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The white supremacist group Patriot Front brazenly marched in Washington, D.C., on Independence Day. Their faces covered in white ski masks and their eyes obscured by sunglasses, the identically dressed group of men celebrated our country’s 250th anniversary by waving the pro-slavery Confederate flag, chanting about wanting to “reclaim America,” and carrying signs and banners promoting their pro-white racist ideology.
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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) has spent much of her career making Republicans uncomfortable. She speaks too bluntly, fights too publicly, and rarely waits for permission.
Those habits may have hurt her campaign for governor, but they also make her worth considering for Lindsey Graham’s open Senate seat.
“Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in…” pic.twitter.com/1AzRMPAEuc
— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) July 12, 2026
Mace says she’s strongly considering the race, and why not?
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster will appoint a temporary replacement, and Republican candidates are preparing for an accelerated contest ahead of the November election.
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Friday, on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow talked about the Tyler Robinson trial.
Marlow said, “Candace, who has spent the last 10 months smearing Erika Kirk trying to destroy Turning Point USA, all — everything that she’s been telling her audience has been incorrect.”
The Alex Marlow Show, hosted by Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow, broadcasts coast to coast on weekdays from noon to 1 p.m. Eastern on the Salem Radio Network stations. You can listen to the radio show online here. The show also airs at 9 p.m. Eastern on the Salem TV news channel. Marlow’s podcast, The Alex Marlow Show Presented by Breitbart News, is released weekdays at 9 p.m. Eastern.
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A senior official in New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration attempted to sidestep the federal government by scheduling a meeting with Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations. The meeting was ultimately canceled following intervention by the U.S. State Department.
Ana María Archila, commissioner of the Mayor’s Office for International Affairs, was listed on a calendar invitation to meet Amir-Saeid Iravani, Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations, on July 7, according to a report from City Journal.
Two other senior officials from the mayor’s Office for International Affairs were also scheduled to attend. Details on the meeting and its agenda were not made publicly available by the mayor’s office.
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said her administration will take legal action against the U.S. after the lethal shooting of a Mexican national who had lived in Texas for decades.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during a traffic stop in a “targeted enforcement operation” in Houston on Tuesday.
‘There’s no reason for them to be in detention centers or for violence to be used. So, we’re preparing legal measures — obviously, more significant ones.’
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Meta announced Monday that its Louisiana data center investment has grown from $10 billion to $50 billion and that it expects to generate substantial local tax revenues as it pursues artificial superintelligence.
The Richland Parish Data Center, nicknamed “Hyperion,” will be a nearly 10 million-square-foot, five-gigawatt facility, equivalent to a power plant capable of supplying enough electricity to power roughly 4 million average U.S. homes simultaneously. Altogether, that is about as much energy as New York City uses on a winter day.
“We’re delivering real economic impact alongside the AI infrastructure that will power the future,” Meta Vice President of Data Centers Rachel Peterson said in a statement.
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There are threats, and then there are $30 billion threats.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta seems to have the magic wand that could remedy the situation, but the decision is not exactly a case of right and wrong.
‘The proposed transaction will increase output, expand theatrical releases, and enhance competition.’
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Notably, amid changes to the network programming, the promotion heavily featured the nighttime duo of Lawrence O’Donnell and Rachel Maddow, two hosts who have showcased some unhinged moments in the age of Trump and whose programming was anything but impartial.
Broken up with short soundbites from O’Donnell and Maddow, the advertisement’s narrator read:
Celebrating 30 years… Delivering journalism that informs, empowers, and strengthens our democracy.
MS NOW has a new ad celebrating its 30th anniversary:
“Celebrating 30 years … Delivering journalism that informs, empowers, and strengthens our democracy.” pic.twitter.com/V3m8ptDFor— Nick (@nspin310) July 13, 2026
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Writing in May for Above the Law, Ken Crutchfield observed that “over the past year, we’ve seen a steady stream of headlines about AI hallucinations where fake cases, fabricated quotes, and misstated facts made it through a review process and into court filings.” The predicament isn’t just that GenAI tools invent non-existent cases that some short-cut-taking attorneys cite without verifying; it’s that the tools also produce difficult-to-discover false claims and quotations that masquerade as truth in pleadings and motions. Indeed, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit explained in February that the “problem now often manifests as false quotes or statements of law attributed to real cases, rather than the more easily recognizable fake cases.”
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David Ellison, CEO of Paramount Skydance, has reportedly been backing a bill for a federal film tax incentive that has bipartisan support.
Multiple sources confirmed to Variety that that Ellison has spent at “least six months in exploratory meetings for the proposed legislation.” Ellison also met with Republican leaders in Washington, D.C., on Monday to discuss the legislation.
A federal film tax incentive would provide significant financial relief to content producers fleeing the U.S. for rebates around the world. A federal program would also sweeten the deal in Hollywood’s home state of California, whose AG Rob Bonta is leading the charge on the searing antitrust lawsuit waged today against Ellison over Warner Bros.
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The Trump Justice Department has secured roughly two dozen non-citizens voting arrests, prosecutions or convictions in the last few months, with another nearly 90 more cases under investigation.
Just the News reports that the wave of prosecutions represents a growing number of individuals charged in the last year with illegally voting in U.S. federal elections as foreigners.
Department of Justice (DOJ) officials say all 50 states were sent notices this month that election officials can and will be prosecuted too if they allow non-citizens to vote.
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Democrat Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) has launched a sweeping new Internet regulation agenda that would push Americans toward mandatory digital ID checks before they can use social media or other online platforms.
Markey rolled out a series of bills as part of what he calls an “AI Accountability Agenda.”
The package includes close to a dozen bills under the slogan “Taking Power Back from Big Tech.”
Markey says the goal is to “take back unchecked power from Big Tech and put it into the hands of the American people.”
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The four Minnesota officials who voted to pardon Tou Lue Vang, an illegal alien from Laos convicted of child rape, cited “immigration concerns” and rehabilitation as reasons for their decision, according to documents from the Minnesota Clemency Review Commission reviewed by Fox News.
The vote was 4-2 to recommend the pardon. The Minnesota Board of Pardons, made up of Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Natalie Hudson, granted Vang a full pardon, giving him a clean slate.
On Friday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the U.S. deported Vang, despite receiving a pardon from those officials.
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A federal judge in California has blocked the Trump administration’s push to attach anti-DEI strings to federal grant money. The court ruled this week that the executive branch overstepped its constitutional authority by imposing the conditions on a group of West Coast cities and counties.
U.S. District Judge William Orrick granted a preliminary injunction Thursday barring the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice and the Interior from enforcing the contested conditions against 11 local governments, concluding in a 68-page order that the restrictions likely run afoul of both the separation-of-powers doctrine and the Administrative Procedure Act.
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Good news, adulterers: It turns out that if you get relationship counseling in Britain, you’ll have your identity as a “secret non-monogamist” affirmed!
And apparently, it’s been that way for a while — although it took a therapist named James Esses to point out just how bewilderingly perverse the guidance from the British Association of Psychotherapy and Counseling really is.
Esses is the founder of Just Therapy, an organization that believes “much of the world of psychotherapy and counseling has been taken over by activists and ideologies, which risk harming, rather than supporting, the mental wellbeing of clients.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Twelve states sued to block Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery on Monday, arguing that the $81 billion merger would “extinguish competition” in Hollywood and lead to fewer choices for consumers across the U.S.
“Audiences on every sofa and in every movie (theater) seat would feel the impact of this unlawful merger,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who is leading the case, said in a news conference from Los Angeles. He said the deal would result in higher prices, fewer movies and TV shows and lower quality of content overall.
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(LifeSiteNews) — UK Equalities Minister Olivia Bailey has affirmed that the government’s proposed Conversion Practices bill will not exempt conversations with parents about gender identity or sexuality — and that the consequences for violating the law could be dire.
After successive governments — both Conservative and Labour — promised to ban so-called “conversion therapy,” the Labour government is moving to make good on the commitment. LGBT groups have been thrilled at the expansive approach the government appears to be taking. “Conversion practices are abuse, and the government will deliver the manifesto commitment to bring forward a trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices,” the government’s addendum stated.
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After the shocking Supreme Court ruling on birthright citizenship, a Texas hospital is going viral for advertising childbirth packages for expectant mothers just miles from the U.S. border in Mexico.
“Here in Texas, you have these birth tourism hospitals openly advertising birth packages, and they’re not advertising to Texans,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales explains on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”
“They’re not like, ‘Hey, Texans, come to our birth center. We’re really, really gentle.’ They’re actually advertising to Mexicans in Mexico. You have Mission Regional Medical Center; it’s within miles of the border. It’s advertising birth packages on billboards in Mexico,” she continues.
The billboard Gonzales shows is all in Spanish and boasts $3,950 for a natural birth and $5,525 for a C-section. Even more disturbing, the website the billboard pointed Mexicans to was “havemybabyinTEXAS.com.”
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As the Supreme Court made waves with its landmark ruling protecting women’s and girls’ sports, the court also published another landmark ruling that met with little public discussion: Chatrie v. United States.
Chatrie focused on answering the question of whether or not law enforcement accessing Google Location History data constituted a Fourth Amendment search. The court determined that it did, explaining that “[a]n individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in records about his cell phone’s location, and police intrude on that constitutionally protected interest when they demand the information … from a third-party tech company.”
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WASHINGTON, July 13 (Reuters)—The White House plans to bring together utility companies and data center developers to make a voluntary pledge designed to ensure that rapid growth in electricity demand from artificial intelligence does not drive-up power bills for households and businesses, according to three people familiar with the plans.
An event to announce the initiative is expected in the coming weeks, with several companies taking part and vowing to protect current ratepayers from shouldering all the costs of AI expansion. The guest list is still being finalized, the sources said.
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California Assembly members recently peered into the garage of a suburban hobbyist and experienced a collective panic attack. Their legislative response, Assembly Bill 2047, presents itself as a targeted strike against the DIY firearm industry. This classification completely misrepresents the mechanics of the law. The actual mechanism establishes a permanent legal framework in which consumer hardware operates as an automated, inescapable agent of the state.
The statute mandates that every 3D printer sold in California must run mandatory screening software. This system intercepts every digital file, compares the geometric coordinates against a government-maintained database of banned shapes, and shuts down the machine if it detects a forbidden curve. Property law historically recognized a distinct boundary between an object and its purchaser. Under this new system, the state retains ultimate operational veto power over the physical components sitting on your workshop desk, rendering your financial investment and your purchase receipt completely meaningless.
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Rashida Tlaib took an oath to support and defend the Constitution. It is unclear how she took “I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” to mean “The political structures that I have to work in, that we are surrounded by, were built on slavery and genocide and oppression,” but I digress. The point, however, remains that if she believes this to be true, then she never intended to uphold her oath. That should be a bigger scandal than it is, so much so that she should be barred from ever holding elected office again. Yet, here we are, as she panders to the DSA over how she will, in fact, tear this country down.
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Almost two years after Future Forward spent record levels of “dark money” in the 2024 election backing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, we’re finally getting a partial answer to where the money came from. The money trail leads to a network of little-known nonprofits, Democratic operatives, and politically connected organizations that helped to move hundreds of millions of dollars through the shadows.
New tax filings reviewed by Sludge show how $173 million flowed into Future Forward USA Action, the dark money nonprofit that powered the outside spending operation backing Biden and Harris in the 2024 election. The filings are from three nonprofits that also do not disclose their donors, revealing a previously unknown dark money layer behind one of the most expensive political operations in American history.
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A federal appeals court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to replace informational panels at the slavery exhibit at the President’s House in Philadelphia. The decision is a legal victory for the administration as it moves to restore how the nation’s history is presented at federal historic sites.
The court issued a mandate Friday finalizing its June 18 ruling, allowing the Interior Department to move forward with replacing the exhibit panels at the President’s House, the nation’s first executive mansion, where President George Washington enslaved nine men and women.
The Interior Department sought immediate implementation of the ruling in a motion filed Thursday.
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President Donald Trump has removed the remaining Democrat members of the Election Assistance Commission, leaving the federal election agency without commissioners as his administration pushes to tighten election security ahead of the 2026 midterms.
The move affects the only federal agency devoted solely to election administration.
Trump fired Democratic commissioners Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland on Thursday, according to Votebeat.
Republican Commissioner Christy McCormick was allowed to resign rather than face termination, three sources inside the agency told the outlet.
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The Maine Senate race has turned into a disaster for Democrats after more allegations, this time alleging rape, were dropped against Graham Platner yesterday afternoon. While Platner has not dropped out of the race yet and has not indicated what he plans to do, several prominent Democrats have withdrawn their endorsements and called on him to drop out.
That means Democrats have to find someone to run against Republican incumbent Susan Collins. Governor Janet Mills dropped out of the race ages ago, not seeing a path to victory, so it’s unclear if she’d return to try again. But there’s a report that Democrats are looking at Nirva Shah, the former Biden administration CDC Director.
I’m told Nirav Shah is getting a lot of encouraging calls about being a potential replacement for Graham Platner, per a source familiar.
— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) July 6, 2026