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The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has referred Sen. Schiff to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for mortgage fraud. It seems that for the past decade the Senator has claimed two different properties as his primary residence in order to get the lower mortgage rates allowed by the FHFA for a person's primary residence. Schiff admitted that "for a number of years I inadvertently claimed both my Maryland house and my California condo as my primary residence because I thought as a member of Congress I was entitled to claim two primary residences--one in the state I represent and one...

A 60-foot private yacht crashed into an aircraft carrier-turned-museum docked in San Diego, which led to $100,000 in damage and the arrest of the yacht’s captain, who the police charged with “boating under the influence” after surveillance cameras picked up the crash. For background, on July 21, 2025, the Port of San Diego Harbor police issued a press release confirming the arrest of Frank D’Anna, a 40-year-old who had been caught on camera crashing his yacht into the USS Midway Museum, a docked aircraft carrier permanently situated at the San Diego downtown waterfront. Moreover, the police confirmed that after crashing...

Vice President JD Vance accused Microsoft of displacing American workers through mass layoffs while relying heavily on the H-1B visa program to hire immigrants. Vance called Big Tech’s approach to replacing Americans “a bullshit story” at an event on Wednesday.Vice President JD Vance launched a scathing attack on Microsoft Wednesday, questioning the tech giant’s practice of laying off thousands of American workers while simultaneously applying for a significant number of H-1B visas to hire foreign employees. Speaking at a bipartisan event co-hosted by the Hill and Valley Forum, Vance expressed concern over the ethics and economic rationale behind such actions.“You...

An abortion business in New Hampshire has been accused of attempting to groom and indoctrinate young girls by promoting its business using American Girl Dolls, which have long been marketed to girls 12 and under. While it is unclear if the American Girl company approved the use of its dolls in this manner, its own TikTok account shows it has shifted some of its marketing to young adults — many of whom grew up with the dolls and remain fans. Key Takeaways: * Lovering Health Center, a New Hampshire abortion business, used American Girl Dolls in a recent Facebook post...

Joy Behar accidentally let it slip that “The View” is taking a break on Thursday morning’s show. And before we go on hiatus — we only have one more show after this. I’m allowed to say that, right?” Behar said as she trashed President Trump. “Too late now,” Alyssa Farah Griffin said. It doesn’t appear that Behar is referring to the show’s annual summer hiatus. WATCH: VIDEO AT LINK.......................... Behar’s admission comes after Stephen Colbert’s late night show was canceled after he was losing $40 million a year. On Thursday CBS announced it canceled the Late Show with Stephen Colbert...

More than 20 federal employee unions, professional associations and good government groups on Monday urged Senate lawmakers to reject President Trump’s ... ..... “By law, the special counsel must be ‘an attorney who, by demonstrated ability, background, training and experience, is especially qualified to carry out the functions of the position,’” the groups wrote. “As head of OSC, the special counsel should be someone who respects federal workers, who will treat them fairly and without bias. The special counsel must be a person who will exercise their duties in a nonpartisan manner, a person of honesty and integrity who has...

For filmmaker Scott Mann, three dozen F-bombs had the makings of a million-dollar headache. When Mann wrapped “Fall,” a 2022 thriller about two women stranded atop a 2,000-foot radio tower, he figured the hard part was over. Shot in the Mojave Desert on a $3-million budget, the film didn’t have money to burn and seemed on course. But Lionsgate wanted a PG-13 rating and, with 35 expletives, “Fall” was headed for an R. Reshoots would cost more than $1 million — far beyond what the production could afford. In the past, a director might have taken out a second mortgage...

Celebrity chef Anne Burrell passed away suddenly at 55 in her Brooklyn home last month. The sudden death of the Food Network’s star stunned friends, co-workers and fans. Burrell found love later in life and recently got married. She appeared to be in “high spirits” according to close friends. However, according to a fellow celebrity chef, Anne Burrell also privately struggled. On Thursday, it was revealed Anne Burrell committed suicide. “The NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner says the official manner of death was suicide and the cause of death was “acute intoxication due to the combined effects of diphenhydramine,...

Catholics are pushing back after Babylon Bee Managing Editor Joel Berry accused Gaza’s Christian community of aiding Hamas — just days after three Catholics were killed in a July 17 Israeli strike on Holy Family Church, the only Catholic parish in Gaza. “This won’t be easy for people to hear,” Berry wrote on X July 19, “but there are only about 200 professed Catholics still living in Gaza and they all support Hamas.” “True Christian faith still exists in Gaza, but it’s all underground,” Berry added. “Anyone allowed by Hamas to practice openly is allowed to do so only because...

It’s bad enough that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting had been funneling millions in tax dollars to leftist propaganda mills NPR and PBS over the decades. But what if we were to tell you that the CPB funded one of America's "fact-checking" giants backed by George Soros responsible for censoring conservatives on social media platforms for years? Because that’s exactly what we’re about to tell you. MRC Business discovered that the CPB, which is fully funded by tax dollars through federal appropriations, gave $599,330 to the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in 2023. Poynter, which runs the left-tilting International Fact-Checking...

Throughout President Donald Trump’s political career, Rupert Murdoch has played the role of a scold and a cheerleader. He has been a target, and frequent beneficiary, of Trump’s whims. But Trump’s recent lawsuit against the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal tests their mutually beneficial bond. On Friday, one day after the Journal published a story alleging that Trump wrote a “bawdy” birthday letter to financier and deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, Trump sued the Journal, the two authors of the story and a raft of corporate overseers including Murdoch, whose family trust controls the Journal’s parent company and that of its...

House Republicans are planning to subpoena the DOJ for the release of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, after a congressional panel approved the move Wednesday. The effort, led by Democrats, represents a major breakthrough after they have spent weeks trying to force Republicans to take a vote on the divisive issue surrounding the late financier and convicted sex offender. The House Oversight Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement, which is led by Republicans, approved the motion from Democratic Rep. Summer Lee in a 8-2 vote. It occurred just as the House was taking its last floor vote of the month to...

But instead, as America grows more diverse, it has become more conservative. Why?When I met Joey Gibson in the spring of 2018, I was sure he was an oddity. He was a Japanese American leader of a right-wing group in the Pacific Northwest that rallied for Donald Trump and menaced opponents on the left. But Mr. Gibson also disavowed white supremacy and spoke candidly about harms against the Black community, building a movement that was at once multiracial and conservative. For decades, the dominant assumption has been that people of color in the United States would find their natural political...

From Auschwitz to Abortion: The Tragedy of Henry Morgentaler It has long haunted me how Henry Morgentaler, sometimes referred to as Canada’s “father of abortion,” survived Nazi concentration camps only to go on to perpetrate similar horrors against the smallest and most vulnerable members of the human family: preborn children. How did a Jewish Holocaust survivor from Poland—someone who endured the worst of man’s inhumanity to man at the infamous Nazi camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau and later Dachau—go on to dehumanize and destroy tens of thousands of preborn human beings, robbing them of their most fundamental right: the right to life?...

Operation Grayskull Eradicated Four Dark Web Child Abuse Sites and Led to the Convictions of 18 Offenders to Date, Who Have Collectively Received More than 300 Years in Prison Today, the Justice Department announced the results of Operation Grayskull, a highly successful joint effort between the Department of Justice and the FBI that resulted in the dismantling of four dark web sites dedicated to images and videos containing child sexual abuse material (CSAM). To date, the operation has led to the convictions of 18 offenders, including a Minnesota man who was sentenced yesterday to 250 months in prison and lifetime...

One expert says there's no reason to be alarmed because there are still more births than deaths in the U.S.The fertility rate in the U.S. dropped to an all-time low in 2024 with less than 1.6 kids per woman, new federal data released Thursday shows.The U.S. was once among only a few developed countries with a rate that ensured each generation had enough children to replace itself — about 2.1 kids per woman. But it has been sliding in America for close to two decades as more women are waiting longer to have children or never taking that step at...

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Jazz musician Chuck Mangione, a two-time Grammy winner known for his ubiquitous ‘70s hit “Feels So Good,” has died. He was 84. Mangione died at home in his sleep on Tuesday, July 22, a spokesperson for the star confirms to PEOPLE. With more than 30 albums under his belt and 14 Grammy Award nominations, Mangione was a prolific musician who played the flugelhorn and trumpet. He also had a notable recurring role on the animated sitcom King of the Hill, where he played himself as a Mega Lo Mart celebrity spokesperson. Mangione was born and raised in Rochester, N.Y., and...

BOSTON (AP) — More than 120 cases, including some for assault on family members and police, were dismissed Tuesday in Boston, the latest fallout from a monthslong dispute over pay that has led public defenders to stop taking new clients.At a mostly empty courtroom, Boston Municipal Court Chief Justice Tracy-Lee Lyons invoked the Lavallee protocol in dismissing case after case. It requires cases be dropped if a defendant hasn’t had an attorney for 45 days and released from custody if they haven’t had one for seven days. Tuesday was the first time it was invoked to drop cases, while suspects...

Remember when the Biden regime and their intel lapdogs decided Tulsi Gabbard was such a threat to their agenda that they smeared her as a “Russian asset” and quietly slapped her on a terror watch list? Yeah. About that. Fast forward to today—and that same woman is now one of the most powerful, plugged-in voices in the country, with access to everything the corrupt left never wanted the public to see. Tulsi isn’t just speaking out… she’s ripping the lid off the entire operation. And she’s doing it with a level of calm precision that’s got regime bigwigs shaking in...