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A bipartisan group of lawmakers has been pushing the Pentagon for more transparency on UFOs.

George Santos, the former New York lawmaker who was sentenced to prison for fraud and identity theft, told Tucker Carlson he fears he will not make it out. “I don’t know that I’ll survive it. They’re putting me in a violent prison,” Santos said on the latest “Tucker Carlson Show” episode released Friday. “I’m not a streetwise guy; I don’t…

Jailed reality TV star Joe Exotic is once again asking President Trump for a pardon. Netflix’s “Tiger King” star, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado, called on Trump “to listen to the” voices of Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert (Colo.) and other public figures as well as “the millions of people around the world to make…

A French prosecutor has opened a criminal investigation into social platform X and its owner, Elon Musk, on accusations of “creating bias in France’s democratic debate.” The investigation comes after Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) company, xAi, deleted multiple posts from its chatbot Grok that included antisemitic comments. Among them, Grok called itself “MechaHitler” and insinuated that the Jewish people were controlling Hollywood. French National…

Texas Democratic Reps. Greg Casar and Jasmine Crockett have demanded details and documents from federal agencies tasked with tracking and responding to disasters following the devastating floods in Texas Hill Country, questioning whether recent Department of Government Efficiency cuts to the National Weather Service and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s cost control measures at DHS may have played a role.

Federal disaster assistance will now be available for eight additional Texas counties impacted by deadly flash floods, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said Friday. At least 160 people are still missing as a result of the floods, which followed torrential rain over the July 4 weekend. At least 120 people are dead in six counties. Five…

Decisive though the American response on Iran may have appeared, it cannot compare with the bombing needed to wipe out North Korea’s nuclear facilities.

The White House mocked Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) in a social media post Friday, after the lawmaker criticized a federal immigration raid on a large cannabis farm in Southern California. The official White House account on social platform X posted a digitally altered photograph of Gomez crying and labeled him “cryin’ Jimmy.” “ICE: Raids marijuana…

Federal funding cuts have resulted in Knox County Schools losing 27.5 positions from its district office for the upcoming school year.

The uncertainty associated with tariffs and the trade war is weighing on households and businesses alike.