Trump reportedly considering attacks bigger than Epic Fury
Fox News' Trey Yingst and Alexandria Hoff report the latest on the Trump administration's actions in the Middle East. Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., joins
12:00
https://youtu.be/T3WefWkJCYQ
'CLOUDED IN MYSTERY': Hidden Iran facility fuels new Trump warning
United Against Nuclear Iran CEO Mark Wallace discusses President Donald Trump's latest warning to Iran, concerns over the regime's nuclear program and what intelligence suggests about Tehran's hidden nuclear facilities
3:46
https://youtu.be/Z1sUt6gAbUg
Iran issues new WARNING as US SURGES forces to Mideast
Former National Security Council senior director Robert Greenway analyzes U.S. military operations against Iranian targets and the civil nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia on 'America's Newsroom.'
5:08
https://youtu.be/sdTS8BxEm_8
Tropical Storm Bertha tracker: Storm makes landfall in Louisiana, bringing heavy rain and a flash flood threat to the northwestern Gulf Coast
The storm is expected to make a second landfall before dissipating inland over Texas by Thursday night or Friday.
Dylan Stableford, Mike Bebernes, Jasmine Andersson, Kate Murphy
Updated Thu, July 23, 2026 at 2:01 PM EDT
2 min read
Tropical Storm Bertha made landfall in southern Louisiana on Wednesday and is moving along the northwestern Gulf Coast, where tropical storm warnings remain in effect.
The National Hurricane Center has discontinued warnings for portions of the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts, with the storm expected to dissipate after making a second landfall in Texas Thursday night or early Friday.
But tropical storm conditions will continue spreading across parts of the northern and northwestern Gulf Coast through Thursday, forecasters said.
There may also be isolated flash flooding, with up to 6 inches of rain possible in some areas, as well as coastal flooding.
Bertha is the second named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season. The first, Tropical Storm Arthur, brought heavy rain and flash flooding to parts of southern Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi last month.
Where is Bertha now, and what is its path?
According to the hurricane center's latest advisory, as of 2 p.m. ET on Thursday:
Bertha was located about 40 miles south of Lake Charles, La.
The storm has maximum sustained winds of 45 mph
It is moving west at 10 mph
(https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather-news/article/tropical-storm-bertha-tracker-storm-makes-landfall-in-louisiana-bringing-heavy-rain-and-a-flash-flood-threat-to-the-northwestern-gulf-coast-171934573.html
India: Leopard Bursts into Liquor Store, Attacks Employee
Alana Mastrangelo22 Jul 2026
Dramatic video footage shows a leopard bursting into a liquor store in India and attacking an employee as he desperately tries to flee,before the wild animal begins sniffing around the empty shop, knocking bottles off a shelf.
A leopard suddenly charged into a liquor shop in Todaraisingh, northern India, and immediately pounced on the 25-year-old shopkeeper, Sanjay Gurjar, on Monday, according to video footage obtained by theSun.
WARNING: DISTURBING VIDEO:
The video shows Gurjar managing to quickly evade the big cat, before bolting out of the building and leaving the leopard slinking around what appears to be a stock room inside the liquor store.
While snooping around the shop, the wild animal can be seen pushing a few boxes over and knocking bottles of alcohol off shelves.
The shopkeeper — who reportedly sustained injuries to his hand, shoulder, and nose from the attack —was able to close the blinds to the shop as he scurried out, trapping the leopard inside.
“I somehow pushed the leopard away and ran towards the exit,” Gurjar said. “As I ran, I pulled the shutter down. Then I lost consciousness.”
Video surveillance from outside the store also shows the leopard leaping at another man, 40-year-old Fateh Lal Koli, before barging into the booze shop, the Sun reported.
The same leopard — which wandered into the northern Indian town just before 9:00 a.m. —accosted a third man, forest volunteer Rakesh, that morning.
All three men were injured in the attacks, which sparked a five-hour search for the wild animal. The extent of the two other men’s injuries was not made clear.
Wildlife specialists eventually tracked down the leopard and tranquillized it at around 2:00 p.m. The big cat, which was reportedly a five-year-old male, will be returned to the wild, according to the report.
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2026/07/22/india-leopard-bursts-into-liquor-store-attacks-employee/
https://x.com/CBSEveningNews/status/2079702330069426296
U.S. homicide rate drops 18%, nearing historic low per year
23 Jul 2026
July 23 (UPI) — Crime rates are on thedecline in U.S. cities with the national homicide rate falling by 18%, inching closer to a historic low, the Council on Criminal Justice said Thursday.
The Council on Criminal Justice released its mid-year report examining patterns for 13 types of crime in 36 U.S. cities.It found that nine of the 13 crimes were on the decline through mid 2026.
“This report is not evidence of the success or failure of any policy or practice,” co-authors Ernesto Lopez and Bobby Boxerman wrote. “It simply documents recent crime trends from a sample of large U.S. cities.”
Lopez, a senior research specialist for the Council on Criminal Justice, and Boxerman, a research scientist for the Regional Justice Information Service based in Missouri, added intheir report that there is not a single explanation for the current crime trends.
Several possibilities were highlighted as having potential links to declining crime rates,including changes in criminal justice strategies, technological advances and shifts in society and culture.
The changes in crime rates were compared to rates from the first half of 2019 for a look at longer trends.In that comparison, homicide declined by 31%, recording declines in 26 of 30 cities.
Lincoln, Neb., had the deepest reduction inhomicides over 2019, falling by 100%. Lincoln is one of four cities with a decline of more than 50%.
The national homicide rate increased by 30% from 2019 to 2020.
Of the nine types of crime that declined in the first half of the year,carjacking had the greatest decrease, falling by 47%.
Drug offenses have continued to rise, marking the biggest upward trend at 12%.
The Council on Criminal Justiceprojected that the end of 2025 homicide rate would likely be the lowest since 1900. It says its mid-year data “suggest” the homicide rate in 2026 will fall even further, “reaching a new historic low.”
“Murder and other crime rates are falling across the map, in cities with different political leadership, housing and economic conditions, policing and prosecution strategies, violence reduction models, and levels of federal enforcement activity,” Adam Gelb, president and CEO of the Council on Criminal Justice, said in a statement. “Local policies and programs surely matter,but the striking consistency of the decline suggests that macro-level forces are exerting enormous influence as well.”
https://www.breitbart.com/news/u-s-homicide-rate-drops-18-nearing-historic-low-per-year/
Exclusive: Study Estimates Trump Immigration Enforcement Lowered Florida, Texas Education Funding Burden by up to $890 Million
Jasmyn Jordan23 Jul 2026
Declines in the number of English-learning students enrolled in Florida and Texas public schools during the 2025–26 school year were associated with an estimated $835 million to $890 million reduction in education funding across the two states, according to an American Accountability Foundation report obtained exclusively by Breitbart News.
The July 23 memorandum, issued by Thomas Jones of the American Accountability Foundation and addressed to the Republican Governors Association, attributes the enrollment changes to the Trump administration’s immigration-enforcement policies following several years of increases under former President Joe Biden.
“In Florida the news is good; in Texas, where the drop far outpaced the overall enrollment trend, the news is great,” the report states.
Florida classifies students actively receiving English-language-learner instruction under the designation “LY.” That population increased from 277,473 during the 2021–22 school year to 368,068 in 2024–25, an increase of 90,595 students, or 32.7 percent.
During 2025–26, however, the number fell by 23,641 students to 344,427, representing a 6.4 percent decline and the first decrease in the period examined by AAF.
AAF said the number of students entering post-exit monitoring continued to rise, which it argued showed that students were “not dropping out mid-program” and that the decline instead reflected fewer new English learners entering Florida schools.
The Florida Education Finance Program funds English-learning students through an English for Speakers of Other Languages cost factor of 1.165, or 16.5 percent above the base amount. Using a Base Student Allocation of $5,372.60, AAF calculated average total funding of approximately $9,122.93 per student during 2025–26.
Applied to the decline of 23,641 students, the organization estimated that the change was associated with between $215 million and $235 million in education funding.
Texas identifies English-learning students as “Emergent Bilingual” students. Their number increased from 1,108,883 in 2020–21 to 1,345,917 in 2023–24 before remaining nearly unchanged in 2024–25.
Preliminary 2025–26 data show that the population then fell by 54,749 students to 1,290,293, a decline of approximately 4.1 percent.
AAF noted that total Texas public-school enrollment declined by only 1.4 percent during the same period.
“The Emergent Bilingual population shrank roughly three times faster than the overall student body,” the report states.
AAF said the disparity was “not a general enrollment dip that happens to include English learners,” but rather “a disproportionate, targeted contraction” among the population the organization described as most associated with recent immigration. The Texas figures are preliminary, and the Texas Education Agency’s final 2025–26 enrollment report is expected later in 2026.
Texas funds Emergent Bilingual students through its Bilingual Education Allotment. AAF estimated total state and local maintenance-and-operations funding of approximately $11,950 per student during 2025–26.
Applying that amount to the reduction of 54,749 students, AAF estimated that the change was associated with between $620 million and $655 million in education funding, including approximately $370 million to $390 million representing the state’s share.
The organization said the full per-student cost, “not merely the language-program premium,” was the appropriate measure because when a student leaves the public-school system entirely, “the state and its districts no longer fund that student at all.”
Combined, AAF estimated that the one-year declines were associated with between $835 million and $890 million in education funding across Florida and Texas.
“The data is clear — ending Biden’s open borders leads to a lower burden on education budgets,” AAF concluded. “Put more simply, supporting the President’s border-enforcement and deportation policies means more funding for your local schools — nearly one billion dollars in these two states alone, in a single year.”
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/07/23/exclusive-study-estimates-trump-immigration-enforcement-lowered-florida-texas-education-funding-burden-by-up-to-890-million/
Dem Rep. Garcia: After Midterms We Will Investigate ‘Trump Family Corruption’
Pam Key22 Jul 2026
(One of the reasons why democrats are going to lose, they are NUTS and very sick!)
On Wednesday on MS NOW’s “The Beat,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) said that if his party wins the majority, Democrats will investigate the Trump family for “corruption.”
Host Ari Melber said, “Congressman Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, is a key figure on these issues, including what could happen if the Democrats take back subpoena power and win the midterms. Welcome. Happy to be here.
What do you and the committee know about this? Perhaps even beyond some of the public reporting? And what would you do to try to add oversight?”
Garcia said, “Well, first off, there’s no question that this is just unprecedented levels of corruption by Donald Trump, by his famiy. And no American president has ever enriched himself in the billions of dollars, enriched his family, enriched their companies the way Donald Trump is doing.
He’s broken every single rule. And on top of all of what you just laid out, let’s not forget it was the Saudis that gave Jared Kushner $2 billion for an investment firm that they have yet to make any actual investments back on.
And so as Kushner gets more wealthy as the Trump boys cut real estate deals after, you know, Donald Trump lands and is trying to do fake diplomacy, they all continue to get wealthier and dramatically wealthier. The crypto deals, the real estate Trump Tower and then you have things like the Qatar jet and all of these projects and deals.
They reek of real and serious corruption. And we’re investigating every single one of these leads. We have an enormous amount of evidence in front of us. There’s been incredible reporting on all of these items.
And what I will say is, we’re clear-eyed that for us in the Oversight Committee and in the majority, the Trump family corruption is our single largest area that we’re going to be focusing on.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/07/22/dem-rep-garcia-after-midterms-we-will-investigate-trump-family-corruption/
JUST IN: Senate Blocks Iran War Powers Resolution to Restrain Trump After These Four House Republicans Vote with Dems to Advance Measure
by Cristina Laila Jul. 23, 2026
The US Senate on Thursday rejected an Iran war powers resolution to restrain President Trump in a 47 to 49 vote.
RINO Senator Susan Collins voted with the Democrats.
Democrat Senator John Fetterman voted with the Republicans.
Senators Rand Paul and Lisa Murkowski did not vote.
The Senate blocked the war powers resolution after the House earlier Thursday voted 214-208 to pass the measure.
Four Republican congressmen voted with the Democrats to pass the measure: Barrett, Fitzpatrick, Davidson, and Massie.
CBS News reported:
The Senate rejected the latest attempt to rein in President Trump’s war powers in Iran on Thursday, soon after the House adopted a separate measure rebuking the president amid escalations in the conflict in recent days.
In a 47 to 49 vote, one Republican — Susan Collins of Maine — joined Democrats in voting to advance the measure.Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the sole Democrat to oppose. Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Rand Paul of Kentucky, who have previously supported similar war powers efforts, did not vote.
The resolution, led by Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland,would direct the president to “remove the United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Iran, unless explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or a specific authorization for use of military force.”
In late February, Israeli and US forces launched joint military strikes against Iran.
Earlier this month, a ceasefire agreement fell apart after Iran attacked commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz and launched attacks against bases in Jordan.
On Wednesday evening, the US Military launched its 12th consecutive night of strikes against Iran.
18 US service members have been killed in action in the Middle East since the beginning of the Iran war.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/just-senate-blocks-iran-war-powers-resolution-restrain/
How many times was Obama and the Bushes blocked by the War Powers act? None! Their wars were much longer and many more soldiers were killed!