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SpaceX’s IPO in June was the largest in history. The stock initially surged after its debut, reaching a high of more than $225 per share, but has since fallen below its $135 IPO price. From its peak, the stock has now lost about 42%. Rocket Lab, after an extraordinary rally over the past two years, has suffered sharp pullbacks of more than 30%. Planet Labs tells a similar story: spectacular gains followed by painful corrections.
To many investors, the conclusion seems obvious: another bubble. But the real question is not whether commercial space contains speculative excess.
The U.S. Department of Justice has come to terms with the state of South Carolina to make sure uniformed and overseas voters receive absentee ballots in advance of a rapidly approaching special election following the recent death of incumbent Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to a DOJ memo exclusively obtained by The Federalist.
DOJ officials have signed the Memorandum of Agreement with Conway Belangia, executive director of the South Carolina State Election Commission, and the agreement is expected to bring the state into compliance with the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act. UOCAVA stipulates election officials must send “validly-requested absentee ballots
There’s little question that the Democratic Socialists of America are more influential than any time in recent history. Indeed, it’s perhaps the most influential arm of the Democratic Party today, wielding policy clout and winning local elections. But are DSA policies really so popular? July’s I&I/TIPP Poll asked voters to find out.
The DSA’s recent “Workers Deserve More!” document outlined its main policy goals. For I&I/TIPP’s July Poll, taken by 1,473 Americans from June 29 through July 2, voters were asked whether they agreed or disagreed with five separate DSA proposals. The poll has a margin of error of +/-2.8 percentage points.
The brand-new city manager of upscale Sausalito, California was arrested on felony burglary charges after allegedly breaking into multiple yachts at the Sausalito Yacht Harbor, a mere three weeks into her high-paying gig.
Elaine Forbes, 53, who just started as Sausalito’s city manager on July 1 with a whopping $275,000 taxpayer-funded annual salary, was hauled off by Marin County sheriff’s deputies around 6:50 a.m. on Saturday after responding to a noise complaint, Deputies reportedly found her aboard a vessel she didn’t own, trying to start the boat, leaving behind messes with empty alcohol bottles, sounding the yacht’s loud horns, and even wearing the owner’s clothing.
The last Democratic candidate to appeal to the white working-class voter was Bill Clinton. He needed every one of those voters in his 1992 and 1996 races. Yet he still failed to win 50 percent of the popular vote because of Ross Perot’s third-party candidacy.
Hunting for the Left-Wing Blue-Collar American
Since then, the Democratic brand has lost the white working-class vote in nearly every presidential election. Yet this demographic still makes up 40 percent of the electorate and registers and votes at much higher rates than non-white groups.
Apparently, during the Biden-era influx of 10 million illegal aliens, Democrats really believed their own slogans about an “Emerging Democratic Majority”—
British Conservative Ann Widdecombe Was
Murdered in Brutal 21-Blow Hammer Attack,
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Murdered in Brutal 21-Blow Hammer Attack,
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A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of Ann Widdecombe, an icon of British conservatism who was found dead at her Devon home earlier this month.
Joshua Kerry, 28, is accused of killing Widdecombe, 78, at her bungalow in Haytor on July 8.
Prosecutors allege he struck her 21 times with a hammer after entering the property while she was eating lunch.
During a brief appearance at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, Kerry confirmed his name, date of birth and address. He did not enter a plea.
It's been 18 years since the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms, and in the nearly two decades since the Court has only taken up six cases directly related to those rights. Five years after Heller, SCOTUS struck down Chicago's ban on handguns, and in 2016 the justices issued a per curiam opinion that Massachusetts' justification for banning stun guns did not comport with Heller or McDonald. It took another six years for the Court to conclude that the right to bear arms was violated by New York's "may issue" permitting scheme.
NJ governor forced to admit hundreds of
foreigners voted in elections after Dems
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foreigners voted in elections after Dems
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New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill is blaming a software glitch in the state's motor vehicle system for accidentally registering 6,660 noncitizens to vote.
She further acknowledged Tuesday about 400 of those foreigners voted in recent election despite a legal ban on foreigners voting in federal elections.
The admission came less than a week after President Donald Trump gave a primetime address presenting evidence of election vulnerabilities, including hundreds of thousands of noncitizens who made it on voter rolls, spy agency concerns about voting machine security and a Chinese effort to obtain American voter data.
Justice Dept. sends staff to monitor election
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results at polling sites in three Arizona counties replies
The Justice Department said Tuesday that it is monitoring polling locations in three Arizona counties as voters head to the sites for the day's state's primaries.
The department said staff from its Civil Rights Division’s Voting Section is monitoring polling sites in Maricopa, Apache and Pima counties, in conjunction with Arizona’s U.S. Attorney’s Office.
“The Department of Justice today continues to monitor elections consistently and in a uniform fashion nationwide, ensuring our elections are safe and secure,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said. “Transparent election processes and election monitoring—
A fourth American soldier believed to have been killed in recent Iranian attacks on US military bases has been identified, the Pentagon announced Tuesday, as American forces bombed Iran for an 11th straight night.
“Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad, 28, of Ozone Park, New York, is believed to have been killed in action on July 17, 2026, during an enemy attack at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, Jordan,” read a statement released by the Department of War.
“The incident is under investigation,” the statement continued. “US Central Command previously announced this Soldier as missing. The Soldier status was updated to a Duty Status–Whereabouts Unknown and is believed to be deceased.”
Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, is prepared to address potential election irregularities in Arizona while also bringing the hammer down on acknowledged fraud in New Jersey. It’s primary Election Day in Arizona, with multiple key races — particularly Republican primaries — occurring, including governor, attorney general, secretary of state, and House District 1. Given Arizona’s track record of highly-contested and possibly rigged elections, it’s not surprising Dhillon put teams on the ground. We can never have too many precautions against election shenanigans in my home state, run as it is by very corrupt Democrats.
My RedState colleague Ward Clark reported earlier on some of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee.
In addition to testifying about how his department was building back the "warrior ethos," Hegseth outlined the many things they had to deal with after the neglect of the Biden administration, including the prior administration's failure to properly address things like hypersonics. Hegseth termed the negligence "staggering," saying he didn't know what the prior Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, had done.
However, Hegseth didn't stop there; he not only took on the Biden failure, but the present Democrat Senate recalcitrance to fund his department.
Congressman Andy Biggs emerged as one of the big winners Tuesday night as Arizona Republicans chose nominees to face Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes in November.
While Republicans have controlled the Legislature for decades, the Democrats’ hold on the offices of governor and attorney general has served as a check on their policy agenda.
Hobbs has vetoed hundreds of Republican-backed bills since taking office in 2023, while Mayes has pushed back on a number of GOP legislative and federal priorities. Hobbs and Mayes both ran unopposed in the Democratic primaries. The winners of the general election will serve four-year terms in office.
The Trump administration has accused UC San Diego's medical school of illegally discriminating against White and Asian applicants in favor of admitting less qualified Black and Hispanic students, putting nearly $1 billion in federal funding at risk.
The findings stem from a months-long Justice Department Civil Rights Division investigation launched in March and come as the Trump administration intensifies its effort to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
On Tuesday night, the House passed a stopgap measure that calls for the funding of the federal government until December 4th. That's after the midterm elections, which means Republicans could avert a pre-election government shutdown, assuming the measure passes the Senate.
But that is not a done deal, of course, considering Democrats would love nothing better than to instigate another shutdown to try and pin on President Trump and congressional Republicans ahead of November:
But the fate of the measure was deeply uncertain, with Democrats opposed and the Senate G.O.P. leader casting doubt on the chances of quick action in his chamber,
Americans cannot defend the United States without the help of illegal migrants, said Republican Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL) on Monday.
Salazar’s comments came as she joined Democrats to tout her “Dignidad” amnesty for at least 15 million illegal aliens, saying:
Let them stay … Let them continue contributing to the number one economy in the world, so we can continue being the number one military in the world. [If] we don’t have the economy, we don’t have the guns, and we cannot defend ourselves.
There is little evidence that the nation’s stock of at least 15 million illegal migrants — or of the 40 million legalized migrants
President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that the United States is “not finished at all” with Iran, warning U.S. forces would strike the regime’s heavily fortified Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site “pretty soon” while signaling his administration was prepared to expand military operations rather than return to negotiations.
Trump made the remarks while meeting Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the White House after being asked about a Wall Street Journal report that Israeli intelligence believes Iran moved thousands of advanced centrifuges into the underground Pickaxe Mountain facility near Natanz last fall.
A circuit court ruled against an activist judge who was trying to prevent the deportation of “Palestinian” pro-Hamas Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, a wacko who has spent over a decade supposedly earning a degree while also engaging in dangerous activism.
One of the major issues with our immigration system now is that foreigners can obtain tourist, student, or work visas that allow them into the country for a temporary period, but some aliens simply use these visas as entrance passes before they stay for decades in the United States. In Mahdawi’s case, he has been living in the United States while agitating for Islamic terror by pretending
The charge of “Palestinian genocide” actually encompasses two bold, baseless lies. One is the assertion that there exists a distinct Arab Palestinian people group with significant historical roots in Palestine. The other is the claim that these people are deliberately being targeted for extermination by Israeli Jews. Shai ben-Tekoa’s Phantom Nation: Inventing the “Palestinians” as the Obstacle to Peace thoroughly debunks the first lie and chronicles how it was constructed, developed, and subsequently spread around the world, especially by left-leaning mainstream journalists. It argues convincingly that real peace becomes a possibility only “when the world sees through the essentially antisemitic myth of this phantom nation.”
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega on Sunday said his country is moving toward not holding a presidential election next year, appearing to maintain his shared control over the country with his co-president and wife, Rosario Murillo.
Ortega said at a government rally marking the 47th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution’s takeover of the country that there “won’t be any more elections here for them to try to seize the government and seize power,” according to a translation of the rally from Reuters.
“The days when parties backed by the Yankees and the Somocistas would return to power are over –— never again,”
Disgruntled St. Paul apartment tenant
executed 3 over parking garage contract
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executed 3 over parking garage contract
dispute, charges say replies
A 30-year-old St. Paul, Minnesota, man is accused of executing three people inside a leasing office Monday over a parking garage contract dispute.
According to charges filed in Ramsey County, officers were called to the apartment complex on the 1500 block of St. Paul Avenue shortly after 4 p.m. after several people reported gunshots and screams. One caller said two people appeared to be critically wounded inside the apartment leasing office.
When officers arrived, they found three victims fatally shot.
The same liberals that have railed against voter ID are now running with their hair on fire over President Donald Trump’s recent firings at the feckless Election Assistance Commission.
In a short and direct email earlier this month, the White House sacked two Democrats, Thomas Hicks, who was serving as commission chairman, and Benjamin Hovland.
“On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as Commissioner of the Election Assistance Commission is terminated, effective immediately. Thank you for your service,” the email advised, according to Reuters.
On Sunday, the cameras were on Spain’s Ferran Torres, as he scored the goal that delivered “La Roja” their second World Cup championship.
On Monday, the cameras were on him again, for a very different reason.
As the bus carrying the triumphant Spanish players slowly wove its way through Madrid’s packed streets, cameras from inside the top of the bus caught the wording of Torres’ red, backward-turned hat, which read: “Make Spain Great Again.”
Efforts by Joe Biden to block release of audio recordings and transcripts of interviews he gave to a memoir ghostwriter in 2017 ahead of his election to president were denied late Monday by a federal appeals court.
AP reports a divided three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit suspended its decision until Aug. 3 to allow more time for Biden to consider another appeal.
The outlet notes the panel’s 2-1 ruling found there is a “substantial” public interest in disclosing the musings Biden wants to shield from view.