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Senator Marsha Blackburn was on “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo to talk about her campaign to be the next Governor of Tennessee. Blackburn is the Republican nominee and is running against Democrat Jerri Green after she won her primary race last week.
“Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn, welcome to you. Congratulations, Senator,” Bartiromo said.
“Thank you. It is such an honor and, I really am humbled and grateful to have that Republican nomination for Governor, and look forward to winning in November,” Blackburn said.
Criminal Illegal Alien Who Smuggled Over
90 Guns into U.S. Pleads Guilty to Federal
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90 Guns into U.S. Pleads Guilty to Federal
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Mexican criminal illegal alien who smuggled over 90 firearms into the United States has pleaded guilty to federal weapons charges following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Samuel Rodrigo Melo Santos brought the weapons into the country for the purpose of re-selling them to anyone who could buy them, including people who couldn’t legally buy them, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesman told American Greatness, Monday.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon announced that Melo Santos pleaded guilty on August 6 to being an alien in possession of a firearm and making false statements in acquisition of a firearm.
recount of Indiana's 23rd Senate district primary has flipped the race in favor of a Trump-backed Republican who sought to oust an incumbent lawmaker who opposed redistricting.
State Sen. Spencer Deery, R, emerged narrowly ahead on primary night, but the recount has seen the race flip to Paula Copenhaver, local outlet WRTV reported.
President Donald Trump backed primary challengers to eight Indiana senators who refused his push to redistrict the state, resulting in six of them losing their seats on primary night. Copenhaver's eventual win puts the figure at seven ousted.
Deery led by three votes before the recount, which found Copenhaver ahead by the same amount.
The Trump administration announced Monday that it had revoked a total of 175,000 visas since the start of the president's term, stating that most revocations stemmed from recipient encounters with law enforcement.
"The majority of these visas were revoked due to law enforcement encounters for a range of criminal activity, with assault, driving under the influence, theft, and drug crimes being the leading causes," the State Department said in a statement. "A significant share of visas were revoked for reckless driving, sexual assault, child abuse, fraud and embezzlement, and other crimes."
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife Rama Duwaji is heading to Syria and Lebanon next month – and she’s bringing along cops assigned to the First Couple’s taxpayer-funded NYPD detail, The Post has learned.
Duwaji will be jetting to the Middle East for a trip beginning Sept. 20 to the countries on the State Department’s “Do Not Travel” list for Americans because of dangerous conditions, a source said. The source familiar with the security detail said the first lady, who’s been described by the mayor as a “private person,” requested NYPD security – after traveling overseas last month without police protection.
Duwaji, a 29-year-old Syrian-American artist,
For decades, people have asked the same half-joking, half-serious question: “Where are the flying cars we were promised?”
The Jetsons, after all — with George, his boy, Elroy, daughter Judy, and Jane, his wife — debuted their concept of flying cars in 1962. 1962!And while some of the technology featured in that cartoon has become a reality, such as video chats and robots that do basic chores (vacuuming, mowing), the flying car has remained rather elusive.
That is about to come to an end.
On Monday, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) gave the closest thing to an answer yet to that aforementioned —
President Trump took a secret flight from Turkey to the UK on an alternate military aircraft on July 8 after he was quietly moved from Air Force One due to an Iranian threat.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Trump announced that the Air Force One jet he flew to Ankara, Turkey, for the NATO summit last month would be visiting a US base in the UK. He went on to fly on a different Air Force One plane when departing from Turkey, prompting speculation of security concerns.
A New York judge on Monday temporarily blocked NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new pied-à-terre tax, which hits New Yorkers who own a valuable second home.
Last month, Mamdani implemented a so-called luxury property tax on second homes valued at $5 million or more. The property tax also affected certain co-ops valued over $1 million.
Mamdani doxxed the homeowners after his Department of Finance published a database listing the names and addresses of the 960,000 properties.
“As per State law, a property roll was released for public inspection. From this list, DOF will identify properties that may be subject to the new non-primary residence property surcharge,” a Mamdani spox previously told Fox News.
A single “mega-dinghy” carrying 230 migrants has smashed the Channel crossing record. The Mail has the story:
It is the largest number ever recorded in one small boat, with the previous record of 165 being set just 17 days earlier.
The confirmed 230 arrivals is more than the typical capacity of a Boeing 737 jet.
People traffickers are currently thought to charge around £2,000 per head for illegal passage to Britain. With about £10,000 in assumed costs for the trip, this single dinghy could have made them a staggering £450,000 profit.
Their new mega-dinghies are “floating deathtraps” and at 42ft are longer than a double-decker bus.
Give Abdul El-Sayed at least some credit for consistency. After tossing red meat during primaries to drive base turnout, most politicians will shift to the center afterward to compete in the general election. Radicals get pushed quietly to the side, and when they don't cooperate, the candidates will offer soft renunciations like, "This isn't the Jeremiah Wright I once knew."
El-Sayed, however, won't play that game. This weekend, NBC's Kristen Welker pressed the new Democrat nominee for the Senate on his alliance with Hasan Piker, the radical Marxist who claimed, "America deserved 9/11." Will El-Sayed continue to have Piker
It is WAAAAYYYY too early to say how many revelations may come from the forensic analysis of Dr. Anthony Fauci's iPhone that was just turned over to the Senate, but already one bombshell has been released from an early analysis of the contents.
Assume it is the tip of the iceberg.
Shortly after the vaccine was released to the general public, reports of people suffering from "cytokine storms" as a reaction to the jab. This is unsurprising, given the fact that the patient's cells are turned into spike protein factories and there is no standard "dose" being administered, as happens in a normal vaccine. Your body decides
New York homeowners fighting the controversial pied-à-terre tax were handed an early win Monday, when a judge temporarily blocked Mayor Zohran Mamdani from implementing the new surcharge.
Staten Island Supreme Court Justice Wayne Ozzi put the tax on ice after peeved property owners sued the city, claiming it botched the rollout and unfairly burdened them. Ozzi issued a temporary restraining order that nullifies any existing deadlines for the tax. The judge blocked City Hall and the city Department of Finance from keeping online a published tax roll of more than 950,000 Big Apple homeowners “related” to the new tax, according to the ruling.
Paramount Nabs $37 Million-Plus in California
Tax Credits to Shoot In State Amid Battle
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Tax Credits to Shoot In State Amid Battle
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Paramount was among the leaders in the latest round of tax credits granted to productions by California’s film office amid a showdown with the state over its $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Paramount Television Studios and CBS Studios nabbed $37.3 million to film Viola Davis thriller Ascent and a sequel series to the 1995 cult classic film Clueless in California, trailing only Disney ($45 million) for a massive untitled detective series in this allotment of incentives the film commission said Monday.
FBI opened probe into AG Jeff Sessions
at Democrats’ request even after he
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at Democrats’ request even after he
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The FBI opened a probe into sitting Attorney General Jeff Sessions in May 2017 for potentially making false statements to Congress about Russian contacts even though he had already updated the disputed testimony, newly declassified documents show.
The evidence to support the probe -- codenamed MARCH TOLL and opened one day after FBI Director James Comey was fired by President Donald Trump -- was a weeks-old letter from Democrats and an article from a liberal news site, the memos show.
The bureau’s investigative files into the Sessions matter were declassified by President Donald Trump and made public Monday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force.
A recount of Indiana's 23rd Senate district primary has flipped the race in favor of a Trump-backed Republican who sought to oust an incumbent lawmaker who opposed redistricting.
State Sen. Spencer Deery, R, emerged narrowly ahead on primary night, but the recount has seen the race flip to Paula Copenhaver, local outlet WRTV reported.
President Donald Trump backed primary challengers to eight Indiana senators who refused his push to redistrict the state, resulting in six of them losing their seats on primary night. Copenhaver's eventual win puts the figure at seven ousted.
The crew of a yacht owned by Mark Zuckerberg did not hear a radio call for a maritime assist from a small skiff that ran out of fuel off the coast of Alaska, and by the time it did, another nearby ship had already rendered assistance, a spokesperson for the Meta CEO said. (snip) Every ship is obligated to respond to a distress call or request for assistance under maritime law unless doing so would put their own ship at risk. (snip) Maritime law expert Ian Ralby said he’s seen ships abandon races they were training to compete in for years to go help another ship.
A Florida swimmer had her arm ripped off by a 10-foot alligator — a vicious attack she wound up surviving thanks to a fast-acting boater who scared the beast away.
The woman was on a paddleboard in the Silver River in north-central Florida when the gator grabbed her by the arm and pulled her underwater, despite her trying to push it away with her paddle, FOX35 reported.
Miraculously, John Gamache was eating lunch on his boat and, upon hearing the woman’s family’s cries for help, he sped toward the group. “I looked just upriver from us a couple hundred feet and saw an alligator head way above the water and going full
Former Vice President Kamala Harris probably isn’t too happy with Jill Biden these days.
Appearing on Kelly Ripa's Let's Talk Off Camera podcast Wednesday, the former first lady said she doubts she’ll see a U.S. woman president in her lifetime and that she was really stunned when Kamala lost to Trump in 2024. (snip)Who needs enemies when Jill Biden is your friend? I can’t imagine Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is thrilled with this prediction either, considering she’s also been the subject of speculation regarding a presidential run.
Florida names NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani
'Economic Developer of the Year' in Times
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'Economic Developer of the Year' in Times
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the heart of Manhattan, at the corner of Broadway and West 43rd Street, a massive new billboard is sending a provocative message to New York leadership: "Thanks for the jobs!" As America faces what business leaders call a historic choice between free enterprise and expanding government control, Florida is taking the ideological fight directly to the doorstep of Democratic socialism.
Armed with a $1.8 trillion economy and record-breaking wealth migration, the Florida Chamber of Commerce has officially launched a Times Square campaign naming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani Florida's "Economic Developer of the Year"
Thank goodness President Donald Trump, with two new executive orders, has re-elevated birthright citizenship to the top of the news cycle. Because it was the subject of one of two overly overlooked late-June Supreme Court outrages that should shake and rattle Americans.
Cynical financialists and opportunistic Democrats love to prattle about the “TACO Trade:” supposedly, “Trump Always Chickens Out” on market-alarming moves.
Well, maybe. But it’s now clearer than ever, after the Supremes’ bumble-and-stumble collapse at its term’s finish line, that Chief Justice John Roberts doesn’t only “Always Chicken Out”
Almost half of the deaths of New York City’s homeless population were tied to drugs and alcohol, an eye-opening new report found. Some 285 of the 634 homeless residents who died in a one-year stretch from 2024-25 lost their lives because of drug addiction, overdoses or alcoholism, the Departments of Health and Social Services/Homeless Services said in its 2026 report. The analysis, which covers documented deaths from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025, includes deaths in temporary shelters as well as on the streets, in subways, abandoned properties or while in an acquaintance’s home.
President Donald Trump has played tough with Iran, using the U.S. military to punish that nation’s Islamist regime when it stops talking, and calling off hostile actions when Iran returns to the negotiating table. After five months of this pattern, Americans’ support for U.S. attacks on Iran is lukewarm at best, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows.
For the August online national I&I/TIPP Poll, taken from July 28 to Aug. 1, 1,463 adults were asked: “Do you support or oppose U.S. military action against Iran?” The poll’s margin of error is +/-2.9 percentage points.
A total of 42% said they supported military action either “strongly” (22%) or “somewhat,”
It's hard for me to believe that the Democrats might run Kamala Harris for president again after her campaign was such a disaster in 2024.
Not only did President Donald Trump clean her clock, even getting more of the popular vote, but he also beat her in all the swing states. Plus she spent and lost a ton of money in a futile cause, by some estimates, $1.5 billion over the course of an abbreviated campaign.
Polls have her up for 2028, though, so I'm all in for it. That should be great fun to watch her go down in flames again. It does sound like she's gearing up
On July 16, 1988, Florence Griffith-Joyner sprinted 100 meters in 10.49 seconds at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. Nearly four decades later, no woman has run faster, and her world record still stands.
Her 200-meter record, set at the Seoul Olympics later that year, has also stood for almost forty years.
Flo-Jo remains the fastest woman who has ever lived.
Yet her 100-meter record has repeatedly been surpassed by American high school boys.
The current U.S. high school boys’ record is 9.92 seconds, set in 2025 and more than half a second faster. Many boys have run faster than Flo-Jo’s legendary mark, and each year more join that list.
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