FBI Director Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel: "The FBI is assisting local authorities and has made every necessary resource available." There are no signs of foul play and the late septuagenarian Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) may have suffered a blood clot from his long return flight home from Ukraine which caused a pulmonary embollism leading to cardiac arrest.
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U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell said he will not rejoin the Senate when it returns to work on Monday because he is still recovering from a fall and from pneumonia.
"As much as it frustrates me, this process takes time," McConnell said in a statement on Sunday, his first since he was hospitalized last month. "And on the advice of my doctors, I won't be able to return to the Senate floor to vote quite yet."
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.
As California tries to derail Paramount's $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount CEO David Ellison's friends and advisers have been pushing the media executive to consider shifting his business out of the state. Ellison's confidantes have pushed him to consider moving its corporate headquarters and reallocating much of its $30 billion in planned spending outside the state if California Attorney General Rob Bonta were to sue to stop the merger, according to people familiar with the discussions. No decisions have been made, these people said, and the considerations may just be a show of brinkmanship, given so much of the industry's production takes place outside of Hollywood already. Under the current deal, Paramount has committed to keeping both companies' lots operational if it remains in California. Read more
In January, while still threatening to seize Greenland, President Trump announced the formation of a "Board of Peace," proclaiming it "the Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place." The United Nations Security Council endorsed the board as part of a "Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict," but the board's charter claims a far broader mission: securing"peace in areas affected or threatened by conflict."
China's expansive maritime claims in the South China Sea have no legal basis, Japan, the Philippines, the United States and 11 other countries said in a joint statement on Sunday to mark the 10th anniversary of a landmark international tribunal ruling. The Philippines won the 2016 case at the Permanent Court of Arbitration that found China's sweeping claim of sovereignty in the South China Sea had no basis under international law, a decision that Beijing continuously rejects.
A tourist was seriously injured Friday evening after being thrown 8 feet into the air by a bull bison in Yellowstone National Park. Professional photographer Mike Macleod filmed the incident and said the bison was "angry, agitated and charging anything and everything." Read more
The new wave of Democrats and progressives, he argued, are repeating the same mistakes that cost the party in the past. "These people are so f"ing stupid I don't know what to say about it," said Carville, who previously served as a senior adviser to former President Clinton. "So now we have this idea that these insurgent Democrats. And what is their solution?" "Is their solution to beat Republicans, to run against Republicans? No! Their solution is to beat Democrats like they're part of the problem," he continued. "You are part of the problem because you're a f-king idiot!"
Journalist Pidcock debuts with a revealing account of how white evangelical worship music "has become a servant of the political right." He traces the evolution of the worship music industry starting in the 1980s, as a few megachurches began producing the bulk of worship music, hewing to rigidly hierarchical power dynamics that reflected evangelicalism's rightward turn. Unlike Black worship songs that often emphasize themes of liberation, white evangelical worship songs tend to reinforce strict power hierarchies, "celebrate the exile of everyone who doesn't fit their definition of the saved," and depict rigid gender binaries that paint women as submissive "helpers of men." Read more
Sullivan & Cromwell, one of the most prestigious law firms in the world, has developed a mutually beneficial relationship with President Donald Trump -- rankling some of the firm's top talent in the process. The elite firm represents Trump in a variety of his personal legal matters, including an appeal of his criminal conviction on 34 counts of business fraud in the Manhattan hush money case, his effort to move that case to federal court and his appeal of a New York state civil fraud verdict.
After the NATO Summit concluded in Ankara, Turkiye, Canada PM Mark Carney made an official visit to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he conferred with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the culprit the USIC assesses ordered the murder of Saudi dissident-journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul on 2 Oct 2018.
Declassified ODNI Report on "Mohammad Bone Saws" and his role in the brutal and bloody assassination of Jamal Khashoggi
Less than one month after Charlie Kirk's death, Candace Owens made an incendiary claim: Kirk came to her in a dream and told her he had been betrayed. Owens, a conservative podcaster who worked for Turning Point USA from 2017 to 2019, had taken it upon herself to investigate Kirk's death, homing in on potential betrayers. On her popular podcast, she denied that Tyler Robinson, the troubled 23-year-old from Utah who is standing trial for allegedly murdering Kirk, had acted alone. She suggested Israel somehow played a role. And she said Kirk's former colleagues at Turning Point " including his wife, Erika Kirk " should face scrutiny.
Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio and depended on an iron lung to live. She died June 26 in Oklahoma, the last U.S. polio patient who used the machine, her sister said. She was 78. "They told her she wasn't supposed to live past 20 years old," Lillard's younger sister, Cindy McVey, told The Associated Press on Friday. "She had the enthusiasm and the drive to continue living and make the best of her life." McVey attributes her sister's death to the effects of long Covid. A death certificate lists causes as chronic pulmonary failure and post-polio syndrome, McVey said.
WASHINGTON ' South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham died on July 11, according to his office. He was 71. Graham's death marks the passing of a longtime conservative fixture of the Senate, and one of President Donald Trump's closest political allies.
VPOTUS JD Vance prejudiced the homicide trial of Tyler Robinson (23), accused of assassinating good-for-nothing Charlie Kirk, when he bleated there is "clear evidence" that the defendant killed the nefarious hatemonger, then speculated on who might have radicalized the alleged culprit.
Infamous example of trial interference by a US politician
The Honorable USDJ Timothy Kelly granted the Justice Department's motion to dismiss the case with prejudice against Proud Boy members Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, and Dominic Pezzola, after a federal appeals court had already vacated their convictions.
The provenance for all of the Jan 6 case dismissals
