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America 250 Showed the Pride and Joy in the U.S.

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America's 250th birthday inspired one helluva party, from a national outpouring of flag-waving patriots to a glorious parade of tall ships in New York Harbor.

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Fed Minutes Show ‘a Few’ Officials Saw Case for June Hike

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Fed Minutes Show ‘a Few’ Officials Saw Case for June Hike

A few Federal Reserve officials in their most recent policy meeting said there was a case for raising interest rates, though they ultimately supported the decision to leave rates on hold. Bloomberg's Tyler Kendall breaks down the Fed Minutes. (Source: Bloomberg)

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'Now you've FORCED us': Homan says NY governor's effort to protect illegal aliens will BACKFIRE in Glenn Beck interview

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'Now you've FORCED us': Homan says NY governor's effort to protect illegal aliens will BACKFIRE in Glenn Beck interview

Border czar Tom Homan said the efforts by Democrats in New York to protect illegal aliens from deportation are going to backfire very soon. During an interview with Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck, Homan argued that the sanctuary city policies made everything worse for the public as well as the immigrant community. 'It results in more agents in the streets, it results in more collateral arrests, and it's a community safety issue, when you release a public safety threat back into the public.' He said the Justice Department was filing lawsuits to combat the sanctuary city policies and then held up Minnesota as a successful example of local authorities cooperating with federal law enforcement. "The way we fixed Minnesota, we gained support from the local sheriffs so we can arrest the bad guy in the safety and security of a jail, which is safer for the agent, safer for the alien, and safer for the community," Homan said. He said this led to "unprecedented support" from Minnesota officials and safer detentions and removals. Homan said he tried to explain the same to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat. "I explained this to Governor Hochul. And I said, 'When you force us into the street, we gotta send teams out there to do that.' And when we find the bad guy, which we will, many times they're with others, others that are in the country illegally. May not be a public safety threat, but they're coming too.""It results in more agents in the streets, it results in more collateral arrests, and it's a community safety issue when you release a public safety threat back into the public," he added. When Beck asked how Hochul responded, Homan laughed and said she signed the sanctuary policies despite his warning. "And that's why I told her, 'OK, now you've forced us to send more agents to New York to enforce immigration law, when it would have taken less because you took the efficiencies of the jail away,'" he continued. "And what she's ignoring is the fact, now we can't rent a bed from the sheriff," Homan said. "So every illegal alien we arrest in New York will be immediately put on an airplane and sent out of the state. How does that benefit the immigrant community?""They have no access to their family because we moved them out of state," Homan continued. "So, this wasn't about protecting the immigrant community. This is about her supporting sanctuary policy."RELATED: California Democrat calls for ICE to be abolished after 'record' illegal alien arrestsNew York Gov. Kathy Hochul's attempt to protect illegal immigrants just completely backfired, @RealTomHoman tells me. Here’s what will happen next:“What sanctuary cities are causing, because of their policies, is we're going to flood the zone.I told her, ‘Okay, now you've… pic.twitter.com/Ceg0JnJ3gj— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) July 7, 2026 He concluded that the administration is forced to respond with a surge into New York. "What sanctuary cities are causing, because of their policies, is we're going to flood the zone," Homan said. "All these new resources are going to be assigned to sanctuary cities because that's where the problem is. We don't have that problem in Florida. We don't have that problem in Texas. The sheriffs and chiefs are working with us," he added.Homan also recently revealed that ICE had arrested a record 10,000 illegal aliens in a five-day period, and the agency was ramping up to increase those arrests even further. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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US Troop Withdrawal 'Will Not Be Drastic' Says NATO Military Committee Chair

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US Troop Withdrawal 'Will Not Be Drastic' Says NATO Military Committee Chair

Chair of the NATO Military Committee Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone says they will be unaffected by the withdrawal of US troops, and believes the transition will be smooth. He spoke to Bloomberg Television's Oliver Crook on the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Ankara on Wednesday. (Source: Bloomberg)

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New report: Trump's anti-renewable policies set to cost US households over half a trillion dollars, as summer blackouts and price spikes hit hardest

A new analysis from clean energy think tank Energy Innovation finds that the Trump administration's rollback of clean energy policy will add more than half a trillion dollars to American households' collective energy costs by 2040, even as it publicly promises lower bills. 350.org says the findings confirm what millions of Americans are already living through this summer: a sudden AI-driven electricity crunch colliding with policy choices that are making the problem worse, not better.According to the report, the cumulative impact of the administration's actions, including the repeal of clean energy tax credits, new barriers to permitting wind and solar, and a tilt toward more expensive coal-fired power, will raise the average household's energy costs by $460 by 2035, rising to $490 a year by 2040. That comes on top of electricity rates that have already spiked 7.4% nationwide since last fall, with more than a dozen states seeing double-digit increases, driven in part by the explosive growth in data center electricity demand.The findings land just as households across the eastern US are living the consequences directly. A "heat dome" and severe storms over the Fourth of July weekend left almost a million households without power across more than a dozen states, and sent wholesale electricity prices up more than 240% in New England and doubled in New York City. Detroit was among the hardest hit: roughly 350,000 people lost power, some for four to five days, with outages still ongoing for some. Detroit's utility, DTE, ranked among the worst-rated in the country, has pushed through repeated rate hikes even as reliability has failed to improve, including a $242.2 million increase approved in February during a deadly cold snap, and a further request in April for up to $474 million, an 11% increase.Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has intervened in DTE and Consumers Energy's current rate cases over the pattern, saying DTE continues to treat Michigan families like an open checkbook to satisfy its shareholders, whether through massive rate hike requests or secret data center contracts.Candice Fortin, US Campaigns Manager at 350.org, said:"This report puts numbers on something households are already feeling in their bills and their blackouts. We were told cutting clean energy would lower costs. Instead, we're seeing the opposite: rates spiking, grids failing under record heat, and households paying more while data centers' electricity use explodes. You can't fix an affordability crisis by blocking the cheapest, fastest power we have to build. The fossil fuel industry and this administration's policies are adding fuel to the fire, and ordinary ratepayers are the ones getting burned."The Trump administration disputes the report's findings, with the White House and Department of Energy characterising Energy Innovation's analysis as partisan and arguing that rolling back clean energy regulation will ultimately lower prices by letting market forces determine new generation. Energy Innovation and other independent analysts maintain there is a direct line between the administration's policies and rising bills, pointing to the growing gap between the promise of cheaper energy and the reality households are experiencing this summer.

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US House GOP Study Committee Wants Answers from WNBA Regarding the Abuse of Caitlin Clark

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US House GOP Study Committee Wants Answers from WNBA Regarding the Abuse of Caitlin Clark

US House GOP Study Committee Wants Answers from WNBA Regarding the Abuse of Caitlin Clark A quarter of the WNBA’s revenue is related to Caitlin Clark. This is her impact on the league. The post US House GOP Study Committee Wants Answers from WNBA Regarding the Abuse of Caitlin Clark appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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DEVELOPING: US Central Command Fires Off Warning to Iran as US Prepares Strikes With More Than 20 Warships Patrolling the Middle East (VIDEO)

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DEVELOPING: US Central Command Fires Off Warning to Iran as US Prepares Strikes With More Than 20 Warships Patrolling the Middle East (VIDEO)

US Central Command showed off the presence of US forces in the Middle East as President Trump threatens continued strikes in Iran tonight. Fighting resumed last night, with the United States launching attacks against Iran in response to Iran targeting several ships in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday. The post DEVELOPING: US Central Command Fires Off Warning to Iran as US Prepares Strikes With More Than 20 Warships Patrolling the Middle East (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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“There’s No More Laughing” – Trump Tells NATO Who’s Boss: “We Have the Strongest Military in the World… Two Years Ago, NATO Laughed at Us.” (VIDEO)

The Gateway Pundit

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“There’s No More Laughing” – Trump Tells NATO Who’s Boss: “We Have the Strongest Military in the World… Two Years Ago, NATO Laughed at Us.” (VIDEO)

President Trump on Wednesday held a press conference at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, where he boasted about America's strength on the world stage and told the alliance who the boss is. "We have the strongest military in the world by far, not even close, everybody admits it," Trump declared before touting his success in increasing NATO members' defense spending. The post “There’s No More Laughing” – Trump Tells NATO Who’s Boss: “We Have the Strongest Military in the World… Two Years Ago, NATO Laughed at Us.” (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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