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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has donated $1.25 million to a campaign working to defeat a November pro-life ballot measure that would restore Missouri’s protections for unborn babies and reinstate limits on abortion. The contribution went to Stop the Ban, the PAC opposing Amendment 3. The group reported the donation Wednesday to the Missouri Ethics Commission and has now raised more than $6.5 million. Bloomberg previously gave $1 million in 2024 to Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, which successfully pushed the amendment that overturned the state’s laws protecting babies. Amendment 3, placed on the November 3 ballot by state...

Abdul El-Sayed narrowly won the Democratic primary election for one of Michigan's US Senate seats. Self-identified Marxist Hasan Piker denounced the 51% of Democrats who did not vote for El-Sayed, calling them "unbelievably Islamophobic pieces of s**t." Long-time Democrat strategist James Carville expressed his disappointment that "communists and antisemites are trying to take over the Democratic Party. I am NOT going to be in the same party as Hasan Piker! His idea that the Democratic Socialists are going to seize the means of production is what Lenin did in Russia a 100 years ago. It led to widespread poverty, secret...

US Senate Floor Schedule Friday, Aug 07, 2026 Convene at 10:00 a.m. Still Going at 3:25 am. Currertly voting to table an admenedment relating to Hemp production

Thousands of full-charge rounds wore the rifling out of the Iowas’ 16-inch guns, and the Navy replaced barrels after the war. The spares came from weapons ordered for ships that were never finished — the incomplete Illinois and Kentucky, and the cancelled Montana class. Battleships that never fired a shot kept the ones that did in action. Four Iowa-Class Battleships Fired More Than 14,700 16-Inch Shells in Korea: Every completed Iowa-class battleship served against North Korea: USS Missouri, USS New Jersey, USS Wisconsin, and USS Iowa. Missouri arrived first in September 1950. New Jersey followed in May 1951, Wisconsin in...

President Donald Trump reportedly conveyed to donors during a private conversation in the Oval Office his desire that Vice President JD Vance win the 2028 presidential election. The reported conversation, according to the Washington Post (WP), happened two weeks ago and the outlet on Thursday cited two individuals who had knowledge of the conversation but spoke on the condition of anonymity. “At the end of the day, we need to elect JD,” the president reportedly stated. An adviser to the president with direct knowledge of Trump’s comment to the donors said that Trump has privately resolved that Vance will be...

Daily Readings from the USCCBA man came up to Jesus, knelt down before him, and said, “Lord, have pity on my son, who is a lunatic and suffers severely; often he falls into fire, and often into water. I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him.” Jesus said in reply, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you? Bring the boy here to me.” Matthew 17:14–17Before this encounter, Jesus had sent His disciples out two by two to preach, heal, and cast out demons in His...

The Women's National Basketball Players Association released a statement on Friday, emphasizing diversity and inclusion while saying the organization "will not be used as political pawns." "We embrace justice equity, diversity, and inclusion," the statement read. "Those are the values that unite this Union and allow it to protect women's sports while creating transformational change. Hate, abuse, and demonization of any person or group of people, including transgender people, only fuel fear, division, and harm. We will continue to have hard conversations. But we will not be used as political pawns." Though not mentioned by name, the WNBPA's statement comes...

If this isn't the modern left in a nutshell, I don't know what is. Taking a page from the "suing Kia for carjackings" playbook deployed in places like Chicago, Mamdani has decided to crack down on hooligans and ne'er-do-wells using high-powered e-bikes and e-scooters to hurt themselves, hurt others, and be general nuisances to society by ... banning sales of these products. Funny how these e-bikes and scooters are fine in non-metro areas and low diversity areas, but in New York City they have to be outlawed. Tale as old as time. Anyone with their eyes open can see what's...

The American honeymoon with artificial intelligence is over, and the numbers make the divorce official. The new Bentley University-Gallup survey finds 39 percent of Americans now believe AI does more harm than good, up from 31 percent just a year ago, while a mere 9 percent believe the opposite. A separate Athena Insights poll found Americans nearly three times more likely to be concerned than excited about AI’s growing role in society. The people, it turns out, have functioning instincts.But instincts only get you so far. Ask the average American to name the dangers of AI and you will get...

President Donald Trump said voters may be frustrated with congressional Republicans heading into the November midterm elections, but that anger does not extend to him as Democrats seek to regain control of one or both chambers of Congress. “They’re angry at Republicans,” Trump said in an interview with Punchbowl News that aired Friday. “But they’re not angry at me. "They’re not angry at me, but they are angry at Republicans.” Republicans are facing some headwinds in competitive House and Senate races, including concerns over affordability, energy prices, and the political fallout from the ongoing war with Iran, but the GOP...

The Ukraine War raging on Friday night into Saturday a missile attack... The Spanish government moving to institute border checks for Italian visitors... A US general relieved of command... The former Secretary of the Air Force in the Biden Administration...losing his access to classified information... In Belgium a government committee preventing the takeover of a helicopter company...subsidiary of a Chinese company... The US Senate rushing to pass legislation before its recess... Spanish police making 78 arrests in connection with a smuggling operation... Two killed, one wounded in a Ukrainian drone attack... Frequent marijuana users showing up at emergency rooms more...

A recent article in City Journal by Heather MacDonald argued that street homelessness is fundamentally an addiction and mental health crisis disguised as a housing shortage.AdvertisementI’ve been saying the same thing for a number of years. The romance of the poor homeless on city sidewalks being there because of capitalism, unfair equity practices, poverty, or racism is over. Yet the Left continues to pursue this romantic fiction, despite it being a lie.Once, there was an element of truth to this myth. The phrase, “Lift them up!” was a favorite among Philadelphia homeless activists.AdvertisementThe truly homeless — people not addicted to...

As we've reported, the WNBA seems hellbent on self-destruction in the aftermath of Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham standing up for protecting women's sports from the invasion of transgender athletes."I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I'm like, 'I never once said that,'" Cunningham told ESPN in a recent interview. "I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn't have to go against biological men."The result...

The story NPR published - and then almost immediately retracted - at the end of June, which falsely claimed that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring, was one of the more bizarre and scandalous moments in the "news" organization's tumultuous history.ICYMI:Oh boy. NPR reported that Justice Alito was retiring, then retracted it 10 minutes later, saying it was “published in error.” pic.twitter.com/ljqd9udn9a— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 30, 2026As RedState reported at the time, NPR's longtime legal affairs correspondent and Supreme Court reporter, Nina Totenberg, wrote in an apology letter to Alito that "I rushed out of the courtroom after...

Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers brought attention to Abdul el Sayed’s disdain for the state’s beloved Mackinac Island with a trolling post. The left-wing Senate hopeful’s hot-mic comment regarding his dislike of the island, captured in a 2020 documentary around his failed 2018 gubernatorial run, resurfaced online shortly after el Sayed won the Democratic nomination for Michigan’s Senate seat. Rogers quickly seized on the gaffe, signaling his love for Mackinac in a post on X. “There’s no place like Mackinac,” he said with a heart emoji, along with a picture of him and his wife eating ice cream on...

Three years can be a long time in Texas politics. Republicans who once stood on opposite sides of one of the party’s most bitter battles are now sharing stages, exchanging embraces, and urging voters to unite behind Attorney General Ken Paxton in November. The display has unfolded during Paxton’s campaign tour this week, where several lawmakers with a history of conflict with the Republican senate nominee have appeared alongside him and encouraged voters to put past disagreements aside. The most prominent example came in Allen, where State Rep. Jeff Leach introduced Paxton before a packed crowd and embraced him as...

If you’re wondering how many steps a day after 60 is enough, research suggests that about 6,000 to 8,000 daily steps can provide meaningful health benefits, with many of the biggest gains happening well before the often-cited 10,000-step goal.1,2Walking is one of the simplest ways to stay active, support your health, and boost your energy. If you’re looking for even more motivation to lace up your shoes, explore the benefits of Walking for Exercise: Your Secret Anti-Aging Power. You don’t need to spend hours exercising or hit a magic number every day to see results. Small increases in movement can...

AURORA | An Aurora police officer faces a murder charge for the fatal shooting of a Black man during a traffic stop last year. On Monday, an Arapahoe County grand jury indicted Aurora Police officer Matthew Neely, 54, on charges of second-degree murder and manslaughter related to the 2025 fatal shooting of Rajon Belt-Stubblefield. Neely is on unpaid administrative leave, according to the Aurora Police Department. Neely is not being held in jail, having posted a $200,000 bond. His next court date is Aug. 17. Neely was previously called out by an Arapahoe County judge for mishandling a burglary case...

Gov. Gavin Newsom this weekend is heading to Michigan to help campaign for several Democratic candidates up and down the ballot in that state. The stop is Newsom's latest in his cross-country summer tour to get Democrats elected in key states ahead of November's mid-term election that will determine the balance of power in Congress and states across the country halfway through President Donald Trump's second term. Newsom leaves Saturday and is expected to spend about two and a half days there. A schedule of key events obtained by KCRA 3 show he's expected to meet with faith leaders, Black...

A male former NBA player is declaring himself eligible to join the WNBA, attempting to highlight how the league’s rules inadequately define women and effectively allow trans players. Former Utah Jazz center Enes Kanter Freedom on Friday released a video saying he meets the WNBA’s criteria for players and that his representatives plan to hold the league to the letter of their governing framework. “If simply declaring who you are is all that’s required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA,” Freedom said. “My team and I have carefully examined the WNBA eligibility criteria and...