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Trans activist Samuel ‘Roxie’ Cain avoids prison after making death threats at Nancy Mace | The Post Millennial thepostmillennial.com
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Cain, 20, was sentenced to five years, suspended to 30 months of house arrest, followed by five years of probation.

A South Carolina transgender activist who threatened to assassinate Congresswoman Nancy Mace has avoided prison time. Samuel “Roxie Wolfe” Theodore Cain, 20, was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in prison, suspended to 30 months of house arrest, followed by five years of probation, according to WRDW.

Cain, who pleaded guilty to making threats against Mace, issued the following May 2025 since-deleted social media post: “I’M GOING TO ASSASSINATE REPRESENTATIVE NANCY MACE WITH A GUN AND I’M BEING 100% DEAD A**,” an arrest warrant states

The sentence also issued a permanent restraining order to protect Mace. While in prison, Cain had also reportedly expressed a desire to kill the congresswoman if given the opportunity while speaking to a “jailhouse informant,” according to Mace’s victim impact statement. The comments were allegedly made while discussing the September 2025 assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.

Democrat Civil War Erupts as Warren and Schumer Back Rival Michigan Senate Candidates slaynews.com
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A growing Democratic Party power struggle is spilling into the open as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) back opposing candidates in Michigan’s closely watched Senate primary.

Warren endorsed far-left Abdul El-Sayed on Monday in the race to replace retiring Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), placing herself directly against Schumer, who is supporting Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI).

The competing endorsements expose the widening divide between the Democrat establishment and the party’s progressive wing, which is attempting to expand its influence in Congress.

Warren Joins Progressive Push for El-Sayed

Warren announced her endorsement just hours after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) appeared with El-Sayed at a campaign event.

Penn State law school still requires students to take ‘antiracism’ class www.thecollegefix.com
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OPINION: Federal government needs to investigate civil rights complaint against public institution

Neither public scrutiny nor a civil rights complaint have swayed Penn State Dickinson Law leaders from their goal of pushing “antiracist” beliefs on students.

Only real consequences will prompt change at an institution where Marxist beliefs are so deeply embedded. But the federal government has not yet said whether it will investigate the public institution.

A screenshot of the fall course ‘Race & Equal Protection of the Laws’ at Dickinson Law; Penn State University

This spring, reports by the Washington Free Beacon and a civil rights complaint from the watchdog group Protect the Public’s Trust drew public attention to the law school’s “antiracist” focus, including a required first-year class on the subject.

Detroit Jewish Donors Plan GOP Fundraisers if El-Sayed Wins www.breitbart.com
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Jewish Democrat donors in Metro Detroit are planning fundraisers for presumptive Republican nominee Mike Rogers as a “hedge” should far-left Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed win Michigan’s August 4 Democrat primary, according to a report published Monday.

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that several prominent Metro Detroit Jews who have long raised money for Democrats are preparing fundraisers for the former congressman, while others plan to help him outright if El-Sayed takes the nomination, one person close to Rep. Haley Stevens’ (D-MI) campaign said.

Dennis Bernard, national chair of government relations for the nonpartisan Jewish Federations of North America and a Metro Detroit resident, said those donors have made their position clear should El-Sayed prevail.

“There are leaders in our Jewish community who are longtime, lifelong Democrats and Democratic fundraisers, who are very concerned with where their party’s going,” Bernard said. “And if this is the case, they’ve made it clear, both financially and with their vote, that they would support Mike Rogers in the event El-Sayed wins the primary.”

Detroit-area Jewish Democrats have approached him over golf outings asking for introductions to Rogers, Bernard added.

“This is a truly once-in-a-lifetime moment where you have to become a single-issue voter,” he said. “And that issue is antisemitism, our Judaism, and Israel. This is where you put party third: our people first, our country second.”

Leo XIV Approves Another Communist Bishop & the “Queer Jesus” University Medal www.lifesitenews.com
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Pope Leo XIV is set to present a sustainability medal at Villanova University, his alma mater, which has hosted performances of The Vagina Monologues, promoted LGBT events, and implemented gender-inclusive policies. The Pope has approved another bishop under the Vatican’s deal with China, a policy critics say has accelerated the persecution of the underground Church. The pattern is clear: the Vatican is rewarding institutions that promote gender ideology and regimes that suppress the faith.

We take a look at the growing divide: bishops who defend the Traditional Latin Mass face restrictions, while universities that promote “Queer Jesus” theology receive papal recognition. Cardinals Sarah and Burke have called for broader access to the Latin Mass, but their voices are increasingly marginalized. The faithful are watching. The hierarchy is silent. And the Pope is sending mixed signals that leave everyone confused.

This is not a series of isolated incidents, it is a direction. A direction away from tradition, away from clarity, and away from the Catholic faith as it has always been understood. The question is whether anyone in Rome will notice before it is too late.

Federal Appeals Court Hands Victory to Trump in Mail-In Voting Battle slaynews.com
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President Donald Trump secured a temporary legal victory in his effort to strengthen oversight of mail-in voting after a federal appeals court paused a ruling that had blocked a proposed U.S. Postal Service election rule.

A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the Postal Service may continue moving forward with the Trump-backed proposal while litigation proceeds.

The proposed rule would require states to provide the Postal Service with approved absentee voter lists before mail-in ballots are delivered.

However, the administration cannot yet implement the policy because a separate federal judge in Massachusetts issued an injunction last month blocking the rule, and that order remains in effect.

Historic New York Church Hit With Repeated Fires Amid Push to Convert it Into a Mosque wltreport.com
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One of New York’s oldest churches has caught on fire, once again.

On Tuesday, St. Ann’s Catholic Church in Buffalo, NY suffered its second fire in less than a week — the third fire at the property this year.

Law enforcement believes it was arson.

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Canada cancels joint bridge-opening celebration with US amid trade tensions | US news www.theguardian.com
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A planned joint US-Canada ceremony on Friday celebrating the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, is no longer expected to take place after Donald Trump announced a 50% tariff on most Canadian goods.

In announcing the tariffs, the president accused Canada of unfairly discriminating against US automobiles, alcohol and dairy products, escalating tensions with one of the United States’ closest allies.

“In light of trade action threatened by the United States earlier this week, it would be inappropriate to proceed with a celebratory event between the two countries,” said Jenna Ghassabeh, a spokesperson for Canada’s infrastructure minister, Gregor Robertson, in an emailed statement.

Socialist Candidate Calls for More Migrants in Government to Combat ‘Exploitive’ Nature of Americans slaynews.com
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Colorado socialist congressional candidate Melat Kiros called for more migrants and people with “heritage in the global south” to seek elected office to push back against the “exploitative” nature of the American people.

Kiros is arguing that the United States plays an “exploitative and extractive” role in the world.

The Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidate made the remarks during the Wa’Ela Tigrai event in Denver last weekend.

During the event, she discussed her congressional campaign after defeating longtime incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) in last month’s Democrat primary.

Kiros said changing the international order would require electing officials who understand what she described as American exploitation on a “fundamental level.”

Oregon’s war on confused children, by the numbers: It’s REALLY bad www.theblaze.com
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For the better part of two decades, confused children across the Anglosphere deceived into believing that they might be in the wrong bodies have been widely subjected to medications that adversely affect bone density, cognitive performance, emotional stability, and/or future fertility. This horrific experiment, briefly provided a patina of legitimacy by so-called experts and politicians, has not only been ruinous but is based on junk science.

To the chagrin of the profitable and predatory child sex-rejection industry, the Trump administration, like the British government, has taken action nationwide against the “chemical and surgical mutilation of children.” However, some blue states appear keen to continue waging war on America’s youth.

‘1 in every 630 boys in Oregon received cross-sex hormones.’

How Woke Smithsonian Bureaucrats ‘Killed America’s Story’ thefederalist.com
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The dean of Hillsdale College’s Van Andel Graduate School of Government testified before the House Oversight Committee July 21 about the Smithsonian’s leftist bias. Matthew Spalding spoke to the committee about the importance of preserving accurate history in the hearing titled “Rewriting American History: Examining The Smithsonian’s Efforts To Reshape The Past.”

Calling the National Museum of American History (NMAH) one of the country’s “greatest treasures,” Spalding criticized the people in charge of the museum for pushing a leftist agenda in testimony titled “Who Killed America’s Story”?

“The National Museum of American History is no longer the nation’s museum of American history,” Spalding said.

Spalding referenced the White House’s “Saving America’s Story” report, which detailed the ideological capture of the Smithsonian Institution in more than 150 pages. The report contains photographic proof describing NMAH’s failure to present an accurate version of American history to attendees.

Appeals court rules DOJ must hand over tapes of Biden, biographer to Heritage Foundation | The Post Millennial thepostmillennial.com
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Biden could not remember when he was vice president, under President Barack Obama, nor was he clear on when his son Beau Biden died from cancer.

The Heritage Foundation has sought the release of recordings from 2016-17 between Joe Biden and his ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer. The recordings are redacted. The existence of those files came to light after prosecutor Robert Hur interviewed then-President Joe Biden over classified documents in 2023.

A federal appeals court just removed the last hurdle to the Heritage Foundation’s effort. Biden tried to block the Department of Justice from releasing the tapes but on Monday night, that appeal was denied in a 2-1 decision. “We conclude that Biden has not shown a likelihood that the requested materials must be withheld from disclosure,” said the appeals court.

Hur’s reports on the conversations with Zwonitzer revealed that Biden could not remember when he was vice president, under President Barack Obama, nor was he clear on when his son Beau Biden died from cancer.

OpenAI admits its agent went rogue and hacked AI startup Hugging Face www.scientificamerican.com
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An OpenAI autonomous agent went rogue and hacked into another artificial intelligence (AI) startup’s infrastructure, the ChatGPT maker said in a blog post.

The agent, which was powered by some of OpenAI’s most advanced models, ran amok during a security test. It freed itself from confinement—a protocol AI labs use to insulate tests from the wider Internet—and get onto the internet. Once online, the agent tried to hack into Hugging Face, an AI startup that hosts open-source models and datasets.

“I think this is interesting as it shows the problem of mis-specified goals,” says Philip Torr, a professor of engineering science and AI safety expert at the University of Oxford. “The model wasn’t malicious it was just doing what it was optimized to do.”

German Nuclear Fuel Plant Cleared to Work With Russia’s Rosatom www.themoscowtimes.com
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Germany on Wednesday approved an application by French firm Framatome to produce nuclear fuel rods under a licensing agreement with state-backed Russian firms despite political concerns, arguing it lacked the legal basis for a rejection.

A Framatome subsidiary had applied to produce at its plant in northern Germany fuel elements to supply nuclear plants in the eastern European market using Russian licenses and technology in a joint venture with Russian firms TVEL/Rosatom.

Despite political concerns due to Russia’s war in Ukraine, the environment ministry in the state of Lower Saxony with guidance from the federal environment ministry granted the necessary approval subject to certain conditions.

A spokesperson for the federal ministry said that while the government in Berlin has a critical view of the cooperation with a Russian state-owned company, the decision was made in accordance with the relevant nuclear laws of Germany.

“The appropriate instrument to address this, however, is not nuclear law, but rather EU-wide sanctions, including those in the nuclear sector,” the ministry said in a statement.

Why conservatives cling to conspiracies long after they’re debunked www.dailykos.com
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After director Christopher Nolan’s new film “The Odyssey” saw great success at the box office last weekend, it became clear that the campaign against the film’s diverse cast, led by racist multibillionaire Elon Musk, failed.

You’d think that the right would move on from this battle, choosing instead to tilt at another windmill. But a strange post from a right-wing influencer called “Mr. Obvious” shows that conservatives are going down a different path.

Instead of accepting defeat, Mr. Obvious claimed that the success of “The Odyssey” was a mirage, alleging that producers were “FAKING ticket sales” and buying up seats “to make the movie look like a success.”

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None of this is really happening, but the lurid fantasy is a microcosm of a conservative phenomenon that has existed for a long time.

The right thrives on conspiracy culture. Since the era of the John Birch Society during the Cold War, conspiracies have been a core feature of the conservative movement. There’s a clear timeline from worrying about fluoridated water being a communist plot all the way up to President Donald Trump’s insistence of a Democratic scheme to attack Christmas.

Death toll from Venezuela earthquakes rises to nearly 4,500 with thousands still missing www.independent.co.uk
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The death toll from two powerful earthquakes that struck Venezuela last month has tragically risen to 4,490, National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez confirmed on Sunday.

The official count of injured remains unchanged at 16,740, while 6,462 people have been successfully rescued from the devastation.

According to the latest figures, 17,907 individuals have been left homeless following the disaster.

The Venezuelans who remain displaced have been forced into crowded shelters or to sleep outdoors, grappling with a severe lack of clean water and deplorable sanitary conditions in the wake of the June 24 tremors.

Aid organizations describe the aftermath as a significant medical emergency. They caution that without swift intervention, the crisis is poised to claim more lives in the coming days and weeks.

Eugenio Cova, head of the trauma unit at Caracas’s Hospital del Oeste Dr. José Gregorio Hernández, articulated the immediate concern: “The issue we foresee just around the corner is the infections that patients who have been exposed to the disaster for the longest time might bring.”

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The Venezuelan government has been accused of remaining largely absent in the first 48–72 hours of the earthquake, downplaying the death toll, poor coordination and underlying systemic failures.

Two 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes – the bigger one the strongest to hit the country in more than a century – toppled or damaged 58,000–59,000 buildings, especially in La Guaira, the hardest-hit coastal state and parts of Caracas, and displaced at least 15,800 people.

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Residents in La Guaira have lashed out at the self-described socialist government of Delcy Rodríguez, alleging that the initial absence of a serious government search-and-rescue operation left them alone to scour for neighbours and loved ones with their bare hands.

However, Rodríguez fiercely defended her government at a press conference, saying politicisation of human tragedy is “disgraceful.”

“We did not wait one day, two days or three days. We activated immediately,” she said, wearing a black ribbon as a symbol of mourning.


Almost half of U.S. Muslims favor Hamas www.americanthinker.com
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According to a Pew survey, 44% of American Muslims recently surveyed expressed a favorable opinion of Hamas.

The United States designated Hamas a foreign terrorist organization long before it killed 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023, raped women, burned families alive, tortured civilians, and kidnapped children and elderly grandparents. Its leaders have repeatedly declared that Israel should cease to exist.

Yet nearly half of Muslim Americans surveyed said they view the group favorably.

Many Muslim Americans have publicly condemned terrorism while backing the rights of Palestinians. But 44% support is significant.

Imagine if a comparable percentage of any other religious or ethnic group expressed favorable views toward a different U.S.-designated terrorist organization, such as ISIS.

Discussion of Hamas is softened by the political context. Excuses include “occupation,” historical disputes, or resentment over the war in Gaza. Those issues may help explain why some people sympathize with Palestinians, but they do not transform Hamas into something other than what it is: a terrorist organization whose charter, actions, and rhetoric have centered on violence and the destruction of Israel.

There is an important distinction between supporting the Palestinian people and viewing Hamas favorably. Millions of Palestinians themselves have suffered under Hamas’ brutal rule. The organization has redirected resources from civilians to military infrastructure, suppressed dissent, and embedded fighters and weapons among civilian populations, increasing the suffering of the very people it claims to defend.

This goes past a poll. When a terrorist organization is viewed through a political lens rather than a moral one, terrorism itself risks becoming normalized. Instead of asking whether deliberately targeting civilians is evil, people begin asking whether the perpetrators were sufficiently aggrieved.

No political grievance justifies the massacre of concertgoers, the murder of children, the rape of women, or the kidnapping of civilians. Those acts should be condemned regardless of who commits them or what cause they claim to represent.

Pew’s survey doesn’t tell us why respondents answered as they did. Some may have interpreted “favorable” differently from others. Some may see Hamas primarily as a resistance movement despite rejecting its methods. Public opinion surveys have limits, but the results cannot simply be dismissed because they are uncomfortable.


Trump drops Strait of Hormuz tolls for Gulf trade deals www.washingtonexaminer.com
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday abandoned plans to charge fees for American policing of the Strait of Hormuz in lieu of inking new trade and investment deals with Gulf states.

The president, following the breakdown of the memorandum of understanding with Iran, has said that the United States will implement a blockade of Iranian-controlled shipping lanes while maintaining unencumbered commerce for other countries looking to make commercial use of the strait.

Still, despite guarantees from other top administration officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, that the international waterway would not be charged, Trump stated that the U.S. would collect a 20% “reimbursement fee” on cargo moving through the strait.

“Oil is flowing like never before, thanks to the awesome Power of the United States Military,” the president wrote on Truth Social Tuesday morning. “The Strait of Hormuz is open to ALL Ship traffic except for Iran — and that is because of their lying, violent, malicious leadership, which is taking them down the path of TOTAL DESTRUCTION.

“We will therefore have a FULL Blockade, but only on Ships coming to and from Iranian ports, or carrying anything have to do with Iranian cargo. Based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership, I have decided to replace the 20% United States Reimbursement Fee with Trade and Investment Deals that the various Gulf States will be making into the United States,” he continued. “Those Investments will be MASSIVE but, at the same time, extraordinarily good for them, and their future. As everyone is aware, we have the largest Dollar Investment into the United States, of any Country in History, but these new Investments will make that Number even larger, and we will see Factories, Plants, and Equipment pour into the United States at Historic levels, which will create additional millions of High Paying AMERICAN Jobs!

“America is WINNING again, winning like never before,” Trump concluded. “The days of Iran killing hundreds of thousands of people, including 52,000 protestors, are OVER and, most importantly, IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!”

U.S. Central Command announced Monday that the American military will re-implement its blockade of the strait on Thursday at 4 p.m. ET.

TRUMP RETURNS TO WAR WITH IRAN FROM ‘POSITION OF STRENGTH’

Earlier Tuesday morning, the White House attributed the reopening of the strait to June’s positive inflation report.

“President Trump consistently said that, as traffic in the Strait of Hormuz normalizes, oil prices – and thus overall inflation – would plummet like a rock,” White House spokesman Kush Desai wrote in a statement. “The expectation-smashing June [consumer price index] report proves President Trump was right: driven by lower energy prices, inflation clocked its biggest drop since April 2020.”


Trump Preparing to Challenge Legitimacy of Georgia’s Two Democrat Senators slaynews.com
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A report circulating Monday claims President Donald Trump is preparing to make a major announcement involving Georgia’s two Democrat senators, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.

The report, citing a “well-placed source in Georgia,” alleges Trump plans to declare Ossoff and Warnock “illegitimate because of fraud.”

According to the post, the announcement could come as soon as Monday evening.

Neither Trump nor the White House has publicly confirmed the report.

No official details have been released.

As of publication, the alleged announcement remains unverified.

If Trump does make such an announcement, it would mark a major escalation in the administration’s renewed focus on Georgia’s 2020 election and the January 2021 Senate runoffs that gave Democrats control of the Senate.

Trump Administration Reviews Georgia Election Claims

The reported announcement comes as federal authorities have reopened inquiries into allegations involving Georgia’s 2020 election.

Those investigations include claims tied to ballot handling, election administration, and other disputed issues from the election cycle.

Trump administration officials have argued that additional review is justified where credible evidence exists.

Democrats have pushed back, arguing that Georgia’s results were already affirmed through recounts, audits, and legal proceedings.

However, the renewed investigations have kept Georgia at the center of the national debate over election integrity.

Trump has consistently argued that widespread fraud affected Georgia’s elections and that the matter was never fully resolved.

His administration has continued to pursue additional reviews of election-related allegations.

Officials have said credible claims should be examined rather than dismissed.

Ossoff and Warnock Flipped Georgia Seats

Georgia is represented in the Senate by Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA).

Both were elected in the January 2021 runoff elections.

Their victories flipped two Republican-held seats and gave Democrats effective control of the Senate, with then-Vice President Kamala Harris serving as the tie-breaking vote in the evenly divided chamber.

The results marked the first time in more than two decades that Georgia sent two Democratic senators to Washington at the same time.

They also cemented Georgia’s transformation from a reliably Republican state into one of the country’s most closely watched political battlegrounds.

Ossoff, 39, is Georgia’s senior senator despite taking office the same day as Warnock.

Senate seniority is determined alphabetically when members are sworn in at the same time.

Before entering the Senate, Ossoff gained national attention during his 2017 special election campaign for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District.

He lost that race but later defeated incumbent Republican Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) in the 2021 runoff.

Ossoff is now seeking reelection in what is expected to be one of the nation’s most competitive Senate races.

Warnock previously served as senior pastor of Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached.

He first won statewide office by defeating appointed Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) in the January 2021 runoff.

Warnock later secured a full six-year term in 2022 by defeating Republican Herschel Walker.

No Court Has Invalidated Results

Questions surrounding Georgia’s 2020 election have continued to drive political and legal battles years after the Senate runoffs.

Trump and his allies have argued that the election was plagued by serious problems that were never properly addressed.

Democrats insist the results were legitimate and that the matter has been settled.

Despite the ongoing investigations and political disputes, no court has invalidated Georgia’s Senate election results.

No court has ruled that Ossoff or Warnock was improperly elected.

Both continue to serve as Georgia’s certified and legally recognized U.S. senators.

If Trump announces new findings or proposed action involving Georgia’s Senate elections, it would become one of the most significant developments yet in his administration’s effort to revisit unresolved disputes from the 2020 election cycle.

For now, the report remains unconfirmed.

But the possibility of a Trump announcement has already put renewed attention on Georgia, the 2021 Senate runoffs, and the election integrity fights that continue to shape national politics.

READ MORE – Trump Fires All Election Officials Who Resisted Citizenship Proof Push


Trump Issues Order to Protect Defense Supply Chains Amid Iran War › American Greatness amgreatness.com
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Good Tuesday morning.

Here is whats on President Trump’s agenda today:

8:00 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in Executive Time

10:00 AM THE PRESIDENT greets Denison University Student Athletes

11:00 AM THE PRESIDENT greets the President of the Republic of Lebanon

11:15 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the President of the Republic of Lebanon

4:00 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Policy Meeting

5:00 PM THE PRESIDENT greets House GOP Members

5:30 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Policy Meeting

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Democratic senators want answers about Hegseth’s military testosterone plan

Andy Burnham becomes UK’s next prime minister after meeting with King Charles III

How AI is supercharging drug development

Exclusive: House Republicans outraise Democrats in June

The secret Trump administration battle to fight Chinese AI

Canada’s Indigenous Community Angry as Government Abandons Them to Wildfires

Joshua Kerry Charged With Murder of Brexiteer Ann Widdecombe

Italy: 539 Arrested, 700Kg of Drugs Seized in Mass Youth Gangs Crackdown

Catholic nuns sue New York, say assisted suicide law forces them to violate their faith

Lindsey Graham succession fight upended as Trump’s chosen successor jumps in

More than 100 Haitian immigrants with violent offense and sex crime convictions deported: DHS

War erupts on far left as DSA endorses challenger against sitting House progressive

US bases, ICE facilities targeted in Cuba-linked 24-hour activist mobilization plan

Commerce Department’s AI safety director resigns after just three months in post

Trump issues order to protect defense supply chains amid Iran war

Darline Graham Nordone confirms she will seek full term

DOJ moves to denaturalize 10 convicted criminals

‘Employee of the month’ files $25M lawsuit against Magic Mountain alleging racial discrimination

Black NYC politician slams DSA as white supremacists as growing Dem feud spills onto social media

Cuba-linked groups plan ‘nationwide actions’ against US bases, ICE facilities: State Department

Trump admin fast-tracks deportations of fraudsters and pervy priests in ‘largest denaturalization effort ever’

‘Manosphere’ influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate expected in Miami court Monday

Greeks ready to pick a fight about ‘The Odyssey’

Nancy Mace won’t run for Lindsey Graham’s Senate seat

President Trump To Attend Dignified Transfer Of ‘Our Fallen Heroes’

School Sparks Debate After Buying Humanoid Robot Teacher

9 dead, 60 hurt in 9 different mass shootings across US

U.S. to slap 50% tariffs on Canadian goods

DOJ opens probe into Harvard’s financial aid for alleged discrimination against American students

Socialist insurgents force moderate Democrats into high-risk showdown over must-hold races

New York Times torched for ‘FALSE’ reporting on ICE investigations, outlet fires back

US House set to vote on government funding stopgap through early December

Conservative think tank wants Supreme Court to legalize home whiskey distilleries

Thune declines to make official endorsement in race to replace South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham

High school fights back against city over controversial new ethnic studies curriculum

Cornyn and Tillis in discussions with White House to get Blanche across the finish line

Black Leaders Accuse Democrats Of Leaving Them Behind

While The World Watched Soccer, The DOJ Was Building A Case

Bernie-Backed Socialist Sees Common Cause With MTG Supporters


Trump prepares fresh tariffs on dozens of countries: Report www.channelnewsasia.com
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US President Donald Trump is poised to unleash fresh tariffs on dozens of countries as soon as this week, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday (Jul 21), with his temporary 10 per cent global tariff scheduled to expire on Friday.

The FT said the most immediate new duties are expected to be on a par with the 10 per cent tariffs currently in place, but the administration was also working on other investigations that could grant it the legal authority to propose higher duties.

Reuters could not immediately verify the report.


Democrat Civil War Erupts as Warren and Schumer Back Rival Michigan Senate Candidates slaynews.com
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A growing Democratic Party power struggle is spilling into the open as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) back opposing candidates in Michigan’s closely watched Senate primary.

Warren endorsed far-left Abdul El-Sayed on Monday in the race to replace retiring Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), placing herself directly against Schumer, who is supporting Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI).

The competing endorsements expose the widening divide between the Democrat establishment and the party’s progressive wing, which is attempting to expand its influence in Congress.

Warren Joins Progressive Push for El-Sayed

Warren announced her endorsement just hours after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) appeared with El-Sayed at a campaign event.

In a video announcing her support, Warren praised El-Sayed for rejecting corporate campaign contributions.

“The only candidate in this race not taking corporate money, and he’s fighting to get money out of politics altogether,” Warren said.

“And make no mistake,” she continued.

“Abdul is the only candidate in this race who can build the grassroots movement needed to win in November.

“More money in your pocket, to get money out of politics and deliver ‘Medicare-for-all.’

“Michigan, let’s get this done.”

The endorsement marks a shift for Warren, who had previously supported Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow before she withdrew from the race earlier this month.

McMorrow opposed “Medicare-for-all,” a policy Warren has championed for years.

El-Sayed has faced scrutiny over previous social media posts, including calls to “defund the police” by redirecting taxpayer money away from purchasing “war materiel to wage war in our streets.”

Schumer Backs Establishment Candidate

Schumer waited until the Democrat field narrowed before publicly endorsing Stevens, though he had reportedly supported her privately during the crowded primary.

“I think she has the best chance to win,” Schumer told Punchbowl News last month.

Stevens has also received endorsements from Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), and Peters.

El-Sayed’s supporters include Warren, Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA).

Neither Stevens nor El-Sayed has committed to backing Schumer as Democratic leader in the next Congress.

El-Sayed has also said he has not spoken with Schumer during the campaign.

El-Sayed Targets Democratic Establishment

El-Sayed has openly framed his campaign as a direct challenge to the Democratic Party’s existing leadership and fundraising structure.

He told Politico that Schumer and other party leaders oppose his effort to remove corporate money from politics because Schumer’s “whole approach is that you get to go talk to the money people and then dole out their corporate money to help elect the people who are going to do the things that corporations want.”

“So, of course, they’re freaking out,” El-Sayed said.

“They’re not freaking out because they think I’m going to lose.

“They’re freaking out because they think I’m going to win.”

The Michigan contest is not the first Senate race to expose divisions between Warren and Schumer.

Warren previously backed former Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, while Schumer worked behind the scenes to recruit Maine Gov. Janet Mills into that race.

The Michigan primary now represents another major test of whether the Democrat establishment can maintain control over the party’s nominees or whether its increasingly organized progressive wing can displace candidates favored by longtime leaders.

READ MORE – New York Times Accused of Burying Bombshell Allegation to Protect Chuck Schumer


Democrat congressman’s Israel trip takes dramatic turn as officials dispute viral claims www.theblaze.com
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A sitting United States congressman reported an unexpected altercation during his visit to Israel last week. While supporters call for accountability, others have insisted that the altercation was nothing more than a big misunderstanding.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) made a post on Saturday detailing an alleged detention by Israeli settlers and Israel Defense Forces.

‘It’s too much, too insulting and humiliating to America. This is how revolutions start.’

The video and photo in Rep. Khanna’s initial post show multiple vehicles in the road with a few men standing outside one of the trucks. The vehicles appear to be blocking the road from the perspective of a camera in a vehicle facing the scene.

Two of the men are apparently holding firearms. One of them appears to be wearing full military garb.

“Israeli settlers, brandishing American made M4s, detained me & other Americans on my trip to Palestine. When the IDF arrived, they sided with the settlers & continued our detention,” Khanna said in the caption of the post.

“They made a huge mistake. You will be hearing more soon,” he added, linking a New York Times article at the end of the post.

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The initial post has since garnered 10 million views on X.

The New York Times added some context behind Khanna’s three-day trip. On Wednesday, the Democratic congressman was visiting the abandoned Palestinian Bedouin village of Khirbet Zanuta in the southern West Bank.

According to the report, “a car of men holding guns pulled up and blocked the narrow road out of the village.” The men allegedly began harassing and taunting Khanna and his team. Eventually, members of the Israeli military showed up, yet instead of dispersing the settlers, they began blocking the road as well.

While Khanna was eventually allowed to continue his journey, he reflected on the fear that this incident inspired in him: “I felt powerless in that situation, which is not an easy thing, as I have a lot of privilege in life. Imagine how people feel every day, Palestinians under the occupation, if they could make an American congressperson feel powerless for 90 minutes.”

The Israeli military confirmed that troops were sent to the scene after receiving a report of settlers blocking vehicles near the Palestinian village, according to a statement by the Israeli military to Reuters.

“Upon their arrival, the troops dispersed the Israeli civilians and allowed the vehicles to continue on their way,” the military told Reuters.

On Monday morning, the congressman reposted bodycam footage capturing what Khanna described as an “unprecedented, illegal detention of Americans by a foreign country.”

The video, posted by Nadav Wieman, executive director of Breaking the Silence, shows the point of view of a man walking up to several men in one car and speaking with them briefly before returning to a van. However, the man does not refer to Khanna by name, nor does Khanna appear at any point in the video.

Of the video, Wieman wrote: “The IDF is lying about the detention of Rep. Khanna. I was on the ground with him that day, and my body camera captured us being detained by both settlers and Israeli soldiers. The IDF did not disperse the violent settlers, as they claim. They explicitly sided with them.”

However, others, including Ambassadors Mike Huckabee and Michael Leiter, have insisted that there is “more to this story,” as Huckabee put it.

In a “Face the Nation” interview, Leiter, Israeli ambassador to the United States, explained that the congressman did not follow the proper protocol, leading to confusion: “There was not an alert. There was a question about visas, that’s all.”

“When we requested he coordinate the trip with us, he rejected that by basically staying silent. So, that’s unfortunate. This whole incident is unfortunate,” he added.

Huckabee, U.S. ambassador to Israel, has acknowledged the incident in two separate posts, though both posts merely highlighted others’ reporting on the incident, a fact which one of Huckabee’s high-profile opponents attacked.

Additionally, Huckabee’s two posts acknowledging the incident came several hours after Tucker Carlson’s attack on his response:

An Amercian [sic] member of congress is threatened by foreign terrorists carrying American rifles, backed by a foreign military paid for by American taxpayers, and the US ambassador to that country says not a word in defense of his own countryman, and instead uses his social media accounts to promote his own vapid cable news appearances, which amount to propaganda for that same foreign country. It’s too much, too insulting and humiliating to America. This is how revolutions start. For the sake our nation, Mike Huckabee should be removed from his post immediately.

Blaze News contacted the Jerusalem Embassy’s press office in an attempt to receive a comment from Huckabee but did not immediately receive a response.

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Illegal Alien Shot By ICE After Allegedly Weaponizing Vehicle; Enraged Anti-Ice Agitators Try to Storm Sen. Collins’ Office › American Greatness amgreatness.com
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An illegal immigrant in Biddeford, Maine has been shot dead by an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent after he allegedly tried to run over the agent with his car.

Senator Angus King (I-Maine) said that Homeland Security  officials told him the 26-year old man had been ordered to leave the country and that he had “weaponized the vehicle.”

King and Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) told reporters they’ve learned little from federal agencies about the shooting, and said they believe the ICE agents were not equipped with body cameras.

An eye witness who drove by the scene as it was enfolding, corroborated what DHS told Sen. King.

The man told the Portland Press Herald that the driver was told multiple times to stop by an ICE agent, but instead of stopping, he put the car in drive and drove toward the officer.

“As I was approaching, you could see flashing blue lights,” the witness said. “The ICE agent was yelling and drew his weapon,” he continued. “And he kept yelling and yelling and warning the person driving—which is when the car was put into drive and was trying to hit the ICE officer—and he fired probably four shots at him.”

The vehicle was registered to a Jhonathan Ramires, who was living in Biddeford, according to WMTW, but it’s not clear if Ramires was the person who was shot, as federal officials have not yet officially released any details about the incident or the deceased.

The Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition told the media the man was from Columbia and that he was “authorized” to work in the United States.

The FBI is investigating the incident, with support from Maine State Police and the Department of Public Safety.

This is the second fatal ICE shooting in less than a week, following a similar incident in Houston, Texas, on June 7, where an illegal alien from Mexico was shot during a targeted enforcement operation.

As he was attempting to evade arrest, the driver of that vehicle, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, allegedly rammed an ICE law enforcement vehicle.

DHS said in a statement that Araujo had refused to follow multiple verbal commands and attempted to run over an ICE law enforcement officer resulting in the officer firing his weapon.

Monday’s  shooting, which occurred just before 7:18 a.m., sparked immediate protests and calls for accountability from local Democrats and illegal immigrant rights groups.

“No more hate, no more fear!” agitators chanted as they meandered down the street. “Immigrants are welcome here!” they yelled.

A mob of several hundred anti-ICE agitators marched down the street chanting “no more hate, no more fear!” before swamping the Biddeford City Hall and attempting to storm Sen. Susan Collins’ office.

As the mob massed outside Sen. Collins’ Biddeford office, about a dozen agitators made it inside the entryway, chanting “Vote her out!” and banging their fists on the office’s locked doors.

Panicked staffers inside could be seen on the phone as the situation intensified, according to the Press Herald.

Minutes later, five Biddeford police officers reportedly appeared and pushed through the entryway and placed themselves between mob and the door.

They continued to chant “vote her out!”

“This is your fault Susan!” one man shrieked. “You’re a fascist!” another person yelled at the officers.

Maine Democrat Troy Jackson posted “I’ve been alerted to the fatal ICE shooting in Biddeford this morning. Jackson is running for the U.S. Senate now that disgraced nominee Graham Platner has dropped out.

“Our team is monitoring this situation very closely and will provided updates as we learn more. My heart is with Biddeford – and with all Mainers,” Jackson added.