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Mark Halperin
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The Supreme Court is requesting $228 million for the next fiscal year, including $14.6 million to expand justice protection teams.
Nearly 400 federal judges faced threats last year, with another 276 targeted in just the first half of this year according to the US Marshals Service.
Darline Graham Nordone became the first woman ever to represent South Carolina in the US Senate when she was sworn in Tuesday.
Senator Lindsey Graham died suddenly on Saturday at the age of 71, prompting the appointment of his sister to complete his term.
A Cyclospora parasite outbreak has sickened more than 4,000 people across more than 30 states, with Michigan reporting over 3,300 cases.
More than 108 million Americans were under active heat alerts, with the heat dome stretching from the West Coast to the Northeast.
Salt Lake City reached 109 degrees and Billings, Montana hit 111 degrees on Sunday as the heat dome shattered all-time records in parts of the West.
The National Weather Service forecasted more than 90 temperature records could be tied or broken through Tuesday, mostly involving unusually warm overnight temperatures.
After both parents died within 15 months, a young Lindsey Graham became his 13-year-old sister's legal guardian while attending law school, later formally adopting her.
Kamala Harris is cozying up to DSA figures like Zohran Mamdani to capture grassroots energy for a 2028 run — but Mark Halperin says she lacks the sophistication to finesse that relationship. She's grabbing the tiger by the tail, and the tiger will eat her.
Approximately one million children of Chinese nationals have been born on US soil — mostly in places like Guam and Los Angeles — and are being raised in China. Rep. Ogles, as chair of the Cyber Infrastructure Protection subcommittee, says classified briefings confirm China, China, China as the top threat. Every one of those children is constitutionally eligible to run for the US presidency.
Rep. Andy Ogles' Anchors Away bill would redefine 'alien' legislatively, so that pregnant non-citizens and non-green-card-holders cannot use US soil to confer citizenship on their children. Ogles cites the original author of the 14th Amendment, Jacob Howard, who explicitly said it would not cover foreigners — Congress just failed to codify that intent.
The Charlie Kirk Show will stream the entire Tyler Robinson preliminary hearing live from Provo, Utah, July 6–10, with expert breakdowns each evening. This is not the trial — it's a probable cause hearing to determine if the case moves forward, but for Charlie's family and extended Turning Point family, it carries enormous weight.
The Hart-Celler Act of 1965 replaced national-origins quotas with a family-reunification system, exploding annual legal immigration from roughly 297,000 to 1.2 million. Ted Kennedy famously promised it would not change the demographic makeup of America. The foreign-born population has since grown from 5% to roughly 15% — some 60 million people.
Mark Halperin breaks the DSA surge into three distinct forces: genuine anti-establishment populism (an asset), hard-left policies like abolishing ICE (popular with the base, toxic in general elections), and outright antisemitic and extreme statements (a disqualifier). The Democratic establishment is uniquely ill-equipped to fight this because they lack a Bill Clinton or Barack Obama to neutralize the threat.
Andrew Colvett warns that Trump's populist reform agenda is being blocked by the D.C. establishment and judiciary, and that this failure to deliver is actively fueling the rise of the socialist left. Mark Halperin agrees: if Republicans blow their economic message, the DSA's populist economic pitch could break through.
The Save America Act enjoys over 80% approval across all partisan, racial, and ideological lines — yet the Senate, under John Thune, refuses to move it. Rep. Ogles says if Thune won't answer the mandate of the American people, he should step aside for someone like Mike Lee.
Global cancer incidence rose 42% over the last measured decade, from 14.1 million to 20 million new cases annually. Senate committee doctors have suggested a link between the COVID-19 vaccine and cancer. Kim Bright argues that mRNA technology causes increased inflammation, autoimmune disorders, and conditions that may accelerate cancer development — and that Big Pharma's proposed solution is yet another mRNA vaccine.
A study cited by Kim Bright found that lactic acid bacteria in kimchi suppress carcinogen-activating enzymes, modulate the immune system, and may have genuine anti-cancer potential. Since daily kimchi consumption is impractical for most Americans, Brightcore's Kimchi One delivers the same probiotics, prebiotics, and postbiotics in capsule form.
Blake Neff outlined a specific California law change that reduced certain jail sentences from one year to 364 days — one day less than the threshold that triggers automatic deportation. Combined with sanctuary pardons like Minnesota's, this reveals a deliberate legal architecture designed to prevent deportation of criminal immigrants.
The Minnesota Board of Pardons granted clemency to Thao Vang — convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl — because he faced a federal deportation order. The pardon letter congratulated him. Blake Neff argues this is a deliberate pattern: the left changes laws and issues pardons specifically to keep criminal immigrants in the country.
Washing contaminated produce with soap and water is not enough to kill Cyclospora. Boiling is the only reliable method. An infectious disease physician advised Americans to skip salad bars entirely until investigators identify the source of the outbreak.
The Supreme Court expects a 38% surge in threats this year, following a 25% rise last year. Nearly 400 federal judges faced threats in the past year, and the court is now requesting $228 million — including $14.6 million for expanded justice protection — to keep up with an escalating danger.
Senator Susan Collins publicly called out Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer for a 2020 speech where he singled out Gorsuch and Kavanaugh by name outside the Supreme Court, warning they would 'pay the price.' Collins argued rhetoric from elected officials on both sides is directly dangerous — not just irresponsible.
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