"It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a record FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS that we live in a one-party country " the PORKY PIG PARTY!!" Musk wrote on X Monday afternoon as the Senate continued to consider the House-passed spending bill. "Time for a new political party that actually cares about the people," Musk added.
US auto sales are losing momentum after a springtime surge fueled by shoppers racing to buy cars before President Donald Trump's auto tariffs drove up prices.
On Tuesday, New York City's Democrat voters chose as their nominee for mayor, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, who ran on a socialist platform that at times made Sen. Bernie Sanders look like an editor at National Review. Among the insane socialist programs Mamdani has floated are city owned grocery stores just like in Cuba, replacing police with social workers, and a freeze on rents, this goes along with his toxic stance that Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state. Read more
Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, who became a household name amassing an enormous following and multimillion-dollar ministry only to be undone by his penchant for prostitutes, has died.
Take that.
"I'd love to do July 4, but I think it's very hard to do July 4," Trump said. "I would say maybe July 4, or somewhere around there," the president added. Read more
The truce between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump didn't even last a month. Read more
Hurricane forecasters will soon lose access to government satellite data vital to tracking hurricanes overnight " and to preventing what meteorologists once called a "sunrise surprise," when a storm unexpectedly strengthens or shifts in the darkness. The Pentagon said Monday that it would wait until the end of July before it stops sharing the data " a month later than initially planned " in response to the high level of concern after the move was first announced last week.
The Justice Department on Monday announced charges for 324 people, including nearly 100 medical professionals, in what the DOJ called the largest healthcare fraud takedown in U.S. history. The $14.6 billion crackdown spanned all 50 states and included charges ranging from opioid trafficking and telemedicine fraud to transnational identity theft schemes. Of the total charged, 77 defendants were prosecuted by state attorneys general, while the remaining 247 face federal charges. Authorities said they seized over $245 million in cash, luxury vehicles, cryptocurrency, and other assets.
One thing that continues to surprise me is just how big the US economy is, at least in nominal aka US dollar terms. The map above shows you could split the US economy in 3 and it would be the #1, #3 and #4 biggest economies.
The FBI warns that the nefarious cybercriminal group Scattered Spider' is expanding its targeting to include the airline sector. Scattered Spider actors steal sensitive data for extortion and often deploy ransomware. Hawaiian Airlines and WestJet both confirmed they were recently victims of a cyberattack by unspecified assailants. The FBI said it is working with aviation partners to address the activity, but that it has not impacted airline safety so far. The Scattered Spider hacker group has previously been linked to cyberattacks across different company sectors, including an attack that shut down MGM Resorts' systems for over a week in 2023. Meanwhile tens of thousands of East Coast flyers face a travel horror show after the FAA implemented ground delays at LaGuardia and JFK airports, cancelling least 180 flights. The nightmare comes as travelers gear up for the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Read more
Lara Trump " who declined to run for North Carolina Senate four years ago " is at a crossroads again amid Sen. Thom Tillis' announcement that he won't seek reelection. Now, the younger Trump " who has previously had ambitions to hold elected office " is at a crossroads again amid Sen. Thom Tillis' announcement that he won't seek reelection. And while she weighs her options, the rest of the state GOP is at a standstill. "The field is gonna be frozen," said one political operative close to the White House. "She has the right of first refusal." Read more
Wealthy Kentucky business executive Nate Morris entered the race to succeed Mitch McConnell in the United States Senate, casting himself as the only political outsider in the field and an unwaveringly loyal supporter of President Trump. He announced his candidacy on a podcast hosted by the president's son Donald Trump Jr. The race is expected to be among the biggest and most expensive Republican primary battles of 2026. On his campaign website, Mr. Morris says he opposes "all forms of amnesty" for undocumented immigrants and wants to end birthright citizenship. He says he supports Mr. Trump's tariffs and wants to cut federal funding for schools and universities that "try to indoctrinate our kids with woke propaganda." The GOP Senator hopeful stated "We need a hard stop on immigration, right now." Link: Twitter. Read more
When political scientist Seth Masket shared this story on Bluesky yesterday, I couldn't believe it was real. The right-wing Washington Times reported that at a press conference at the NATO Summit in the Netherlands on Wednesday, Trump revealed that he had given Iran permission to bomb the U.S.'s Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar in retaliation for the American bombing of their nuclear sites. "They said, We're going to shoot them. Is one o'clock OK?' I said it's fine," Trump said. "And everybody was emptied off the base so they couldn't get hurt, except for the gunners." I poked around for other major coverage of this extraordinary admission, and landed only on a transcript of the press conference. And yes, amid a characteristically meandering monologue, Trump actually said that he let a foreign adversary bomb an American military installation.
Rush University Medical Center in Chicago is adding a new twist to its curriculum for medical students and residents, using AI tools and learning modules to teach how to more quickly identify measles rashes on different skin tones.
There were no survivors in a plane crash behind a house in Howland on Sunday morning, according to local authorities. It happened around 7 a.m. between Spring Run Road and King Graves Road NE " just two miles away from the end of the runway at the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport in Vienna. The plane was carrying two experienced crew members and four passengers. The identities of the crash victims have not yet been released. According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the plane was a Cessna 441 " a small twin-engine plane.
