Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News
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The following front-page stories received the most comments during the preceding week.

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump's controversial plan to change how mail ballots are sent to voters across the country ... read more


The Houthi advance is bad news for the U.S., and even worse news for Saudi Arabia. read more


The Department of Energy declared an "emergency" when none existed. read more


Take one minute and 46 seconds to listen to James Talarico explain how school vouchers are mostly used to subsidize wealthy families who are already sending their children to private schools. read more


The federal government is conducting a criminal investigation related to Gov. Gavin Newsom's international travel and its funding, according to subpoenas reviewed by The Standard. read more


"All these mechanisms (tapping storage and national reserves) helped to mitigate the price and supply risk," Chevron (CVX) CEO Mike Wirth said Friday at an energy conference in Austin, Texas, according to The Wall Street Journal. "Those have largely now played out, and we don't have nearly the buffers in the system that we did when [the Middle East war] began." read more


A Broader Measure Came In Higher, New Figures Show. Child poverty also fell to its lowest recorded level, while the share of Americans without health insurance remained largely unchanged. read more


A 40-year-old woman has died from measles complications in Pennsylvania, marking the state's third measles-associated death this year as the U.S. ... read more


"It was everything we dreamed of and more," his wife later wrote on Instagram. That dream was heavily funded by a secret benefactor: Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch close to President Vladimir Putin. read more


In a first-of-its-kind mandatory report to Congress, the [Defense Department's inspector general] said that between Feb. 28 and June 30, Operation Epic Fury (OEF) had an estimated cost of $33.4 billion, with $22.3 billion of that spent on munitions alone. "The munitions expenditure on OEF has resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks for munitions resupply," the report states. read more


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