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The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge rose again in July, with the headline Personal Consumption Expenditures index increasing 0.2% for the month and 3.7% from a year earlier. Economists expected the annual rate to decline to 3.6%, yet it remained unchanged from June, while core PCE excluding food and energy increased 0.2% monthly and 3.3% annually. The political class has spent years promising that inflation was retreating, but prices are still rising at nearly twice the Federal Reserve’s official target after households already endured the largest cumulative increase in the cost of living in decades. This is what they refuse…

Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez published a video of his Tuesday morning stroll across New York City’s Central Park with his British leftist counterpart, the appointed – but not elected – Prime Minister Andy Burnham. Sánchez and Burnham are among the dozens of international heads of state and high-level government representatives gathered in New York this week for the ongoing 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly. The Spanish leader detailed on social media that he began his Tuesday morning in New York in the “best possible way,” with a stroll through Central Park alongside Burnham. In the video…

Trump-deranged Reacher star Alan Ritchson has delivered his second box office bomb of the year with something called Runner. A site called Mandatory reported: This is the second time in 2026 that a Ritchson-led theatrical film has underperformed. Earlier, his dialogue-light revenge thriller, Motor City, opened domestically against a $30 million budget and managed only a few million dollars at the box office before shifting to digital platforms. That film, too, drew respectable reviews but simply could not get moviegoers into seats. All in all, the gap between his streaming pull and his theatrical numbers is becoming a recurring theme…

Donald Trump has long fumed over a Senate practice that lets Democrats effectively veto some of his judicial nominees. He might soon have an ally in a position to do something about it.Utah Sen. Mike Lee is poised to chair the Judiciary Committee should Republicans manage to keep control of the Senate in the midterms. That would give the MAGA stalwart the power to decide the fate of the “blue slip,” which lets senators block any home-state district court judge, federal marshal or U.S. attorney nomination they oppose.The decision risks pitting Lee against his Senate GOP colleagues, many of whom…

Screengrab Social Media/X UK citizens, taken to the brink, face migrant-defending police. While Prime Minister Andy Burnham is posing as a world leader in the UN General Assembly in New York, back home the small boats invasion continues unabated – and so do the citizen protests blockading the receiving ports. A small boat heading to the UK was monitored after spending more than 33 hours at sea in ‘precarious conditions’ despite refusing help from the French coastguard. The boat was holding around 60 migrants. BREAKING: Mass-protests start in Gosport in the UK. The authorities are trying to disembark a large…

On Monday, Glock and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) filed separate lawsuits against Connecticut’s ban on Glock-style handguns. Breitbart News reported that Gov. Ted Lemont (D) signed the ban on Glock and Glock-clone handguns in May. Lamont’s signature made Connecticut the third state to ban the pistols and continued the language of “convertible pistols” and/or “machinegun-convertible pistols” in doing so. CourtHouseNews noted that on Monday, Glock filed its suit and shortly thereafter, NSSF filed one as well. NSSF is joined by Shadow Systems LLC and Blue Trail Range Corporation in “seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the Chief State’s Attorney…

Facing rising gas prices, an Iran war with no end in sight and increasingly dire midterm polling, Senate Republicans are facing a crucial choice this week: fight or flight.Some GOP lawmakers are caught between their desire to use the rest of the scant pre-election legislative calendar to improve their standing with voters and the likelihood there probably isn’t much they can do anyway.House Republicans have already fled Washington until after the Nov. 3 election, and the Senate is set to spend the week debating a bipartisan bill overhauling the multibillion-dollar college sports industry with no firm idea of what comes…

DPRK media released photos showing the launch of a road-mobile missile tipped with what appeared to be a hypersonic glide vehicle North Korea’s missile agency has tested a “new-type weapon,” according to Pyongyang’s state media. Seoul said two short-range ballistic missiles were fired on Sunday toward the Sea of Japan.North Korean reports did not specify what was new about the unit, saying only that the test was “of great significance” to the nation’s military. State media released several photos showing the launch of a road-mobile missile tipped with what appeared to be a hypersonic glide vehicle.Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un oversaw…

Austin Police released bodycam footage of the moments after a Venezuelan illegal alien was shot by an ICE officer over the weekend. An ICE agent shot and wounded a Venezuelan illegal alien during a confrontation in the 7000 block of West Anderson Lane in North Austin on Sunday afternoon. The wounded illegal was transported to a local hospital and in stable condition. According to reports, an ICE SUV rammed into the illegal alien’s blue Toyota Corolla when he tried to drive away. An ICE agent got out of his vehicle and shot the illegal as he tried to flee. The…

British diplomats are once again smoothing the way for bilateral talks between Washington and London, as yet another Prime Minister with a history of decrying President Donald Trump has to eat his words and make nice. U.S. President Donald Trump will meet UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham for a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York today, his schedule shows. The meeting, which could last up to 45 minutes, will be the first time the two leaders have met in person since former Labour Mayor-turned-PM — by way of a palace coup against…