Iran’s threat against Trump is ‘REAL,’ Matt Whitaker warns
U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matt Whitaker discusses Israeli warnings of an Iranian plot to kill President Donald Trump, the commander-in-chief’s latest warnings to Tehran amid heightened tensions
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https://youtu.be/FSdphdXlnX8
US forces gather as Trump issues deadline for Iran
Madeleine Rivera details the escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran as President Donald Trump issues warnings against threats. 'Fox & Friends Weekend' co-hosts weigh In
7:06
https://youtu.be/ZYZ3i4JAYf0
Community Voices: SNAP disaster imminent
The good news is that we don’t have the worst error rate, and Hawaiʻi was just slightly above the national average. The bad news is that our error rate was 10.92% in 2025. Double digits mean triple penalties, and don’t expect anyone to cut us some slack when they take effect
About a year ago, we wrote about one part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that could really hurt our state economically.
It’s about the federal SNAP program to help needy families with food costs. It used to be fully funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. So, Hawaiʻi citizens benefited from this federal largess to the tune of about $700 million a year.
The OBBBA changed this. Now, the USDA audits the states, who are responsible for running the program and paying out the benefits, and if a state paid out too much or too little, then the state will need to pick up an escalating share of the cost depending on our “error rate.” If our error rate is less than 6%, the USDA picks up all benefit costs as they did before. If it’s between 6% and 8%, we need to pony up 5%, which would be around $36 million. Between 8% and 10%, we are on the hook for 10% of the benefits. And if the error rate is 10% or more, then we get socked for 15%, which would come out to about $109 million — which isn’t in our budget.
And then, of course, the feds didn’t make it easy for the states to comply. We wrote about some of the drama here. The issues included federal policy changes that kicked in immediately, giving states zero time to learn about the new changes and work them in to their processing procedures before they were made accountable for errors.
Historically, we have had issues even before OBBBA. Our error rate for 2022 and 2023 exceeded 20%. The USDA was thinking about whacking us with a $11 million fine, but our folks managed to talk their way out of it with promises of new, badder, and better computer system that our Legislature had no choice but to fund.
In 2024, our error rate dropped to 6.68%. It was much better than the previous two years, but still left lots of room for improvement.
Now the 2025 error rate is out. There is good news and bad news.
The good news is that we don’t have the worst error rate, and ours was just slightly above the national average. Also, the penalties don’t take effect just yet.
The bad news is that our error rate was 10.92%. Double digits mean triple penalties, and don’t expect anyone to cut us some slack. “These payment error rates are further proof that state accountability is severely lacking in SNAP,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said in a statement. “USDA has taken historic action to help interested states curb SNAP waste, and I hope other states, regardless of political leadership, prioritize needy families and the American taxpayer over politics.”
The Star-Advertiser reports that our Department of Human Services is keenly aware of the problem and is working hard to fix it. DHS reported that its error rate through the end of June was 6.52%.
Again, that’s an improvement, but we are still in penalty territory. We should be able to do better. Our error rate for most of the last two decades was under 6%, so we should be able to get ourselves out of the proverbial hot water.
The Trump Administration was able to trot out J.D. Vance to make us a national laughingstock over Medicaid fraud enforcement. The last thing we all want is for the administration to set us up on another issue, this one with a massive price tag which we probably won’t be able to wiggle out of like with the proposed $11 million fine.
Let’s do this.
(https://alohastatedaily.com/2026/07/07/community-voices-snap-disaster-imminent/
Making history! China lands rocket during an orbital launch for 1st time ever
By Mike Wall
Published yesterday
And China plans to refly the booster by the end of the year.
The nation has recovered a rocket during an orbital launch for the first time ever, pulling off the feat during the Long March10B's maiden liftoff on Friday (July 10). And that recovery was unique: The rocket's first stage nestled softly into a net-like structure carried by a ship at sea.
"This mission marks my country's first successful controlled recovery of a launch vehicle and the world's first network-based recovery of a launch vehicle," the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) announced via social media shortly after the launch. (Translation by Google.) "It signifies a historic breakthrough for my country in the field of reusable rocket technology and will lay a solid foundation for accelerating the improvement of my country's space access capabilities."
The Long March 10B is a two-stage rocket that stands about 207 feet (63 meters) tall, according to the state-owned CASC, the main contractor for China's space program.
The vehicle's first stage burns kerosene and liquid oxygen (LOX) propellants, whereas the second stage uses LOX and liquid methane. In reusable mode, the Long March 10B can loft about 16 tons of payload to low Earth orbit
And the rocket flew with a payload on its debut liftoff — a satellite that successfully reached "its predetermined orbit," according to the CASC update. That post did not provide any details about the spacecraft or its orbit. It did give a brief rundown of the first-stage recovery, however.
"Approximately 6 minutes after the first and second stages separated, the first stage returned vertically and was successfully recovered at a sea-based recovery platform using a net system," CASC officials wrote, noting that launch occurred from the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site on Friday at 12:15 a.m. EDT (0415 GMT; 12:15 p.m. Beijing time.) "The launch and first-stage recovery missions were a complete success."
China plans to refly the first stage by the end of the year, they added.
Until now, vertical landings of orbital-class rockets had been performed only by SpaceX, which does them on a regular basis. Indeed, Elon Musk's company has landed orbital rockets more than 600 times to date.
Such extensive reuse has allowed SpaceXto fly more cheaply and efficiently than its competitors and dominate the launch market — something that China is working hard to emulate.
The Long March 10B's "reusable configuration significantly reduces launch costs, offering advantages of large payload capacity and high cost-effectiveness," CASC officials wrote in the post-launch update.
) https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/making-history-china-lands-rocket-during-an-orbital-launch-for-1st-time-ever
London Police Accused of Letting Algerian Attempted Rapist Walk Free
Kurt Zindulka11 Jul 2026
London’s Metropolitan Police officers have been accused by a judge of letting an attempted rapist go after being caught “red-handed” outside Buckingham Palace, the trial of the migrant has revealed.
In the early morning of Sept 7, 2024, Algerian migrant Ramzi Barkat, 54, came upon a woman in St James’s Park, attempted to flirt with her, and when he was shot down, tackled and “straddled” her while holding down her wrists.
Fortunately for the woman, three nearby soldiers heard her screams and prevented Barkat from going further.
However, despite the apparent risk he posed to the public, police chose to release the Algerian migrant on bail or under investigation after the victim was interviewed, The Telegraph reported.
Judge Justin Cole of the Southwark Crown Court accused the police of a “catalogue of incompetencies” during the incident.
“He was simply let go in a situation in which frankly he had been caught red-handed and presented a continuing danger to the public,” Judge Cole said.
“The bottom line is this man was set free for a period of a year, a year to do what he likes, in a situation where he had attacked a lone female in a park. The public would be appalled to hear of such laxity.”
“The public would be appalled to hear of such laxity.”
The revelations came during this week’s sentencing hearing for Barkat, who was jailed for seven years and three months on Friday. Judge Coles said that Barkat “sought to take advantage of a lone vulnerable woman” and “acted like a predator”.
In addition to being found guilty of attempted rape, Barkat was also found guilty of assaulting one of the soldiers who prevented the rape, The Independent reported.
The Algerian migrant had claimed that he was merely attempting to steal the woman’s phone. On top of his prison sentence, he received a 10-year restraining order and a 10-year sexual harm prevention order.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/07/11/london-police-accused-of-letting-algerian-attempted-rapist-walk-free/
US presses Iran for public statement that Strait of Hormuz is open
Summary
•US President Donald Trump says Iran has asked to continue talks with Washington and that the US has agreed. However, he warned that the ceasefire is over, saying Washington had made that clear to Tehran “in no uncertain terms.”
• Qatar is pressing Iran and the United States to uphold their memorandum, with Qatari negotiators in Tehran for US-coordinated talks focused on de-escalation and freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.
• CNN, citing US officials, reported that the United States gave diplomacy with Iran room to work while remaining prepared to carry out strikes if needed.
• The governor of Konarak in Iran’s southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan province said a naval military area in the city was targeted in two waves of airstrikes by fighter jets.
• A senior official in Iran’s southern Bushehr province said explosions heard in the city on Thursday were caused by air defense fire against US drones, while a military site on the outskirts of Bushehr was also struck by what he called a “US-Israeli” projectile. A US official, however, told CNN the US was not conducting any airstrikes in Iran.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/liveblog/202607049017
DNI Pulte
U.S. National Intelligence
@DNIPulte
U.S. National Intelligence is operating more efficiently and effectively than ever before, and today,we started a third round of reducing redundant, or non-critical, personnel. DNI’s future is exceptionally bright, and will be focused on following the law and the statute.
1:17 AM · Jul 11, 2026
https://x.com/DNIPulte/status/2075751272347537550
Kristi Noem Reportedly Divorcing Husband After Cross-Dressing Bombshell
Jul 10th, 2026, 12:36 pm
Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is reportedly divorcing husband Bryon in the wake of a bombshell report he was involved in the online cross-dressing scene.
The Daily Mail first published several photos of Bryon Noem dressed up with prosthetic breasts in March. Fetish models claimed to have had an online relationship with him that involved a kink called “bimbofication,” according to the report.
On Friday, the Mail quoted Kristi Noem’s mother, Corinne Arnold, about the pending divorce after 34 years of marriage and three children together.
==“It has been difficult, but we knew this was coming, that they were going to get divorced,” Arnold said during a sit-down interview with reporter Shawn Cohen.•=
Arnold added that Bryon recently moved out of the family home in Castlewood, South Dakota,and that she last saw the couple together at a family birthday in late spring.
“I feel bad, sick that they’re getting a divorce, but what else can you do?” Arnold told the outlet.
The Mail also alleged that Noem was romantically involved with Trump aid Corey Lewandowski, but Arnold called the allegations a “bunch of crap.”
“Kristi would never do that. That’s not how I brought my kids up,” Arnold told the outlet.
President Donald Trump reassignedNoem to lead a smaller, newly-created agency in the State Department called Shield of the Americas, after a tumultuous stint at DHS that saw two American citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, killed during ICE operations in Minnesota.
Noem’s representatives told The New York Post in March that she was “devastated” by reports of Bryon’s online activities.
“The family was blindsided by this, and they ask for privacy and prayers at the time,” the reps said.
(I find it hard to believe she didn’t know any of this, especially since she was leading DHS)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/kristi-noem-reportedly-divorcing-husband-after-cross-dressing-bombshell/
Safety concerns over solar panels were raised a year before massive Boyle Heights fire
Fri, July 10, 2026 at 12:34 PM
A year before a massive fire at a Boyle Heights cold storage building sent polluted smoke into surrounding communities, the operator of the facility came to Los Angeles City Hall with a request.
Lineage asked about removing an emergency shutdown switch from the solar panels on the roof of the structure, according to the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety.
A spokesperson for Lineage said that the company was inquiring about what it described as a safer alternative to rapid shutdown devices. Though intended to protect firefighters from shock, some shutdown devices have also been linkedto increased fire risk.
Ultimately, the company did not receive any variances or exemptions as a result of its efforts, the spokesperson said.
Neither Lineage nor the city would provide any details about what kind of shutdown system was in place at the time of the fire. Altus Power, which owns the solar panels, declined to specify, citing the ongoing investigation into the fire.
But the solar panels have become a focus of the fire. According to Lineage, company officials believe the fire began while third-party subcontractors were testing the rooftop solar array at the nearly 500,000-square-foot warehouse.
The Los Angeles Fire Department has not announced a cause for the blaze.
The state code requires that rooftop solar arrays have rapid shutdown systems that quickly reduce the voltage to a level that makes it safe for first responders to access a roof in an emergency.
The systems are typically activated by a switch, which communicates with rapid shutdown devices to reduce the voltage to the panels, said Ryan Mayfield, chief engineer and founder of Mayfield Renewables, which specializes in solar energy.
While rapid shutdown devices are intended to protect firefighters,a recent white paper raised concerns that they may actually increase the risk of fires starting. The report by technical advisory firm HelioVolta found the devices were the most likely cause of 71% of fires and thermal damage events it had identified in rooftop solar systems. The technology typically involves installing devices underneath each solar panel, and each device and its connections pose a risk of failure, which could spark a fire, the report found.
The solution to reducing the fire risk is to use a different kind of technology, called micro inverters, which convert the electricity to the same form that powers homes, said Capt. Richard Birt, who retired from Las Vegas Fire and Rescue and now trains firefighters on how to deal with solar panels.
Lineage's request to the city came after an earlier fire that started among the rooftop solar panels in 2024. The Los Angeles Fire Department declined to disclose the cause of the fire and said records requested by The Times on the matter were part of an open investigation of the property and could not be immediately released.
The building's solar array had a shutdown switch that firefighters flipped when the most recent blaze began, according to the fire department. Still, officials said the panels remained energized for several days and cited the array as one of several challenges they faced while attempting to bring the fire under control.
Lineage, which leases the space, has said repeatedly that it does not own, operate or maintain the solar panels. Nevertheless, the company relied on its lobbying firm, Veritas Public Affairs, to communicate with several city agencies about those panels, records submitted to the city's Ethics Commission show….
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/safety-concerns-over-solar-panels-163451144.html
‘DISGRACEFUL’: Judge in Kirk murder case DECRIED as ‘ROOKIE’ by Gregg Jarrett
Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett and National Review columnist Caroline Downey discuss Charlie Kirk's accused killer's preliminary hearing
6.11
https://youtu.be/OFBv6f__a_4