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Despite weeks of hyperbole, Democrat obstruction, and days of votes and amendments to delay, the Senate has finally passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, albeit with a Democrat-forced name change. The Republican-controlled Senate voted Tuesday to pass a wide-ranging tax-cut and spending bill sought by President Donald Trump. The Democrat name change brought by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., seemed to be a losing shot to take Trump's chosen name off his signature budget reconciliation legislation. Vice President JD Vance cast the tiebreaking vote in the Senate 51-50. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine; Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C.; and Sen....

Elon Musk has promised to donate to Rep. Thomas Massie’s re-election campaign as the Kentucky Republican faces down the wrath of Donald Trump. The world’s richest man responded with a simple “Me” on X after a user asked who else would support Massie’s 2026 re-election bid, as Musk’s feud with the president enters proxy war territory

NEW — Senator Chris Murphy: Zohran Mamdani — A self-described Democratic Socialist — has an "economic message" that "is the future of the [Democratic] Party."

Pioneering televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, one of the first preachers to bring his ministry to a massive TV audience before enduring a damaging sex scandal, died in Louisiana following a two-week hospitalization, a family representative said on Tuesday. He was 90.

Colin Allred, a former U.S. Representative and ex-NFL linebacker, has announced he will run for U.S. Senate in 2026. Allred's run comes after he narrowly lost to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in the November 2024 election. Allred, a Democrat, previously served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. What they're saying: "Washington is broken and the system is rigged — and Texas families are paying the price. Today I'm announcing I'm running for the U.S. Senate because Texans deserve someone who will fight for them," Allred said in a post to X. Who will Allred run against? Allred is...

~To all my compatriots at home and abroad, a happy 158th birthday! At noon on this day in 1867, the British North America Act came into effect and the Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Canada - that's Upper Canada (Ontario) and Lower Canada (Quebec) - were united into the brand new Dominion of Canada under a constitutional document that has since been applied, all but unmodified, to dozens of newborn nations in every corner of the globe. Something to celebrate, you'd think. But, for any Canadians old enough to remember the glorious centennial year of 1967, the principal...

VIDEOThe first Mark Carney you see in this video is the Mark Carney that Liberals in Canada THOUGHT they would be getting. A tough talking Mark Carney who is not at all shy about talking Smack about Donald Trump. Of course that Mark Carney turned out to be a complete illusion and can only be seen thanks to the technological miracle of AI. Unfortunately for them, the second Mark Carney you see is the REAL Mark Carney who immediately caved on implementing a digital services tax when Big Daddy Trump demanded that he do so.Yes, the AI Mark Carney is...

The end of the US as a free capitalist country is in sight. I thought the Islamification of the country would take two generations, but it's accelerating now. And few are paying attention. Zohran Mamdani, the rich boy from Uganda running for mayor of New York City is merely one of warning signs but Islamic power is growing and fast. I've posted this before, but it bears repeating. You must pay attention to a few things. click to view videoHe says he wants "equality and respect." But he doesn't want to earn them. He wants to win them. (4:30) He...

Friday is #July4th, when we celebrate America’s independence and the documents that made America different, like the Constitution. But is our Constitution good enough today?

It’s a grim sign of the times that Old Joe Biden’s regime can open the door to millions upon millions of illegal migrants without a peep from the courts, but as soon as President Donald Trump tries to remove them, our self-anointed moral superiors in the judiciary burn the midnight oil to come up with pretexts to stop him. Trump has been trying to use the 1798 Alien Enemies Act as the legal foundation to remove Venezuelan gang members, but several courts, including the Supreme Court, have stymied him. Now, the final showdown has begun in the 5th U.S. Circuit...

28 illegal aliens arrested in North Carolina worksite enforcement operation — aggravated identity theft and other federal crimes suspected. 2 other subjects arrested on state charges and numerous documents seized in this ongoing investigation. Details: https://ice.gov/news/releases/ice-executes-federal-search-warrant-buckeye-fire-equipment-company

After a marathon vote-a-rama that lasted more than 24 hours, where both Republicans and Democrats submitted amendments to the One Big Beautiful Bill, the Senate voted 51-50 to pass the megabill after Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) had announced a deal had been reached earlier on Tuesday. Vice President JD Vance was there to break the tie on the bill's final passage and on amendments being voted on up until the last minute. All Democrats voted against the bill, as did Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Susan Collins (R-ME). Tillis made headlines over the weekend not...

If you, like me, thought you could take it for granted that the Walz administration would not hire a convicted sex offender to *audit* the Department of Education, you were wrong.

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Former Iranian deputy parliament speaker on Monday criticized Russia for refusing to provide Iran with the S-400 air defense system, despite Tehran supplying drones used in the war in Ukraine. “Russia has given the S-400 air defense system to Turkey and Saudi Arabia, but does not give it to Iran, which has provided it with drone assistance in the war with Ukraine, because it might be used against Israel,” Ali Motahari wrote in a post on X. “This is what the strategic cooperation with Iran that Mr. Putin talks about looks like,” he added.

Zohran Mamdani’s run for mayor of New York City is a clear and present danger to the stability, economic health, and democratic foundation of both the city and the nation. His platform is rooted in a radical socialist ideology that has, time and time again, led to failure, repression, and suffering wherever it has been tried. And thanks to a clip surfacing on social media today, we see that Mamdani is not hiding this. In fact, he has been strikingly open about what he believes and what he plans to do. You can listen to his comments for yourself here....

Daily Readings from the USCCBAs Jesus got into a boat, his disciples followed him. Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by waves; but he was asleep. Matthew 8:23–24This experience had quite an impression upon the disciples, which is evidenced by the fact that it is recorded in all three Synoptic Gospels. We also see this in the concluding words of the story after Jesus calmed the storm: “The men were amazed and said, ‘What sort of man is this, whom even the winds and the sea obey?’”Traditionally, this story has...

Just when you think CNN’s Jake Tapper can’t become an even bigger media hack than he already is, he finds a way to prove you wrong. The latest incident of the network host’s shoddy conduct as a so-called “journalist” came on Friday during his interview with New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Among the topics covered during the exchange was the Big Apple’s upcoming mayoral contest, which will pit Adams against the newly nominated Democrat candidate, radical socialist Zohran Mamdani. When the conversation shifted to the race against Mamdani, Tapper — whose network a jury found is actually fake news...

A Clay County man forced to self-deport back to India has new hopes of returning. Action News Jax told you about Tapan Purohit in late March after his family contacted our station. But now, his wife says a new ruling should clear the way for him to come home. Tapan, who came to the US in 2011 on a J-1 visa, was forced to self-deport after ICE agents enforced an order of removal against him. “It is very difficult. It’s a horrible thing to go through,” said Tapan’s Wife, Ashley Kennedy-Purohit. At the time Tapan left, he and his wife,...

For thousands of years, animal teeth have been used as jewelry or ornaments on clothing by human societies around the world. Until now, however, archaeologists have given little thought to the process of how people obtained these animal teeth, especially since keeping them unbroken was difficult but essential. According to a statement released by the University of Helsinki, researchers recently used experimental archaeology to determine the methods likely used thousands of years ago before modern tools. The team examined evidence from the Zvejnieki cemetery in Latvia, where more than 2,000 animal teeth were found in graves dating to between 7500...