Democratic Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed will have to win the support of non-college-educated, lower-income and non-white voters in the Michigan Senate race, after struggling to make inroads with that demographic in Tuesday's Senate primary.
El-Sayed narrowly won the primary 48.5% to 47.5% against Democratic Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens. The further-left candidate will need to better appeal to non-college-educated and lower-to-middle income voters to be competitive against former Republican Michigan Rep. Mike Rogers in November.
Stevens won more than 50% of the vote in counties where less than 30% had a college education, according to Politico. El-Sayed won nearly 60% of the vote in counties where at least 30% of residents held a bachelor's degree.
El-Sayed won in Ottawa County and Allegan County, where median household incomes were $90,502 and $83,000 per year, respectively, according to the Census. Ogemaw County and Roscommon County, where Stevens won by nearly 30 points, had median household incomes of $54,000 and $55,000 per year, respectively, according to the counties' censuses.
A federal judge's decision that the National Firearms Act (NFA) no longer applies to suppressors and other items whose taxes were reduced to $0 in July 2025 could open a path to end a 40-year-old ban on new civilian machine gun sales.
In the 66-page opinion, United States District Judge James Wesley Hendrix of the Northern District of Texas, a Trump appointee, said that because taxes on suppressors, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns and other items had been reduced to $0 by legislation signed by President Donald Trump in July 2025, the registration and paperwork imposed by the NFA exceeded Congress' authority under the taxation power. Republican Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert introduced H.R. 8921 on May 20, which would remove the $200 transfer tax on machine guns and "destructive devices," potentially leading to the demise of registration requirements for machine guns and possibly the Hughes Amendment as well. (RELATED: Piece Of Red Tape That's Tied Up Gun Owners For Decades Finally Gets Cut In Court)
"I believe that if they got rid of the tax, under the logic of this ruling, let's assume
The Pentagon stripped former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall of his security clearance Friday, accusing him of handing a reporter classified details about Air Force One.
Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced the decision on X, saying the Department of War had canceled Kendall's eligibility to view classified material and his ability to fill any sensitive role. Parnell tied the move to what he called an unauthorized disclosure about the aircraft's capabilities. "Safeguarding classified information is a non-negotiable duty," he wrote. Parnell never identified which news organization received the information, and he offered no word on whether Kendall would face prosecution, according to the Associated Press (AP). (RELATED: Former Pentagon Aide Hired To Intelligence Role After Leak Probe)
Effective immediately, the Department of War has REVOKED former Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall’s eligibility for access to classified information and his ability to hold any sensitive position.
— Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellASW) August 7, 2026
This action follows his unauthorized disclosure of classified information…
Kendall rejected the accusation outright. He told
ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith unloaded on Dr. Anthony Fauci, demanding public accountability for pandemic guidance that he says nearly cost him his life.
Smith stopped short of calling for prison time in a video posted to his X account. He argued instead that the former health official deserved public shame.
"I don't believe this man at 85 years of age should be thrown in jail," Smith said in the video. "But do I think that he should be embarrassed for the self-adulation that he engaged in? You damn right I do." (RELATED: Anthony Fauci Pleads The Fifth During Highly Anticipated Hearing)
I Almost Died! pic.twitter.com/zsG9y7Xgx8
— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) August 6, 2026
Smith questioned whether the recommendations Americans followed ever rested on solid footing. He said some of Fauci's instructions ran counter to science even as Fauci presented them as science-driven, faulting mask requirements, six-foot distancing rules and the shuttering of businesses forced to enforce mandates.
The commentator then recounted his own ordeal. "I took
Multiple leading artificial intelligence (AI) models continue to break containment during safety testing.
Meta became the third major AI company whose models have gone rogue. Its AI hacked into another company's systems during cybersecurity testing, CNN reported. AI safety experts argue that this incident shows that AI labs cannot control flagship models, while advocates for the technology believe the Trump administration's regulatory framework will mitigate these incidents.
"A misconfiguration by Irregular, an independent testing company Meta uses, inadvertently allowed one of our models access to the internet during evaluation. The model subsequently exploited a security vulnerability in a third-party service, in a manner similar to previously-reported instances with other companies," a Meta spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation. "Meta learned of this when Irregular notified us, and we are currently investigating and will issue a full retrospective once we have all the facts."
Irregular, a third-party AI testing startup, said that the cybersecurity breach "is the exact same evaluation-environment issue" that Anthropic disclosed in July that allowed its models to access the internet and hack three separate organizations.
"This
The Senate skipped town Saturday for its August recess without passing President Donald Trump's legislative priority, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act.
Republican Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Mike Lee of Utah, and Rick Scott of Florida stood down from a planned budget resolution for Reconciliation 3.0 after they determined it did not have the votes to pass late Friday, The Hill reported. The Republicans instead secured a vote on a photo ID requirement for federal elections sponsored by Republican Ohio Sen. Jon Husted. That measure, however, was opposed by every Democrat, receiving 52 of the 60 votes needed to advance.
"Obviously, with the president at his direction, this is what he wants to do," Johnson, following a Friday phone conversation those senators had with the president, said, Scripps News reported.
"[The] SAVE America Act is a very important thing," Trump had said in a Thursday interview with Punchbowl News. "John's trying. He's trying hard. I really believe that. But if he doesn't get there, it would be unfortunate."
The postponed $95
Millions of able-bodied American men have stopped working and stopped looking, and two prominent voices spent a Friday night wondering why.
Comedian Bill Maher and "Dirty Jobs" host Mike Rowe traded figures and theories on the labor-force exodus during a segment posted to the YouTube channel for "Real Time with Bill Maher." Maher put the count at roughly 7 million men, mostly young, who fall into a category economists label NILF, short for not in the labor force. He drew the line between that group and the unemployed, noting that jobless workers at least keep hunting for a paycheck while these men have quit the search entirely.
Rowe fixed the number at close to 6,990,000 and called the trend unprecedented outside of wartime. He pinned much of the trouble on a college system that saddled graduates with debt while leaving skilled work undone. Student loans have swelled to $1.8 trillion, Rowe said on the program, up from $1.1 trillion when he last appeared. He counted about 400,000 open construction jobs and twice that figure across the defense industrial
Nevada rancher Adrienne Snow remembers riding horseback across the high desert as military helicopters thundered overhead.
"You could just bottle up what being an American feels like: to be on a horse with military helicopters flying over you and listening to the national anthem from 'Top Gun,'" Snow told the Daily Caller. "There's nothing like it."
For decades, ranching families in Churchill County raised cattle as military aircraft from Naval Air Station Fallon, home to the Navy's elite TOPGUN program, trained overhead.
Now, Snow and eight other ranching families say the Navy's massive expansion of the Fallon Range Training Complex could destroy operations that have survived for generations — while paying them only a fraction of what their losses are worth.
The ranchers are raising a troubling allegation: that federal officials are disregarding agricultural valuation systems created by the federal government itself when determining how much affected families should be paid. The Navy has offered the Snow family $1.48 million for losses projected over 100 years, even though a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) methodology cited by the family places the annual value of its forage alone at roughly $815,000.
At the center of the
Flock Safety is touting emotional stories about automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) helping rescue children as concerns about the dangers of mass surveillance grow.
Every child in this video is home tonight because Flock gave officers the right information at the right second.
— Rahul Sidhu (@rahul) August 4, 2026
That’s the mission. That’s the whole company. I wouldn't trade that for anything. pic.twitter.com/N56tWPeQOz
The video begins with 911 audio of a distraught woman telling the operator that her son had been kidnapped. It also includes clips that purport to show law enforcement rescuing a six-year-old nonverbal boy, finding a 14-month-old baby, and saving a two-year-old boy who asks, "Where's my mom?"
"Every child in this video is home tonight because Flock gave officers the right information at the right second," Sidhu wrote.
"That's the mission. That's the whole company. I wouldn't trade that for anything," he added.
But as Flock becomes one of the nation's largest providers of ALPR systems, many Americans are beginning to question whether the constant monitoring of everyday citizens is legal and
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Police arrested a Hawaii Democratic congressional candidate Aug. 1 after a violent altercation with another beachgoer at Keawakapu Beach in South Kihei, Hawaii.
Authorities charged 40-year-old Kirill Basin with two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening after the altercation with a 61-year-old man, according to Hawaii News Now. Basin is running to unseat incumbent Democratic Rep. Jill Tokuda. (RELATED: 'Reformed' Ex-Con Turned Democrat Lawmaker Picks Up Yet Another Criminal Charge)
Police said the incident began when Basin threatened the bystander, who had asked him to turn down his music, according to the outlet.
Basin allegedly suggested he had a firearm and threatened to shoot the man's wife. A physical altercation ensued, during which Basin allegedly picked up a knife, using it to threaten other beachgoers before throwing it into the ocean.
The altercation appeared to end when the 61-year-old man knocked out Basin with a single punch to the face, video posted to social media shows.
BREAKING: Hawaii Democrat congressional candidate Kirill Basin ARRESTED for threatening a man
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Amid a series of record and near-record profits being reported by the world's corporate major integrated oil companies, venerable British major BP announced this week its intent to sell off its position in the UK-governed portion of the North Sea.
The move signals an end of a 63-year era in which BP was the first to run seismic surveys in a search for oil and gas resources in 1963, and obtained one of the earliest leases auctioned by the British government in 1964. (RELATED: Lost In The Iran Noise: American Energy Leadership Still Matters)
For CEO Meg O'Neill, it is also a signal that her management team is intent on making moves from a reality-based standpoint rather than the aspirational, green-narrative-based strategies deployed since the year 2000. That was the year when then-CEO John Browne decided to change the company's name from British Petroleum to Beyond Petroleum, one of the most in-your-face virtue signals of all time.
Since that move, BP has become increasingly less competitive with former peer companies like Shell, Chevron and ExxonMobil as it
The New York Times Magazine conducted a hands-on interview with Dr. Sean O'Mara, who has been a dietary advisor to some of President Donald Trump's closest cabinet members.
The Times Magazine editor Willy Staley spoke with O'Mara and even tried his diet for a week. O'Mara also informed the writer that when you eat in accordance with his dietary rules, you no longer need to use toilet paper.
"Animals in the wild have no residual stool on their anus," O'Mara explained to the outlet. What happens to bathroom visits when you eat in accordance with the steak-sauerkraut diet: they become "odorless, wipe-free, over in three seconds and 'nearly orgasmic,'" O'Mara said, according to the interview.
Just out this am in NY Times: I Tried the Trump Cabinet’s Steak and Sauerkraut Diet. It Was (Mostly) Fantastic. https://t.co/WCQvyg3Qe6 via @NYTimes #LivingDiet @DrSeanOMara
— Sean OMara MD, JD (@DrSeanOMara) August 4, 2026
"I could have a bowel movement behind a sheet at a dinner party in the corner of the room," the doctor
