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Democrat Sarah Trone Garriott has been elevated to what the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) calls its “coveted” Red to Blue program, while her Iowa Senate record includes opposition to citizenship verification and SNAP eligibility measures, along with votes on education and transgender-related policies. The DCCC announced that Trone Garriott, a Lutheran minister and state senator challenging Republican Rep. Zach Nunn in Iowa’s Third Congressional District, had been selected for the first round of the committee’s “coveted” and “highly competitive” Red to Blue program, which the DCCC says provides support to “top-tier candidates.” “Sarah Trone Garriott has spent her life…

President Trump dropped an epic new phrase during a rally in Marietta, Georgia, on Wednesday, telling supporters, “With Communism, everything turns to sh*t.”  “America is back. It’s stronger than ever before, and I’m telling you, it’s only going one way. It’s going up. As long as we keep our current thinking, our current system, it’s going up. If you go the other way, nothing ever succeeds,” Trump said before dropping one of his best lines. “With Communism, everything turns to sh*t,” he said. Trump then joked, “My wife hates it when I do that. She said you were doing so…

Pakistani Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb reportedly asked U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to approve a $10 billion “bilateral exchange stabilization support facility” when they met in Washington on Tuesday, seemingly banking on goodwill from the Trump administration after Pakistan mediated talks between the United States and Iran. Reuters on Tuesday cited “two sources briefed on the matter” to describe the written request Aurangzeb presented to Bessent, and later quoted a U.S. official who “confirmed” the report. However, Bessent did not mention the funding request during his remarks after meeting with his Pakistani counterpart, and the Treasury Department did not mention…

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed dual attacks on Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea early Thursday morning as the U.S. military conducted a 12th straight night of strikes against Iran infrastructure – military and civil. AP reports fighting for control of vital shipping lanes in the Gulf region shows no sign of lessening and if anything is now broadening with Houthi involvement opening up a new chokepoint across the Red Sea. Energy prices are rising globally as a result as supply lines tighten for a host of other materials and oil prices hit a six-week high. AP notes U.S. Central…

Getting a $95 billion budget blueprint through the House took weeks of arm twisting. Getting it through the Senate may very well be impossible. With Speaker Mike Johnson muscling through the first step of a two-part plan for passing billions of funding for the Iran war and farm aid — and for implementing provisions of a GOP election proposal — the intraparty battle is officially now in Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s court, where the South Dakota Republican has been frank about the rocky road the effort faces and careful not to guarantee he’ll be successful. GOP senators are likely…

A historic church in Buffalo, New York, caught fire again this week, and it was determined to be the result of arson. St. Ann’s Catholic Church was built in 1886. It permanently closed down in August 2024 and was sold to an Islamic community for $250,000. There is now a push to turn the historic Catholic church into a mosque. St. Anne’s Church, Buffalo, NY. Permanently closed. Sold to the Islamic community for $250,000 who are converting the historic church into a mosque. pic.twitter.com/D21oTu18ax — Father V (@father_rmv) August 11, 2024 On Tuesday, a second fire tore through the church…

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) published a report Tuesday that found transnational gangs looted at least $88 billion from Southeast Asia in 2025, using a wide variety of telephone and cyber scams, often employing slave labor at notorious “scam centers” that resemble prison camps. The report, titled An Interconnected Criminal Ecosystem: Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment for Southeast Asia 2026, warned that numerous smaller gangs have “merged into a single transnational, tech-driven criminal economy sophisticated enough to outpace conventional law enforcement and threaten governance, economic stability, and development in the region and beyond.” “What we are…

A software glitch in New Jersey wrongly registered thousands of people ineligible to cast ballots A software glitch in New Jersey mistakenly registered thousands of non-citizens to vote, allowing nearly 400 to cast ballots, Governor Mikie Sherrill has said.The disclosure has reignited debate over election integrity in the US. In a statement on Tuesday, the White House argued the incident underscored the need to pass President Donald Trump’s SAVE America Act, which would require states to verify citizenship before registering voters in federal elections. Democrats and voting rights advocates, however, said the case reflected an isolated administrative error rather than…

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Wednesday criminally referred former special counsel Jack Smith to the Justice Department for prosecution. In a letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Chairman Jordan said Jack Smith’s testimony included “intentionally false statements designed to obstruct the Committee’s oversight.” Fox News reported: Former Biden special counsel Jack Smith could face potential criminal prosecution after Republicans accused the ex-prosecutor of misleading Congress about the scope of his investigation into President Donald Trump. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, issued a criminal referral of Smith on Wednesday, arguing newly released records contradict Smith’s testimony…

Dramatic video footage shows a leopard bursting into a liquor store in India and attacking an employee as he desperately tries to flee, before the wild animal begins sniffing around the empty shop, knocking bottles off a shelf. A leopard suddenly charged into a liquor shop in Todaraisingh, northern India, and immediately pounced on the 25-year-old shopkeeper, Sanjay Gurjar, on Monday, according to video footage obtained by the Sun. WARNING: DISTURBING VIDEO: The video shows Gurjar managing to quickly evade the big cat, before bolting out of the building and leaving the leopard slinking around what appears to be a stock…