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#1 Did Top US Scientist Fund Wuhan Lab Research Tied to Covid-19’s Origins? Tulsi Gabbard’s Final Bombshell - The Statesman, DNI Tulsi Gabbard, Senator Rand Paul, The SCIF, Leading Report, MAGA Voice, and The General on X
The debate over how COVID-19 began has returned to the center of political and intelligence scrutiny in the United States after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released a fresh set of declassified records alleging former top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci funded gain-of-function research at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, influenced intelligence assessments on the virus’s origins, and misled Congress under oath. The disclosure marks the latest step in the Trump administration’s effort to revisit decisions taken during the pandemic. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) claims the newly released material raises questions about Fauci’s role in funding coronavirus research, his interactions with intelligence officials, and the government’s handling of competing theories about the origins of COVID-19...
#2 FDA Spun Autopsy Results To Downplay COVID Vaccine Deaths In Kids, Letter Shows - Emily Kopp for The Daily Caller, The HighWire, Senator Ron Johnson/The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show, Robert W. Malone, MD, and Jeanne Cash/Secretary Kennedy on X
Read about the biggest government scandal that legacy newspapers won’t touch. On April 29, 2026, as Chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, I held a hearing and released a report titled "Unmasked: How Biden Health Officials Purposely Turned a Blind Eye Toward COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signals." There has not been a bigger government scandal during my lifetime, and yet even now that we have documented proof of corruption, most of the legacy media refuse to report on it. My report details how, in March 2021, Peter Marks — director of the FDA center that approves vaccines and is responsible for safety surveillance (CBER) — was briefed that the algorithm they were using to analyze the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) would mask or hide COVID-19 vaccine adverse event safety signals. Twenty-six days later, using an updated algorithm, senior FDA officials were shown 25 safety signals, including sudden cardiac death, pulmonary infarction, cerebral artery occlusion, basal ganglia stroke, agonal rhythm, and Bell’s palsy...#3 U.S.-Iran Talks Postponed as Vance Cancels Trip and Israel Intensifies Strikes in Southern Lebanon - Yuliya Talmazan and Keir Simmons for NBC News, Robert A. Pape, Iran Observer, Crypto Rover, Bull Theory, Aditya Raj Kaul, and BBC News (World) on X
The first peace talks between the United States and Iran were postponed on Friday, as Vice President JD Vance canceled his planned travel to Switzerland and intense new Israeli strikes in Lebanon cast doubts on the deal to end the war. The escalation in Lebanon came just days after the interim U.S.-Iran agreement was signed and as the two sides were set to sit down for their first negotiations to agree on a lasting conclusion to the conflict started by the U.S. and Israel in late February. The talks that were set to take place in the Swiss Alps were temporarily postponed following the deadly Israeli strikes, a regional diplomat with knowledge of the situation told NBC News...#4 Minor League Baseball Team Cancels Pride Night Game After Players Refuse to Wear Rainbows - David K. Li for NBC News, Mario Nawfall, Senator Scott Weiner, Thrilla the Gorilla, DK, and Tony Buerk/Collin Rugg on X
Minor league baseball’s York Revolution in Pennsylvania declined to play its Pride Night game Thursday after players refused to wear uniforms that featured a rainbow design, team officials said. The Revolution’s game against the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs was to have marked the team’s 11th annual Pride Night, but players refused to don special jerseys that had rainbow sleeves. Thursday night’s game will go down as a forfeit, the Revolution said. “This decision was not reached lightly,” the team said in a statement. President and GM Ben Shipley said his manager told him Tuesday that fewer than nine players on the 28-man roster — the minimum needed to fill out a lineup card — were willing to play in Thursday night’s uniforms...#5 Obama Center’s Opening Ceremony - Peter D'Abrosca for Fox News, CBS News, Polymarket, Jesse Watters, and Q RIGHT SCOPE on X
At Thursday’s ceremony marking the beginning of the Obama Presidential Center’s opening weekend, the master of ceremonies began with a left-wing "land acknowledgment ritual," for which the entire event was promptly mocked. Valerie Jarrett, the former senior advisor to Obama when he was president and the current CEO of the Obama Foundation, kicked things off. "We’d also like to take a moment to recognize the original inhabitants of the land upon which we are gathered today," she said. "We honor the Anishinaabe, the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi nations."
#6 Rep. Tom Kean to Return to Congress on June 30 After Monthslong Absence - Kyle Stewart and Kyla Guilfoil for NBC News, NEWSMAX, Common Sense with Chad Law, Shuvajit Das, Steve Williams, and Newser on X
Rep. Tom Kean Jr., R-N.J., plans to return to Capitol Hill on June 30 after missing more than 100 votes during a nearly four-month absence from Washington. Kean’s chief of staff, Dan Scharfenberger, confirmed to NBC News on Thursday the date of Kean’s planned return. The New Jersey Globe first reported the news. Kean’s office previously said that the congressman’s absence was due to a “personal medical issue,” but has not disclosed any further details on his condition. Kean last voted in the Capitol on March 5, but his office has kept active on social media while he’s stayed out of the public eye. The congressman is running for re-election and will face off with Democrat Rebecca Bennett, a former Navy helicopter pilot and healthcare executive, in November...#7 Democratic Socialist Janeese Lewis George Wins Democratic Primary for DC Mayor - Will Lennon for ABC News, CBS 21 News, BREAKING NEWS Alert, Stan McWilliams, Fox 9, and Tom Souther on X
Janeese Lewis George won the Democratic primary for mayor of Washington, D.C., held earlier this week, according to a projection from the Associated Press on Thursday. Lewis George, a D.C. councilmember and democratic socialist, had 52.9% of the vote as of Thursday afternoon, according to the Board of Elections website. Her next closest competitor, former Ward 5 and at-large councilmember Kenyan McDuffie, had 36.4%. There were seven candidates for mayor on the ballot, but the race was viewed as essentially a showdown between Lewis George and McDuffie. Tuesday's vote was the first D.C. mayoral election in 12 years without the city's current mayor, Muriel Bowser, as a candidate. It is also the first time D.C. has used ranked-choice voting...
#8 Italian FM Cancels US Visit Over Reported Trump Comments - NEWSMAX, Flashpoint OSINT, Tasnim News Agency, MeidasTouch, and ConflictLive on X
Italy's foreign minister on Friday canceled a planned visit to the United States following reported comments by President Donald Trump about Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. "The grave and offensive words of President Trump... offend the whole of Italy," Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, who had been due to visit the U.S. on June 21 and 22, said on X. Meloni said she was "stunned" by Trump's comments to Italian channel La7 in which, according to a transcript provided by the network, he said Meloni "wanted a picture with me so badly" at the G7 summit and he agreed only because he "felt sorry for her."
#9 Reflecting Pool Contract Balloons Up to $14.7M - Rachel Frazin, Rep. Clay Fuller/City Cowgirl, Charlie Kirk O.G. MAGA!, Edofusa/Johnnytony, ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ/Mumiiraze, and theoriginalcracker/Andrew Leyden on X
The cost of a contract for work on the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool has ballooned further — now costing taxpayers a total of $14.7 million — according to federal records. The federal contract with Atlantic Industrial Coatings is up more than $1.5 million from $13.1 million a month ago, a federal database showed as of Thursday. The contract was for work completed through June 3. On June 3, federal records show a transaction bringing the total cost up to $14.2 million. However, records also indicate that there was an additional transaction of about $460,000 on June 15, bringing the total cost up to roughly $14.7 million. It’s not immediately clear what the expense was for. The White House referred comments to the Interior Department, which did not immediately respond to The Hill’s request for comment...
#10 California Billionaire Tax Qualifies for November Ballot - John Nolte for Breitbart, Kay Davis, Omar Fundora, Willis Eschenbach/Ro Khanna (community note), Kentucky Girl, and Gene Meilus on X
This is glorious, and all decent people should hope this unbelievably destructive measure passes and begets further measures with similar destructive powers. Just the threat of this legal theft will chase billionaires out of California. Sure, this time, it might not pass. This time, failed Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom might be able to convince the bill’s sponsors, the SEIU-UHW (Service Employees International Union – United Healthcare Workers West), to hold off placing it on the ballot by cutting some sort of a deal. That doesn’t matter...
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