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FIRST ON FOX: A Senate Republican wants to crack down on public officials who use their position to grow their wealth. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, is set to introduce legislation that would create stiffer penalties for public officials who commit federal bank fraud, tax fraud, or loan or mortgage fraud. Cornyn’s bill comes on the heels of two such instances where top officials and lawmakers were hit with allegations of mortgage fraud.

There is a growing trend of objectively beautiful women complaining about the lack of male attention while enjoying a night out with their friends. Never in history have I heard of women complaining that men weren’t paying enough attention to them. However, after several decades of demonizing men for their advances, it seems men have finally taken the hint and backed off. There’s a social media trend right now of women posting videos frustrated that men aren’t approaching them romantically. Instead of exploring the reasons behind this shift with curiosity and compassion, many of these posts have a blaming tone...

Days after President Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics chief Erika McEntarfer, a Biden appointee who repeatedly released bad data on jobs creation with big revisions afterward, the establishment left continues to howl about President Trump. It's like they like the bad data. Here's Larry Summers making the television rounds, defending the indefensible: Now writer Don Surber has discovered a doozy of a BLS internal report from 2024, reported by Bloomberg News, that the agency has been mismanaging data up the wazoo. According to Bloomberg: The US Bureau of Labor Statistics is “not sufficiently focused” on how it disseminates key...

A call to restore the Reconciliation Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery at the national convention of the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War this past weekend is the latest example of the pushback on Marxist efforts to divide Americans.The Reconciliation Monument (officially known as the Confederate Memorial) was erected more than 100 years ago, surrounded by graves of Confederate soldiers, as part of the effort to reunite the country after the Civil War, which took the lives of about three-quarters of a million Americans. Unfortunately, the monument was removed in late 2023 as yet another part of the...

The Trump administration wants to defund the unconstitutional, left-wing, foreign-meddling National Endowment for Democracy (NED). So what did House Republicans just do? They voted to give the agency $315 million.According to the Daily Caller:In May, the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recommended eliminating federal funding for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), citing the organization’s pattern of partisan advocacy and hostility towards Republicans. However, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on National Security, Department of State and Related Programs advanced a bill on July 23 that would allocate $315 million to the organization for the upcoming fiscal year.“It might...

A 59-year-old man has been jailed in Gastonia, N.C., on charges of larceny after allegedly robbing an RBC Bank for $1 so he could get health care in prison. Richard James Verone handed a female teller a note demanding the money and claiming that he had a gun, according to the police report. He then sat down and waited for police to arrive. "… I say, 'I'll be sitting right over here, on the chair, waiting for the police,'" Verone told reporters, recalling the June 9 robbery in an interview from Gaston County Jail. And wait for the police, he...

ATLANTA (AP) — Anderson Clayton wanted a headline name to speak at North Carolina Democrats’ summer gala — but the state party chair bypassed familiar Capitol Hill figures, looking instead to Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker. She described him as “a real fighter” against President Donald Trump, someone who gets things done because he controls levers of government — unlike any Democrat in Washington.“I wanted people to hear from one of the Democratic governors who has defended their state, who could look at the president and say, ‘I’m in a position of power right now just like you are, and I’m...

An eastern Russian volcano has erupted for the first time in more than 500 years, which may have been related to an 8.8 magnitude earthquake last week... The Krasheninnikov Volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula emitted a plume of ash 3.7 miles into the sky overnight. The last recorded eruption of the volcano happened in the 15th century.. ... Last week's massive earthquake was the latest in a series of seismic events in the region, including another temblor that shook a region 11 times zones away from Moscow on the Pacific peninsula ... Krasheninnikov is one of 8 volcanoes nestled among...

Officials issued air quality alerts on Sunday and Monday for parts of Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Wisconsin. Smoke from ongoing wildfires in Canada is impacting the air quality in states across the Midwest and Northeast of the U.S. Officials issued air quality alerts on Sunday and Monday for parts of Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Wisconsin. The Air Quality Index (AQI), which is the federal measurement system used to calculate air pollution and hazards, had parts of the states in those regions at levels well over 100...

Aug 4 (Reuters) - The revisions to previous estimates of the size of U.S. payrolls gains for May and June that prompted President Donald Trump to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer on Friday were by any measure extraordinarily large. Indeed, the combined downward revision for the two months of 258,000 was the largest - outside of those during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic - since at least 1979. FIRST REVISION The monthly nonfarm payrolls report, released typically on the first Friday of each month, includes an initial estimate of employment changes for the immediately preceding...

Amazon MGM Studios is building on its partnership with “The Chosen” creator Dallas Jenkins with a series centered on the Biblical figure Joseph and his time in Egypt. Jenkins is attached to executive produce the series, titled “Joseph of Egypt,” under his 5&2 Studios banner. Craig Wright will serve as writer and executive producer on the project, which is currently in development. The official logline for the show states, “Betrayed by jealous brothers, Joseph defies all expectations and rises to incredible power in Egypt, second only to Pharaoh. But when his past catches up with him, he is confronted with...

Citing Canada's plans to recognize a Palestinian state and the persistence of fentanyl smuggling over the border, President Trump imposed a 35% tariff on goods shipped into the US from Canada. "As it is now, Hamas bombards Israel whenever it wants to," Trump asserted. "Establishing it as a Palestinian state will only worsen the situation. Canada needs to be more responsible." Prime Minister Mark Carney took offense, saying "Canada's government is making historic investments in border security to arrest drug traffickers, take down transnational gangs, and end migrant smuggling. These include thousands of new law enforcement and border security officers,...

The Boeing case is a cautionary tale of what can go wrong when a company fails to develop and implement sound internal quality controls that protect operational processes and encourage a culture of safety. At Boeing, whistleblowers reported problems with operating processes that were ignored by management and weren’t always reported to the board of directors. The company did not use internal audits to identify and correct operational problems, relying instead on FAA inspections to point out safety issues in its 737 MAX aircraft. Whistleblower warnings were ignored. Ultimately, Boeing became the target of lawsuits by shareholders and the government,...

THREAD EXPOSE 🚨 Tucker Carlson Deliberately Chose To Suppress the Hunter Biden Laptop Story In 2020 To Preserve His Friendship and Investment Relationships With Hunter Biden and The Biden Family 🚨 A Betrayal of Public Trust During the 2020 Election & How Tucker Helped Biden Get Away With Stealing The 2020 Election In the weeks leading up to the 2020 U.S. presidential election, a bombshell of unprecedented magnitude was poised to reshape the political landscape: the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, a digital trove containing evidence of corruption, foreign influence, and illicit activities tied to the Biden family. This was not...

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U.S. and Chinese officials may be able to settle many of their differences to reach a trade deal and avert punishing tariffs, but they remain far apart on one issue: the U.S. demand that China stop purchasing oil from Iran and Russia. "China will always ensure its energy supply in ways that serve our national interests," China's Foreign Ministry posted on X on Wednesday following two days of trade negotiations in Stockholm, responding to the U.S. threat of a 100% tariff. "Coercion and pressuring will not achieve anything. China will firmly defend its sovereignty, security and development interests," the ministry...

Your socks pick up microbes from every surface you step foot on. (Photo by K-FK on Shutterstock) ================================================================= Your feet are microbial hotspots. The area between your toes is packed with sweat glands, and when we wrap our feet in socks and shoes, we trap that moisture in a warm, humid cocoon that’s ideal for microbial growth. In fact, your feet may be home to a miniature rain forest of bacteria and fungi, with anywhere from 100 to 10 million microbial cells per square centimeter of skin surface. Not only do feet host a huge variety of microorganisms – up...

China’s leadership, including Xi Jinping, is now openly admitting to a crisis of industrial “overcapacity,” a problem they have termed “involution.” This counterproductive and “disorderly competition” is causing destructive price wars, particularly in the massive auto industry. While Beijing is attempting to use dictatorial measures, such as price controls, to address the issue, experts argue that this approach will fail.