Failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s search for an intern has drawn criticism because she wants someone who can keep their mouth shut.

The intern, who will not be paid, will work for Clinton’s office in New York City, the New York Post reported Sunday.

The Daybook posting said, “The Office of Hillary Rodham Clinton is seeking Fall Interns from September 9, 2026 — November 13, 2026.”

“Interns will provide support to our staff, assisting on a wide range of projects,” it continued. Most notably, the posting said the office is looking for someone who has a “high level of professionalism and discretion.”

Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton (D), had an affair with a White House intern named Monica Lewinsky, who was 22 years old, during his time in office. However, his wife has since argued he did not abuse his power in the situation, Breitbart News reported in 2018.

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CNN legal so-called analyst Norm Eisen used an appearance on the network to slam President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in ballots while casting doubt on the U.S. Postal Service’s capacity to enforce it.

“No mail-in voting is currently being affected by this rule; it’s grossly unconstitutional, and we and others have gone to court to stop it—we will stop it—and voters should know that this idea that the Postal Service is going to screen every mail-in voter and mail-in ballot in the country is not going to happen,” Eisen said, according to a clips of the interview.

In the same discussion, Eisen quipped that “they can’t even deliver my utility bill on time” and argued that USPS therefore cannot “turn into a kind of super registrar for every voter in the land,” using his own mail delays to contradict his defense of mail in ballot voting to begin with.

His comments came after the Supreme Court, in a 6–3 unsigned order, allowed Trump to move forward with key portions of the March executive order that directs the Postal Service and the Department of Homeland Security to build voter-eligibility lists and limit mail-ballot delivery, while explicitly declining to decide the order’s legality leaving it open for further litigation amongst the states across the country.

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Somewhere in California, somebody is preparing for one hell of a party.

Police are investigating after thieves allegedly made off with a truck carrying roughly 40,000 pounds, around 50,000 cans, of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.

The enormous haul was stolen August 17 from an Anheuser-Busch distribution facility in Montclair, California.

According to police, a shipment worth approximately $45,000 was picked up around 10 a.m. for delivery to Tucson, Arizona.

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In a year stuffed with war talk, a collapsing dollar, and a political class that acts like all of the damage from the Biden regime has been fixed, a lot of Americans have decided the great villain of 2026 is a traffic camera. That sounds small until you realize what the camera actually is.

It is not a cop on a corner who happens to notice a stolen Buick. It is a private contractor building a searchable map of every car that rolls past a pole. Connor O’Keeffe put it cleanly. The government would never get away with dropping a GPS tracker in every glove box. So it rented the next best thing and called it public safety.

Flock Safety’s automated license plate readers photograph the plate, the make, the model, the dents, even the bumper sticker. That record goes into a national database other agencies can query. The company now runs about 120,000 cameras across 49 states. Sen. Josh Hawley says those boxes produce more than 20 billion vehicle scans a month. If you drive, you are in there. Your church run. Your doctor’s office. The house you visit after dark.

The sales pitch is always the same. Stolen cars. Missing kids. Bad guys. Nobody wants a kidnapper to get a head start. The problem is that the machine does not stay pointed at kidnappers. It stays pointed at everybody, and then a bored officer with a password decides what “everybody” means.

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The Trump administration is widening its crackdown on the H-1B system, targeting two major benefits tied to the program: work permits for certain visa holders’ spouses and the grace period that allows laid-off foreign workers to remain in the country while seeking another job.

The Department of Homeland Security has revived a plan to eliminate employment authorization for certain spouses of H-1B workers who are in the United States on H-4 dependent visas.

At the same time, a separate DHS proposal to eliminate the current 60-day grace period for H-1B workers after they lose their jobs has cleared review at the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, putting that rule on track for public release.

Together with the administration’s newly proposed $103,265 fee for cap-subject H-1B petitions, the moves represent a broader effort to reshape a visa program that critics have long accused corporations of using to import cheaper labor while American workers compete for the same jobs.

Under a rule adopted during the Obama administration in 2015, certain spouses of H-1B workers became eligible to apply for employment authorization while their families waited through the employment-based green card process.

Not every H-4 spouse qualifies. The benefit generally applies when the H-1B worker is the beneficiary of an approved Form I-140 immigrant petition or has received certain extensions beyond the ordinary six-year H-1B limit.

For those who do qualify, however, the Employment Authorization Document allows the spouse to work independently in the United States. Trump’s DHS is now considering taking that authorization away.

The proposal appears on the department’s regulatory agenda under the title, “Removing H-4 Dependent Spouses From the Classes of Noncitizens Eligible for Employment Authorization.”

That does not mean current H-4 work permits have been canceled. The proposal remains a long-term regulatory action, and DHS has not provided a target date for its release. Before any change could take effect, the administration would have to go through the formal rulemaking process.

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The LGBTQ+ Bar Association, the largest membership group for LGBTQ+ legal professionals, claimed in a parental rights strategy memo that the Supreme Court has “muddied the doctrinal waters” on the issue. While critics say the opposite is true, the claim hints at the movement’s likely legal strategy.

The document seems meant to accompany a panel at the Lavender Law conference in Chicago July 13-15, titled “Parental Rights and Transgender Children at a Crossroads.” The memo describes this as a “crucial moment” for LGBTQ+ lawyers to “align on the best strategies for protecting transgender children and avoiding lasting harm in the parental-rights context.”

Americans are increasingly turning against the rapid expansion of massive artificial intelligence (AI) data centers as concerns over soaring electricity demand, water consumption, and pressure on local infrastructure push lawmakers across the country to impose new restrictions.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) announced in August that his administration had effectively halted as many as 1,800 proposed AI data center projects while establishing new requirements designed to prevent the facilities from draining resources from surrounding communities.

New York has also moved to block certain large data center projects, while Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) has imposed new requirements on developers seeking state support.

The backlash reflects a dramatic shift in public sentiment as the artificial intelligence boom drives enormous new demand for electricity and computing infrastructure.

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The man charged with stealing an American flag from a Minnesota medical office, dragging it behind his car, and coming back to shred it is a Somali citizen who was born in Uganda and came to the United States as a refugee, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Libs of TikTok.

The suspect is 24-year-old Mahamud Hassan Mahamed, who has been booked on a misdemeanor tab charge of fourth-degree damage to property after the Wednesday incidents.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Mahamed ripped the flag down in the morning, attached it to his vehicle, and dragged it until bystanders chased him off and recovered it.

Mahamed returned that afternoon and shredded i

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Annapolis Democrats spent months insisting there was nothing to see here. On Tuesday, a Maryland judge told them otherwise — in writing, and in language sharper than anyone expected.

The bottom line: a circuit court judge just ruled that House Bill 2100, the constitutional amendment Governor Wes Moore and legislative Democrats rammed through a two-day special session to pave the way for wiping out Maryland’s last Republican congressional seat, was placed on the November ballot unlawfully.

This is the story of how we got here.

The Setup: A Map They Already Lost Once

In 2021, Maryland Democrats were hell-bent on maximizing their control of the state at every level. Already the most gerrymandered state in the union, they drew an 8-0, all-Democrat congressional map which now-Vice Chair of the Maryland Freedom Caucus, Delegate Kathy Szeliga, took to court. Judge Lynne Battaglia struck it down in a 95-page opinion grounded in the Maryland Constitution and Declaration of Rights. The current 7-1 congressional delegation is the product of both parties compromising in 2022.

In pursuit of a potential 2028 presidential run, Governor Wes Moore began pressuring legislative leaders to eliminate the state’s last Republican seat — held by Congressman Andy Harris (MD-1), who also chairs the House Freedom Caucus. The House of Delegates passed a bill to do exactly that in February, HB 488, but it stalled and died in the Senate. Senate President Bill Ferguson worried it would invite a court to reaffirm Judge Battaglia’s 2022 ruling and hand Republicans an even more favorable map. He held his ground even after House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries showed up in Annapolis to lean on him personally.

Then the political ground shifted. When the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed how far the Voting Rights Act can justify race-based congressional districting, several states began eyeing mid-cycle redistricting — Maryland among them. Not to be outdone by Gavin Newsom, Governor Moore called a special session for August to finish what he couldn’t in February: eliminate Congressman Harris through a constitutional amendment designed to make sure Judge Battaglia’s ruling could never stand in the way again.

The Special Session: Two Days, One Outcome Predetermined

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A local man is carved up on a Belfast pavement, unrest follows, and the state broadcaster act as if the real emergency is that imported staff might feel “particularly vulnerable.”

Investigative journalist Steven Edginton published the leak on Friday. Jack Whyte, the BBC’s Chief Technology Officer, wrote to staff after the backlash that followed the attack on Stephen Ogilvie. Whyte said he wanted to “express our solidarity with colleagues who may feel particularly vulnerable or fearful at this time, including those who have come to Northern Ireland and the UK from other countries.”

He condemned “hatred, intimidation, and violence in all its forms” and added that the BBC is “committed to fostering an environment where every colleague feels supported, included, and able to bring their whole self to work.”

Whyte’s wording is a tell. “Including those who have come to Northern Ireland and the UK from other countries” is the only group specified. Native staff who watched a man carved up on a Belfast street are left to infer that their fear does not count as vulnerability. Their anxiety is “hatred” adjacent, while the imported colleague’s anxiety is a welfare priority.

A source inside the corporation put the omission in plainer English: “The BBC offered solidarity to foreign staff but not to native Brits who might be worried about illegal migrants beheading them.”

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An Obama-appointed federal judge in Alaska delivered a major legal victory to President Donald Trump this week, dismissing a lawsuit brought by a coalition of powerful environmental organizations seeking to block Trump’s reversal of Joe Biden’s sweeping offshore drilling restrictions.

U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason dismissed the complaint on Monday, August 24, after determining that the environmental groups failed to establish a substantial risk of imminent harm.

Gleason wasnominated to the federal bench by Barack Obama in 2011.

The case, Northern Alaska Environmental Center, et al. v. Trump, et al., was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska under case number.

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A New Jersey cookout turned deadly Sunday when “dastardly and evil” gunmen walked into the crowd and began firing — leaving two dead and eight more wounded, according to officials.

The carnage broke out just after midnight Sunday on Locust Street in Trenton, where up to 200 people were partying outside a row house.

That’s when gunshots broke out, with terrified partygoers initially thinking the danger had passed before two more rounds erupted.

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Taxpayers spent $65 billion on health insurance premiums for people who either didn’t exist or didn’t qualify for benefits in two federal programs in 2024, according to an Aug. 26 report from Paragon Health Institute.

Expanded Medicaid and Obamacare, the signature programs of the Affordable Care Act, improperly enrolled a combined 14.3 million people that year, researchers concluded.

Expanded Medicaid allows states to enroll people making up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, versus up to 100 percent for traditional Medicaid. That limit was about $35,600 for a family of three in 2024.

Obamacare was open to people earning up to 400 percent of the federal poverty level at that time, about $103,000 for a family of three.

Both programs are administered through the Affordable Care Act Marketplace, with coverage provided by commercial insurance companies.

As Lawrence Wilson details below, via The Epoch Times, researchers estimate that about 34 percent of all Marketplace enrollees in 2024 were either fraudulent, duplicates, or simply didn’t meet the benefit criteria.

And the number went up the next year, researchers said.

“Improper exchange enrollment increased by more than 26 percent from 2024 to 2025 – up to an estimated 6.5 million enrollees,” the report stated.

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Girl Scout troops have become a vehicle for Muslims to promote their faith in an American style, according to a recent investigation by independent journalist Natalie Winters. Winters found Girl Scout troops operated out of mosques from coast to coast, with specific awards created for a “Girl Scout of the Islamic Faith.” Winters notes that the awards were created by the National Islamic Committee on Girl Scouting (NICGS), rather than Girl Scouts USA (GSUSA), indicating the extent to which the Girl Scouts have allowed their brand to be Islamized.

The NICGS has created four award ribbons Girl Scouts can achieve that advertise a “Girl Scout of the Islamic Faith.” These awards are named “Bismillah,” “In the Name of Allah,” “Qurat ul A’in,” and “Muslimeen.” The NIGCS says the awards emphasize the “theory and practice of Islam.” The NIGCS also offers a Hajj patch and “Hajj Passport” for Girl Scouts who complete the required Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca.

Separately, a Girl Scout Bronze Award offers an “All about Islam” patch, requiring scouts to complete the five pillars of Islam. Older girls can perform optional fasts without food or water.

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The president’s 20-year-old son has withdrawn into a tight security bubble after assassination attempts on his father, a $10 million Iranian bounty on his own head, and the murder of a close friend

Barron Trump’s last confirmed public appearance came July 19 at the FIFA World Cup 2026 final in New Jersey, where he was spotted alongside FIFA president Gianni Infantino watching Spain face Argentina. Since then, by multiple accounts from people close to the Trump family, the youngest Trump has all but vanished from view, spending the summer with his mother, First Lady Melania Trump, at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, and avoiding the kind of outings most 20-year-olds take for granted.

A longtime figure in the president’s orbit put it bluntly to the New York Post: “He doesn’t go out.” A second source echoed the point: “The kid’s pretty reclusive.”

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Wicomico County Department of Public Works (DPW) is issuing this notice to clarify the rules regarding trailers on the Upper Ferry and Whitehaven Ferry.

Recently, several vehicles towing trailers have made contact with ferry decks, ramps, and other ferry equipment. These incidents have raised concerns about possible damage to both personal property and County equipment. They have also led to rumors that trailers may soon be banned from using the ferries.

DPW wants to make it clear that trailers are still permitted on both ferries, as long as they meet existing weight, passenger, length, and space requirements.

Wicomico County understands that the ferries are an important part of many residents’ daily travel and that customers may need to cross while towing trailers or other equipment.

However, drivers should be aware that tidal conditions can affect the angle of the ferry ramps. Depending on the length and ground clearance of a trailer, certain tide conditions may increase the risk of damage when entering or leaving the ferry.

For the safety of passengers and to protect both personal property and County equipment, Ferry Operators have the authority to determine whether conditions are safe for vehicles towing trailers to board. If tide conditions make it unsafe, access for certain vehicles or trailers may be temporarily restricted until conditions improve.

Drivers should also be aware that there are limited places to turn around near the ferry approaches if access is temporarily restricted. Please plan accordingly before traveling.

For daily ferry status information, please call the Ferry Hotline at (410) 543-2765 or contact the Wicomico County Roads Division at (410) 548-4872.

Newly obtained documents reportedly show that Dr. Anthony Fauci instructed an aide to permanently delete an email concerning controversial gain-of-function research years before the COVID-19 pandemic.

The emails, obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, date back to 2012, when Fauci was defending experiments that made a highly dangerous strain of bird flu transmissible through the air.

Dutch virologist Ron Fouchier conducted the experiments with funding from Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

Fouchier described the resulting virus as “probably one of the most dangerous viruses you can make.”

The experiments triggered debate over whether the potential benefits of gain-of-function research justified the potentially catastrophic consequences of an accidental laboratory escape.

New York Times science writer Phil Boffey was among those sounding the alarm, warning of an “engineered doomsday” capable of killing “hundreds of millions of people.”

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A federal appeals court looked at a Wisconsin man’s stash of AI-generated child sexual abuse material, admitted the pictures are now “virtually indistinguishable” from images of real children being abused, and then told the government it could not punish him for keeping them at home.

That is the holding. Not a thought experiment. Not a law-review hypothetical. A published ruling from the Seventh Circuit in United States v. Anderegg.

The Post Millennial reported the decision this week. Fox News, The Daily Wire, and The Federalist all covered the same ugly line the judges said they were powerless to redraw. If no actual child appears in the file, private possession inside the house is treated as First Amendment activity.

Call it “virtual.” Call it “synthetic.” The file still exists to gratify the same appetite that wrecks children.

Steven Anderegg of Holmen, Wisconsin, was charged by the Justice Department in 2024 after an investigation that, according to court coverage, began when Meta flagged an Instagram account sending this kind of material to a minor. Prosecutors alleged he used an AI image generator to produce thousands of photorealistic images of children in sexually explicit situations, then possessed them, produced them, distributed them, and transferred them to a person under 16. A district judge tossed only the possession count. The government appealed. The Seventh Circuit affirmed.

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The people who want to seize the means of production keep seizing brownstones first.

The New York Post has now caught two more New York City Democratic Socialists of America leaders living the capitalist dream they spend their weekends denouncing. Labor coordinator Olivia Gonzalez Killingsworth flipped an inherited Upper West Side triplex for $2.4 million. Steering Committee chair Julie Swoope sits in a half-million-dollar Brooklyn co-op with skyline views and “great closet space.” They join co-chair Gustavo Gordillo, the Yale sculptor whose telecommunications-millionaire father gifted him a $1.5 million Bed-Stuy townhouse.

Three leaders. Three properties. Zero irony detectors.

The Marble Shower Revolution

Killingsworth, elected DSA labor coordinator in 2025, sold the two-bedroom, three-bathroom triplex on September 12, 2022. One block from Central Park. Ten-foot ceilings. Fireplace. Marble showers. Bay windows looking out on Callery pear blossoms. Public records put the sale at $2.4 million. Two days later she closed on a one-bedroom in Brooklyn for $521,000.

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For decades, Americans dreaming about retirement near the water tended to look south. Florida offered beaches and warm winters. Arizona provided sunshine without hurricanes. The Carolinas increasingly became alternatives for retirees who wanted something quieter and less expensive.

Now another destination is emerging along the East Coast, and retirees are arriving so quickly that local communities are struggling to keep up.

Southern Delaware’s Sussex County — home to popular coastal communities including Rehoboth Beach, Lewes and Bethany Beach — has become one of the country’s fastest-growing retirement destinations. A recent Fox Business report highlighted a combination of beaches, comparatively low taxes and proximity to major Northeast cities as reasons older Americans are increasingly choosing Delaware over better-known retirement states.

The numbers show just how dramatic the transformation has become. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sussex County’s population reached approximately 277,000 in 2025, up sharply from about 237,000 in 2020. Nearly one-third of county residents are now age 65 or older.

That makes Sussex County less like a conventional vacation destination that happens to attract retirees and increasingly like a retirement region that also happens to have some of the Mid-Atlantic’s most popular beaches.

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A high school football game in McKeesport, Penn. was halted Friday night when a gunshot rang out just before 11 p.m., and a 17-year-old suspect was quickly apprehended.

Liberty Borough police anticipate filing charges of receiving stolen property, possession of a firearm by a minor, possession of a weapon on school property, reckless endangerment and carrying a firearm without a license alleged to have fired, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune Review.

The gun was reported stolen.

The game between South Allegheny and Elizabeth Forward high schools was late in the fourth quarter when the incident occurred.

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered state agencies to stop funding Flock surveillance cameras amid growing concerns that the technology could enable government tracking of innocent Americans.

The move follows reports that millions of dollars in Texas funding have been used to purchase thousands of the automated license plate-reading cameras for law enforcement agencies across the state.

Around 2,000 Flock cameras were reportedly purchased through the Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Board using revenue from a $1 fee attached to automobile insurance policies.

Texas also provided another $15.9 million to the Department of Public Safety to purchase approximately 1,200 cameras.

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A Massachusetts state rep. was arrested earlier this week and charged with fraudulently obtaining over $700,000 in COVID-19 unemployment insurance benefits and small-business loans. He allegedly used the proceeds to buy real estate and loan money to clients of his mortgage business before he was elected to public office.

Francisco Paulino, 46, of Methuen, MA, is charged in an 11-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Boston. Paulino is charged with eight counts of wire fraud and three counts of money laundering.

Court records say that Paulino fraudulently obtained Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) benefits in 2020-2021 in the name of an unknowing 77-year-old relative. The PUA program, which was created during the COVID-19 pandemic, provided unemployment benefits for people who were ineligible for regular unemployment benefits, including independent contractors.

In April 2020, Paulino allegedly submitted an online PUA application to the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance (DUA) for his relative, in which Paulino falsely claimed that the relative had worked for Paulino’s business, Madison Tax, LLC, in 2019. Paulino allegedly submitted fabricated documents in support of the PUA application and submitted false weekly certifications to the DUA. It is further alleged that Paulino directed the DUA to electronically deposit the PUA benefits into a bank account held solely in Paulino’s name. Between April 2020 and September 2021, the DUA paid over $44,000 in PUA benefits. Paulino allegedly used the money to pay for real estate expenses, loan payments, and transfers into his political campaign account.

According to the indictment, Paulino also committed fraud in connection with three Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDLs). During COVID-19, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) offered taxpayer-funded EIDLs to eligible small businesses experiencing substantial financial disruptions due to the pandemic. The interest rate on EIDLs was 3.75 percent, and the loan use was limited. A business could only use EIDL proceeds as working capital to alleviate economic injury caused by COVID-19.

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DAVID MARCUS: Woke Virginia tears down statue of Geneva Convention pioneer

Do not adjust your calendars. You may have seen images this week of Confederate statues coming down in Richmond’s capitol grounds and thought we had slipped back in time to the tumult of 2020, but no.

Rather, the commie Commonwealth of Virginia is still tearing down American history in the year of our Lord 2026.

As bad as the removal of all of these monuments has been, this particular round of damnatio memoriae on Friday, captured in its illiberal net the statue of a man named Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire, whose work provided a major contribution to the Geneva Convention, the global gold standard of wartime humanitarian rules.

McGuire served as a Confederate surgeon for almost the entirety of the Civil War, saving countless lives. One life he failed to save was that of General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, who died under the doctor’s care. A Jackson statue also came down on Friday.

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While the system of justice should be structured to avoid sending innocent people to prison, the modern fixation on one side of the judicial and law enforcement equation has devastating consequences.

ustice delayed is justice denied.” “The wheels of justice grind slowly but ever so fine.” “Better that one-hundred guilty persons go free than one innocent person should suffer.” These are incompatible aphorisms that at various times have been asserted about the American justice system.

The first was clearly employed when William McKinley was assassinated in 1901. The President died on September 14, and his killer was executed a month and a half later. As a Facebook contributor noted, “If the justice system worked the way it did for McKinley, [Tyler] Robinson would have been dead by December, 2025.” More accurately, Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer would have exited this life by Halloween last year.

The assertion that “justice delayed is justice denied,” despite its frequent repetition, is a concept honored more in the breach than in the observance. Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing, for example, won’t be concluded until September, almost a year after Kirk’s murder. Karmelo Anthony’s trial took over fourteen months after the knife-totting youngster stabbed and killed Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet. Recently Anthony’s hearing for a retrial was denied. Appeals will doubtless follow.

That the wheels of modern American justice “grind slowly” is obvious, but the “ever so fine” conclusion is risible. Jury or judicial politicization is clear in cases involving, for example, O.J. Simpson, Donald Trump, and thousands of January 6 defendants. Meanwhile, we wait without much hope for justice to be “ground out” for the high-profile criminals involved in Crossfire Hurricane and Arctic Frost.

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In a recent online panel featuring members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), activist and streamer Michael Beyer said efforts to reshape the Democrat Party and the country would be “a violent process,” according to video circulated by Canary Mission. Beyer argued that “the Democratic Party establishment that we have has to be ripped out” and that “we can actually start to grab hold of the ship of state and steer it in our direction, but it’s going to be a, you know, violent process.”

The remarks, captured during what appears to be a DSA‑linked video meeting or panel, were compiled into a viral clip shared on X that shows multiple DSA figures discussing revolutionary change and the overthrow of existing U.S. institutions.

Separately, so called democracy advocate Ian Bassin, co‑founder and executive director of the nonprofit Protect Democracy, has described organizing “wargames” with Democratic senators and election‑law experts to rehearse responses to potential threats to the 2026 midterm elections. In a recent episode of the podcast “The Court of History,” Bassin explained that participants were assigned roles such as congressional leaders, administration officials, civil‑society litigators, online conspiracy influencers, and foreign actors like Russia or Iran to “walk through a set of scenarios” and stress‑test the system.

He told host Sidney Blumenthal that the exercises were designed as method‑acting‑style simulations, encouraging players to “get into the mindset” of figures ranging from an acting director of national intelligence to a conspiracy‑minded online influencer or major media outlet.

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“I’ve done this a long time and haven’t seen one quite like this one, I have to say.”

So said U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth, who has sat on the D.C. federal court bench since Ronald Reagan appointed him in 1987, last April.

What exactly stumped the senior judge that day? Another pending mistrial in the government’s prosecution of two of MS-13’s most notorious gang leaders.

For the second time in five months, a D.C. jury refused to convict Moises Rivera-Luna and Tokiro Ramirez on two racketeering conspiracy counts originating from a 2011 federal indictment (read: brought by the Obama DOJ, not Trump’s) for criminal gang activity in Washington, D.C. and surrounding areas. It appears from the official court docket that the pair became fugitives before the case could go to trial back then.

But in March 2025, the Trump administration extradited Rivera-Luna from Guatemala to finally face his day in court; Ramirez had been extradited from Honduras in 2022.

“Rivera-Luna is alleged to be an international leader of MS-13 who was sending orders and advice to an MS-13 clique operating in the Washington area via cellular telephone calls from his prison cell in El Salvador,” a March 2025 DOJ press release stated. “The indictment alleges that he and another alleged MS-13 leader… also incarcerated in El Salvador directed a coalition of MS-13 cliques to be formed in the Washington area. They advised local clique members that the coalition’s aim was to seek and kill MS-13 members who were found to be cooperating with law enforcement officials.” The indictment also accused the defendants of “narcotics distribution, extortion, [and] robberies.”

Both men pleaded not guilty; the first trial began on December 2, 2025, just a few weeks after the shooting of two D.C. National Guardsmen, which resulted in the death of one, amid strong public opposition of the Guard’s presence in the nation’s capital. The start of the trial also coincided with nationwide anti-ICE protests including in Washington. And a group called “Free DC” at the time was hosting online seminars as part of its Trump 2.0 resistance operation, advising D.C. residents how to serve on juries to “influence outcomes and help create a more equitable legal process.”

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A Georgia high school football game erupted into a chaotic brawl that sent attendees running and ended with a gun on the ground and several arrests including three teenagers.

The boys, aged 16, 17 and 18, became involved in a fight during the Newnan High School and East Coweta High School football game Friday night, resulting in five people being taken into custody, according to WSB-TV 2 News.

Dramatic video shared to Facebook  by 11Alive captured a group of boys launching into the violent confrontation, punching and shoving each other to the ground as the surrounding crowd scrambled away.

Meanwhile, two other fistfights appeared to break out on either side of the scuffle.

Several deputies and a GSP trooper then raced onto Garland Shoemake Stadium, splitting up to restrain those involved and wrestle them to the ground.

Bystanders scrambled to flee the chaos, with some appearing to get caught up in the fighting while others backed away to record.

The footage ended with uniformed officers ordering the crowd to leave as several young men are led away in handcuffs.

The Coweta County Sheriff’s Office said the altercation broke out near the home-side concession stand around halftime. It remains unclear how many of those involved, if any, were students, according to WSB-TV.

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A South Carolina cop died and another was wounded in a shootout with a gun-wielding career criminal, who was also killed in the crossfire, according to police and local reports.

Gunshots rang out near the South East Park area of Columbia, S.C., on Saturday morning when the officers involved went to check out a domestic violence complaint, according to the Columbia Police Department.

“And it’s with heartbreak and sadness that I inform you that one of our officers has succumbed to [his] injuries,” said the city’s top cop, Chief W.H. Holbrook, at a press conference.

The killed cop was identified as Officer Christopher DeLong, 29, who had been with the Columbia Police Department for two years.

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Joe Biden privately considered issuing a presidential pardon for Donald Trump during his final months in office but never acted on it, a revelation the Trump White House says proves Democrats knew they had weaponized the justice system all along.

Utah Governor Spencer Cox, a Republican, recounted a phone call from August 2023 in which Biden told him the idea of pardoning Trump was already on his mind. Cox had raised the subject himself, pitching it as a way to break the cycle of partisan retaliation. Biden’s response, as Cox told The Atlantic, was not dismissal. It was something closer to agreement.

Biden told Cox he had “actually considered this for a while,” and that he and First Lady Jill Biden had discussed it at length in a private conversation that same week. The pardon never came. Instead, Biden spent his final weeks in office shielding allies, family members, and political appointees, issuing clemency to more than 1,500 individuals while leaving Trump to face the legal machinery Biden apparently understood was politically motivated.

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President Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” escalating a trade dispute with Canada that has already triggered billions of dollars in reciprocal tariffs on both sides of the border.

Trump signed the order Thursday in the Oval Office, directing Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to update the federal Geographic Names Information System within 30 days. The move came hours after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports, and days after trade negotiations between Washington and Ottawa collapsed, triggering 50% U.S. tariffs on nearly $20 billion in Canadian exports.

The executive order laid out a blunt case for American stewardship of the Great Lakes. It stated that the U.S. Coast Guard supplies nine of the 11 ice-breaking vessels operating on the lakes, keeping commercial shipping lanes open free of charge. It noted the U.S. has invested nearly $4 billion in protecting the Great Lakes freshwater ecosystem over the last decade, and that Canada “has invested far less in similar initiatives over the same period.”

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WICOMICO COUNTY GOVERNMENT OFFICES

Wicomico County Government Offices will be closed Monday, September 7, 2026, in observance of Labor Day.

CONVENIENCE CENTERS, LANDFILL, BRUSH PILE, FERRIES
LABOR DAY HOLIDAY SCHEDULE

On Monday, September 7, 2026, the Newland Park Landfill and Brush Pile will be closed. All external Convenience Centers will be closed. Upper and Whitehaven Ferries will be closed also.

For more information, please contact the Newland Park Landfill at 410-548-4935. Ferry information is available by calling 410-543-2765.

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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