July 17, 2026

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Incoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham Calls for “Serious Review” After Ann Widdecombe Murder– www.lifenews.com

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Incoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham called for a “serious review” of security for Members of Parliament following the targeted murder of veteran pro-life advocate and Reform UK figure Ann Widdecombe.

Widdecombe, 78, a former Conservative MP for Maidstone and MEP, was found dead at her home in Haytor on Dartmoor, Devon, earlier this week. Police have described the killing as a targeted attack.

Counter-terrorism officers are leading the investigation, and a 28-year-old white British man remains in custody on suspicion of murder and on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.

Burnham, who is expected to enter Downing Street soon, expressed shock at the killing of a politician he had known for many years.

Former DOJ Pardon Lawyer Behind Biden’s Death Row Clemency– thefederalist.com

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Expect Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats to deliver another crazed production of confirmation theater Wednesday, rolling out every political weapon in their arsenal to try to block Acting AG Todd Blanche’s promotion to U.S. Attorney General.

Old, shriveled Dick Durbin, the committee’s ranking member, believes he’s got an ace up his sleeve as Blanche’s confirmation hearing begins Wednesday morning. He’s called Liz Oyer, the Department of Justice’s former “nonpolitical” pardon attorney, to testify. Oyer carries a deep loathing of President Donald Trump and an ax to grind against Blanche.

In a statement released Tuesday, the Illinois senator asserted that Blanche fired Oyer “for refusing to rubberstamp gun ownership rights to Mel Gibson, a convicted domestic violence abuser and friend of Donald Trump.” Yes, that Mel Gibson — actor and director — who had been barred from purchasing firearms following a misdemeanor domestic violence conviction in 2011. Gibson was one of 10 people who received pardons from the Trump administration last year for their decades-old crimes.

Leftists Celebrated Anne Widdecombe’s Murder Just Like They Celebrated Charlie Kirk’s– www.lifenews.com

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After months of violence and riots, Britian has been rocked by yet another murder. Pro-life politician and Catholic convert Ann Widdecombe, a staunch defender of life and family, was found brutally murdered in her home in Haytor, Devon on Dartmoor on Thursday. Local police were quick to declare the former member of parliament’s (MP’s) death a random incident and rule out a political or terrorist motive, but had to backtrack on Monday, instead handing the investigation over to Britain’s counter-terrorism police.

Widdecombe was first elected to Parliament as a member of the Conservative Party in 1987 and quickly distinguished herself as a vocal defender of the unborn and of Christian moral principles, including opposition to same-sex marriage. It was generally understood during her time in Parliament that Widdecombe would not accept a position as Health secretary should the Conservatives take power, since she refused to be responsible for licensing abortions, a duty under the Health secretary’s purview. Widdecombe retired from Parliament in 2010 but returned to politics nearly a decade later as a member of the Brexit Party in the European Parliament. She later joined Brexit Party’s successor, Reform U.K., as a spokeswoman for immigration and justice and policy.

Musk donates $5 million to Ramaswamy despite DOGE fallout– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Elon Musk has donated $5 million to a super PAC backing Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign for Ohio governor, despite the pair’s publicized falling out last year after Ramaswamy was initially tapped to help Musk lead President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative.

The recently disclosed contribution went to V-PAC, the super PAC supporting Ramaswamy’s gubernatorial bid.

Musk’s contribution brings his political spending this election cycle to at least $90 million, making him one of the cycle’s largest donors. His biggest investment this year was in Kentucky Senate candidate Nate Morris, whose campaign ended after a Musk-backed super PAC spent roughly $10 million supporting his unsuccessful primary bid.

Despite their split last year, Musk publicly wished Ramaswamy well after he launched his gubernatorial campaign, signaling a thaw in their relationship.

“Good luck, you have my full endorsement!” Musk wrote on X.

Blanche to face questions about his independence at attorney general confirmation hearing– www.latimes.com

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WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday for Todd Blanche, President Trump’s pick for attorney general, will be a referendum on far more than his individual merits.

Blanche, the acting attorney general, served as Trump’s defense attorney before taking office and has been closely linked to many of the most consequential — and controversial — issues that have dominated the first two years of Trump’s second term.

Blanche is set to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will decide whether to approve his nomination and send it to the full Senate for a confirmation vote. The committee hearing will continue Thursday.

“I would expect committee Democrats to treat Mr. Blanche’s hearing as an opportunity to conduct oversight of the Department of Justice,” said Phil Brest, president of the American Constitution Society, a progressive legal nonprofit and a former top Democratic staffer on the committee. “It’s a test of the Senate’s willingness to probe the department’s operations and to actually serve as a check on the department and the administration more broadly.”

The Prodigal Generation: Why Gen Z Is Reading Dostoevsky– www.standingforfreedom.com

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Penguin Classics has a real mystery on its hands. Since 2016, sales of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment have risen 450 percent, and his other great novels have climbed along with it. Ten years ago, Dostoevsky ranked 40th among the publisher’s bestselling authors; today, he ranks 4th.

Jess Harrison, editorial director of Penguin Classics, admits the trend “feels quite mysterious,” guessing that it’s the old Russian author’s “gloom and nihilism” that is drawing in younger generations. And why not? Gen Z’s detractors have long called them a shallow, nihilistic generation. The shoe seems to fit.

But the shoe doesn’t fit. Gen Z is less colored by cynicism than a hunger for truth — a generation reaching, only half-knowingly, for the old Christian teachings of man’s fallenness and God’s grace. To call Dostoevsky a nihilist is to miss the core message of his books — redemption.

Democrats NO-SHOW Senate hearing on taxpayer fraud as Nick Shirley urges Congress to ‘put Americans first’ | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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“When we talk about fraud, we are talking about money that is being stolen from hard-working, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens.”

Every Democratic seat sat empty during a Senate hearing on taxpayer fraud on Wednesday as independent journalist Nick Shirley and activist James O’Keefe testified before lawmakers, prompting sharp criticism from Republicans over the absence.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who chaired the hearing, pointed to the vacant seats, saying Democrats had been invited but did not attend.

“You’ve got some testimony from the person I kind of call as a fraud-busting hero, Nick Shirley is there, and you’ve got political activist James O’Keefe there, and a lot of Republicans in the room, and I think we have a shot of the empty seats… empty seats where Democrats would be sitting,” Paul said.

Trump Deploys Anti-Fraud Strike Force to New York After State Paid Out Hundreds of Millions in Improper Unemployment Claims– slaynews.com

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The Trump administration has deployed a federal strike force to New York to recover hundreds of millions of dollars in improper unemployment payments.

The move comes after the Democrat-controlled state recorded the highest unemployment fraud rate in the nation.

The Department of Labor (DOL) announced the operation in coordination with the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, saying the effort will target fraudulent claims that have cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

New York Leads Nation in Unemployment Fraud

According to the Department of Labor, New York accounted for $507 million of the $750 million in improper unemployment insurance payments reported nationwide in 2025.

Federal officials say the state has the highest unemployment insurance fraud rate in the country at 15%, along with the nation’s highest improper payment rate at 23%.

Dems Who Weaponized DOJ Are Terrified Of Blanche– thefederalist.com

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Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, tore into Democrats on Wednesday, pointing out how they hate him because he is exposing the Biden administration’s weaponization of the Justice Department.

Grassley, as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, highlighted the restoration of the Department of Justice under the Trump Administration during the confirmation hearings of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for the full post.

“From my vantage point, if the people who engaged in the worst partisan lawfare this country has ever seen have a problem with Todd Blanche, that’s a good thing in my book,” Grassley said. “As sure as sunrise, today, some of my Democratic colleagues will tell us that Mr. Blanche is a uniquely terrible nominee. Before they do so, however, I’d urge them to remember the boy who cried wolf, and to take a long look in the mirror before lecturing anyone about partisanship at the Justice Department.”

Grassley referenced his office’s numerous disclosures of documents showing former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s conspiracy to get Trump and other Republicans, stating, “Smith’s operation cut corners and blew through constitutional stop signs instead of respecting them.”

Mamdani Is Enraged Over Shocking ICE Murder, but of Course He’s Lying Again – PJ Media– pjmedia.com

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On Monday evening, New York City’s Marxist Twelver Shi’ite Mayor Zohran Mamdani posted a shocking message on X: “This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.”

Trump backs Mike Lindell in Minnesota as Democratic primary features anti-ICE Klobuchar and a convicted rapist– www.theblaze.com

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MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell is a proud trailer park-raised Republican who, “through the grace of God” and a deepening relationship with Christ, beat a crippling crack cocaine addiction, then went on to enjoy massive personal success and found a recovery network.

Lindell has in recent years paid an enormous price personally and professionally for his claims both that President Donald Trump won the 2020 election and that the election was rigged, even becoming a target of the Biden FBI.

‘This race looks all but over.’

Trump, evidently impressed with his steadfast defender, said in December after Lindell filed to run for governor of Minnesota that the 65-year-old businessman “deserves to be governor of Minnesota.”

Democrat congressman’s Israel trip takes dramatic turn as officials dispute viral claims– www.theblaze.com

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A sitting United States congressman reported an unexpected altercation during his visit to Israel last week. While supporters call for accountability, others have insisted that the altercation was nothing more than a big misunderstanding.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) made a post on Saturday detailing an alleged detention by Israeli settlers and Israel Defense Forces.

‘It’s too much, too insulting and humiliating to America. This is how revolutions start.’

The video and photo in Rep. Khanna’s initial post show multiple vehicles in the road with a few men standing outside one of the trucks. The vehicles appear to be blocking the road from the perspective of a camera in a vehicle facing the scene.

Democrat congressman’s Israel trip takes dramatic turn as officials dispute viral claims– www.theblaze.com

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A sitting United States congressman reported an unexpected altercation during his visit to Israel last week. While supporters call for accountability, others have insisted that the altercation was nothing more than a big misunderstanding.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) made a post on Saturday detailing an alleged detention by Israeli settlers and Israel Defense Forces.

‘It’s too much, too insulting and humiliating to America. This is how revolutions start.’

The video and photo in Rep. Khanna’s initial post show multiple vehicles in the road with a few men standing outside one of the trucks. The vehicles appear to be blocking the road from the perspective of a camera in a vehicle facing the scene.

Two of the men are apparently holding firearms. One of them appears to be wearing full military garb.

Top Dem Blames Todd Blanche For Dems’ Attacks On SCOTUS– thefederalist.com

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The confirmation hearing for Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is underway, just a day after Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett gave harrowing testimony about ongoing left-wing threats to her family and personal safety and requested increased protection. Yet Sen. Dick Durbin took the opportunity in his opening remarks for Wednesday’s hearing to place the blame for those threats on Blanche, Trump’s nominee for attorney general.

Durbin claimed that because Blanche said “the Justice Department was quote, ‘at war with the federal judiciary’” — referring to the rogue Democrat-appointed judges who have consistently sought to usurp the authority of the executive branch — he is somehow complicit in the increased threats against the SCOTUS Justices.

“Be careful with what we say about the judiciary. They are doing their job. We should never ever countenance violence against anyone on either side,” Durbin said.

Durbin implying that Blanche is behind threats against SCOTUS is ironic, given his own statements made about the 2022 Dobbs decision.

UCSF Chancellor Blasted for Claiming The “Majority” of Pregnancies Occur In Women– www.louderwithcrowder.com

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According to Dr. Sam Hawgood, Chancellor of UCSF, “the vast majority of pregnancies are in women.” The fact that this was said is a scandal that proves America’s medical school system has been hijacked by the left. This should horrify people more than it has.

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Two academic leaders from medical schools struggled to give direct answers about which types of people can have babies during a House hearing on DEI in medical schools on Tuesday.

Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL): Dr. Hawgood, UCSF’s [University of California – San Francisco] classroom guide titled “Framework for Gender and Sex Concepts in Teaching” advises against using the term “pregnant women”. Instead, it says to use “pregnant people.”

Dem Rep Jahana Hayes defends DEI in medical schools, says teaching ‘colonialism in healthcare’ is essential | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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“Teaching colonialism directly addresses the systemic roots of healthcare inequities.”

Representative Jahana Hayes defended diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in medical schools during a House hearing on Tuesday, arguing that topics such as “colonialism in healthcare” are essential for training physicians.

Speaking at a House Education and Commerce Committee hearing on “the impact of DEI on medical schools,” Hayes argued that DEI education helps address “racial disparities in healthcare,” reducing both health disparities and improves outcomes in all populations.” Addressing medical school leaders from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Hayes said she was “incredibly disappointed” that they “could not immediately answer the question about teaching colonialism in healthcare.”

Bill Gates Pushes Plan to Lock Down Healthcare, Education, Banking with Digital ID– slaynews.com

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has reignited alarm over a looming technological control grid after publicly promoting plans to seize control of banking, healthcare, education, voting, and other essential services with global digital identity and payment systems.

During an interview with CNBC, Gates argued that digital identification should become a central foundation for expanding digital finance and government services.

The billionaire praised systems already operating in countries such as India and China and called for governments, central banks, international institutions, banks, telecommunications companies, and technology firms to build similar infrastructure elsewhere.

The result would be a system capable of linking nearly every major aspect of a person’s life to a single digital identity.

Dem Activist Harry Sisson Proves How Violent Leftists Are, Predicts Charlie Kirk Statue in NYC Won’t Last 10 Minutes– www.westernjournal.com

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A statue to memorialize late Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk is scheduled to be placed in New York City.

But Democrat activists like Harry Sisson know it will not be there long, recognizing that their side is too intolerant and violent to allow it.

Kirk was assassinated during a TPUSA event on Sept. 10, 2025, being brutally slain in front of supporters and detractors alike on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. This was a vicious act against a promising 31-year-old activist who was only guilty of exercising his First Amendment rights.

He is most remembered in the manner Italian artist Sergio Furnari has chosen to depict him — seated and holding a microphone. Radar Online reported that Furnari plans to unveil his work in New York City on Sept. 10, the one-year anniversary of Kirk’s death.

Elissa Slotkin Repeats This Insulting Lie About Married Women Supporting Democrats– townhall.com

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Democrats, it turns out, have a really low opinion of women. Not only do they think women are too stupid and irresponsible to get proper documents after they get married, thus rendering them ineligible to vote, but they also think married women live in mortal fear of their husbands, specifically that they’re too afraid to tell their husbands they support Democrats.

That’s a lie, but it’s one Elissa Slotkin was happy to repeat at an event, telling the audience married women lied to their Republican husbands to volunteer at Slotkin’s campaign.

U.S. Confirms Latest Iran Strikes Target Its Ability to Bomb Ships– www.breitbart.com

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U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), the arm of the Pentagon responsible for the Middle East, confirmed on Wednesday morning that it had engaged in a new round of air strikes against Iranian military missile launch sites after hours of similar targeted attacks on Tuesday.

CENTCOM explained that the objective of the new operations against Iran’s terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is to erode Iran’s ability to bomb its neighbors and attack random civilian ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a tactic that Tehran returned to with gusto during funeral events for late dictator Ali Khamenei in early June. Adm. Brad Cooper, the commander of CENTCOM, explained in a statement this week that the Iranian terrorist state had escalated its attacks on civilians in an effort to disrupt global commerce in the Strait of Hormuz, necessitating a response.

“Over the past seven days, Iran has intentionally targeted civilians across the region by attacking seven commercial ships resulting in nearly a dozen civilian crew members killed, missing, or injured,” Admiral Cooper detailed in a statement on Tuesday. “Iranian forces have also launched dozens of missiles and drones toward neighboring Gulf countries. U.S. forces are holding Iran accountable for unwarranted aggression that continues to endanger innocent lives.”

US resumes daylight strikes on Iran as tensions escalate over Strait of Hormuz– www.euronews.com

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US military has resumed its air strikes against Iran in broad daylight on Wednesday, as Washington said it was intensifying its campaign aimed at limiting Tehran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

According to US Central Command (CENTCOM), a new 90-minute wave of precision strikes against Iranian targets on Wednesday morning targeted coastal defence systems as well as cruise missile storage and launch sites on Greater Tunb Island.

CENTCOM said the strikes were intended to further reduce Iran’s ability to attack commercial vessels passing through the strategic waterway.

The operation marks a further escalation in the US military campaign against Iran, following Tehran’s repeated attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf.

Iran had struck at least seven commercial vessels over the past week, according to CENTCOM.

Desperate Democrats Will Continue Gerrymandering for 2028 Elections– www.lifenews.com

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Although the midterm election is less than four months away, the redistricting wars are far from over. This time, however, Democrats have set their sights on the 2028 general election. Democrats in the Old Line State announced last week that they will host a special legislative session next month to push an amendment to Maryland’s state constitution, allowing for hyper-partisan gerrymandering.

Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson (D) and House of Delegates Speaker Joseline Peña-Melnyk (D) made the announcement in a joint statement. “Consensus on this issue has been clear in the House. Maryland needs a durable, transparent constitutional framework for congressional redistricting that reflects the evolving legal landscape,” Peña-Melnyk said. “This special session gives the General Assembly the opportunity to respond thoughtfully to recent court decisions while ensuring that Maryland voters have the final say on any proposed constitutional changes.”

Netherlands hospitals will commit abortions up to 24 weeks, instead of 22– www.lifesitenews.com

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(LifeSiteNews) — Dutch hospitals will start to commit abortions on demand up to 24 weeks of pregnancy, up from the previous limit of 22 weeks.

While the abortion law in the Netherlands broadly allows abortions up to 24 weeks (defined as the legal age of “viability”), hospitals generally only committed abortions until the 22nd week because babies 22 weeks or older can now often survive with neonatal care.

The Dutch newspaper AD reported that the Dutch Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (NVOG) and hospitals have agreed on a new protocol in which hospitals will commit abortions between 22 and 24 weeks on demand, despite many babies being able to survive outside of the womb at that age.

As Brussels Signal reports, the change was made to prevent women from traveling abroad for an abortion.

Majority Of Sailors Killed In Hormuz Attacks Were Indians, Shows Data– www.ndtv.com

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India supplies around 12 per cent of the global seafaring workforce, but Indian crew members have borne a far greater share of the recent dangers at sea.

Take the example of seafarers killed during the shipping crisis in the Strait of Hormuz. According to an analysis by NDTV Datafy, the majority of seafarers killed in attacks on commercial ships appear to be Indians.

Indians accounted for seven of the 16 seafarers – nearly 44 per cent – killed in attacks on commercial vessels during the Strait of Hormuz crisis between March 1 and July 14, 2026.

Iraq seizes mounds of gold and millions in cash from officials in corruption crackdown– www.cbsnews.com

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Iraqi authorities have seized more than 825 pounds of gold and ten of millions in cash in a series of anti-corruption operations that led to the arrest of at least 21 people, including dozens of government officials and several former and current members of parliament.

The seizures were connected to the arrest in May of a former deputy oil minister, Adnan Al-Jumaili, on suspicion of corruption.

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi, who took up the role in May, has vowed to tackle graft in the country. But the mission won’t be easy, a government official who asked to remain anonymous told CBS News.

 

New Yorker Claims Trump Latino Support Collapsed Using Disputed Polls– www.newsbusters.org

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The New Yorker seems to think that President Donald Trump will again be running for re-election in 2028. Perhaps they take the “TRUMP 2028” seriously since Jack Herrera wrote a piece in their Tuesday issue that makes that assumption in “Democratic Schadenfreude and the Latino Vote,” with the subtitle of “Trump’s once strong approval rating among Latinos has collapsed, but Democrats can’t count on their support.”

Herrera bases his sweeping conclusion of a “collapse” of Latino support for Trump on a total of two polls with an incredibly poor track record on this topic. This led Herrera to engage in a high level of liberal Hopium as you can see in his story based on dubious sources:

After close to half of Latino voters chose Donald Trump in 2024, Democrats reacted like someone catching their grandpa giving money to a chatbot. “A lot of folks are asking on the Democratic side, ‘Why would they do this to themselves?’ ” the CNN anchor Jim Acosta said. He asked whether Latinos had “just had the wool pulled over their eyes.” Online, the reaction got ugly. Some posters (who claimed to be Kamala Harris voters) shared the tip-line number for ICE, encouraging their followers to call and report undocumented family members of Latinos who had voted for Trump. Those posts represented an angry fringe; however, even among levelheaded Democrats, I heard some species of vindictiveness. They understood why Latinos, buffeted by years of inflation and rising housing costs, had rejected Joe Biden. But they felt these voters would—and should—pay for supporting Trump.

Democrat Senator Makes Stunning Admission About SAVE Act, Lets The Truth Slip– trendingpoliticsnews.com

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Sen. Elissa Slotkin may have handed Republicans their easiest talking point yet in the fight over election integrity.

The Michigan Democrat said the SAVE America Act would make it harder for Democrats to win elections, a remark Republicans quickly seized on as a rare moment of honesty from the left about voter ID and proof-of-citizenship laws.

The comment came in a video unearthed by Breitbart News that was recorded the day after the Senate narrowly rejected the Trump-backed measure in June.

The bill failed 50-48 after four Republicans joined Democrats in voting no.

Slotkin made the remarks during a June 6 address to Indiana’s state Democratic Party, where she celebrated the bill’s defeat and claimed President Donald Trump’s push for the legislation was an attempt to “rig our democracy.”

Lithuania warns Russia could be planning ‘targeted’ attacks on critical infrastructure – Europe live | Ukraine– www.theguardian.com

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Meanwhile, Lithuania’s president Gitanas Nausėda warned that Russia could be planning attacks on infrastructure, with security around energy and transport sites to be tightened as a precaution.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda delivers a doorstep statement during the 2026 Nato Ankara Summit in Ankara, Turkey. Photograph: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

Speaking with BNS news agency, Nausėda appeared to confirm growing concerns, reported in the Guardian too, that Russia could be looking to escalate against one of the Baltic countries or Poland.

He said that Lithuanian intelligence services picked up “signals” of a potential provocation, but “they do not identify a specific place or time, because that is simply impossible to determine,” LRT reported.

“I cannot deny that we have such information and that it concerns kinetic operations – not on a large scale, but targeted kinetic operations that are very likely to be directed against critical infrastructure.”