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Sen. Mitch McConnell's aides have made a bombshell admission after weeks of dodging inquiries from the press about the 84-year-old's health. The senator's team had previously refused to answer questions about his condition. McConnell was found unconscious at home and received CPR before being taken to the hospital last month, as revealed in an EMS call. The call revealed that McConnell may have suffered a heart attack at his home on June 14, with his staff waiting until June 22 to give an update on his condition, saying only that he would not be voting that week. McConnell's office issued its first statement about his health since June 22 only after the Daily Beast asked a series of critical questions and published a story highlighting their refusal to disclose the senator's whereabouts. In the emailed statement on Thursday, McConnell's team revealed that the senator is still in the hospital, almost three weeks after the June 14 emergency call.
An Air Force major was arrested in uniform on the steps of the Capitol after he called for the impeachment of President Donald Trump. U.S. Capitol Police arrested Jason Watson, an active-duty service member, on Wednesday afternoon following remarks at a news conference where he said Trump and Vice President JD Vance should be removed from office. The event was organized by the Removal Coalition, a group that lobbies members of Congress to impeach Trump, and attended by Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, who has repeatedly introduced articles of impeachment against Trump. "I'm here with him because Rep. Green is the only member of Congress that has demonstrated the courage and conviction to ... force a vote on articles of impeachment," Watson said at the event.
A rare surviving copy of the Declaration of Independence has been discovered at The National Archives in Kew, the only known example of its kind outside the US. The document was uncovered by a volunteer in February while cataloguing the papers of Royal Navy captains from the American Revolutionary War. It is one of 11 copies printed in Exeter, New Hampshire in July 1776 to spread news of American independence through the colonies before it was seized by British forces.
A reporter braving a blistering heat wave at President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair described chaos at the event as paramedics raced to save attendees, with seven said to be on "advanced life support" in the hospital. Julian Andreone of Drop Site News was on the ground Friday at the fair detailing what he called a "hectic" scene. "It really is hectic. It's chaotic. It's a total disaster," Andreone said. "They haven't planned for this at all."
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JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump spoke on Friday and agreed to meet "soon" in the United States, the premier's office said. Read more
Vice President JD Vance's appearance at a celebration marking the 250th anniversary of the U.S. military drew widespread online attention after a joke aimed at former President Joe Biden failed to generate a visible reaction from an audience of service members, shifting focus away from the administration's message on national service and onto Vance's public speaking style.
When President Donald Trump arrives in the Black Hills of South Dakota to deliver a speech on the eve of America's 250th anniversary at Mount Rushmore, it will be at a time when the century-old monument is in dire need of maintenance. The national landmark, which features 60-foot-tall faces of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt carved into the granite mountain, has $57 million in deferred maintenance needs, according to the National Park Service.
Iran expects more for this one. Read more
President Donald Trump topped a poll asking Americans to name the worst person in their history -- though he also leads the field among those Republicans think is the greatest. The YouGov poll on the "greatest" and "worst" Americans was conducted ahead of the 250th anniversary of the United States. Trump appeared on both lists, a sign of how he remains one of the most polarizing figures in the country.
Vladimir Putin could use an attack on Nato as a bargaining chip for the war in Ukraine, sources told Polish media Read more
New York's mayor, Zohran Mamdani, exalted the city's legacy of immigrants on Friday in a historically laden, ideological counterpoint to a US semiquincentennial address that was expected later in the day from Donald Trump " who has sought to deport immigrants en masse throughout his second presidency. Speaking from behind a desk at New York's city hall that belonged to the US's first president, George Washington, and which itself is a century older than the Resolute desk in the White House, Mamdani was surrounded by naturalized citizens like himself as he listed the waves of immigrants who shaped the city. Read more
Pope Leo has used his first major address to his home country to praise the US history of welcoming migrants, urging Americans to live up to the ideals put forward in the Declaration of Independence. Read more
Turkish authorities have banned a cruise ship catering to American LGBTQ+ travelers from docking in the country's ports, citing "moral standards" and "family values," the CEO of the events company behind the upcoming Mediterranean tour said Thursday. The "Athens to Venice" cruise, which departs from Greece on July 5, was expected to dock in the vibrant Turkish port town of Kuadas two days later, followed by a trip to Istanbul, according to Atlantis Events, which is organizing the voyage. Read more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) declined Thursday to release additional unredacted records from its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, telling a federal judge that it has already adequately complied with the law. The DOJ's response came in the final hours of a court-ordered deadline to remove redactions in at least a dozen documents or "show cause" why it could not.
