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A shooting occurred in a Manhattan building. We’ll give you the facts on the matter. What appeared to be a mob ganging up on two people is very quickly turning into just “adults fighting.” We’ll take a look. The New Jersey government is using eminent domain to seize a 175 year old family farm in the name of affordable housing.
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As New York City grapples with the aftermath of a deadly mass shooting that claimed the lives of four people, including an NYPD officer, Zohran Mamdani, the radical Democrat mayoral nominee, is facing renewed scrutiny over his controversial pledge to “disband” a key police unit.
The pledge, made during his mayoral campaign, has drawn sharp criticism, especially in light of the tragic events that unfolded in Midtown Manhattan on Monday.
Mamdani, currently in Uganda celebrating his wedding, has been vocal in the past about his support for defunding the police.
As a candidate for mayor, he has softened his anti-police rhetoric.
However, his previous pledge to dismantle the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) Strategic Response Group (SRG) remains a point of contention.
The SRG is a specialized unit within the NYPD responsible for responding to civil disorders, riots, and significant public safety events.
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Belmont University thought it could remain an incubator of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion antics without making too much noise. Too late—we posted the videos showing the university brass openly admitting they’re flouting the law. Sure, they got ahead of the curve regarding re-naming their DEI office, but it’s a distinction without a difference. They thought their secret sauce for avoiding detection was to keep it quiet. Jozef Lukey, Belmont University Assistant Director of Student Success and Flourishing, is quite candid in the videos:
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“The Oversight Committee will respond to Ms. Maxwell’s attorney soon, but it will not consider granting congressional immunity for her testimony.”
Ghislaine Maxwell’s request for congressional immunity in exchange for her testimony has reportedly been denied. This comes as the House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed Maxwell, who is set to appear in a hearing on August 11.
A spokesperson for the committee told the Daily Mail, “The Oversight Committee will respond to Ms. Maxwell’s attorney soon, but it will not consider granting congressional immunity for her testimony.”
Maxwell’s lawyer, David Markus, sent a document for the letter demanding that conditions be met in exchange for her testimony. “Public reports—including your own statements—indicate that the committee intends to question Ms. Maxwell in prison and without a grant of immunity. Those are non-starters,” the letter stated.
“Ms. Maxwell cannot risk further criminal exposure in a politically charged environment without formal immunity. Nor is a prison setting conducive to eliciting truthful and complete testimony. The potential for leaks from such a setting creates real security risks and undermines the integrity of the process,” the letter continued.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul responded with the predictable liberal mantra following a shooting incident in New York City on Monday night that left four dead.
Las Vegas, Nevada, resident Shane Tamura, 27, went to the Midtown Manhattan office building at 345 Park Avenue that houses the NFL, Blackstone, and the accounting firm KPMG, among others.
He double-parked his BMW, then proceeded into the building, where he shot off-duty NYPD Officer Didarul Islam and others in the lobby with an M4 rifle before taking an elevator to the 33rd floor of the high-rise and killing himself.
🚨BREAKING: Active Shooter with AR Rifle in Park Avenue Midtown Manhattan, NYC. MULTIPLE casualties reported, including NYPD officers pic.twitter.com/T7ZNmRHWAl
— AJ Huber (@Huberton) July 28, 2025
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A historical monument in Fredericksburg, Virginia, commemorating George Washington’s mother was vandalized this past weekend with what appear to be Antifa writings.
The revelation came to light on Monday, when the Washington Heritage Museum disclosed in a Facebook post that the Mary Washington Monument was graffitied on two sides. Pictures released by the organization show one side covered in writing that seemingly reads, “Antifa,” while the other is marked with what appears to be an Antifa “A” symbol.
The monument is located near the University of Mary Washington and Meditation Rock, where Mary “prayed for the safety of her son and country during the dark days of the Revolution.”
As The Federalist has previously reported, Antifa is a far-left organization whose often-violent members routinely operate throughout the United States. The group has been linked to destructive activities like the defacing of public property, including historical monuments.
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Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted accomplice and girlfriend of child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, is threatening to withhold critical information during her testimony before the House Oversight Committee, unless her demands are met.
Maxwell is due to appear before congressional investigators following a subpoena that was issued last week.
The deposition is part of ongoing efforts by Congress to investigate the full extent of Epstein’s sex crimes and the individuals involved.
Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence for her role in procuring underage girls for Epstein’s sex trafficking operation and personal abuse, has submitted a letter to House Oversight Chairman James Comer.
Her letter outlines three major conditions before she would agree to testify before Congress.
In the letter, Maxwell’s legal team argues that they need formal immunity for her testimony.
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Dr. Vinay Prasad, a top Food and Drug Administration official, stepped down from his position on Tuesday after being accused by right-wing activist Laura Loomer of being a “progressive, left-wing” figure seeking to sabotage the Trump administration.
Prasad was appointed by FDA Commissioner Marty Makary in May to be director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. He was also appointed last month to be the agency’s chief medical and science officer.
Despite garnering conservatives’ support over matters such as his skepticism of COVID-19 vaccines and criticism of pandemic-era mask mandates, Prasad recently drew outrage from factions of the Republican Party, including Loomer, who disagreed with his approach to approving gene therapies for rare diseases and accused him of holding liberal views.
Amid the controversy, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed this week that Prasad stepped down as the FDA’s top vaccine and gene therapy regulator and chief medical and scientific officer.
“Dr. Prasad did not want to be a distraction to the great work of the FDA in the Trump administration and has decided to return to California and spend more time with his family,” a DHS spokesperson said of Prasad, who is also a hematologist-oncologist at the University of California, San Francisco. “We thank him for his service and the many important reforms he was able to achieve in his time at the FDA.”
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In their scramble to find a lifeline, something, anything with any purchase on Donald Trump, Democrats rediscovered Jeffrey Epstein.
Indeed, after years of silence on the matter, in which their kind dominated the highest perches in America – Hollywood, academia, the intelligence community, the military, corporate boardrooms, Congress and the White House – the official communications arm of the party is now tweeting Epstein bait into the public discourse.
It’s because they’re facing a conflagration of their own making.
Even as the popularity of Trump’s major initiatives loses steam, nothing they say or do seems to increase their own national popularity. So they have broken the emergency glass and grabbed hold of the Epstein Files.
If it smells like desperation, it’s because that’s exactly what it is. It’s also not entirely without merit.
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Earlier this year, The Federalist highlighted a Wall Street Journal investigation that found taxpayers had spent billions paying for individuals who had enrolled in Medicaid in multiple states simultaneously. The kicker is not surprising but still shocking: As bad as the Journal exposé seemed, the reality is worse.
A new investigation increased both the number of enrollees with duplicate forms of taxpayer-funded coverage and the amount taxpayers are paying for such unnecessary double-dipping. It provides an example — one of many — to rebut leftist claims that the recently passed budget reconciliation bill will somehow destroy the safety net.
The Journal analysis of Medicaid data from 2019 to 2021 found taxpayers spent $4.3 billion over three years, providing duplicate coverage to an average of 660,000 people per year. The Trump administration recently examined what happened after four years of Biden administration policies, designed to promote enrollment in taxpayer-funded coverage at all costs.
The analysis by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) of 2024 enrollment data concluded that, last year, “an average of 1.2 million Americans each month were enrolled” in Medicaid in multiple states — nearly double the level of duplicate enrollment cited by the Journal in the opening years of the Biden presidency. Moreover, CMS also noted that another “1.6 million Americans each month were enrolled in both Medicaid” and taxpayer-subsidized coverage on the insurance Exchange plans.
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Two young girls and an adult man are dead after a huge explosion tore through a Nebraska biofuels plant, officials said Wednesday.
The three had been missing since the Horizon Biofuels facility exploded Tuesday in Fremont, about 32 miles northwest of Omaha. All three were in the plant at the time of the explosion, Dodge County Attorney Pam Hopkins told CBS News. On Wednesday, the focus at the scene “shifted from rescue efforts to recovery efforts,” Hopkins said.
The three have not been identified. Fremont Mayor Joey Spellerberg said at a news conference that the man was an employee at the plant. The two children were waiting for him to go to a doctor’s appointment. The girls were under 12, Spellerberg said.
“My heart hurts,” Spellerberg said. “It’s a tragedy. We pray for every person involved.”
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🚨#BREAKING: The FBI and Department of Justice have recovered the previously missing one-minute segment from the security footage of Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell, according to an FBI source
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) July 29, 2025
BREAKING: The FBI reportedly has the “missing minute” of Epstein footage that was edited out of the publicly released video.
It’s more likely Jesus returns this year than the FBI releasing this missing footage this month.
— Polymarket (@Polymarket) July 29, 2025
The “missing minute” from the surveillance video at the Manhattan Metropolitan Correctional Center where Jeffrey Epstein died in 2019 may not be missing after all, CBS News has learned.
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President Donald Trump expressed his frustration with Republican Senate leaders over the lack of votes on his judicial nominees, including his nominees for federal judgeships and U.S. attorney positions. With the August recess fast approaching, the Republican-controlled Senate has confirmed a historically low number of judicial nominees.
As of this report, just one Article III judge has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate when Judge Whitney D. Hermandorfer was confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. There are currently 11 nominations awaiting Senate action, three for the courts of appeals and eight for the district courts.
The pace of judicial confirmations in Trump’s second term is historically slow. For comparison, the average number of judicial confirmations by this point in a term stands at 11, with former President Barack Obama having 26 of his nominees confirmed by July 29.
In a lengthy Truth Social post, President Trump pressed Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to pick up the pace. “Chuck Grassley, who I got re-elected to the U.S. Senate when he was down, by a lot, in the Great State of Iowa, could solve the ‘Blue Slip’ problem we are having with respect to the appointment of Highly Qualified Judges and U.S. Attorneys, with a mere flick of the pen,” the president wrote, adding that Senate Democrats are determined to block any and all nominees.
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FALLS CHURCH, Virginia — Prostitution is illegal in the state of Virginia, but dozens of brothels nevertheless operate openly in Fairfax County alone, according to local officials.
How did the state’s largest municipality, a wealthy and highly educated suburb of Washington, D.C., become a sanctuary county for pimps, madams, and whorehouse operators? All signs point to the Commonwealth’s attorney, self-styled progressive prosecutor Steve Descano.
County police say their “hands are tied” when it comes to known prostitution businesses, and it seems that the man tying their hands is Descano.
Descano has not explicitly announced the decriminalization of prostitution, but one can better understand the county’s booming prostitution industry by considering Descano’s record of selective enforcement, his policy of not prosecuting most misdemeanors, and his stated willingness to ignore laws that he disagrees with.
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President Trump told reporters on Monday about the falling out he had with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein years ago that led him to ban the convicted sex trafficker from Mar-a-Lago. Trump also proudly proclaimed that he had turned down “the privilege” of ever traveling to Epstein’s infamous “Pedo Island.”
“I didn’t want to go to his island” Trump said.
The president was asked about Epstein as he sat for a bilateral meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Turnberry, Scotland, Monday morning.
Trump irritably called the Democrats’ sudden interest in the Epstein Files “a hoax that has been built up way beyond proportion,” and argued that if there was any damning information in the files about himself, it would already be in the public domain.
“Those files were run by the worst scum on earth,” Trump said, referring to the Biden Department of Justice. “If they had anything, I assume they would have released it. The whole thing is a hoax,” the president insisted.
Trump also told reporters that it was possible that Democrats could have “easily put something in the files that’s a phony.”
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The petition argues procedural errors and challenges the legal basis of her conviction.
Ghislaine Maxwell has formally filed a petition with the US Supreme Court seeking to overturn her 2021 conviction on sex trafficking charges.
“We are appealing not only to the Supreme Court, but to the president himself, to recognize how unjust it is to scapegoat Ghislaine Maxwell for Epstein’s crimes, especially when the government promised she would not be prosecuted,” a representative for Maxwell said, according to CNN.
Maxwell’s lawyers argue that Maxwell’s conviction violates an agreement Epstein made in 2008 that shielded coconspirators from prosecution.
According to trial evidence and court documents, Maxwell helped Epstein recruit and groom young girls—some as young as 14—for sexual abuse between 1994 and 2004. Prosecutors said she used gifts, outings, and emotional manipulation to gain the girls’ trust, gradually desensitizing them to inappropriate conduct. Maxwell was often present for the abuse and in some cases participated directly, including in group sexualized massages. Victims were abused at Epstein’s homes in New York, Florida, and New Mexico, as well as at Maxwell’s London residence.
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Al Sharpton has responded after President Donald Trump accused the civil rights grifter and several other celebrities of illegally taking large sums of cash in return for their endorsements of Kamala Harris’s failed 2024 presidential campaign.
It comes as Sharpton is once again at the center of controversy.
Trump is accusing Kamala Harris of paying Sharpton, along with celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Beyoncé, for their endorsements in the 2024 election.
In a Monday appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sharpton vehemently denied Trump’s claims that he received money for endorsing Harris.
Sharpton insists that the funds in question were given to his nonprofit, National Action Network (NAN).
He claims the money was for get-out-the-vote efforts, not for an endorsement.
“Absolutely not,” Sharpton said, addressing Trump’s accusation.
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Crime numbers are falling across the country, and the drop aligns with President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
A newly released report from the Council on Criminal Justice shows that crime is now down across much of America.
However, what the report fails to openly acknowledge is the critical role Trump’s tough immigration enforcement policies have played in driving these improvements.
This is no coincidence.
Trump’s steadfast approach to upholding existing laws has proven that America doesn’t need more regulations; we just need leaders with the resolve to enforce the laws we already have.
According to the report, homicides have dropped 17% in the first half of 2025 compared to the same period last year.
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On Saturday, RedState reported on a mass stabbing incident that happened at a Traverse City, Michigan, Walmart in which a man began randomly lunging at people with a “folding-style knife” in hand just before 5 pm local time.
11 people were injured after the suspect, now identified as 42-year-old Afton man Bradford James Gille, began his rampage near the check out lines.
According to Grand Traverse County Sheriff Michael D. Shea, “citizen involvement” was critical in apprehending the suspect. “This was a joint effort all the way through to, as I mentioned, the citizens, and thankfully, no one else was injured,” Shea noted during a Saturday evening presser.
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In one of the most aggressive and successful anti-child exploitation crackdowns in U.S. history, President Trump’s Justice Department has revealed the results of Operation Grayskull, a sweeping, international strike that dismantled four high-traffic dark web platforms trafficking violent child sexual abuse materials, exposing a digital cesspool that included over 120,000 registered users and millions of illicit files.
To date, 18 individuals have been convicted in federal court, receiving a combined 300+ years in prison.
The Justice Department detailed how Thomas Peter Katsampes, 52, of Minnesota, became a staff member on one of these despicable sites, personally distributing CSAM, guiding others on how to do so, and helping manage operations. He was sentenced to over 20 years in prison, lifetime supervision, and forced to pay restitution to his victims.