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.
@Cats on a Couch
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The sinister Trumpf junta repealed a crucial part of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), finalizing a new rule that will open habitats of imperiled wildlife to development, logging, mining, and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.
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It never ends, does it? Big fat Brother hath decreed that federal funding for research grants from the National Institutes of Health ($47 billion this fiscal year) must be "screened for disfavored terms and concepts" such as "climate," "gender" and "vaccine."
An illegal alien child rapist from Laos who was set for deportation until Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and the State Board of Pardons granted him clemency has been removed from the United States, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Fox News Digital. Rubio stepped in to terminate Tue Lue Vang's legal status in the U.S. and ensure that Walz's actions would not create roadblocks for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) removing him from the country. Read more
Two teenage boys who identify as girls withdrew their lawsuit in New Hampshire following a Supreme Court ruling that upheld state bans on boys competing in girls' sports. Parker Tirrell and Iris Turmelle filed lawsuits against New Hampshire's ban on males competing on female sports teams, and in 2024, they amended their complaint to include a challenge to Trump's executive order last year that aimed to protect females from having to compete against males in sports, the Associated Press reported.
An LGBTQ cruise that was prohibited from stopping in Turkey earlier this week was not allowed to dock at its substitute port in Egypt on Thursday, according to the company that planned the trip. Atlantis Events CEO Rich Campbell, who is on Virgin Voyages' Scarlet Lady with nearly 2,000 passengers, called the move "really unheard of" and "strange and sad" in a message to The Washington Post. He said that the approval to dock in Alexandria was pulled at the last minute. Read more
The first defendants since daycare fraud became a highly talked-about issue in Minnesota have pleaded guilty. That includes the woman who received more taxpayer money than any other childcare provider in 2025. Fahima Mahamud was arrested in February after she closed down her daycare and, that same day, booked a flight to London. The 50-year-old ran Future Leaders Early Learning Center since 2015. That daycare received $3.7 million in childcare assistance program money last year, more than any other daycare in the state. Read more
Jul 9, 2026
Adam Hoffman " a well connected lawyer and admitted predator " should have spent his life in prison.
Instead, Ken Paxton gave him an Epstein-style sweetheart deal, letting him out of jail after just 29 days in jail.
It's time to start flipping tables!
The Type 003 Fujian aircraft carrier, an 80,000-tonne vessel commissioned into the People's Liberation Army Navy in November 2025, replaces legacy 12-tube depth-charge launchers with specialized port and starboard rotating six-tube ATT mounts. Operating via a permanent-magnet synchronous direct-drive motor and pump-jet propulsion, the 324 mm interceptors accelerate to speeds of 50 to 60 knots within three seconds to execute terminal active or passive homing maneuvers. Read more
