A voter-backed California law requiring background checks for people who buy bullets is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday in a blow to the state's efforts to combat gun violence. In upholding a 2024 ruling by a lower court, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the law violates the Second Amendment. Voters passed the law in 2016 and it took effect in 2019. Many states, including California, make people pass a background check before they can buy a gun. California went a step further by requiring a background check, which costs either $1 or $19 depending on eligibility, every time someone buys bullets.
The City of West Haven made a major investment in city-wide cameras to keep first responders and residents safe. This 3.2 million dollar investment installed 200 cameras across West Haven with 500 different angles that first responders can monitor.
The first sight walking into the Sun Fresh at Linwood Boulevard and 31st Street is the produce section. On Tuesday, the crates and shelves were nearly bare. "It make me want to walk right back out," said Greg Hayslett, "but I had to get something. It's mind boggling." He walked across the street to his home with his two little girls. If his car hadn't been broken down, he said, he would have driven to a better stocked store. The center aisles have plenty of cleaning supplies, canned goods and boxed food like macaroni and cheese. There is milk to be had. But the egg cooler is empty. A woman walked past the doors that once had cold cuts inside, bewildered. "Where's the meat?" she asked. Chillers in the center aisle had frozen chicken cuts thawing. It was not unlike what KCTV5 saw in April.
During my tenure here as the Deputy Director of the FBI, I have repeatedly relayed to you that things are happening that might not be immediately visible, but they are happening.
The Director and I are committed to stamping out public corruption and the political weaponization of both law enforcement and intelligence operations. It is a priority for us. But what I have learned in the course of our properly predicated and necessary investigations into these aforementioned matters, has shocked me down to my core. We cannot run a Republic like this. I'll never be the same after learning what I've learned. Read more
According to records obtained from the Windsor Police Department and confirmed by the Weld County District Attorney's office, Tyler Boebert, the eldest of controversial Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert's four sons, was cited on Friday, July 11, by the Windsor Police Department and faces a misdemeanor charge of child abuse. Details about the circumstances that led to the criminal citation were not publicly available as of July 25. According to a court summons, the child-abuse charge Tyler faces is criminal negligence where no death or injury occurred. Congresswoman Boebert characterized the incident as "a miscommunication on monitoring my young grandson that recently led to him getting out of our house." Read more
Donald Trump said on Saturday that he had called the leaders of Cambodia and Thailand, pressing them for an immediate ceasefire following border clashes. At the beginning of a private visit to his Scottish golf courses, the US president wrote on Truth Social that both nations "have agreed to immediately meet and quickly work out a Ceasefire and, ultimately, PEACE!" Both countries thanked him for his concern and efforts. Cambodia has accepted his request for a ceasefire, while Thailand stressed the need for a dialogue between the two countries. Read more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is investigating organ donation practices after a Kentucky organization allegedly began harvesting organs from people who may not have been dead. A House subcommittee held a hearing Tuesday on organ donation safety lapses, some concerning Kentucky-based nonprofit Network for Hope, which merged with Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates (KODA). Read more
Newly declassified information contradicts Brennan's testimony before Congress on the origins of the now-debunked Russian collusion conspiracy theory. There is a particular focus on the intelligence community assessment commissioned by President Barack Obama in December 2016, which suggested that Russia had interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump. Read more
January 6 has become a date of hallowed pagan sacredness to the ruling class " a supposed talisman marking chaos, a shorthand for "threats to democracy." But the media, predictably, has focused on the wrong January. And the wrong threat. Because the real January 6 " the one that changed everything " wasn't in 2021. It happened four years earlier, in 2017. Not at the Capitol, but rather in a glass-walled conference room on the 26th floor of Trump Tower. That morning, President-elect Donald J. Trump received a classified briefing from top intelligence officials " a routine, transitional step for any incoming commander in chief. But what he got wasn't intelligence. It was a malicious setup, a trap.
Susan Miller, a retired CIA officer who helped lead the 2017 intelligence assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 election, refuted claims that it was fabricated. Miller stated the assessment was based on credible information confirming Russia's goal to get Trump elected, although no No collusion between Trump's campaign and the Kremlin was found. Tulsi Gabbard claimed the assessment was based on manufactured information and part of a conspiracy to undermine Trump, referencing a 2020 Republican House report. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) dismissed Miller's comments, referencing the 2020 Republican House intelligence report. A bipartisan Senate probe in 2020 endorsed the intelligence agencies' assessment that Russia spread disinformation and leaked emails to undermine Hillary Clinton and bolster Trump. Read more
Experts confirm increased firefly sightings, attributing the population boom to a damp spring and hot summer.
A tweet from the official Democratic Party's X account was ridiculed on Thursday after inadvertently showing prices skyrocketing under former President Joe Biden. The post attempted to describe rising grocery prices under "Trump's America" using a graph dating from October 2019 to 2025. The graph claimed that "U.S. Grocery Prices Reached Record Highs in 2025" with prices "higher today than they were on July 2024" in categories such as dairy, produce and meat. However, many X users pointed out that the graph, in fact, showed prices skyrocketing in 2021 when Biden was president and only leveling off at the end of 2024 when President Donald Trump was re-elected.
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'Blindsided and annoyed':
Pam Bondi insiders tell of fury at Tulsi Gabbard Attorney General Pam Bondi found herself scrambling to contain the political fallout after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard hijacked her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein crisis and launched an uncoordinated attack on Barack Obama, according to several sources close to the AG.
DeSantis spent part of his time on stage at a Bradenton event reminiscing about Hulk Hogan.
Footage from 2010 of Jeffrey Epstein asserting his "Fifth, Sixth and 14th Amendment rights" when asked whether he had ever "socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18" has gone viral on X, racking up more than 2 million views since Wednesday evening.
