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President Trump signed 11 pardons Friday, including one for the convicted former business partner of infamous lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a White House official told The Post. Adam Kidan was sentenced to 70 months in prison in 2006 after pleading guilty to conspiracy and fraud charges related to his attempt, along with Abramoff, to purchase SunCruz Casinos for $147.5 million with a counterfeit wire transfer document. Kidan, an entrepreneur, has since gone on to start multiple staffing companies and has become a major Republican donor. The bulk of the pardons are for individuals convicted of tampering with emission control systems on...

WASHINGTON (7News) — The Independence Day Parade in Washington, D.C., has been canceled, according to the event organizers. As heat index temperatures on July 4 are expected to soar well above 100 degrees, the organizers said they decided to cancel the event. "This decision was made after extensive and careful consideration of the safety of our participants, spectators, and staff as the top priority," said Todd Marcocci, president of Under the Sun Productions Inc., the organizer of the parade.

Nutritional imbalance during pregnancy can have long-lasting effects on the health status and disease susceptibility of the offspring. As such, high fructose intake through sweetened food and beverages in pregnant women has been associated with an increased susceptibility to diabetes and cardiovascular disease, as well as neurological and cognitive impairments in the offspring. Currently, it is not well understood how early life exposure to fructose has such long-lasting effects on the cellular and molecular level. In a recent paper published in Stem Cell Reports, Hiroya Yamada’s team from Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Japan found that the performance...

The Second Continental Congress voted to approve the U.S. Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Some former colonists — now citizens — could not wait an entire year to celebrate, albeit in a somewhat morbid way. In the summer of 1776, Americans held mock funerals for King George III of Great Britain, their former sovereign whom the Declaration of Independence labeled a tyrant. The mock funerals represented a dramatic change in more ways than one. First, as subjects in the British Empire, American colonists had grown accustomed to celebrating the king’s birthday each year. George III turned 38 years...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s press team accidentally released an advance copy of his speech marking America’s 250th birthday Friday — revealing their painfully performative edits. The team of high-achieving Gen-Zers quibbled over fine points of American and Big Apple history, such as the minutiae of the revolutionary Battle of Brooklyn or when exactly the first Chinese immigrants arrived in the city. In a tortured internal debate, the leftist do-gooders also bent over backward to be inclusive, arguing the word “slave” shouldn’t be used and that black people should be mentioned.

President Donald Trump said it is “ridiculous” for the United States to maintain its current level of support for NATO “when the relationship is not reciprocal." Referring to the alliance as a "one-sided path” late Thursday, Trump doubled down on his long-argued criticism of allied nations’ defense spending ahead of next week’s planned NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey. Alongside his Truth Social remarks, Trump posted a chart displaying contributions from NATO members, showing the U.S. vastly outspending its allies. The President had earlier complained that the U.S. “spends more money on NATO than any other country, by far, to protect...

Former South Korea men’s national team head coach Hong Myung-bo is said to be taking refuge in the United States upon resigning from his role after a disappointing 2026 FIFA World Cup campaign. Hong and South Korea failed to qualify for the knockout stages of the World Cup after coming in third place in Group A behind Mexico and South Africa. Following a strong start to the tournament with a 2-1 victory over Czechia, South Korea lost back-to-back games and was eliminated in the group stage. Hong resigned from his role as head coach soon after, but plenty more controversy...

These are tricky times for Russian President Vladimir Putin. The “special military operation” he launched against Ukraine in 2022, intended to last a few days until a puppet regime in Kyiv could be installed, has now gone on longer than both the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany and all of World War I. His forces have long ceased making significant gains on the battlefield; some data even suggest that Russian forces lost territory in April and May. What gains the Russians have made have come at enormous cost: Last month, Anna Keast-Butler, the director of British intelligence agency GCHQ, cited...

Chinese planners are once again taking aim at the dollar. On June 17, the governor of the People’s Bank of China unveiled a fresh blueprint to pull the world’s financial streams into the Chinese yuan, including pilot schemes for offshore yuan trading and new swap lines for central banks. Expect the usual chatter about de-dollarization to hit fever pitch ahead of the annual BRICS summit in September in New Delhi, where China and Russia are likely to push for their de-dollarization cause. Over the past decade, Beijing has made genuine progress in building alternative financial channels across three fronts: trade...

Went with my brother and a friend today to see "Young Washington" which was released today. I have been looking forward to this movie for some time, and wondered if any other Freepers saw it, and if you liked it. Me? I thought it was great. I am reasonably well read on Washington, and I think he is one of the greatest men who have ever lived. To me, 95% of Americans who know anything about George Washington only know about his activities in the years directly before and after 1775, and this movie ended about ten years before that....

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - For one Nebraska farmer, celebrating the Fourth of July means leaving a message for the world to see from above. Broc Brune has been farming his entire life. Five years ago, he decided to let his soybeans do the talking. “We started out that first year with the Husker block N. And we didn’t know what to expect. And all of a sudden I flew the drone up and it showed up really well. Every year we kind of tried to push the detail a little farther,” Brune said. This year’s design This year, Brune’s 70...

What if one of the Constitution’s most important safeguards has been quietly ignored, not through open defiance, but through misunderstanding, neglect, and the slow erosion of historical memory? For more than eighteen years, independent researcher Tracy Fair (writing under the pen name Lexi Fehr) has investigated the historical, legal, and constitutional foundations of presidential eligibility and the true meaning of the Constitution’s “natural-born Citizen” requirement. We the Sheeple takes readers back to the intellectual roots of the American Republic, exploring how the Founding Fathers relied on Emmerich de Vattel’s The Law of Nations to define citizenship, domicile, and political allegiance....

Undersecretary Emil Michael and CEO Dario Amodei went back and forth for months over safety guardrailsz Anthropic overcame its latest spat with the Trump administration Tuesday, but new court documents released in one of its lawsuits against the Pentagon shed light on the underlying tensions between the government and one of America’s hottest AI companies.The documents show in detail the uneasy back-and-forth between Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei and Emil Michael, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering. The pair are at the center of a landmark fight over appropriate guardrails for the Pentagon’s use of artificial intelligence.The...

You know about the lightbulb and the iPhone. This is the unknown story of another ingenious creation that changed a nation.Over the past 250 years, America has produced the world’s most valuable inventions. The lightbulb. The internet. The telephone and the iPhone. Since the founding of the United States, we have built airplanes, refrigerators and Costco. We dreamed up the microchip and we gave the world chocolate-chip cookies. But the greatest American innovation that you won’t ever find on a list of America’s innovations might just be one that you see every day. It’s an unsung idea that changed a...

A Tennessee soccer coach received a 30-year sentence for child exploitation and immigration offenses. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee says 66-year-old Camilo Campos-Hurtado of Franklin sexually exploited children, received child sexual abuse material, and had false immigration and identification documents. Campos pleaded guilty in June of last year on these charges: Sexual exploitation of a minor (four counts) Receiving visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct Using or possessing fraudulent immigration documents Possessing an identification document or authentication feature that was stolen or produced without lawful authority The attorney’s office requested a sentence...

The Declaration’s gift of freedom and equality is our duty to preserve. As you may have read, Americans are said to be in a sour mood as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. President Trump is unpopular, real wages are flat, and many on the political left don’t even think July Fourth is the real anniversary. They prefer 1619, the year the first slaves arrived. Yet to our mind the remarkable news of this anniversary is that our free republic has stood for a quarter millennium and prospers still. The nation has faced many stress tests...

A Los Angeles-area man pleaded guilty to felony harassment charges in ​federal court on Thursday for sending fake ransom notes posing as a kidnapper of "Today" show co-host Savannah ‌Guthrie's missing elderly mother. Derrick Callella, 42, pleaded guilty to two counts of harassment by telecommunications device, marking the only criminal conviction to date stemming from the disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie from her home in Tucson, Arizona, five months ago. The charges carry a maximum penalty of ​two years in prison and a $250,000 fine. But the plea agreement with prosecutors calls for Callella, a resident ​of Hawthorne, California, to...

The FReeper Canteen Presents...~ Independence Day, July 4, 1776 ~ Preamble to the Declaration of IndependenceWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its...

stunning air show featuring 2,500 drones transformed the night over North Richland Hills, Texas, with massive images of a rocket, a bald eagle, and George Washington. The patriotic display, created by Sky Elements Drone Shows, gave local families an early look at the celebrations leading up to the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.