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By Leesa K. Donner Never underestimate the government’s ability to tax. New ideas pop up all the time, and most Americans just take them in stride. However, consumers should be aware that if something is popular or trending, it is ripe for legislators to tack on a tax, and that is precisely what’s happening as people continue to order more items for delivery to their homes or workplaces. Need something from the grocery store? InstaCart has got you covered. Got the munchies while watching all those burger ads during the ball game? Pick up your smartphone and open the DoorDash app – the industry leader, commanding 65% of the delivery marketplace. But don’t stop now. There’s also Uber Eats and Grubhub for dinner or that late-night snack. Delivery Economy Looks Yummy to Legislators Currently, Colorado and Minnesota have a delivery service tax. Still, other states, such as Rhode Island and Nebraska, are mulling it over, and New York has been toying with the idea for years. Mar...

A Russian air defense unit tested a helicopter-mounted heavy machine gun installed on a truck. The gun operator was thrown from his position, while a soldier standing nearby escaped a burst of gunfire by a split second. By Neta Bar In recent weeks, Russia has stepped up efforts to counter a wave of Ukrainian drone attacks striking deep inside Russian-occupied territory and disrupting Russian military logistics and supply lines to the Crimean Peninsula. As part of these efforts, the Russian military has formed "mobile fire units" tasked with intercepting medium-range Ukrainian drones before they strike moving targets such as trucks, tankers and military vehicles. 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞: A Russian military training exercise reportedly went awry after troops mounted a YakB-12.7 helicopter machine gun on a fixed stand, with the weapon appearing to spin out of control during the drill. #Russia #RussianArmy #MilitaryTraining #YakB127 pic.twitter.com/rwwpVsx9K0 —...

By Ward Clark It's about time. The House of Representatives is set now to try, once again, to get rid of a particular piece of timekeeping stupidity: The constant spring-ahead, fallback practice of Daylight-Saving Time (DST) and Standard Time. While I would have rather seen them try to make Standard permanent, it would be enough for them to just pick one and stay with it. In this bill, it seems they are going for permanent DST. Fine, fine. Just pick one . The House of Representatives is set to vote next week on a bill to make daylight saving time permanent, according to a notice posted Thursday. In May, the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 48-1 in favor of the Sunshine Protection Act. The Senate unanimously passed the measure in March 2022, but the House never took up the measure in the face of opposition. The proposal the House will consider next week would allow states to opt out. Daylight saving time — putting the clocks ⁠forward one hour every summer — has been in ...

By Matt Margolis California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) wants you to believe he's the victim. Last month, when Newsom announced that the U.S. Department of Justice had him and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, under criminal investigation, he insisted it was lawfare and that President Donald Trump was just going after him because he’s likely to run for president in 2028. And he’s really trying to play the victim here. He told reporters that "federal agents have knocked on the doors of family, friends, and former employees, not because they found a crime, because they're simply trying to find one." He claimed agents were "demanding records" and "abusing the grand jury process." He did not name a single person involved or specify what records agents actually wanted. Poor baby. What he doesn’t want people to know is that the investigations originated in Sacramento and began during the Biden administration, with at least one thread reaching into J...

By Gayle Trotter Monday morning, before most Americans had finished their breakfast, a Chinese nuclear submarine surfaced in the Pacific and fired a ballistic missile carrying a dummy warhead. This was Beijing's first test of its kind since 2024. Japan scrambled to track falling debris. Australia and New Zealand issued formal protests. This was a message, sent deliberately, to an American public still debating whether the China threat is real. It is real. And it didn't start Monday. Days earlier, the Pentagon's annual report on the People's Liberation Army landed with a warning too many in Washington will ignore: Beijing is on pace to field nine aircraft carriers by 2035, its nuclear arsenal is projected to blow past 1,000 warheads by 2030, and Xi Jinping has directed his military to be ready to seize Taiwan by 2027. The report also detailed something Americans should find chilling closer to home — the Volt Typhoon cyber intrusions that burrowed into U.S. critical...

By Shahriq Khan When I was Muslim, I never noticed what the Quran doesn’t have. Dates. Places. Names you can check. Read the Quran’s stories: no chronology, almost no geography, kings called only “Pharaoh,” events floating in no particular year.  Where did the story happen? When? Under whom? The text doesn’t say. You can’t check it… which conveniently means you can’t crosscheck it. Now read the opening of Luke 3: “In the FIFTEENTH YEAR of the reign of TIBERIUS CAESAR — PONTIUS PILATE being governor of JUDEA, HEROD being tetrarch of GALILEE, his brother PHILIP tetrarch of ITUREA and TRACHONITIS, and LYSANIAS tetrarch of ABILENE, during the high priesthood of ANNAS and CAIAPHAS…” SEVEN historical anchors in one sentence.  An emperor, a governor, three rulers with their exact territories, two high priests. And people HAVE checked — for centuries, often trying to break it. Skeptics mocked Luke’s “Lysanias of Abilene” as an error…  UNTIL an inscription nami...

By David Spector Lefty California Rep. Ro Khanna callously ignored an invitation to meet former Israeli hostages and survivors of the horrific Hamas Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attack during a visit to the Holy Land this week, a source familiar with the planning told The Post. Staff for Khanna (D-Calif.) first got in touch with the Israeli Embassy July 2, and claimed that it was a private trip, and that he wouldn’t be meeting with Israeli or Palestinian politicians, according to the source. Khanna blew off Israel’s attempts to set up a meeting with him and Israeli hostages, a source claimed. REUTERS On Monday, the Israelis offered a meeting with Oct. 7 survivors and former hostages to Khanna’s team, but they blew them off, the source said. The Israelis followed up the next day and Khanna’s team never got back to them, the source said. “Congressman Khanna didn’t come to understand the situation — he came looking for a headline. Israel went out of its way to provide Congr...

Graham had just returned from Kyiv, Ukraine, where he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. By Scott Wong and Frank Thorp V WASHINGTON — Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who was elected to the Senate in 2003 and was a close political ally of President Donald Trump, has died, his office confirmed early Sunday. He was 71. Graham died Saturday night “from a brief and sudden illness,” his office said in a statement. “Senator Graham’s family appreciates prayers at this time and asks for privacy during this incredibly difficult period,” the statement continued. Graham was chairman of the Senate Budget Committee and was seeking a fifth six-year Senate term in November. He was one of the most well-known members of the chamber and a key voice within the party on defense and international affairs. Emergency personnel responded to a call for “cardiac arrest” at Graham’s Capitol Hill home on Saturday night, according to police scanner audio obtained by NBC News. Photographs revie...

By Brittany Miller U.S. officials are waiting to see how Iran responds following two nights of American airstrikes, with U.S. forces remaining in the region despite no additional strikes overnight, Fox News' Lucas Tomlinson reported Saturday. Tomlinson reported that U.S. forces were prepared to carry out a third consecutive night of strikes before officials paused to assess Tehran's next move. The U.S. Navy continues to maintain two aircraft carrier strike groups in the region, including the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been deployed for more than 200 days without a port call. Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces said Saturday it thwarted an alleged Hezbollah plot in southern Lebanon after troops spotted militants moving anti-tank missiles and drones into a building inside the buffer zone. The IDF said it tracked the alleged Hezbollah operatives until they entered the structure before carrying out an airstrike. According to the Israeli military, secondar...

By Ward Clark At some point, in some matters, it's tempting to say, "called it." This is one of those times - possibly. Some new satellite photos, released on Saturday, appear to show rebuilding efforts underway in the Iranian nuclear facilities destroyed in 2025's Operation Midnight Hammer. Now it looks like a lot of activity is going on at those sites .  Alarming new satellite images show signs Iran may be trying to rebuild suspected nuclear facilities https://t.co/vOQnoBKvJD pic.twitter.com/L5b86MAQrW — New York Post (@nypost) July 11, 2026 The New York Post, on its main page, has more . Alarming new satellite images show signs that the Iranian regime appears to be rebuilding its suspected nuclear facilities at Pickaxe Mountain and Parchin. Footage of both areas – which sustained extensive damage during US and Israeli-led bombing campaigns that began in late February – reveal “major signs” of activity, according to CNN , which obtained images from private f...

By The Post Millennial  The lieutenant governor of Indiana has called for the banning of public calls to prayer that originate from Muslim mosques five times a day. In some instances, mosques will use loudspeakers to publicly announce the call to prayer for participants. Indiana Lt. Governor Micah Beckwith said that Muslims should be banned from having the public calls to prayer while he was speaking to Daniel Horowitz on the commentator's podcast, Conservative Review. He said, "We should ban the call to prayer, public calls to prayer." The term for the call to prayer is "Adhan" which is the public announcement for Muslims to pray five times during the day. "If you're a mosque and you want to have a loudspeaker and you want to start pumping these out five times a day locally, the state can say, 'You're not going to do that,'" he added. "We're not allowing that. We're not going to let you put these words of death and des...

DOJ tells Fox News Digital that reporters are not targets but vows to pursue officials who leaked classified information about Trump's new jet By Julia Bonavita The Trump administration has subpoenaed several journalists at the New York Times following their report surrounding security concerns over the president’s new Air Force One aircraft, the paper announced. The legal action comes after the new jet, a newly retrofitted Boeing 747-8 gifted to President Donald Trump from Qatar, took its inaugural flight earlier this month. The subpoenas were issued to the journalists — identified as Eric Lipton, Julian E. Barnes, Tyler Pager and Eric Schmitt — on Friday and seek to require those served to testify before a grand jury in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday, the paper said. The Times added that federal agents delivered some of the subpoenas directly to the reporters’ homes. "The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters shou...