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Shooter Confesses to Highland Park Massacre, Admits to Second Target in Madison, Wisconsin
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ABC: The 21-year-old man accused of opening fire at a suburban Chicago Fourth of July parade, killing seven people and injuring dozens of others, plotted another attack in Madison, Wisconsin, authorities said Wednesday. After fleeing the scene of the parade, Robert “Bobby” Crimo III “was driving around, saw a celebration in Madison,” and “contemplated another attack,” with “60 rounds on his body at that point,” authorities said at a news conference Wednesday. But he “had not done enough planning” and decided not to do it, authorities said. After returning from Wisconsin, Crimo was apprehended at a traffic stop in Lake Forrest, Illinois, Monday evening ( ABC). NBC: “He went into details about what he had done. He admitted to what he had done,” Lake County State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart told reporters outside of the county courthouse. “We don’t want to speculate on motives right now.” Crimo made the confession in a voluntary statement after being reminded of his right to remain silent, officials said ( NBC).
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Democrat Consultant on Biden: “There is a leadership vacuum right now, and he’s not filling it”
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Washington Post: In the view of many distraught Democrats, the country is facing a full-blown crisis on a range of fronts, and Biden seems unable or unwilling to respond with appropriate force. Democracy is under direct attack, they say, as Republicans change election rules and the Supreme Court rapidly rewrites American law. Shootings are routine, a constitutional right to abortion has ended and Democrats could suffer big losses in the next election. Biden’s response is often a mix of scolding Republicans, urging Americans to vote Democratic and voicing broad optimism about the country. For some Democrats, that risks a dangerous failure to meet the moment ( Washington Post). CNN: Multiple Democratic politicians who have reached out to work with Biden — whether it’s on specific bills, brainstorming or outreach — often don’t hear anything back at all. Potential appointees have languished for months waiting to hear if they’ll get jobs, or when they’ll be done with vetting. Invitations to events are scarce, thank you calls barely happen. Even some aides within the White House wonder why Biden didn’t fire anyone, from the West Wing or at the Food and Drug Administration, to demonstrate some accountability or at least anger over the baby formula debacle. Inside the White House, aides are exhausted from feeling forever on red alert, batting at a swarm of crises that keeps growing — enough for White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to make an offhand joke about the constant “eleventh hour” decision-making in the building when under fire at a recent daily briefing ( CNN). National Review: Notice the problems described aren’t a matter of messaging and spin; as I noted last week, this goes well beyond Karine Jean-Pierre having lousy press conferences. What those multiple Democratic politicians describe is the basic blocking and tackling of politics — working with your allies on Capitol Hill, keeping the lines of communication open, making sure your allies feel valued and appreciated. And a lot of it points to weak leadership, with leaders blaming their underlings for their own failures ( National Review).
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Education Having Tough Time Bouncing Back to In-Person Learning Post-Covid
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Daily Wire: COVID-related lockdowns and remote learning arrangements have taken a serious toll on students across America, as rates of chronic absenteeism and other serious behavioral issues are rising, according to a new report. A study by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) found that 72% of public schools over the past year reported higher rates of chronic absenteeism, defined as a student who misses at least 15 school days a year. This issue does not appear to be disproportionately affecting low-income or urban schools, as the NCES results were consistent across socio-economic demographics. Schools with lower rates of student poverty reported a 73% increase in chronic absenteeism, and schools in rural areas experienced a 71% increase ( Daily Wire). Insider: Additionally, problems that stemmed from teachers being absent more often were exacerbated by the fact that 77 percent of public schools also reported that finding substitute teachers has become more difficult during the pandemic. Compared to the 2020–21 school year, 61 percent of public schools reported that finding substitute teachers is difficult ( Insider).
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Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Sues Parent Company Unilever for Selling Ice Cream in Israel
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ABC: One week after its parent company found a way to get Ben & Jerry’s ice cream sold in east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, the company known for its stance on social issues almost as much as for its Chunky Monkey ice cream is suing to block that from happening. Unilever announced that it was selling its interest in the Vermont ice cream maker to its Israeli licensee, which would market Ben & Jerry’s products with Hebrew and Arabic labels. Ben & Jerry’s fired back this week in a Manhattan federal court that Unilever’s maneuver “poses a risk” to the integrity of its brand. It claims the deal violates the 2000 acquisition agreement that allowed Ben & Jerry’s to continue its progressive social mission independently of business decisions made by Unilever ( ABC). Daily Wire: Though a judge did not grant Ben & Jerry’s requested temporary restraining order, Unilever was ordered to demonstrate by July 14 why a preliminary injunction against the sale of the Israeli business should not be issued. Last week, Unilever said in a statement that it has “never expressed any support” for the Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) movement, which argues that companies around the world should refrain from doing business with Israel due to the country’s alleged occupation of territory held by Palestinian Arabs. “Unilever rejects completely and repudiates unequivocally any form of discrimination or intolerance,” the company explained. “We look forward to continuing to make a positive contribution to Israel’s economy and society for many decades to come, and hope that Israelis and Palestinians can reach a peaceful resolution of their conflict” ( Daily Wire).
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Fox News Tops Ratings for 72nd Straight Week
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Fox News: Americans flocked to Fox News Channel last week as the network had the largest basic cable audience among both total viewers and the key demographic. Fox News averaged 1.4 million total viewers, finishing the week of June 27 through July 3 as the only basic cable network to surpass the one-million viewer benchmark. Fox News also topped all cable networks during the primetime hours of 8-11 p.m. ET, averaging 2.1 million primetime viewers compared to 1.4 million for No. 2 MSNBC. As Fox News dominated CNN and MSNBC viewership leading up to July 4, it finished as the most-watched cable news channel for the 72nd straight week ( Fox News).
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Effort to Recall Los Angeles DA Prepares to Deliver More Than 700,000 Signatures to County Officials
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CBS: A large scale effort to recall Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón is set to deliver hundreds of thousands of signatures to county officials on Wednesday. After announcing their initial plans to recall the D.A. back in late January, organizers are prepared to deliver a literal truckload’s worth of signatures to election officials at the county’s Registrar Office at around 2 p.m. With the goal of receiving more than 700,000 petition signatures, in order to ensure that there were more than enough valid names on the list, the organizers hope that this latest effort will be enough to put Gascón’s fate in the hands of L.A. County voters come November. In all, the petition only needs 566,857 valid signatures — or 10% of the county’s registered voters ( CBS). New York Post: In recent weeks, the embattled head prosecutor has been blamed for the deaths of two El Monte police officers, who were killed in a June 14 shootout with suspect William Flores — a man with a lengthy criminal record who was out on probation at the time ( New York Post).
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Elizabeth Warren Demands Crisis Pregnancy Centers Be Stopped
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Katie Pavlich: Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren is declaring war on crisis pregnancy centers in her state while lamenting the fact they outnumber abortion clinics 3-1. Last week, she introduced legislation to crack down on pro-life clinics that help pregnant women in crisis ( Townhall). RNC Research: Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren: “We need to put a stop” to crisis pregnancy centers “right now” ( Twitter). Senior Editor for The Federalist, Christopher Bedford: The Capitol Hill Crisis Pregnancy Center helps women and infants who need help. They give emotional, spiritual, and material support to the poor, the struggling and the neglected. For this, they are hated ( Twitter).
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FBI, MI5 Joint Presser Warns Against Chinese Espionage
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Wall Street Journal: The heads of the FBI and Britain’s domestic security service issued sharply worded warnings to business leaders about the threats posed by Chinese espionage, especially spying aimed at stealing Western technology companies’ intellectual property. In a rare joint appearance on Wednesday at the headquarters of MI5, Christopher Wray, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Ken McCallum, director-general of MI5, urged executives not to underestimate the scale and sophistication of Beijing’s campaign. “The Chinese government is set on stealing your technology—whatever it is that makes your industry tick—and using it to undercut your business and dominate your market,” Mr. Wray told the audience of business people. “They’re set on using every tool at their disposal to do it.” China uses state-sponsored hacking on a massive scale along with a global network of intelligence operatives in its quest to gain access to technology it considers important, Messrs. Wray and McCallum said ( Wall Street Journal). Daily Mail: Mr McCallum said: ‘Today is the first time the heads of the FBI and MI5 have shared a public platform. ‘We’re doing so to send the clearest signal we can on a massive shared challenge: China. ‘The most game-changing challenge we face comes from the Chinese communist party. It’s covertly applying pressure across the globe ( Daily Mail).
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Dutch Farmers Fired Upon by Police for Protesting Environmental Laws
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Federalist: On Monday, dozens of farmers in trucks and tractors parked outside major supermarket distribution centers in cities throughout the country. The blockade comes on the heels of a convoy protest of approximately 40,000 farmers in “the central Netherlands’ agricultural heartland” last week, which clogged up local roadways and led to standstill traffic. As Reuters reported, the demonstrations came in response to “targets introduced last month” by the Dutch government “to reduce harmful nitrogen compounds by 2030,” which authorities say “are necessary in emissions of nitrogen oxides from farm animal manure and from the use of ammonia in fertilizer.” If successfully implemented, the state initiative to “go green” would almost certainly cripple the country’s private agricultural industry, as the regulations are “expected to include reducing livestock and buying up some farms whose animals produce large amounts of ammonia” ( Federalist). Politico: Dutch police fired shots at tractor-riding farmers who were protesting against plans to cut nitrogen emissions on Tuesday evening in northern Netherlands. Police said they were responding to a “threatening situation” when the farmers, who were attempting to push past a blockade to get onto a highway in the province of Friesland, started to drive their tractors into officers and their vehicles. According to the Friesland police, their shots hit a tractor, but no one was injured. Three suspects were arrested. The Rijksrecherche, the Dutch government’s internal investigator, said it would look into the events given police had discharged their weapons ( Politico).
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Biden, Harris Speak With Brittney Griner’s Wife, Assure Her They Are Taking Action to Free Her from Russian Prison
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National Review: After spending more than 140 days in a Russian prison, WNBA star Brittney Griner sent a handwritten letter to President Biden imploring him to help her return home. The letter followed unsuccessful efforts by her wife, Cherelle, to elicit the administration’s help in freeing Griner before her July 1 trial began. Griner was detained in the Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow on February 17 for traveling with a vaping cartridge and hashish oil in her luggage and then charged with large-scale transportation of drugs. If convicted in the Russian court, she faces up to ten years in prison. Russia’s foreign ministry says Griner can appeal her sentence or request clemency once she receives the verdict… Speaking to the media on Monday, Griner’s coach made a good point: “If it was LeBron, he’d be home, right” ( National Review). New York Post: President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris tried Wednesday to “reassure” Cherelle Griner that the administration is working on getting her wife, WNBA star Brittney Griner, released from a Russian jail — a day after Cherelle said it was “very disheartening” that she hadn’t heard from the White House about efforts to free the hoopster ( New York Post).
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Sebastian Gorka and former commissioner for customs and border protection, Mark Morgan, discuss the devastating cost of open borders
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Dr. Sebastian Gorka: Alejandro Mayorkas is meant to secure our border. He is the secretary for Homeland Security. More than 50 people are dead outside San Antonio because of smugglers that are bringing them over by the tens of thousands every single day. Let’s just remind the world of what...
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Dinesh D’Souza discusses EPA overreach and traces “governance by experts” to the elitist philosophy of Woodrow Wilson
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Dinesh D’Souza: In the Supreme Court’s recent EPA decision — this was West Virginia v. EPA — the issue front and center was the ability of the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency, to use the broad rubric of the Clean Air Act — cleaning up the air — to somehow wipe out the coal...
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Dennis Prager worries about an America that not only no longer believes in God but no longer believes in itself
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Dennis Prager: Today, in light of the fact that yesterday was July 4th, I decide to choose this topic: What do kids have to believe in? That’s the topic. They had God and country in the United States. Because the left controls the media and controls education, the very terms “God” and...
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Brandon Tatum responds to Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s radical view on abortion
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Officer Tatum: Play clip 2, Ayanna Pressley.
Clip of Rep. Ayanna Pressley: I think she gave voice to the anger, the sense of betrayal, that everyone who values freedom, the constitutional right to healthcare — and abortion care is healthcare — is feeling at this moment. And that vulnerability...
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Charlie Kirk debunks the claims of the January 6 committee's "surprise" witness
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Charlie Kirk: So, I was hosting a show, as you all know, we were all doing this together. We had a wonderful show together. We were talking about how Democrats were infiltrating the Republican primary and people were just emailing me, “Charlie, you’ve gotta cover the Cassidy Hutchinson!...
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Eric Metaxas hears the harrowing story of America's Frontline Doctors founder and free-speech advocate, Dr. Simone Gold
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Eric Metaxas: Folks as promised a very, very important conversation. I wish it weren’t an important guest. I wish she weren’t. Her name is Dr. Simone Gold. She’s the founder of America’s Frontline Doctors. She’s been a hero. She’s been persecuted by what we call the U.S. government. I...
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Mike Gallagher runs down a series of political and judicial victories, from voter registration to free speech
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Mike Gallagher: There’s such good news for our side lately. Here’s a story that — amazing — Fox News reporting over a million American voters have switched their party affiliation to the GOP over the last 12 months. As the 2022 midterms approach, and we are months away, in the suburbs in...
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Hugh Hewitt turns to Georgetown Law Professor Randy Barnett for analysis on the Supreme Court’s landmark decisions and a new school voucher law in Arizona
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Hugh Hewitt: I’m joined by Professor Randy Barnett. He teaches constitutional law at Georgetown Law. I was talking with Randy earlier in the week. I’m adopting Randy and Josh Blackman’s case book on “Constitutional Law, Cases and Materials” for when I return to the classroom in the...
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