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A Southern California city is facing backlash after plans for a completely unpatriotic Fourth of July celebration leaked online. The post on X came from an internal email showing a breakdown of the schedule of events for the July 4th San Diego County Fireworks celebration, per San Diego County’s El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells. The itinerary kicks off shortly after 5 p.m. with a celebration of Native Americans and Local Tribal Community Stories, including a Tribal Intimate Blessing and a Welcoming and Land Acknowledgment. From there, the schedule devotes several hours to Latino Community Stories, Asian American, Native Hawaiian and...

OSZ @OpenSourceZone 2026 Senate Maine Race 🔴 Susan Collins (inc): 50% 🔵 Graham Platner: 47% Fox News (Beacon/Shaw) | 6/23-6/27

Colorado House Primary Results 2026 Longtime Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette faces an energetic challenge in her primary, with democratic socialist Melat Kiros winning prominent national endorsements and building a base of volunteers. Meanwhile, Democratic voters are also picking a candidate in Colorado’s most closely divided congressional district, the 8th District currently held by GOP Rep. Gabe Evans.

German supporters left Boston shell-shocked on Monday after their World Cup squad fell to a scrappy Paraguay team in a penalty shootout during the Round of 32. The devastation, it seems, has broken even the team’s most optimistic and joyful supporter. Freddy, or @FreddyLA7 as his handle would read, became the viral sensation of this World Cup. A wide-eyed German youngster, Freddy gained a (seemingly organic) following in the lead-up to the World Cup by posting his travels throughout the United States, discovering the innocent joys of late-night Taco Bell, diverse landscapes, and Ella Langley as he and his German...

Rep. Diana DeGette, a 15-term incumbent, is facing her most serious primary challenge yet from lawyer and PhD student Melat Kiros on Tuesday. Melat Kiros was born in 1997, the year her representative in the U.S. House, Democrat Diana DeGette, took office. On Tuesday, Kiros hopes to unseat her. The next frontier of the fight for the Democratic Party is in Denver, where DeGette, a 15-term incumbent and longtime progressive, is facing her most serious primary challenge yet from Kiros, a 29-year-old democratic socialist and first-time candidate. Democrats’ widespread dissatisfaction and anger with their party leadership and a push for...

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Stunning documentary ‘Traditio,’ spotlighting the SSPX priesthood, is a must-watchAlready in the first five minutes of the documentary, far more about the priesthood is expressed than most modern Catholics receive in their entire catechesis.The recently released documentary on the SSPX, Traditio, is a magnificent work of art in the fullest sense. This is not just because of the sheer visible and audible beauty of the film. It is, most profoundly, because the film leaves a mark on you. It will change the way you see the priesthood. If you are on the fence about the SSPX, it will change the...

A Moorpark man has been sentenced after he pleaded guilty in the death of a 69-year-old Jewish demonstrator who suffered a head injury in an alleged altercation during dueling Israel-Hamas war protests in Thousand Oaks. Loay Abdel Fattah Alnaji, a 53-year-old Moorpark College professor, was sentenced to one year in Ventura County Jail and two years of felony probation in the 2023 death of pro-Israel demonstrator and retiree Paul Kessler, the Ventura County DA announced Tuesday.

June 30 (Reuters) - Gold edged higher from ‌a near seven-month low on Tuesday but remained on track for its worst quarterly performance since the second quarter of 2013, as the dollar remained firm amid expectations of U.S. interest rate hikes. Spot gold inched up 0.4% at $4,031.29 per ​ounce, as of 1150 GMT, after touching its lowest level since November 2025 earlier in the ​session. U.S. gold futures for August delivery lost 0.2% to $4,045.30/oz. "The failure to sustain ⁠gains (for gold) highlights the current fragile sentiment, where traders continue to sell into strength rather than buy ​into weakness,...

Unlicensed food trucks have taken over prime spots around the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and this problem persists at the Great American State Fair. A small group of operators runs most of these illegal trucks as a coordinated network, Washingtonian reported. Longtime licensed food truck operator Zack Graybill walked around the National Mall during the fair with reporter Jessica Sidman and observed illegal trucks blocking traffic and hydrants, creating fire hazards, charging high prices and intimidating legal vendors through turf wars. “For all the people eating food right here? The food isn’t being refrigerated. That’s f'ed up. That’s gross,”...

It's been six years and change since the world was sold a hoax made of whole cloth. The lie that was covid was pushed on the American public and the world. Miss-information by the government, for the government, pushed by the democrat's, the news media, the CDC and the holly of holly big PHARM. Eisenhower warned of the military industrial complex and we have seen the birth of the medical industrial complex, "big PHARM". We saw Fauci his hands all over the WuHan lab and gain of function research, ignore the man behind the curtain, nothing to see here move...

The post-pandemic days of coffee badging and logging in from the couch may be coming to an end. More employers have been rolling out novel ways to keep tabs on workers' whereabouts. And now, retail giant Target is doubling down on its attendance policy with a new points system. Starting this September, Target will begin tracking the unexcused tardiness and absences of its store and warehouse workers with a new points system, according to Business Insider reporting confirmed by the company. Staffers' attendance violations will be tallied up and addressed accordingly: a quarter of a point for being more than...

Sec. Rubio and Pres. Trump should allow only certified non-pregnant women from foreign nations visas of 6 month duration, to then be recertified before an extension is granted. If pregnant they can go home and have their babies and then reapply for another visa.

🚨 BREAKING: A @FreeBeacon investigation reveals Rep. Ro Khanna—who rails against the ultra-rich who "hoard wealth"—lives in a $6M D.C. mansion with a four-story elevator while his family's $340M+ fortune sits in the exact trusts, hedge funds, and LLCs he condemns. Those trusts made 4,100+ stock trades worth ~$53M in 2025—even as Khanna leads the push to BAN members of Congress from trading stocks—while he claims "zero knowledge" of the trades. His kids (under 10) hold stakes in three private golf clubs, a $65B wealth firm, and a distressed-debt hedge fund—the same vehicles he attacks—while his wife drives a $190K...

NEW YORK — The largest digital camera ever built is starting to capture images of unseen corners of the universe. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun its cosmic survey, meant to capture swathes of the sky in more depth and detail. Perched on a Chilean mountaintop, the telescope will point its eye at the southern sky for the next 10 years, taking hundreds of images per night. Researchers hope Rubin’s observations will help them take a better census of the universe, mapping billions of stars in the Milky Way and billions more galaxies beyond it. It takes pictures...

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SpaceXAI has become a major force for good in Memphis and surrounding communities. • SpaceXAI’s expansion is projected to push local tax revenue above $100 million • Employs almost 3,000 people locally in Memphis • The Musk Foundation donated $350,000 to Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis • Has paid tens of millions of dollars in property taxes to Memphis and Shelby County • Spent $10 million in 2025 with Memphis restaurants and food vendors • Starlink is also giving eligible Memphis-area residents half-price service. • 80% of the construction workforce was hired from the Memphis community • Hired...

June 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump ​reported more than $1.4 billion in income from ‌his family’s crypto ventures last year, showing how he now earns most of his income from digital assets ​that have benefited from his policies, according ​to a review of his latest financial ⁠disclosures on Tuesday. The filings, his annual disclosure for ​2025 with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, ​showed he received more than $500 million from World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture he and his sons co-founded. ​Trump reported another $635 million from the sale of ​his $TRUMP meme coins.

When Americans think of the beverage that fueled the American Revolution, they usually picture black tea — but it turns out that green tea was just as popular. The Founding Fathers and their contemporaries drank both types of tea, Bruce Richardson, the Kentucky-based founder of Elmwood Inn Fine Teas, told Fox News Digital. British subjects “were as likely to be drinking green tea as black tea, whether you were in Jane Austen [era] England … or you were in colonial Boston,” he added. “There were five teas, all from China, because that was the only country that was exporting tea,”...

A quiet Brooklyn storefront served as a key part of a $1 billion Medicare fraud scheme led by the Russian mob, a federal indictment charges — and could even have been backed by the Kremlin. The scheme was so brazen, one medical supply company linked to the outfit submitted bills totaling over $250 million for urinary catheters in 2023 alone, according to the feds. The number was so large it amounted to $50 million more than the combined spend of every other medical provider in the country on catheters that year. The scam started in 2022 when a Russia-based transnational...