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Americans’ unpaid medical bills will remain on their credit reports after a federal judge last week vacated a Biden-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule that would have removed such debt. Judge Sean Jordan of the US District Court of Texas’ Eastern District found that the rule exceeded the bureau’s authority under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, agreeing with the arguments of two industry associations, which had filed a lawsuit against the rule that was later joined by the Trump administration. The court found that “every major substantive provision of the Medical Debt Rule” exceeded the CFPB’s authority, Jordan, a...

California hit a power milestone this summer. Solar officially became the state’s top source of electricity, generating 83.1 terawatt-hours over the past 12 months. That puts it ahead of natural gas at 81.6 terawatt-hours. Solar now supplies 33.9% of California’s electricity. Gas clocks in at 33.3%. Wind, hydro, and nuclear round out the mix. Coal barely registers. Oil sits near zero. Two-thirds of the grid is powered by zero-emission sources. Storage capacity is stacking fast. The state added 7,000 megawatts of clean energy assets last year. Most of that came from battery deployment. The total battery fleet now holds 15,700...

While some states are trying to claw back your rights, Texas just doubled down on theirs. The NRA reported that over the weekend, Governor Greg Abbott approved five new Texas pro-gun laws, each one a win for personal liberty and the Second Amendment. 1. HB 1403 – Respect for Foster Families Who Exercise Their Rights 2. SB 706 – Universal Recognition of Out-of-State Carry Licenses 3. SB 1362 – Blocking Unconstitutional Red Flag Orders 4. SB 1596 – Legalizing Short-Barreled Rifles and Shotguns at the State Level 5. SB 1718 – Incentivizing the NRA Annual Meeting in Texas

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[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Eleganti on Synodality: ‘I Can No Longer Listen To Your Propaganda’For the love of Christ, finally put an end to the excess of synodal documents, intermediate stages, indications for the continuation of the process, announcements of results, final documents that aren’t final, extensions to other cycles, the multiplication of commissions, at the end of an assembly in a canonical no-man’s land. The vast people of God are unaware of your documents. In my experience, almost no believer knows or reads them. Stop spinning on your axis in a process that hasn’t reawakened love for Jesus Christ in...

Joe Rogan used his latest podcast episode to weigh in on the Epstein files controversy amid public uproar over the Department of Justice’s probe into the late pedophile and his associates. The podcast giant lambasted the Trump administration’s announcement that there was never a list or footage revealing clients of the high-flying sex pest. “They’ve got videotape and all a sudden they don’t,” Rogan, 57, said on the latest episode of his podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience,” released Tuesday. “You had the director of the FBI on this show saying, ‘If there was [a videotape], nothing you’re looking for is...

In this episode, I break down the music of Eli Mercer and explain why it has no cultural or artistic value. I'm Sorry...This New Artist Completely Sucks | 11:09 Rick Beato | 5.09M subscribers | 357,946 views | July 15, 2025

The California Senate passed a bill to authorize a Los Angeles County “Resilient Rebuilding Authority" that could use public funds to "purchase lots at a fair price for land banking," and "create open space." The bill would also allow municipal bodies to use property taxes to fund low-income housing and public transit. Senate Bill 549 now has a hearing in the state Assembly scheduled for Wednesday. As a funding mechanism, the bill would allow the RRA for the Los Angeles wildfires to “Issue, receive, and administer funds, including, but not limited to, tax-increment financing, federal loans and grants, state loans...

According to analysis conducted by two different forensic experts working with WIRED, at least 3 minutes were cut from the “raw” Epstein prison video posted to the DOJ website last week. The Gateway Pundit was the first to report that an entire minute was cut from the DOJ video that was released last Sunday. If you follow the full video you can see for yourself that the video is cut off at 11:59:00 and there is a ‘missing minute.’ During the White House Cabinet meeting last Tuesday, AG Pam Bondi was asked about the missing clip in the Epstein video....

In the vast expanse between Uranus and Neptune, a team of researchers have uncovered something really quite extraordinary, a minor planet that has been locked in precise gravitational manouevres with Uranus for at least a million years. This discovery sheds new light on the complex dynamics that govern our Solar System's outer reaches. The object in question, designated 2015 OU₁₉₄, belongs to a class of small bodies called Centaurs, rocky and icy objects that orbit between Jupiter and Neptune. What makes this particular Centaur special is its remarkably stable relationship with Uranus, locked in what is known as a 3:4...

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Washington, D.C. council members voted to approve funding for ranked choice voting July 14 in the first of two votes on the District’s budget. The measure, known as Initiative 83, would allow unaffiliated voters to participate in the party primary of their choosing and gives voters the option to rank candidates on the ballot from their most desired contender to the least. The winning candidate must receive more than 50 percent of votes to advance as the elected official. If no candidate wins that majority, then an “instant runoff” occurs: The candidate who received the fewest first-choice rankings is eliminated,...

They were rolled out across Britain to cut speeds and prevent traffic accidents in built-up areas. But new figures suggest that the vast majority of drivers are speeding along many stretches of roads with 20 mph limits. According to the Department for Transport, three-quarters of drivers exceed the limit on “free-flowing” sections of 20-mph roads in England — those with no cameras, sharp bends, junctions or traffic calming measures. Half of drivers who admitted to speeding and were spoken to by the RAC said they sped on such roads because they felt the limit was “inappropriate” — a view also...

We rarely get to see the effects of immigration raids on friends and family, but we did Tuesday in Robertsdale when federal agents raided the El Patron restaurant. Law enforcement swarms Foley restaurant during investigation “Paw, it’s going to be okay!” Francheska Campos screamed out to her father as he was led away in handcuffs during an immigration raid at El Patron restaurant in Robertsdale. “My dad has been at work all my life trying to provide for us, trying to make a better life, and people still think he is a criminal,” said Campos.

Federal authorities arrested a military veteran on Tuesday afternoon, who was wanted in connection with an attack on an ICE detention facility in Texas and remained on the run for nearly 11 days after the attack. The FBI Dallas Field Office said it apprehended 32-year-old Benjamin Song on Tuesday afternoon in Dallas. Song allegedly joined a group of 10 to 12 others in an organized attack on officers at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, on July 4. Ten assailants were apprehended at the time, though Song managed to evade capture, according to authorities. "The FBI has worked tirelessly...

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee spoke out Tuesday against what he called a terror attack against a Palestinian-American Christian by Jewish extremists who have clashed both with local Arabs and the Israeli military. A rebuke from Huckabee — a friend of Israel who has said, before taking office, that Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) should be annexed by the Jewish state — will draw attention from the Israeli government, which has been flummoxed by a recent outbreak of violence between Jewish settlers and a Palestinian Christian village. There has long been an extremist fringe among Jews in Judea...

When violent riots erupted across Los Angeles in defiance of President Trump’s efforts to enforce federal immigration law, the uprising was not as spontaneous as open-borders politicians would have you believe. Far-left non-governmental organizations, including the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), helped provide transportation and services to those going to the protests in support of illegal immigration, many of which quickly devolved into brutal attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement. As it turns out, CHIRLA received nearly $34 million in California state grants from June 2022 to June 2023. From October 2021 to September 2024, under the Biden-Harris administration,...

Speaker Mike Johnson is calling for the Department of Justice to release all of its information on Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in jail after being charged with sex trafficking, and wants Attorney General Pam Bondi to explain previous statements on the matter. The Trump administration this month declined to release additional information regarding Epstein’s death, with the Justice Department and FBI concluding there’s no evidence that Epstein had a list of clients or was murdered in his jail cell. Republicans blocked a House vote on Tuesday afternoon that Democrats tried to cast as a referendum to force...

An illegal alien has pleaded guilty to causing a crash in Hazelwood, Missouri, that ultimately killed 11-year-old Travis Wolfe just one day before his 12th birthday.

WASHINGTON — Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., has been leading the probe into Joe Biden’s cognitive state during his presidency, with Republicans alleging that Biden's occasional use of an “autopen” to sign documents — a practice other presidents have done as well — demonstrated that he wasn’t fully in control or aware of what his administration was doing.