Sen. Berger calls for second recount in close race, but will it include all ballots? Senate leader Phil Berger is calling for a second recount in his close Republican primary race with Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page. A machine recount wrapped up Thursday without changing Page's 23...

A second recount request was filed by Sen. Phil Berger this afternoon -- here's my attempt to sort through the next steps in the process.

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Trump team reportedly extends Iran war timeline amid public backlash President Donald Trump’s time frame to end his war in Iran keeps stretching longer , with the Iranian government putting up more of a fight than his ...

The timeline just moved. Again.

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CBS News Radio shutting down after nearly a century on the air, marking end of an era CBS News said Friday it will shut down its storied radio news service after nearly 100 years of operation, ending an era and blaming challenging economic times as the world moves on to digital sources...

CBS News said Friday it will shut down its storied radio news service after nearly 100 years of operation, ending an era and blaming challenging economic times as the world moves on to digital sources and podcasts.
https://to.pbs.org/3PlSPoo

An Epstein files document indicates Epstein was under DEA investigation for drug trafficking and prostitution. DEA won’t give the details to the US Senate. More on Substack here: open.substack.com/pub/thefrank...

Doctors say that most serious childhood diseases are caused by viruses. A guy who eats dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says they are caused by radiation from 5G cell phone towers. For a busy parent, it can be hard to know who to trust.

SCOTUS Decides FATE of MILLIONS in MAJOR Case YouTube video by Katie Phang

SCOTUS will hear 2 cases re. the revocation of TPS for Syrians & Haitians and the outcome could impact more than a million people.

Legal scholar @stevevladeck.bsky.social joins me for a deep dive on the cases, including why SCOTUS is hearing this on an expedited basis.

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Why the Trump administration is clashing with AI firm Anthropic The clash between Anthropic and the U.S. government escalated with President Trump ordering every federal agency to stop using any of the AI company's products. It came after Anthropic wanted to limit...

The Paramount and Warner Bros. merger could make one of the largest media empires in the world, controlling two key movie studios, multiple streaming platforms and two of the biggest news operations on television. https://to.pbs.org/4s9f9iW

The 60 minutes segment Bari Weiss killed is here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

This poor fella 🐕is hiding from explosions while Russia is attacking city of Dnipro with drones tonight. You can see everything from the eyes.

It’s a special kind of pain to see animals suffer from war.

CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

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(AP) — A former Justice Department employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during President Donald Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington was found not guilty of assault on Thursday in the latest legal rebuke of the federal intervention.

@apnews.com #Hero
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Kate Hi, my name is Kate. I'm currently in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Trying to keep the world informed about Ukrainian prospective of war, tell the world how war feels for a regular citizen in a city that gets mer

My name is Kate, i'm posting from Kharkiv, Ukraine. I share daily updates on russia’s invasion of my country and glimpses of civilian life in one of the most bombed cities on earth.

This account is fully independent.

If you like what I do, you can tip here: buymeacoffee.com/kateinkharkiv

A decade ago, the Heritage Foundation went full meltdown about how Obama was an imperial president when he had issued about the same number of executive orders -- though he had reached it after six years, not six months.

Jessi the dog is looking for her owner, who was killed by the Russian attack on #Kyiv.

Rescue workers continue to search for people who may be under the rubble.

Russia killed 19 people in Kyiv today, including four children.

📹: slidstvo. info/TikTok

On Aug. 6, 1945, the world changed forever.

The U.S, in the middle of World War II, dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb on another Japanese city — Nagasaki. Japan, an Axis power, surrendered soon after, ending the war. 🧵

1/ The Epstein files don’t have an incentive to lie for a coverup.

A convicted sex trafficker in search of a pardon does.

The dead giveaway: DOJ can simply release all the Epstein files, but refuses.

Also, what's with the wiggle words in Blanche's statement?

You may have heard that the Dems walked out of the Sen Judiciary committee hearing on Bove but not why. It's because Chairman Grassley moved to a vote without allowing all the Dems to speak.

Listen to Cory Booker's impassioned protestations as it happens.

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Those of us who care about such things often imagine a speech or argument or style of rhetoric that might affect the course of events, and it is sobering to see that... no, no it won't.

PBS and NPR’s Last-Ditch Fight to Save Funding

Defunding public media has been a Republican priority for decades. That this has been so comparatively hard fought shows how out of line the policy is with the reality of many Republican voters. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/b...

REPORTER: Will you commit to include California in any disaster aid package?

MIKE JOHNSON: We've not seen the formal disaster relief request from California yet

REPORTER: The formal request was sent to your office in February

Jared Wise’s Jan. 6 felony trial was actually underway when Trump was inaugurated and shut all the cases down. Wise had taken the stand in his own defense.

Now he’s an adviser to DOJ working w Ed Martin on “weaponization,” per @alanfeuer + Adam Goldman

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as Republicans are poised to pass legislation stripping healthcare from more than 10 million Americans, all three major cable news networks are covering ... the Diddy trial

The Dollar Has Its Worst Start to a Year Since 1973

Is this what it means to make America great again?

Trump’s GOP Pushes SHOCKING Cut That Could Put LIVES AT RISK YouTube video by Katie Phang

Full video from Katie Phang’s YouTube channel here:

youtu.be/nLKFD3NoG38

“.. as his second-term immigration crackdown—including stepped-up deportation flights and workplace raids—has drawn protests in several cities ..”

@forbes.com @zacheverson.com
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Sylvia Earle, Marine Biologist Marine biologist Sylvia Earle has spent more than four decades at the forefront of ocean exploration -- and at age 83, she shows no signs of slowing down. Earle was the first female chief scientist…

"You should treat the ocean as if your life depends on it, because it does," marine biologist Sylvia Earle told us in 2019.

I’m always thinking how comforting it must be for them to have that highly effective body armor. Couldn’t stop a BB.

CBO is a nonpartisan, neutral org. Its director, Phill Swagel, worked in the GWBush administration and was appointed by Republican lawmakers to his current post. For many reasons, it's laughable that he or his professional colleagues would be cooking the books to help Democrats.

What Republicans' possible Medicaid cuts could mean for nursing homes Experts told PBS News that there are ways to ensure older adults get the quality and type of care they need, but most require more resources, not less.

Medicaid, the largest payer for long-term care facilities, covers around 2 in 3 nursing home residents, and reducing dollars to the massive, yet already resource-limited, program could have disastrous effects on older adults’ health, safety and quality of life.