Drone Kills Lebanon Man Minutes After Trump Said Israel Prohibited From Striking

Over 148,000 Mail Ballots Rejected In California's Primary Election, Data Show Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Election data that was provided by California state officials for last month's primary elections show that more than 148,000 mail-in ballots were rejected, an uptick of more than 40,000 from the 2024 primary. Election workers conduct ballot tabulation at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center during California's state primary election in the City of Industry, Calif., on June 2, 2026. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images All in all, 148,241 were rejected in...

President Donald Trump has spoken with Iraqi Kurdish leaders. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believes the Kurds can be used to fight against the Iranian government.  Axios reports that Trump spoke with the leaders of the two main Iraqi Kurdish factions, Masoud Barzani and Bafel Talabani, on Sunday. The calls followed the push from Netanyahu.  According […]

Record Ground Beef Prices May Finally Be Breaking Consumer Demand Last week's retail sales report provided fresh evidence that the K-shaped economy is buckling, with national average gasoline prices still printing above $4 a gallon and discretionary spending weakening. Consumer stress is now surfacing in the grocery aisle: as beef prices hover near record highs, Americans are beginning to trade down to cheaper proteins. Bloomberg cites new data from Chicago-based market research company Circana, showing that beef sales volumes declined .3% during the 13 weeks through mid-July. Volumes had risen about...