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Sen. Ruben Gallego is under federal investigation for suspected campaign finance violations, a new report said Monday, threatening to cast a fresh shadow over the Arizona Democrat’s political future as he eyes a possible 2028 White House run.

The Justice Department probe comes even after the Senate Ethics Committee closed its own inquiry into allegations of sexual misconduct and campaign finance violations.

According to a letter released by Gallego’s office Monday, the Senate panel found no evidence that the freshman senator violated Senate rules or applicable law.

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Republican members of Congress tried turning up the heat on Canada on Tuesday, depicting the northern border as a dangerous security threat allowing lots of drugs and illegal migrants into the U.S.

But when the Republicans on the House border security and enforcement subcommittee tried to present evidence that such threats from Canada are on the rise, the statistics showed otherwise.

Tuesday’s hearing on Capitol Hill was entitled “Northern Exposure: Assessing the Evolving Threat Landscape at America’s Northern Border.”

It kicked off with the subcommittee’s chairman, Mississippi Republican Michael Guest, claiming that the Trump administration’s crackdown on the southern border has driven Mexican cartels to shift their criminal enterprises to the border with Canada.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin made similar claims in June.

“Illegal crossings have begun to shift north,” claimed Guest. “Drug seizures at the northern border have steadily increased, reaching record levels this year.”

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“Chief Day’s office even directs people who witness ICE activity to call an organization that advocates for ICE’s abolishment,” the letter states.

The US House Judiciary Committee has accused Portland Police Chief Bob Day, Multnomah County District Attorney Nathan Vasquez, and Sheriff Morrissey O’Donnell of endangering the public by refusing to cooperate with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), thus allowing illegal aliens “to freely operate, terrorize local communities, and reoffend without consequences.”

These three officials received congressional letters dated June 23 regarding their handling of arrests and cases involving foreign nationals, which the committee claimed violated federal immigration laws.

The committee asked the sheriff’s office, the district attorney’s office, and the Portland Police Bureau to provide all communications, as well as policies and procedures, related to ICE and immigration dating back to January 1, 2022. The letter demands a response by July 7.

Oregon’s Sanctuary Promise Act prohibits state and local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration-related matters. This includes not disclosing a suspect’s immigration status or information to federal officials, limiting immigration arrests to specific locations, and prohibiting compliance with ICE detainers, which are official holds on criminal illegal aliens with ICE requesting notification before they are released from jail.

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A 29-year-old socialist ended a longtime Denver congresswoman’s tenure with an upset victory in the Democratic primary Tuesday.

Melat Kiros, an Ethiopian immigrant and lawyer who was fired over her public criticism of Israel, stunned incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette winning 49.3% of the vote to the congresswoman’s 43.5%, the Associated Press reported with 78% of ballots counted. Endorsed by Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Kiros is the heavy favorite to win the November general election given Colorado’s First Congressional District’s strong Democratic lean.

In addition to the DSA, Kiros had the endorsements of Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Our Revolution, a left-wing group that began as a continuation of his 2016 presidential campaign. She also had garnered the support of Chris Rabb, a fellow DSA-backed candidate who won the Democratic nomination for a deep blue Philadelphia-based seat in May, and Justice Democrats — a group instrumental in helping Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez oust a longtime incumbent in a 2018 primary.

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The United States Supreme Court handed down two opinions which continue its precedent of protecting women and girls from the ongoing incursion of “trans women” into their athletic endeavors. NBC’s coverage of those rulings can best be described as mournful.

Watch the report in its entirety, as aired on NBC Nightly News on Tuesday, June 30th, 2026 (click “expand” to view transcript):

HALLIE JACKSON: To that other landmark ruling now, this one a win for President Trump- with the conservative majority ruling states can ban transgender women and girls from playing on female sports teams. Here’s Stephanie Gosk.

STEPHANIE GOSK: Tonight, President Trump calling it a “big win” while civil rights advocates slam it as a blow to transgender rights. The Supreme Court’s conservative majority upholding state laws banning transgender girls and women from playing on female sports teams in public schools. Justice Brett Kavanaugh writing: “allowing only biological females to play on women’s and girls’ teams can reduce the risk of physical injury and ensure fair competition.” But the ACLU representing the two transgender athletes in the case calling it “devastating.”

JOSHUA BLOCK: It’s not just about winning trophies; it’s about learning life lessons.

GOSK: 27 states currently ban transgender women and girls from participating in female sports, with an NBC News poll last year showing over 75% of Americans support those bans.

Macy Petty Charles celebrating today’s decision. She competed against a transgender athlete and hopes more states would pass bans.

MACY PETTY CHARLES: I would hope that it would embolden every state to protect those female athletes and I hope that they themselves are emboldened today to take action- to speak up for what they know is right.

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There’s no longer much foreign reporting on television with the exception of natural disasters, or countries where Americans are engaged in military action. That’s certainly true of Europe – except for Britain. The networks, surely focused on ratings, display a fascination with the Royal Family.

On Monday, NBC’s Today featured a four-minute report from London-based Molly Hunter obsessing over Prince Harry’s planned visit to his home country to promote the Invictus Games for veterans that he founded. ABC and CBS also offered full reports speculating on Prince Harry’s visit and whether Meghan Markle and their children will also attend.

On June 17, NBC’s Hunter performed a four-minute Today report (complete with “In Depth” graphic) on the Earth-shaking story that 12-year-old Prince George will attend the Eton College private boys’ school in the fall, just as his father and Prince Harry did. To pad the report, she also touted how Princess Kate did a 24-hour mountain climb for charity after her recovery from cancer.

ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR, CNN, and MS NOW cannot be bothered for much more substantive British matters, like a recent report on the rape of young girls that came from Member of Parliament Rupert Lowe. The report estimates rape gangs victimized at least 250,000 girls across 149 local British authorities since the 1990s. It says many victims were young teenagers. Some were as young as four years old.

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A Democratic representative from Oregon, backed by numerous fellow lawmakers in the House, has filed articles of impeachment against Education Department Secretary Linda McMahon, alleging she is illegally dismantling the U.S. Department of Education.

Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici introduced the resolution last Thursday, arguing “I introduced an impeachment resolution because Secretary McMahon has made it her mission to close down the Department of Education, something she does not have the right to do.”

The legislation is cosponsored by 16 fellow Democrats, according to a news release from Bonamici’s office.

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Washington — Republican hardliners continue to hold up most legislation on the House floor as they dig in on their demands for the Senate to pass President Trump’s voting regulations bill, the SAVE America Act.

On Tuesday, the holdouts blocked Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan to merge the SAVE America Act with the annual defense policy bill, known as the National Defense Authorization Act, before sending it over to the Senate. The conservative members sank a party-line procedural vote that would have set up final votes for the defense bill and other legislation.

Fourteen Republicans, including House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, voted against moving forward. Scalise, from Louisiana, switched his vote in a procedural move so that leadership can bring up the measure again.

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Vandals have repeatedly targeted the National Mall this summer, leaving “8647” markings, damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and, in one disturbing case, writing a message in blood on the Washington Monument, federal officials said.

The Department of the Interior warned that the incidents appear to be part of a growing trend as President Donald Trump’s restoration work on the National Mall draws left-wing protests and vandalism.

“Unfortunately, this summer has seen a significant increase in vandalism to the National Mall – for example, several 8647 markings, a person writing words in their own blood on the Washington Monument and the cutting of fuel lines around the Great American State Fair,” Interior Department communication director Katie Martin told Fox News Digital.

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“The View” co-host Joy Behar has defended Democratic Socialists, arguing that programs such as Social Security and public services, including fire departments, ambulances, and garbage collection, show that the far-left ideology already exists in American life.

Behar made the comments during a discussion on ABC’s daytime talk show after three congressional candidates endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani won Democrat primaries in New York.

The victories gave Mamdani and his Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) allies another show of strength inside the Democrats’ progressive wing.

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This election season has included a lot of talk about the openly socialist candidates winning Democratic Party primaries in New York and other deep-blue regions of the country.

But in Texas, US Senate hopeful James Talarico is spewing many of the same far-left ideas from a package that might appear less extreme to some voters. 

Now that he’s facing GOP Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a steady stream of those prior remarks are coming back to bite him.

As the Washington Free Beacon highlighted in a new report:

Talarico’s remarks came during a 2022 speech he delivered to a group of Texas inmates graduating from a high school diploma program. After approvingly quoting the prominent prison abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore—Talarico described her as an “anti-prison activist” who said “prisons are a catchall solution to our social problems”—he laid out his vision for a “world without prisons.”

“Prisons allow us to ignore the consequences of systemic racism and global capitalism,” Talarico said. “If we took just half of what we spent on wars, prisons, and policing and spent it on education, health care, and jobs, we could make prisons obsolete.”

“It’s hard to imagine a world without prisons,” he continued. “But it was also hard to imagine a world without telegrams and cassette tapes. Just because it was hard to imagine doesn’t mean you shouldn’t. We won’t build it overnight, but dreaming is the first step.”

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New York’s socialist wing is issuing warnings to the Democrat establishment after a sweeping primary victory gave NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his allies a stronger grip on the party’s future in the city.

Following Tuesday’s elections, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and the Democratic Socialists of America signaled that the far-left movement intends to use its victories to pressure Democrat leaders and shape the party’s direction heading into the 2026 midterms.

In a post-election call clipped by Manhattan Institute analyst Stu Smith, a DSA leader said socialist politicians now represent more than three million New Yorkers across multiple levels of government.

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It’s routinely amazing that the Left will speak so shamelessly about how some Trump initiative or another displays authoritarian tendencies. Rachel Maddow endlessly discusses what she calls “an authoritarian takeover of our country and the destruction of our Constitution.”

But we have a very recent example of authoritarianism descending on America, controlling our private lives. It was the Covid pandemic. At its outbreak, the coronavirus seemed especially deadly, and the vast majority of Americans consented to all of the mandates, the closing of our schools and our churches, the shaming of anyone gathering in a private home for a birthday or for Christmas. When the vaccines became available, many of us took them when we could.

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The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday announced the arrests of two more men in connection with an alleged plot to attack government officials and attendees at the UFC Freedom 250 event held at the White House on June 14.

The arrests of William Lee Spartacus Falkner in Washington state and Jordan W. Rincker, 28, of St. Joseph, Missouri, bring the total number of individuals charged in the case to seven. Both men face charges of conspiracy to commit murder.

According to the DOJ, Falkner allegedly conspired with others to procure and fly explosive-laden drones as part of the plot. Communications indicated he had experience manufacturing and piloting drones and discussed loading explosives onto them while configuring and flying them for maximum destructive impact.

Zohran Mamdani went three-for-three in his effort to win U.S. House nominees for his anti-American socialist movement, his new world order, the progressive state.  Bernie Sanders also endorsed the same far-left candidates. He is becoming the center of the real power of the Democratic Party as it completes its transition from an American leftist party to an anti-American communist party.

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Gov. Abigail Spanberger will do anything for a buck: she’s even prepared to sacrifice the wellbeing of Virginia’s children to cannabis to add to the state’s coffers. She already betrayed several promises she made while campaigning, trying to position herself as a moderate. Now the fact that she’s ignoring the most recent data on the dangers of recreational cannabis, permitting its sale to our most vulnerable, is revolting.

Every state that has approved recreational cannabis has experienced its perils:

Let’s begin with an inconvenient fact: Marijuana is not harmless.

Whether illicit or regulated, marijuana remains a drug that profits from addiction. It is estimated that more than 60 million Americans now use marijuana, and Yale researchers report that ‘30% of current users meet the criteria for addiction.’ Research has also documented psychotic symptoms during intoxication, including paranoia and hallucinations. Legalization does not make marijuana safer; it simply makes it more accessible.

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Hundreds of people have been arrested in the largest investigation into health care fraud in history.

U.S. Department of Justice:

National Health Care Fraud Takedown Results in 455 Defendants Charged in Connection with Over $6.5 Billion in Alleged Fraud: Record Medicaid Fraud Charges Largest Number of States Participating in Health Care Fraud Takedown History. “This year’s National Health Care Fraud Takedown represents the greatest whole-of-government effort to combat health care fraud in our Nation’s history,” said Acting Attorney General @DAGToddBlanche. “Under the decisive leadership of @POTUS, @VP, the @WHFraudTF, and our law enforcement partners, this administration has ushered in a new era of enforcement that will safeguard taxpayer dollars.” (Department of Justice on X.) (Press Release.)

“This announcement marks the greatest combined federal and state effort in combating health care fraud IN HISTORY. Thanks to the leadership of  President Trump and all the folks standing behind me, and next to me, we are more united than ever before. This team is working tirelessly to take down fraudsters who steal from taxpayer funded programs and prey on vulnerable Americans.”

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) warned that the Democratic Party has been overtaken by its far-left wing, arguing that figures such as New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Maine Senate nominee Graham Platner represent the party’s future.

Speaking with Fox News while campaigning in South Carolina ahead of the state’s Republican gubernatorial runoff, Cruz said Democrats have moved dramatically away from the political center and are increasingly driven by hostility toward President Donald Trump.

“Look, unfortunately, I think that’s the base of the Democrat Party,” Cruz said.

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On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Brad Lander discussed his primary win over Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), which he stated “says Democratic voters want to reset the U.S. relationship with Israel,” and said he’s unsure Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) “is in our party any more, to be honest.”

Lander began by saying that Democratic voters “want leaders who are going to fight, not just Donald Trump, but the billionaires who are rigging the economy against us. And that’s what I think tonight’s election is about.”

He added that the candidates who have won prior primaries are progressive candidates “who say we want to see a Democratic Party that’s fighting harder. We shouldn’t be taking corporate PAC money from Wall Street and crypto and AI and AIPAC, we’ve got to fight harder for working families and have people see us fighting for them, and we have to reset the U.S. relationship with Israel.”

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Anyone who is a big fan of socialism, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and who hates Israel has to be loving what played out on Tuesday in the three House primary races where the mayor made an endorsement.  All three of the candidates he backed, Brad Lander in NY-10, Claire Valdez in NY-07, and Darializa Avila Chevalier in NY-13, have moved on to the general election, where they are likely to be victorious in the heavily blue gerrymandered districts.

Of the three, Avila Chevalier’s victory was the narrowest, with her barely squeaking by five-term incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat, who is the Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. He’s also the co-chair of the House Latino-Jewish Caucus, which might have been one thing that helped sink his reelection bid, considering the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas sentiment that has taken root in the Big Apple under Mamdani’s “leadership.”

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Lander’s victory comes as there has been a wave of Mamdani and Democrat Socialist of America-backed candidates challenging members of Congress.

Mamdani-backed candidate Brad Lander has won his congressional primary against Democrat incumbent Dan Goldman, who has voted to impeach President Donald Trump twice during his stint in Congress.

Lander’s victory comes as there has been a wave of Mamdani and Democrat Socialist of America-backed candidates challenging members of Congress.

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Last July, a group of armed Antifa militants ambushed an ICE detention facility in Texas, bringing rifles, body armor, and military-style medical kits. During the attack, one officer was shot through the neck. On Tuesday, several Antifa militants who participated in the attack were sentenced — including one individual who was convicted of attempted murder.

But you might not necessarily glean that if you read the Washington Post’s headline of the story.

“Federal judges in Texas on Tuesday gave eight members of an alleged ‘antifa cell’ prison sentences as long as 100 years for their roles last summer in a protest that turned violent outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility,” Molly Hennessy-Fiske wrote. (The SEO headline for the piece states: “Alleged antifa members in Texas are sentenced for ICE protest”).

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani has legitimized Jew-hatred in NYC. This is the result. This coffee shop should be shut down.

A coffee shop in New York City that attacked Rep. Dan Goldman, whose primary against fellow Democrat Brad Lander ended yesterday, took to Instagram to express its revulsion at having inadvertently sold him coffee. The Justice Department noticed, and is investigating.

NBC New York: A social media tête-a-tête between a New York City coffee shop and a Democrat in Congress has caught the attention of the federal government. Poetica Coffee, a chain of half a dozen locations throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn, told Rep. Dan Goldman he was no longer welcome in their stores for his support of Israel. The store made the declaration in a since-deleted Instagram post accompanying what appeared to be a surveillance image of the lawmaker standing by the register.

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If President Trump is still trying to weed out government workers who are threatening to undermine his agenda from within, he might want to take a look at one of his immigration judges named Holly D’Andrea.

In an interview with The New York Times (repackaged this week for The Daily podcast), D’Andrea said something that’s a dead giveaway when someone wants to thwart elections and impose their own agendas— that certain government institutions and agencies need independence from the president, or separation from the political process.

“We’re getting to a point now where it’s just getting more and more necessary to have that full separation of power and have the immigration courts separate from the Department of Justice,” D’Andrea said. “Take the policy influence away from the courts, so the courts can just enforce the law. That’s all any of the immigration judges want. We want to be able to enforce the law and not be subject to just the policies.”

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London — Labour Party lawmaker Andy Burnham, who looks increasingly likely to be Britain’s next prime minister, has previously criticized President Trump, accusing the American leader of bringing “instability” to the world.

Current Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Monday that he would resign in the wake of disastrous local elections in May, and 20 resignations from his government.

As his Labour Party still has a large majority of seats in the U.K. parliament — won in the last national elections in 2024 — it gets to pick Starmer’s replacement, and Burnham is widely expected to get the job.

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“I had never seen those pictures, and I never want to see those pictures. I saw one, and it was, that was enough,” said Jeff Metcalf.

His son, Austin Metcalf, was 17 years old when he was murdered by Karmelo Anthony, who was convicted earlier this month of killing Metcalf.

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A self-described socialist who previously called for abolishing police, seizing private property, eliminating borders, ending deportations, and nationalizing industries has defeated a five-term Democrat incumbent in New York City, marking another major victory for the growing far-left movement aligned with NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Darializa Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old anti-American community organizer, doctoral student, and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, won Tuesday’s Democratic Party primary in New York’s 13th Congressional District.

According to election results, Chevalier secured roughly 49.4 percent of the vote, defeating Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), who received approximately 45.9 percent.

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Jeff Metcalf can’t hold his tongue anymore about how Karmelo Anthony’s family behaved during sentencing, and The View’s Sunny Hostin using his son’s death as a prop to make a shoddy point about race in America. He was on Will Cain’s show this week and did not hold back on Hostin, while also noting that Anthony’s family did not show any remorse. They weren’t even there when their son was sentenced to 35 years in prison for murder. Anthony fatally stabbed Jeff’s son, Austin, in Frisco, Texas, at a track meet in 2025.