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Joe Biden’s Cancer Has Spread Into His Bones, Hunter Says
(Headline USA) Former U.S. President Joe Biden’s prostate cancer has spread to other parts of his body and is causing him pain, even as he continues to speak out on public issues, his son Hunter said in an interview. In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC broadcast late on Friday, Hunter Biden grew emotional as he…
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Helicopter Pilots Die in Crash While Fighting Wildfire in Utah
(Headline USA) Two helicopter pilots who crashed while they were fighting a wildfire in Utah are dead, officials confirmed Saturday. The pilots were killed when their Sikorsky Skycrane helicopter went down Friday morning, according to the Sevier County Sheriff. The helicopter was among those fighting a fire in the Fishlake National Forest. The crash ignited a…
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Kellogg to Remove Artificial Dyes From Cereals by Year’s End
(Headline USA) WK Kellogg said Thursday that it will remove artificial colors from all its cereals by the end of this year. The change comes a year ahead of schedule. Kellogg said last August that it would remove synthetic dyes from its cereals by the end of 2027. But the company said Thursday it has identified…
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Obama Meets w/ Leftist Senate Candidate in Michigan
(Headline USA) Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, said Sunday he has spoken with Barack Obama and hopes the former president campaigns with him as the party tries to unite after a bitter primary that exposed deep rifts between its progressive and moderate wings. El-Sayed said his Friday conversation with Obama was…
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U.S. Senate Candidates Debate Minnesota Fraud
(The Center Square) Voters in Minnesota head to the polls Tuesday to pick party nominees to fill Sen. Tina Smith’s seat. The primary election has drawn competition from both sides with several candidates. Thirty-three of 100 U.S. Senate seats are up for election in 2026, and Minnesota’s race will go toward determining the chamber’s partisan…
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One Year Later: Trump’s D.C. ‘Liberation Day’ Cuts Crime, Reshapes the Capital
(The Center Square) Tuesday marks one year since President Donald Trump declared “Liberation Day” in Washington, D.C., leading to the deployment of the National Guard and the beautification of the nation’s capital. On a typical, hot and humid Washington morning in August 2025, The Center Square was present in the White House briefing room that…
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Perez Hilton Hospitalized Following Self-Harm During Livestream
Content Warning: Graphic Images and Descriptions (Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Perez Hilton’s family confirmed Wednesday afternoon that the celebrity blogger and entertainer was hospitalized after he appeared to self-harm during a livestream on a popular social media platform. Hilton, whose legal name is Mario Armando Lavandeira, sparked concern on social media after he went live on…
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Fauci Faces Florida Subpoena After Invoking the Fifth More Than 100 Times
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Wednesday followed through on his promise to investigate embattled Dr. Anthony Fauci after the former White House COVID czar repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment during a tense Senate hearing. Uthmeier issued an investigative subpoena to Fauci as part of his ongoing probe into awards, professional opportunities,…
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Declassified Docs Reveal Over 600k Voter Files Hacked; Prosecutors Declined Prosecution
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) More than 600,000 voter files in Arizona’s largest county were hacked before the 2020 elections, with prosecutors refusing to pursue charges, according to declassified documents released Thursday. The case stems from a 2020 Maricopa County voter registration site, where a suspected hacker exploited the county’s voter records by “illegally” extracting…
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Mamdani Critics Want to Bar Him from Sept. 11 Ceremonies
(Chris Wade, The Center Square) Nearly 80,000 people have signed an online petition calling for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to be barred from attending events next month marking the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Relatives of Sept. 11 victims recently launched a petition urging the National September 11 Memorial &…
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Minnesota Medicaid Fraud More than $1M Now Carries Prison Time
(Elyse S. Apel, The Center Square) Minnesota is increasing penalties for Medicaid fraud as state and federal officials continue prosecuting cases involving millions of dollars allegedly stolen from taxpayer-funded programs. The Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission recently approved a higher classification for a new Medicaid fraud offense created under a recently passed law, moving theft of…
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CBS Suppressing Interview on Jeffrey Epstein, Senate Report Says
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Senate Finance Committee released a 67-page report Tuesday that details how big banks ignored millions of dollars in suspicious transactions made by deceased sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. The report also says that CBS News is suppressing an interview on the subject. Tucked away on page 62 of the report is…
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Senate Investigators Obtain a Copy of Fauci’s COVID-Era Phone
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., announced Wednesday night that his Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has obtained a copy of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s iPhone from when he oversaw the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Hopefully, this device will address many of the questions he refused to answer at last week’s hearing,”…
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Democrat AGs Planned to Sue Trump Nearly 7 Months Before He was Reelected
(Adam Herbets, TJ Martinell and Mark Stricherz, The Center Square) Nearly two dozen state attorneys general banded together as early as April 2024 to plot litigation against President Donald Trump long before he was reelected, according to a confidential document obtained by The Center Square. The document was signed approximately three months before President Joe…
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FBI Investigated Trump for Firing James Comey, New Files Show
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Newly declassified files show that the FBI opened a criminal investigation into the fringe theory that President Donald Trump may have acted as a Russian agent shortly after he fired then-FBI Director James Comey. The files, released by the White House on Wednesday, once again expose the aggressive steps the bureau took…
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Dem Lawmakers’ Catfight Erupts over DSA’s Primary Surge
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Two Democratic lawmakers engaged in a snarky back-and-forth on X over what is driving the electoral surge of socialists within the Democratic Party. Reps. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., clashed over whether recent primary defeats of establishment Democrats were fueled by voters’ economic frustrations or by other issues. Goldman, who…
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What Is the PCE and Why Is It the Fed’s Favorite Inflation Gauge?
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) When we talk about inflation, we usually focus on the Consumer Price Index (CPI). However, the Federal Reserve’s “preferred” inflation measure is the Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) index. What’s the difference and why does the Fed prefer the PCE? The two price inflation measures rely on significantly different methodological…
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Central Bank Gold Buying Accelerated Again in June
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Gold buying accelerated again in June as central banks took advantage of the softer price environment to add to their reserves. According to the latest data compiled by the World Gold Council, central banks globally added a net 51 tonnes of gold to their reserves in May. That was…
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FBI Agent Stole Roughly $1 Million in Cryptocurrency
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A former FBI supervisory special agent has been arrested after admitting to the theft of roughly $1 million worth of cryptocurrency, according to court records. A criminal complaint filed Saturday says that the former agent, Patrick Yaroch, admitted to his crimes to another Justice Department employee late last month—saying that he…
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Blanche’s Attorney General Nomination, after Fund Rescission, Advances
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) Todd Blanche’s nomination to be United States attorney general on Tuesday was advanced by a Senate committee. Lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee, in a 12-10 vote, advanced Blanche’s nomination to the Senate floor after an extended controversy over various aspects of his candidacy. Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Thom…
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Seattle Mayor Silent on Police Chief’s Lucrative Exit Package
(Randy Diamond, The Center Square) Although former Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes served only 18 months in office, he’s taking away a lucrative severance package worth around $700,000 as questions remain about his departure. The package is well in excess of his $370,000 yearly salary. While the package was first disclosed Friday night, Seattle Mayor…
