Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says that Bill Gates had a “private editor” who worked at the National Institutes of Health.

At the same time, Paul released documents that point to Gates having the highest level of access at the Department of Energy as well as getting insider briefings from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

‘Is this coordinated in some way, or is Bill going rogue?’

Known as “Q” clearance, the DOE classification is the department’s rough equivalent to Top-Secret National Security Information clearance for access to Restricted Data, the DOE’s special category of classified information.

In a huge document dump as part of his ongoing investigation into the origins of COVID-19, Paul showed that Gates held the clearance for seven years, “including during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.”

The period spanned from June 11, 2014, to December 6, 2021; those dates were provided to Paul in a June 30 letter from the DOE.

Further documents revealed that Dr. Anthony Fauci served as Gates’ “private editor,” with Gates requesting Fauci’s feedback on a memo in April 2020. The memo was titled “Pandemic I: The First Modern Pandemic,” which “set out how Gates was thinking about the COVID pandemic.”

Gates later asked Fauci to edit his book “How to Prevent the Next Pandemic.”

Another item in the released files stated that DARPA had given the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation a private briefing on four military biological threat programs. This included a 90-minute session on programs like PREEMPT, which has a stated aim of “targeting viruses in animals before they emerge in humans.”

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Much of the revelations were in regard to the Gates Foundation (formerly the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) and its ties to the federal government.

“When the NIH director urgently asked what his agency’s ties to the Gates Foundation were, the answer came back that the foundation had been funding pieces of NIH,” the documents explained. An internal review at the NIH included that the foundation had “funded various components of NIH.”

Gates’ influence even led him to making suggestions to the president at the White House. In 2018, NIH Director Francis Collins reported that Gates met with President Trump in the Oval Office to discuss promoting a universal flu vaccine.

Collins allegedly asked, “Is this coordinated in some way, or is Bill going rogue?”

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As further evidence of the Gates Foundation being intertwined with federal agencies, Paul said at the end of July that Collins told Gates’ wife that much of his tenure had been spent bringing the NIH and the foundation closer together.

In October 2021, just after announcing his resignation, Collins wrote:

“It has been a privilege to work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation over these 12 years, and I am glad to have had the chance to bring our global health efforts even closer together than ever.”

Paul was clear, summarizing the relationship between Gates and the NIH as one that included “personal access” to the federal government.

“Bill Gates had a Q Clearance and a private editor at NIH. Across nearly 20 years, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation built a relationship with the federal government that ran on personal access as much as formal partnership.”

Editor’s note: This article has been corrected after publication to note that Gates met with President Trump, not President Biden, in 2018.

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Spain is offering the United States a warning we would be foolish to ignore.

For years, Democrats have pursued an immigration agenda built around weak enforcement, mass amnesty, and the surrender of national sovereignty to globalist priorities. Americans who want to see where that agenda can lead should look at Ceuta.

Codify secure borders now or prepare to watch the crisis return under the next Democratic administration.

In recent days, an estimated 60,000 migrants — many military-age men — attempted to overwhelm the small Spanish enclave on the Moroccan border. They arrived by land and sea, swamping local authorities and producing deadly chaos.

This was not an isolated event. It followed Spain’s moves toward amnesty for illegal immigrants, effectively signaling that unlawful entry might eventually be rewarded.

Spain’s Civil Guard described the border as totally collapsed. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez rushed to the enclave, denounced the surge as a violation of Spain’s territorial integrity, and deployed the military.

By then, however, the warning was unmistakable. Ceuta has a population of roughly 85,000. A migrant surge approaching three-quarters of that number threatened to overwhelm the enclave in a matter of days.

Americans should recognize the pattern because we recently endured our own version of it.

During the Biden-Harris administration, the United States suffered four years of relentless border disorder. Record numbers of illegal immigrants crossed the southern border while the administration expanded catch-and-release, abused immigration parole, and allowed migrants to exploit an asylum system never designed to handle claims on that scale.

The result was a border that functioned less as a boundary and more as a processing center for unlawful entry.

President Trump’s return to office and his decisive executive actions have restored deterrence and operational control. But executive actions are temporary. A future Democratic administration could reverse them as quickly as Biden reversed Trump’s first-term policies.

Conservatives rightly insist on “no amnesty.” Honesty, however, requires us to confront a harder truth: Unless Congress closes the loopholes embedded in current law, America remains one presidential election away from another invasion.

The vulnerabilities exploited during the Biden years remain.

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The Flores Settlement continues to encourage family units and unaccompanied minors to arrive at the border knowing that current law may lead to their release into the interior. The asylum system remains vulnerable to economic migrants who use dubious claims to gain admission. Mass parole authority and catch-and-release remain available to an administration determined to abuse them.

Presidential resolve is not enough. Congress must harden the law itself.

The House Freedom Caucus has used its leverage to advance the reforms necessary to do that. This summer, we secured a House Judiciary Committee markup for Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy’s Permanent Trump Secure Border Act, H.R. 9773.

The bill carries forward the strongest border-security provisions of H.R. 2, which passed the House in the 118th Congress with overwhelming Republican support. It offers Congress a vehicle to make Trump’s successful border policies permanent and protect Americans from the next open-borders administration.

Its provisions are serious and targeted.

The bill would reform asylum by barring claims from migrants who passed through safe third countries, raising the credible-fear standard to “more likely than not” and limiting asylum applications to ports of entry.

It would end the abuse of mass parole, require detention or prompt return when operational control cannot be maintained, and mandate safe-third-country agreements.

It would also close loopholes created by the Flores Settlement that encourage the release of families and minors, crack down on visa overstays, and expand the criminal bars to asylum eligibility.

These reforms directly address the gaps the Biden-Harris administration exploited.

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When Congress returns in September, Republican leaders must bring the Permanent Trump Secure Border Act to the floor immediately.

Partial measures will not suffice. Neither will another round of promises to address the border later. The left has not abandoned its vision of demographic transformation through unchecked migration. It is waiting for another opportunity to impose it.

Ceuta offers a preview of what can happen when government signals that borders are optional and unlawful entry may be rewarded.

America has restored order for now. The question is whether Congress will make that restoration durable.

The House Freedom Caucus has provided the blueprint. Republicans need to pass it.

Codify secure borders now — or prepare to watch the crisis return under the next Democratic administration. Our sovereignty, security, and rule of law depend on getting this right.

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Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah) is demanding more migrants.

A new bill from Curtis and Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), the State Sponsored Visa Pilot Program Act of 2026, would allow states to circumvent federal immigration law to import foreign workers. As an amendment to the Immigration and Nationality Act, the bill aims to allow migrants and their families to secure state-sponsored visas for three-year terms.

‘Hispanic businesses disproportionately operate in industries that heavily rely on immigrant labor.’

Utah wanted to implement a similar state-level migrant worker visa policy in 2011, when President Barack Obama was still in his first term. The state even sought “waivers” from the federal government to do so, but federal approval never materialized.

“Utah employers tell me time and again how difficult it’s become to find enough workers to meet growing demands,” Curtis said in a Monday X post. “Our bill allows states to sponsor visas tailored to their unique workforce needs, while ensuring rigorous federal vetting and accountability.”

Although the Department of Homeland Security would retain final authority to approve each state’s visa criteria and program, the bill also authorizes interstate compacts allowing migrant workers to move freely among participating states.

States would initially receive 5,000 visas per fiscal year, according to the bill. Another 245,000 visas plus 5,000 visas for every nonparticipating state and unused or revoked visas from previous years would also be pooled together and distributed to participating states.

The bill characterizes the visa program as “nonimmigrant,” but there are no provisions prohibiting visa-holders from applying for citizenship once in the country.

Kelly and the DHS did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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The bill has been endorsed by multiple Hispanic organizations, including UnidosUS, the U.S. Hispanic Business Council, and the Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

“Hispanic-owned small businesses understand firsthand both the economic contributions of immigrant workers and the need for a lawful, secure, and accountable process,” U.S. HBC President Javier Palomarez said in his endorsement.

When Blaze News asked whether the bill was an ethnic carveout, a U.S. HBC spokesperson replied, “It is not that. This is an endorsement of a potential solution to the very real issue of worker shortages across major industries, totaling millions of unfilled jobs.”

“Hispanic businesses disproportionately operate in industries that heavily rely on immigrant labor like agriculture (70% immigrant workforce), hospitality/hotels/lodging (31%), construction (30%), professional services (23%), food services (22%), and more,” according to the spokesperson. “This issue is impacting all businesses, but given our presence in these industries, it affects these business owners more significantly.”

UnidosUS and the AHCCC did not respond to requests for comment.

Multiple endorsers of the bill donate to or support almost exclusively Democrats. One-hundred percent of Third Way’s donations went to Democrats in 2024, according to Open Secrets. UnidosUS has bankrolled exclusively Democrat campaigns since 2016 and has overwhelmingly supported them over Republicans since 1992.

UnidosUS was previously known as the National Council of La Raza. La Raza means “the race” in English.

In 2022, then-Rep. Curtis (R-Utah) co-sponsored the DIGNIDAD Act with Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.), which would have legalized some illegal aliens after background checks and other requirements were satisfied.

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Thanks to some new rules, Jerry Jones may finally be open to selling.

Jones, who purchased the Dallas Cowboys in 1989, opened up recently about being willing to talk about changes in ownership, but he named only one person who he is open to having the conversation with.

‘We wouldn’t rule it out.’

Jones has been at the head of the table for about 37 years, winning three Super Bowls in the first half of the 1990s. However, after those near immediate successes, the trophy case has remained empty for the last three decades.

Ownership has always stayed within the family, but changes made by the NFL has Jones finally examining the possibilities. Since 2024, the NFL has allowed teams to sell upwards of 10% of ownership stakes to private equity funds.

To that end, Jones told the Dallas Morning News that even though his family isn’t necessarily looking to sell any equity, he would be open to discussing the idea with one man: billionaire Mark Cuban.

“That’s exactly why if you’re me, you would be open to that … because of the man,” Jones said. “I have all the respect in the world for him, and I know what he did for the Mavericks and what he’s done for basketball.”

Jones continued, saying that in addition to financial backing, Cuban is the type of person you want on your side.

“You want to associate with the highest quality of [a person] who loves the game and then also at the same time wants to do something about it. Mark leads the way in that.”

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Cuban told the Dallas Morning News in response, “I’m sure our Harbinger fund would be open to it.”

Cuban helped create Harbinger Sports Partners in 2025 and recently raised $450 million specifically for investments in “mature” and “profitable” U.S. sports franchises, Yahoo reported.

The revelation comes just days after Jones’ son Stephen — co-owner, executive vice president, and CEO of the Cowboys — gave similar sentiments during a radio interview.

“We wouldn’t rule it out,” Stephen Jones told 105.3 The Fan. “But we’d also be very particular in who we would bring in as a partner in terms of that. But yes, it was designed when [the NFL] passed that rule that you could have private equity involved in the NFL and you could have minority partners, you know. It made sense for a lot of different reasons, and every owner who chooses to go that path can speak for themselves in terms of why they’re doing it. But it does, I think, it’s a great tool.”

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The NFL’s ownership rules dictate that while teams can sell stakes to multiple funds that total up to 10%, each stake must be for at least 3%.

At the same time, one fund can hold stakes in up to six teams at once but must disclose these facts.

Jones further commented that the NFL can only be at its full potential “if it attracts capital,” and the league is making that possible.

“It’s a very big positive,” Jones reiterated. “It’s very positive for the quality of the games where you call it positive for our fans. And we’ll just continue to improve what the NFL has been.”

The Cowboys are worth $13 billion, according to Forbes. A 10% stake would equate to $1.3 billion.

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Every generation seems convinced it is living through America’s darkest hour.

At the moment, America is facing political tribalism dividing families, mounting debt, and endless wars — but despite it all, Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck has a message of hope for Americans.

Glenn points out that there’s a “faction in this country” that wants to blow up the United States and “dismantle the Constitution,” that we have overwhelming debt, we’re at war with a country that would “rather die than surrender,” and families have broken apart.

“I mean this is like the worst war we’ve ever fought in some ways,” he says, adding, “The Civil War.”

“The one where the line ran straight down the dinner table. The economy grinds on, the government doesn’t listen,” he continues, noting that “our country has gone godless” and “insane.”

But the good news is there’s good news.

“I’ve been reading history, the letters, the real thing, the words these people wrote in their own hand while the fires were still burning,” Glenn says.

“And I have to tell you, the more I read, the more I keep landing on one sentence,” he continues.

That sentence is, “We have been here before.”

“The exact shape of the things that are scaring us the most already have a date on it,” Glenn says, calling history a “map.”

“It tells you what worked. Patience over panic. Voting over getting into the streets and revolution, the ballot over the barricade, recovering our true sight, remembering what the thing was built to do instead of throwing it all out,” he explains.

“Every time we’ve stood where we’re standing now, the way out was never the loud thing. It was people who knew their own history well enough to stop being afraid of doing the quiet, stubborn, un-newsworthy work of governing themselves,” he continues, adding, “That’s it.”

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Democratic voters in Michigan have spoken — but will they have buyer’s remorse come November?

Though the Michigan primary was held on Tuesday, Wednesday morning rolled around before some outlets pronounced 41-year-old Abdul El-Sayed the winner of the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate. Haley Stevens, the candidate preferred by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other establishment Democrats, finished a close second.

A Rogers win would therefore be a Republican pickup and go a long way to help the GOP maintain control of the Senate.

The RealClearPolling average showed El-Sayed with a commanding lead of more than 10 points over Stevens heading into the primary, but with 98.6% of expected votes counted, El-Sayed had just a one-point margin of victory, 48.5% to 47.5%, NBC News reported.

Mike Rogers, 63, won the Republican nomination after running unopposed.

Speaking to supporters early Wednesday, El-Sayed invoked his Muslim religion to express confidence that he would prevail. According to El-Sayed, doubters might ask, “If and when we win this race, how are you going to beat Mike Rogers and their money?”

He continued: “I want you to remind them that if we come through this, when we come through this — inshallah — that we’ll have taken $70 million on the chin and kept fighting back.”

Inshallah is an Arabic word that means “God willing,” and Muslims use it so frequently that it has even entered modern English parlance.

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The tight primary indicates that many Michigan Democrats have misgivings about El-Sayed, and indeed, he is no stranger to controversy. El-Sayed:

has been endorsed by far-left radicals like Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).campaigned with America-hater Hasan Piker, who once said, “America deserved 9/11.”bills himself as a medical “doctor” even though he reportedly has never treated a patient, isn’t licensed in Michigan, and has never passed any board exams.employed a campaign staffer earlier this year who is currently under federal indictment in connection with anti-Semitic attacks.expressed sympathy for a “Hezbollah-inspired” terrorist who tried to kill Jewish schoolchildren in Michigan on March 13 over Israeli strikes in Iran.promised during a gubernatorial campaign against Whitmer in 2018 to allow illegal aliens to obtain a Michigan driver’s license.

Abdul El-Sayed is doubling down on the same failed, feckless far-left agenda that has held Michigan back. Let’s also not forget that Abdul El-Sayed is a terrorist sympathizer who is hell-bent on releasing violent criminals from prisons and throwing open our borders so criminal illegal aliens can flock to Michigan neighborhoods.

This November, Michiganders will soundly reject radical, Marxist policies and elect Mike Rogers, who will put working families first and protect our freedoms.

But it won’t be easy for Rogers. He not only lost narrowly to Democrat Elissa Slotkin in the 2024 Senate race, but Michigan, which went to Donald Trump in 2016 and 2024, has not elected a Republican U.S. senator in over 30 years.

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America recently turned 250, an impressive achievement for a country that began with an argument over taxes and quickly escalated to gunfire. Americans have been arguing ever since. The more interesting question today isn’t whether they’ll continue, but which kinds of disagreement a political coalition can actually survive.

A recent analysis by political scientists Jeremy Pope and Michael Barber at Brigham Young University offers a revealing answer. Using data from the Cooperative Election Study, they examined where Republican and Democrat voters agree with one another — and where the coalitions begin to fracture.

One disagreement is ultimately about numbers. The other concerns who people are, what they believe, and what they owe to one another.

Republicans hold together remarkably well on culture. Whether a GOP voter has a doctorate or left school at 16, Republicans tend to land in roughly the same place on immigration, voter ID, and what children should — and shouldn’t — be taught in schools. Where they bicker is on old-school economic questions: taxes, tariffs, government spending, and the size of the federal beast. Those gaps are real, but they are also the kind of fiscal scuffles political movements have been negotiating for generations.

Democrats are closer to the inverse. They display considerably more agreement on economic questions, including federal spending on health care and education. But the moment the conversation pivots to race and identity, the coalition begins to fracture. Most interestingly, Pope and Barber found that this split runs heavily along racial and educational lines. Black Democrats are often considerably more moderate than white, college-educated Democrats on issues including voter ID, policing, and regulation of speech online.

That isn’t a minor disagreement. It exposes a potentially serious structural weakness inside the Democrat coalition.

Deal-breakers

The reason is cultural long before it is political. A coalition divided over the marginal tax rate can cut a deal. One faction wants 25%, another wants 30%, and eventually some exhausted politician emerges from a conference room with 27.5% and declares victory. Divide that same coalition over identity, however, and there is much less obvious room for compromise. One disagreement is ultimately about numbers. The other concerns who people are, what they believe, and what they owe to one another.

That helps explain why cultural disputes on the left can become so ferocious. Economic disagreement usually has a natural settlement point. Identity has no equivalent dial. Nobody offers half an identity and calls it a successful compromise. When progressive activists define what constitutes racial justice and significant numbers of black voters disagree, the resulting tension is not merely a disagreement over policy. It raises the uncomfortable question of who actually gets to speak for whom.

The BYU data complicates one of the most persistent assumptions in progressive politics: that minority voters naturally share the cultural politics of the highly educated activist left. Black Democrats are not about to start signing up en masse for the Heritage Foundation, but neither do their views reliably resemble those of white progressives who often claim to speak on behalf of marginalized groups. That tension has no easy fix because it runs directly through the question of coalition ownership.

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Dialing it down

Republicans face a different problem. Their voters show greater cohesion on many cultural questions while divisions emerge more clearly over economics. The MAGA populist who wants tariffs and the traditional free-marketeer who hates them may spend years trying to destroy each other’s trade policy, but tariffs can ultimately rise or fall.

Money is inherently negotiable. Tax rates are dials. Spending levels are dials. A faction can lose a budget fight and remain part of the coalition.

None of this means the Republican coalition is indestructible or that cultural agreement automatically translates into electoral success. The GOP has plenty of internal battles over foreign policy, entitlement spending, trade, abortion, and the proper role of government. Nor does the data establish that Democrats are destined to fracture. Political parties routinely absorb contradictions that look impossible from the outside.

Disagreeing to agree

But Pope’s and Barber’s findings suggest something important about the kinds of contradictions each side is being asked to absorb.

And here the difference matters beyond party politics. Of these two styles of disagreement, one offers a more hopeful model for the future of the country.

Republicans may fight bitterly over tariffs, taxes, spending, and the size of government. But those arguments generally take place within a broader cultural consensus. Money is negotiable. A faction can lose a budget fight and still belong to the coalition.

The Democrat divide described by Pope and Barber is harder to resolve because it reaches into identity itself. When members of a coalition disagree over race, speech, policing, and who has the authority to speak for whom, there is no obvious number to split down the middle.The argument becomes not merely what should we do? but who are we?

Common vision

A republic desperately needs citizens who share a common vision of the country while tolerating dissent within their own ranks. Right now, only one side fits that description, however imperfectly. Beneath the shifting GOP platform are tens of millions of Americans who proudly identify as conservative. They might argue until they’re red in the face about the federal deficit, but they agree on the baseline definition of the nation.

That agreement is everything. A country can actually build a future on shared belonging and open arguments about budgets. It cannot build one on a permanent, paranoid quarrel over who is allowed to speak and who must stay quiet. That fight won’t end, because by its very nature, it cannot ever be satisfied.

America has survived 250 years not because Americans agreed, but because for most of that history they possessed enough agreement about basic truths to fight over everything else.

If America is to make it another two and a half centuries, it will not be by inventing new divisions, but by rediscovering the unity that made this great experiment possible in the first place.

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Leftists have for years publicly fantasized about the demise of President Donald Trump. Some radicals have attempted to make these murderous dreams a reality — and on at least three occasions came awfully close to succeeding.

Investigators are working to determine whether the individual caught allegedly casing the security at a site the president was due to visit is the latest participant in this dark trend.

‘There is no room for error, particularly in light of previous attempts on President Trump’s life.’

Days ahead of the president’s Tuesday visit to the Trump National Golf Course, Los Angeles, in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, plainclothes federal agents spotted a 38-year-old Hispanic man on the property who struck them as suspicious.

According to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, the suspect was seen walking around the golf course grounds taking pictures and videos and “appearing to monitor security-planning activities.”

Deputies with the LASD Lomita Station approached the individual, identified as Jeanine John Taele, and — having determined he was the subject of a robbery investigation by the El Segundo Police Department — detained him and searched his pickup truck.

Deputies allegedly found a 16-round magazine containing hollow-point ammunition in Taele’s pocket. Inside the suspect’s vehicle, they reportedly recovered a loaded 9mm pistol with a round chambered along with a second loaded magazine containing hollow-point ammunition. The Justice Department claimed that a badge that read “security protection agent” was also found in the truck.

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Upon the discovery of the weapon and ammunition, deputies formally arrested Taele for carrying a concealed firearm and possession of armor-piercing/prohibited ammunition.

After obtaining a warrant, law enforcement searched Taele’s residence in Downey, California, allegedly recovering: “multiple notebooks containing concerning statements”; a pair of radio signal devices; bulk pistol and rifle ammunition along with high-capacity magazines; body armor; “an illegally modified AR platform rifle”; and a 1911 .45 caliber pistol.

Taele is currently being held at Twin Towers Correctional Facility. Although his bail is set at $250,000, the FBI has filed a federal hold.

The Justice Department announced late on Tuesday that Taele has also been slapped with a federal charge — possession of an unregistered short-barreled rifle, a felony that could potentially land him in a federal prison for a decade.

“While we are still investigating the motives of this individual, we are thankful he was apprehended before the president’s visit,” said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli. “Federal and local law enforcement stepped in early and prevented what could have been a dangerous situation from occurring. This investigation remains ongoing.”

“Mr. Taele’s troubling behavior at the president’s public golf course merely days before the president was expected to arrive raised serious red flags for law enforcement and led to the discovery of an unregistered firearm, a loaded weapon, as well as additional items of concern,” Patrick Grandy, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office, said in a statement. “There is no room for error, particularly in light of previous attempts on President Trump’s life.”

At a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024, Trump was hit in the ear by one of eight bullets fired by Thomas Matthew Crooks. The failed assassination attempt claimed the life of heroic former fire chief Corey Comperatore and severely injured David Dutch and James Copenhaver, who were seated behind the president.

Nine weeks after the Butler shooting, Ryan Routh — a 60-year-old North Carolina native apparently radicalized in recent years with the help of Democrats’ incendiary rhetoric — attempted to assassinate the president at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.

On April 25, 2026, 31-year-old Cole Allen allegedly opened fire at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, where the president was in attendance. Allen’s alleged weapons of choice for the attempt were a 12-gauge pump-action shotgun and a 1911 .38 caliber pistol.

Trump was also among the names floated in the alleged assassination plot targeting the UFC Freedom 250 event on the White House South Lawn in June. According to the Department of Homeland Security, the “RINGLEADER” of the alleged plot was Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, an illegal alien from Mexico.

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Golden, Colorado, city officials apologized profusely for the actions of a since-terminated employee of the fire department that hung a noose on a doll depicting rap mogul Snoop Dogg.

The “Snoop on a Stoop” doll, meant to parody the popular “Elf on the Shelf” Christmas decoration, had a noose around its neck and was found in a stairwell at the fire department in March.

‘The display evoked a horrific history of racial terror and violence.’

A member of the city’s Race, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Task Force criticized the mayor for not notifying the group about the racist doll incident until months later.

“We are very concerned at what we’ve heard about the facts, including the written statement read by the mayor that this was not handled at the time of the incident when the figurine was found with a noose around its neck back in March,” REDI member Holly Olivarez said.

“I call it a noose because of what it represents,” she added. “A black man with a noose around his neck in the United States of America is very apparently making a statement.”

A spokesperson for the city of Golden told KMGH-TV that the employee had been terminated, but the spokesperson could not offer more details on the basis that it was a personnel matter.

Mayor Laura Weinberg said the doll was immediately removed after it was found in the stairwell.

“The doll should never have been brought into any city facility, and the display evoked a horrific history of racial terror and violence,” she said in a prepared statement on July 28 at a Golden City Council meeting.

KMGH cited an email from City Manager Scott Vargo indicating that an internal investigation had been ordered, disciplinary action was taken, and diversity, equity, and inclusion training was being developed for the Golden Fire Department.

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Weinberg also apologized to the black community.

“We recognize this was not simply an inappropriate workplace incident,” she said. “It was an act with deeply painful historical meaning. It can undoubtedly cause fear, anger, grief, and a profound loss of trust. No one should ever question whether they are respected, valued, or safe in a city workplace or while receiving services from the City of Golden.”

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In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. turned the tables on his interviewer when she spoke over him and repeated empty COVID-era platitudes.

“It was just beautiful,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says.

“She brought on RFK to try and lecture him about measles and blame him for the measles outbreak in America. But the conversation quickly turned to the handling of the COVID pandemic and how much she helped contribute to the misinformation during that time,” she adds.

In the interview, Bash began by asking how RFK Jr. would prepare for the next pandemic, claiming that experts think it will happen in the next 10 years.

“Yeah, I mean, I think we did virtually everything wrong the last time,” RFK Jr. responded, pointing out that there were doctors who saw no COVID deaths by prescribing therapeutics. Instead, the country locked down and pushed a vaccine on the population.

RFK Jr. went on to say it’s also important that we protect our constitutional rights, which were “completely dismantled” during COVID.

“We began censoring people in violation,” he said.

After interrupting him several times, Bash said, “I really want to move on.”

“You were part of the problem,” RFK Jr. said.

Bash then claimed that there is “data upon data upon data” that the “COVID vaccine prevented deaths,” but she could not produce a study that proved that the vaccine did more good than harm to children.

“I can tell you that when it comes to the vaccine, there have been studies that show that because of vaccine disinformation, there could have been 100 to 200,000 lives in the U.S. saved but because people didn’t get the vaccine,” Bash said, before RFK Jr. interrupted.

“You are saying nonsense,” RFK Jr. responded.

When Bash claimed that it was a “scary time” and mistakes were made, RFK Jr. fired back that she was scaring people.

“That was the job of CNN,” he said.

“Recall that she was trying to suck up to Anthony Fauci during the pandemic. Now, how do we know this? Well, his homosexual diary entries, of course,” Gonzales explains.

And sure enough, one diary entry from April 17, 2021, reads: “Dana Bash sent me a text: ‘I just watched the whole Jordan thing. Again, you’re a better man than I. As our friend Wolf Blitzer said to me yesterday — no one would have blamed you if you said simply, ‘Mr. Jordan, go f**k yourself.’”

Another from April 18, 2021, reads: “I received a text from Dana Bash pointing out that Vanity Fair recently had a headline that said: ‘Jim Jordan trips over his own asshole trying to debate Anthony Fauci.’”

“Like, oh, OK. Yeah. No, you didn’t have any bias, Dana,” Gonzales mocks, repeating, “You didn’t have any bias.”

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