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As New York baked under another summer heat wave, parts of the Riverdale neighborhood in the Bronx, home to a large Jewish community, lost power after Con Edison shut off electricity to protect its equipment. Con Edison announced the outages Thursday, saying it temporarily cut power to some customers in Riverdale to reduce strain on the electrical grid and speed up service restoration. The utility directed affected residents to report outages and seek relief at city cooling centers. The outages left parts of Riverdale sweating without air conditioning during a dangerous citywide heat wave. The timing also puts intense pressure...

Zo say can you see…Mayor Zohran Mamdani decried capitalism and the US’ involvement in foreign wars during an address marking America’s 250th anniversary Friday — while sitting at George Washington’s desk.The 15-minute speech — which Mamdani gave while flanked by newly naturalized US citizens — balanced critiques with a celebration of a “grand experiment in self-governance.”The democratic socialist mayor elevated the plight and contributions by downtrodden Americans — slaves, Continental Army soldiers, immigrants of all types — with the alleged smallness of the “powerful.”“We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions,” he intoned. “We see the wealthiest...

New mortality data from the federal government suggests that life expectancy probably hit another record high in 2025, as death rates have continued to fall since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. There were about 689 deaths for every 100,000 people in the US in 2025, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — the lowest rate recorded in more than a century of tracking. The age-adjusted rate has fallen 22% since 2021, landing about 4% lower than it was just before the pandemic in 2019. ... Life expectancy is essentially a population-level...

"Coming to [Christ] as to a living stone" (1 Pet. 2:4). Jesus is the only source of eternal life and the foundation upon which the church is built. Peter's description of Christ as "a living stone" is paradoxical because stones aren't alive. In fact, we sometimes speak of something being "stone dead." Yet Peter's symbolism is profound because it beautifully incorporates three realities about Christ. First, Jesus is the long-awaited Jewish Messiah. The Old Testament referred to the Messiah as a stone, and Peter incorporated those texts into His description of Jesus in 1 Peter 2:6-8: "Behold I lay in...

"Coming to [Christ] as to a living stone" (1 Pet. 2:4). Jesus Christ is the source of every spiritual privilege. Often Christians speak of salvation as "coming to Christ." That's an accurate, biblical description, for Jesus Himself said, "Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest" (Matt. 11:28); "I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall not hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst" (John 6:35); "If any man is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink" (John 7:37). Those are metaphors for salvation. Coming...

Initiative allows newborns to be enrolled in new and streamlined processes Baltimore, MD – Today, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced it is launching processes for parents to enroll newborns in Trump Accounts. This automatic system will help ensure that every newborn has the opportunity to benefit from a Trump Account from the start of life. One year ago, on July 4, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed into law the Working Families Tax Cuts, which created Trump Accounts, a new type of individual retirement account for eligible minors under the age of 18. "Trump Accounts represent one of the...

Secret Service Missed 102 Warnings Before Butler Assassination Attempt on Trump, DHS Report Finds Inspector general says agents missed 102 warnings that could have prevented the attack on President Trump. BIG LEAGUE POLITICS JUL 03, 2026 A new Department of Homeland Security inspector general report concludes that the U.S. Secret Service failed to act on dozens of warning signs before the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at his July 13, 2024, campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The report, released Thursday by the DHS Office of Inspector General, details a cascade of communication failures, security lapses, and planning deficiencies that...

Law enforcement officials say three people were shot and two are dead after a shooting at Fairlane Town Center in Dearborn, Michigan, Friday afternoon. Dearborn police confirmed that there is an active investigation at the mall and ask that people avoid the area. Michigan State Police are on the scene alongside Dearborn police. The mall has been placed on lockdown. Henry Ford Medical Center - Fairlane is also currently on lockdown, according to hospital officials. Sources say shooting victims have been taken to Corewell Health Dearborn Hospital. Authorities have not released any further information on the shooting. The mall is...

An innocent driver is stopped by a gun-waving police officer who sics a dog on him and he ends up in jail for hours, or even days. It’s happening more and more in America, a new study confirms, and it’s all because the technology for machines to read license plate numbers, and report them, fails. The results are from a study by the Institute for Justice, which confirmed such cases coming up over and over. The list, large already, is growing: A Colorado driver was repeatedly pulled over after officers mistakenly put his license plate number on a Flock hotlist....

RIPON, Wis. — As the United States marks its 250th anniversary this weekend, a one-room schoolhouse in Ripon stands as the birthplace of the Republican Party and a reminder of Wisconsin's place in the nation's political history. The Little White Schoolhouse, about 60 miles northeast of Madison, commemorates a meeting held March 20, 1854, when opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act gathered to organize against the expansion of slavery. "It was really cold and it was a blizzard," said Ellen Sorensen, the interim executive director of the Little White Schoolhouse. "It was a three-point objection," Sorensen said. "There was a moral...

The tech industry faces a paradoxical crisis: companies are shedding human jobs to invest in AI tools that are currently more costly than the workers they replace. Major players like Uber and Microsoft report exorbitant AI spending, with budgets exhausted rapidly and little correlation to tangible value. This "tokenmaxxing" culture, where AI usage is incentivized over actual productivity, fuels massive waste. Despite widespread layoffs justified by AI reallocation, studies indicate AI is economically viable in only a fraction of roles. The unsustainable model of subsidized AI pricing is unwinding, forcing a market correction. The industry must now shift from indiscriminate...

Patients with advanced prostate cancer may need periodic imaging scans to catch tumor growth even with stable levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA), a protein in the blood that doctors routinely monitor for cancer progression, according to an analysis led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Duke University. In some cases, cancer progression was detected on scans even when PSA levels were undetectable.

Ministers are concerned that President Trump will publicly turn on Sir Keir Starmer at a Nato summit next week for failing to commit to spending more on defence. The prime minister this week committed to spending an additional £15 billion on defence as he published a 10-year investment plan. The £4.7 billion pledge was unfunded, leaving a hole in finances that would have to be filled by Andy Burnham at the next budget. It also included £6.8 billion of as yet undetermined cuts to government departments. Economists pointed out that hitting the government’s target of increased defence spending of 3.5...

Judges overseeing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trial urge prosecution to drop bribery charge in Case 4000, demand to expand trial schedule to five days a week. The panel of judges presiding over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial - Judges Rivka Friedman-Feldman, Moshe Bar-Am, and Oded Shaham - announced Monday that their view regarding the difficulties in proving the bribery charge in Case 4000 remains unchanged even after Netanyahu's cross-examination. The judges said they have returned to the position they first expressed in June 2023, when they recommended that the State Attorney's Office consider withdrawing the bribery charge in Case...

MAJOR UPDATE: The muslim nurse in Texas who posted a video saying how she wouldn't treat patients if they watched Fox News has been TERMINATED following our report. Thank you, @utmbhealth, for your swift action. No nurse should be denying care to patients based on political beliefs.

LINK: Bill Whittle Right Angle Backstage 6/30/2026-Best Birthday Present EverHi Freepers, many of us, including those who (like me who thinks soccer is the most boring sport ever, including golf) aren't in the least bit interested in soccer or The World Cup, but are completely enthralled by the LEGAL foreigners coming to visit America, most of whom are seeing and experiencing it for the first time. I listened to this today, and I love the perspectives of these three men (Bill Whittle, Steve Green, and Scott Ott) which mirrored my reactions to these guests from all over the world, that...

A British MP has demanded an "immediate stop" to a controversial plan to house dozens of asylum seekers in a small English village. The housing development in the Shropshire village of Stoke Heath in England’s west is poised to house a total of 83 asylum seekers, The Sun has reported. The newly built homes are worth around £250,000, equivalent to just over A$480,000. Following reporting on the matter, the British Home Office has said asylum seekers should not be housed in newly built homes. Conservative MP Mark Pritchard, who represents the constituency where the development is located, has called for...

This video provides a comprehensive look at the meteoric rise Erling Haaland, exploring his journey from a young talent in Norway to becoming one of the most feared strikers in world football at Manchester City. Career Overview and Milestones Early Days: Born in Leeds (3:14), Haaland started his youth career at Bryne FK before moving to Molde FK under Ole Gunnar Solskjær (4:10). His breakout performance included scoring four goals in 17 minutes against Brann (4:32). European Rise: He excelled at Red Bull Salzburg (5:00), becoming the first teenager to score in five consecutive Champions League matches, before moving to...

The postal worker mom who was kidnapped and murdered on her mail route was a convicted drug dealer — as was her husband, who died just months before her, according to court records Brandi Reynolds, 35, bragged online about her seemingly idyllic family life with her husband, Brent Reynolds, and their two daughters, making the brutality of her murder Friday on her route in Hays, North Carolina, all the more shocking. But Brandi and Brent — who died in a car crash just before Christmas — were both busted in 2022 for running drugs from their home in rural Wilkes...

Hillary Clinton warned that the Supreme Court’s Republican majority is “turning the clock back” with some of its recent decisions, including the “nonsensical” ruling earlier this week that gives the president the authority to fire members of independent federal agencies. The former secretary of state pointed to the “mental gymnastics” that the high court performed when it backed President Donald Trump in his case against Rebecca Slaughter, a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, whom he fired without cause. The ruling on Monday overturned a 1935 precedent that had protected agency independence. “I mean, it is a nonsensical —...