62 percent of young people want to see significant changes' to government. It's no secret that both political parties are unpopular. This is particularly true of Gen Z, which polls suggest feels like it is set to inherit a political system riddled with partisan hostility and congressional gridlock.
President Donald Trump and his aides rarely go easy on their perceived enemies. But their attacks on the International Criminal Court -- describing it as, among other things, filled with "lunatics" and pledging to destroy it -- are hyperbolic enough that you have to wonder:
Are they afraid the court will prosecute them?
The U.S. economy grew at an annualized rate of 1.5% in the second quarter.
The Supreme Court deadline to request a reconsideration on President Trump's birthright citizenship order passed on Tuesday without a filing from the Department of Justice. The Trump administration had 25 days to petition the court for a rehearing regarding the president's attempt to strip the U.S. of jus soli, or right of the soil privileges.
Poll: Trump's MAGA voters would stick by a candidate through the most serious of scandals
Most of President Donald Trump's MAGA base say they'd still vote for a GOP candidate when confronted with an array of scandals " more so than Republican voters writ large or Democrats.
The POLITICO Poll finds President Donald Trump's MAGA supporters are the most loyal of any group of voters " with majorities saying they would stick by GOP candidates confronted with an array of scandals, from a DUI conviction or accepting lobbyist gifts to more serious accusations including domestic violence, sexual assault and antisemitic social media posts.
The Department of Commerce quietly announced this week it will designate more than $870 million in federal incentives for semiconductor manufacturing in exchange for a minority equity stake in seven companies.
The judge sentenced Colin Gray, the father of Apalachee school shooter Colt Gray, to 15 years in prison. Colin Gray was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo. He also was guilty of two counts of involuntary manslaughter for the deaths of two adults, teachers Cristina Irimie and Ricky Aspinwall. Judge Nicholas Primm sentenced the shooter's father to 15-year sentences for each second-degree murder charge and 10 years for each reckless conduct charge. He also was sentenced to 10 years for child cruelty, with lesser sentences for his other charges and all prison time to run concurrently.
Like I wrote, just plain nuts.
The anti-Trump resistance has settled on its Anthony Fauci narrative. The Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing Wednesday was a witch hunt. Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who deeply influenced the restrictive guidelines during the Covid pandemic, had no choice. The good doctor had to invoke his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself. It's a nice story, but the camera doesn't lie. More than an hour into the proceedings, Senator Bernie Moreno, a Republican from Ohio, exposed the stone wall strategy. He requested those in the audience to stand up if they had paid a professional, legal, or personal price for dissenting from Covid orthodoxies during the pandemic. The senator then asked Fauci to turn around and look at them. Fauci refused.
He tells his personal story.
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President Donald Trump's approval rating hit a new low of 32% on Wednesday, according to a new poll released by Quinnipiac, just hours after a CNN poll measured his approval rating at 34%"matching a low the network recorded after the Jan. 6 Capitol riots in 2021.
Brian Sutton, accused of masterminding one of the largest fraud schemes to ever be unraveled in the United States, is living freely in Russia. Among his acquisitions there is a fleet of luxury cars, an elite villa near Moscow, and a stake in an MMA club tied to a member of the Russian parliament. Read more
Chinese vessels seen exempt from proposed charges. Iran discussed Bab el-Mandeb fees with Houthis. Red Sea route disruption raises energy shortage fears. Yemen's Houthi group is considering imposing fees on commercial ships sailing through the southern Red Sea, a week after declaring a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, regional sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The Iran-aligned Houthis on July 20 declared a maritime embargo against Saudi Arabia, opening a new front against the U.S. and its allies in the Iran war and expanding attacks on tankers carrying global energy and other supplies to waters beyond the Gulf.
Childhood vaccines are at the center of a potential showdown between President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, Trump has grown irate with Kennedy and is pushing him to move faster to change the nation's childhood vaccine schedule. The report said Trump has personally pressed Kennedy to take more action and reshape federal vaccine policy.
Hundreds of former Israeli military, diplomatic, and intelligence officials are urging Dummkopf Trumpf to compel ICC-indicted Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to curb "Settler terror" in the occupied West Bank.
But the Gaza Strip will be emptied of Palestinians to make way for Settlers, luxury beach resorts, and Israeli access to natural gas deposits off shore under the seabed of the Mediterranean Sea
