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The venerable C-2A Greyhound carrier onboard delivery (COD) aircraft made its final flight to an aircraft carrier, a U.S. Navy official confirmed to TWZ. This final trap, which took place last week aboard the USS Nimitz, marks the end of nearly 60 years of providing logistics services to America’s flattops. That role has now been completely turned over to the Navy’s fleet of CMV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, the official told us, marking the end of an era in naval aviation. On June 25, Greyhounds belonging to the “Rawhides” of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 40 made the last arrested landing and...

Explanation: What happens when one of the stars in a binary goes supernova? This image combines visible (yellow), ultraviolet (purple) and infrared light (cyan, red and orange) to show two supernova remnants and their surrounding environment, about 6,000 light-years away. The younger one is the well-known Jellyfish Nebula in the center (mostly in yellow). If we could see it by eye, it would appear larger than the full moon in the sky. The filament shown in purple is part of an older, overlapping supernova remnant, G189.6+3.3. A new study used data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope to piece together...

A Debate on College Sports June 30, 2026 College sports are not a topic I address often, though the subject has surfaced occasionally in my writing. Most recently, in “A Rally on Campus,” I argued that the rapid growth of pickleball on college campuses is a positive development. It gets students off their phones, helps them build friendships, and deepens their connection to campus life. But, earlier this year, in “A Dangerous Bet,” I also criticized colleges and universities for partnering with sports-betting companies that normalize gambling. Much of our coverage of collegiate athletics has likewise taken a skeptical view....

Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit repostedCHAOS - The Book@chaosmansonbookMy opening statement at yesterday’s MKULTRA hearing, the first congressional inquiry into the notorious mind control program in nearly half a century. (Sorry about the stumbling delivery, I hate public speaking)*Link for entire hearing: https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/mind-control-and-accountability-uncovering-the-truth-of-the-cias-mkultra-project/ July 1, 2026ransomnote: I'll include the link and text of O'Neill's written testimony below.https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ONeill-Written-Testimony.pdf Tom O’NeillStatement for the RecordHearing, House Task Force on Declassification of Federal Secrets: Mind Control and Accountability: Uncovering the Truth of the CIA’s MKULTRA ProjectJune 30, 2026Almost fifty years ago, in a building a short walk from here, the last hearings...

An active-duty Air Force officer was arrested on the steps of the US Capitol on Wednesday while protesting Trump and calling for his impeachment in uniform. Jason Watson, a US Air Force Major who attended the US Air Force Academy, participated in a press conference sponsored by far-left lunatic Rep. Al Green (D-TX), where he called for his boss, the commander in chief, to be removed and convicted. According to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Watson could face court-martial proceedings for contempt toward officials stemming from his participation in the event and his calls for Trump’s impeachment.

Police are investigating an arson attack on a mosque in Blackburn. The Masjid Aqsa mosque was set alight after a window was broken at about 01:43 BST on 28 June, Lancashire Police said . The force said it was investigating to find "those involved and the motivation" for the attack on the Emerald Street building. A spokesman for the mosque said its worshippers were "absolutely shocked and appalled" at the "deliberate and malicious act".

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce donated $26 million to a group of charities across the U.S. this week, including multiple in New York organizations, ahead of their alleged ceremony, Swift's rep confirmed to NBC News. The Store, which helps with food insecurity in Middle Tennessee and was founded by country singer Brad Paisley…posted on Instagram: "Thank you, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce,"… "Your generosity is providing food and hope to families in need." Nonprofit Education Through Music revealed in a press release that they received a $2 million gift from the bride and groom. "This gift will help us reach...

Went and saw Supergirl with my comic loving teenager. Don’t know why other than the actresses comments in an interview this movie is being dissed around here. Nothing political. Comic loving son said character was pretty accurate. Go see it. Even pluggedin online said it was fine. We should support the efforts toward normality. Last year’s Superman was really good and sort of old school hero. Same with this movie. Nothing woke that I could find in it.

“You have to have gone to college to say something that stupid." Dennis Prager would often respond to callers on his national radio show with that line when they said something so bereft of common sense that the only explanation for it had to be four or more years of brainwashing from radical professors. During his years as a graduate student in international affairs at Columbia University, where his professors believed such inane things as the belief that there is no difference between men and women and that the Soviet Union and the United States were morally equivalent during the...

Even some of Donald Trump’s own supporters have admitted they are underwhelmed by the president’s self-hyped Great American State Fair in D.C. Trump’s 16-day spectacle on the National Mall, which opened on June 25, was intended to showcase all 50 states as the centerpiece of the Trump administration’s celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. But several states led by Democratic governors have boycotted the event, while others have opted out due to the high cost to taxpayers or have not been able to secure businesses willing to sponsor a booth. Several musicians also pulled out of planned performances over concerns that...

On Monday, Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui was sentenced by a federal judge to 30 years in prison for defrauding his supporters of over $1 billion dollars. Bob Fu of ChinaAid, a pastor and victim of Guo’s harassment in fall 2020, called the decision “a victory for justice.” While Guo solicited donations for his Rule of Law Society and supposed “anti-communism” cause, Deputy U.S. Attorney Sean Buckley stated that “Guo exploited the trust that thousands had placed in him for his own greed,” according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York. Over several months,...

A federal judge on Thursday blocked Philadelphia ​from enforcing a new city law that would have prohibited federal law enforcement agents ‌from wearing masks, ruling the city cannot dictate how they conduct operations amid a national debate over masked immigration agents carrying out arrests. U.S. District Judge Chad Kenney, at the request of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, issued a ​preliminary injunction, opens new tab barring Philadelphia from enforcing key provisions of the law against federal officers ​before they are scheduled to take effect on Tuesday. Philadelphia’s mask ban was enacted ⁠earlier this year as part of a larger “ICE...

SHELTER ISLAND, NY — George Soros and his family have been on a property buying spree, scooping up homes and prime parcels of land in an idyllic Hamptons enclave, angering local residents who worry the billionaire land grab is already upending the tight-knit community, The Post has learned. The family now control nearly 120 acres of property on Shelter Island, which is only accessible by ferry, making the Soroses — billionaire Hungarian-American investor George, 95, his sons Alex, 40, and Gregory, 38 — the largest private landowner in the community. The 18 properties they have bought were purchased through myriad...

For those impervious to the siren call of socialism, its activities in the world seem like the truth according to Hegel, “a bacchanalian whirl in which no member is not drunk.” The sitting New York Democrats that Mamdani’s new squad just defeated are pretty far left. But they are the soul of moderation compared to the newcomers. Darializa Avila Chevalier, who will be the Democratic candidate for New York’s 13th district, wants to abolish prisons, abolish ICE, abolish borders and defund the police. She thinks “all deportations are wrong” and has called the United States an “effing disgrace.” “I forgot...

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is still railing against the Electoral College, which cost her the presidency in 2016, calling it an "abomination" in a trailer for the new Netflix docuseries titled "The American Experiment." In a trailer for the upcoming series, which is executive-produced by Tom Hanks, Clinton remarks, "Well, I personally think the Electoral College is an abomination. For obvious reasons." Set to drop today, the new five-part docuseries marks 250 years of U.S. independence by examining "how American democracy has been built, challenged, and reimagined" over the course of its centuries-long history, according to Netflix’s Tudum. In...

OLIVIA SLEDZIK VIVIDLY remembers clutching her phone in bed at midnight, crying and desperately searching the Internet for reassurance. "Do other people feel like this?" she wondered. "Why do I feel so scared?" Sledzik, who is 35 and lives in Rhode Island, was terrified of getting pregnant and having a baby—and during that late-night doomscroll a few years ago, she felt alone in her fear. This wasn't your run-of-the-mill "I'm anxious about becoming a parent" fear; it felt insurmountable. For a long time, Sledzik assumed she'd have kids. After she graduated from college, though, she began having second thoughts—in large...

I just had four F-22s fly over our house in the Silicon Valley area by Mountain View. Very low, probably Here are a couple of stills from the NBC News Bay Area video footage. Turns out figuring out exactly who they were is tougher than it looks. No PA release names a unit, and the F-22 Demo Teams are nowhere near the West Coast right now. They are in D.C. this week and don't hit California again until Fleet Week in October. So this wasn't a demo team stop; it was almost certainly a one-off tasking for the flyover itself....

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed House Bill 5093 on June 26, expanding eligibility for in-state tuition by allowing certain students who attended an Illinois high school for at least three years to qualify for resident tuition rates even if they later established residency outside Illinois before enrolling in college. The legislation changes Illinois’ in-state tuition requirements by extending eligibility to students who meet the high school attendance requirement regardless of whether they established residency outside Illinois before enrollment. One of the bill’s sponsors, Democrat State Sen. Celina Villanueva, said the legislation is intended to benefit illegal aliens and transgender-identifying students....

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has announced she and her department are leaving Elon Musk's X platform. Explaining her decision in what seemingly will be her last post on X, Nandy said the platform "isn't healthy for our democracy or our communities and I don't want to support it". "A platform originally designed for free speech and expression now favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate," she wrote. The culture department becomes the second government department to stop using X after the attorney general's office, while several MPs also left the platform earlier this year over reports its AI tool was...

Jesus A. Osete@JesusOseteDOJGood morning to the law-abiding citizens of California and Virginia. Help is on the way.July 1, 2026