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White House officials have discussed potential candidates who could replace Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) if she elects not to run again in 2026, according to a person familiar with the conversation granted anonymity to speak about political strategy. Though there is no discussion of pushing a primary on the 72-year old, President Donald Trump would love to see a “better option,” in place of one of his most persistent GOP critics, the person said. Though she hasn’t formally launched a campaign, the Senate Appropriations chair confirmed Tuesday she is planning to run again and was “pleased” with the strong fundraising…

The IDF has struck the Defense Ministry as violence escalates across Druze-populated areas of Syria Israel attacked the headquarters of the Syrian military and locations near the presidential palace in Damascus on Wednesday. The strike, broadcast live on the Iranian ISNA television channel, was carried out after West Jerusalem issued warnings of “painful blows” in response to Syrian military operations targeting the Druze ethnic minority.Violent clashes have been going on for several days in the city of Sweida, involving Syrian security forces supported by Bedouin groups, and Druze militants. In an effort to protect the latter, the Israeli military conducted…

Credit: U.S. Senate Photographic Studio Minnesota Democratic Senator Tina Smith has been admitted to a hospital after falling ill today and will not be able to help Democrats try to block tonight’s recession package vote. As Politico reported , Smith’s office released a statement saying the senator is expected to stay overnight for observation, assuming it does not take a turn for the worse. She also hopes to be back in the near future. No details were given regarding Smith’s illness. Here is the statement: “While at work at the Capitol today, Sen. Smith started to not feel well. She…

Anthony Bernal, who served as the chief of staff for former first lady Jill Biden, refused to answer questions regarding an alleged cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline. Bernal, who has been nicknamed Jill Biden’s “work husband,” pleaded the Fifth during a “closed-door testimony” in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, according to the Hill. Per the outlet, Rep. James Comer (R-KY) revealed that Bernal had “pleaded the Fifth” when asked whether the former president had “ever instructed him to lie about his health” or if “any unelected official or family members executed the…

The move to have a final vote on a Republican effort to codify $9.4 billion in Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts to government spending crept forward on Wednesday after Vice President JD Vance cast yet another tie-breaking vote in the Senate to advance the measure. The Senate barely passed a procedural vote 51-50 late Tuesday night after three Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski (AK), Susan Collins (ME) and Mitch McConnell (KY) voted with Democrats to block the cuts, requiring Vance to show up and cast his vote to break the tie. The Blaze reported: The rescissions package makes $1.1 billion…

A professor with California State University Channel Islands has been arrested for allegedly throwing a tear gas canister at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a massive raid on a cannabis farm last week. As Breitbart News reported last week, ICE “opened a child labor trafficking investigation into two marijuana farms after agents found 10 migrant children during a raid that saw almost 200 illegal aliens arrested.” On July 10, ICE agents raided two marijuana farms in Carpinteria and Camarillo in the sanctuary state of California. While arresting almost 200 illegal aliens in the operation, agents also found at least 10…

The US should supply Kiev with the systems free of charge rather than force EU nations to pay for them, Ulrich Thoden says The US plan to funnel Patriot anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine through European NATO members may create “strong profit prospects” for the American military-industrial complex but does nothing to pave the way to ending the conflict between Moscow and Kiev, the German Die Linke (The Left) party’s parliamentary leader, Ulrich Thoden, has said.US President Donald Trump unveiled a plan to send American-made weapons to Ukraine during a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Monday, with European NATO…

Maurene Comey, daughter of James Comey, was fired as a federal prosecutor in the Manhattan US Attorney’s office on Wednesday. Recall that Maurene Comey filed the key court declarations to keep the Epstein files from being released under FOIA. SINGULARITY ACHIEVED: The Justice Dept lawyer who filed the key court declarations to keep the Epstein files from release under #FOIA was…wait for it…Maurene Comey, SDNY AUSA & daughter of ex-FBI Dir James. Links here w/@kyledcheney @Hailey_Fuchs https://t.co/KXHdQVHMTM pic.twitter.com/aAjRSiASMp — Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) July 16, 2025 Maurene Comey was the prosecutor in the 2019 Epstein case, the Ghislaine Maxwell case and…

Russian forces launched a massive drone attack against Ukraine on Wednesday, with targets including Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The attack appeared to be a violent repudiation of President Donald Trump’s demand for Russia to make peace within 50 days or face heavy new sanctions. The Ukrainian air force said Russia’s attack involved at least 400 drones, plus a single Iskander ballistic missile launched from Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula illegally annexed by Russia in 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, August 6, 2024. (Gavriil Grigirov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) The…

Key reforms to federal energy regulations are needed to meet the United States’ growing natural gas and electricity demands as outdated red tape is “masquerading as oversight,” the ALFA Institute said in a new report. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), an agency under the Department of Energy that approves energy infrastructure projects, has an underutilized program that could “immediately and dramatically jumpstart our needed grid infrastructure” if it is updated, the technology policy group stated in its recent findings, obtained by Breitbart News.  While experts expect U.S. electricity demand to grow by about 25 percent by 2030, with it…