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Former President Barack Obama recently gave America another reminder of how his presidency—once expected to bring the country together—left us more divided on race. Obama compared America under President Donald Trump to the tumultuous period after the Civil War that gave birth to the Ku Klux Klan. He said the U.S. is “having the same arguments” we did in the 1860s and 1870s, when Union troops occupied the former Confederacy and attempted to secure real freedom for former slaves. “These issues are still here,” Obama told author Malcolm Gladwell in an interview for the podcast “Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise.”

Speaking against gender ideology in the Rocky Mountain states got a doctor removed from a medical licensing board and residents censored at legislative hearings. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals delivered for the former while setting back the latter. Radiologist Eric Cubin's First Amendment retaliation lawsuit against Wyoming GOP Gov. Mark Gordon is moving forward again, while Gays Against Groomers, Rocky Mountain Women's Network and their Colorado leaders are petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to stop lawmakers from enforcing "facially" unconstitutional "decorum" rules in public comment.

Former CBS News investigative reporter Catherine Herridge, who also worked with Fox News, reviewed a batch of documents declassified by the Trump administration concerning Chinese election interference. President Trump spoke extensively about the vulnerabilities of our election system in a primetime address on July 16. The president outlined how Beijing has compromised the voter data of around 220 million Americans, paid U.S. reporters to spread anti-Trump propaganda, and cited numerous intelligence officials who kept the extent of the Chinese election meddling operation from him.

It's been coming for a while, but this week, the once-conservative firebrand Tucker Carlson has doubled down on a version of reality that would make Iran's mullahs blush. Carlson used an appearance on the East Meets West with Olga and Tara podcast to unload on a provision in the fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act that would expand defense-technology cooperation between the United States and Israel. His verdict? Lawmakers who back the measure are acting against America's own interests, effectively merging our nations’ militaries.

Massachusetts Democrats are advancing legislation that would create a permanent state commission focused on protecting and promoting Islam. Bill S.2134 has cleared initial committees and is currently in the state’s Senate Ways & Means Committee. Massachusetts-based radio talk show host Jeffrey Kuhner sounded the alarm about the bill on X, saying it “guarantees Muslims will be appointed and hired across all levels of government.” Indeed, no other religion has ever received this type of preferential treatment. Members of the pro-Islam commission would be appointed by the governor, attorney general, legislative leaders, and “racial equity, civil rights and inclusion” committee chairs. The 11-member body would:

Sophie Cunningham is the face that launched a thousand memes. In an interview with ESPN, she said the following: Then, after her non-conformity to Woke dogma drew howls, she doubled down. The WNBA star recently burst onto the national scene with finger-pointing swagger. Now, much like Caitlin Clark before her, Woke Media considers her to be a threat. You see, she doesn’t subscribe to the left's talking points about boys invading girls' sports. Cunningham spoke out about the “transgender problem” that is impacting girls' sports around the country.

In a ruling on Saturday, the majority of a U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit panel refused to approve the Justice Department's request to lift a lower court's injunction relating to the Trump administration's efforts to clean up mail-in voting ahead of the 2026 midterms. SCOTUS Wire reported in an X thread on the details of the 2-1 ruling: Here's what the majority - Circuit Court Judges Gelpi and Rikelman - included in its opinion: The third member of the panel, Judge Dunlap, wrote a partial dissent: The lower court ruling came courtesy of U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, as my colleague Rusty Weiss wrote in June:

Approximately 75,000 noncitizens are summoned for jury duty in the Garden State every year, according to newly disclosed figures from the New Jersey judiciary. The revelation comes as state officials are already scrambling to explain how thousands of self-identified noncitizens were improperly added to New Jersey’s voter rolls and how hundreds reportedly cast ballots. You cannot make this up. The New Jersey Globe reported that New Jersey processes more than one million jury summonses annually using records randomly selected from three state agencies: the Division of Elections, the Division of Taxation, and the Motor Vehicle Commission.

Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham, who has become a sensation since her pointing incident on the court went viral, was asked by an ESPN journalist how people related to her. This was Cunningham's response. Some may see this response as arrogant, but what it reflects is authenticity. Cunningham is unapologetically herself, and this is exactly what the world, and especially young girls, need. Which is probably why her other response about whether biological men should be allowed to play in women's sports also turned heads. As our editor Bob Hoge reported, the leftist outrage was dialed to 11:

An Obama-appointed federal judge has handed Portland’s far-left political machine a major legal victory, denying the Trump Justice Department’s attempt to obtain police body-camera footage and internal records tied to allegations of anti-conservative viewpoint discrimination. U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon rejected the Justice Department’s motion to compel Portland officials to turn over evidence connected to protests outside the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.

Regional foreign policy experts told the Daily Caller that reports the Trump administration may be weighing direct military action against terrorists in Mali appear credible. However, they said any intervention would likely be framed as protecting U.S. national security by dismantling terrorist strongholds, rather than defending persecuted Christians as the administration has emphasized in neighboring Nigeria. Citing current and former U.S. officials, a Washington Post report published Wednesday said the administration is weighing military action in Mali, a prospect that seemed to catch the Malian government off guard. (RELATED: Here’s How Trump’s Houthi Headache Could Turn Into Full Blown Migraine)

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said Saturday that they fired missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia in response to Saudi airstrikes on the strategic Red Sea city of Hodeida, in an escalation over vital shipping routes in the Middle East while the United States and Iran vie for control of the Strait of Hormuz. Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, the Houthis’ military spokesperson, said in a prerecorded statement that the attack targeted facilities in the Red Sea cities of Yanbu and Jizan that belong to Aramco, the world’s largest oil company. Saudi Arabia’s civil defense said alerts sounded multiple times early Saturday in both cities, but the kingdom didn’t comment further.