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#1 Man With Illegal Weapons in Home, Car Arrested at Trump Golf Club in California - Andrew Blankstein and Phil Helsel for NBC News, Nick Sortor, Laura Loomer, Eric Daugherty, F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli, and Jesse Watters on X
A man with weapons in his home and vehicle who appeared to be “monitoring security-planning activities” at the Los Angeles-area Trump National Golf Course was arrested days before a scheduled presidential visit, the county sheriff’s department said Tuesday. Jeanine John Taele, 38, a resident of the Los Angeles-area city of Downey, was arrested Sunday at the course in Rancho Palos Verdes, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. The sheriff’s department said deputies found a loaded magazine with hollow-point bullets in Taele’s pants pocket after they’d been contacted by plainclothes federal agents regarding a suspicious person at 3:28 p.m. Sunday...
#2 Sen. Rand Paul Releases Contempt Resolution Against Anthony Fauci - Rob Taub for News Nation, Senator Rand Paul, Catherine Herridge, John Solomon, and Next News Network on X
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has released his contempt resolution against Dr. Anthony Fauci after his contentious hearing on Capitol Hill last week. Fauci pleaded the Fifth several times as Paul and other GOP members on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee sought to grill him about the origins and handling of the coronavirus. President Joe Biden preemptively pardoned Fauci in Jan. 2025 as he left office in hopes of short-circuiting political prosecutions against the longtime health official...
#3 Sunlight on Demand – Whose Night Is It, Anyway? - Michelle Edwards and Tracy Beanz for The Highwire, Gigi Bowman, Victor Bigham, Hustle Bitch, Shining Science, and 6AWORON0k on X
With the FCC holding no one responsible for regulating light pollution and other serious ill effects from the rapidly increasing number of satellites orbiting the Earth, let’s look at the problem a new startup aims to solve, because it is almost comically small. Solar panels do not work after dark. The sun sets, and the panels go quiet. Reflect Orbital looked at that rhythmic fact of planetary life and decided the answer wasn’t, let’s say, batteries to keep the panels working. Nope, instead, the company plans to put a mirror in space, aim it at the sun, and send light back down to the dark side of the Earth...#4 Trump’s Former Allies Are Uniting in an Antiwar Movement - SFG Media, Tucker Carlson/Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, Cenk Uygur, TCN, ThePatrioticBlonde™, John Solomon, and @jason on X
A group of Donald Trump’s former allies plans to establish an antiwar movement, The Daily Beast reports. Its members include journalist Tucker Carlson, politician Thomas Massie, former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, and former intelligence official Joe Kent. “We said no more foreign wars, and we really meant it when we supported Donald Trump because he made that promise. But he betrayed all of us,” Greene wrote on X.She accompanied the post with a photograph of members of the prospective movement gathered at Carlson’s home in Maine...
#5 President Trump: We Should Get an A+ on the Economy - Fox News, Eric Daugherty, Ned Livingstone/Acyn, Sarasota Freedom, The Bishop, and ไตร/CSPAN on X
President Donald Trump praises the U.S. economy and discusses his administration’s AI policy on ‘Fox News @ Night.’#6 Primary Elections Live Updates: Race Too Close to Call In Democratic Primary for Michigan Senate Seat - Kellen Browning and Shane Goldmacher for The New York Times, Shahriyar Gourgi, Eric Daugherty, Fox News, CBS Mornings, and Just the News on X
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive, holds a narrow lead over Representative Haley Stevens, a centrist, in a race that divided Democrats. The party sees the seat as key to its hopes of winning control of the chamber.An acrimonious and expensive Democratic Senate primary in Michigan that divided the party remained unresolved early Wednesday, with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive former public health official, clinging to a narrow lead over Representative Haley Stevens, a moderate. The contest reflected sharp divisions in the party over Israel and drew dueling endorsements from prominent elected officials. Michigan, one of the country’s biggest battleground states, could determine control of the Senate this fall...
#7 Rep. Chuck Edwards Drops Re-Election Bid After Censure Recommendation Over Harassment Claims - NBC News, Republicans Against Trump, PjoAb, Off The Press, Chris Cooper, and Mo Broussard on X
Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-N.C., has said he is dropping his bid for re-election, days after the House Ethics Committee recommended censure over sexual harassment allegations. “After much prayer and reflection, I’ve decided to withdraw from my re-election campaign. I will complete my current term,” Edwards announced early Wednesday in a post on X. “Serving Western North Carolina has been the honor of my life. Thank you for your trust, prayers, and support.” Edwards, 65, had faced mounting pressure over his conduct with two female staffers. He has repeatedly denied wrongdoing...
#8 Judge Slams the Justice Department as He ‘Reluctantly’ Dismisses Final January 6 Riot Case - Holmes Lybrand for CNN, Shelley, Bushmaster Billy T/Ivan Raiklin,
La Prensa San Diego - LaPrensa.org, Shane Jenkins | The Real J6, and Mel Hawley on X
A federal judge slammed the Justice Department as he “reluctantly” dismissed the seditious conspiracy case against leaders and members of the Oath Keepers in the final January 6 US Capitol riot case. “This is the last of the prosecutions seeking to hold accountable those responsible for the events of January 6,” Judge Amit Mehta wrote in his order dismissing cases against nine people in which he recounted the events of that day. “That book is now closed.”
#9 Under Patel, FBI Forges Unprecedented Law Enforcement Ties With China, Russia - Jana Winter for Reuters, Frank Marino, News Hub, Michael Novakhov, Adele Bloom, and Travis Gettys on X
FBI Director Kash Patel says he has forged new law enforcement partnerships with China and Russia, two longtime U.S. rivals, over the past year in hopes of gaining allies in combating transnational crime including fentanyl, cyber fraud and child sexual exploitation. The partnerships have involved personnel exchanges in which Chinese law enforcement officials have visited the United States and FBI agents have traveled to China to work on cases together and share intelligence. Separately, FBI and Chinese officers have carried out joint raids and arrests under the arrangement...
#10 FBI Secretly Opened Probe Alleging Trump Fired Comey because he was a Russian Asset, Declassified Memos Show - John Solomon for The White House, Jeff Clark, Eric Daughery, CBS News, and The Federalist on X
The FBI opened a criminal probe specifically targeting Donald Trump in May 2017, alleging the newly elected president may have been acting as a Russian asset when he fired then-Director James Comey, even though the bureau’s own evidence overwhelmingly showed at the time there was no collusion with the Kremlin. Internal FBI memos newly declassified by the White House show the investigation – codenamed Oxferd Comma – was launched in the immediate aftermath of Comey’s May 9, 2017, firing and was predicated on an allegation that previously released records show the bureau’s own agents had mostly dismissed...
