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Former collegiate female UPenn Swimmer Paula Scanlan reacted to the news that trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas would be stripped of all titles he earned while competing in the women's sport, and the university has agreed to apologize for allowing him to compete as a female.Speaking from a press event on Tuesday, Scanlan reacted to the news that her former school, the University of Pennsylvania, has agreed to comply with President Donald Trump's Department of Education resolution agreement about Title IX and correct its violations after allowing a male to compete in women's sports, specifically Thomas."Wow, that's the first thing...

Elijah was seen "statue still" in the searing heat in California hours before being rushed to hospital on Saturday.SHOCKING video shows the son of pop megastar Cher standing in a "zombie-like" state, high on drugs before he was rushed to hospital. Other disturbing footage obtained by The Sun shows Elijah Blue Allman carrying drugs wrapped in tin foil into an AirBnb before the suspected heroin overdose. Witnesses say troubled Elijah, 48, Cher’s youngest son, was badly sunburned and had swollen hands and feet as he stood motionless in the searing 104 degree heat in Joshua Tree, California. A video, caught...

During a raucous meeting that stretched nearly six hours last week, the Berkeley City Council unanimously voted to adopt an ordinance that would effectively end single-family zoning in most of the city. The measure legalizes “middle housing” — duplexes, townhomes, courtyard apartments and other small multifamily dwellings — in areas previously limited to single-family homes. While the move was celebrated by some housing advocates as an overdue step toward equity, it drew hours of divided public comments. Keep Watching 5 Watch More The ordinance sets a density cap of 70 units per acre across residential zones, preserves current height limits...

During a raucous meeting that stretched nearly six hours last week, the Berkeley City Council unanimously voted to adopt an ordinance that would effectively end single-family zoning in most of the city. The measure legalizes “middle housing” — duplexes, townhomes, courtyard apartments and other small multifamily dwellings — in areas previously limited to single-family homes. While the move was celebrated by some housing advocates as an overdue step toward equity, it drew hours of divided public comments. Keep Watching 5 Watch More The ordinance sets a density cap of 70 units per acre across residential zones, preserves current height limits...

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (KABC) -- Just two weeks after celebrating his 40th birthday with his children and loved ones, Michael Siganoff's family is now mourning his death. Siganoff, a father of six, was struck and killed on June 27 in a crash at the intersection of 5th Street and Sierra Way in San Bernardino. San Bernardino police say the driver, 42-year-old Paulo Cesar Mendez, was under the influence of a narcotic when he ran into Siganoff's motorcycle. A 9-year-old child riding in Mendez's vehicle was ejected during the crash. Mendez was arrested and booked on suspicion of driving under the...

Explosion at fireworks factory in Yolo County, California

Over $1 Billion in COVID testing fraud alone. Much as with the previous entry, the $650 million substance abuse treatment scam allegedly run out of Pakistan, we have foreign nationals ripping off our health care system on a truly epic scale. Here’s a $703 million Pakistani scheme. Ruknuddin “Rick” Charolia, 43, Aamir Ali Arif, 32, Shearyar Arif, 28, and Fizza Farid, 29, all of Pakistan, were charged by indictment for their roles in a $703 million health care fraud scheme. As alleged in the indictment, they caused the submission of $703,834,742 in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicare...

President Donald Trump’s track record flies in the face of conventional wisdom from so-called “experts”— but they will be the last to admit it. Since his second inauguration, the “experts” have been relentless in their mission to minimize the Trump administration’s efforts with the economy, immigration, Iran, and beyond. Meanwhile, the stock market has soared. There were ZERO illegal border crossings in May, according to CBP. Iran’s nuclear infrastructure was left severely damaged without the threat of war on the horizon. All this, thanks to the decisive and, at times controversial, actions taken by the Trump administration.

The Kremlin said after the last conversation that its topic was the situation around the Zaporozhye nuclear power station, Ukraine’s shelling of the civilian infrastructure of Donbass, and prospects for a grain deal that subsequently failed due to the policies of Western countriesMOSCOW, July 1. /TASS/. The Presidents of Russia and France, Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron, have spoken over the phone for the first time in almost three years, according to TASS calculations. The last such conversation, of which the Kremlin informed, took place on September 11, 2022. The Kremlin said in a statement after the last conversation that...

A person was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents inside a Baltimore courthouse, prompting a criminal investigation into a Maryland corrections employee, according to the Baltimore City Sheriff's Office. The person was detained by two ICE agents on Tuesday, June 24, inside the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse, Baltimore City Sheriff Sam Cogen said. Sheriff Cogen told WJZ an unidentified employee with the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services took it upon themselves to call ICE about someone scheduled to come to their office. The sheriff believes that it falls out of line with their department...

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) issued a statement after President Donald Trump suggested he would be arrested for refusal to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. In Mamdani’s statement, he stated that Trump had “threatened” to have him “arrested, stripped” of his citizenship and “put in a detention camp and deported.” Mamdani, a Democrat socialist, also criticized Trump for praising New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D). “The President of the United States just threatened to have me arrested, stripped of my citizenship, put in a detention camp and deported,” Mamdani said. “Not because...

President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis confirmed on July 1 that the Sunshine State will soon start deputizing its National Guardsmen as immigration judges to expedite deportation decisions. ***“We’re offering up our National Guard and other folks in Florida to be deputized to be immigration judges. We’re working with the Department of Justice for the approvals,” DeSantis said during a joint press briefing.Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 20 empowering governors to deputize state law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration laws.“Ron’s already taken advantage of it,” Trump said on Tuesday. “He has my approval.” DeSantis said...

“USAID viewed its constituency as the United Nations, multinational NGOs, and the broader global community — not the U.S. taxpayers.”The Trump administration has officially shuttered the United States Agency for International Development after rolling its operations into the State Department.Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the end of the independent agency on Tuesday. Rubio said USAID funds would be better managed and more effective under State Department oversight than they have been in decades.“USAID had decades and a near-infinite taxpayer budget to advance American influence, promote economic development worldwide, and allow billions to stand on their own two feet,” Rubio...

Apropos of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s observation that the far-left Mainstream Media are lying about the Trump administration’s efforts to round up and deport illegal-alien rapists, murderers, and other criminals, DHS has detailed the “fake news” published or broadcast during June. Noem spoke at presser when she and President Trump visited the new Alligator Alcatraz illegal-alien detention facility. Attacks against agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, she said, have increased partly because of the media’s lies. Yesterday, DHS released the list of what it says are lies the media have told. Mainstream Media FibsThe DHS list of fibs, lies,...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday that the U.S. central bank would have eased monetary policy by now if not for President Donald Trump’s tariff plan.When asked during a panel if the Fed would have lowered rates again this year had Trump not announced his controversial plan to impose higher levies on imported goods earlier this year, Powell said, “I think that’s right.” “In effect, we went on hold when we saw the size of the tariffs and essentially all inflation forecasts for the United States went up materially as a consequence of the tariffs,” Powell said at European...

While the Democrat party mayoral primary in New York is stealing the headlines, those who have watched Marxist-Hegelian hybrid ideology overtake the party since the 1960s could have predicted this outcome.Democrat voters in New York City have chosen Zohran Mamdani as their mayoral candidate. He is an avowed socialist Islamist who has never held a real job, gratuitously tosses around promises of giving away almost everything for free, has publicly stated his determination to defund the police, campaigned on tax-payer funding of “gender-affirming care,” and who vociferously defends all illegal immigrants, including those convicted of heinous crimes, from deportation.Mamdani wants...

I had to share this moving video of the final march of the 41st Sergeant of the Guard, Sgt. 1st Class Andrew Jay. As a military history nut, one of my favorite (and repeated) experiences is watching the changing of the Guard at Arlington. The precision, dignity, and respect of the ceremony should be witnessed by every American. Since 1948, the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Regiment “The Old Guard” has guarded the Tomb 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This was the final march of the 41st Sergeant of the Guard and it was especially moving as Jay...

How reliant is your state on Uncle Sam’s wallet? Every year, billions in federal tax dollars are redistributed to the 50 states and the District of Columbia through grants, contracts, and benefit programs. *** Their dependency score blends two metrics: the state’s return‐on‐taxes ratio and the share of state revenues coming from federal sources. Importantly, this data does not include Medicaid payments.Finally, a state’s political affiliation is based on its voting history in the past five presidential elections. New Mexico tops the 2024 list for states most dependent on the federal government, with a perfect score of 100. Its residents...

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On June 22, 2025, the United States struck deep. Using bunker-buster bombs, Operation Midnight Hammer targeted Iran’s most fortified nuclear facility, Fordow, along with a constellation of related sites. Within hours, a new narrative emerged. According to some analysts and media commentators, Iran had foreseen the strike and whisked its highly enriched uranium out of harm’s way just days before the bombs fell. It is a seductive story, part thriller, part geopolitical chess game. But it is also, on closer inspection, fiction. Fordow is not a shipping warehouse. It is a subterranean stronghold. Situated 2,500 feet beneath the mountains near...