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New Jersey’s voter scandal: Letters to the Editor — July 27, 2026

The Issue: Blaming a “glitch” for some 400 noncitizen votes in NJ elections since 2023. It’s very interesting that the first thing Gov. Mikie Sherill did after finding out...

Why did Team Trump drop sanctions on the killers of Hong Kong’s freedom?

With Team Trump increasingly aware of China’s meddling in US politics and elections and...

Tim Kaine rejects national voter ID mandate, says states should handle issue

Sen. Tim Kaine, Virginia Democrat, on Sunday rejected calls for a national voter ID mandate, saying instead state legislatures should pass their own voter identification laws.

Netanyahu accuses Mamdani of stoking antisemitism, says Democrats privately fear radical fringe

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday accused New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani of fomenting antisemitism and directly blamed his anti-Israel rhetoric for a climate of fear gripping Jewish residents.

Sen. Kennedy says Trump likes daily strikes on Iran: ‘Sometimes you have to kill a few chickens to scare the monkeys’

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) on Sunday said President Trump likes the daily strikes on Iran, which paused going into the weekend after nearly two straight weeks of attacks on Iranian infrastructure. "I think we ought to continue the blockade and starve them out," Kennedy said on CBS News's "Face the Nation" with Margaret Brennan. "I...

Elderly Michigan woman baffled to learn she donated over $150,000 to ActBlue and Democrats

According to Federal Election Commission records, 88-year-old Elizabeth Waffle has been giving nearly nonstop to the Democratic fundraising juggernaut ActBlue since 2020 for a total of more than $150,000 in donations.

Dozens of states face loss of food-stamp funding due to overpayments

The majority of states are mistakenly too generous in handing out federally funded food stamps, and are now at risk of having to pay for the benefits themselves.

Democrats battling over presidential primary calendar for 2028

Democrats this week are debating the order of the 2028 presidential state primary calendar, which will determine how much influence the party factions have in choosing the eventual nominee.

House defense bill seeks Pentagon report on malign Chinese influence in South Korea

The House version of the fiscal 2027 defense authorization bill calls on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to report on the Chinese Communist Party's influence in South Korea.

Senate panel to take up kids online safety, AI bills in early August

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will take up a slate of kids online safety and AI bills the first week of August.

White House backs WNBA star Sophie Cunningham on women’s sports remarks

KAROLINE LEAVITT defends WNBA player Sophie Cunningham, who said biological men should not play in women's sports: "Men should not be playing in women's sports. It's completely ludicrous that anyone could support that ... The backlash she is receiving from Democrats and left-wing figures across the country is astonishing. They are clearly very out of touch with the American public on this issue..."

Trump plugs states, utilities into pledge for Big Tech to pay for data centers’ energy bills

President Trump on Thursday expanded his Ratepayer Protection Pledge to a sweeping coalition of governors, state legislatures, utilities and data center developers -- demanding that tech giants foot the energy bills for their power-hungry data centers rather than passing those costs onto American families.

ICE nears 600,000 deportations since Trump took office

ICE is hitting its deportation stride under new Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, averaging about 1,250 formal deportations a day over the last three months.

DHS has issued $84 billion in fines to illegal immigrants who won’t go home

Homeland Security has now issued fines to more than 100,000 illegal immigrants who have refused to leave the country even after being ordered out by an immigration judge.

More than 24 states sue Trump administration after it put conditions on receiving disaster funding

More than two dozen states on Thursday sued the Trump administration for requiring them to comply with election and immigration conditions in order to receive billions of dollars in federal funding for disasters.

Six-figure private security bill for top Dem Senate hopeful fuels GOP hypocrisy claims

Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper spent more than a quarter-million-dollars this election cycle on private security, leading to calls of hypocrisy from critics citing his "soft-on-crime" record.

Defense industry leaders align with Trump admin plans in closed-door strategy session on defense spending

Susie Wiles and leaders from Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Palantir aligned on $73 billion in Pentagon and intelligence funding.

Smithsonian pushed ‘revolting’ social action training after ‘whiteness’ chart apology: expert

Smithsonian staff co-authored a DEI training toolkit that calls objectivity part of white supremacy, years after the museum apologized for a similar chart.

Nevada GOP nominee Carrie Buck says she’s ‘coming to retire Dina Titus’

Carrie Buck sits down at Freedom Fest to discuss her campaign to unseat veteran Democrat incumbent in Las Vegas-based swing district.

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