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President Donald Trump announced nearly $10 billion in investments into the defense industry in Pennsylvania on Wednesday afternoon at Sen. Dave McCormick’s (R-PA) Defense and Innovation Summit.
After arriving at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Trump joined McCormick, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and top defense, banking, and tech executives for a roundtable event, where he made the announcement.
“This afternoon, we’re announcing nearly $10 billion of new investments in our defense industrial base, right here in the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and these investments will create more than 4,000 jobs,” he said.
78-year-old Ann Widdecombe was a well-known conservative in British politics. She was a staunch defender of free speech, a direct opponent to leftist cultural Marxism and an advocate for the commonsense Reform Party. Widdecombe was against abortion, gay rights, transgender advocacy and wokism writ large.Ms. Widdecombe was beaten to death in her home Wednesday July 8th around 12:30pm by an assailant who drove 270 miles to kill her. Immediately the police said her murder was not politically motivated and not connected to foreign or domestic terrorism.
Trump’s Teleprompter Operator Under
Federal Scrutiny After Making Over $100K
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Federal Scrutiny After Making Over $100K
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President Donald Trump’s teleprompter operator is believed to have made “tens of thousands of dollars” through placing bets on the president’s speeches, ABC News reported Thursday.
Gabriel Perez, who has been operating the teleprompter for President Trump since 2016, made the bets on the prediction market Kalshi. Perez is now in talks to settle the allegations the used inside knowledge of the speeches to “win more than $100,000,” ABC News reported.
'Slap on the wrist': Illegal immigrant
trucker's sentence ignites outrage after
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trucker's sentence ignites outrage after
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Trump administration officials and conservatives torched a California judge's sentence for an illegal immigrant trucker who killed three people in a fiery California semi-truck collision, after he was given less than five years behind bars. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who called the sentencing a "slap on the wrist," said his agency will not stop "until ALL illegal alien truckers are put out of business and held accountable," while the Department of Homeland Security said immigration officials were standing by to arrest the trucker "upon his release, so he is never allowed back on our roads." Jashanpreet Singh, a 21-year-old Indian
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that the Pentagon will begin annually screening service members’ testosterone levels and offering testosterone replacement therapy to those who need it, part of a broader push to sharpen troops’ physical readiness.
Hegseth unveiled the initiative in a video posted to X, describing it as a way to keep American forces at what he called “the leading edge of lethality.”
Under the new policy, testosterone testing will be folded into troops’ periodic health assessments and required for service members age 30 and older. Those younger than 30 may request the test voluntarily, Hegseth said.
An imam from Texas named Omar Suleiman who has led prayers before Congress is facing a formal rebuke over horrible comments he made, celebrating the news of the death of Senator Lindsey Graham.
Celebrating the death of Republicans has become commonplace on the left. We saw the exact same thing play out following the death of Charlie Kirk.
They don’t even try to hide it. They gleefully celebrate the death of their political adversaries openly on social media, then often act surprised when others react to them with disgust, or if there are consequences.
This case is especially repulsive, given that this is supposedly a man of God.
Earlier Wednesday, we reported on Attorney General Nominee Todd Blanche's Senate confirmation hearing and the “extraordinarily obnoxious” questions lobbed at him by the insufferable Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and other Democrats. But it wouldn’t be a true clown show without one of the hardest to stomach lawmakers in the entire metro D.C. area, Adam Schiff. The truth-challenged California senator went toe-to-toe with Blanche, who has been acting director since April following Pam Bondi’s departure, but he probably wished he hadn’t.
I hope you're sitting down for this one. The 'ladies' at The View don't like something Republicans did. Shocker, right?
In this case, it's the fact that Gov. Henry McMaster appointed the late Lindsey Graham's sister, Darline Graham Nordone, to hold his place in the Senate until a new senator for South Carolina is elected. Now, I know some of you didn't like this idea, but you didn't like it for legitimate reasons. The ladies at The View didn't like it because... um, well, because she's a woman.
"I don't love it," Sunny Hostin said.
Consumer prices fell in June 0.4 percent, following a renewed, short-lived ceasefire in the Iran war, with 12-month inflation dropping from 4.2 percent to 3.5 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
That’s good news, with average weekly earnings for private sector workers back up to 3.8 percent the past twelve months.
The decreases were led by falls in the energy prices as gasoline fell 9.7 percent and fuel oil dropped 9.2 percent.
With U.S. strikes in Iran resumed after Iran attacked ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz — that led President Donald Trump to declare the ceasefire with Iran was terminated —
For fresh proof of how little New York authorities care about social-services fraud, consider the curious case of adult daycares in Flushing.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, who oversees the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, puts out that within a one-mile radius in the Queens neighborhood, a full 64 Social Adult Day Care centers operate, with thousands upon thousands of supposed elderly enrollees.
Flushing’s Medicaid-eligible senior population grew by 20% from 2018 to 2024, yet the number of seniors billed by social adult daycares surged by 390%. How convenient that electronic sign-up sheets are usually the only thing SADCs need to provide to get reimbursed.
Four years ago, the Senate voted unanimously to ditch the switch and stick with daylight saving time year-round. Nineteen states have passed laws that would make DST permanent, if the federal government would let them. And this week, the House approved the Sunshine Protection Act by a 3-to-1 margin.
But don’t count on it becoming law.
As Politico reports, it “faces an uphill battle in the Senate despite strong lobbying from the White House and personal engagement from President Donald Trump.”
The problem is that enough Senators are likely to be swayed by critics to block it, even though the arguments against the bill are entirely specious.
Secrets of Abdul El-Sayed
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Michigan Democratic Senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed seems to me most notably a member of what Louisiana Senator John Kennedy has denominated “the Hamas wing of the Democratic Party, which is in control.” He also mirrors fake working class Dems (snip) Left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed released two pages of his 2025 tax return showing $686,069 in total income, including $292,000 in “additional income” and $262,000 in capital gains, placing him in the top 1 percent of Michigan earners.
But the return does not reveal the sources of that income because El-Sayed released only the first two pages, omitting the remainder that would provide further detail.
Left-wing Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed is running as a populist who rails against the wealthy. At the same time, he's been photographed on the campaign trail wearing an array of luxury watches (snip) He even earned a shout-out from a watch podcast the same month for "rocking what looks like the Sinn U-1 SE," a German diver's watch that costs roughly $4,000. (snip) El-Sayed appeared to wear a pricier Omega—the Speedmaster Moon Phase Chronograph, worth roughly $10,000—in a June campaign video. And he donned a Mühle Glashütte S.A.R. Rescue-Timer, a German nautical watch worth nearly $2,000, while "getting ice cream in Grand Haven, MI."
House Republican leaders are facing pressure from the clock and from their own members over a $95 billion reconciliation 3.0 framework that they will attempt to advance out of the Budget Committee on Thursday, raising questions about whether the package will make it out of the House, let alone to President Trump’s desk.
The budget framework released Wednesday outlines $73 billion for defense and intelligence funding, $12 billion for agriculture aid, and $10 billion for a fund to encourage Trump-backed voting restrictions.
In ruby-red Louisiana, a disturbing power play exposed how far a rusting Democratic machine will reach to undermine lawful state government.
From the isolated blue stronghold of Orleans Parish, which is New Orleans itself, local officials defied the state legislature. They basically claimed home rule trumped all, then indicted Attorney General Liz Murrill, a Republican, for the “crime” of enforcing Louisiana law.
This was no routine dispute. It was illegal retaliation from a shrinking political island desperate to reclaim influence it lost at the ballot box.
“Iran has allowed an American Citizen, who was wrongfully detained in December of 2024 under the ‘presidency’ of Sleepy Joe Biden, to leave the Country. She is now safely outside of Iran, and in good condition. The United States of America appreciates this gesture of Goodwill by Iran!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, without naming the person.
Trump, who described the release as a “gesture of Goodwill by Iran!” has ramped up pressure on Iran in recent days and signed off on several new rounds of U.S. strikes.
JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon is validating the growing frustration of working-class Americans, admitting in a recent interview that he completely understands why man The Wall Street billionaire argued that decades of ineffective public policies have left lower-income families behind in struggling rural areas and inner cities, forcing them to navigate failing schools and rising crime while wealthy elites remain insulated from those problems. "The anti-rich thing has been around a long time, and I do understand it because I think, separate the two pieces, the piece that's really important is that we have, in fact, left the lower-income folks behind," Dimon told Axios.
Trump Is Righting Latin America
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am proud to be an American, not just because our nation has lasted 250 years with great success under the same charter, but because of our positive influence around the world.
In World War I, we turned the tide in favor of the Allied forces.
In World War II, Nazi totalitarianism would have won, but the United States bolstered Allied forces overseas and in the European theater. Japanese aggression throughout Southeast Asia, from 1931 to 1945, ended because of America. We dropped two atomic bombs on their homeland, and we forced their surrender.
The Cold War was the longest conflict. Yes, there were fewer battles, but many sanctions, lots of threats,
The United States intensified its strikes on Iran early Thursday, hitting targets further north as American forces also fired into a ship the U.S. accused of trying to break its naval blockade on the Islamic Republic. Iran retaliated with missile and drone fire targeting U.S. allies in the region before dawn and warned its attacks may escalate.
Days of back-and-forth strikes by the U.S. and Iran across the Middle East — and renewed threats to the Strait of Hormuz — have shredded the interim deal to end the Iran war and could tip the region back into all-out war. Already,
In 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered a ruling that may prove to be one of the most consequential legal interventions in modern environmental politics. It declared that states have a binding legal obligation under international law to prevent climate change, mitigate its impacts and avoid conduct that harms the environment. This was not merely symbolic. The court effectively transformed climate policy from a matter of political discretion into one of legal duty. Governments are now expected not only to regulate greenhouse gas emissions but to do so under the shadow of potential legal liability. Most significantly,
Every time I write one of these "Cuba Falling" articles, I feel like I need to end the "Cuba Falling" part with a question mark. I'm getting frustrated with the lack of movement, and I can't help but wonder if we're spread a little too thin with Iran. It's time to finish that job and quit playing around with those animals. Cuba is becoming an even bigger hellhole than it already was. The people are starving. They have no power. It's also clear at this point that the regime is a threat to our national security.
For many months now, I’ve been on a “National Security Emergency” crusade.
While Republicans in the House and Senate, and conservative activists like Scott Pressler (who means well) have been pushing the SAVE Act 24/7, I’ve been pushing something a thousand times better…
A “National Security Emergency for Elections.”
This “National Security Emergency” invention was created by me, with assistance from my election security expert, John Goodman.
This idea is like comparing a tiny 1% tax cut to Ronald Reagan’s massive, record-setting, income tax act of 1981, which cut income tax rates from 70% to 28%.
There is no comparison.
Don’t get me wrong.
I started playing chess regularly about six months ago. I'm still terrible, if we're being honest, but I've been chipping away at it, and I even bought a smart chessboard to help me learn faster.
Growing up, chess had a reputation as the hobby of choice for kids with broken glasses and pocket protectors. I never touched a chessboard as a kid. Now, I love it. So imagine my surprise when I stumbled on a report from Axios informing me that chess is now "young and hip."
According to Axios, "The pandemic, pop culture and a wave of content creators have turned a centuries-old game into a Gen Z phenomenon."
Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman issued a warning to the Democratic Party on Wednesday, stating that he would leave it if the party officially turns its back on Israel.
The warning comes the same day that over 100 House Democrats voted against sending more aid to Israel, though the amendment containing the proposal failed to pass because of wide Republican support.
“If our party ever becomes — and just makes it official — the anti-Israel party, that’s when I would leave because that’s been a moral clarity for me,” Fetterman said during an interview at the Hill Nation Summit in Washington.