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By Matt Margolis Tulsi Gabbard, on her final day as Director of National Intelligence, released a batch of never-before-seen communications and documents that tie Dr. Anthony Fauci directly to funding for dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the same lab now widely believed to be the source of COVID-19. The release lands as part of President Trump's push for what Gabbard calls a "maximum transparency mandate," and it paints a picture of a bureaucrat who didn't just fund risky research with your tax dollars; he allegedly worked the intelligence community like a puppet to cover up his role in it. "Before the COVID pandemic, Dr. Fauci, as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, provided millions in U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain of function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology," Gabbard said in a video posted to X, "work which is now widely viewed as...

By Ward Clark Developments are still coming hot and heavy in the Middle East, and the new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the United States and Iran is anything but certain. For a while, it looked like the whole deal might come apart; a key tenet of the MOU wasn't just a ceasefire between the United States and Iran, but also between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The initial problem appears to be that nobody thought to inform Hezbollah of the deal. From @KellieMeyerNews on VP trip to Switzerland being canceled: “As the Vice President said at his press conference, the plans for the upcoming technical talks have not been finalized, and the U.S. delegation has been prepared to depart at the first available opportunity. But… — Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) June 19, 2026 The post reads: From @KellieMeyerNews on VP trip to Switzerland being canceled:   “As the Vice President said at his press conference, the plans for the upcoming technical talks have not been finaliz...

By Ben Smith In January 1984, Robert Wharton and an accomplice forced their way into a Philadelphia home at knifepoint, then spent hours torturing, strangling, and drowning Bradley and Ferne Hart. On the way out, they turned off the heat. The couple's seven-month-old daughter was left alone in the dead of winter. She was found three days later, dehydrated and barely breathing. Wharton confessed. A jury sentenced him to death.  Forty years later, a top official in the Philadelphia District Attorney's office tried to get him off death row and lied to a federal judge to do it. Now she's paying for it. Nancy Winkelman, former supervisor of Soros-backed DA Larry Krasner's Law Division, has been suspended from federal court for three years. A disciplinary panel found she knowingly misled a federal judge and looked the other way while a subordinate did the same. Prosecutors in Krasner's office moved to vacate Wharton's death sentence, claiming his trial lawyer fai...

THEY SPENT ALMOST A BILLION DOLLARS ON THIS? The Obama Presidential Center opens to the public for the first time today to concide with Juneteenth. (Getty) By Ryan Zickgraf The early reviews of the Barack Obama Presidential Center are in, and they’re deservedly brutal. The ex-president’s monument, opening on Chicago’s Southside this Juneteenth, has been compared to the Death Star, a Klingon prison, a self-cleaning cat litter box, or, as implied by President Trump in a Truth Social post, a giant garbage can. Yet, what it resembles most, I’d argue, is a mausoleum, the Obamausoleum, if you will. The tower is clad in New Hampshire granite, rises in a faceted, asymmetrical mass with almost no windows, and looms over a grassy public park. It even has words carved near the top, giving the whole thing the unmistakable air of the world’s largest headstone. But what it marks — unintentionally — is the final resting place of Obamaism: a politics after politics, a monument to the fantasy ...

By Jennifer Oliver O'Connell Days after the June 2 California primary election, it was announced that a large mail-in ballot dump from Los Angeles Skid Row favored District 4 Democratic Socialist City Councilwoman and mayoral candidate Nithya Raman. It was not long before Raman suddenly pulled ahead and overtook viral candidate Spencer Pratt for the Top 2 slot, edging him into third place and out of the running.  The legacy media did what they do: parrot and cover up. However, the L.A. voters who supported Pratt (and some who did not) clamored for a real investigation into this suspicious and mathematically impossible occurrence. As @BoredElonMusk & the data show, Raman’s late mail in ballot surge was fueled in large part by ballots from Skid Row. Tens of thousands of homeless whose ballots are sent to central addresses (not the sidewalk) & can be filled out/returned by someone else. Suspicious… https://t.co/Ch3yVr26WZ pic.twitter.com/lnHXDnQiFq — Houman David Hemmat...

By JOHN NOLTE  Left-wing billionaire and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos reportedly admitted that his purchase of the far-left Washington Post was the worst investment he ever made and that the disgraced newspaper is staffed with “terrible” people. You know, I’m no billionaire. Hell, I’m barely a thousandaire, but I could have told him 1) it was a terrible investment and 2) that the people at the Post are some of the most amoral and insufferable in the world. Bezos is obviously a smart guy, but when you spend decades, as he has, in a rarefied and insular bubble populated by suck-ups, yes men, and people who agree on everything, you can become a real dumbass. Buying the Post was the act of a dumbass. What did he expect — that the most spoiled, immature, unprofessional, and entitled class this planet has ever seen would accept … change? Of course not. To accept change is to accept that something is wrong, and the toxic narcissists who make up the corporate media can never admit...

By JOHN NOLTE  In the left’s ongoing crusade to separate vulnerable children from the influence of their parents, Democrats in the Failed State of California are pushing a bill that would allow minor children to divorce their parents. As you read this, keep in mind that this has nothing to do with protecting children. Quite the opposite, in fact. This is all about removing children from the protection of their families so they can be corrupted and exploited. “The bill [ AB 1967 ] allows any minor residing in any residential facility to file a legal application against their parents, without cause or evidence of harm,” reports the Post Millennial. “Residential facilities include drug rehabilitation programs, boarding schools, wilderness therapy programs, faith-based residential programs, and runaway shelters.” You think that sounds bad? Here’s the devil in those details… “The child can petition the court to strip the parents of custodial authority and substitute county chil...

By Ward Clark On Thursday, Vice President JD Vance took to the podium at the White House press briefing, something he hasn't often done; but the vice president had some specifics to lay down for the assembled media on Iran and the new Iran deal's effect on energy prices, and lay them down he did. First, on the opening of the Strait of Hormuz and the effect on gasoline prices : . @VP : "Last night, 12.5M barrels of oil went through the Strait of Hormuz. That is a high since the beginning of the conflict. Oil prices are down nearly at their level from the pre-war [level]. Gas prices dropped below $4/gallon today for the first time since the conflict, and… pic.twitter.com/3TRvwCBVRM — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 18, 2026 The vice president said: First of all, I think the president's peace plan in Iran is already bearing real fruits for the American people. Last night, 12.5 million barrels of oil went through the Straits of Hormuz. That is a high since ...

By Cam Edwards The Supreme Court's decision in U.S. v. Hemani was the first opinion released on Thursday morning, and the Court essentially delivered a unanimous victory for Ali Danial Hemani, who was charged with possessing a firearm as an unlawful user of drugs.  The majority opinion, authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, found that the government failed to justify Section 922(g)(3) as it applies to Mr. Hemani, with the DOJ's case suffering several major defects.  The government construes §922(g)(3) to automatically ban an individual from possessing a gun from the moment he becomes an unlawful user of any controlled substance and remains in effect until he ceases being one, regardless of what controlled substance an individual uses, in what amounts, whether his drug use has ever made him a danger to himself or others, why he keeps a gun, or how safely he does so. The government analogizes its construction of §922(g)(3) to what it calls “habitual drunkard” laws, which it ...

By Shawn Fleetwood Rogue judges are pushing America toward a constitutional crisis by forgoing their sworn duty to apply the law in an objective manner. There are a lot of things that would surprise the Founding Fathers about modern-day America. But perhaps among the top ticket items would be how the country’s “ least dangerous ” branch has usurped the constitutionally guaranteed powers of the other two. That’s the reality currently unfolding throughout the federal judiciary, where a significant number of “judges” have flipped separation of powers on its head. While supposed to perform in an objective manner, these rogue actors have greenlit leftists’ lawfare against the Trump administration and Republicans by issuing overreaching orders — many of which have little basis in the Constitution or law. A decision by Massachusetts District Judge Angel Kelley is a perfect example of this phenomenon at play. Last Friday, the Biden appointee ordered the administration to reinstall natio...