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Sen. Rand Paul's call to cut the Trump administration's request on border security spending for the president's "big, beautiful bill" has left him on the sidelines for negotiations on the megabill, Instead, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who chairs the chamber's Budget Committee, said this week he's the lead negotiator in the talks on the border part of the budget, "Senator Paul usually votes 'no' and blames everybody else for not being pure enough," said Graham in the interview. "As chairman, you … don't have that luxury sometimes. You have to do things as chairman [that] you wouldn't have to do...

It wasn’t safe to go back in the water of the Jersey Shore in 1916, as a series of deadly shark attacks forever changed Americans’ attitudes toward the sea creatures. As Americans prepared to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday weekend in 1916, the aptly named resort town of Beach Haven, New Jersey, promised a sanctuary from worries about the war raging in Europe and the polio epidemic sweeping through New York City. Seeking refuge from the sweltering heat gripping his hometown of Philadelphia, Charles Vansant stepped out of his beachfront hotel to take a quick dip in the Atlantic...

FIRST ON FOX: A fundraising group dedicated to helping Democrats flip Republican seats is releasing a dark new advertisement it hopes will help the left win over young men ahead of the 2026 races. The Progress Action Fund has gained attention for its risqué viral ads featuring a fictional "Republican congressman" who invades private moments in bedrooms, bathrooms and hospitals to enforce so-called conservative policies, such as stopping sex, abortion or denying care to Medicare patients. ... Joe Jacobson, an Obama administration alumnus who founded and runs Progress Action Fund, told Fox News Digital that his PAC's testing shows the...

At the end of their sentences, inmates who do not have authorization to be in U.S. will be transported to ICE facilities for deportation, not returned to their communityA board chaired by Idaho Gov. Brad Little approved a $300,000 request on Tuesday to pay for Idaho State Police to transport people who have been convicted of a crime and do not have legal authorization to be in the United States to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers for deportation. The Idaho State Board of Examiners voted unanimously to approve the request without any discussion during a meeting Tuesday morning...

US President Donald Trump will decide whether or not the US gets directly involved in the Iran-Israel conflict within the next two weeks, the White House has said. In a White House press briefing, Press secretary Karoline Leavitt delivered a message directly from Trump: "Based on the fact that there's a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks." The press secretary has so far repeatedly declined to discuss "hypotheticals", including on whether Iranian officials could...

President Donald Trump directly rebuked Tulsi Gabbard, his own director of national intelligence, during a Q&A with reporters on Friday afternoon amid reports that she’s an increasingly irrelevant figure within his administration. After being asked by MSNBC’s Vaughn Hillyard about why he was considering a strike on Iran given his expressed opposition to the Bush administration’s war in Iraq, Trump stated that Iran had gathered “a tremendous amount of [nuclear] material.” “What intelligence do you have that Iran is building a nuclear weapon? Your intelligence community has said they have no evidence that they are at this point,” followed up...

More than 300 MPs this afternoon backed a bill that gives people in England and Wales who have less than six months to live the right to apply for an assisted death. Each request will be evaluated by two doctors and a panel featuring a social worker, senior legal figure and psychiatrist. Today's historic vote means the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will now go to the House of Lords for further scrutiny before becoming law. Following the landmark vote, individuals for and against it have shared their feelings on the result.

The head of state also answered questions about the possibility of a mutually acceptable peaceful solution to the conflict in the Middle East, a new world order and outdated Western approaches that ignore the interests of the Russian Federation. TASS collected the main points of the President of the Russian Federation.The situation in UkraineRussia doesn't achieve it surrender on the part of Ukraine: "We insist on recognition of the realities that have developed on earth.". Thus, the Russian army "attacks in all directions along the entire line of combat contact every day," creates a security zone, to which the enemy...

PORTALES, N.M.— William and Daynnely Carrillo got married on May 25, and while the wedding day was just how they wanted it to be, they had a little surprise in the mix of it all. Bad weather arose, and a tornado was spotted in the distance from their wedding venue. Instead of finding shelter, the couple took advantage of the moment by taking wedding photos in front of it. “The ceremony was going to be outside and then everything else was going to be inside. So, it was going to be four o’clock and then basically throughout the whole ceremony...

FOX 7 has obtained documents related to the arrest of the man who allegedly made threats against lawmakers ahead of a protest at the Texas Capitol. What we know: On Saturday, June 14, state troopers pulled over a blue Audi A6 that was traveling west on SH 71 toward Austin in Fayette County. The troopers had been informed that the vehicle was connected to threats against lawmakers. Robert Bowers was driving the Audi, which was traveling 81 miles per hour in a 75 mile per hour zone without a front license plate. Bowers told troopers he was on his way...

Russian President also emphasized that the situation between Russia and Ukraine is different from what US President Donald Trump is doing, trying to achieve unconditional surrender of Iran in terms of nuclear program SANCT-PETERBURG, June 20. / TASS /. Russia does not seek surrender of Ukraine, but insists that Kiev recognize the realities prevailing on the earth. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (PIEF)."We are not seeking surrender from Ukraine. We insist on recognizing the realities that have developed on earth, "he stressed.Putin also emphasized that the...

LOS ANGELES, CA — The Los Angeles Dodgers were hoping to attract large crowds at tonight's game against the Washington Nationals by offering a limited edition MS-13 bobblehead to commemorate the recent L.A. anti-ICE riots. A social media ad for the event read, "¡Hola! Don't miss MS-13 Bobblehead Night at Dodger Stadium on 7/20 presented by the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA)! The first 2,000 undocumented migrants get their very own MS-13 Bobblehead! ¡Ay, caramba!" The limited edition MS-13 bobblehead features a Latinx cis-male with face tattoos and a penchant for vandalism. The figurine wears an unbuttoned Dodgers jersey...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Democrats were outraged by an appeals court ruling that permitted the Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces to command the armed forces. Democratic leaders said that the ruling was a clear and present threat to American democracy and they feared for the future of a country where the person in charge of things could actually be in charge of things. "This is an extremely dangerous precedent for the court to set," said Senator Cory Booker. "There is no way that the president should be allowed to exercise his constitutional authority to tell the U.S....

Maitake mushrooms like these have a unique internal structure that helps them resist pressure in specific directions. (puttography/Shutterstock) In a nutshell Researchers discovered that the internal thread orientation of mushrooms, specifically hyphal filaments, can alter material strength without changing the material itself. Dimictic mushrooms like maitake showed up to 30 times more stiffness in certain directions compared to randomly structured monomitic mushrooms like white buttons. Computer models confirmed that adjusting thread alignment in bio-inspired materials could nearly double stiffness, offering a new way to design strong, lightweight, and sustainable engineering materials. BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Engineers spend billions trying to create...

After the death of my sister, I was pulled into the troubling world of AI-written obituaries. This is what I learned about grief, scams and the people behind the words. ==================================================================== My sister had only been gone for a few hours and the AI afterlife had already devoured her. Jamie went into the hospital with stomach pain on a Friday last January. By Tuesday morning, she had passed away from an aggressive lymphoma at 36. Later that afternoon, my mom got a text about a suspicious obituary my aunt saw online. The errors jumped out immediately. Her cause of death...

The comparisons are flying fast and loose. As Israel continues to dismantle Iran’s nuclear weapons program with surgical precision, and as President Trump weighs the next phase of American involvement, critics and skeptics are reaching for two familiar cautionary tales: Libya and Iraq. But Iran is not Libya. And it is not Iraq either. The current campaign has a defined, lawful objective. It is not a regime change. It is not nation-building. It is not an open-ended war. The mission is the complete and irreversible destruction of Iran’s nuclear weapons program. That mission is already well underway and showing results....

Explanation: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, planet Earth lies on the horizon in this stack of panoramic composite images. In a monthly time series arranged vertically top to bottom the ambitious photographic project follows the annual north-south swing of sunrise points, from June solstice to December solstice and back again. It also follows the corresponding, but definitely harder to track, Full Moon rise. Of course, the north-south swing of moonrise runs opposite sunrise along the horizon. But these rising Full Moons also span a wider range on the horizon than the sunrises. That's because the well-planned project (as shown in this video)...

Rubin Observatory’s ultimate cosmic movie is about to begin, and we want you to be a part of it We invite you to attend the live stream of NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s First Look event, taking place on 23 June 2025 at 11:00 a.m. EDT. At this international celebration the Rubin Observatory team will unveil the observatory’s first spectacular images. The event will be live streamed via YouTube in English and Spanish. Links to the live streams will be made available on rubinobservatory.org. Want to attend an in-person celebration? Hundreds of venues around the globe will be hosting watch...

Globalize the Intifada," "decolonize," and "defund the police" don't really mean what you think they do, right? Well, neither does "Death to America." It really is something of a love letter to America, at least according to MSNBC. MSNBC is now trying to convince their dwindling audience that just because Iranians chant "death to America" doesn't mean they want death for America. Richard Stengel--a perfect member of the transnational elite--doesn't understand why Trump is so hung up on Iran getting nuclear weapons. He's been in Tehran and watched Islamists shouting the chant, and he had a perfectly good time. NYC...

Chaos once again erupted at a New York City courthouse on Friday as ICE agents arrested an illegal alien at the Ted Weiss Federal Building. A Democrat city councilwoman tried to block ICE agents from taking an illegal alien into custody. Far-left ‘queer’ Councilwoman Tiffany Caban was almost arrested after she tried to block federal agents from removing an illegal alien. Tiffany Caban was pushed back by federal agents as they escorted an illegal alien out of the courthouse. NYC Comptroller and Mayoral candidate Brad Lander, who was arrested by ICE earlier this week for obstructing ICE agents, was also...