'In light of these provisions, this Court is likely to reverse the District Court’s holding that the federal defendants violated the Social Security Act, the Privacy Act, and the APA.'

‘not sitting behind a particularly high fence’

The U.S. Senate approved bipartisan legislation to ‌modernize regulations on mental health guidance for pilots and air traffic controllers to encourage early disclosure and treatment.

A federal appeals court on Friday declined to block a Defense Department order blacklisting Anthropic from military contracts and deeming ​the AI startup a national security risk.

‘Going at the dad and yelling at the dad’

President Donald Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping at a White House state dinner Thursday, joined by the Masters of the AI Universe. Anthropic's Dario Amodei was notably missing from the guest list that features Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk amongst others.

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Police are investigating suspected hazing after about 30 partially-clothed young men covered in food, condiments and other liquids were found in the basement of a fraternity house near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus this week.

‘football World Cup fuels transmission’

An Episcopal priest in New York City declared that Jesus is "transgender" and told the congregation that if they deny this, they are denying the "divinity" of Christ.

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For the first time in weeks, longtime Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins is pulling ahead of Democrat opponent Troy Jackson in the November midterm election.

All eyes are on Maine ahead of the election, as it could be the seat that determines which party holds the majority in the 120th Congress.

The poll shows Maine favoring Collins, who is running for her sixth term in the U.S. Senate, at 49% among likely voters; Jackson, who was previously endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, at 46%; and 5% undecided. However, the race remains close, as the margin of error was 4.9 percentage points which is not uncommon.

“If this November’s general election for U.S. Senate were held today, which candidate would you be more likely to vote for,” The New York Times, the Portland Press Herald, and Siena College Research Institute asked 619 voters from Sept. 15 to Sept. 22.

Pollsters also tracked how many likely voters plan to switch party alignment from how they voted in 2024. The results show that more Democrats plan to vote for Collins than Republicans plan to switch sides and vote for Jackson. Specifically, 12% of 2024 Harris voters polled plan to vote for Collins, while only 3% of 2024 Trump voters plan to vote for Jackson. Given his ties to the Democratic Socialists of America, it is not surprising that some Democrats would vote for the moderate Collins over Jackson.

“In Maine, Susan Collins is up three points over Democratic challenger Troy Jackson in a poll completed prior to new pay-to-play allegations recently reported about Senator Collins,” Siena Research Institute Executive Director Don Levy said.

While the poll was published Thursday, it was completed Tuesday, the day before Collins was accused of involvement in a pay-to-play scheme. A report by ProPublica said that former defense contractor CEO Martin Kao, a convicted fraudster, told the FBI his company gave a Collins super PAC $150,000 through a shell company.

“I’ve got to say, I do not understand how anyone would take the word of a felon who’s been convicted twice—twice, two separate cases—of five counts of money laundering, counts of bank fraud, false submissions to the FEC. He is a convicted liar,” Collins told The Wall Street Journal, denying the claims.

President Trump’s America First foreign policy asks a simple question of every foreign engagement: What does it do for the American people? A trifecta of developments in July 2026 highlights a threefold answer to this question in regard to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the central European country formed by the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement, which ended the Balkan War and created two legal entities: Republika Srpska, consisting mostly of Serbian Orthodox Christians; and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, consisting mostly of Muslims (called Bosniaks), with a significant minority of ethnically Croat Roman Catholic Christians.

First, on July 1, 2026, as we were celebrating 250 years of independence from a tyrant named King George III, a non-elected German “High Representative” in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Christian Schmidt, who, like George III, has been enacting what our July 4, 1776, Declaration called “Acts of pretended Legislation,” resigned.

Second, our 250th commemoration of the beginning of our Revolutionary War reminds us that wars happen, and our security can never be taken for granted.

Third, on July 13, 2026, leaders of two political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina, one representing Serb Orthodox Christians (the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, also known as “SNSD”) and one representing Croat Roman Catholic Christians (the Croatian Democratic Union, also known as “HDZ”), in a joint public statement essentially agreed with the February 13, 2026, Opinion of the Constitutional-Law Committee of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina that “the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina does not possess constitutional authority to enact laws.” According to one press report, “SNSD leader Milorad Dodik and HDZ BiH leader Dragan Čović stated in Mostar that they agreed all decisions imposed by the High Representatives should be annulled.”

Apropos this first-of-its-kind Serb Orthodox-Croat Roman Catholic joint statement, the first encyclical by the first American-born pope, Magnifica Humanitas: Humanity In Its Grandeur by Pope Leo XIV, highlights one of the keys to solving 30 years of failed nation-building in Bosnia and Herzegovina: “The principle of subsidiarity…encourages us to move beyond any form of paternalistic or welfare-based management of social life, but instead to promote a culture of shared responsibility in a State that values citizens’ initiative, and…decisions are made at the closest level possible to the persons involved.”

To elaborate on why Bosnia and Herzegovina matters to the American people, American security is at stake: according to The 9/11 Commission Report, two of the 19 terrorist hijackers on September 11, 2001, were Saudi nationals who “had traveled together to fight in Bosnia in a group that journeyed to the Balkans in 1995.” According to Giorgio Cafiero’s article, “In the Rearview Mirror: The Case of Iranian Influence in Bosnia”: “During the 1992-95 Bosnian War…Iran’s government intervened to stop the carnage. Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati coordinated assistance to the Bosniaks and justified the intercession as keeping with the Islamic Republic’s concept of defending the mostazafan (oppressed) across the world, from Palestine to South Africa.”

Today, the three distinct peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina offer three strategic relationships waiting to be cultivated: Catholic Christian Croats, kinsmen of our NATO ally Croatia; Orthodox Christian Serbs, who have repeatedly elected a pro-Trump leader named Milorad Dodik; and the Muslim Bosniaks, whose prosperity is better secured by American trade and investment than by the patronage of Turkey, the Gulf states, or Iran. A sovereign, self-governing, and prosperous Bosnia and Herzegovina means new markets for American energy and capital, new sources of the strategic minerals the American people need, and one less breeding ground for Islamic terrorists.

For nearly three decades, this European country of three distinct peoples has been governed not by the leaders those peoples elect, but by a non-elected foreign bureaucrat known as the High Representative—for the last five years a German former politician—wielding the same model of unaccountable, top-down bureaucratic rule that has given Europe stagnant economies, energy dependency, de-industrialization, and the managed decline of its middle class. The results are predictable: the U.S. State Department’s 2025 Investment Climate Statement describes a country whose “complex and fragmented legal and regulatory framework,” weak judiciary, and political instability drive away investors, while a single 2005 decree of the High Representative freezing the disposition of “state property” has locked up an estimated “$15 billion in potential investment…a sum approaching half of the country’s 2026 GDP.” American taxpayers have underwritten this failed nation-building experiment since 1995; they are entitled to ask what it has bought them, and what’s in it for Americans going forward.

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a place where American economic and strategic interests converge. Republika Srpska, according to Mining Weekly, holds one of Europe’s richest deposits of critical minerals, resources essential to America’s industrial and defense base, which Brussels and Beijing are already maneuvering to control.

Most importantly, these developments in Bosnia and Herzegovina have opened the door for President Donald Trump to reciprocate the support he has received repeatedly from President Milorad Dodik; if he does that, America will have in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in our ongoing global competition for critical strategic resources, a new Central European friend and partner.

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The Rev. Babs Miller, a chaplain at Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico's church, says Jesus did not die for the sins of humanity and that she is not sure whether God's Son even really existed at all.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge has overturned President Donald Trump's ban on assassins being allowed into the White House.

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts says Congress has delivered key policy wins during President Donald Trump’s second term on issues ranging from the economy to border security. 

Roberts joined co-host Larry O’Connor on the latest episode of “The Kevin Roberts Show” to tout conservative legislative accomplishments, which could play a decisive role in Republicans’ quest to keep their congressional majority in the upcoming November midterms.  

In particular, Roberts emphasized how well Congress has aligned with the Trump administration’s legislative agenda. 

“This Congress, this administration,” Roberts said, “are implementing exactly what they said they would in 2024.” 

Policy Accomplishments

Specifically, Roberts pointed to congressional approval of over 700 miles of border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, substantial immigration security personnel increases, and, most notably, the Laken Riley Act, which passed less than a month after its introduction. 

“It puts real teeth into the enforcement,” Roberts said. “The kind of thing that ought to transcend so much our partisan politics, but there’s no doubt that if a democrat socialist of America Left comes into power in Congress, they’re going to work to chip away at it.” 

On the economy, Roberts said the greatest thing Congress did was pass Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” also known as the Working Families Tax Cuts Act. 

“Had they not passed the One Big, Beautiful Bill,” Roberts said, “there would have been a $4 trillion tax increase on the American people—the bulk of that would have gone to working-class and middle-class American families.”  

The law renewed and permanently established Trump’s 2017 tax cuts as law, including a tax cut, a standard deduction for single and married couples, and a child tax credit.  

“That would not have happened were it not for, not just a conservative majority in Congress,” Roberts said, “but the most conservatives of the conservatives in Congress.”

A Warning for America

Roberts and O’Connor lauded House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., for his role despite a narrow congressional majority—one of the smallest ever for a speaker to manage. 

“The thing he has been emphasizing for the last few weeks,” Roberts said, “the contrast between, not just the aspirations of conservatives on Capitol Hill, but what they’ve actually done with what the Left wants to do.”  

Speaker Mike Johnson and President Donald Trump (Annabelle Gordon/AFP via Getty Images)

Roberts warned that Democrats, if given power, would almost immediately undo all the progress advanced by conservatives.  

“All the economic benefits, that is going to go away,” Roberts said. “It is the economic policies of the Left that will arrest that trajectory [of growth] and actually reverse it.” 

Fighting for Conservative Policy

The best thing for America, Roberts said, would be even more conservative wins on the border and the economy.  

“We want conservative policymakers in D.C.,” Roberts said. “It’s vital that we maximize the number who are so willing to fight on a good policy that they would take barbs and slings and arrows from the press.” 

While recent polls and history suggest the opposing party will make gains in this year’s midterm elections, Roberts painted his best-case scenario for the next few years should conservatives score an upset victory in November. 

“What if we’ve got a decade to work on this, and grassroots activists and the American people are able to hold our politicians’ feet to the fire, including and especially those on our side?” Roberts proposed. “Man, this might just be the golden age of America.” 

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Department of Homeland Security to continue its citizenship verification program. 

In a 6-3 shadow docket ruling in the case of DHS v. League of Women Voters, the justices allowed the Trump administration to expand the program that allows states to use Social Security records and other information to check voters’ citizenship status. 

“By prohibiting interference with the disclosure of information regarding citizenship status to DHS—’notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law’—Congress necessarily authorized DHS to request and receive that information,” the majority opinion says.

The three liberals, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented. 

The majority held that a 1996 federal law banning noncitizen voting likely authorizes DHS to obtain citizenship information from other agencies, including state agencies.

A shadow docket ruling is a Supreme Court order, often issued on an expedited basis without full oral arguments.

“In 1996, Congress, however, separately and expressly authorized DHS to request and receive information relating to citizenship and immigration status from other agencies, including SSA, in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA),” the majority opinion says.

Plaintiffs, led by the League of Women Voters, argued this could violate privacy rights. They also argued that the SAVE database, short for Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, is unreliable and risks purging eligible voters.

In June, U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan of the District of Columbia ruled that a portion of President Donald Trump’s March 2025 executive order on election integrity was unlawful. Earlier this month, a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel denied the administration’s motion to stay the district court ruling pending appeal in a 2-1 ruling.

The case centered on a partnership between the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration to expand the SAVE database. The expansion allowed agencies to search individuals using Social Security numbers, aggregate large amounts of data, and function as a citizenship verification tool to screen voter eligibility. 

James Copenhaver, who was “wounded while protecting his family” during the Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt on Donald Trump, has died, according to the president. Copenhaver died on Wednesday “surrounded by his loved ones,” his family said in a statement to Fox News. “James was a devoted husband, father, and grandfather … His family was the […]