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Even though it’s been nearly 250 years since the Continental Congress declared independence from Britain, the study of the American Revolution is far from over. For decades, archaeologists have dug at Revolutionary War battlefields across the country, yielding fascinating artifacts. From southern sites to northern battlefields, these places are still sharing secrets — and shedding new light on our country’s founding. As America celebrates its 250th, below are a few Revolutionary War battlefields that are still revealing new discoveries. 1. Bunker Hill One of the earliest military engagements of the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought in...

Google billionaire Sergey Brin is reportedly among the many New York City landlords fearing more hurt from capitalism-hating Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s rent freeze — seemingly dumping his stake in a real-estate fund for pennies on the dollar. Amphitheatre LLC, an investment firm affiliated with Brin, last year sold shares in a New York real estate fund that holds nearly 5,900 units back to its manager, A&E Real Estate, according to documents filed in December and earlier reported by Bloomberg. It is unclear how much Brin invested with A&E — which Mamdani called out earlier this year — or how much...

The Supreme Court strengthened President Trump’s control over independent agencies in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, overruling 91 years of precedent that allowed Congress to insulate certain executive branch officials with firing protections. In an expansion of presidential power, the ruling gives Trump the right to sack Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, a Democratic appointee who took center stage in his quest to set aside constraints on his removal authority.It formally overturns the high court’s 1935 landmark decision, Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, which laid the groundwork for certain agencies across the executive branch to enjoy a degree of...

Luigi Mangione’s wild ride through the justice system stalled out Monday — when he got stuck in a Manhattan court elevator for 20 minutes, delaying a hearing in his federal case. The 28-year-old accused killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was in the lift with his escort of US Marshals, headed to the courtroom, when the contraption suddenly stopped, courthouse sources told The Post. “It was some sort of elevator issue, that’s all I know,” Mangione’s lawyer, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, said when asked about the snafu outside the courtroom. “Can’t wait to hear what you guys find out about that!”...

The Lions opted to part ways with Arnold less than a week after his arrest, mere hours after he was granted the freedom that would have allowed him to continue preparing for the season with the team as he awaited trial.

A Paris politician blamed Americans and US air conditioning for the record-breaking heatwave in Europe that has resulted in more than 1,300 excess deaths. After US tourists mocked France over the lack of air conditioning across the country amid 104 degree temperatures, Audrey Pulvar, deputy mayor of Paris for international relations, claimed the situation was partly America’s fault. “Dear American journalists and social media ‘influencers’: for days, some of you have been criticizing and making fun of Paris because the city does not have A/C in every room…OMG, this is so rich!” Pulvar wrote on social media. “As the second-largest...

A woman unleashed bear spray at a Lower Manhattan hotel Monday while fighting over luggage with another lady she went to a Pride Week event with — leaving eight people needing medical treatment, cops and sources said. The unidentified suspect discharged the mace just after 8 a.m. inside a room at the DoubleTree by Hilton New York Downtown hotel on Stone Street near Whitehall Street, during a spat with a 28-year-old woman, according to police and sources. The two women, who were staying at the hotel, knew each other and had gone to a Pride event together the night before...

RealRobert@Real_RobNAnd this is,The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe:Barack Hussein Obama said ‘I want this done,’ ” I want to overthrow the United States government.@CIADirector“All the world can now see the truth: Brennan, Clapper and Comey manipulated intelligence and silenced career professionals — all to get Trump.”@CIADirector “This was Obama, Comey, Clapper and Brennan deciding ‘We’re going to screw Trump. We’re going to create this and put the imprimatur of an IC assessment in a way that nobody can question it.’ They stamped it as Russian collusion and then classified it so nobody could see it.”New York post...

A resident of Hewlett, New York, has been accused of defrauding Medicaid out of more than $2.5 million through a scheme that denied children access to necessary nutritional products. Nduka Lewis Ekpenyong, 36, submitted over 6,000 Medicaid claims via his business, Duke Medical, Inc., for PediaSure with Peptides, a product he largely never actually procured, according to prosecutors. [snip] “Ekpenyong heartlessly charged Medicaid millions for pediatric formula that was never delivered, making it harder for kids to get the care they needed,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a post. “While Nduka Ekpenyong was buying luxury cars with...

He says the situation is worse than it looks and that family members have been denied access by the military and police in their attempts to find their children. Save the Children NGO is already operating in Venezuela. “They are taking traumatized and orphaned children for child trafficking.” “It’s not even humans doing it. These people are evil.” Video Transcript SummaryThe X post by @ShadowofEzra shares a video of a man (split-screen with disaster footage of a child being held amid rubble) who claims that elites have quickly begun trafficking children in Venezuela following a major earthquake. Key claims in...

The Supreme Court upheld states’ ability to count mail ballots postmarked by election day but arriving later, which conservatives have argued slows vote counting but liberals defend as expanding voter access.California officials and voting-rights advocates say the decision protects voters, but agreed the state needs to speed up vote counting in the future. California officials cheered a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday that allows states to continue counting mail ballots postmarked by election day but received in the days after — calling it a win for voter participation and access, including in the upcoming November midterm.They also acknowledged delays in...

In the governor’s race, Vivek Ramaswamy reminds voters that Amy Acton closed their schools.Canton, Ohio“You guys know I’ve worked with everyone on any side of an aisle who’ll solve a problem. But it’s now about extreme wealth, power, ideology, special interests, being shoved through the black box of state houses where a lot of times folks can’t even name who works there.” So said Amy Acton, Democratic nominee for Ohio governor, at the IBEW Local 212—the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers—on June 16 in the Cincinnati suburb of Sharonville. The two sentences nicely capture her campaign strategy. Emphasize bipartisanship and...

The U.S. Supreme Court is busily dishing out its final opinions before heading into America’s 250th birthday. But it’s also announcing which cases it’ll be hearing in its upcoming fall term. As part of its Monday order list, the high court revealed that it will be taking up and holding arguments in a series of legal disputes involving major policy questions. Among those granted “cert” is Republican National Committee v. Mi Familia Vota, which deals with a challenge to provisions of Arizona law requiring residents to prove they’re American citizens when registering to vote. As The Federalist previously reported, the...

“. . . there is no saving the Left. Whatever happens to them, it will have to happen without people like you or me trying to get them to return to any place of sanity.” — Sasha Stone on Substack A punishing heat-dome creeps over the eastern half of the country just in time for the gala Fourth of July week. The days are brutal, but anything and everything crawls out of the woodwork when that blazing sun goes down and the moon comes out. Everyone’s on edge, but the edge of what? I will tell you. First, could there...

“They are stealing the children… they are taking the children who are found alone.” A desperate mother says her daughter was rescued after the earthquake, but when she went to claim her, she was allegedly told the child’s last name had been changed. The little girl has since disappeared. She claims that many children found alone are being taken, with their identities altered. Video Transcript Summary Transcription / Translation of the video (based on post context and caption):The X post features a video of a desperate Venezuelan mother speaking about her missing daughter after an earthquake. Key content from the...

Last Friday in Chicago, the Obama Presidential Center opened with Bruce Springsteen, Steven Spielberg, and other celebrities joining former presidents George W. Bush and Joe Biden, along with 2024 presidential loser Kamala Harris. The Center aims to celebrate “the remarkable story of President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, America’s first Black president and First Lady.” What it truly signifies was best outlined by two prominent liberals who did notattend the gala event.In an August 2023 article at Tablet magazine, editor David Samuels interviewed Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, David Garrow. In...

GROK's description of the 20 sec video clip below:Video content: The attached 20-second clip shows President Trump unveiling large display boards for the award, featuring a prominent "1776" logo, compass emblem, American flags, and lists of honorees or participants in a formal setting.The White House repostedU.S. Department of Education@usedgovGet your popcorn ready for a showdown! Tomorrow, 8 PM ET @cbsJune 29, 2026 The rest of GROK's summary:@usedgov promotes a CBS special: The official U.S. Department of Education post hypes the Presidential 1776 Award for Civics airing tomorrow, June 30, 2026, at 8 PM ET on CBS, celebrating high school students'...

ransomnote: Grassley has held Artic Frost hearings since Sept 2025. The post below is about a hearing in late June (likely June 23–28).John F Kennedy Jr@John_F_kJr🚨BREAKING: Senator Chuck Grassley just announced that a FBI whistleblower revealed to him an FBI project called "Artic Frost" that targeted groups like Charlie Kirks TPUSA!This is a BOMBSHELL!He says that they are releasing those documents TODAY!"In total, 92 Republican targets, including Republican groups and Republican linked individuals were placed under investigative scope of Arctic Frost.""On that political list was one of Charlie Kirk‘s groups, turning point usa. In other words, arctic frost wasn‘t just...

... Wiener is the Democratic front-runner looking to replace Nancy Pelosi in the House. He’s also a gay, pro-trans leftist who’s described Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide and called for the U.S. to stop giving military aid to Israel. So he attended the trans march, as he does every year, to stand with those he thought of as his people. But Wiener is Jewish, and he took a bit too long in deciding that he needed to mimic faithfully the hardcore anti-Israel monomaniacs. So they’re now teaching him an important lesson: A Jew who shows any ambivalence about...

Scientists from NTU Singapore and Waseda University have developed a flexible "diving suit" for cyborg cockroaches, enabling the insects to survive and move underwater and in low-oxygen environments for up to three hours. Published today in Nature Communications, the study could expand the use of cyborg insects in search-and-rescue missions, especially in disaster zones where flooded rubble, puddles or partially submerged spaces can block access for conventional robots. Cyborg insects are living insects fitted with electronic controllers that guide their movement. Because they use the insect's own muscles to move, they require far less power than small artificial robots, which...