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U.S. District Judge Cynthia Valenzuela A Biden-appointed federal judge has dismissed the Trump Justice Department’s lawsuit challenging California’s policy allowing transgender-identifying biological males to compete on girls’ school sports teams. U.S. District Judge Cynthia Valenzuela of the Central District of California dismissed the Justice Department’s case against the California Department of Education and the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) with prejudice, handing California officials a major victory in their ongoing battle with the Trump administration over women’s sports, the New York Post reported. Valenzuela was nominated to the federal bench by Joe Biden and confirmed by the Democrat-controlled Senate in December…
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that “we are telling friends and foes that this is the end of the regime,” but “the goal here isn’t necessarily to collapse the regime. It could happen.” And “President Trump is determined that they will not survive in situ, as they are now.” Bessent said, “I can tell you that teams from Treasury, from State, from DOW, they have spread out across the world, and we are telling friends and foes that this is the end of the regime, we are going to sever all…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Tuesday she would “probably not” date a conservative, according to a video interview. TMZ’s Charlie Cotton asked the New York Democrat on Capitol Hill whether dating across the aisle was something she would ever entertain. She shut the idea down, then softened it. “I have to say it’s probably not,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “No, you know, it’s not to, you know, no foul to people who do.” The congresswoman argued the question turns on values rather than party. “I think a lot of politics sometimes, at least for me, is about values, and being aligned in…
Republicans gearing up for November elections aren’t exactly flocking to next week’s GOP midterm convention in Dallas, the first held by a major party in more than four decades.Republicans — ranging from battleground moderates to hard-line conservatives — are opting out of the televised spectacle as the party pushes through a final election sprint where their control of Congress is at stake.A POLITICO survey of more than 70 GOP candidates and members revealed most either do not plan to go or are still weighing whether to go.Those 45 Republicans cited a variety of reasons for their decision: Some said they…
Lindsay Clancy appears in court during her murder trial in Massachusetts. The Lindsay Clancy triple-murder trial erupted into even more chaos Tuesday after a 56-year-old woman was arrested outside the courthouse for allegedly attempting to photograph members of the jury. Dawn Light, of Sutton, Massachusetts, was taken into custody at approximately 3:40 p.m. outside the courthouse in Plymouth, just minutes after jurors were dismissed for the day without reaching a verdict. Massachusetts State Police charged Light with one count of intimidation of a witness, juror, or person furnishing information in connection with criminal proceedings. She is expected to be arraigned…
On Tuesday’s edition of CBS’s “The Takeout,” Democratic U.S. House nominee Brad Lander said that he is pleased that people who don’t support Israel existing as a Jewish state want to build a coalition with him because they “know he wants to end U.S. military aid” to Israel. While discussing his confrontation with some anti-Zionists, Lander said, “I was pleased that lots of Palestinians online, actually, stood up and said, look, we don’t agree with Lander on everything, folks who might support a binational state rather than a Jewish and a Palestinian state, but we know he wants to end…
A survey conducted by Georgetown University’s William English found that over one-third of American gun owners have used a firearm in self-defense. The abstract shows the survey was conducted with a “nationally representative sample of 51,398 individuals” during the months of July and August 2026. In the body of the survey, under the heading “Defensive Use of Firearms,” the findings reveal, “37.6 percent of gun owners, or approximately 33.1 million adult Americans, have used a gun in defense of themselves, their property, a family member, or a member of their household.” An important caveat is added: “In most cases (76.3 percent) the…
The US president has claimed his predecessor Joe Biden handed Kiev $300 billion worth of weaponry for free The Iran war is “relatively little” for the US compared with the vast amount of weaponry Washington gave Ukraine under Joe Biden, President Donald Trump has said. He claimed his predecessor handed Kiev $300 billion worth of arms for free. Trump made the remarks while taking questions from reporters at an Oval Office event on Monday as fighting in the Middle East flared up again after weeks of relative calm. US forces struck two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island in the…
The battle over SNAP benefits might be being waged from state to state, but federal courts are part of the action, too. Two states that had planned restrictions on the foods that can be purchased by those using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program cards have put the moves on hold after a federal court ruled in favor of SNAP recipients in a case covering five other states, Newsweek reported Monday. Six states still have restrictions in place. SNAP, formerly known as “food stamps,” is a federally funded program administered by the individual states. It is overseen by the U.S. Department of…
BRUSSELS (AP) – The European Union’s top diplomat said Wednesday that an attempted attack on a German airport blamed on Russia appears to be “state sponsored terrorism,” as EU countries weighed their response. The German government on Tuesday blamed Russia for the attempted attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport on Aug. 4 using a drone laden with explosives and announced it would shut down a Russian consulate among other measures. The drone was found near a Ukrainian cargo plane and the device was defused. The airport is a major international freight hub and is used for providing support to Ukraine. German officials…