Last Updated on July 3, 2025 Christina Formella, a former Downers Grove South High School special education teacher, faces 52 additional charges in a teacher abuse case. The Formella Indictment, announced on June 17, 2025, includes 20 counts of Criminal Sexual Assault and 20 counts of Aggravated Criminal Sexual Abuse. Formella, 30, allegedly abused a…
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CBS Journalists Rage at Parent Company’s ‘Betrayal’ in Settling Trump Lawsuit
CBS News staffers are blasting parent company Paramount over its settlement with President Donald Trump, which could top $30 million, calling the deal a “cowardly capitulation” and a “betrayal” of the network. “This settlement is a cowardly capitulation by the corporate leaders of Paramount, and a fundamental betrayal of ’60 Minutes’ and CBS News,” veteran…
Liz Collin Reports: Minnesotans with the courage to speak out
Share This Story Liz Collin, and her namesake podcast, Liz Collin Reports, have been providing a platform for people to tell their stories, share their perspectives, and share news that matters to Minnesotans. For many Minnesotans, it was the only chance they had to have their voices heard. This proved true especially with stories involving…
Red-state AG crushes woke ‘welcome’ signs, upholds ban on political propaganda in schools
The Republican attorney general of Idaho has taken aim at supposedly inclusive “welcome” signs in public school classrooms, saying they violate a new law banning political displays. “All are welcome.” “Everyone is welcome.” ‘All Are Welcome Here’ signs were printed in multiple languages and, in the words of the outlet, for ‘all gender identities.’ Signs…
Marcy Kaptur Pulled Off Camera By Staff After Nodding Off During Jeffries’ Speech
Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) was pulled from camera view after she was caught snoozing in the background while House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) gave an impassioned speech. On Thursday, Jeffries gave his “magic minute” speech to delay the passage of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” The speech began at 4:53 a.m. after an…
The BBC Aired Anti-Jewish Hate Speech and Broadcast It Across the World
Bob Vylan music duo performance at Glastonbury Festival (Source: FLIKR) The viral footage of British pop-punk duo Bob Vylan leading a crowd of thousands in antisemitic chants at Glastonbury is as disturbing as it is revealing. It shows how far anti-Jewish hatred has penetrated mainstream British culture. And more damningly, it exposes the role of…
US Supreme Court to Take Up Two Transgender Athlete Cases
THE CENTER SQUARE—The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to take up two cases in its next term on laws banning transgender women from participating in girls and women’s sports, based on biological sex. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. The cases come out of Idaho…
Explosion kills former Lugansk mayor – media
Three other city residents were wounded, local authorities have said Former Lugansk Mayor Manolis Pilavov has been killed in a blast which wounded three other residents of the Russian city, local media have cited the government of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) as saying. One of the victims remains in critical condition, LPR authorities said…
White House Salary Report Reveals Top Earners
President Donald Trump’s administration released its annual report revealing the salaries for every staffer inside the White House on Thursday. The report shows employees’ earnings in a range of $59,070 at the lowest to $225,700 at the highest, though a few aren’t accepting salaries at all. The top-paid staffer at the White House is Jacalynne…
President Trump to Kick Off Independence Day Celebration in Des Moines
The nation’s 249th celebration, launching the beginning of a year-long celebration of our 250th. Fox News, beginning with Trump: “I am thrilled to announce that I will be traveling to one of my favorite places in the World, beautiful Iowa, on Thursday, July 3rd, to kick off the very beginning of our exciting Celebration of…
The Secret Sauce That Made America
Friday is the Fourth of July. What will you celebrate? Freedom from the English monarchy? To me, the Fourth is about freedom, period. When the Founders signed the Declaration of Independence, they put forth a radical idea: Rights don’t come from kings or presidents. They come from being human. Government’s job is to protect those…
Trump Administration Takes Aim At Rainbow Crosswalks
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Tuesday sent a letter to every governor in America, as well as the mayor of Washington, D.C., and the governor of Puerto Rico, urging them to remove political messages from crosswalks, including crosswalks painted in rainbow colors that recognize the LGBTQ community. “Roads are for safety, not political messages or…
THAT’S ONE BAD ASS SQUIRREL
Watch the squirrel from hell, even the dog gets its butt kicked. pic.twitter.com/IzMoxLaOFO — Uncensored USA (@CarlosSimancas) July 3, 2025 Click this link for the original source of this article. Author: Administrator This content is courtesy of, and owned and copyrighted by, https://www.theburningplatform.com and its author. This content is made available by use of the…
GOP Medicare Reversal Spells Doom for Social Security
BY: MEGA As tensions escalate between President Donald Trump and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, Senate Republicans have sharpened their focus on finding social security budget cuts within the contentious “One Big, Beautiful Bill.” The focus has shifted toward Medicare, prompting concerns that the program might be on the chopping block alongside the already slashed Medicaid….
Controversy As Trans Athlete Wins Women’s Cycling Event
A transgender athlete won a women’s cycling event this week, prompting protests and walk-offs from women athletes. “The trans athlete, Kate Phillips, won first place at the Lyons Masters National Championships in Wisconsin on Tuesday,” noted Fox News. Philips also beat out veteran cyclist Julie Peterson, who refused to join with Phillips at the podium…
Kiev court sidesteps national ban on gay marriage – media
Advancing LGBT rights is a prerequisite for Ukraine to join the European Union A Ukrainian municipal court has effectively acknowledged a same-sex relationship between two men as a legal union, despite national laws prohibiting gay marriage, local media reported Thursday. According to the Legal-Judicial Paper news outlet, the decision was made in a civil case…
Trump’s BBB just passed by Senate will massively expand the digital biometric surveillance state for years to come
Guest Post by Leo Hohmann Bill allocates billions for digital tracking systems nationwide, mostly under the guise of ‘border security.’ All major state and federal highways will be monitored 24/7 in real time. The Senate version of H.R. 1, otherwise known as the One Big Beautiful Bill, reflects an aggressive expansion of AI-driven federal…
Acting Columbia President Claire Shipman Reportedly Apologizes for Urging Ouster of Jewish Trustee
Acting Columbia University President Claire Shipman speaks during commencement ceremony on May 21, 2025. Photo: Jeenah Moon via Reuters Connect. Columbia University interim president Claire Shipman has reportedly apologized for urging the replacement of a Jewish trustee with “an Arab” during the 2023-2024 academic year, a time when the school was being rocked by a…
Pilots Behind Iran Strikes Invited To White House For July Fourth
U.S. pilots who carried out the mission to bomb key nuclear sites in Iran were invited to mark the Fourth of July at the White House on Friday, multiple news outlets reported. Pilots flew B-2 Spirit stealth bombers, F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft and F-35 Lightning stealth strike fighters during the June 21 mission, in which…
A look at the next Biden insiders to testify to Congress about ‘historic scandal’
Congressional investigators looking into Biden’s cognitive decline while in office, its cover-up, and its alleged exploitation behind the scenes are set to continue peeling the onion later this month. The House Oversight Committee grilled former Biden White House Domestic Policy Council Director Neera Tanden last week, gleaning some insights into what was going on behind…
Billionaire Bill Ackman Endorses Adams, Urges Cuomo To Exit NYC Mayoral Race
Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, one week after offering “hundreds of millions of dollars” to support an alternative to New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, late Thursday night said that incumbent Mayor Eric Adams would have the best chance of winning and that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo should drop out of the race….
First Five Minutes: “After Party with Emily Jashinsky” on Charlize Theron, Lia Thomas, and More
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US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza
American contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition and stun grenades as hungry Palestinians scramble for food, according to accounts and videos obtained by The Associated Press. Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal operations, said they were coming forward…
Jeffries Delays Final House Vote On Trump Bill With Marathon Speech
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-Calif.) commandeered the chamber floor early Thursday morning to deliver a marathon speech hammering away at the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill,” stalling a final vote on the sprawling package full of President Trump’s legislative priorities. The Republican bill is almost 900 pages long, and Jeffries bashed House GOP leaders for…
Mamdani’s Marxist agenda EXPOSED — will this SINK his campaign?
Socialist Zohran Mamdani is favored by leftists everywhere to win the coveted position of New York City mayor, despite his belief system being what could take the city from great to a dystopian hellscape. In a resurfaced interview from 2020, Mamdani lays out his goals, which BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere is well aware would do…
Trump Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize More Than Obama Ever Did
President Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his second term actions as president. That was the take from The Daily Signal’s Executive Editor Rob Bluey on a CNN panel that drew chuckles from the reliably liberal commentators. Yeah, I probably sent shockwaves through CNN with the idea of Trump winning the Nobel Peace…
Tornado Review 2024
By Paul Homewood Last year was a busy year for tornadoes by any standard. Excluding the small EF-0s, the number was the highest on record, slightly above even 1973 and 2011: https://www.spc.noaa.gov/wcm/#data But what is equably notable is the relatively low number of strong tornadoes – EF-3s and above: Only forty three developed…
Red, White, and Blew It: Chaos, Coverups, and the Battle for the Big Bill
The fireworks might be set for the Fourth, but the real sparks are flying in the House of Representatives this week, as lawmakers scramble to pass the “one big beautiful bill” amended by the Senate. Speaker Mike Johnson is walking a tightrope with just three Republican votes he can afford to lose—while storms are keeping…
Pic: Congressional intern fatally shot in DC
A congressional intern was shot and killed on Monday night in Washington, D.C., after “multiple suspects” exited a vehicle and fired at a group of people. In a Wednesday press release, the Metropolitan Police Department said law enforcement officials responded to “the sound of gunshots” in the 1200 block of 7th Street, Northwest. After arriving…
Trump Talks By Phone With Russia’s Putin
President Trump will speak Thursday morning with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he announced in a post on social media. Trump shared on Truth Social that the two leaders would speak at 10 a.m. It was not immediately clear what the focus of the call would be, but Trump and Putin have spoken multiple times in…
US drops sanctions on Russian ex-world chess chief
Donald Trump has lifted restrictions on former FIDE head Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who called it proof of Washington’s desire for new relations Former World Chess Federation (FIDE) president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has been removed from the US sanctions list following an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Monday. The decision came as part of Trump’s…
No Visas for Garbage Foreigners Who Hate Us
Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter America finally decided to take its own side in the fight for civilization by canceling the concert tour visa for a ridiculous British punk/rap duo called Bob Vylan – get it? It’s like “Bob Dylan,” except “Vylan,” which sounds like “villain.” That’s the cleverest thing about them. They are basically Milli…
MIDWEEK WIRE – Flashpoint: Azerbaijan v Russia – guests Arnaud Develay & Freddie Ponton
TODAY’S LIVE BROADCAST SCHEDULED FOR 5PM UK/12PM EST In this 21WIRE LIVE midweek edition with host Patrick Henningsen talking to guests, Associate Editor for Global Affairs at 21WIRE, Freddie Ponton, and author and international human rights lawyer, Arnaud Develay, to discuss a new front developing in the ongoing East vs West battle for Eurasia, as the US, UK…
First Group Of Illegal Immigrants Arrives At Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
The first group of migrants arrived in Florida’s migrant detention center, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” on Wednesday night, just one day after President Donald Trump toured the facility. The migrant detention facility was built far ahead of schedule, just weeks after being proposed by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier. The facility is in a remote location…
Car sales plunge in Russia
Sales of new vehicles in the first half of the year fell by nearly a third, according to the Trade Ministry New car sales in Russia totaled 607,500 units in the first half of 2025, down 28% from a year earlier, the Ministry of Industry and Trade said on Wednesday. The sharp decline follows a…
Former Jan. 6 defendant gets life sentence for plot to kill FBI agents, other law enforcement
Edward Kelley, one of the last Jan. 6 defendants still behind bars after his case was dismissed under President Donald J. Trump, was handed a life sentence in federal court Wednesday for plotting to kill federal, state, and local law enforcement officers in Eastern Tennessee. Kelley, 36, of Maryville, Tenn., was given a life prison…
UK Guardian Makes Damning Admission In Piece On Trump DOJ Discussing Cancelling Citizenship
UK Guardian writer Jose Oliveres was so upset over the prospect of naturalized citizens being stripped of that status that he made an interesting admission Trump seizes on ‘moral character’ loophole as way to revoke citizenship A justice department memo directing the department’s civil division to target the denaturalization of US citizens around the country has opened…
British committed ‘genocide’ against Aboriginal Australians – inquiry
The indigenous population of the state of Victoria suffered “near-complete physical destruction” at the hands of colonists, a report has said British colonisers committed “genocide” against the Aboriginal people in the Australian state of Victoria after arriving in the area in the early 1830s, a commission investigating injustices against the indigenous population has said. The…
Trump advances massive spending bill
US House Republicans have narrowly overcome internal division to move the president’s flagship legislation forward US President Donald Trump has overcome internal Republican opposition to his sweeping spending bill, through all-caps public messages and private calls, during a key House session. Together with House speaker Mike Johnon, Trump secured a narrow win in a vote…
Man Reportedly Injures 4 With Axe On German Train
German police say a man attacked and slightly injured four people with an axe on a long-distance train in Bavaria on Thursday before he was detained by police. Local police in Straubing said the attack happened on an ICE express train headed to the Austrian capital of Vienna while it was between Straubing and Plattling…
What, to the New York Times, Is the Fourth of July?
The editors and journalists at the New York Times plan to celebrate the Fourth of July with the rest of us. One has to wonder why. After all, the far-left newspaper has declared, through its sponsorship of the 1619 Project, that July 4 is a bogus holiday and the Declaration of Independence was (and is)…
CBS News Faces ‘Widespread Distress’ After Trump Settlement
Paramount Global’s settlement of the “60 Minutes” lawsuit filed by U.S. President Donald Trump has provoked condemnation from CBS News current and former employees, press freedom advocates and legislators. Paramount’s agreement to pay $16 million to resolve a civil suit over what Trump said was the network’s deceptive editing of an interview with presidential candidate…
Supreme Court To Hear Challenges On Banning Males from Girls’ Sports
The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear two cases on the banning of males in female student sports. The cases are from West Virginia and Idaho where two transgender students, Becky Pepper-Jackson and Lindsay Hecox, are challenging the respective states’ bans, NBC News reported. Both students won injunctions, allowing them to continue competing in…
Report: Biden FBI interfered with investigation into Chinese election meddling
I’ve been monitoring the progress of the new FBI leader Kash Patel, just waiting to see what he will do about some of the well-known scandals of the Biden-Harris regime. Things like the Trump-Russia collusion scandal, the Hunter Biden laptop, the targeting of Christians for persecution, etc. Well, there was some shocking news this week…
Daniel Candon: Why centralising local government risks tearing up Conservative roots
Local government reorganisation is often presented as a matter of efficiency: reducing administrative costs, streamlining services, and modernising outdated structures. While some of these aims are understandable, the push towards larger unitary authorities or regional bodies comes at a significant cost to local democratic representation. At the heart of the issue lies a fundamental question:…
Our republic is sick. The Machiavelli of Mar-a-Lago has the cure.
A progressive friend said something insightful weeks ago: “Trump doesn’t feel like he’s in power unless someone is getting hurt.” His observation came during the public “breakup” of Elon Musk and President Trump over Musk’s criticism of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — but before Trump sent U.S. Marines to Los Angeles to help…
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Won’t Stop Aid Distribution After Hamas Puts Bounties on Workers
Hamas has placed bounties on the heads of American and local Gaza Humanitarian Foundation workers. But the Rev. Johnnie Moore, the group’s executive chairman, says, “If all of these threats are intended to shut us down, it’s just not going to work.” “Terrorists want to cause you to be afraid,” Moore said. “I’m a…
Lawsuit Aims To Block Planned Everglades ICE Facility
The ongoing construction of a mass detention facility in the Florida Everglades for up to 5,000 undocumented immigrants violates both federal and state laws, environmental groups allege in a new federal lawsuit. Friends of the Everglades Inc. and the Center for Biological Diversity filed the lawsuit June 27 against the federal Department of Homeland Security…
Soccer Star Dead At 28
Spanish police reported on Thursday that Liverpool and Portugal soccer star Diogo Jota and his brother were killed in a car crash in Spain. Jota, 28, and his brother André Silva, 25, died in the accident near Zamora, Spain, close to the Portuguese border. The crash occurred shortly after midnight, and police confirmed no other…
FBI moving headquarters, top Trump official confirms
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel confirmed on Tuesday that the agency will be closing its headquarters at the J. Edgar Hoover Building and opening a new headquarters at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. In a memo obtained by Fox News, Patel told FBI employees, “Team, the…
Abortionist Accused Of Botched Procedure Seeks Gag Order, Anonymity
Saying he has been unfairly victimized in the press, an Ohio abortionist who is being sued for allegedly badly botching an abortion at his Champaign clinic, perforating an Indiana woman’s uterus and leaving half of the aborted fetus in her body, has asked a judge to both force the woman to publicly identify herself and…
