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House GOP leaders are planning to bring former MLB star Mark Teixeira, one of their top candidate recruits this cycle, out on the trail in battleground districts over the summer recess sprint. Majority Leader Steve Scalise will host a fundraiser with Teixeira in New York City on Aug. 20 with Speaker Mike Johnson as a special guest, according to three people with direct knowledge of the event, granted anonymity to discuss plans that have not yet been made public. It’s part of a New York swing where Teixeira and Johnson will also hit nearby stops in GOP Rep. Mike Lawler’s…

The British energy regulator plans to stop firms from reserving electricity capacity for “speculative” projects British energy regulator Ofgem on Wednesday proposed fees and stricter rules for AI data center developers to cull “unviable, stalled or speculative projects” that are taking up scarce grid capacity amid skyrocketing electricity demand.It comes as the UK moves to grow its cloud computing and artificial intelligence industries but grapples with a sharp spike in grid connection requests – which Ofgem says have more than tripled in less than a year.The amount of electricity capacity being sought by firms wanting to plug into the UK’s…

Liberal Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson appeared on Michelle Obama’s “IMO” podcast this week in an episode titled, “Move Through the Hard Times with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.” Ketanji Jackson discussed her life before serving on the Supreme Court, motherhood and other topics. At one point, Ketanji Jackson stressed the importance of impartiality. “There are lots of limits on what judges can do, and I try to be very, very mindful and scrupulous with respect to that because, as you say, our obligation is to be unbiased in our approach,” said Jackson. “And, so, you have to then navigate…

A British nuclear power plant is on alert as a rapidly expanding wildfire threatens the facility, with concern changing weather over the course of the day could overwhelm air filters with smoke. Sizewell B nuclear power plant in Suffolk, one of the few remaining operational plants in the United Kingdom and one which has only started to come back online this month after a two-month refuelling shutdown is just three miles away from a major wildfire burning on Dunwich Heath. French energy giant EDF, which owns the plant, has said it is “monitoring” the situation and for the time being…

Sanders-backed progressive Abdul El-Sayed leads Rep. Haley Stevens by 15 points in Michigan’s Democrat U.S. Senate primary, according to an Emerson College poll released Thursday, days before the August 4 contest. El-Sayed pulled 54 percent to Stevens’ 39, with six percent still undecided. Pushed to say which way they lean, those holdouts only stretched his edge to 57-41. The winner replaces retiring Democrat Sen. Gary Peters, and both parties want the seat come November. El-Sayed, a former Wayne County health director, lost a governor’s race in 2018 by more than 20 points. He is not the underdog this time. Sen.…

Kiev and its European backers are seeking to produce Patriot missiles amid a global shortage Boeing is reluctant to share the technology used in the warheads it manufactures for the Patriot PAC-3 interceptor missiles which Ukraine and its Western supporters want to manufacture in Europe, German media outlet Die Welt has reported, citing sources.US President Donald Trump announced earlier this month that Ukraine would receive a license to produce the coveted Patriot systems. Manufacturing is expected to be based in a European NATO country, potentially Germany, where the facilities would be considered safe from potential Russian attacks.In a report on…

A Rhode Island man whose remarkable survival at birth was officially recognized as a miracle by Pope Leo XIV has been arrested in Virginia in connection with a double shooting. Tyquan Johnson, 19, was captured Wednesday morning at a residence in Newport News, Virginia, by members of the U.S. Marshals Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force. Johnson was wanted on charges of felony assault with a firearm and discharging a firearm in a compact area following a July 19 shooting in Newport’s Park Holm neighborhood, according to the Newport RI Police Department. Two men, ages 22 and 25, were found…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – A Russian ballistic missile and drone barrage across Ukraine overnight killed at least eight civilians, including children, and injured more than 50 others, officials said Thursday, and NATO scrambled its warplanes after one of the missiles crossed the country’s western border into Poland. The blitz expanded Russia´s almost daily bombardment of Ukrainian cities, including the capital of Kyiv where tens of thousands spent the night sheltering in subway stations, as Moscow apparently looked to exploit Kyiv´s critical shortage of Western-supplied anti-ballistic missile defenses. NATO said a Russian missile entered Polish airspace during the onslaught and landed…

The father of the Apalachee High School shooter was sentenced to 15 years on Thursday, after being convicted of charges including second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter for the September 4, 2024, shooting. On March 3, 2026, Breitbart News noted that the father, Colin Gray, was convicted on a total of 27 charges in relation to the school shooting carried out by his son, Colt Gray. On September 6, 2024, Breitbart News reported that Gray was arrested for allegedly giving his son the rifle, which he used in the attack that resulted in the deaths of two students and two teachers. The rifle was…

The joint strikes on Iraq’s security forces have sparked political backlash, according to RT’s Ali Rida Sbeity Joint US-Saudi strikes on alleged Iran-aligned militia positions across Iraq have sparked political backlash, with Baghdad condemning the attacks as a violation of the country’s sovereignty. RT’s Ali Rida Sbeity reported on the ground.The strikes targeted positions of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in seven provinces, according to Iraqi officials, with the group saying at least 20 of its members were killed and 32 wounded. Washington and Riyadh said they had targeted Iran-linked militants in response to a drone attack on Saudi oil…