WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August 10 establishing what the administration calls “Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations.” The order seeks to reduce the number of vaccines routinely recommended for all children, space out administrations, and strengthen protections for religious and medical exemptions. Trump signs Executive Order on childhood vaccine schedule - Credit: baltimoresun.com The order divides childhood immunizations int

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s legal troubles escalated this week after a Senate committee formally held him in contempt of Congress. At the same time, multiple states moved to compel his testimony and documents in response to discrepancies between his private diaries and earlier sworn statements.

When the nation’s highest court accepts lavish hospitality from billionaires who have business before it, when family real estate is sold to those same benefactors without timely disclosure, when justices’ spouses earn millions placing lawyers at firms that appear before the Court, and when the only ethics rules on the books lack any real enforcement, ordinary Americans have every right to ask a basic question: Can this Court still claim true independence?

A federal court ruling grounded in the Constitution’s Taxing Clause could reshape how law-abiding Americans acquire certain firearms — and California gun owners are watching closely. On August 5, 2026, U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix of the Northern District of Texas permanently enjoined key registration and approval requirements of the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA) as applied to suppressors (silencers), short-barreled rifles (SBRs), short-barreled shotguns (SBSs)

Seattle’s new democratic socialist mayor is already delivering the predictable results of progressive governance: delayed information, confused leadership, and a police chief who spent more time out of state than on the job when bullets started flying. On Sunday evening, July 26, gunfire erupted at the popular Bite of Seattle food festival near the Space Needle. What authorities later called a targeted, gang-related shootout left three people dead and at least four wounded —

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a statewide Medicaid Integrity Initiative on June 12, 2026, in West Palm Beach, shifting Florida from the traditional “pay and chase” approach to proactive prevention. The results so far—thousands of bad providers removed, tens of millions recovered, and hundreds of questionable behavior analysts blocked—suggest it is one of the more serious state-level efforts currently underway. For high-corruption states drowning in Medicaid waste, particularly

By Shasta Unfiltered July 30, 2026 Texas Democrats’ rising star and U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico built his brand on progressive Christianity, classroom experience, and attacks on “voter fraud witch hunts.” Now records obtained by The Federalist and The Dallas Express show the 37-year-old state representative appears to have used his mother’s Austin address to paper over a residency shortfall when he jumped to a safer House district in 2022. The timing is not subtle. A

After years of legal obstruction, former President Joe Biden’s attorneys abandoned their fight to keep private the audio recordings of his 2016–2017 interviews with memoir ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer. On July 27, the Oversight Project released roughly three hours of the tapes and 117 pages of heavily redacted transcripts. The recordings capture Biden discussing and sharing material he himself identified as classified with a civilian who held no security clearance. Under Execut

American Airlines flights across the United States were temporarily grounded Tuesday evening after a systemwide technology outage disrupted critical operations, prompting the Federal Aviation Administration to issue a nationwide ground stop. The disruption lasted less than an hour, but it cascaded into hundreds of delays and cancellations, complicating travel already strained by East Coast thunderstorms. American Airlines aircraft parked at gates during a period of operationa

Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination on Wednesday and refused to answer questions before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The hearing, chaired by Sen. Rand Paul, followed the release of more than a thousand pages of Fauci’s private diary entries that documented early private doubts about a natural origin of COVID-19 and frustration over gain-of-function funding questions — notes that conflicted with his

The Trump White House is preparing for the holiday season, with First Lady Melania Trump and President Donald J. Trump inviting Americans to participate in the annual tradition of decorating the People’s House and performing during Christmas open houses. Applications are being accepted for two volunteer roles: Christmas decorators and holiday performers. The initiative continues a long-standing custom of welcoming volunteers from across the country to help create a festive at

President Donald Trump delivered a wide-ranging address at the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on July 24, 2026. The speech mixed humor and pointed political commentary. He also reflected on the violent attack that disrupted the original April event, praised law enforcement, provided details of major White House construction projects, shared economic reports, provided foreign policy updates, and offered pointed critiques of political opponents—parti

Photo credit: WhiteHouse.gov President Donald Trump visited General Motors’ historic Milford Proving Ground in Michigan on Monday, marking the first presidential stop at the storied testing facility. Speaking to auto workers, executives, and local officials, Trump framed his administration’s tariffs, deregulation, and manufacturing policies as the driving force behind a resurgence in American auto production, while sharply criticizing prior Democratic leadership and outlining

Kids Handed to Unvetted Sponsors, Separated from Siblings, and Lost by the Tens of Thousands A former caseworker at the Pomona Fairplex Emergency Intake Site has come forward with damning new details about how the Biden-Harris administration’s Health and Human Services Department, under then-Secretary Xavier Becerra, processed unaccompanied migrant children. The whistleblower’s account, delivered to Republican California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, describes a syste

Sen. Rand Paul has released more than a thousand pages of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s personal diary entries spanning December 2019 through December 2022. The documents, obtained through official Senate oversight and posted in the committee’s public “Reading Room,” reveal a consistent gap between what Fauci recorded privately and what he told Congress and the American people about the origins of COVID-19. Senator Rand Paul releases Fauci's personal diaries - Photo credit: spextrumnew

Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the twin pillars of the Colorado River system, are once again near historic lows in July 2026. Lake Mead sits around 1,041–1,042 feet elevation—roughly 27 percent of capacity—hovering near previous record lows. Lake Powell is near 3,523 feet, about 23 percent full. Releases from Glen Canyon Dam have been reduced to 6.0 million acre-feet for the current water year to protect infrastructure and power generation. The Lower Basin is in a Tier 1 shortage