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With less than 100 days until Election Day, time is running out for Republicans, and their prospects for keeping control of the House are still poor.

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Reason.com

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In Spider-Man: Brand New Day, a Web Slinging Superhero Grows Up

A darker, more adult Spider-Man movie that works best when it's just about Spider-Man.

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National Review

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Counting All of Justice Barrett’s Votes

A look at her full voting history reveals where the justice’s conservative record is lacking.

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DOJ Seeks To Deport Afghan Alien In First Alien Terrorist Removal Court Case, Citing Alleged Election-Day Plot

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DOJ Seeks To Deport Afghan Alien In First Alien Terrorist Removal Court Case, Citing Alleged Election-Day Plot

‘The matriarch of an ISIS-sympathizing family aiding in a plot’

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Rebellion against 'oblivious' Trump tanks Dow in worst day of the year

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Rebellion against 'oblivious' Trump tanks Dow in worst day of the year

Many critics anticipated that when President Donald Trump appointed Kevin Warsh as chairman of the Federal Reserve, he was getting a hack who would follow Trump’s order to cut rates regardless of the explosive consequences.On Wednesday, that’s not what happened — and Trump is likely stewing.“[Warsh’s] hard line on inflation must have … surprised Warsh’s patron, President Trump,” argued American Prospect co-founder Robert Kuttner.The Federal Reserve refused to lower interest rates from its current target range of 3.5 to 3.75 percent for short-term rates. Worse for Trump, the vote of the whole fed was 9-to-3, with three regional bank presidents voting to raise the target range for the federal funds rate by a quarter percentage point. Kuttner said this was the first time since 2016 that three officials dissented in the same direction.“The split vote signals that the Fed, despite President Trump’s wishes for a rate cut, is likely to vote for a rate hike between now and the November midterms. That’s because several factors, some of them of Trump’s own making, are increasing inflation, including the Iran war and retail price increases resulting from Trump’s tariffs,” said Kuttner.The decision to keep rates steady “tanked the Dow,” according to CNN anchor Kasie Hunt, delivering “the worst trading day for more than year.”But if Trump is stomping around the White House right now he only has himself to blame, said Kuttner.“Our impulsive and oblivious president is not good at connecting dots. One set of Trump policies raises inflation, while Trump pressures the Fed to ignore the problem and cut interest rates,” said Kuttner. “In his report to Congress on July 15, Kevin Warsh … surprised many observers by ignoring the Fed’s ‘dual mandate’ to pursue both price stability and high employment. In fact, Warsh had said, “The members of our [Federal Open Market] Committee have no tolerance for persistently elevated inflation. And we share a resolute commitment to restoring price stability.”Plus, Kuttner said Warsh made no mention at all of employment, implying Trump should have seen this coming.“Bonds are under pressure because of the massive increases in the federal debt under Trump, compounded by a lot of borrowing for the AI bubble and data center build-out. In many respects, these signals are a more important factor in Fed thinking than the month-to-month inflation rate,” Kuttner said. Worse for Trump, there are two more meetings of the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee between now and November, when Trump’s voters are likely to show Trump how unhappy they are with his economy. And the challenge facing the Fed is that the widely expected rate hike won’t even be able to act fast enough to fix what’s broken about Trump’s economy.“And since the inflation is not the result of overheated demand but of the impact of the Iran war and Trump’s tariffs, higher rates will not moderate these prices,” said Kuttner. “But leaving rates alone would signal an indulgence of inflation that Warsh and his colleagues want to avoid.”

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US strikes Iran for first time in days after Jordan missile attack

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US strikes Iran for first time in days after Jordan missile attack

The Pentagon on Wednesday evening announced it carried out a fresh round of strikes against Iran after President Donald Trump committed to delivering the Middle Eastern country “a beating” for launching surprise attacks on U.S. troops in Jordan. U.S. Central Command said U.S. forces began launching strikes against Iran at 8 p.m. EDT on Wednesday. […]

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Socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson FIRES Police Chief Shon Barnes Days After He Went Missing in Action During Deadly Bite of Seattle Festival Mass Shooting

The Gateway Pundit

2 days ago

Socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson FIRES Police Chief Shon Barnes Days After He Went Missing in Action During Deadly Bite of Seattle Festival Mass Shooting

Seattle’s far-left Mayor Katie Wilson reportedly fired Police Chief Shon Barnes on Wednesday night, just days after a deadly mass shooting rocked the city and triggered fierce scrutiny of City Hall’s disastrous response. The post Socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson FIRES Police Chief Shon Barnes Days After He Went Missing in Action During Deadly Bite of Seattle Festival Mass Shooting appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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Trump Pardons Mega-Donor Days After Contribution to GOP Candidate

Truthout

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Trump Pardons Mega-Donor Days After Contribution to GOP Candidate

Trump issued the pardon to Adam Kidan, a key player in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal that was exposed in the 2000s.

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'Surprising accusation' reveals RFK Jr's Trump days are numbered: analysis

Raw Story

2 days ago

'Surprising accusation' reveals RFK Jr's Trump days are numbered: analysis

President Donald Trump is reportedly growing frustrated with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on a key issue, and that suggests his time in the administration is running short.The Wall Street Journal reported the president is running out of patience with Kennedy's probe into the supposed link between vaccines and autism, and MS NOW's Hayes Brown argued that may be putting the notorious vaccine skeptic on thin ice."It’s a surprising accusation, given the centrality of vaccine skepticism to Kennedy’s political brand and the Make America Healthy Again movement he is spearheading," Brown wrote. "It also cuts against the advice that the White House itself reportedly delivered earlier this year, to have HHS downplay the focus on vaccines ahead of the midterm elections."The Journal reported that Trump wants Kennedy to push federal guidelines toward fewer recommended childhood vaccinations, hoping this could eventually lower autism rates. Tensions reportedly boiled over in a mid-June Oval Office meeting, where Trump told Kennedy directly that he wasn't doing enough, and that he's grown disappointed after giving him more than a year and a half to deliver results."Despite the clear scientific consensus, the HHS department under Kennedy has already launched several new studies on vaccine safety and attempted to recommend a reduction in the number of immunization shots that children receive," Brown wrote. "But that isn’t enough for Trump, who has shown that he doesn’t care about backing his own wild claims with solid proof."The column emphasizes that no credible scientific link between vaccines and autism exists, reminding readers that the original 1998 study behind the claim was retracted in 2010 after its author was discredited, and no subsequent research has replicated its findings."Working for the federal government now requires a willingness to share in the president’s delusions," Brown wrote. "But providing evidence sufficient to convince people outside of the MAGA cult of personality, including federal judges and grand juries, has hampered efforts to deal out the vengeance that Trump has demanded."Brown compared Kennedy's predicament to FBI Director Kash Patel's struggles delivering on years of promised revelations about Jeffrey Epstein's death — claims that similarly evaporated once officials were in position to act on them, causing political damage to the administration. Trump has shown a similar pattern with unsubstantiated claims about the 2020 election."There are plenty of people in the world who are willing to say obviously untrue things in public for attention, money or both, but in private acknowledge the limits of their claims," Brown wrote. "But when Trump has decided something is true, there’s little that can shake his conviction.

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