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MIAMI — Progressive Angie Nixon’s stunning upset in Florida’s Senate race has many Democrats in the state spiraling. The Jacksonville lawmaker’s primary victory on Tuesday night over retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman jolted a state few thought would hold any surprises. But it also rattled Democrats who worry about her chances against GOP Sen. Ashley Moody in a state that hasn’t picked a Democrat for Senate since 2012. They’re concerned about Nixon’s ability to team up with other candidates and fundraise for down-ballot hopefuls — as Vindman appeared poised to do with his “resistance movement,” Trump-impeachment-era fundraising network. They’re also…

The passing of Jason Arday is a tragedy, but it is a tragedy of his own making. This is true in both a literal sense, in that his death was apparently a suicide, and figuratively, in that the events that drove the former Cambridge sociology professor to suicide were fabulism and fabrication in the service of a career of academic stardom. He made a Faustian bargain with the truth to achieve academic stardom — one that was so absurd that anyone who bothered to fact-check it would discover it to be a farrago of lies — and could not bring…

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Two prominent Texas Democrats, Congressmen Joaquin Castro (D-TX) and Greg Casar (D-TX), urged six Bexar County cities to end their 287(g) agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The agreements, required for all county jails under Texas law, allow state and local police officers to carry out certain immigration enforcement activities delegated to them under the Immigration and Nationality Act. The pair of lawmakers hosted a press conference in San Antonio on Wednesday, where Castro said the agreements have resulted in racial profiling in Bexar County and across the country, turning hometown police into armed…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested an illegal alien, released into the United States by the Biden administration, who is accused of murder in his native Brazil. “This is yet another example of what the media often characterizes as a non-criminal, when in reality, many of these individuals are murderers, sexual predators, gang members, and more,” ICE’s David Wesling said. “They simply do not have a criminal record in the United States. We will continue to pursue these dangerous criminal aliens that sanctuary politicians fight to protect.” This month, ICE agents arrested illegal alien Maycon Souto Dos Reis, a…

Ukrainian national Vladimir Z., apprehended in Croatia at Berlin’s behest, is accused of sabotaging the pipeline carrying Russian gas to Germany in 2022 Croatian police have arrested a Ukrainian man suspected by Germany of taking part in the operation behind the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions, following a request from Berlin.The German Federal Prosecutor’s Office said on Wednesday that Ukrainian national Vladimir Z., previously identified by media as Vladimir Zhuravlyov, had been apprehended in the Croatian city of Pula under a European arrest warrant.According to the warrant, Zhuravlyov, a trained diver, is accused of planting explosives as part of a…

Top banker Staley and the ghost of his Epstein friendship British bank can’t seem to shake off the stink of its Epstein ties. Since 2023, we’ve been reporting here on TGP about the dangerous liaisons between late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and former top executive at JPMorgan and former CEO at Barclays, Jes Staley. Their ties were prominently featured in the US Virgin Islands’ lawsuits against both banks, and in litigation between Staley and JPMorgan. And now, Barclays is facing a tough legal fight with investors over claims the bank misled them about the true nature of Staley’s ties to Epstein.…

A mysterious low-budget animated film called Niu Lai, or “The Cow Arrives,” became an unexpected hit in Chinese theaters this past week, crossing $1 million in box office sales as word of mouth spread of how truly awful the film is. The film has grossed about $2.5 million cumulatively in theaters as of Monday despite not being released with effectively no advertising and being marketed so poorly that theater workers and fans are drawing their own posters to indicate to viewers that their theater is playing the film. Discussion of the film has taken over China’s major, regime-controlled social media…

Why Tarifflation Never Lived Up the Panic Economists are finally coming to grips with the reality that President Trump’s tariff policies did not have the inflationary effects they predicted. But the reason why may be even more challenging to the widespread assumption that tariffs cause the economy to become less efficient. Research published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on Wednesday finds that productivity growth accelerated in industries most heavily affected by tariffs—and that this largely offset the higher costs firms in those industries faced. “Industries in which tariffs induced higher costs in 2025 also experienced greater labor productivity…

An illegal alien, released into the United States by former President Joe Biden’s administration, is now accused of killing 51-year-old James Bagley III in a fatal hit-and-run crash in Sylva, North Carolina. This month, illegal alien Mauricio Josue Alberto Sarmiento of Honduras was arrested by the Sylva Police Department and charged with felony hit-and-run resulting in death, no liability insurance, driving with a revoked license, speeding, and failure to reduce speed. According to police, on August 2, Sarmiento was speeding when he allegedly struck Bagley, a pedestrian, around 3 a.m. before fleeing the scene. Bagley was found unresponsive and pronounced dead at…

Vucic’s talks with Zelensky, EU pressure and election risks suggest Belgrade is balancing, not changing sides yet By Vitaly Ryumshin, journalist and political analystLeaving aside Belarus, which is geographically European but rarely treated as part of Europe’s political mainstream, most people would probably name Serbia, which, in geopolitical terms is a remarkable exception. Even after the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, Belgrade maintained a friendly attitude towards Moscow at both the governmental and public levels.For four years, Serbia has tried to remain neutral despite sustained pressure from Brussels and Washington, and it refused to impose sanctions on Russia, while…