Calls for Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race are as loud as they’ve ever been, with some of the president’s most sympathetic voices in media musing that, after a disaster of a debate, it’s time the 81-year-old politician called it quits. Biden’s campaign came out firing against those calls by Friday, however, emphatically stating the president would “absolutely not” be dropping out of the race and that he still plans to debate Donald Trump a second time. Seth Schuster, a...

The Texas Supreme Court upheld a state law on Friday that bans gender-transition medical treatment for minors, overturning a lower-court ruling that had temporarily blocked the law and dealing a blow to parents of transgender children. The court, whose nine elected members are all Republicans, voted 8 to 1 in favor of allowing the law, which passed last year, to remain in effect. It bars doctors from prescribing certain medications to minors, like hormones and puberty blockers, and forbids...

The Supreme Court ruled Friday that Steve Bannon must begin his four-month prison sentence on contempt of Congress charges as his appeal proceeds.  The one-sentence order, which had no public dissents, keeps in place Monday’s deadline for the onetime Trump strategist to report to prison, rejecting Bannon’s emergency effort to delay it.  It makes Bannon the second Trump White House aide to serve prison time in connection with defying a subpoena from the House Jan. 6...

Russia issued an ominous warning over U.S. spy drones in the Black Sea, vowing that its forces will adopt "rapid response measures" to prevent potential incidents in airspace. Russia's Defense Ministry said on Friday that U.S. drones are appearing more frequently over the Black Sea, and accused Washington of using them to conduct reconnaissance and share intelligence with Kyiv to assist with the use of precision weapons supplied by the West.

Oil prices fell on Friday as investors weighed weak U.S. fuel demand and took some money off the table at quarter-end, while key inflation data for May boosted the chances the Federal Reserve will start to cut interest rates this year. Brent crude futures for August settlement , which expired on Friday, settled up 2 cents at $86.41 a barrel. The more liquid September contract fell 0.3% to $85 a barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures settled 20 cents lower, or 0.24%, to $...

In 1960, the New York Yankees fired their legendary manager, Casey Stengel, for being too old. “I’ll never make the mistake of being 70 again,” Stengel quipped. If Democrats dump Joe Biden, the president might want to say the same thing about being 81. The biggest loser of the debate, besides the president himself, was First Lady Jill Biden. One assumes that she was the one with the most influence on her husband’s foolhardy decision to run for a second term and could have persuaded him...

Former President Obama admitted President Biden had a "bad" debate while offering a scathing message to his opponent on Friday following their showdown. In a message on X, Obama conceded that his former vice president failed to deliver a strong showing for the Democratic Party and the American people. "Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know. But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself,"...

Prosecutors on Friday rested their case against Sen. Bob Menendez, the New Jersey senator accused of trading his political influence for gold bars, a Mercedes-Benz, and cash. They spent the past six weeks painting the longtime Democratic senator as a greedy politician who held court in his New Jersey home, rang a tiny silver bell to summon his wife, and puffed on cigars. They claimed he agreed to take hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange to steer aid to Egypt, ...

by Antonius Aquinas, Antonius Aquinas: The tensions between the West and Russia over the Ukraine have escalated over the past few months with an almost daily occurrence of provocations and belligerent talk mostly from members of NATO.  In response, Russia sent a naval contingent to the Caribbean in a show of force.  Some of the […]

by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream: If you had the opportunity to grab natural resources that are worth tens of trillions of dollars and you believed that you could get away with it, would you do it?  A lot of people in western nations are not able to identify Ukraine on a blank […]