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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Seeks to block military force against groups such as drug cartels

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Liberal media outlets find themselves in a truly difficult position when looking at immigration in South Africa.

Black South Africans are supposedly victims — they are black and African, after all — but immigrants are victims, too.

Where does that leave us when black South Africans start expressing strong anti-immigrant sentiments against black immigrants?

It’s a quagmire for neo-Marxist ideologues in deciding which victim group to support.

Among the left-wing outlets trying to find their bearings with this news comes The Wall Street Journal, which reported on the situation on June 28.

Africans from countries like Ghana, Mozambique, and Malawi have been subjected to beatings, killings, and calls for them to return home.

South Africans have taken up spears, clubs, and whips to make it known that these people are not welcome.

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The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday delivered a crushing blow to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors when it ended a Court of Appeals stay and reinstated a superior court’s injunctions, with modifications, that returned election-administration responsibilities of the county’s elections back to the County Recorder, Justin Heap.

The Arizona Supreme Court vacated the Court of Appeals stay from June and reinstated with modifications the “superior court injunctions governing the allocation of election-administration responsibilities between the Maricopa County Recorder and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.”

According to the Supreme Court’s News Release:

The dispute concerns which county office has the authority to perform election duties that Arizona statutes assign to “the county recorder or other officer in charge of elections.” Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap argued that those duties belong to the Recorder or to an officer designated by the Recorder.

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Another corrupt Illinois Democrat family caught with their hands in the till.

Urbana Democrat State Representative Carol Ammons and her husband, Champaign County Clerk Aaron Ammons, were indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury on multiple felony counts including wire fraud, false statements, and conspiracy to obstruct justice.

The indictment lays out a brazen scheme where Ammons allegedly used her campaign committee, Friends of Carol Ammons, to issue overpayments and then took cash kickbacks disguised as “gifts.”

At the same time, she used her position as a state lawmaker to steer massive state grants to friendly nonprofits that then put her daughter Titianna Ammons on the payroll, WCIA reported.

US existing home sales unexpectedly fell in June as house prices hit a record high and mortgage rates remained elevated, pushing potential buyers to the sidelines.

Home sales dropped 2.4% last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.09 million units, the National Association of Realtors said on Thursday. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast home resales would climb to a rate of 4.20 million units.

Sales increased in the Northeast, but declined in the Midwest, South and West.

Existing home sales are counted at the closing of a contract. Last month’s sales likely reflected contracts signed in April and May. Though mortgage rates have retreated after surging in response to the war in the Middle East, the average rate on the popular 30-year fixed-rate mortgage remains about 45 basis points above its pre-conflict level, data from mortgage financing firm Freddie Mac showed.

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The party of Me Too has shown its true face in the rolling Graham Platner scandal.

Now that a liberal woman has credibly accused him of rape, the rats have deserted the sinking ship and the Democrat-endorsed US Senate candidate for Maine has dropped out.

But it’s “Me Too” late to save face.

Graham Platner announced Wednesday he was suspending his Senate campaign.ZUMAPRESS.com

Conservatives always knew the left’s effort to assert moral superiority on matters of sex, race and ideology were play-acting but now it’s undeniable for even their most blinkered supporters.

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Commissioner vote to move forward with moratorium on data centers, cable stations

Residents concerned for longtime community business

This comes as Maryland lawmakers are set to meet for a special session to pass a new redistricting bill

Maryland Democratic Gov. Wes Moore is facing criticism for condemning rising “tribal” politics while continuing to push a redistricting effort that opponents say would eliminate the state’s sole Republican congressional seat.

Moore, a rising Democratic star who is being floated as a possible 2028 presidential candidate, gave an Independence Day speech in which he described American history as “powerful,” “painful” and “complex.”

Speaking in the Maryland State House, where George Washington resigned his military commission in 1783, Moore proclaimed that “too many feel that our politics has become tribal, that our political system once felt like a gift, but the politics of today feel like a grift.”

In response, Haven Shoemaker, the top state attorney for Maryland’s Carroll County, remarked to Fox News Digital that “Gov. Moore is proof positive that hypocrisy knows no bounds.”

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SALISBURY, Md. — Wicomico County is proud to announce that lighting formerly used at Shorebirds Stadium will be repurposed and installed at WinterPlace Park, creating the first lighted athletic field on the east side of Wicomico County.

The project represents another investment in the County’s park system and demonstrates a commitment to providing high-quality recreational opportunities while making responsible use of existing public assets. Rather than retiring the stadium lighting, the County identified an opportunity to relocate the fixtures to WinterPlace Park, where they will continue serving the community for years to come.

The addition of field lighting will dramatically expand the park’s capabilities by allowing for evening practices, games, tournaments, and community events. It will also increase scheduling flexibility for youth leagues and recreational organizations while providing families on the eastern side of the county with greater access to quality athletic facilities closer to home.

“This is a tremendous win for our community,” said Wicomico County Executive Julie Giordano. “Every child deserves access to safe, high-quality places to play, regardless of where they live in our county. By repurposing these lights from Shorebirds Stadium, we are making a smart investment that stretches taxpayer dollars while creating new opportunities for youth sports, families, and community events. WinterPlace Park has always been a valuable community asset, and these improvements will make it an even greater destination for generations to come.”

The project reflects Wicomico County’s continued focus on improving recreational infrastructure throughout the county while ensuring residents in every region have access to modern parks and athletic facilities. The new lighting will extend field availability well beyond daylight hours, allowing local organizations to host additional programming and reducing scheduling conflicts during busy athletic seasons.
The County extends its appreciation to everyone involved in making this project possible and looks forward to seeing WinterPlace Park become an even more active gathering place for youth athletics and community recreation.

When Democrats and the liberal media finally realize this, you can bet they’ll start spreading the ‘Trump is trying to steal the election’ narratives. Anything this man does is met with apocalyptic reactions from his detractors, which is both extremely annoying and somewhat entertaining. Tonight’s latest move: Trump has fired two Democrats from the federal Election Assistance Commission. A third member, a Republican, had already resigned (via NOTUS):

The White House fired two Democratic Election Assistance Commission members Thursday afternoon, completely vacating the federal agency in charge of election management guidelines after the remaining Republican member resigned.

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“Trump couldn’t rig the elections through the SAVE Act, so he’s now moving unilaterally to subvert the 2026 elections starting with sacking the bipartisan EAC commissioners,” said Tim Lim, a Democratic strategist working on election administration issues. “Between the FBI surging into Fulton County and today’s action, it’s clear Donald Trump is determined to stop a free and fair election this November.”

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Congress established the small federal agency through the Help America Vote Act after the tightly contested 2000 presidential election in order to provide best practices to state and municipal election officials, as well as to develop specifications for testing and certifying voting systems. The four-person, bipartisan panel issues voluntary guidance and holds no enforcement authority.

Republicans have tried — unsuccessfully — to eliminate the agency, the size of which former President Joe Biden doubled during his term. It now has just 65 employees after a wave of Trump cuts.

Other election officials and lawmakers have criticized the agency for not adequately advancing election security measures in the past, though the commission’s membership has been in flux throughout its existence. The EAC was without a quorum for years — frozen in its abilities to update voting guidance — until the Senate confirmed new commissioners in 2019.

Thursday’s firings could endanger the government’s ability to make bipartisan election-related recommendations ahead of the midterms, particularly as Trump moves to aggressively reshape the way the country

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President Trump made cracking down on fraud in welfare programs a priority of his second administration. The focus was on reducing fraud and removing illegal aliens from things like Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP. The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ also tightened eligibility requirements for food aid, including adding work requirements.

That means the number of people on food stamps has, of course, dropped.

The Washington Post breathlessly wrote about it like it was the end of the world.

Here’s more:

Michelle Flowers says it took eight months for her to get her food stamp benefits reinstated after they lapsed last year — and she only got it done, she said, because she was laid off from her job at a call center and finally had time.

The 36-year-old mother of four was exactly the kind of person the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program was meant to help. But Arizona had ramped up the program’s vetting, scrambling to comply with new rules in President Donald Trump’s signature legislation. Even people eligible for government help were swept up in the strict implementation, analysts say, as an agency already operating on thinner staff struggled to process cases.

One year after Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill tightened eligibility for food aid and pushed states to do more screening, Arizona is a striking example of how those changes — and the bureaucratic fallout — may have hurt Americans who qualified for aid. The number of Arizonans on food stamps has plummeted by half — a loss of nearly 500,000 people, including about 200,000 children, according to the latest available state data.

Federal officials praised Arizona last month for carrying out the president’s sweeping changes to the social safety net, declaring the state was “leading the way” in directing benefits to the right people and reducing “waste, fraud and abuse.” But many tracking SNAP enrollment say Arizona’s steep drop-off is instead a sign that the system is broken.

“They’re making the process too hard,” Flowers said as she waited with a friend, now navigating that system, at a benefits office in Phoenix. Just outside, a man tried the phone number he was given to set up an interview for food stamps and got a recording about “extremely high call volume” before the line went dead.

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Now, the chances of that ever happening are slim to none. Even the majority of people who understand Pastor Wilson’s frustration would likely still reject the idea. But, on the flip side, laughing at Wilson, calling him a lunatic, and moving on from what he’s saying misses the much bigger and more important issue: female voting patterns have ruined American politics?

Let’s be honest, women changed the political direction of this country. But that’s what happens when a massive new voting bloc enters the system… hence why the Biden regime was trying so hard to create the “illegal voting” bloc by opening the Southern border. The uncomfortable part for many, and what we don’t acknowledge, is that the results of women voting haven’t always been good.

Many Americans believe progressive women have helped move politics away from practical questions about safety, borders, crime, families, and national stability and into murky waters filled with emotional breakdowns, identity politics, and a radical social agenda. And the people who see this aren’t just men. Conservative women see it too, especially when they watch other women vote for policies that place families, children, and communities at risk while congratulating themselves for being compassionate.

How did we go from traditional family values to celebrating abortions?

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He said protesters should consider removing metadata from images before uploading them and avoid posting real-time updates that could expose where they are.

Senior policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Chad Marlow has released a video on the organization’s Instagram page advising protesters on how to prevent their phones from sharing information about them while protesting.

“If you’re protesting and not actively using your phone, the best thing you can do to prevent it from sharing information about you and your location is to shut it off entirely,” he said. “If you want to turn on your phone to take pictures or record videos from the day, turn off your Bluetooth and put your phone into airplane mode. That way, your phone won’t inadvertently share your private location and other data while you use it.”

Marlow then advised protesters to use encrypted apps like Signal, which he said “makes it significantly more difficult for the government to intercept your communications.”

Marlow also warned demonstrators to be careful about the information they share online, warning that social media posts, photos, and videos can potentially reveal identifying details about protesters and their locations. He said protesters should consider removing metadata from images before uploading them and avoid posting real-time updates that could expose where they are.

The video was part of the ACLU’s broader efforts to inform leftist activists about digital privacy and surveillance concerns during protests, with the clip being part of a video the organization released for June’s “No Kings” protests. The organization has previously warned that law enforcement agencies may use digital tools, including facial recognition technology and location data, to identify individuals involved in protests.

This comes after Minnesota Attorney General Daniel Rosen said in June that Antifa militants were charged with what he described as “surveillance, operational planning, and rapid mobilization against law enforcement,” including allegedly throwing blocks of ice at their vehicles. The DOJ said that the 15 co-conspirators trained extremists in surveillance, rapid mobilization, shield tactics, blockade operations, and methods designed to interfere with federal immigration enforcement.

Grab a drink and get comfortable, because this might take a while.

If you listen to spectacularly dishonest Democrat schemers like Rep. Ro Khanna, immigration- and border-focused federal agencies like ICE, CBP, and the ICE component HSI are storming around grabbing people off the street for no reason but racism and shipping them to the camps for the sake of pure bigotry. When federal immigration authorities arrest someone, what’s happening is a “violation of human rights.”

He’s lying, and he’s lying as a cruel political strategy to create fear and uncertainty.

In Los Angeles last week, a multi-agency task force led by HSI arrested 10 suspects who were allegedly trafficking minors as young as 14 for sex. A grand jury indictment alleges at length that girls who tried to escape were beaten and threatened with death. The violent coercion of teenage girls into street prostitution (often from foster care) is a long-running crisis in the city and some of its neighboring communities, a reality so horrifying that the deeply partisan New York Times has covered it in depth despite the embarrassment to the Democrats who govern the place.

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Democrats may be trying to deny Maryland Republicans representation again in their latest redistricting effort.

Maryland lawmakers announced plans for a special session next month to draft a constitutional amendment aimed at redistricting the state ahead of the 2024 midterm elections, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Democrats previously proposed an 8-0 map that would’ve eliminated the state’s sole Republican seat, held by Rep. Andy Harris.

“What the Maryland Governor and the new Democrat Socialist Party are doing, since they know they can’t win on the Eastern Shore with their far-left ideas, is trying to win by gerrymandering — with state legislators actually creating a gerrymandering double standard — one standard of compact districts for themselves, and another standard allowing extreme gerrymandering for Congress,” former House Freedom Caucus Chair Harris said in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The Maryland Democratic Party and Democratic Maryland Senate President Will Ferguson did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

“Maryland needs a durable, transparent constitutional framework for congressional redistricting that reflects the evolving legal landscape,” Democratic Maryland House Speaker Joseline Peña-Melnyk stated, according to AP. “This special session gives the General Assembly the opportunity to respond thoughtfully to recent court decisions while ensuring that Maryland voters have the final say on any proposed constitutional changes.”

A bill aimed at redrawing Maryland’s 7-1 map to make Harris’ seat more competitive died in the Maryland Senate due to lawmakers’ concerns over whether it would survive judicial review, AP reported in April.

On the other side of the Potomac, the Virginia Supreme Court struck down a similar constitutional amendment, the DCNF reported in May. The ballot measure would have redrawn Virginia’s 6-5 Democrat-Republican map to 10-1 had the court not ruled it unconstitutional.

“Last year, Donald Trump launched an unprecedented wave of mid-decade gerrymandering to protect himself from the wrath of the voters this November. He demanded that his allies in the states slice and dice communities of color to diminish their political power and rig more districts in favor of Republicans,” Common Cause senior director Dan Vicuña said in a statement to the DCNF.

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The radical left’s favorite golden boy is running the once-great state of California straight into the ground.

The Trump Labor Department announced Wednesday that California Governor Gavin Newsom’s failed administration owes more than $22 billion to the U.S. Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund.

This staggering debt comes from loans California took during the COVID-19 pandemic to pay unemployment benefits — benefits that were looted by massive fraud under Newsom’s watch. California is now the only state in the entire country with an outstanding federal unemployment insurance loan balance.

As a direct result, California business owners are being forced to pay higher federal payroll taxes to bail out Sacramento’s incompetence and corruption. Every other state that borrowed during the pandemic has repaid its loans. Not Newsom’s California.

President Trump made cracking down on fraud in welfare programs a priority of his second administration. The focus was on reducing fraud and removing illegal aliens from things like Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP. The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ also tightened eligibility requirements for food aid, including adding work requirements.

That means the number of people on food stamps has, of course, dropped.

The Washington Post breathlessly wrote about it like it was the end of the world.

Here’s more:

Michelle Flowers says it took eight months for her to get her food stamp benefits reinstated after they lapsed last year — and she only got it done, she said, because she was laid off from her job at a call center and finally had time.

The 36-year-old mother of four was exactly the kind of person the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program was meant to help. But Arizona had ramped up the program’s vetting, scrambling to comply with new rules in President Donald Trump’s signature legislation. Even people eligible for government help were swept up in the strict implementation, analysts say, as an agency already operating on thinner staff struggled to process cases.

One year after Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill tightened eligibility for food aid and pushed states to do more screening, Arizona is a striking example of how those changes — and the bureaucratic fallout — may have hurt Americans who qualified for aid. The number of Arizonans on food stamps has plummeted by half — a loss of nearly 500,000 people, including about 200,000 children, according to the latest available state data.

Federal officials praised Arizona last month for carrying out the president’s sweeping changes to the social safety net, declaring the state was “leading the way” in directing benefits to the right people and reducing “waste, fraud and abuse.” But many tracking SNAP enrollment say Arizona’s steep drop-off is instead a sign that the system is broken.

“They’re making the process too hard,” Flowers said as she waited with a friend, now navigating that system, at a benefits office in Phoenix. Just outside, a man tried the phone number he was given to set up an interview for food stamps and got a recording about “extremely high call volume” before the line went dead.

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Ford’s 2 separate recalls affect Mustang, Mustang GTD and Mustang Mach-E vehicles

Ford is recalling more than 110,000 vehicles in the U.S. across two separate safety campaigns after federal regulators identified defects involving windshield wipers and a rear drivetrain component that could increase crash risks.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the automaker is recalling 110,626 vehicles in two separate actions affecting certain Mustang, Mustang GTD and Mustang Mach-E models.

The larger recall affects 67,842 Mustang and Mustang GTD vehicles. NHTSA said that under certain cold-weather conditions, the windshield wipers may operate only at the high-speed setting, while the windshield washer system may not function properly. The agency said the reduced visibility could increase the risk of a crash.

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Yet another tragic tale confirming what a terrible idea it was to allow just anyone across our nation’s Southern border. It’s also a reminder that, under the Biden-Harris administration, every town became a border town because they deliberately spread the poison nationwide.

On June 29th, in Coldwater, Michigan — a suburb between Chicago and Detroit — a 20-year-old worker at a pork processing plant reportedly got into an argument with a co-worker, and instead of simply walking away, the 20-year-old allegedly chose violence. Haitian illegal immigrant Valmir Djempsley allegedly fatally stabbed his co-worker. The accused is an illegal alien who was allowed in the country thanks to Biden-Harris catch-and-release policies.

BREAKING: DHS confirms that a suspect arrested for murder after he allegedly stabbed his coworker to death at a Michigan meat plant is a Haitian illegal alien who was caught and released at the Texas border by the Biden administration in 2024. ICE has placed a detainer on Valmir Djempsly and he is now charged with murder.

DHS statement:

“This illegal alien barbarically stabbed his coworker to death,” said DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis. “This murderer was released into American communities by the Biden Administration. If it weren’t for the reckless open border policies of the Biden Administration, this criminal never would have been in our country in the first place and his victim would still be alive. We have lodged a detainer asking Michigan to not release this dangerous criminal from jail without notifying ICE.”

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Baltimore County declared a mass casualty incident, and civilian vehicles were involved on Reisterstown Road

More than 30 people were injured Wednesday when a public bus crashed into a building just outside Baltimore, Maryland, and one critical patient was extricated and taken to a hospital, authorities said.

First responders were on scene after a Maryland Transit Administration bus crashed on Reisterstown Road in Pikesville, Fox 45 News reported.

Baltimore County officials said “numerous civilian vehicles” were involved in the crash, including one that overturned.

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All across Maryland there is a wide variety of adventures (and species, like the speckled trout at left) waiting for anglers to explore.

White perch can be found in the region’s tidal rivers and creeks this month and offer good fishing close to home or port.

Chesapeake Channa, aka snakeheads, have no problem with warmer water temperatures and are very active this time of the year.

Kingfish, flounder, bluefish, or even a visiting blowfish are being caught in the Atlantic surf.

Check out the full report.

Florida’s State Board of Education voted to require proof of U.S. citizenship or lawful presence for admission to all 28 of the state’s public  colleges, shutting the door on illegal immigrant students in a move that drew dozens of opponents to a telephone-only board meeting, and not a single word of public debate from the members who approved it.

The board also approved a second policy applying the same standard to adult general education programs at those institutions. Board member Daniel Foganholi cast the lone dissenting vote on the adult education measure, though he did not voice objections during the meeting. No other board member questioned, debated, or discussed either policy on the record before voting.

The twin actions mark the latest step in Florida’s escalating effort to strip public benefits from those in the country illegally, and the sharpest yet in higher education. The Florida Phoenix reported that under the new rules, colleges must require students to present documentation proving their status before enrolling. The policy also bars admissions decisions based on race, color, sex, disability, national origin, religion, or marital status, and requires that the rules be “applied consistently to all students and in a nondiscriminatory manner.”

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Disgraced former Milwaukee County Judge Hannah was found guilty in December of one charge of felony obstruction for her role in aiding an illegal alien named Eduardo Flores-Ruiz with evading ICE after Flores-Ruiz appeared in Dugan’s courtroom on domestic violence charges.

Before her trial, Dugan had argued she enjoyed judicial immunity for her acts. But after she was convicted, her defense team tried to get the verdict thrown out, then they argued she deserved another trial or a dismissal of the guilty verdict. Federal Judge Lynn Adelmann denied both of those motions, but rescheduled Dugan’s June 3 sentencing to today.

Dugan faced 5 years behind bars and a fine of up to $250,000.

Today, Dugan was given a $5,000 fine for her crime. That’s it. No prison time and no probation.

Dugan reportedly spoke before her sentencing and remained defiant that she did anything wrong.

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The socialist wing on the Democratic party has many things in common, but the core belief that binds them all together is this: if you give them all your money and all your freedom, they can make better decisions for you than you ever could.

That is what Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) said Tuesday as he outlined the multitude of issues that unite progressives—from Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, to disgraced Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner.

“Senator Bernie Sanders, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, Mayor Mom Donnie and Mayor of New York, Mr. Graham Platner, who is running for Senate in Maine. They are socialists,” Sen. Kennedy said. “They believe in a government-run economy. They believe that, my words, not theirs, you should send all your money and all of your freedom to them and they can make decisions for you. I don’t believe that.”

“I believe in free enterprise. I think free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty than all the social programs put together,” he continued. “They believe in defunding the police. They will bind all of that. They believe that cops are a bigger problem than criminals. They believe in defunding ICE. They believe that, I know some of them that they think all white people are racist. I know some of them that they think Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato Head are all racist.”

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A new analysis by Always On Energy Research and the Institute for Energy Research concludes that renewable energy mandates and net-zero policies have contributed to higher electricity prices in states that adopted them, while states with fewer climate-related mandates generally have lower electricity costs.

The analysis examined electricity pricing data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration and found that most states with electricity rates above the national average voted for the Democratic presidential nominee in the 2020 and 2024 elections.

According to the report, 86 percent of states with above-average electricity prices supported the Democratic nominee in both elections. By comparison, 80 percent of the 10 states with the lowest electricity prices voted for the Republican nominee.

Researchers said the study focused on identifying policy differences between states with higher and lower electricity rates.

Last year, the organizations highlighted California, New York, Florida, Kentucky and Louisiana as examples of how renewable portfolio standards, net-zero targets, net-metering programs and other climate-related policies may affect electricity prices.

The groups have now expanded the project, releasing detailed profiles of the original 13 colonies on the Fourth of July. Additional state profiles are expected to be published in phases.

“We wanted to have a one-stop shop where people could kind of get a feel for what’s the energy mix in their state, what policies are being implemented, and what’s the impact of those policies on what they’re paying at the plug,” Isaac Orr, vice president of research for Always On Energy Research, told Just the News.

The report evaluates whether states require utilities to obtain a minimum share of electricity from renewable sources, have utility net-zero commitments, offer net-metering programs for rooftop solar customers, impose carbon-pricing or cap-and-trade systems, restrict natural gas infrastructure or have policies related to electricity demand from data centers.

“The map shows these kinds of subtle distinctions in the price of electricity for each of these states, and we wanted to be able to demonstrate why that is from a policy perspective,” Orr said.

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The radical Left’s desperate scheme to flood American elections with illegal non-citizen votes just hit a massive, Trump-shaped brick wall in Florida.

A Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida has OVERRULED a highly controversial order by a far-left, foreign-born activist judge in Washington D.C., officially REINSTATING President Donald Trump’s powerhouse election security system.

The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system upgrades, which allow patriot states to instantly screen voter rolls and purge illegal aliens, is back online.

Last March, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at preserving and protecting the integrity of US elections.

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Sheriff Mike Chitwood called the off-duty officer ‘stumbling drunk’ and vowed termination after surveillance footage emerged

An off-duty sergeant with a sheriff’s office in central Florida was arrested after police say surveillance video showed him assaulting an older couple in a bar.

Jason Stickels, 44, was at Merk’s Bar & Grill on Monday afternoon when he “created unwanted contact with a couple seated near the bar,” according to a statement from the Volusia Sheriff’s Office, where Stickels has been employed since 2004.

Mike Chitwood, the Volusia sheriff since 2016, put out a statement criticizing Stickels and apologizing to the couple in the bar.

“How to throw away your law enforcement career in 2 minutes. Off duty, stumbling drunk, harassing people who are just trying to enjoy their afternoon,” Chitwood said in a social media post. “I apologize for this soon-to-be former Volusia Sheriff’s Office sergeant’s idiotic behavior today.”

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A federal appeals  court handed the Trump administration a significant  legal win Thursday, reversing a lower court order that had required the National Park Service to restore dozens of signs and exhibits removed from sites across the country, including displays on slavery and climate change that the administration deemed inconsistent with the parks’ core mission.

The First Circuit  Court of Appeals found that the government “made a strong showing that the harms that the district court relied on” did not meet the legal standards required for an injunction. The court also concluded that the plaintiff groups challenging the removals “cannot show that a stay of the district court’s order…would cause them substantial injury.”

The ruling is a clear rebuke of the lower court’s attempt to force the NPS to reinstall the contested materials. It is also the latest in a string of federal appellate decisions that have favored the administration’s position against district court overreach, a pattern that has played out on issues from tariffs to construction policy.

What the administration ordered, and what was removed

The dispute traces back to a March 2025 executive order directing the NPS to review all public-facing content at its sites. The order targeted messaging the administration said “inappropriately disparage[d] Americans past or living” and content that “emphasizes matters unrelated to the beauty, abundance, or grandeur” of the natural features the parks were established to protect.

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Outstanding auto loan debt has surged 57.3% over a decade to nearly $1.7T, per the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

The average new car payment rose to an all-time high in the first quarter as American households continued to face affordability challenges in the economy.

A new report by LendingTree citing data from Experian for the first quarter of 2026 found that the average monthly payment for a new vehicle rose 2.9% from a year ago to a record of $770.

Lease payments on new vehicles rose at a faster rate, rising 3.2% over the last year to $619 on average in the first quarter.

Used car payments saw a smaller increase over the last year, rising 1.5% to an average monthly payment of $531.

Among borrowers with varying tiers of credit scores, the borrowers making the highest average monthly payments on new vehicles were nonprime borrowers with scores in the 601 to 660 range, who paid $811, followed by subprime borrowers with scores between 501 and 600 who paid $792.

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The attack was the latest targeting a vessel moving through the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf, through which a fifth of all oil and natural gas traded once passed in peacetime.

Iranian state television said the liquefied natural gas tanker came under attack after ignoring warnings but did not directly claim the assault.

Tehran has repeatedly declared that only its approved route through the strait is safe and is suspected of attacking other ships that have used another route close to the Omani shore.

The US is eager to press ahead with negotiations with Iran aimed at fully reopening the strait, rolling back Tehran’s disputed nuclear program and reaching a permanent end to the war launched February 28.

But previous attacks in the strait have sparked retaliatory strikes by the US, which then saw Iran attack Gulf Arab states – raising the risk of an escalation.

Talks between Iran and the US, meanwhile, appear to be on hold until after the burial of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed at the beginning of the war.

Signs have been increasing that mourners at his funeral were calling for the death of US President Donald Trump.

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Donald Trump‘s most vocal supporters are demanding that Mitch McConnell’s office provide proof that the Kentucky lawmaker is still alive after he disappeared amid a three-week hospitalization.

McConnell, 84, was admitted to a hospital on the morning of June 14 following a medical emergency at his Washington, DC home. Paramedics responded to a report of an unconscious person believed to have suffered a ‘cardiac arrest,’ with a medic reporting ‘CPR in progress’ at the address.

The senator was not named on the call, and his office has never confirmed what sent him to the hospital, saying only that he is receiving ‘excellent ca

The speculation surrounding McConnell has intensified in recent days because his aides have refused to release new information regarding his condition or whether he will return to work as the GOP fights to maintain their razor thin majority.

Trump conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer claimed that an unnamed White House source told her that McConnell is in a ‘vegetative state’ or ‘brain dead’ and is ‘not coming back’ to work.

DC outlet The Hill even accidentally published an obituary-style look back at the senator’s political career which was swiftly deleted.

Independent journalist Desirée Townsend confirmed Loomer’s allegations: ‘I have heard the same thing from my sources for days. At this point, I am at the hospital for when they eventually decide to cut him off of life support and move his body.’

As online chatter continued to grow about McConnell’s health condition, MAGA activists like Breitbart editor Matthew Boyle wrote on X, ‘McConnell’s staff should produce proof of the senator’s condition one way or another right now.’

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Cases of a life-threatening lung disease are rising as officials report many of the patients are now hospitalized, with some in critical condition.

New York City is experiencing an outbreak of legionnaires’ disease, a severe form of pneumonia spread through contaminated water vapor that kills one in 10 patients.

Fourteen cases were reported over the weekend, which grew to 18 on Sunday and grew further to 23 cases as of July 6.

Health Commissioner Dr Alister Martin said ‘many of them are hospitalized at this moment,’ with some in critical condition in the intensive care unit.

The city’s health department reports 17 hospitalizations. No deaths have been reported to date.

On Sunday, visitors to and residents of New York City‘s Central Park and several Upper East Side neighborhoods were told to watch for symptoms of legionnaires’ disease, which can include fever, chills, cough and body aches.

Officials said the zip codes affected by the outbreak were 10075 and 10028, which cover Yorkville, and 10128, which covers Carnegie Hill.

Almost all the patients live, work or recently visited the area.

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Toyota is investing $3.6 billion to expand its San Antonio manufacturing campus, adding a second assembly line, creating about 2,000 jobs and bringing Tacoma production from Baja California to Texas over the next four years

Toyota is investing $3.6 billion to expand its San Antonio, Texas, assembly plant, a move expected to create about 2,000 new jobs and bring Toyota Tacoma pickup production from Mexico to the Lone Star State.

The automaker announced Monday that it will build a second vehicle assembly line at its San Antonio campus, allowing the facility to assemble the Tacoma alongside the Tundra and Sequoia.

As part of the expansion, Tacoma production will gradually transition from Toyota’s Baja California plant in Mexico over the next four years, according to the company. Toyota will continue producing Tacoma pickups at its Guanajuato, Mexico, plant.

The project will add about 2.5 million square feet to the manufacturing campus, effectively doubling the site’s size by 2030 and bringing Toyota’s total investment in the San Antonio operation to $8.3 billion since construction began in 2003. Toyota previously moved Tacoma production from San Antonio to its Guanajuato plant in 2020.

The Democratic Socialists of America are quickly gaining power within the Democratic Party, winning a string of high-profile House primary races in recent weeks.

After wins in New York and Colorado, DSA organizers are shifting resources toward Michigan and Wisconsin, where Abdul El-Sayed is running in a highly contested Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, and DSA-backed Francesca Hong is seeking the Democratic nomination for Wisconsin governor.

Politico noted that DSA is planning to deploy prominent socialists, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, and far-left streamer Hasan Piker, to help energize supporters ahead of the August primaries.

Democrats are now facing a massive internal power struggle after years of allowing socialists and Marxists into their DEI kingdom.

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There’s a showdown brewing between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the sanctuary county of Fairfax, Virginia, whose George Soros-funded prosecutor, Steve Descano, has repeatedly released violent illegals back into the community.

The latest case garnering headlines involves an illegal alien from El Salvador who was arrested last week for the rape and “strongarm kidnapping” of a woman in Fairfax. That illegal, Juan Arevalo Mendez, is a textbook case for how sanctuary city policies like those espoused by Descano – and reinforced by Virginia’s Democrat governor, Abigail Spanberger – put the commonwealth’s residents in danger every day.

Fox News’ Bill Melugin had the details behind Arevalo Mendez’s most recent arrest:

NEW: DHS confirms that a suspect arrested and charged with rape and strongarm kidnapping of a woman in Fairfax County, VA is a previously deported Salvadoran illegal alien and ICE has placed a detainer on him with local law enforcement asking them not to release him. DHS says Juan Arevalo Mendez has a lengthy criminal history prior to these charges, including assault, aggravated assault – weapon, strongarm aggravated assault – non-family, aggravated assault with a gun – non-family, drug possession, destruction of property, illegal re-entry, obstructing justice, and making a false report, as well as prior arrests for identity theft, drug possession, and larceny.

DHS statement:

“DHS is calling on Governor Abigail Spanberger and her fellow sanctuary politicians in Fairfax County to commit to not releasing this dangerous criminal from jail, and to instead turn him over to ICE custody so that we can remove him from our nation and end his crime spree in our country. Virginia sanctuary politicians need to stop playing Russian roulette with American lives and work with ICE law enforcement to keep criminals out of our communities.”

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Summary: 

• US strikes on Iran announced, as ‘heavy costs’ for earlier targeting of multiple commercial vessels
• Oil rises as Treasury revokes June 21 Iran oil waiver
• Hormuz Threat Level Raised To “Severe” 
• Three maritime incidents reported on Hormuz in last 24 hours 
• Another unidentified vessel hit by a Drone
• IRGC forces hit a Saudi Tanker 
• IRGC forces hit a Qatari LNG tanker

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‘Four to Five Times Larger’ Than Earlier Strikes

US officials are vowing bigger, more sustained and prolonged strikes against Iran tonight, according to the latest being reported in CNN and Axios:

The U.S. has launched a significantly expanded wave of airstrikes on Iran that is four to five times larger than the strikes carried out 10 days ago, a U.S. official told Axios. The official said the operation is expected to continue for hours.

Iran state media is meanwhile reporting on an initial retaliation by its forces (though not initially confirmed in other international sources):

Iran fires several anti-ship missiles and drones towards US Navy warships in the Sea of Oman, Fars reports

More from state media on what could be mounting civilian casualties:

The state broadcaster reports that “most of the attacks” by the US in southern Iran have “targeted civilian areas”. This comes as the US claims its military hit Iranian missile and defence systems in its latest attacks.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is demanding that governments complete negotiations on a permanent international system for transporting purported pathogens with pandemic potential and their proxies across the world, while simultaneously claiming that another pandemic is likely within the coming decade.

The proposal raises biosafety, international security, and national sovereignty questions about whether an unelected international organization should coordinate a permanent system for the cross-border movement of pathogens with pandemic potential and related biological materials and data.

The push comes as delegates from WHO Member States meet in Geneva from July 6 through July 17 to negotiate the final operational rules for the Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) System, the last major component needed before the WHO Pandemic Agreement can enter into force.

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Primary-election successes don’t necessarily translate into a national political realignment.

here’s a great deal of worry on the right these days over the recent electoral successes of Democratic Socialist  candidates. (Democratic Socialist is a world class oxymoron. There’s no democracy when one’s life is totally controlled by politicians and bureaucrats.) But coming off this Independence Day weekend, I recommend calm. The nation’s travel agencies will not soon be booking tours to Lenin’s Tomb.

It appears now that the DSA is a mini-movement with, we can hope, a pretty short half-life. Alternately annoying and comic, more children-at-play than a real threat. No need to go to DEFCON-1. Yet.

With the exception of Comrade Mamdani, Grand Dragon of the People’s Republic of New York City (informally known as Mamdonistan) and the humorless haradans of “The Squad,” DSA wackadoodles have not captured significant offices. Their successes of late have been in the bluest of blue state primaries. Savvy TAS readers know that turnout in primary elections is low. People with real lives attend to them rather than voting on off-years. This is too bad because all the crazies — left and  right — vote early on primary days, and with the slack voting requirements Democrats insist on, perhaps often.

We’ll see in November what the full electorate thinks of these short rounds (an artilleryman’s term — think about it). Some may win, because in many blue precincts voters consider Republicans little more than limbs of Satan, not to be tolerated, let alone voted for. So whoever or whatever is put up on the D side, even if it has a tail, will carry the day. And the temptation to throw a spanner in the spokes of the Arch Fiend Donald is irresistible. This is why otherwise sensible Mainers will cast their November ballots for the “Oyster fisherman” Graham Platner, who has the IQ of an oyster and is crazier than an outhouse rat.

If many of these wingnuts get elected, they may do more damage to the Democrats than to the Republicans, making the D brand even crazier than it already is. There are hopeful signs that some Democrats, those nimble enough to count votes, are sobering up a bit, realizing that riding every leftwing hobby horse to come along and putting it up wet is not the way to stay in office. D foolishness is driving brisk pre-orders for my 2028 bumper strip which reads: “VOTE REPUBLICAN! — We’re not that great. But the other bunch is stone crazy.”

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After punching superstar Caitlin Clark in the thorat, Alyssa Thomas claims to be the “real victim” and alleges online death threats and gets a tepid response from WNBA. Sports media mogul Dave Portnoy jumped into the fray to defend Clark.

Arecent foul against WNBA star Caitlin Clark during a recent Indiana Fever v. Phoenix Mercury game fueled discussion about her treatment within the league.

A point guard for the Indiana Fever praised by legendary athletes like LeBron James, Clark has been credited with increased global viewership and interest in women’s basketball. She has also been subject to unusual amounts of physical aggression on the court, including flagrant fouls—the most severe category of foul.

The WNBA has an infinitesimal likelihood for players to receive a flagrant foul in a typical season. Clark, now in her third WNBA season, has been the target of 9 flagrant fouls, leading some to speculate that she is being unfairly targeted.

Sports world condemns Thomas and WNBA

The most recent flagrant foul, occurring on June 24, 2026, took place when Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas and Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark scrambled for a loose ball on the floor. As Thomas got up, her closed fist made contact with Clark’s throat, and she also appeared to knee Clark in the groin. At the time that it happened, no foul was called by the referees, resulting in massive backlash by WNBA fans online.

At the post-game press conference, Indiana Fever coach Stephanie White called the lack of response from referees “egregious” and “utterly disrespectful” toward Clark, who she referred to as a “generational star.” The following day, the WNBA retroactively labeled Thomas’ move illegal and issued a one-game suspension to the Phoenix player.

Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham believes that the WNBA and the referees “do nothing to protect” Clark. Her finger pointing gesture at players who commit flagrant fouls has in itself become an internet meme.

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, a major influencer in the sporting world, said on the “Wake Up Barstool” show, that “WNBA’s treatment of Clark reeks of ‘jealousy and hypocrisy,’ implying the league resents its biggest star because her popularity preceded the WNBA. “No one has ever come into the league like she has, it’s jealousy, it’s hypocrisy, and just not knowing where your bread is buttered […] They don’t like that she has been crowned this queen of the league before she even showed up, and they want to make a point about it, and they continue to make a point about it.”

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We made it to our two-hundred-fiftieth birthday, America.  What’s next?  Let’s get back to work, so that our descendants can celebrate one thousand.

Making sure the American Experiment endures is work, after all.  Protecting American ideals from our ideological enemies is never easy.

Well before our nation declared independence from Great Britain, the American system repudiated the whole “ruling class” hierarchy that — to this day! — still oozes from the infected abscesses of the United Kingdom and much of continental Europe.  After we fought two world wars in the twentieth century to save Europe from itself, we spent the Cold War period in a bit of a kumbaya stupor during which Americans often equated the beliefs of Western nobles with those who founded and built the United States.

But Europe and America have never been the same.  The people who built America left Europe behind for good reasons.  They rejected Europe’s aristocratic allegiances, its feudal social structures, and its false pretension that blue-blooded “elites” are divinely and innately empowered to rule over everyone else.

The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution are not merely documents establishing America’s political separation from Britain and the legal foundations for its new government.  They are revolutionary statements of America’s intent to remove itself from the generational enslavement upon which monarchies, ruling classes, and feudal systems depend.

Taken together, the Declaration and Constitution assert fundamental truths that governments throughout human history have tried to obscure from their peoples.  Those truths include the recognition that all of us are equal before God; so-called noble aristocrats are not divinely given or entitled to receive more power or privilege than the common man.  Furthermore, our rights come from God, not the government.  Aristocrats, government officials, elected representatives, and bureaucrats cannot give us what only God provides for our well-being and happiness.

Additionally, because governments are artificial creations constructed by imperfect human beings, they are legitimate only when the people who live under those governments consent to their structure.  Governments that exercise power in defiance of the will of the people are unjust governments utilizing illegitimate powers.

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Doctors urge immediate public health consultation after any bat contact, even without a visible bite or scratch

An 11-year-old boy died of a rabies infection in Ontario, Canada, according to a medical journal article published Monday.

The Canadian Medical Association Journal did not identify the boy or his family but wrote that he was first brought to a hospital weeks after an encounter with a bat.

“The patient’s family reported that, during a visit to a cottage in northern Ontario 19 days before symptom onset, the boy had been awoken by a bat on his nose and mouth. He had swatted the bat off his face; his father had caught the bat in a cooking pot and released it outside,” CMAJ wrote.

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Around 10,000 teenagers flooded Brier Creek and Glenwood South as businesses shut doors to protect staff

The mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina, is weighing whether to impose a curfew for minors following a series of shootings and chaotic events over the Independence Day weekend, in which several fights broke out and nine people were shot amid a series of teen takeovers across the country.

The violence over the holiday weekend prompted Raleigh Mayor Janet Cowell to tell WRAL News she’s considering enacting a curfew for those aged 17 and under.

“As Mayor, I am grateful for the actions of the Raleigh Police officers in response to the situations of juvenile violence across the city on the night of July 4 and the morning of July 5,” Cowell told the news outlet. “Clearly, Raleigh is not exempt from the incidents of youth violence that are occurring across the country. We need to talk with the youth, their parents, schools, and the broader community to understand the root causes and to better coordinate strategies.”

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Investigators believe that the veteran NYPD cop shot during a chaotic confrontation with a gun-toting teen Sunday was struck by friendly fire, law-enforcement sources told The Post.

Detective Robert Karroll was hit in the back by a slug — and only saved from potentially deadly injuries by his bulletproof vest — around 4:15 a.m. when a deranged 18-year-old ran up on an unmarked police car in Crown Heights, authorities have said.

A vile Texas bully is facing assault charges after he allegedly filmed himself spraying homeless and disabled people with high-powered water guns.

Christopher Cayce, 34, went viral after he posted a series of TikTok videos that showed him riding in a car through Houston and pelting people with a motorized water gun out the passenger window.

He blasted people standing at bus stops, walking down the street and even targeted individuals who were obviously sleeping, the videos revealed.

n one disturbing clip, Cayce offered a dollar to a woman who was panhandling, but dropped it on the ground.

‘Oh, I’m sorry. My bad, baby,’ he is heard saying. ‘You don’t want to grab it? I say I’m sorry.’

As the woman, who is visibly deflated by his rude gesture, leaned down to retrieve the bill, Cayce sprayed her with the water gun and shouted: ‘SWAY OUT!’

He then urged the driver to ‘go, go, go,’ but continued to spray people sitting at bus stops as they drove past.

One clip saw Cayce shout ‘wake up your motherf*****g a**’ before he doused a sleeping homeless person with water. In another, he threw food at a man before blasting him.

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A group of feral teenagers were caught on camera assaulting a female police officer at a Fourth of July event.

The horrific footage of the brutal assault emerged following a block party in North Charleston, South Carolina, on Saturday night.

The officer was seen being punched in the face by a female while a young man held her down, before another woman attacked her with what looked like a baton.

Another officer managed to intervene as the officer is dragged away, by pushing the woman with the baton to the ground and grabbing another of the teens.

He then resorted to using his taser which caused the horde of teens assaulting the officer to flee.

The young man continued to hold the female officer down throughout this, the male officer pinned his knee to his chest which caused him to finally release his grip.

He is then seen being placed in handcuffs alongside another individual, as a large group watched on.

The footage has since gone viral, with Conservative political activist Ann Coulter suggesting that it was a bad idea to deploy a young female officer.

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Unlicensed food trucks have taken over prime spots around the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and this problem persists at the Great American State Fair.

A small group of operators runs most of these illegal trucks as a coordinated network, Washingtonian reported. Longtime licensed food truck operator Zack Graybill walked around the National Mall during the fair with reporter Jessica Sidman and observed illegal trucks blocking traffic and hydrants, creating fire hazards, charging high prices and intimidating legal vendors through turf wars.

“For all the people eating food right here? The food isn’t being refrigerated. That’s fucked up. That’s gross,” Graybill told Washingtonian.

He observed that there was no generator running in one of the trucks and no ventilation.

“For all the workers, that’s miserable and shitty. And that’s not healthy. Dangerous,” Graybill emphasized.

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The Fourth of July weekend produced a viral photograph of a “black woman surrounded by white nationalists” on a Washington, D.C., metro train, but there’s a lot of issues with the circumstances of that moment that keep it from being part of the left’s narrative that we’re living in Nazi Germany.

Times Now reported that the photograph was taken Saturday, the Fourth of July, by Reuters photographer Cheney Orr.

The men surrounding this female passenger are reportedly part of the Patriot Front white nationalist organization, which was started in 2017.

The group held a demonstration at the nation’s capital on Saturday, marching with flags in hand and their faces covered.

The woman sits with a blank expression as the men surround her while traveling to their destination.

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A Fourth of July celebration turned chaotic as a white female police officer found herself outnumbered by three black partygoers turned alleged assailants.

A block party in Chicora Community Park in Charleston, South Carolina, has taken place every year for the last decade, and Saturday started no differently, as WCSC reported 400 attendees were there to celebrate our nation’s founding.

City officials coordinated with event organizers this year, but police became concerned when they started receiving reports of firearms going off and attendees shooting fireworks at passing cars.

North Charleston Police Chief Ron Camacho told the outlet that officers announced the event was over after arriving on the scene and confirming shots fired.

“Officers made repeated public announcements, advising that the event had ended and directing everyone to leave the area safely in an attempt to de-escalate the situation,” Camacho described.

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(EASTERN SHORE, MD) – Maryland State Police are investigating two separate fatal crashes that occurred on the Eastern Shore over the Fourth of July weekend.

Around 10:15 p.m. on July 3, troopers from the Maryland State Police Easton Barrack responded to the area of eastbound Ocean Gateway (Route 50) at Mt. Holly Road for a report of a three-vehicle crash.

The driver of a Kia Soul, identified as James Demby, 43, of Cambridge, Maryland, was pronounced deceased on the scene. The driver of an Audi Q5, identified as a 40-year-old male; the driver of a Subaru Forrester, identified as a 17-year-old male; and a passenger in the Subaru, identified as a 17-year-old male, were all transported by ambulance to a local hospital for treatment of their injuries. An additional passenger in the Subaru, a 17-year-old male, was flown by Maryland State Police Aviation Command to a local trauma center for treatment of his injuries.

The preliminary investigation indicates all three vehicles were traveling eastbound on U.S. Route 50 when, for reasons unknown, the Kia Soul attempted to cross between the Subaru and the Audi, subsequently striking the Subaru and then the Audi. The Audi came to rest in an embankment. The Subaru came to rest in the median. The Kia struck a light pole and then came to rest in a ditch.

Assistance on scene was provided by personnel from the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration and Fire Department. Lanes were closed for more than three hours.

Then, around 9:43 a.m. on July 4, troopers from the Maryland State Police Centreville Barrack responded to southbound U.S. Route 301 at Roberts Station Road for a report of a two-vehicle crash. One person believed to be the driver of the SUV was pronounced deceased on the scene. Their positive identification is pending autopsy results. No further injuries reported.

The preliminary investigation indicates that an SUV was traveling west on Roberts Station Road, approaching the intersection at U.S. Route 301, when for unknown reasons, it continued through the intersection and struck a tractor-trailer that was traveling south. The impact of the crash caused the SUV to become pinned under the tractor-trailer and catch fire. Both vehicles came to a rest on the shoulder of lane two. Police believe that speeding may have been a factor in the crash.

Troopers from the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division and Automotive Safety Enforcement Division are assisting with the crash investigation. Personnel from the Queen Anne’s County Office of the Sheriff, Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration, and Natural Resources Police additionally assisted on the scene. Lanes were closed for more than three hours for the crash investigation.

The Maryland State Police Crash Team continues to lead these active and ongoing investigations.