'Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old man who attended school in the south Utah city of St. George, was named as the suspected shooter. Robinson has no criminal history ...registered voter in Utah, but does not have a party affiliation. ... ACT college aptitude test score for Tyler – 34 out of 36 – that would place him in the top 1% of test takers ...offered an academic scholarship ...'
'...“What purpose does a gentlelady from Colorado rise?” Johnson asked. Lawmakers could be heard softly speaking over Boebert, prompting Johnson to shush them. Boebert then asked if they could take a moment to pray out loud for Kirk. “No!” Democrat lawmakers could be heard shouting back....'
'...It has long been established that in the years before 9/11, some members of the Saudi royal family and some powerful Saudi officials had supported militant Islamist movements and gave money to Islamic charities that in turn helped finance al-Qaida and other extremist groups. ...'
'...President Donald Trump called on the world to pray for Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk after he was shot while speaking at Utah Valley University (UVU) on Wednesday. ...'
'...shipping containers tumbled off a ship and into the water at the Port of Long Beach on Tuesday morning...containers aboard the vessel Mississippi began collapsing at the Pier G container terminal, according to Coast Guard officials. Officials said an estimated 67 shipping containers fell off the cargo ship and into the water at Pier G within the Port of Long Beach.
Several of the fallen containers struck...'
'Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) stated that “ICE is a rogue agency” and “unless they’re going to take away funding from ICE, which they quadrupled in the last budget, then I do not intend to vote for this budget.” ...'
'...Duffy said that “public transportation has become an epidemic of violence and homelessness across the country. And so, we don’t have a ton of equities at DOT, but we do have money. Your federal tax dollars go to fund a lot of these transit systems across the country, and we have to look at them and say, well, maybe it’s appropriate that we start pulling some of that money back,” because he doesn’t think taxpayers want to fund homelessness and crime. ...'
'Michael Stover, 33, was arrested in suburban Chicago for allegedly threatening ICE agents and political figures. ...Charges: A federal complaint cites social media death threats and weapons seized from his home. ...Stover repeatedly made death threats on social media against federal law enforcement officers, including ICE agents.
In his BlueSky bio, Stover calls himself an "anarchist," "anti-fascist," and "expert shooter."'
'...ICE Atlanta Special Agent in Charge Steven N. Schrank details the planning that went into an ICE worksite enforcement operation that resulted in 475 illegal alien arrests in Savannah, GA.
The U.S. wholeheartedly welcomes all businesses wishing to invest in the United States, but if companies require foreign labor, they must bring in workers legally. ...'
'Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein still fear naming their abusers, but she would do it.
The Georgia congresswoman appeared with a rare bipartisan group of lawmakers, as well as victims of ...Epstein associates who abused them. ...“It’s a scary thing to name names, but I will tell you, I’m not afraid to name names,” Greene said. “So if they want to give me a list, I will walk in that Capitol on the House floor, and I’ll say every damn name that abused these women. I can do that for them, and I’d be proud to do it.”'
'...The president issues another federal intervention warning to Chicago, as Mayor Johnson orders city resistance to immigration enforcement. ...'
'Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Democrats face a critical choice...with a government shutdown and anger from their voters hanging in the balance. ...Democrats took a beating from their base during the last funding showdown in March ...Some Democrats are pushing for the party to continue to work with Republicans to hash out their annual funding bills, viewing the bipartisan legislation as their best chance to have more input in how the government will be funded. ...'
'...The indictments are the first to result from the fuel spill that angered Hawaii residents...A Navy investigation in 2022 found shoddy management and human error caused the leak at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility. The Defense Department's inspector general last year found Navy officials lacked sufficient understanding of the risks of maintaining massive fuel storage tanks on top of a Pearl Harbor drinking water well. The Navy issued written reprimands to three retired military officers for their roles in the fuel spill. The indictment returned Thursday alleges John Floyd and Nelson Wu ... '
'Presidents are required to submit an “alternative pay plan” by Sept. 1 of each year in order to keep larger formulaic raises from taking effect the following year under the Federal Employee Pay Comparability Act (FEPCA). ...However, a yet-to-be-determined number of federal law enforcement officers will get a 3.8% raise next year, in line with the increase military members will receive in 2026. ...'
'...“Six people were killed, and 24 people were shot, in Chicago last weekend, and JB Pritzker, the weak and pathetic Governor of Illinois, just said that he doesn’t need help in preventing CRIME. He is CRAZY!!! He better straighten it out, FAST, or we’re coming! MAGA. President DJT,” Trump wrote.
The statement follows weeks of escalating tension between the White House and Illinois officials over crime and immigration enforcement in Chicago. ...'
'...candidate Royce White told Newsmax that Minneapolis, Minnesota, is exemplified by the reactions from some political leaders to Wednesday's deadly school shooting there as "the belly of the beast."
White told "National Report" on Friday that after hearing Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey indicate he wasn't interested in prayers after the shooting, his first response was, "Minneapolis, Minnesota, is the belly of the beast...Minnesota Bishop Robert Barron was strongly critical of Frey dismissing prayer after the church attack.'
'...sparking fury as at least two White victims were pummeled into the ground by a group of Black suspects. Once on the ground, the suspects did not back off. Instead, they continued to stomp on the victims, one of whom was left with a life-altering brain issue. ...Jermaine Mathews, who has been described by prosecutors as the "coordinator" of the brawl, is in federal custody after being arrested Monday on charges unrelated to the beatdown. ...After the July 26 melee, Montianez Merriweather was assessed a $250,000 bond on three counts of felonious assault, three counts of assault and two counts of aggravated rioting. ...Alex was hit multiple times, before he slapped back in an attempt to try and defend himself and back off this group of thugs." ...Mayor Aftab Pureval also ordered the city solicitor to charge a White victim of the brutal beatdown with a crime "solely to appease racial tensions at the urging of a few community leaders."'
'......'
'...Secretary of State Marco Rubio "is denying and revoking visas from members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian National Authority (PA) ahead of the upcoming United Nations General Assembly," a State Department spokesman confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon. The Trump administration’s decision marks the first time the U.S. government has denied the Palestinian government permission to attend the U.N. gathering. ...The decision to revoke the visas came after the State Department imposed sanctions on Palestinian officials in the West Bank last month over those leaders’ support for terrorism, "including incitement and glorification of violence." '
'Federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from carrying out speedy deportations of undocumented migrants...U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb in Washington, D.C....Cobb, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, didn’t question the constitutionality of the expedited removal statute, or its application at the border. '
'...The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held in a 7-4 ruling that the law Trump invoked when he granted his most expansive tariffs — including his “reciprocal” tariffs — does not actually grant him the power to impose those levies. ...The appellate court paused its ruling from taking effect until Oct. 14, in order to give the Trump administration time to ask the Supreme Court to reverse the decision.
Trump later Friday attacked the appeals court as “Highly Partisan” and asserted that the Supreme Court will rule in his favor.' ...The four dissenters said they disagreed with the majority’s conclusion on the question of the tariffs’ legality.
And the dissent said the plaintiffs had not justified their argument for a summary judgment in their favor.
'...Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced today that he has directed Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll to formally establish a joint, interagency task force to counter hostile unmanned aerial systems, commonly referred to as drones. ...'
'The letter carrier escaped, and her relatives helped police track the suspect down. ...CHICAGO (WLS) -- A man will spend 15 years in prison for hiding in a USPS worker's mail truck and trying to sexually assault her on Chicago's Southwest Side back in October 2022.
Cesar Ramirez pleaded guilty to aggravated kidnapping...'
'...Ahed Tamimi, who rose to prominence as a teenager when she slapped an Israeli soldier on camera, has also praised Adolf Hitler and promised to drink the blood of Jewish civilians...'
'...In response to allegations that Cook committed mortgage fraud, Bessent noted that Cook had not denied the allegations.
“There are two kinds of people — there are people who think that President Trump is putting undue pressure on the Fed, and there are people like President Trump and myself who think that if a Fed official committed mortgage fraud, that this should be examined, and that they shouldn’t be serving as one of the nation’s leading financial regulators,” he said. “And what we haven’t heard from Miss Cook is we haven’t heard her say ‘I didn’t do it.’ We haven’t her say ‘I didn’t do it.'”...'
'...Thursday's arrests in Washington, D.C., during the Trump administration's federal crime crackdown included a suspected member of the brutal Salvadoran street gang MS-13.
"Just yesterday we made 40 arrests, took 5 more illegal firearms off our streets, and had 36 ICE arrests—including a suspected MS-13 gang member," Attorney General Pam Bondi said on X Friday morning.
Thursday's arrests bring the total to 719 since President Donald Trump announced his effort to federalize the D.C. police...'
'...FireAid announced that it would distribute the money it raised 'equitably,'...Millions of dollars raised to help victims of the 2025 California wildfires have ended up in the coffers of unrelated nonprofits pushing a variety of progressive causes ...Some of the groups that have received funds explicitly exclude white people from their services, while others advertise programs for illegal aliens.'
'...Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Friday that his country will drop some of its billions of dollars in retaliatory tariffs on US goods...'
'...National Guard troops deployed on the streets of Washington, D.C., will now carry weapons for personal protection and are allowed to carry out law enforcement duties, defense officials announced Friday. ...'
'...focused on potential classified documents agents believe Bolton may still possess, according to one source...Fox News Digital later spotted agents at Bolton's Washington, D.C., office removing boxes and Bolton was seen in the lobby. The searches are focused on potential classified documents agents believe Bolton may still possess, according to one source.'
'...The seasonably adjusted unemployment rate in Washington, D.C., was the highest in the nation for the third straight month, according to new data released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
D.C.'s jobless rate reached 6% in July...'
'...Nathalie Rose Jones, 50, of Lafayette, Indiana, in D.C. Authorities said Jones traveled from New York to D.C., where she was taken into custody after she made a "series of threats on social media in which she threatened to kill President Trump."..."Threatening the life of the President is one of the most serious crimes and one that will be met with swift and unwavering prosecution," Pirro wrote alongside her post on X. "Make no mistake—justice will be served."...'
'...The Office of Personnel Management has officially canceled this year’s version of the signature survey that assesses governmentwide satisfaction and engagement levels of federal employees. In a memo distributed to agency chief human capital officers on Friday afternoon, obtained by Federal News Network, OPM said after initially only delaying the survey, it has now fully scrapped plans to conduct the 2025 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. ...'
'...Records revealed in the suit from police sergeant Charlotte Djossou showed that department leadership directed subordinates to file theft and violent crimes as lower-level offenses...'
'... * Roderick Watson, 57, of Woodstock, Maryland, who worked as a USAID contracting officer, pleaded guilty to bribery of a public official;
* Walter Barnes, 46, of Potomac, Maryland, the owner and president of PM Consulting Group LLC doing business as Vistant (Vistant), a certified small business under the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) 8(a) contracting program, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery of a public official and securities fraud;
* Darryl Britt, 64, of Myakka City, Florida, the owner and president of Apprio, Inc. (Apprio), a certified small business under the SBA 8(a) contracting program, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery of a public official; and
* Paul Young, 62, of Columbia, Maryland, the president of a subcontractor to Vistant and Apprio, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery of a public official. ...
'
'...The Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Nassau County Police Department, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have arrested 21-year-old illegal alien Elias Wilfredo Serrano Bonilla of El Salvador, 19-year-old Edras Daniel Velasquez Giron of Honduras, and 20-year-old Jeffrey Bladimir Valladares Archaga of Honduras — all of whom have are MS-13 gang members — in the sanctuary state of New York.
ICE agents have lodged detainers against all three MS-13 gang members in the hopes of getting custody of them if they are released from jail at any time. ...'
'The ability of Democrats to lie with abandon and ...At the top of the food chain of liars is Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Now that Trump is pushing to make D.C. safe, Schumer has hit the stump to lie. ...He pointed out that Schumer doesn’t walk anywhere by himself. Why? Schumer is a leader in the Senate. He has multiple armed Capitol Police as his protection detail, 24/7. ...'
'..."Their average homicide rate has doubled in the last 10 years. They used to average less than 100 homicides. Now they average over 200," Gamaldi said, a claim which is backed up by the city's own data.
"And it's because you have a radical element on that city council that has defunded their police. They have embraced revolving door criminal justice policies. And frankly, they treated the hardworking men and women of law enforcement in that town like crap. So, of course, they need help. You have to do something...'
'...CONSUMER PRICE INDEX - JULY 2025
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.2 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in
July, after rising 0.3 percent in June, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months,
the all items index increased 2.7 percent before seasonal adjustment.
The index for shelter rose 0.2 percent in July and was the primary factor in the all items monthly increase. The
food index was unchanged over the month as the food away from home index rose 0.3 percent while the food at home
index fell 0.1 percent. In contrast, the index for energy fell 1.1 percent in July as the index for gasoline
decreased 2.2 percent over the month.
The index for all items less food and energy rose 0.3 percent in July...'
