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Belgium appealing FIFA decision to reverse red card on Folarin Balogun

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Belgium is appealing FIFA's decision to reverse a red card assessed to U.S. striker Folarin Balogun. This comes after President Donald Trump said he called FIFA President Gianni Infantino and asked for a review. NBC News’ Gabe Gutierrez reports that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick also started making calls to see if the administration could get the red card reversed.

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'Are you kidding?' Hometown paper in disbelief over bizarre decision by McConnell's wife

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'Are you kidding?' Hometown paper in disbelief over bizarre decision by McConnell's wife

Sen. Mitch McConnell's hometown newspaper has a bone to pick with his wife, but not about the swirling rumors around his health.In a Louisville Courier Journal column, opinion writer Joseph Gerth said he doesn't much care about the specifics of McConnell's condition, arguing the public doesn't need detailed health updates on one of 100 senators the way it would for a president. What he does want to know, however, is why Elaine Chao didn't come home."Are you kidding me?" Gerth wrote, after recounting that paramedics performed CPR on an unconscious person at McConnell's Washington home the morning he was hospitalized on June 14. Chao, he noted, was in China, where she met Chinese Vice President Han Zheng on June 17.McConnell, 84, has not been seen publicly in more than three weeks, and his office has never confirmed why he was admitted, though dispatch audio referenced a cardiac arrest. Chao's travel has drawn pointed criticism across the spectrum, and in a Tuesday statement — her first since the hospitalization — a spokesperson said she was on "a long-planned trip" supporting "her family's philanthropic endeavors" and that "the Senator's health did not warrant an immediate return to the U.S."Chao departed June 12, two days before he was hospitalized, and was in Shanghai when the emergency happened. Fact-checkers have knocked down a viral claim that she flew over after his cardiac arrest, while former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene floated a baseless claim that she is a Chinese spy.Chao returned to the U.S. on July 7. McConnell's prognosis remains undisclosed.

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Trump ordered to hand over E. Jean Carroll's $5M after losing Supreme Court appeal: report

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Trump ordered to hand over E. Jean Carroll's $5M after losing Supreme Court appeal: report

A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump to release the more than $5 million payment he owes to E. Jean Carroll, a former magazine columnist who sued Trump for sexually abusing and defaming her, according to a new report. CNN reported on Wednesday that Judge Lewis Kaplan told Trump to release the money, along with accrued interest, after the Supreme Court refused to hear Trump's appeal in the case. The payment is part of the civil verdict that found Trump sexually abused Carroll in a department store in 1996, and then defamed her when he became president. Carroll has also secured an $83 million judgment from a jury in her defamation case against Trump. The president has until the end of July to appeal that ruling to the Supreme Court, according to the report. A spokesperson for the Trump administration told CNN in a statement, "The American People stand with President Trump as they demand an immediate end to all of the Witch Hunts, including the Democrat-funded travesty of the Carroll Hoaxes. President Trump will keep winning against Liberal Lawfare, as he continues to focus on his mission to Make America Great Again."

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Appeals court denies Trump's request to halt removal of his name from the Kennedy Center

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Appeals court denies Trump's request to halt removal of his name from the Kennedy Center

The D.C. circuit appeals court denied all of President Trump's arguments that sought to stop the removal of his name from the Washington, D.C., arts institution.

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'They have failed': Trump team's longshot Kennedy Center appeal bombs again in court

A federal appeals court has dealt President Donald Trump yet another legal defeat in his fight to have his name on the Kennedy Center, court records show. A three-judge panel on Tuesday denied Trump's request to pause — or "stay" — a lower court order while he appeals it.That order, issued in May, declared his name on the building illegal and gave him two weeks to take it down. He did."We now deny Appellants' motion for a stay pending appeal because they have failed to show how they will be irreparably injured absent a stay," the D.C. Circuit wrote.The fight started in December 2025, after Trump packed the Kennedy Center's board with his own appointees, named himself chairman, and had them vote to rename the building "The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts," according to ABC News.Trump was asked about the vote at the White House that same day."We're saving the building. We saved the building," he told reporters. "The building was in such bad shape, physically, financially, in every other way."Congress named the center for President John F. Kennedy by federal law in 1964 — and only an act of Congress can change it."The Kennedy Center is a living memorial to a fallen president and named for President Kennedy by federal law," former Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA), a grandnephew of the late president, wrote on X. "It can no sooner be renamed than can someone rename the Lincoln Memorial."Ticket sales dropped by 50% in the week after Trump announced his takeover, the Washington Post reported — even as he claimed record donations.Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH), an ex-officio board member who said she was muted during the renaming vote and blocked from voicing her opposition, sued, according to court records.Court records show Trump lost at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in May. He lost an emergency stay request on June 12 — the same day he was forced to comply and remove his name from the building. Now he has lost again.Because the Trump team couldn't show they'd be hurt without the stay, the court said it didn't even need to consider whether they have a chance of winning the underlying appeal.

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Texas Hospital Caught Red-Handed Advertising BIRTH PACKAGES in Mexico to Convince Foreigners to Have Babies In America – Governor Greg Abbott Orders Investigation

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Texas Hospital Caught Red-Handed Advertising BIRTH PACKAGES in Mexico to Convince Foreigners to Have Babies In America – Governor Greg Abbott Orders Investigation

A hospital in South Texas is under fire for trying to profit from America's ridiculous birthright citizenship policy, which was upheld by the Supreme Court last week. The post Texas Hospital Caught Red-Handed Advertising BIRTH PACKAGES in Mexico to Convince Foreigners to Have Babies In America – Governor Greg Abbott Orders Investigation appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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Democrat running to replace Platner says latest allegations crossed his ‘bright red line’

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Democrat running to replace Platner says latest allegations crossed his ‘bright red line’

Fmr. State Sen. Troy Jackson (D-Maine) joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss the new sexual assault allegations against Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner and why he's entering the race to replace the candidate he once supported on the campaign trail.

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Iran: To Take 'Decisive Actions' to Protect Interests | Balance of Power: Late Edition 07/07/2026

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Iran: To Take 'Decisive Actions' to Protect Interests | Balance of Power: Late Edition 07/07/2026

"Balance of Power: Late Edition" focuses on the intersection of politics and global business. On today's show, Retired General Ben Hodges, former Commanding General for US Army Europe, says NATO allies should increase defense spending to strengthen their own security and counter Russia — not to satisfy President Trump. Bill Scher, Politics Editor for the Washington Monthly and longtime Democratic political strategist and commentator, says Graham Platner's refusal to leave Maine's Senate race could force Democrats into a "game of chicken" before a candidate deadline. Jonathan Panikoff, Senior Director of the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council's Middle East Program, reacts to US strikes against Iran after attacks on commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. (Source: Bloomberg)

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