A federal judge in California Friday awarded Hunter Biden $1.7 million in punitive damages in his defamation dispute against former Overstock.com CEO and 2020 election denier Patrick Byrne.
The Trump administration hit four New York Times journalists with subpoenas on Friday, after the outlet published a story outlining risks involving President Trump's Qatar-gifted Air Force One plane that recently entered into service.
The Times reported that the refurbished jet lacked some of the advanced security measures of the older aircraft used to transport the president.
Mystery surrounding Senator Mitch McConnell's health is deepening as the US Congress prepares to return from recess next week. McConnell, 84, has not been seen in public since he was admitted to hospital in the Washington area on 14 June. Nearly a month later, the Kentucky Republican's office has released only sparse updates, saying he is "continuing to improve" and remains engaged with Senate business, while refusing to disclose the nature of his illness or explain why he remains hospitalised. Read more
California saw $1.4 billion in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program errors for Fiscal Year 2025. That accounts for $3.8 million every single day. That's part of a trend of Southwestern states having to repay the federal government for SNAP benefits. A payment error rate refers to instances of overpayment or underpayment to households. It is not inherently indicative of fraud, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees SNAP for the federal government. Rather, according to the department, it often stems from households providing incomplete information or state data processing errors. Read more
A vote on a San Francisco supervisor's plan to convert neighborhood corner stores into publicly subsidized markets has been placed on hold. Supervisor Bilal Mahmoud announced the idea late last month and is now accusing Mayor Daniel Lurie of interfering with the Board of Supervisors' legislative process. "What happened is that the mayor called the budget chair and asked her to pull this to even before it could be voted on," Mahmoud said. "This has never happened in the history of the board in recent history." Mahmoud's plan is modeled after New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's executive action to create government-owned supermarkets.
An indictment says Fahad Mohamed Nur's company received "more than $9.9 million fraudulently from sites or entities involved in the Federal Child Nutrition Program."
Iran is already a quagmire. As the bombing resumes, just how bad will it get? Read more
Victor Marx (R) who claims to do exorcisms by phone, says he killed a man at age seven, took credit for helping rescue 43 missing children in Florida, and that as a civilian he once called in a military airstrike that killed 70 fighters from the Islamic State (IS) group, is now the Republican gubernatorial candidate for Colorado.
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Plaintiff Amanda McGonigle (37) is suing the USSS and the Office of the President for prohibiting her from attending a VPOTUS JD Vance event in Bangor Maine, telling her "we know where you stand," a violation of her First Amendment rights and viewpoint discrimination.
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Major AI data center builders have doubled their debt in five years. This borrowing finances an unprecedented spending spree for economic transformation. Investors have backed these companies, buying new bonds issued globally. However, Amazon's recent bond issuance received a chilly reception from buyers. Some companies show balance sheet strain as AI spending accelerates.
The sinister Trumpf junta repealed a crucial part of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), finalizing a new rule that will open habitats of imperiled wildlife to development, logging, mining, and other uses.
The 2024 Democrats blew it bigly for everybody, even the poor endangered species
Youtube star Ms. Rachel is voicing her support for Muslims and the hijab, after President Trump singled out a kindergarten graduation ceremony in Minnesota. In case you missed it, this week, President Trump shared a video of a Minnesota kindergarten graduation featuring children, many of them wearing hijabs. He didn't write his own caption. Instead, he amplified a post from the X account End Wokeness highlighting that "every girl is in a hijab ... in kindergarten." children weren't protesting. They weren't campaigning. They were graduating. It's one thing to debate immigration policy. It's another thing entirely to put kindergarteners at the center of a political message.
Reid Rasner, an openly gay Republican running for Wyoming's sole House seat, is spending the final stretch of the campaign on a project he didn't expect: suing members of his own party for defamation. On Friday morning, Rasner will settle one case against an Iowa man who called him a "pedophile" under several of his campaign's Facebook posts. Rasner is pursuing another case against a former GOP Wyoming state senator who he alleges led a whisper campaign accusing him of sexual misconduct. "I've never experienced anything like this in my entire life," said Rasner, 42, who came out when he was 20.
The 21st Century Road to Housing Act, a bipartisan bill that aims to tackle housing affordability, officially became law early Saturday, despite a series of attempts by President Donald Trump to stall the legislation. Its passage signals that lawmakers recognize the frustration many Americans feel about the high cost of housing. At a time of elevated mortgage rates and near-record high home prices, many feel locked out of homeownership or struggle with monthly rent payments.
The U.S. Army is consolidating its official social media presence, drastically slashing the number of allowable accounts and ordering commanders to remove newly-unauthorized accounts within 30 days, the service announced in a late-June memorandum.
President Trump on Friday claimed he has left instructions to bomb Iran "at levels that they've never seen before" should Tehran assassinate him.
"I've been on their list for a long time. That's what we're dealing with," he told the New York Post. "The only thing is, I've left instructions " if anything happens, to just literally bomb them at levels that they've never seen before."
The interview comes a day after The Wall Street Journal reported that Israel recently shared intelligence with the U.S. indicating a new plot from Iran to assassinate Trump.
