Experts confirm increased firefly sightings, attributing the population boom to a damp spring and hot summer.
The Trump administration has decided to release the rest of the nearly $7 billion in funding for public schools that it had frozen, with little notice, earlier this month. A senior administration official told CNN they have finished a programmatic review, and the additional funds will be released to the states. The administration previously announced the release of $1.3 billion of the frozen funds.
A tweet from the official Democratic Party's X account was ridiculed on Thursday after inadvertently showing prices skyrocketing under former President Joe Biden. The post attempted to describe rising grocery prices under "Trump's America" using a graph dating from October 2019 to 2025. The graph claimed that "U.S. Grocery Prices Reached Record Highs in 2025" with prices "higher today than they were on July 2024" in categories such as dairy, produce and meat. However, many X users pointed out that the graph, in fact, showed prices skyrocketing in 2021 when Biden was president and only leveling off at the end of 2024 when President Donald Trump was re-elected.
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OCHOPEE, Fla. (AP) " Deportation flights from the remote Everglades immigration lockup known as "Alligator Alcatraz" began in the past few days, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday. The flights operated by the Department of Homeland Security have transferred about 100 detainees from the immigration detention center to other countries, said DeSantis, who expects that number to increase soon. "I think you're going to see the numbers go up dramatically," DeSantis said during a news conference near the South Florida detention center.
Donald Trump flies into Scotland later to visit two golf resorts which he owns in the country where his mother was born. He will travel to Turnberry in South Ayrshire, a world-class venue he bought in 2014, and to Menie in Aberdeenshire to open a new 18-hole course. The trip is exceptional as US presidents rarely promote their personal interests so publicly while in office. Read more
'Blindsided and annoyed':
Pam Bondi insiders tell of fury at Tulsi Gabbard Attorney General Pam Bondi found herself scrambling to contain the political fallout after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard hijacked her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein crisis and launched an uncoordinated attack on Barack Obama, according to several sources close to the AG.
DeSantis spent part of his time on stage at a Bradenton event reminiscing about Hulk Hogan.
Footage from 2010 of Jeffrey Epstein asserting his "Fifth, Sixth and 14th Amendment rights" when asked whether he had ever "socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18" has gone viral on X, racking up more than 2 million views since Wednesday evening.
"South Park" came back to TV screens with a bang, and the Internet is cracking up at all the shots it took at President Donald Trump, his habitual practice of suing his opposers and his relationship with Paramount. Read more
This website suggests who the potential 2028 POTUS candidates are. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D) and Senator John Fetterman (D), who have no business deciding anything about NYC, have already attacked fellow Democrat Zohran Mamdani, candidate for NYC Mayor. Other AIPAC Democrats have also piled on poor Zohran. Source: www.politico.com
Estes Carter Thompson III (37), who confessed to taping his phone to the airplane toilet's lid to film girls as young as seven years old, has been sentenced to 18 1/2 years in prison. The perverted American Airlines flight attendant pleaded guilty earlier this year to recording five underage girls over a nine-month period " as well as amassing a trove of AI-generated child pornography. The now-fired flight attendant apologized at his sentencing, conceding that his depraved actions were "selfish, perverse, and wrong." Boston USDJ Julia Kobick called Thompson's behavior "appalling" and said the filmed kids' "innocence has been lost" because of it. Read more
"The Revenge of Alice Cooper," which comes out Friday, July 25, marks the first time the original lineup (including late guitarist Glen Buxton joining via technology) have released a full album of new material since "Muscle of Love" in 1973. The lead singer legally changed his name to Alice Cooper after he went solo in 1975. Read more
Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan was among those questioned under oath this month after release of a new documentary about the sexual abuse of Ohio State University athletes decades ago by a team doctor, according to a court filing. Jordan's deposition Friday came in a federal lawsuit brought by former student athletes against the university over its failure to stop abuse by Dr. Richard Strauss, who died in 2005. Hundreds say they were abused by Strauss, who worked at the school from 1978 to 1998. Many ex-wrestlers over the years have accused Jordan, who served as assistant coach of the Ohio State wrestling team from 1986 to 1994, of knowing about the abuse and failing to act. The 10-term congressman's office had declined to confirm Friday's deposition, but it reiterated Jordan's denial of any awareness of Strauss' crimes or the cover-up.
Three Ohio police were shot, two multiple times, after a gunman opened fired on two of them as they ate a pizza lunch in their patrol cars. The white gunman (28), who police said was fatally shot at the scene, had an "arsenal" of weapons and was "was lying in wait" when he opened fire on the pair of parked patrol vehicles around 1:05 PM. Two police officers had bought a pizza and were parked side-by-side in their patrol cars at the dead end of Missouri Avenue when the gunman, who was also parked at the dead end, opened fire. One of those officers was shot in the hand and the second was shot multiple times. A third officer who heard the call for help and was driving to assist was also shot multiple times. The two officers shot multiple times were flown to a hospital in Cleveland and are in critical condition. Read more
Protesters rallied across Ukraine on Tuesday evening after President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law tightening control over key anti-corruption agencies, a move critics say threatens their independence and risks undermining EU ties and billions in Western aid.
