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Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Economic Development Corporation admitted this week that his city-owned grocery stores “might not have all the items” you’d find in a typical supermarket. The five stores — which are expected to cost taxpayers upwards of $70 million — will likely not include hot food counters or butchers, EDC officials revealed during a board meeting Thursday. “It may not have all the items, but it’s going to be like a typical grocery store,” insisted Jeanny Pak, interim CEO of the EDC, the powerful city-run nonprofit tasked with boosting economic growth and development. Pak also echoed Mamdani’s assertion that only certain items in the stores would be discounted.

Another stunning connection has emerged between Rep. Ilhan Omar’s family and the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud scandal that robbed American taxpayers of hundreds of millions of dollars intended to feed needy children. Omar’s sister, Sahra Noor, registered her consulting company at a Minnesota residence connected through business records to several major figures in the Feeding Our Future operation, according to an investigation by The Daily Wire. Noor founded Grit Partners Consulting, a health and leadership consultancy focused largely on projects in Africa.

Twenty-five states, with the help of a Department of Homeland Security database, have identified hundreds of thousands of dead people and noncitizens registered to vote, and they haven’t finished counting yet. So far, just 10 states—including key battlegrounds Georgia and North Carolina—have fully processed the voter data through the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, database. SAVE is primarily used by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to verify eligibility for government benefits. The Trump administration made it available to states to cross-reference voter registration data.

California’s Medi-Cal crisis has left taxpayers paying for fraud, waste, and abuse. The Pacific Research Institute released a study this week breaking down how taxpayers are paying for “a program that has grown beyond the state’s ability to effectively manage it.” The findings come as the Trump administration announced on July 21 that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is pausing over $860 million in funding to California after federal officials discovered in-home supportive services claims that significantly exceeded national trends. Sally Pipes, the institute’s president, told the Daily Signal that rooting out fraud should be lawmakers’ top priority. “If lawmakers could make only one thing happen this year,

2026431 The oil-producing nations of the Persian Gulf are stepping up their efforts to divert shipping away from the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran has been launching terror strikes on civilian vessels. The Associated Press (AP) noted on Thursday that “at least seven major pipeline projects are under construction, in the planning stage, or being discussed as possibilities.” Work on all of these projects accelerated after Iran delivered a “wake-up call for Gulf oil producers” by shuttering the Strait of Hormuz twice so far this year. The goal is to build and expand pipeline networks that would allow countries like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Iraq to bypass the traditional—

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is facing two potential bumps on the road to full-time confirmation. And their names are John Cornyn and Thom Tillis. Over the past several days, reporting broke indicating the two Republican senators — who are both members of the Senate Judiciary Committee — have trepidation about advancing Blanche’s nomination to the Senate floor. While slated to consider his nomination on Thursday, the committee postponed a vote on Blanche’s AG bid by a week, as “per standard committee practice,” according to a representative for Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.

I’d like to speak today about revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries. Whether we realize it or not, we’ve been in a progressive revolutionary cycle for about 50 years. And by that I mean there has been the effort of most of the Democratic Party, and now the radical elements to accelerate that efforts as emblemized by the democratic socialists to take control of government, expand it, redistribute income so that many people in blue states especially are paying over 10% of their income, in addition to 38% of their federal tax or two or three percent in Obamacare tax and other add-ons.

As a result of the findings, a tariff rate of 10% to 12.5% is being added to the goods from a host of countries evaluated. These 301 duties are in addition to currently existing tariff rates. [FACT SHEET] Trading partners that have made commitments to adopt, and effectively enforce, forced labor import prohibitions will have a 10% tariff, and trading partners that have failed to adopt a forced labor import prohibition will have a 12.5% tariff rate. • The following 54 economies have failed to impose and effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goods produced with forced labor: Algeria; Angola; Argentina; Australia; the Bahamas; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Brazil; Cambodia; Chile;

In March 2020, a group of influential virologists published a paper in the journal Nature Medicine arguing that an animal spillover event probably caused the pandemic. The article, known as ‘The Proximal Origins of Covid‘, concluded “we do not believe any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible” and was hugely persuasive in stifling debate globally. But messages obtained and published by US Senator Rand Paul show that behind the scenes the scientists voiced concerns that the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) had been carrying out experiments on coronaviruses at insufficient biosecurity levels.

Gun control advocates continue to maintain that gun control works, that passing laws restricting the right to keep and bear arms on law-abiding citizens somehow keeps criminals from getting guns. They even have (incredibly flawed and unserious) studies that "prove" this. Yeah, right. Of course, it might be easier to believe that if I didn't see countless news reports every single day of the week regarding felons being arrested for possessing firearms, to say nothing of other things like drugs. In fact, I suspect most such arrests never really make the news unless the arrest included something else. Like, say, the illicit ingredient found in "bath salts."

Don’t look now but so-called democratic socialist U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has jumped to a slight lead in the Democratic primary in New Hampshire, edging out Pete Buttigieg 22 percent to 21 percent, according to the latest University of New Hampshire poll taken between July 15 and July 20. The shift in the poll, which had Ocasio-Cortez at 14 percent in October 2025 and 15 percent in February. In February, California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom was at 15 percent and former Vice President Kamala Harris was at 10 percent. In July, Newsom was down to 8 percent and Harris was down to 5 percent. Their loss was Ocasio-Cortez’ gain.

A historic church in Buffalo, New York, caught fire again this week, and it was determined to be the result of arson. St. Ann’s Catholic Church was built in 1886. It permanently closed down in August 2024 and was sold to an Islamic community for $250,000. There is now a push to turn the historic Catholic church into a mosque. On Tuesday, a second fire tore through the church in one week. Last weekend, firefighters battled a three-alarm fire at the church. On Wednesday, investigators determined the fire was the result of arson. WGRZ reported: