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Senate appropriators released text Sunday of a stopgap funding bill to avert a shutdown come Oct. 1 and punt broader government funding negotiations until after the midterms. Under the bipartisan plan, federal agencies would be funded through Dec. 11 at current levels, with some exceptions. Senate leaders have set an initial procedural vote for Monday night and want to pass the bill by the end of the week — just before senators are scheduled to leave town for a five-week recess. The legislation includes language to block President Donald Trump from finalizing a plan to put political appointees in charge…

A prolonged drought has pushed the Danube River to record-low levels, revealing long-submerged relics Several sunken World War II-era Nazi warships have resurfaced in the Danube River amid a major heatwave and prolonged drought. The vessels became visible as the water level in Europe’s second-longest river fell to record lows.Photos and videos posted on social media showed massive shipwrecks lying in the water and on a sand ridge in the middle of the waterway near the village of Prahovo in Serbia.Elsewhere, the wreck of a Hungarian cargo ship that sank in 1937 resurfaced near the Croatian village of Opatovac.Some 200…

Pope Leo welcomes pro-abortion singer Patti Smith. Image: video screenshot via Vatican News. On Friday, Pope Leo XIV met with radical rocker Patti Smith in a meeting a Vatican official described as a ‘shared mission,’ even as Smith makes it clear publicly that she is not even Catholic. Smith, who originally hails from Chicago like the pontiff, is a radical, pro-abortion, pro-LGBT punk rock star who made her mark in the 1970’s. Among the lyrics she became famous for is the opening line from the song “Gloria” from her 1975 debut album Horses, which states, “Jesus died for somebody’s sins,…

Mexican authorities arrested a top cartel figure from the terrorist group Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) who has been identified as the mastermind behind the murder of beloved anti-cartel politician Carlos Manzo. Prior to his murder, Manzo gained international fame for his hard-line positions against cartels in his city of Uruapan while calling out Mexico’s federal government for refusing to do the same. The arrest took place this week during a raid that turned into a shootout near the town of Atotonilco El Alto, Jalisco. During that raid, authorities arrested Ramon Angeles (R1) Alvarez Ayala, the leader of the R…

A coalition of AI policy organizations is urging President Donald Trump to launch a formal government investigation into OpenAI following a security breach involving the company’s AI agents hacking the Hugging Face platform in an “unprecedented” self-directed attack. The Washington Post reports that a group of prominent AI policy organizations has sent a letter to President Trump requesting an official investigation into a recent security incident at OpenAI, where an AI hacked into the Hugging Face AI platform in a self-directed attack. The letter, led by Brad Carson, president of Americans for Responsible Innovation, and Brendan Steinhauser, CEO of the Alliance…

Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico said Scripture requires the government to guarantee health coverage, telling a Texas church crowd that the New Testament makes a public health insurance option a Christian obligation. Talarico made the argument at a town hall he held at a DeSoto church on July 20, footage of which his campaign posted Saturday under the title “James Talarico Unveils Plan For Black Voters.” The Austin Democrat argued the country should “finish the work of President Obama” and pass a public option, then grounded the pitch in the Gospels. “Because health care is a human right. It is…

Senator John Kennedy Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) appeared to trash Trump over charges that were recently dropped against the accused reflecting pool vandal, David Hearn, during a Sunday appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press.  Kennedy suggested Trump has grown “anxious” and that he may not really believe Hearn committed a crime, while defending Jeanine Pirro’s decision to drop the charges. Over a dozen people have been arrested or cited for their suspected role in the vandalism, but the most notable arrest was that of former Olympian David Hearn. A DC grand jury returned an indictment of three-time Olympic canoeist David…

Border Patrol agents in Texas disrupted two human smuggling incidents where filthy stash houses and dangerously modified vehicles were utilized in the effort to move illegal aliens from the border into the U.S. interior. In stark contrast to the days when thousands of illegal border crossers surrendered to federal authorities daily under the Biden administration, federal authorities in Texas are now having to work harder to thwart human smugglers operating in the shadows. Two recent interdictions along the Texas-Mexico border highlight the dangerous tactics used by cartel-connected human smugglers, hoping to beat President Trump’s strict border security measures. The images…

Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico was caught on video Sunday nodding along as an attendee at his Houston town hall called the murder conviction of Karmelo Anthony “a f*cking tragedy.” The moment came during the extended question-and-answer portion of Talarico’s town hall at the Kingdom Builders Center in southwest Houston, a majority-black event where the Democrat fielded questions for more than 90 minutes. Talarico did not object as the woman condemned the outcome of the case. “Our people have getting [sic] killed left and right. Karmelo Anthony’s case is just a f*cking tragedy,” the woman said. “Excuse my language,…

A study found that 87% of all instances of expletives being used by US presidents since 1919 have been recorded in the past decade US politicians are using profanity in public far more frequently than in the past, according to research published by Cardiff University politics lecturer Dr Joseph Phillips.Some 87% of the 692 documented instances of presidents, vice presidents, and presidential candidates using profanity in public have occurred in just the last decade, Phillips wrote. The overwhelming majority of those cases – 78% – came from President Donald Trump and his predecessor Joe Biden, according to the study published…