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SEATTLE, Wash. — Two people were killed and five others were injured during a shooting at Seattle Center during the Bite of Seattle event on Sunday night.The Seattle Police Department said at 6:30 p.m., “Police are investigating a shooting. Multiple shooting victims. Shots fired at the Seattle Center. More information to come. Please avoid the area.”Large numbers of police and emergency crews began arriving in the area of Sue Bird Ct & Thomas St shortly after 6 p.m.
The WNBA refused to wear the patriotic “USA 250” patches during its All-Star game on Saturday, becoming the only major American pro sport to reject the patch.
When the patches were first proposed, WNBPA Treasurer Brianna Turner raised eyebrows when she suggested that the patch should be rejected over slavery, and said in a post on X that, “No WNBA players would have been free 250 years ago. The majority wouldn’t even have their freedom 100 years ago.”
The race to become America's next economic heavyweight may already have a frontrunner.
The latest Internal Revenue Service (IRS) migration data show billions of dollars in taxpayer wealth flowing into Texas, while Census figures show the state's largest metropolitan areas continue to outpace much of the country in population growth, strengthening a decades-long shift in America's economic center of gravity.
What's more, Texas isn't relying on a single boomtown. Dallas-Fort Worth added more residents than any metropolitan area in the country over the past year, while Houston, Austin and San Antonio also ranked among the nation's fastest-growing metros.
Everyone is confused about President Trump’s Iranian strategy. (snip) He’s playing a game of multidimensional chess. In real time.
So, for the moment, I would like to revisit some of Trump’s core values. His comments nearly four decades ago in The Art of the Deal does shed some light on today’s zigs and zags.
In a small way, I’m trying to help us understand him.
Here are some of his key thoughts on combatting difficult and entrenched opponents. We’ve seen all of these ideas in play throughout this conflict.
Throughout this cycle, the Elitist Media have abetted DSA-affiliated candidates running as Democrats: gleefully amplified socialists such as Zohran Mamdani and covered for the sins of others such as Graham Platner. Through it all, they have assisted them in concealing what the Democratic Socialists of America actually stand for. A recent Fox News interview rips that veil open.
Shannon Brean interviewed DSA national co-chair Megan Romer on Fox News Sunday. Here are some of that interview’s most remarkable moments.
After an introduction and exchange of pleasantries, Bream asks Romer to respond to former Democratic National Committee chair Jaime Harrison’s complaints about DSA candidates who hate the Democrat Party.
Perhaps it got too obvious not to notice.
But the Democrat party indeed is a dumpster fire of chaos, unpaid bills, and flung objects, now that so many sources of funding have vanished in the Trump era. No wonder they are putting out so many freakish candidates. One can only wonder how long such a mess will last.
According to the Times, whose headline was: Inside the Phone-Throwing Drama at the Troubled, Broke Democratic Party:
The Democratic Party is so short on cash that leaders at its headquarters have undertaken a new gambit to mask the severity of the problems: asking vendors not to send bills
Another person has been sentenced to prison related to the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme.
Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, 37, was sentenced to 120 months’ imprisonment for attempting to bribe a federal juror during his 2024 fraud trial.
He was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Eric C. Tostrud in St. Paul on July 22, 2026.
Abdiaziz Farah was previously sentenced on August 6, 2025, for his role in exploiting a federally funded child nutrition program.
“Tampering with a juror is an assault on the integrity of the courts and the foundation of our democracy,” said United States Attorney Daniel N. Rosen.
Britons are struggling to characterize their new Cabinet, following the arrival of a new prime minister on Monday. The Cabinet is not as northern or female as Andy Burnham signaled. Most members have certainly changed. Most are not loyalists to Keir Starmer, even less so to Tony Blair. Like Burnham, many hark back to a mythical golden age of socialism in the 1970s. Like him, most are alarmingly deficient in popular mandate, external qualifications, and even political trust for their new responsibilities.
Let’s start with Burnham himself, a man born in Liverpool who pretended to be Mancunian to win the mayoralty of Manchester.
Massachusetts Democrats are advancing legislation that would create a permanent state commission focused on protecting and promoting Islam.
Bill S.2134 has cleared initial committees and is currently in the state’s Senate Ways & Means Committee.
Massachusetts-based radio talk show host Jeffrey Kuhner sounded the alarm about the bill on X, saying it “guarantees Muslims will be appointed and hired across all levels of government.”
Indeed, no other religion has ever received this type of preferential treatment.
Members of the pro-Islam commission would be appointed by the governor, attorney general, legislative leaders, and “racial equity, civil rights and inclusion” committee chairs.
The 11-member body would:
Sophie Cunningham is the face that launched a thousand memes. In an interview with ESPN, she said the following: Then, after her non-conformity to Woke dogma drew howls, she doubled down.
The WNBA star recently burst onto the national scene with finger-pointing swagger.
Now, much like Caitlin Clark before her, Woke Media considers her to be a threat.
You see, she doesn’t subscribe to the left's talking points about boys invading girls' sports.
Cunningham spoke out about the “transgender problem” that is impacting girls' sports around the country.
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Mail-In Ballot Suit - Now It Could Be
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Mail-In Ballot Suit - Now It Could Be
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In a ruling on Saturday, the majority of a U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit panel refused to approve the Justice Department's request to lift a lower court's injunction relating to the Trump administration's efforts to clean up mail-in voting ahead of the 2026 midterms. SCOTUS Wire reported in an X thread on the details of the 2-1 ruling: Here's what the majority - Circuit Court Judges Gelpi and Rikelman - included in its opinion: The third member of the panel, Judge Dunlap, wrote a partial dissent: The lower court ruling came courtesy of U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, as my colleague Rusty Weiss wrote in June:
Approximately 75,000 noncitizens are summoned for jury duty in the Garden State every year, according to newly disclosed figures from the New Jersey judiciary.
The revelation comes as state officials are already scrambling to explain how thousands of self-identified noncitizens were improperly added to New Jersey’s voter rolls and how hundreds reportedly cast ballots.
You cannot make this up.
The New Jersey Globe reported that New Jersey processes more than one million jury summonses annually using records randomly selected from three state agencies: the Division of Elections, the Division of Taxation, and the Motor Vehicle Commission.
The best way to describe Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is to say that it is a sleek, modern piece of porcelain, delivered without the medium ribeye you ordered.
The movie, like all of Nolan’s work, is a technical marvel and the first narrative film shot completely on IMAX 70mm film. Chock full of household names, both old-school (Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theron) and newcomers (Tom Holland and Zendaya), the blockbuster is reminiscent of old Hollywood star-fests like Sidney Lumet’s Murder on the Orient Express and John Huston’s The List of Adrian Messenger.
The suspect who drove a van into a crowded gay-pride celebration was shot and killed by police following a manhunt. Abdul Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese roots, was killed following a search that lasted nearly 24 hours after the attack in downtown Berlin. {SOURCE}
KNOWN WOLF -The background of 21-year-old terrorist Abdul Ballout is a case study in failure by European authorities. Ballout previously travelled to Lebanon in 2025 to join ISIS in Syria. He was identified by German authorities as an ISIS terrorist and arrested in Lebanon where he served three months in prison and was returned to Germany.
Transgender dolls will be accessible to Minnesota school children between the ages of 4 and 10 starting this fall as a result of a taxpayer-funded development program supported by Gov. Tim Walz, according to a report.
The MyGenderDolls, which were developed in part through the University of Minnesota’s Early Innovation Fund, will be for use by "clinicians and educators" starting this year, (Snip) They come with interchangeable accessories and removable and swappable genitalia to help children "realize all the different options that exist for who they can be — regardless of their body parts,"
In most states the jury duty summons process comes from registered voter rolls. (snip)when a person is called for jury duty and is then disqualified as a non-citizen, we have another way to judge the scale of non-citizens on the voter rolls.Reviewing lists of disqualified non-citizen jurors is now taking place in many counties led by citizen inquiry. The disqualification records, “non-juror” lists are public records in many states and counties. These reviews are turning up tens-of-thousands of non-citizens
One person died and at least 16 others were injured when a van driven by a man with Islamic extremist ties slammed into a crowd of people celebrating at Berlin’s famed LGBTQ+ event Saturday night, officials said. After the horrific attack on the event — which is called Christopher Street Day after the famed location in New York of the Stonewall Inn — the attacker fled, but police said they were hot on his trail. “The suspect is known to police. He is known to us as a member of Islamic circles here in Berlin
Shocking video shows the moment an argument outside a New York City bodega quickly escalated into a brawl — ending with gunshots that killed an innocent 12-year-old cop’s son and wounded two others.
Security video obtained by The Post shows the start of the confrontation between two men on a crosswalk outside the Wanda Deli Grocery on Elliott Place near the Grand Concourse in the Bronx at around 4:50 p.m. Saturday.
Is there anything bigger than Barry’s ego? Take one look at the hulking monstrosity he calls a “Presidential Center,” and the answer is a resounding no. Nothing on earth is quite as big, ugly, or desperate to overshadow everything around it as Obama’s ego. And now, one contractor says that selfish, absurd monument to his own grandeur forced him to shut down his business and lay off 25 workers.(snip)But behind all that hoopla and Hollywood-style celebration is the sad story of one local subcontractor who actually helped build Barry’s concrete place. But he’s not celebrating anything, because he says the project left his company nearly $4 million in the hole.
One of the largest fraud scandals in Minnesota may involve the family of Ilhan Omar.(snip)
Public records in the state, however, may tie Omar’s sister, Sahra Noor, to the operation. Noor has run several businesses in the region, including the People’s Center Clinics & Services in the Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis, which controversially received a $2 million earmark while her sister was a state representative.(snip)Grit Partners was incorporated at a home on Hyacinth Ave. in Lakeville, Minnesota. That address, and the woman who lives there, are lynchpins tying together at least three Feeding Our Future convicts, The Daily Wire found.
The Democratic Socialists of America are plotting a radical takeover of NYC public schools, with comrades admitting they want to mold a new generation of baby Bolsheviks, The Post has learned.
Maureen Fadem — yet another nutty professor working for a CUNY school — called for kids to be educated in a “democratic socialist frame” and to be taught the Godfathers of Communism Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, despite their writing inspiring some of the most murderous dictators in history, from Stalin to Mao. [snip] “DSA does have a relationship with the mayor and we can leverage that,” Bruckenthal said.
They also pledged to insert their demands into upcoming contract negotiations
Speaking of the “n” word
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Looking back at my law school education at the time of my graduation, I thought I had learned the answer to most difficult legal questions: It depends. I think that answer may apply to the question of whether calling someone the “n” word is protected speech under the First Amendment.
The Supreme Court has exempted “fighting words” from the protection of the First Amendment. It is a shrinking and dubious category, but as of today it still exists. The 2025 Harvard Law Review Note “Fighting Words at the Founding” presents a thought-provoking reconsideration of the doctrine in light of the common law at the time of the founding.
Sophie Cunningham Is the New Poster Girl
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Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham, who has become a sensation since her pointing incident on the court went viral, was asked by an ESPN journalist how people related to her. This was Cunningham's response. Some may see this response as arrogant, but what it reflects is authenticity. Cunningham is unapologetically herself, and this is exactly what the world, and especially young girls, need.
Which is probably why her other response about whether biological men should be allowed to play in women's sports also turned heads. As our editor Bob Hoge reported, the leftist outrage was dialed to 11:
An Obama-appointed federal judge has handed Portland’s far-left political machine a major legal victory, denying the Trump Justice Department’s attempt to obtain police body-camera footage and internal records tied to allegations of anti-conservative viewpoint discrimination.
U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon rejected the Justice Department’s motion to compel Portland officials to turn over evidence connected to protests outside the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.