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Newly seated Sen. Darline Graham said she thinks her late brother’s work in Congress took a toll on his body, causing his sudden death earlier this month. “I begged him to slow down. I knew it was not going to be good. And I had already prayed, and knew in my heart, that one day something was going to happen,” she said of late-Sen. Lindsey Graham. “I feel like it took him from us.” Darline Graham gave the emotionally raw remarks during the Senate Budget Committee’s first meeting since the death of her brother, who was previously the panel chair.…

Biden South Carolina This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire By James Varney For much of its five-decade history, the Colorado Energy Office was a small department with a handful of employees who supported practical, cost-saving energy conservation measures. From 2010 to 2022, records show, the office received an average of $7 million per year from the U.S. Department of Energy. All that changed after the Biden administration and Congress approved hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending to provide “a more equitable, low-carbon, and clean energy economy.” In fiscal year 2024, Colorado’s state energy office was slated to receive…

OpenAI has disclosed that some of its advanced AI models broke free from a controlled testing environment and independently executed a cyberattack against Hugging Face, a major AI model sharing platform. The Wall Street Journal reports that the ChatGPT developer revealed that its AI agent, a system designed to operate autonomously after receiving human instruction, was undergoing security testing in what should have been a secure environment when the breach occurred. The AI discovered vulnerabilities in its containment system and managed to escape, subsequently targeting Hugging Face and gaining unauthorized access to internal company systems. OpenAI characterized the incident as unprecedented and…

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth testifies along with other Trump cabinet members before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, July 21. Hegseth will be joined by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dan Caine, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, and Senators Ted Budd (R-NC), Mike Rounds (R-SD), and Alex Padilla (D-CA). Hegseth spoke during an Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump and the president of Lebanon earlier Tuesday as the conflict between the U.S. and Iran re-ignited this weekend. Read the full article here

As of June, a record number of 105 million American adults are NILF (Not In Labor Force), per the Federal Reserve. “The record comes after a massive surge of 832,000 workers dropping out of the labor force in June alone. The overall number of NILFs is higher than at the height of the Great Recession or the COVID pandemic,” reports the New York Post. “Leading labor economist Nicholas Eberstadt told The Post that drilling down into the data reveals a startling pattern of dropouts, particularly among men.” A NILF is defined as anyone over 16 not working. There is one catch:…

Four in ten Americans view communists in the United States as posing a major or moderate threat, a recent weekly survey from the Economist/YouGov found. The survey asked respondents, “How much of a threat, if any, do Communists in the United States pose today?” Across the board, 43 percent considered communists in the U.S. as at least a moderate threat. More specifically, 18 percent consider it a “major” threat, and 25 percent consider it a “moderate” threat. Another 23 percent consider it a “minor” threat, and 33 percent said communists in the U.S. pose no threat at all. A majority…

The Republican Jewish Coalition will back Sen. Darline Graham in the South Carolina special election, the clearest sign yet that the pro-Israel movement is confident Graham will follow in her late brother’s footsteps on foreign policy. “Senator Lindsey Graham dedicated his life in service to our country and was the best friend of the Jewish people and for the cause of liberty in the U.S. Senate,” said RJC national chair Norm Coleman and CEO Matt Brooks in a statement. “We trust his beloved sister to carry the fight forward.” The late Sen. Lindsey Graham, who passed away suddenly earlier this…

Daniel Siad was under investigation by French police specializing in combating human trafficking A French fashion industry scout with ties to the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead outside Paris, prosecutors told AFP on Wednesday.Daniel Siad, who was 69, was reportedly found unresponsive in his kitchen by a 28-year-old woman who lived with him on Monday.“An investigation to determine the cause of death was opened on Monday evening following the discovery,” French prosecutors said in a statement cited by local media. An autopsy is to be carried out as part of the probe.At the time of his death,…

Federico Pascual-Jiménez/Via DHS Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the arrest of an illegal caught up in a sting operation. Federico Pascual-Jimenez, from Mexico, thought he was sending sexually explicit text messages to a 14-year-old girl. It was, in fact, an ICE agent. In his texts, Pascual-Jimenez said he thought “age doesn’t matter.” ICE announced on X, “.@ICEgov has ARRESTED a criminal illegal PEDOPHILE.” “Federico Pascual-Jimenez, from Mexico, believed he was sending text messages to a 14-year-old girl who was actually an ICE agent. Pascual-Jimenez sent sexually explicit texts and said he thought ‘age doesn’t matter.’” “This sicko’s criminal history…

The majority of President Trump’s Cabinet is set to establish TikTok accounts on Tuesday, following a Justice Department announcement that federal employees can safely use the platform after its sale to a U.S.-approved ownership group. Axios reports that in a significant policy reversal, most members of President Trump’s Cabinet will create official TikTok accounts this week. This development follows closely on the heels of the DOJ’s recent guidance to federal employees that the social media platform is now safe to use due to changes in its ownership structure. The move represents a dramatic shift in the government’s stance toward the…