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Green energy companies funded the PAC that defeated Trump-endorsed Rep. Andy Ogles in Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District primary. With nearly all precincts reporting, former state agriculture commissioner Charlie Hatcher defeated Ogles by a 53-47 percent margin. The Invest in Tomorrow Coalition PAC spent $2 million opposing Ogles, Politico reported. That total is more than both candidates spent combined. “We will continue to punish members of either party who want to play politics with American jobs, energy security, and utility prices. The entire map is in play and we will take this fight across the country through November,” said a statement by Tom…

A Flock presentation obtained through a public records request shows the surveillance company planned to use dashcams installed in hundreds of thousands of Uber, Lyft and delivery vehicles to collect license plate data for its network. 404 Media reports that the document provides new detail on Flock’s planned partnership with Nexar, a dashcam company. 404 Media first reported on the intended partnership last August based on information from multiple sources. The presentation shows Flock was actively pitching the partnership, and its plan to use Uber and Lyft drivers, to potential customers around the same time that reporting was published. Flock…

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) dared Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed to continue to campaign with Hasan Piker now that the primary election in Michigan is over and El-Sayed is trying to win in the general election. Fetterman said, [relevant remarks begin around 3:25] “El-Sayed, he just won. And I just want to issue a dare, continue to campaign with Hasan Piker right now. You’re in a general election now. I dare you, I dare you. Keep campaigning with someone like Hasan Piker. If I was a Republican, I would just…

The US president has issued new measures after his earlier effort was struck down by the Supreme Court US President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders seeking to restrict birthright citizenship, renewing his administration’s push to narrow the constitutional provision.The White House said the measures, signed on Thursday, are intended to protect “the meaning and value of American citizenship.” Trump’s initial effort, launched in January 2025, which sought to deny automatic citizenship to certain children born on US soil by immigrant parents, was struck down by the Supreme Court in June.The first new order broadens the categories of children…

Credit: The White House President Trump will travel to the US State Department in Washington, DC this afternoon to host a roundtable on American mining.  The President will reportedly announce $180 minnion in grants to increase critical mineral production during the roundtable with mining executives and cabinet officials. Per CBS: President Trump is planning to announce over $180 million in grants to boost educational and trade programs for the mining industry Friday, CBS News has learned, part of a bid to increase critical mineral production. Mr. Trump will unveil the plans at a roundtable at the State Department with educational…

Scientists at Stanford University have used artificial intelligence to design 16 new viruses capable of being reproduced in a laboratory, a breakthrough intended to help combat antibiotic-resistant infections but one that has prompted warnings from biosecurity experts about the risks of the technology. The BBC reports that the experiment relied on AI models called Evo1 and Evo2, which differ from text-based systems like ChatGPT in that they are trained to predict the genetic codes of viruses, bacteria, plants and even humans. Researchers used the models to generate hundreds of designs for a type of virus known as a bacteriophage, which…

A volunteer spotter at last month’s powerlifting world championships admitted he deliberately sabotaged a black athlete’s world-record squat attempt because he is “a racist,” an admission that has since triggered a criminal investigation by Lithuanian police. Ernestas Kusinas, one of five safety spotters assigned to Belgian lifter Sonita Muluh, placed his knee under her barbell during a 334.5kg squat attempt at the IPF World Classic Open Powerlifting Championships in Druskininkai, Lithuania. Reuters reported that police opened the probe Monday after Kusinas commented on an Instagram post about the failed lift. “I am racist, and I did it intentionally,” Kusinas wrote.…

Every year, roughly 40,000 low-skill migrants cheat their way into the H-1B program to get work visas and jobs from Americans, Indian investor Vivek Wadhwa admitted to online host Mark Halperin. “See, what happens is with every government program, there’s also corruption,” said Wadhwa, who was born in Delhi, India, and is now a famous investor in Silicon Valley. He continued: First of all, you have people faking their resumes. So you have these body shops [white-collar staffing companies] who bring people in, and it’s cheap labor. So it’s a fact. It happens … Probably about 20-25 pecent of the…

 Troy Jackson had kids with his cousin. James Talarico wants middle schoolers to text him after dark. Bobby Pulido downplayed child molestation. And Randy Villegas knowingly hired a pedophile to work in a school. No, that’s not a list of weirdos on a watch list; they’re all Democrats running for Congress this cycle. These scandal-ridden candidates are plagued by personal and professional controversies that are so grotesque that the contrast in candidate quality across the two parties could not be clearer. Republicans are assembling a winning team, and Democrats are casting a freak show. The midterms are a choice between proven leaders and candidates who are completely detached…

Senate Republicans confirmed dozens of President Donald Trump’s nominees Friday, just before they leave for a five-week congressional recess. Senators voted 51-47 to approve officials at the Departments of Defense, Energy, State and other agencies. They included David Cummins to head the Transportation Security Administration, Cameron Hamilton to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Hal Duncan to be OMB deputy director and Francis Brooke to be Treasury deputy secretary. Among the group were several ambassadors, including former Rep. David Brat to be ambassador to Australia. Senate Republicans changed the chamber’s rules last year to be able to confirm lower-level nominees…