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CuelleLong time Democrat strategist James Carville advised his fellow Party members to "stop fighting photo ID requirements for voting. It's a losing issue. Eighty-five percent of voters support showing a photo ID to vote. Seventy-six percent of Black voters support showing a photo ID to vote. Our Party opposing these huge majorities in favor of a photo ID makes it look like we need cheating to win elections." Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Tex) agreed with Carville, saying "folks are used to showing IDs to board airlines, enter government buildings, and buy alcohol, among other things. They see it as a reasonable...

German media are reporting that a suspect wanted after a vehicle was driven into a crowd gathered at a Pride event in Berlin has been shot and killed. One person has been confirmed dead in the incident and at least 29 injured.

U.S. President Donald Trump will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, a White House official confirmed, as diplomatic efforts to end the war with Russia pick up speed. “President Zelensky is slated to meet with President Trump at the White House on Tuesday,” the official told AFP on condition of anonymity on Friday as reported by Euronews. Zelensky said this week he had spoken with Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and the U.S. president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as part of efforts to revive stalled talks aimed at ending the four-year war, the report notes. U.S.-led efforts to...

Two months ago, version 3 Starship left us with more questions than answers. A booster that couldn't stick its return. A ship down an engine. And a whole community asking the same thing: is this new design actually the one? On Thursday, SpaceX flew it again. Here's what happened! Massive Reveal From SpaceX's Starship Flight 13! | 25:52 What about it!? | 657K subscribers | 57,710 views | July 26, 2026

Dear America, from an immigrant Cuban tastes freedom for the first time in his life

The disgraced Cornell University student who went viral for declining an interview with an NYC startup because he said he didn’t want to be “working for a Jew,” claims he’s returning the upstate Ivy league campus in the fall. Austin Franco, 19, the rising junior who delivered the message to VrfID’s Jewish co-founders Gabe and Aiden Einhorn via job board site Handshake in June, told conservative nonprofit Accuracy in Media that he hardly got a slap on the wrist from Cornell.

Charles 'Sam' Faddis, a retired CIA operations officer, one-time candidate for the US House of Representatives from Maryland, author and frequent contributor to Steve Bannon's Warroom, passed away on July 25, 2026 due to complications from COVID-related interstitial lung disease.

26 July 2026 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time St Joachim And Anne Church, Elizabeth PaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First reading1 Kings 3:5,7-12Solomon chooses the gift of wisdomThe Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream and said, ‘Ask what you would like me to give you.’ Solomon replied, ‘O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in succession to David my father. But I am a very young man, unskilled in leadership. Your servant finds himself in the midst of this people of yours that you have chosen, a people so many its number cannot be...

Suspect Abdul Ballout has alleged ties to Germany's Islamist scene, officials sayA suspect with alleged ties to Germany's "Islamist scene" is on the run after allegedly plowing a van into a crowd near Berlin's Pride festival and attacking others with a machete in what officials believe was an Islamic terror attack that left one person dead and at least 29 others injured.German authorities on Sunday launched an intensive manhunt for Abdul Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese roots whom officials say may be armed and dangerous."Everything we see here points to us dealing with an Islamic terror attack," German Interior...

The Defense Department has selected the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Virginia Tech to host a revamped fellowship program for senior military officers — the first universities approved after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth severed partnerships with top universities. The two universities will participate in the new Senior Service College Fellowship, a 10-month professional military education program that will serve as an alternative to traditional war colleges. Additional university partners will be announced at a later date, according to the department. “We are deeply honored to participate in the Senior Service College Fellowship program. The program fits well...

The innocent 12-year-old son of a cop who was shot dead in the Bronx was identified early Sunday as Jacob Freytas — as heartbreaking video shows him collapsing in a bodega after running back in while clutching his chest. Freytas, of Mount Eden, was an innocent bystander when a stray bullet hit him in the chest during a fight outside a store on Elliott Place near the Grand Concourse, shortly before 5 p.m. Saturday, cops said. Security video obtained by The Post shows Jacob leaving his bike outside the bodega to go in and buy a ball, before coming out...

For almost four decades, I did expert witness testimony in wrongful death cases. The purpose of such testimony is often to place an affected party in a position of financial indifference between a "before" and "after" event. It's the same premise for black reparations. Most enslaved Africans brought to the United States came from Senegambia and west-central Africa, including present-day Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Angola, Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Gabon. I did a calculation that compared wages in these countries today and compared them to current black wages in the US. I then did a present value...

25 July 2026 Saint James, Apostle Feast Basilica of St. James, Chioggia, Italy Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: A(II).First reading2 Corinthians 4:7-15Such an overwhelming power comes from God and not from usWe are only the earthenware jars that hold this treasure, to make it clear that such an overwhelming power comes from God and not from us. We are in difficulties on all sides, but never cornered; we see no answer to our problems, but never despair; we have been persecuted, but never deserted; knocked down, but never killed; always, wherever we may be, we carry with us...

A humanoid robot is being introduced as part of a pilot program, along with an AI teaching assistant, at Salamanca high school in Salamanca, New York, located on the Allegany territory of the Seneca nation. Teachers have criticized the program, deeming it “inappropriate” and claiming it dehumanizes the profession with the introduction of human-like robots. Some local Native American residents have also criticized the pilot program, citing its implementation as “culturally tone deaf”. The robot, named Sally, was purchased by the Cattaraugus county school district – which includes Salamanca high school – for $57,590. According to a presentation on the...

Security video shows a gunman firing shots down East Congress Street in the early morning hours of Sunday, July 19. David Leroy French was accused of firing the shots, which injured nine people. After firing the shots, the gunman ran down Congress toward Tucson police officers who were on the street, one of whom fired a shot that struck and wounded the gunman.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has made plans to ramp up operations to arrest and deport Haitian migrants, as hundreds of thousands of Haitians brace for the termination of their legal status, according to two agency sources and federal documents obtained by CBS News. ***During the 2024 presidential campaign, Mr. Trump amplified baseless claims that Haitians in Springfield were eating cats and dogs. The internal plans for a potential arrest and deportation blitz have been made as more than 300,000 Haitians prepare to lose deportation protections and work permits under the Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, program. The Supreme Court...

A prominent Supreme Court litigator was sentenced on Friday to six years in prison for evading a multimillion-dollar IRS tax debt and engaging in mortgage fraud, a case that cast a spotlight on his secretive lifestyle as a high-stakes poker player and featured trial testimony from a Hollywood movie star. Thomas Goldstein, who also published a popular blog about the nation’s highest court, had asked U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby to spare him from a prison sentence. Instead, the judge sentenced Goldstein to five years of supervised release after his prison term and ordered him to pay over $3.1...

Ask someone who investigates foodborne illness for a living what they won't put on their plate, and the list is shorter—and stranger—than you'd expect. It's not that these experts live in fear. Most will tell you that all food carries some risk, and the real skill is deciding which risks are worth taking. Frank Yiannas, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s former deputy commissioner for food policy and response, says he doesn't think of foods as simply "good" or "bad." Instead, "I approach everything with what I would say is a quantitative risk assessment," he says. "I'm calculated." Still, after...

A Venezuelan man allegedly in the United States illegally is in jail after being charged in the death of an elderly Florida woman by backing over her with an SUV in a grocery store parking lot. On May 17, Deborah Murphy, an 82-year-old grandmother, was walking back to her car on a crosswalk outside a Publix in Panama City Beach when she was struck by a Toyota 4Runner, according to court records. She was pushed to the ground by the SUV, but the vehicle continued backing up, "running over Ms. Murphy," according to an arrest affidavit submitted by the Florida...

The 2026 midterm elections are 100 days away as Republicans and Democrats will battle in Congress and statehouses across the country for control over the future of the country in what is expected to be a contentious and expensive campaign season. Republicans currently hold narrow majorities in both chambers of Congress, controlling the House with a razor-thin 218-212 edge, with one independent and four vacancies, and the Senate with a 53-47 advantage, including two independents who caucus with Democrats. With every House seat and 35 Senate seats on the ballot, Democrats need a net gain of just six House seats...