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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from implementing a voter-screening database that combined citizenship records with Social Security information. The ruling argued the effort violated federal privacy protections and resulted in inaccurate information being shared with states. In a 75-page decision, U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan halted the administration’s revised SAVE database, a system developed by the Department of Homeland Security as part of an effort to strengthen election integrity and identify non-citizens on voter rolls. “The federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to...

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, addressed her closely-watched race against scandal-plagued Democratic candidate Graham Platner, calling him the "antithesis" of the steady leadership she has provided Maine. "I never expected to have an opponent like Graham Platner," Collins said in her first national interview since Platner’s nomination. "He is very different from me. He's the antithesis of the steady leadership that I provide and Washington that has delivered real results for the state of Maine and for our nation." Platner, a military veteran and oyster farmer, has spent much of his campaign on the defensive as multiple scandals have rocked his...

LINCOLN — The Republican National Committee and two Nebraska voters have filed a lawsuit against Nebraska over a part of state election law that was meant to implement a 2009 federal election law. The lawsuit, which names Secretary of State Bob Evnen as the defendant, was filed in Lancaster District Court on Monday. It alleges that part of the state election law violates the state constitution because it allows U.S. citizens who have never resided in the state or country to vote in Nebraska elections. The law was passed during the Nebraska 101st legislative session in 2010, according to the...

Legislation to keep Georgia's embattled vote-counting method in place for this year's midterm elections faced strong opposition from state Democrats on Monday after Republicans in the Georgia Senate approved an amendment that would require a hand recount of ballots. Georgia's governor, Republican Brian Kemp, had called lawmakers into a special session in part to address a July 1 deadline that was set to ban the QR codes used for the official vote count. Legislators passed a law two years ago that set that deadline, but then failed to find a replacement for tabulating votes. Some voting rights activists had warned...

Trump’s Iran memorandum is not a surrender or a new beginning—it is the next phase of a strategy built on pressure, deterrence, and avoiding another costly Middle East war. The tentative “memorandum of understanding” with Iran has caused glee on the Left and furor among many on the Right. The Left might welcome “peace,” but surely not as much as it enjoys infighting on the Right over the details. If last week Democrats were calling Trump a fascist warmonger, now they deride his peace efforts as those of a Neville Chamberlain patsy. Within 24 hours, the Left’s talking points shifted...

Nothing says “Eat the rich” like paying for the knives and forks. A hedge fund billionaire and his art groupie wife are pumping millions into socialist think tanks positioned to help New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani achieve his Democratic Socialists of America-backed “worker’s paradise.” The pair are on a mission to punish landlords and railroad more New Yorkers into government housing, The Post has learned. From their $20 million Upper East Side townhouse — and their 10-bedroom, nine-bathroom, 10,000-square-foot Hamptons McMansion — Bobby and Carola Jain write checks funding Mamdani-linked intelligentsia paid to create models of how far-left concepts...

At Bucharest's national cyber-security centre (DNSC) they watched helplessly as the hackers spread across Romania through a popular piece of medical software. The order went out to more than 100 hospitals. Disconnect from the internet, now. The cyber-attack on Romania's hospitals in February 2024 is one of the worst to target healthcare systems around the world, but these incidents are becoming increasingly common. Cutting off 100 hospitals in Romania from the internet stopped the hackers in their tracks, buying time to work out how bad the attack was. But it meant no connected devices, emails or web browsers. ... Hippocrates...

Anthony Puglisi, Essex County’s public information director, said that, at around noon the bear entered Essex County Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange. When the bear was spotted in the zoo, Puglisi said employees and visitors were directed to shelter in place in buildings on zoo property. “At no time did the bear come in contact with any humans, and everyone was safely evacuated from the zoo with assistance from the Essex County Sheriff’s Office,” Puglisi said. The zoo was closed for the rest of Monday as authorities worked to track the bear. NJ Fish and Wildlife were notified. The...

The famous quote from Winston Churchill about Socialism is as apt today as when first uttered in 1948: "Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy." Forty-three years later in 1991, Churchill stood fully vindicated, as the Soviet Union fell, following decades of not just stagnation and decline, but immense human suffering and death. At the time I thought, no one could ever possibly again take this ideology seriously. Well, here we are in the United States of 2026, and you could easily get the impression that Socialism is on the march. Politicians...

It never ends. No sooner do we hear of the resignation of Keir Starmer, Lord DEI of the Western World (and declared enemy of AT by way of his censorship-crazed chief of staff, Maurice McSweeney), than we get the release of a video from the UK showing a group of young white girls being battered by police. That is not an exaggeration – the English bobbies, beloved for generations, are actively slugging these girls, knocking them to the pavement, and treating them the way they would a full-grown adult male criminal. There’s not a lot of context, so it’s possible...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is looking into an apparent close call at Logan Airport in Boston over the weekend. They said an American Airlines flight was cleared for takeoff around 11:30 a.m. Saturday on the same runway where a Delta flight was landing. The Delta pilots saw what was happening and were able to abort the landing and pull up in time to avoid hitting the American plane. The jets were an estimated 300 feet apart, according to CBS News senior transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave. The FAA said an American Airlines flight was cleared for takeoff around 11:30...

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Animal rights activists documented the beginning of the Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival on the summer solstice Sunday – a gory sight in which the Chinese city is taken over by rows of tables featuring the open-air slaughter and butchering of thousands of animals. Yulin, a city located in far-south Guangxi province, has hosted an annual event beginning on the first day of summer since 2010, meant to boost local sales of dog meat. In the past decade, the horrific spectacle has attracted international attention, particularly from celebrities tied to animal rights causes, prompting the Chinese Communist Party to...

Former Cuauhtémoc Mayor Sandra Cuevas has gone viral during Mexico’s World Cup run, drawing attention for both her team spirit and her revealing outfit at a recent gathering, as reported by The New York Post. Cuevas, 40, has been celebrating Mexico’s victories over South Africa and South Korea as El Tri continues its strong start in the tournament.

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Davis was responsible for launching artists like Whitney Houston, Barry Manilow and Alicia Keys to superstardom.Clive Davis, the legendary music executive who shepherded the careers of such stars as Whitney Houston, Barry Manilow and Alicia Keys, died on Monday (June 22) at his home in New York from age-related illness. He was 94. Davis rose to prominence while serving as president of Columbia Records from 1967 to 1973, before founding his own label, Arista, where he signed Manilow and stars including Aretha Franklin, Patti Smith and Dionne Warwick, among many others. In 2000, he founded J Records, which was responsible...

Waymo has recalled its entire fleet of vehicles after some of its driverless cars were caught speeding into freeway construction zones.The voluntary recall on June 13 of the California-based tech company’s 3,871 vehicles is to fix its 5th-generation Automated Driving System (ADS) software so that it will recognize and avoid construction zones.“Waymo’s mission is to be the world’s most trusted driver, and the data shows that we’re making roads safer in the communities in which we operate,” a Waymo spokesperson told The Epoch Times.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) estimates that the entire fleet carries the software defect, according...

America’s largest cities are increasing their spending at almost unprecedented rates.A RealClearInvestigations (RCI) analysis of cities with at least 500,000 residents found they cumulatively raised their per-person spending by 18 percent over the last 10 budget cycles, accounting for inflation. The only equivalents on record are the spending surges ignited by the Great Society programs of the 1960s and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal during the 1930s.But unlike those past eras, today’s cities do not have the revenue to support their heavy spending. State and federal funding have dropped off from their record highs during the COVID-19 pandemic, and local...