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Speaker Mike Johnson pulled off another unlikely feat getting a divided Republican conference to pass a bill providing Iran war funding and supporting state voter ID requirements. This time, he had a hand from Vice President JD Vance, who worked the phones behind the scenes to get skeptical conservative members on board, sources familiar with the matter tell the Daily Signal. Overcoming numerous divisions within the conference, House Republicans on Wednesday successfully passed a framework for reconciliation 3.0, which included $95 billion in spending for the Iran war and parts of the SAVE America Act.

Many in Atlanta also celebrate its popularity because it's a successful black-owned business, co-owned by Tamara Young and Chef Virgil Harper. And that's fine; it's a free country, and people are welcome to celebrate what they want and what matters to them. Personally, when I go out to eat, I really only care about things like flavor and service, not the race of the owners. I grew up with parents who never considered someone's skin color a defining factor in who they are or what they're capable of achieving, and I've always followed their lead.

watchdog group is calling on Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) William Pulte to review the security clearances of certain members of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team following allegations they mishandled classified information. The Center to Advance Security in America (CASA) has sent a letter to the DNI asserting allegations against members of Smith’s team and requesting an investigation to revoke security clearances if needed. “As recent documents from Senator Grassley’s office have shown, several members of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office were extremely careless when handling classified documents and with the security of designated classified areas,” CASA Director James Fitzpatrick said in a statement.

California rejected nearly 150,000 mail-in ballots during its June primary, the highest total in recent election cycles, as a surge in late-postmarked ballots sparked concerns about changes to U.S. Postal Service processing. According to data from the California secretary of State’s office, 148,241 mail ballots — or 1.73 percent of all mailed ballots cast — were rejected in the state’s June primary, up from roughly 109,000 rejected ballots in the 2024 primary and up from about 106,000 in the 2022 primary. More than 93,000 ballots were disqualified because they were deemed late, making timeliness the most common reason the ballots were rejected.

The Gateway Pundit reported on Evan Barker, a former Obama intern and lifelong Democrat, who left the party after what she saw as a volunteer at the Democratic National Convention. In 2024, in an op-ed for Newsweek, she expanded on why she became so “disenchanted” with Democrat leadership despite raising “tens of millions of dollars” for them and why she left the party. Next week, Baker’s memoir, “Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative,” is set to drop. The Wall Street Journal’s Barton Swaim previewed the book noting:

President Donald Trump has a winning strategy on Iran. The military campaign should not stop until Iran's regime delivers an unconditional surrender, as Germany and Japan did in World War II. House Speaker Mike Johnson should be cautious about telling Trump to "wrap it up." The US strikes on Iran have been as breathtaking as they were overdue – and massively complex. What would the world look like today if in 1942 the US and its allies had been told to "wrap it up"? Trump should not listen to anyone who tells him to slow down or ease up. The Gulf Arabs are being hit hard again --