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U.S. factory orders fell in June as aircraft bookings retreated, but core measures strengthened, suggesting underlying demand held up into the summer. New orders declined 4.8 percent to $611.7 billion, a touch better than the minus 5.0 percent drop expected by Econoday. Outside the volatile transportation category, new orders rose 0.4 percent to $498.6 billion, a commonly watched proxy for factory demand beyond aircraft and autos. Excluding both transportation and defense, orders showed an even firmer 0.8 percent gain, rising to $483.5 billion from $479.6 billion in May. Transportation was the swing factor. Transportation equipment orders fell 22.4 percent to…

Former Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that President Donald Trump was trying to rig the midterm elections by leading an effort to reapportion congressional districts in Texas. Holder said, “This is an authoritarian movement by the White House to try to make sure that they can rig the election, the midterm elections in 2026.” He continued, “What we are seeing now is an attempt by the White House to insulate itself from any kind of congressional scrutiny, any congressional oversight, to make sure that Donald Trump remains the authoritarian figure that he has become. We…

The country’s authorities lack the tools to monitor uncontrolled migration, the deputy speaker has said Poland’s police and security services want to reinstate visas for some countries, including Ukraine, a senior opposition lawmaker said on Monday.Warsaw, which has been one of Ukraine’s main backers since the escalation of the conflict with Russia in 2022, initially welcomed more than a million refugees from its eastern neighbor. However, public and political attitudes toward these asylum seekers have shifted recently.Krzysztof Bosak, deputy speaker of the lower house of parliament and a leader of the right-wing Confederation party, said the position was relayed informally…

Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons President Trump dismissed Erika McEntarfer, the now-former Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), after rightfully accusing her of deliberately inflating employment numbers ahead of the election to boost Kamala Harris’s campaign. He pointed to a falsely reported “all-time high” in job figures that was later revised down by nearly one million jobs, an error he described as the most severe in over 50 years. Supporting McEntarfer’s firing, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett cited a “partisan pattern” in BLS reporting and emphasized…

FBI Director Kash Patel challenged news media to own who is really “lying” about his discovery of a stash of classified documents connected to the Trump-Russia collusion narrative weaponized against Donald Trump in his first term. The director’s comments came in the wake of recent reports that “burn bags” filled with thousands of documents dating back to the Trump-Russia probe were discovered in a room in FBI headquarters. Posting on X Saturday, the director evoked his role as senior counsel for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence during the first Trump term and wrote: In 2017/18, I proved the Steele Dossier…

US President Donald Trump has recently cast doubt on the impact of restrictions, yet vowed to stay the course Western countries have grown increasingly disillusioned with the impact of sanctions on Russia, according to the Washington Post editorial board. The piece on Saturday echoed recent remarks by US President Donald Trump, who questioned the effectiveness of the restrictions.The West has imposed an unprecedented number of sanctions aimed at crippling the Russian economy since February 2022, when the Ukraine conflict escalated. Moscow has consistently affirmed that the measures have failed to destabilize its economy or isolate it from the global financial…

“The truth shall set you free.” It’s a biblical theme that manifested itself perfectly last week when a pro-life activist used truth to transform the perspective of a young, combative pro-choice woman. Activist T. Russell Hunter stopped by Santa Monica Pier in California then held up a sign that compared the murder of children by guns to the murder of unborn children by abortifacients, like mifepristone. The sign attracted the attention of a young, pro-choice woman who said she lost a friend in a school shooting and almost lost another one because of a pregnancy gone bad. “My best friend…

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 22: President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attend an event introducing a new Make America Healthy Again Commission report. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Getty Images President Trump’s 2026 budget would freeze spending for many services for older adults, deeply cut others, continue his efforts to slash government staffing for key programs, and abolish a critical federal office that manages many of those initiatives. It would retain, but sharply reduce funding for, the National Institute on Aging. It would restructure and cut funding for low-income housing, including for older adults…

Comedian John Oliver claimed during his Last Week Tonight show that “Gaza is being starved by Israel” without mentioning the terrorist organization Hamas. After citing several human rights organizations claiming Gaza faces starvation – some from the United Nations and others inside Israel – Oliver said “what’s happening in Gaza right now is a famine.” “All the information we have points to that, except for this fucking guy [Netanyahu] and a few adult junior detectives squinting at each photo of a skeletal child to figure out if they’re the right kind of dying,” Oliver said, referring to various Republican figures…

A suburban Washington, DC, school superintendent, who already pulls down a salary exceeding that of the president of the United States, now wants a full-time, taxpayer-funded bodyguard. Michelle Reid, who runs the Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, already earns $424,146 and gets a $12,000 annual car allowance under a four-year contract renewed last year by the all-Democrat school board, according to an exclusive Fox News report. The presidency pays a $400,000 salary, though President Donald Trump donates his to various federal agencies. RELATED VIDEO — School Reformer Rebecca Friedrichs: Why You Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Trump Ending the Education Dept.: According to…