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President Donald Trump dropped a hot mess of a half-baked midterm promise in lawmakers’ laps Wednesday night.Trump at the GOP’s convention pledged to send $5,000 to every adult in the U.S. if Republicans retain control of Congress in the midterms. And while the crowd of thousands of his supporters gathered at Dallas’ American Airlines Center cheered the announcement, GOP fiscal hawks were balking at the effort before Trump even left the stage.“I would like to know how they would plan to pay for … back of envelope … well over $1 trillion,” Rep. Chip Roy, who won’t be returning to…

Massive wildfires have broken out in Antalya Province, Türkiye, forcing hundreds of people from their homes. Videos from the area that surfaced on social media show apocalyptic scenes of hills engulfed in flames and black smoke darkening the skies.The fire broke out in Antalya’s Aksu district on Monday and soon spread to the neighboring Kepez district, according to Anadolu news agency.At least one person died of a heart attack after being affected by smoke from the fires, the local authorities said. Two people were also hospitalized with leg injuries linked to the fire, and eight others were treated for smoke…

The very popular Republican congressman from Texas, Rep. Brandon Gill, was given a prime spot to deliver his speech at the Republican National Midterm Convention in Dallas, Texas.Rep. Gill made a name for himself with his outstanding cross-examination of wacky liberals who were called in to testify before the US Congress over the past two years.Gill was unmatched in his content and delivery, exposing the complete lunacy of the modern-day American left.Rep. Gill spoke on Wednesday night on how the liberal agenda greatly harms Americans and how Republicans have become the party of common sense, the stabilizing force in the…

At least five people died and dozens more are feared missing after a ferry caught fire on Wednesday in the Philippines. The BBC reports the passenger-cargo vessel MV June Aster caught fire in the waters off the coast of Coron, Palawan, a popular tourist destination in the Asian nation. According to information from the Philippine Coast Guard (PGC), 134 individuals — 117 passengers and 17 crew members — were aboard the stricken vessel, which departed from the Port of Baseco in Manila on Tuesday. At least five people are dead and 87 remain missing after a vessel caught fire off the coast…

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Will Cain Show,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) offered a sharp rebuke of the far-left direction taken by elements of the Democrat Party. Johnson warned that experiments in socialism and communism do not end well. “We use the facts,” he explained. “We make the case. We show them that, when Republicans have been in charge for the last year-and-a-half, we gave the largest tax cut in U.S. history. We cut taxes on tips and overtime, Social Security. We made sure that we have job growth because we had pro-growth policies in the private sector,…

Democrat Bob Harvie’s first general-election ad in his campaign against Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick is calling for a data center moratorium, the latest sign artificial intelligence is emerging as a key midterm campaign issue.“I’m Bob Harvie, I approve this message because I don’t want more data centers, I want a moratorium,” the Bucks County commissioner says in the 30-second ad. “Big Tech owns enough, they shouldn’t own our congressman, too.”While Democrats have routinely attacked Republicans in recent months for encouraging the buildout of AI infrastructure, few frontline candidates have gone as far as Harvie in calling for an outright halt.A…

Screencap of Twitter/X video. CNBC Host Joe Kernen went off today on leftists who are still celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death a year after his assassination. The interesting thing about this segment is that he was talking to Utah’s Republican Governor Spencer Cox, who had just finished trying to make a ‘both sides’ point about political division. Kernen reminded Cox that this is coming from only one side, pointing out that there are even tattoo artists offering specials on neck tattoos mocking Kirk’s shooting. Kernen is absolutely right about this. It’s not enough for the left that someone on their side…

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Border Czar Tom Homan stated that 40% of people that immigration authorities are arresting are “not a public safety threat and not a national security threat.” Homan said, “Look, if they’re in the United States illegally, they should be worried, because we’re looking for them. The numbers right now are running around 60% criminal and 40% non-criminal. We’re looking for them. And like I say, President Trump said he wants a priority on public safety threats, national security threats. But, as I said from the beginning, that doesn’t mean everybody else…

Screencap of Twitter/X video. Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida, the Republican candidate for governor in the state, had some fun with the crowd in Texas at the GOP midterm convention tonight. Donalds started out by calling Florida the number one state in all of America, earning some playful jeers from the audience. Then he clarified by pointing out that Florida and Texas have something very specific in common. He suggested that both states prove that common sense Republican ideas work for the American people. More from Eric Daugherty: “We keep our governments small and let people live their lives. We…

Hostilities between the U.S. and Iran continued to escalate on Tuesday night, as the U.S. destroyed five Iranian oil tankers, and Iran retaliated by attacking numerous civilian vessels and launching missiles at U.S. forces in Jordan. The benchmark price of oil rose above $100 per barrel for the first time since July amid the escalation. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said five Iranian crude carriers were destroyed by U.S. airstrikes in response to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launching ballistic missiles at a U.S. Navy warship twice in two days. “The U.S. warship successfully evaded the attempted Iranian attacks and…