheap natural gas and increasing competition from renewable energy sources like wind and solar. They say stricter federal environmental regulations are also to blame.”….

One of the last plants in Maryland, Brandon Shores in Anne Arundel County is on its ” Deathbed” with the State increasing “environmental regulations” & the Sierra Club which has sued the plant, Brandon Shores is “hanging on by a thread” currently…

Since January 2023 Maryland & the Moore Administration has aggressively moved towards “renewables” wind and solar & Away from Traditional Energy.

The Moore Administration and the Democrats signed and passed the “power act” in 2023 to make the State the ” wind Capital” of The US. & In 2024 MD 2024 SB 1 which was a “34 page regulatory” bill to kill competition on traditional energy in the State.

Since that time energy rates in Maryland have increased by 1000 percent, and Maryland now has the highest energy rates in the country.

Maryland Imports 40 percent of energy from other States, and in 2025 it was reported with the demands for Data Centers & AI that if the States lack of energy generation isn’t addressed the State could be facing blackouts.

While Virginia was building data centers, Maryland was “destroying” its traditional energy generation infrastructure, closing plants largely replacing them with “expensive” import deals with States like Pennsylvania and Ohio, & Solar Energy in which even after $7 Billion Dollars of investment makes up about 7 percent of the States energy generation currently…

Solutions from the Moore Administration & the Democrats in Annapolis on the States energy crisis have been “token rebates” , a plan that saves $12 dollars a month, and the continued push of Solar Expansion.

Gov. Wes Moore and the Maryland Department of General Services (DGS) announced a 20-year agreement to purchase solar energy generated in Western Maryland, a deal state officials say could save Maryland approximately $300 million while expanding the state’s use of renewable energy.

The agreement with REV Renewables will provide approximately 250,000 megawatt-hours of renewable electricity annually beginning in 2028 from the Jade Meadow III Solar Project. The 300-megawatt project will be located primarily on a reclaimed coal mine in Garrett County, with DGS purchasing approximately half of the electricity generated for state energy accounts.

According to DGS, the agreement is projected to save between $298 million and $515 million over its 20-year term, depending on future electricity market conditions. The electricity purchased annually is equivalent to the amount used by more than 20,000 homes and is expected to supply nearly 15% of the state’s electricity portfolio beginning in 2028.

None of this is really addressing the issue of increasing real energy generation to bring real economic relief to our States businesses and citizens, like a Natural Gas Pipeline that just recently broke ground in New York. Yes BGE & Delmarva Power are proposing rate increases to do upgrades, but the reason these things are happening is due to the “terrible planning” to phase out traditional energy and “transition” to renewables by the Majority Party in Annapolis.

Maryland without question needs a “Course Correction” in its current energy policies which is currently failing its businesses and citizens….

Shelley Fabares, the actress who charmed American living rooms for decades on “The Donna Reed Show” and “Coach” and topped the pop charts with “Johnny Angel,” has died at 82 in Los Angeles.

Fabares died Saturday, her family confirmed in a statement to The Associated Press. No cause of death was given. She was surrounded by loved ones.

Her career stretched across six decades of Hollywood, beginning when she was a child and carrying through some of the most-watched television programs in American broadcasting. She earned two Emmy nominations, scored a No. 1 hit single, co-starred with Elvis Presley in three films, and survived a liver transplant that nearly ended her life at 56.

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The Department of Homeland Security said on Monday that 162 Haitian illegal aliens have been deported back to their home country following the end of Temporary Protected Status.

The deportation flight took place Aug. 20, according to DHS, which said the group included people with violent criminal convictions and gang affiliations.

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the flight included pedophiles, gang members, drug traffickers and violent assailants.

The flight included a man named Mc Guyverson Jetin, who was identified by DHS as a gang member with convictions stemming from sexual battery.

Jetin was convicted of four counts of lewd or lascivious battery involving a victim between ages 12 and 15.

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“We are going to need a bigger boat.”

That’s the line everyone remembers from Jaws: the moment of realizing the problem is much larger than expected. It perfectly captures a growing concern about American household finances today.

The U.S. economy continues to grow. Unemployment remains low. Inflation has cooled. Yet many households are still feeling the effects of years of eroded purchasing power.

That contradiction should worry us more than another quarter-point move by the Federal Reserve. When household finances deteriorate during an expansion — not during a recession — it suggests something more fragile is building beneath the surface. By the time that fragility shows up in unemployment or recession data, household balance sheets have often been deteriorating for years.

From January 2021 to June 2022, workers experienced a 5% decline in purchasing power as nominal wages rose only 7.3% while inflation jumped 12.3%. Real wages have recovered since May 2023 and continue to grow, but more than five years after inflation accelerated, workers remain down approximately 2.5% from January 2021 levels.

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Four death row inmates could be executed, as part of a move that could end a 65-year pause in military executions.

The Army has prepared for the possibility of carrying out executions of the military’s death row prisoners if President Donald Trump approves them.

The plan would apply to the military’s four death row inmates and would mark the first U.S. military execution in more than six decades if carried out, according to an internal planning document first reviewed by ABC News. The outlet reported earlier this month that said document is called “Operation Resolute Justice” and was internally issued within the Army this past February.

“Exercises regarding this operation have been conducted regularly for the past 20 years,” Cynthia Smith, an Army spokesperson, told ABC News, adding in early June that no orders had been handed down by Trump. “These drills are a standard component of our continued planning and preparation if the president approves a death sentence,”

The main holdup is built into military law. Article 71 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice says a court-martial death sentence “may not be executed until approved by the president,” and it also bars execution until appellate review produces a final judgment on the legality of the proceedings. That requirement explains why military death sentences can sit for decades after trial.

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There is never a shortage of stories, but the real news is getting ignored.

There is a machine that runs on your attention. It does not care whether the story is true, false, tragic, or ridiculous. It only cares that you keep watching. Call it the Distraction Industrial Complex. It manufactures just enough outrage, just enough curiosity, just enough moral theater to keep Christian and conservative eyes locked on the secondary fight while the primary one is lost.

These stories are not always unimportant. Some of them are genuinely interesting. Some even touch real principles. That is the point. The machine feeds you material that feels urgent enough to argue about, share about, and lose sleep over. Then it moves on. The foundation keeps cracking.

Look at the WNBA. The league has spent years amplifying a pro-trans ideology that pretends biology is optional. Players and coaches wear the shirts. Statements lean hard into “inclusion.” The definition of woman is treated as a conversation rather than a fact.

Then one of the league’s stars, Sophie Cunningham, says she wants to protect women’s sports by not supporting men playing in them. The demons pounce. Soon after, a 6-foot-10 former NBA player named Enes Kanter Freedom calls the bluff. He declares himself eligible for the 2027 draft under the same self-identification logic the league has refused to close. He shows up courtside in a shirt that simply reads “WOMAN noun. adult human female.” He gets ejected after a confrontation.

The league and its allies treat him as the problem. The war against women is real. The hypocrisy is thicker than the paint on the three-point line. And still, the entire spectacle functions as premium-grade distraction. It keeps the cultural oxygen flowing toward one more gender skirmish while deeper cultural and spiritual failures continue unchallenged. Popular right-leaning outlets like OutKick and the New York Post have covered the absurdity extensively in real time, and pretty much every conservative outlet has at least mentioned it.

The coverage is necessary. The fixation is not.

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Hormuz Commercial Traffic Surges

Shortly after President Trump declared the Strait of Hormuz “an American territory” on Friday evening, the New York Post published a new report citing UK Maritime Trade Operations data showing that commercial traffic through the critical waterway has rebounded sharply as more vessels use a US-backed route along Oman’s coast. This suggests that the US military presence and offensive operations in the region have degraded Tehran’s ability to fully control the waterway.

Nearly 200 ships navigated the strait last week, up from about 150 the previous week and just 40 two weeks earlier, according to UKMTO data. Traffic has recovered to roughly 20% of prewar levels, when the waterway carried about one-fifth of the world’s seaborne oil.

“It increasingly looks like Iran has at least partially lost control of the strait,” Homayoun Falakshahi, head of crude oil analysis at Kpler, told CNN.

“The Oman route absolutely makes the most sense,” added Dan Pickering, founder of Pickering Energy Partners, noting that it allows vessels to avoid the possibility of paying a toll to Tehran.

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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says Democrats have a pecuniary interest in keeping foreign aid going because nonprofit recipients of federal largesse are big Democrat donors.

Ahalf billion dollar fraud and bribery scheme conducted by a USAID contract officer and three conspirators that went undetected for a decade. American-bought equipment stolen by a terror group. Millions of dollars in food that spoiled in warehouses. These are but a few of the wasteful — if not corrupt ways — millions of USAID dollars have been lost.

While President Donald Trump has sharply cut foreign aid from the auspices of USAID and shifted what remains to the State Department, the massive abuse of America’s generosity to foreign countries over a decade of Obama-Biden governance is coming into clearer focus.

A Just the News review of audits and investigations of the USAID and State Department inspectors general over the last year chronicles billions of dollars lost, stolen, defrauded, or wasted because of mismanagement or years of neglect.

In many cases, tax money was given away without regard to whether the recipients could responsibly spend it or could keep it out of the hands of terrorists or other enemies, the audits show.

For instance, the USAID inspector general recently revealed that the federal government kept funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) despite evidence that 101 of its employees or associates had ties to terror groups like Hamas, including:

•  A deputy school principal serving as an al-Qassam deputy company commander in the Ain Gallout/5th infantry battalion.
• A deputy school principal serving as squad leader for the Khan Younis Brigade/2nd infantry battalion.
• A teacher serving as squad leader in Hamas’ military security department/intelligence unit who tracked assignment of explosive devices.
• A teacher serving as a platoon commander of the Central Brigade/Al Quds 2nd Battalion.
• A math & computer teacher with ties to an al-Qassam intelligence squad.
• A teacher with expertise as a sniper for Hamas.
• A teacher and Hamas soldier with orders to bring two anti-tank missiles to a prescribed location during the October 7 terror attacks
• A school principal who served as an operative of the Hamas East Jabaliya Battalion, and coordinated communications with other suspected Hamas members during the October 7, 2023 atrocities committed against Israel

Similarly, the same USAID watchdog revealed that the Yemen-based terror Ansar Allah — also known as the Houthis—walked away with about $122,000 worth of U.S. government-funded equipment from a USAID-funded aid organization.

$17 million of the $21 million of food aid stored in warehouses was not distributed to emergency food providers. Some good-intentioned aid also was wasted by bad management and logistics, the audits show.

For instance, about $17 million of the $21 million of food aid stored in Djibouti warehouses was not distributed to emergency food providers.

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One of the reasons why the federal government is 40 trillion dollars in debt is because there is an almost unbelievable amount of fraud in our system. When we talk about crime in America, most of the time we focus on the violent thugs terrorizing our streets, but the truth is that they are small-time criminals.

The big-time criminals are those that are raking in millions of dollars by stealing from the government. Medicare and Medicaid are considered to be the two largest victims. It has been estimated that Medicare fraud costs U.S. taxpayers up to $80 billion a year, and it has been estimated that Medicaid fraud costs U.S. taxpayers up to $100 billion a year. We are hemorrhaging money like crazy because of all of this fraud, and there is no end in sight.

The worst fraud occurs in major urban areas in blue states.

Everyone knows this.

The Democrats that are in power in these areas are very hesitant to crack down on the fraud, because they would literally be cracking down on the people that voted them into office.

California is a perfect example.

The state is being accused of losing $180 billion to fraud over the years, and California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office vigorously disputes that figure.

But as you will see below, the facts clearly show that there has been a tremendous amount of fraud going on.

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• Why should Egypt be searching for a formula that would facilitate Hamas’s return to Palestinian politics? Should Egypt and the rest of the international community not instead be demanding that Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad surrender their weapons, dismantle their military structures, and disappear from Palestinian political life?
• This new Palestinian “unity” alliance being planned would mean that instead of producing new and moderate Palestinian leaders, the election could result in a parliament in which Hamas, PIJ, and other rejectionist groups become major political power brokers and representatives of the Palestinians.
• Is this really what Washington and its Western allies want? Are Western governments once again entertaining the fantasy that Islamist terrorist organizations can be transformed into legitimate political parties?
• Hamas members can remove their military uniforms and put on suits. PIJ operatives can replace their rifles with election posters. They can talk about democracy, elections, and political partnership. None of that necessarily changes what they plan.
• A “Western-driven disaster” could be developing in which accountability for Hamas is replaced by efforts to rescue the organization politically. “Hamas must never again be trusted with Palestinian politics. It should face the kind of post-defeat reckoning that Nazi Germany faced after World War Two or that the Baathist regimes of Iraq and Syria faced after their collapse. Why would a defeated terror organization that inflicted immense damage on its own people, its neighbors, and the entire region be offered an exit strategy or a political off-ramp? What possible campaign promise could Hamas present that makes it worthy of consideration in Palestinian elections? More war and jihad (holy war)? More governance failures? More corruption and theft of aid? Hamas is a spent force, a used and discarded object, a wrecked entity that cannot be repaired or repurposed.” — Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a Palestinian-American analyst from Gaza, X. August 21, 2026.
• “Western governments, elites, and observers continue to display remarkable naivete about the Middle East, Arab political culture, and ideologically driven movements. Democracy is not simply voting at a booth. It is the creation of a democratic tradition, a free society, an open media environment, and a civic ethos that is not driven by ideology, religion, or extremism. The United States, under a Republican administration twenty years ago, made a grave mistake by insisting on elections that included Hamas. Will the Trump administration repeat the same error once again?” — Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, X, August 21, 2026.
• The problem with the Western approach then was the assumption that participation in elections would moderate Hamas. Instead, Hamas used elections to gain legitimacy and power while retaining its weapons, ideology, and terrorist infrastructure.
• There is no reason to believe that things would be different now. Hamas and PIJ might even accept cleverly-worded conditions to enable them to participate. They might go as far as saying they accept a Palestinian state alongside Israel. They will say whatever is necessary to get through the political door.
• The real questions should be simpler: Will Hamas, PIJ and other Palestinian terrorist organizations recognize Israel’s right to exist? Will they renounce terrorism? Will they surrender all their weapons? Will they dismantle their military wings? Will they abandon jihad as a means of eliminating Israel?
• Unless the answer to all these questions is unequivocally yes, terrorists should have no role in elections, government, or Palestinian decision-making.
• After October 7, 2023, the international community should be discussing how to remove Hamas and PIJ from Palestinian political and military life – not how to help them have seats in parliament.

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The Girl Scouts’ faith materials identify the Islamic Committee on Girl Scouting and say it offers “Girl Scouts of the Islamic Faith” religious recognition awards, including medals.

Girl Scout troops across the US are incorporating Islamic religious instruction, prayer and activities into scouting programs, according to a new investigation by White House correspondent Natalie Winters.

Winters reported that mosque-based troops in several states have used Girl Scout programming to teach Islamic practices, including prayer, Ramadan and hijab. The examples appear to involve individual troops and local councils rather than a nationwide requirement imposed on all Girl Scouts.

The Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) does officially recognize religious award programs operated by outside religious organizations. Its own faith materials identify the Islamic Committee on Girl Scouting and say it offers “Girl Scouts of the Islamic Faith” religious recognition awards, including medals. GSUSA also directs families toward religious organizations for information about the programs.

Islamic faith-related patch programs have also existed for a number of years now in the organization. Available materials list Ramadan, Hajj, Jumaa and “Share Ramadan With a Friend” patches for Girl Scouts across different age levels. The programs are administered by Islamic organizations rather than GSUSA itself. In some instances, Girl Scout troops learn the pillars of Islam and can fulfil requirements by visiting mosques or learning about Muslim prayer practices to get the patches.

Winters mentioned the SALAM Islamic Center in Sacramento, which hosted a Girl Scout event in February 2025. Girls were invited to try on hijabs, tour the mosque and learn about “the significance of modesty.” The mosque describes its Girl Scout program as promoting “Strong Islamic Values.”

Other examples include Girl Scout programs at the Islamic Center of Naperville, the Islamic Center of Long Island and Virginia’s ADAMS Center. Winters reported on her Substack that these programs use Islamic education or traditions into scouting activities.

Some of the programming is not new. A Girl Scout troop connected to PGMA in Washington, DC, advertised Ramadan overnight events dating back more than a decade. Activities included Islamic prayer, Quran and Hadith study, religious discussions and service during iftar. Girls were instructed to bring prayer garments or hijabs and Islamic educational materials.

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Decision allows parts of executive order to move forward before midterms

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday ruled that President Donald Trump can implement parts of his executive order meant to tighten up mail-in balloting in the U.S. – this after a group of states sued the federal government to stop the administration’s plans, claiming they were unconstitutional.

In June, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani of Massachusetts, a Barack Obama appointee, blocked Trump’s mail ballot order for the 23 states challenging the policy.

The one page ruling from the high court had the backing of the six conservative and moderate justices and allows the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to create lists of adult U.S. citizens in each state and to send those lists to states at least 60 days before a federal election as a means to ensure only citizens are sent ballots. The Trump order also directs the U.S. Postal Service, in states that have mail-in voting, to obtain lists of eligible voters and deliver mailed ballots only to those people.

Reports indicate it remains unclear how much of the executive order will be implemented before the midterm elections in November.

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ICE officials said almost 400 have either been convicted or charged with crimes in the U.S. But not even half of the more than 1,300 arrested, according to DHS’s own numbers, have been charged or convicted with crimes.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Monday that in just the first two weeks of August, 1,328 people were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Maryland and Virginia.

That’s nearly 100 people arrested each day in Maryland and Virginia in just the first half of the month.

DHS called this “Operation Safe Community — Washington, D.C.” and it described the people they arrested as illegally in the country. Out of the more than 1,300 brought into custody, almost 400 have either been convicted or charged with crimes in the U.S. News4 has not been able to independently verify that information without a full list of the people who were arrested.

What DHS did share were the names of nine people arrested, like one man taken into custody in Manassas, who DHS said allegedly is an MS-13 gang member and has previously been convicted of driving while intoxicated, driving on a suspended license and illegal re-entry. Another man, originally from Guatemala, was arrested in Alexandria and had, according to DHS, been arrested before for rape of a mentally incapacitated victim. DHS said one person they arrested had a warrant out for murder.

ICE officials said removing these people from Virginia and Maryland makes communities safer.
But one thing to note: more than 1,300 were arrested, and not even half, according to DHS’s own numbers, have been charged or convicted with crimes.

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Empire of Chaos, Lies, Plunder, Piracy. And bribes.

Mike Pompeo, former aspiring Tony Soprano, admitted: “We lie, we cheat, we steal.” And we bribe.

A Transition Protocol source, as we revealed live, is unequivocal: The President of the United States – despite having “won” the war on Iran countless times, at least in the Vociferation stakes – made a major attempt to induce IRGC Commander-in-Chief Gen. Ahmad Vahidi and senior Iranian military leadership to break with the government in Tehran through enormous financial inducements.

So here we have POTUS playing good ol’ Divide and Rule – which the Brits learned from the Roman Empire – to fracture the IRGC from the inside.

This was not a mere exploratory diplomatic contact. Trump did not merely want to determine whether Vahidi supported U.S.-Iran negotiations.

According to our source – placed in the tight inner circle of Leader Mojtaba Khamenei – this was a full leadership-buyout operation, modeled on the Venezuela playbook, to fracture the Iranian state.

The attempt miserably failed.

Because Ahmad Vahidi completely rejected it.

The Trump administration had already created a somewhat direct conduit to Vahidi through Nechirvan Barzani, the President of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq, way back in May 2026. Then-DNI Tulsi Gabbard contacted Barzani – fully authorized by Trump and Vice-President JD Vance – and an encrypted connection to Vahidi was subsequently established through Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan.

The channel stayed dormant – or in coma, for nearly 3 months. This time though Trump attempted to turn the channel into a de facto fracturing of the Iranian leadership, employing the conceptual precedent in Venezuela: isolate the central command; handsomely bribe those immediately around it for “cooperation”; and create the internal conditions for regime decapitation.

The source describes “billions of dollars” being waved as inducements to several members of the senior IRGC leadership through Vahidi. All that while Trump was on Hardcore Vociferation mode threatening Tehran and spinning his “control” of the Strait of Hormuz.

Nothing so far has been independently confirmed in public. And probably will not. But that does not mean the source is not credible.

The source is part of Leader Mojtaba’s tight inner circle; heard all about it directly from Vahidi; and later was fully authorized to disclose the extremely sensitive information to Pakistani mediators, especially Field Marshal Asim Munir, who Trump keeps calling virtually every day asking for “help” getting the Iranians back at the negotiating table (when he in fact blew up the negotiating table).

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A shocking video has emerged showing the moment a shirtless youth executed an innocent woman in a supposedly random attack just outside a Detroit liquor store last week.

As The Metro News Detroit reported, 57-year-old Faith Williams was with her niece near a liquor store when a 15-year-old boy ambushed them. The incident occurred around 11:15 p.m. Friday in the 15500 block of East Warren Avenue near Chalmers.

The youth shot both Williams and her niece. While the girl survived, Williams did not.

Metro News Detroit captured video showing the boy lying in wait as Williams and her niece enter.

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President Donald Trump on Sunday night appeared to confirm that federal immigration authorities have active or contemplated enforcement proceedings against radical “Squad” Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota over long-standing allegations of immigration fraud.

Trump shared a bombshell report from Just the News revealing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement refused to release records concerning its investigation into the Minnesota Democrat.

ICE claimed that disclosing the records could interfere with “enforcement proceedings.”

Trump posted the report to Truth Social Sunday evening without adding further commentary.

The explosive development concerns allegations that Omar entered into a fraudulent marriage with Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who is alleged to be her biological brother, to help him remain in the United States.

Omar has repeatedly denied the accusation.

Just the News filed a Freedom of Information Act request in January seeking documents related to any ICE investigations into the alleged immigration fraud.

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A serious and potentially fatal condition has seen a major spike in teens and adults who regularly use cannabis.

As The Hill reported on Saturday, a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that “scromiting” in the United States has become more prevalent among younger marijuana users.

Scromiting is social media slang for the condition’s real name, Cannabis (or cannabinoid) hyperemesis syndrome (CHS).

As the Jackson Health System notes, CHS happens when repeated cannabis use affects the body’s normal ability to regulate nausea, triggering ongoing nausea, severe stomach pain, and uncontrollable vomiting.

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