CNN faced a ferocious reckoning for its failures to cover the COVID pandemic and other health-related concerns as U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tore apart network anchor Dana Bash live on the air Sunday.

A U.S. senator and trained physician who sat behind Anthony Fauci during his appearance before Congress last week is pushing for a special counsel to probe possible criminal wrongdoing by the COVID doctor despite a pardon from former President Joe Biden.

President Donald Trump has canceled a planned massive attack against Iran “for the future benefit of the WORLD … subject to being able to rapidly make a DEAL.”

World Cup visitors discovered something many Americans already know: The United States does not feel like the dangerous place they’ve been led to expect. That’s because America’s murder problem is not spread evenly across the country. Does the United States have a higher murder rate than its peer countries? Yes – but new research shows that statistic obscures how murders in the U.S. are extremely concentrated in very tiny areas.

Topline: The former executive director of a federally-funded housing authority in North Carolina recently pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit theft of a federal program. She will serve two years in prison and pay $232,488 in restitution.

Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., has spent more campaign funds on makeup services this year than any other federal candidate, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis of the senator’s campaign finance records.

According to its analysis, Ossoff’s campaign has paid Atlanta-based makeup artist Stephanie Ponder $2,887 since February for “makeup services.” That total exceeds spending on similar services by other prominent Democrats, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who has spent $1,837.93 on “campaign event hair & makeup services” in 2026, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., who has spent $320 in campaign funds on “hair and makeup services.”

The records the government holds on Robert Mueller, who was for a time the chief of the FBI and then more prominently was a “special counsel” investigating Democrat allegations that President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign colluded with Russia, are being sought in a federal court case.

As the program that manages the U.S. draft modernizes, commentators are debating whether a potential Draft is around the corner.

The U.S. Selective Service is responsible for managing the U.S. Draft and is currently pushing to modernize the mechanisms that could make the draft a reality, the Military Times reported. As this event is closely timed with an escalation in the Russo-Ukrainian and Iran Wars, some experts have begun debating whether or not a draft could be looming.

As the program that manages the U.S. draft modernizes, commentators are debating whether a potential Draft is around the corner.

Collapse of the Memorandum of Understanding sees a resumption of the Iran-U.S. war.
The collapse of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Iran and the U.S.—and the resumption of hostilities—carries serious implications for a global oil market that had priced in an end to major conflict and a gradual return to business as usual in the Middle East Gulf.

The Department of Justice dropped charges late Friday against an Olympic canoeist accused of vandalizing the National Mall’s Reflecting Pool and instead dismissed another Trump administration department’s claims over its condition.

Surveillance video from July 19 showed a Tucson, Arizona, police officer intervening within seconds when a gunman opened fire.

Tucson police say that 21-year-old David Leroy French, a felon who previously received probation for firing a rifle at a car wash employee in 2024, opened fire at 2 a.m. MST on July 19 near the Empire Pizza and Pub after an argument, according to the Arizona Daily Star. Surveillance video obtained by the Tucson-area newspaper apparently shows French drawing a handgun and firing multiple rounds as he started to flee when a police officer shot him following a verbal confrontation.