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Lawmakers can spend years trying to land seats on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee. Several could finally get their chance in the next Congress.The panel with vast jurisdiction over health care, artificial intelligence, energy and telecommunications will have at least eight empty slots in the next Congress — four on each side of the aisle — thanks to a combination of planned retirements, attempts to climb to higher office and primary election defeats.Democrats are losing Reps. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, Marc Veasey of Texas, Robin Kelly of Illinois and Diana DeGette of Colorado. Republican departures include Reps. Buddy…

More than 900 people who worked in hydropower projects and 592 foreigners are among those missing six days after the disaster Rescue teams in Nepal are still trying to contact the more than 900 people believed to be trapped in hydropower construction sites, six days after a flash flood devastated the country’s northern mountainous region bordering Tibet.The death toll in Nepal has climbed to 903, the country’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority said Monday morning. It said 4,247 people are still missing, of whom 933 are workers at the various hydropower project sites along the Trishuli river.Nepali Army…

Former President Bill Clinton and former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton during their Epstein depositions. (Oversight Committee) The Clinton operation is searching for an unpaid intern who possesses a “high level of professionalism and discretion,” the New York Post reported. The internship is technically assigned to the Office of Hillary Rodham Clinton in New York City. According to the job posting, undergraduate students from all majors are encouraged to apply for the hybrid position at the Clinton office on Madison Avenue. The chosen intern will be expected to work between 25 and 29 hours each week from September 9 through…

Two photos of Venezuela’s deposed dictator Nicolás Maduro flashing “peace” signs were published on Sunday in what is reportedly described as the first known glimpse of the detained socialist inside a New York prison since his arrest in January. Maduro, long wanted by U.S. authorities on multiple narco-terrorism charges, was arrested alongside his wife Cilia Flores during a U.S. law enforcement operation in Caracas on January 3. Since then, the pair has remained detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn. The new pictures of the ousted dictator were published through a four-part series of posts on Maduro’s official…

The Justice Department released a report Thursday detailing how the FBI linked traditional Catholic beliefs to domestic extremism and investigated two priests under the Biden administration. The report, released by the DOJ’s Weaponization Working Group, centers on a 2023 internal document prepared by the FBI’s Richmond Field Office known as the “Richmond Domain Perspective.” According to the DOJ, the assessment associated beliefs held by many conservative Catholics with violent extremism. FBI materials cited the Traditional Latin Mass, opposition to abortion, conservative family values, and a “rejection of modernity” as possible indicators. The DOJ said FBI agents investigated two priests and…

The House is back in session Monday for the first time in five weeks. It’s not clear how long members will stick around.Speaker Mike Johnson is hoping to tick the lone essential item off the chamber’s to-do list in lawmakers’ first days back: sending a shutdown-averting spending bill to President Donald Trump’s desk. Otherwise, the Capitol Hill agenda is devoid of must-pass legislation until later in the year.Meanwhile, the thin GOP majority has had trouble opening the House floor for debate on any number of legislative priorities, and many Republicans lawmakers are simply eager to get back home ahead of…

In the latest outrageous example of the Woke takeover of U.S. educational institutions, Campus Reform reports: “Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois is using two start-of-semester socials to connect students with gender- and sexuality-centered organizations, academic programs and university diversity resources.” This is clearly a thinly veiled example of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) and Gender Studies, an attempt to brainwash young people into becoming social justice warriors. “The university units tied to the events explicitly promote social justice, anti-racism and efforts to ‘challenge societal constructs of gender and sexuality norms.’” Despite the Trump administration’s attempts to root out Woke…

Columbia, South Carolina, 29-year-old police officer Christopher Delong was shot and killed in the line of duty after responding to a domestic issue Saturday morning around 9:40 a.m. WISTV reported that Delong arrived on scene at 9:43 in reference to a call about 33-year-old Adam Dowdy. A woman told officers she already had a restraining order against Dowdy, but other details are scant. Officers spotted Dowdy and engaged him, and Delong was fatally wounded in the exchange of gunfire. WACH noted that Delong had been with the Columbia Police Department for two years. He “is survived by his wife and two…

Two of the victims and the suspect were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries A TikTok streamer allegedly stabbed three men following a confrontation he broadcast near Amsterdam’s central railway station, local media have reported.The incident occurred at around 7:30 PM on Saturday on De Ruijterkade, a waterfront road running behind Amsterdam Centraal station. Police believe an argument or fight preceded the stabbing.Three men suffered non-life-threatening stab wounds. Two of them and the injured suspect were taken to hospital, while the third victim was treated at the scene.Four ambulances, a Mobile Medical Team, and a specialist fire-service unit were dispatched following reports…

A federal prosecutor blew the whistle on New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office and said he was ordered to “find crimes” committed by President Trump and people affiliated with Trump – despite zero evidence. According to the Times Union, Assistant Attorney General Daniel Wiesenfeld sent an agency-wide email to thousands of employees in the New York Attorney General’s office claiming his supervisor, Shamiso Maswoswe instructed him to target “Trump himself, Truth Social, Hewlett Packard (DOJ approved merger) … without having a credible reason for targeting this organizations and individuals.” The Times Union obtained the email that was sent out…