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Kamala Harris is quietly strengthening ties with one of the Democratic Party’s fastest-rising progressive stars, holding an extended private phone call with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The conversation, which took place last week, focused on the future of the party and served as the beginning of what is expected to be a longer series of discussions between the two, Axios reports. “This is about positioning for the 2028 primary where no candidate knows where the lane for support for Palestinian rights is going to be but they know there’s going to be one,” Republican consultant Mike Madrid told...

As America is approaching its 250th birthday, it is nothing short of extraordinary that the American experiment has lasted this long. After all, world history is jam packed with stories of monarchies, conquest, wars, usurpations of power, chance, change, and adaptability rooted in the motives and intentions of man, consequentially whether that be for good or for evil.

President Trump shouldn’t waste time chasing a final Iran deal — and instead prepare Americans for resuming military operations by targeting Tehran’s economic lifeline, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg told The Post.“[We should be telling Americans] the fight’s not over. It’s going to take a day or two — buckle up,” Kellogg, a former Trump adviser, said in an interview Wednesday. “The American people are great about that … if they explain it to them, they’ll understand it.”Kellogg is skeptical of the ongoing 60-day US-Iran talks outlined in the memorandum of understanding signed by Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Ooh Rah! Looking The Part! U.S. Marine Corps recruit Angel Onofre Jr. with Fox Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion receives his weekly haircut at Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD) San Diego, CA. Recruits receive haircuts weekly during their time at MCRD San Diego in order to maintain a uniform appearance and promote good hygiene throughout recruit training. Onofre is a naive of Lake County, Illinois. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Yvonna Guyette) (This image was captured in color and changed to black and white.) Canteen Mission StatementShowing...

The US and Iran on Sunday agreed to a weeklong de-escalation in the Strait of Hormuz, cooling tensions just in time for Fourth of July celebrations. The agreement aimed to keep things quiet for US and Iran technical teams negotiating indirectly with one another in Qatar, a US official confirmed to The Post. The deal has the added benefit of taking down the temperature as the US prepares for America’s 250th birthday and Iran holds funeral ceremonies for slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Friday, Saturday and Monday. The temporary calm comes even as Washington and Tehran remain locked in...

NPR’s legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg went on “All Things Considered” Tuesday to take full accountability and apologize for falsely reporting that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring. “I scared everybody half to death for about five minutes, and it was — it’s entirely on me, it’s not anybody else’s fault,” Totenberg said. NPR quickly retracted a story early Tuesday after mistakenly reporting that Justice Alito was retiring. The justice was nominated to the Supreme Court by President George W. Bush in October 2005. The story has since been replaced by an editor’s note which states: “Earlier today we...

Picture this: You're enjoying a delicious bowl of mushroom soup, when suddenly you notice hundreds of tiny people dressed in cartoonish clothing marching across your tablecloth, jumping into your bowl, swimming around, and clinging to your spoon as you lift it for another taste. You're not dreaming — you've just experienced the effects of a mushroom known scientifically as Lanmaoa asiatica. It belongs to an entirely different class of Fungi than the more commonly known “magic mushrooms” and remains far more mysterious.

A waterspout formed over a lake in Germany in a rare weather event that caused a stir in the area. The phenomenon was seen forming over Lake Constance near Lindau on Wednesday, German news agency DPA reported. 1:00 VIDEO AT LINK...............

Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff narrowly won his Senate seat in a January 2021 runoff, defeating Republican David Perdue by just over a percentage point. New Fox News polling suggests a different dynamic this time, as Ossoff holds a double-digit lead over GOP challenger Mike Collins in the 2026 Georgia Senate race.

More than two million Russian and Ukrainian troops have been killed or wounded in the four years that Russia has been waging war against its neighbor, according to a new study, a bleak milestone as Russia’s assault grinds on. The study, published on Wednesday by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said Russia has borne the heavier toll, with 1.4 million troops killed or wounded since February 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine. Of that total, 450,000 were killed, a number that is four times greater than U.S. fatalities in all wars combined since World War II. Ukrainian...

A state lawmaker was booted from the House floor after declining to remove his American flag-themed jacket. Such sartorial conflicts, believe it or not, have a long history in Harrisburg. Rep. Eric Davanzo, R-Westmoreland County, was seen roaming the Capitol on Tuesday wearing a red-and-white-striped blazer and a blue tie with white stars — a motif that he said was to commemorate the upcoming Fourth of July holiday and the nation’s 250th anniversary. But after entering the House chamber, Davanzo said he was told by a security staffer that “the Speaker is going to ask you to leave or take...

President Donald Trump responded to Tuesday’s Supreme Court’s ruling striking down his birthright citizenship executive order by appearing to back immigration legislation that would further clarify how immigrants can become citizens.In a 6-3 ruling, justices held that an executive order Trump issued on the first day of his second term violated the Constitution. The order greatly restricted the circumstances in which a baby born in the United States would automatically be granted American citizenship.The Fourteenth Amendment states, in part, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States...

The suspect who threatened a mass shooting and led police on a heavily armed standoff at the Sunset Station Casino parking garage appeared in court Wednesday. Allison Howlett faces several charges including assault with a deadly weapon, domestic violence, making a threat related to an act of terrorism, grand larceny of a vehicle, grand larceny of a firearm, and resisting a public officer with a firearm. Howlett appeared virtually in Wednesday's hearing. A judge set bail for Howlett at $500,000 during the court appearance. This comes after Howlett's ex-spouse called Henderson police to report Howlett for stealing her car and...

LINEUP NOTES USMNT vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina 2026 FIFA World Cup – Round of 32 July 1, 2026 San Francisco Bay Area Stadium; Santa Clara, Calif. Kickoff: 5 p.m. PT / 8 p.m. ET on FOX, Telemundo and Peacock Radio: Fútbol de Primera Fans can follow the USMNT on X (@USMNT), Instagram (@USMNT), Facebook, USSoccer.com Match Hub and the official U.S. Soccer App. Today’s USMNT Starting XI vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina: 24-Matt Freese, 2-Sergiño Dest, 3-Chris Richards 4-Tyler Adams, 5-Antonee Robinson, 8-Weston McKennie, 10-Christian Pulisic, 13-Tim Ream (Capt.), 16-Alex Freeman, 17-Malik Tillman, 20-Folarin Balogun Substitutes: 1-Matt Turner, 25-Chris Brady, 6-Auston...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The time is now. Now to push the momentum of this tournament. Now to raise the level of the U.S. men's national team program. Now to reward the American fans who have dreamed of a team and a month and a chance just like this one. Now to make history. "This group," Gio Reyna said, "deserves something special." It does. The old sports adage that success is when preparation and opportunity meet has never felt more meaningful for an American men's team: The U.S. has its most talented roster of players. Its most successful coach. A...

Russia is grinding its way into Kostiantynivka, a key stronghold in Ukraine's eastern "fortress belt" long coveted by the Kremlin, even as its gains across the rest of the 1,200-km front line have largely stalled. Fighting has begun to seep into the city ​itself. Small groups of Russian soldiers are attempting to infiltrate its outskirts, senior Ukrainian commanders said last week, suggesting close-quarters assaults could follow. Kostiantynivka is the southernmost of four key ‌settlements forming a defensive line central to Ukraine's effort to hold the heavily industrialised Donetsk region. The push towards it underscores Moscow's enduring manpower advantage, even as...

Researchers at Binghamton have studied how wars, such as in Ukraine, have led to better landmine detection and don't require internet connections.Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: Researchers at Binghamton University used AI technology to discover a new way to detect plastic landmines in vast war zones—and it doesn't even require an internet connection. The research, Deep Learning and Multiview-Based Detection of Scatterable PFM-1 Landmines: Performance, Out-of-Sample Evaluation, and Field Readiness, recently appeared in the journal Geomatics and examined the prevalence of small landmines encased in plastic to deter metal detectors and other geophysical techniques like asground-penetrating...

Zhang Yadi, 23, also known as Tara, is supposed to be studying at a prestigious university in the UK.Instead she is believed to be in detention in China.In one of her last posts on the social media platform "X", she wished the Dalai Lama a happy 90th birthday. She had also helped edit an online Chinese language platform promoting Tibetan rights while studying in France.Her words of support for Tibetans, posted while abroad, are believed to have put her in prison. Beijing views the exiled spiritual leader as a separatist and what it calls the Tibet Autonomous Region, which it...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit Wednesday taking aim at California’s ban on Glock pistols the day it was slated to take effect.Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB1127 into law in October 2025, making California the first state to ban the popular pistol. The lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California,

Semafor reported on Project 2029’s "Kids Over Clicks" proposal, which outlines Democrats' plans to regulate social media and AI companies. Democrats are gearing up for the 2028 election and preparing a list of policy priorities—dubbed "Project 2029"—should they retake the White House. The first Project 2029 proposal is not about affordability, healthcare, or foreign policy. No, the Democrats' first proposal concerns children's online safety: the issue fueling lawmakers' bipartisan push to impose greater government control over the internet. Semafor's Nicholas Wu first reported on the "Kids Over Clicks" proposal on Monday. The proposal, Wu wrote, advocates for "narrowing protections under...