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Ukraine and a coalition of European partners are accelerating the development of the Freyja anti-ballistic missile defense system, with a minimum viable product (MVP) targeted for the first half of 2027 and a working prototype expected by the middle of 2027.
The multinational program was launched following the formation of an anti-ballistic coalition at a summit in Paris on July 13, 2026. The meeting brought together leaders from 10 European nations, senior European officials and representatives from major defense companies to begin coordinating the development of a new European missile defense capability.
According to Davyd Aloian, Deputy Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council (NSDC), an international steering committee will soon
Newly declassified documents show that the FBI and other members of the intelligence community were actively trying to cover up the Biden family scandals in 2020, heading into an election, while Donald Trump was still in office.
The documents are among those that Tulsi Gabbard declassified when she was Director of National Intelligence. Investigative reporter Catherine Herridge shared screenshots of the documents showing there was a special team, “Round River,” focused on delegitimizing the Hunter and Joe Biden Ukraine scandals. The intelligence community even terminated certain confidential sources who had been working with them for a long time because they reported or confirmed negative information on the Bidens.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is departing her post at the end of August to spend more time with her family, President Trump announced.
Leavitt, 28, a mother of two and the youngest ever White House press secretary, gave birth to her second child, Viviana, in May and had officially just returned from maternity leave last month.
Trump, 80, hailed her as “one of my most trusted aides.” “Karoline will now be one of my top outside advisors, and an influential voice within the Republican Party, as we work to defy History, and conclusively win the Midterm Elections,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
Former SPLC Finance Officer Arrested on
Fraud Charges over Payments to White Supremacist Informants replies
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A former chief financial officer for the Southern Poverty Law Center who was tasked with overseeing the group’s controversial project tracking “hate groups” in the U.S. was arrested on Wednesday, as part of the Department of Justice’s larger investigation into the SPLC.
Heidi Beirich was arrested in California on charges that she oversaw secret payments to informants inside of white supremacist groups — including payments to an informant whom she was allegedly romantically involved with.
Prosecutors say Beirich, who has not worked at the SPLC for several years, was previously in charge of overseeing “payments of donors’ money” to people inside the hate groups.
Four white clergy members and one white seminarian are running for Congress as Democrats, part of a growing trend of white politicians seeking to court Christian voters while embracing left-wing ideas.
Unlike Democrats of the past, these five candidates represent a party that has shifted drastically, embracing policies ranging from same-sex marriage and unfettered abortion access to feminism and forced diversity. Sarah Trone Garriott, James Talarico, Robb Ryerse, Anna Golladay, and Lindsay James are attempting to blend the language of “faith, freedom, and family” Christians with the increasingly progressive policies of the modern left.
White clergy members running for Congress as Democrats are a rarity. Since the 1970s, only three have been
Ward Churchill, the former University of Colorado professor whose writings and outspoken political views ignited a national debate over academic freedom and free speech, has died.
His former lawyer says Churchill died of a stroke.
Iliff School of Theology Professor Emeritus Tink Tinker, a member of the Osage Nation, said Churchill "was part of the American Indian Movement from the early 1980s. All of the people who criticized him never read his body of work. His books get at the truth of what happened and is happening to American Indians on Turtle Island, this continent. It persistently challenges the usual narrative of what I call the American romance."
Milwaukee County executive David Crowley wasn't supposed to win Tuesday night. Every poll tracked by RealClearPolitics over the past two months showed DSA candidate Francesca Hong cruising to victory in the Wisconsin Democrat gubernatorial primary by double digits. PPP had her up 18 points. Marquette had her up 22. Instead, Crowley, the establishment’s preferred candidate, walked away with the nomination.
So what happened? Were the polls just catastrophically wrong, or is something else going on? It's a fair question, especially given what unfolded on primary night itself.
WASHINGTON — The feds nabbed 10 suspects accused of operating a decade-long marriage fraud scheme that resulted in around 1,000 sham weddings between Chinese nationals and US citizens for the purposes of getting the Asians green cards.
Each of the defendants arrested Wednesday face charges of conspiring to commit marriage fraud and immigration document fraud as well as conspiracy to encourage the unlawful residence of aliens in the US.The fake unions were purchased for up to $100,000 a pop and involved the submission of fraudulent applications to US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on behalf of mostly Chinese nationals seeking lawful permanent residency.
Democrats wanted a frontrunner in California’s gubernatorial race. What they did not envision was Xavier Becerra, whose abrupt rise from afterthought to favorite has left former Biden administration officials — his one-time colleagues — reacting with a mix of incredulity, mockery and resignation.
“It’s like: ‘We need to figure out a candidate who can win!’ But then…him? Really?’” said one former Biden administration official. “It’s amazing.”(snip)Six former Biden administration officials, all of whom were granted anonymity to speak candidly about a former colleague, acknowledged the subject of Becerra’s unlikely rise has come to dominate their group chats and conversations. “It gets the biggest laugh every time we send around a poll,”
Weird things happening in MI: Are Dems
sacrificing the Senate seat to kill the
‘Marxist movement’? replies
sacrificing the Senate seat to kill the
‘Marxist movement’? replies
Something very strange is going on in the Mitten State, better known as Michigan.
And it’s not just that Abdul El-Sayed, the Marxist Muslim insurgent who Dem Party leaders desperately dislike and didn’t want as their Senate nominee, managed to beat their establishment candidate anyway.
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That part already happened.
The strange part is what’s happening right now.
El-Sayed is set to face-off with Republican Mike Rogers in November in a race that could help decide control of the United States Senate.
It’s a big deal.And then, one week after Sayed’s big win, CNN’s KFile came barreling through the door like the Koolaid Man, with what looks exactly like a Republican
A federal appellate court handed the Trump administration a win on Tuesday in its bid to fast-track the deportation of paroled foreign nationals brought in the United States by former President Biden.
In its per curiam ruling, a three-judge panel for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a lower court blockade against the Department of Homeland Security’s directives suggesting officials use expedited removal to speedily deport migrants. The decision throws out an August 2025 ruling by Biden-appointed District Judge Jia Cobb, who claimed that the migrants “played by the rules” and the federal government subsequently “changed the game.”
Hopefully this will be a lesson to multiple people, including President Donald Trump. There is no room for softness on the topic of deporting illegal aliens.
In one of the biggest examples of a mistake in Republican campaigning, three weeks before the primary election Minnesota Governor candidate Mike Lindell made the fatal mistake of advocating for greater leniency for illegal aliens, with inferred amnesty in his immigration platform. The backlash was fierce, righteous and directly targeted. Lindell was blasted.
Last night, despite the support and endorsement from President Trump, Lindell was resoundingly defeated by Lisa Demuth, the speaker of the Minnesota House.
FBI had 14 informants on Biden corruption
but ran secret op to dismiss evidence
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but ran secret op to dismiss evidence
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The FBI and U.S. spy agencies received derogatory evidence about Joe Biden from 14 different informants but embarked on a secret operation to tamp down a Ukrainian corruption scandal engulfing his family during the 2020 election by formally designating Attorney General Bill Barr, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, key members of Congress and journalists as Russian disinformation “conduits,” according to explosive intelligence community documents declassified by the White House. A spreadsheet that was recovered from U.S. intelligence agency files and made public Wednesday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force shows that spy agencies and the FBI...
Just weeks after announcing that it will lose up to $4.5 billion this year making electric cars, Ford unveiled its next plug-in attempt: the Ford Fathom truck.
So it goes with EVs.
No matter how loudly consumers say they don’t want them, those “in the know” keep telling us that the future is electric and that success is just around the corner.
Last month, for example, the mainstream press was giddy over a slight rebound in EV sales in the second quarter compared with the first. As Business Insider put it, “The U.S. EV market comes back from the dead. Thank high gas prices.”
Tucker Carlson is likely running for President of the United States.
It pains me to say that, because he is a truly disgusting human being, and you and I will be tarred with the same brush as he will be. He used to be one of "us," if a bit on the boisterous side. And to our credit, as if that were enough, the guy was and remains deviously brilliant.
I don't expect Tucker to get a ton of votes, but he certainly can get enough to change the outcome of a presidential race should he decide to pop into the race. He does have almost 18 million followers
AOC shrugs off anything said by leftists in the period before, say, yesterday as irrelevant to judging their suitability for positions of authority.
Because, you know, "Woke One was crazy." As if people being crazy a year or five ago is no big deal.
Being crazy is, in fact, a big deal. It's not the same thing as being wrong. Everybody gets it wrong, even if they are smart and exercise good judgment. As long as they acknowledge their mistakes, explain why they made them, and are willing to learn, making a mistake and acknowledging it can actually be a good thing.
You want people who can learn, and we
The relative peace experienced in Ireland over the past three decades may be in jeopardy as descendants of the Irish Republican Army may turn to terrorism to root out migrant populations from the country, security officials have warned.
While “Ireland for the Irish” was once a common refrain amongst advocates against British control of all or part of the island, the phrase appears set to take on a new meaning of opposition to the dispossession of the native population by dint of the mass migration agenda imposed on the country by globalist governments in Dublin.
According to a report from the Daily Mail, security sources in Britain are concerned that a potential
When former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced her retirement after nearly 40 years of service, it was widely assumed that California state Sen. Scott Wiener would be the man to replace her.
However, in a plot twist in what would normally be a ho-hum race, Pelosi and the machine that she’s built has turned against Wiener, a progressive mainstay, in favor of San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan.
According to a Monday Politico report, Pelosi and her team have been working behind the scenes for weeks to try to derail Wiener’s candidacy, an effort that became very public after a spat over a chatbot campaign stunt on Wiener’s part that Pelosi insisted
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase thousands of “conductive distraction and de-escalation devices” for officers and agents by March, according to a notice published Monday by the Department of Homeland Security.
The devices are known as the G.L.O.V.E., which stands for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, and are manufactured by Compliant Technologies LLC of Lexington, Kentucky. They have been used in recent years by some jails and police departments.
Everyone loves fireworks on July 4th. Or well everyone who loves America anyway. That may not include the man from Dearbonistan.
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed once asked his YouTube viewers whether Americans could “PLEASE” find another way to celebrate the Fourth of July, in a video promising four reasons “why fireworks suck.”
In one episode that remains online, he questioned whether football could be “ethical” or “safe” and linked the sport’s “ethos” to narratives used to justify slavery and westward expansion. In another he floated replacing the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms with a constitutional right to health care.
Britain’s left-wing Burnham government unveiled plans to spread boat migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees across the country because middle-class communities haven’t taken their “fair share” yet.
Planting migrants in working-class areas — because housing there is cheap — has caused “a huge burden on local communities and created real civil unrest”, so the logical next step is to spread that to middle-class areas next, which haven’t yet taken “their fair share”, the British government has communicated. The extraordinary series of public relations flubs began on Monday when Prime Minister Andy Burnham was offered the opportunity to meet with locals from a small village about to be overwhelmed by a migrant camp
It has become clear that the Democrats hate America to the point where they are willing to destroy her rather than give up their Trump hatred. One has only to look at the candidates and representatives they embrace to see that this is so. Mamdani has begun a cascade of communists in American politics. The invasion is underway.
Trump hatred has so blinded Democrats’ sensibilities, that they have become parasites in the American bloodstream that will destroy the host rather than openly declare that they will not embrace murder and communism and an Islamic caliphate.
Over the last couple of years, especially in places like Seattle, Los Angeles, or Canada, Democrats
The Quiet Manufacturing Boom
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Beneath the cacophony of media noise, an important untold story emerges: A manufacturing boom is unfolding across America right now, and especially so in the geographic center of the country.
This developing boom represents an epochal shift because investments in factories and tangible production involve the stickiest kind of capital expenditures. The commitment to production involves a macro “bet” on a yearslong cycle, not a near-term wager on the latest fad or concerns about the price of gasoline next week.(Snip)
In addition, manufacturing employment is rising, similarly marking a new four-year record high. These jobs are high-paying, family-sustaining roles that make our whole society stronger, not part-time “hustles” or gig
Sportscaster Michele Tafoya secures GOP
nomination for Minnesota Senate, raising
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nomination for Minnesota Senate, raising
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Sports broadcaster Michele Tafoya was projected to win the Republican nomination for Minnesota's Senate seat on Tuesday evening.
Tafoya handily won the race, with her claiming 52.4% of the vote at the time of the Associated Press's 9:50 p.m. race call. Her nearest opponent was Adam Schwarze, who took 23.3% of the vote.
Her opponent was not clear as of press time, with Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, D-Minn., locked in a close contest for the party nomination.
Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent for Just the News. Follow him on X.