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Marylanders in Congress made their first move Thursday inside the Senate Appropriations Committee to use this year’s government funding bills to pinch the Trump administration for abandoning the longtime plan to move the FBI’s headquarters to their home state. After a decadelong competition between leaders in Maryland and Virginia, the suburban town of Greenbelt was chosen in 2023 for the bureau’s new campus. But the Trump administration officially ditched that plan this month, leaving about $1.4 billion in a construction account set aside for the relocation project. Now Chris Van Hollen, Maryland’s senior senator and a top appropriator, wants to…

Indonesia has said it is ready to face the consequences of being part of the economic bloc Indonesia will remain in BRICS even if US President Donald Trump fulfills his threat to slap extra tariffs on the group, Indonesian State Secretary Prasetyo Hadi has said.Earlier this week, Trump warned that he would impose additional 10% duties on any country that “aligns itself” with BRICS, which he claimed, is adopting “anti-American policies.”Prasetyo told journalists on Wednesday that Indonesia, which joined the bloc as a full member in early 2025, views the potential extra US tariffs “as part of the consequences of…

The Department of Justice under Attorney General Pam Bondi has been caught speaking out of both sides of its mouth. While DOJ insiders quietly tell a federal judge they’re still sifting through Jeffrey Epstein’s sordid records — including potential names of high-profile clients — the very same agency issued a memo declaring no more documents would ever see the light of day. Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group relentlessly pursuing accountability, revealed in a July 7 court filing that the DOJ and FBI claim they are “still reviewing” records in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday that the U.S. had slapped sanctions on United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories [sic] Francesca Albanese. In a statement on the State Department website, Rubio announced that he was “Sanctioning Lawfare that Targets U.S. and Israeli Persons.” He also posted a statement on x: Albanese has a long history of radical anti-Israel stances that have veered into antisemitism. She was also recently accused of financial impropriety. Watchdog group UN Watch had asked the Trump administration to sanction her. The Trump administration has also hit International Criminal Court officials with…

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Beat,” House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) responded to a question on if there’s room in the party for New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s (D) views on democratic socialism and Israel by saying that “the bigger the tent, the more likely it is that we can reach the greatest number of Americans.” Jeffries began by saying that Mamdani’s platform on affordability is “very provocative…I look forward to sitting down and talking to him about his plans to actually implement that platform, to deal with some of the challenges that the communities…

The rapper’s follow-up NFT launch has generated around $12 million, platform CEO Pavel Durov has said Veteran American rapper Snoop Dogg has released a music video promoting Telegram’s latest digital feature, celebrity gifts. A subsequent launch of about one million non-fungible tokens (NFTs) built on the platform’s blockchain generated multi-million-dollar sales and was sold-out in less than an hour, according to Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov.The video, titled Gifts, premiered on the rapper’s official YouTube channel on Wednesday as a promotion for the follow-up drop. The video features notification and call sounds from Telegram, while the lyrics reference the…

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has rejected veteran right-wing French politician Marine Le Pen’s request to suspend a five-year ban on her standing in elections, including the 2027 presidential race, which stems from an embezzlement conviction.“In any event, the existence of an imminent risk of irreparable harm to a right protected by the Convention or its protocols has not been established,” the court wrote in its press release on Wednesday.In March 2025, a French judge found the former leader of the biggest opposition party, National Rally (RN), guilty of misusing public funds intended for assistants to the RN…

This article originally appeared on vigilantfox.com and was republished with permission. Scott Jennings didn’t hold back Wednesday when he faced off against an entire CNN panel stacked with Democrats. It was nothing short of a reckoning. At one point, a New York Times reporter tried to brand Republicans as the “party of taking things away,” pointing to issues like healthcare. Jennings wasn’t having it. “My rebuttal to that would be Democrats have become the party of EXPLODING government benefit programs… and then saying, ‘Gee whiz, now people are trying to take things away.’” If you want to see political debate at its…

Welcome to the empire, where peace activists are called terrorists, where hospitals are called military bases, where facts are called blood libel, where people opposing genocide are called hateful Nazis, where genocidal soldiers are a protected group and chanting for their death is a hate crime. Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ British police have been arresting anti-genocide protesters for holding signs expressing support for activist group Palestine Action, which London has now officially designated a terrorist group for putting red paint on war planes that were being used in…

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned the criminal conviction of conservative meme-maker Douglass Mackey, ruling that the government failed to present sufficient evidence that he knowingly joined a conspiracy to violate voting rights when he posted satirical memes ahead of the 2016 election. Mackey, known online as “Ricky Vaughn,” was convicted in March 2023 for sharing memes that suggested Hillary Clinton supporters could vote by text message. On Wednesday, a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit reversed the decision, finding the government’s evidence insufficient to prove that Mackey knowingly joined any agreement to deprive voters of their rights.…