Pro-Second Amendment groups have mixed reactions to the Department of Justice (DOJ) asking a federal judge to grant summary judgement in a legal challenge to the National Firearms Act (NFA).

The reconciliation bill signed into law by President Donald Trump in July 2025 contained provisions that reduced the taxes on suppressors, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns and guns described as “any other weapon” to $0 after the Senate parliamentarian struck language that removed those items from any coverage of the NFA. Some pro-Second Amendment groups have argued that the new figure makes the provisions unconstitutional. (RELATED: Pro 2A Groups Applaud ATF For Stepping On Gas To Fast-Track Notoriously Slow Form Processing Times)

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Religious liberty attorneys secured a legal victory for therapists who treat children struggling with gender confusion.

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty secured a permanent order on Thursday from U.S. District Judge Jane Beckering requiring Michigan to stop enforcing its 2023 law that barred counselors from engaging in talk therapy aimed at helping children struggling with gender dysphoria, according to a press release by the legal organization. This comes after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in March that similar treatments are protected by the First Amendment. (RELATED: Nuns Fight Back Against Blue States’ Attempts To Force Them To Cover Contraceptives)

COLUMBIA, S.C. — More than 50 officials from seven southeastern states convened Thursday to sign a data-sharing agreement with the Department of Justice aimed at rooting out fraud.

Across the seven states, officials have uncovered roughly $350 million in alleged fraud, according to information shared with the Daily Caller. Under the Memorandum of Understanding signed Thursday, the states will give the DOJ access to “publicly available corporate registration and public benefits payment data held by these state agencies.” It is data officials said will help the department spot fraud patterns faster.

The House Ethics Committee refused to say Friday whether it would investigate Republican Ohio Rep. Max Miller in connection with domestic abuse allegations.

Miller’s ex-wife, Emily Moreno, accused the congressman of domestic abuse against her and their two-year-old daughter and filed for restraining orders. The House Ethics Committee declined to tell the Daily Caller News Foundation whether it would investigate these allegations.

The daughter of Democratic-backed independent Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn allegedly operated several cam-girl accounts across a variety of pornographic platforms, the Daily Caller has learned.

Accounts that appear to have been operated by Osborn’s 22-year-old daughter, Georgia Kathleen Osborn, under the name “joanniemitchell” are consistent with other profiles previously reported as possibly connected to her. (RELATED: Nebraska’s ‘Independent’ Senate Candidate Recruited By The Same Couple Behind Graham Platner)

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) does not appear destined for a quick reauthorization, even after Jay Clayton was confirmed as director of national intelligence (DNI).

Senate Republicans scheduled Clayton’s confirmation unusually fast following his nomination because they faced pressure to reauthorize Section 702, a warrantless government spying tool, after it lapsed on June 12. Senate Democrats initially voted against its reauthorization in response to President Donald Trump tapping Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte to be acting DNI, though they did not appear willing to support reauthorizing it anytime soon even after the upper chamber confirmed Clayton.

Republican support for the Iran war is waning as polling numbers show the ongoing conflict has become increasingly unpopular.

A July 23-27 AP-NORC survey found that a majority — 64% — of U.S. adults not think the war has been “worth fighting,” the Associated Press reported Thursday. The poll was conducted starting on the final day of 13 consecutive nights of U.S. strikes on Iran.

Shootings that took place near a pizza restaurant in Tucson, Arizona, and a food festival in Seattle, Washington, occurred in places with a pattern of leniency involving firearm misuse.

Nine people were wounded in a July 19 shooting near Empire Pizza and Pub in Tucson, while three people were killed and four others were wounded during the Bite of Seattle food festival near the city’s iconic Space Needle. However, information after both shootings indicates that these shootings could have been prevented by locking people up for past firearm misuse. (RELATED: Watch Cop Bring Mass Shooter’s Rampage To Screeching Halt)

A Rhode Island man, whose birth was declared a miracle by Pope Leo XIV after he remained without oxygen for over an hour, was arrested in connection with a shooting in his state.

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Newport Police Officers responded to the scene of a shooting at around 9:55pm on July 19. Two victims were found with “non-threatening injuries.”

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking to deport an Afghan alien after filing the first-ever case in a decades-old Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC), according to a Thursday press release.

Congress created the ATRC in 1996 as part of its Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, a bill aimed at combating international terrorism, according to the Federal Judicial Center. The court had lain dormant prior to the DOJ’s filing this month. The ATRC was designed to allow the government to deport terrorist aliens quickly without disclosing classified information to the public.