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Aaron Ford’s Role in Paramount Blockade Raises Netflix Influence Questions

August 17, 2026 10:13 amAugust 17, 2026 10:13 am

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford’s decision to join a 12-state coalition suing to block Paramount’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery looked, at first glance, like a routine antitrust action. Closer examination of the players, funding, and beneficiaries suggests...

Medical Federalism and Freedom to Heal

August 17, 2026 9:00 amAugust 17, 2026 9:01 am

The ability of a doctor and patient to unite and carry out their respective roles in the art of healing has been almost completely blocked over the past 75 years in America. It is because healing, which is a non-political...

FBI Crime Report: Largest Year-to-Year Decline in Violent Crime Rates Since FBI Estimations Began in 1936

August 17, 2026 6:30 amAugust 17, 2026 7:02 pm

FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting data released on Friday for calendar year 2025 shows 2024 to 2025 marked the largest year-to-year decline in violent crime rates since FBI estimations began in 1936. Even with the significant decline in violent and property...

Mangione and His Cold-Blooded Cult

August 16, 2026 8:00 amAugust 16, 2026 8:00 am

Luigi Mangione is no folk hero. He is a premeditated murderer who gunned down a husband and father of two in broad daylight. Then he sat in federal court this week and admitted it under oath. He told the judge....

The Broken Compass and the Centennial Catastrophe: A Polling Industry that Keeps Promising Outcomes it Cannot Deliver

August 15, 2026 9:00 amAugust 17, 2026 10:41 am

America just threw itself a 250th birthday party, and the polling that came with it reads like a physician’s chart for a patient in trouble. A PBS NewsHour/Marist survey released for the semiquincentennial found that 37 percent of Americans —...

Flock Off: Five Arizona Cities Drop Contracts, Pinal County Declines Renewal; Four More Restrict Use Or Investigate Misuse

August 14, 2026 1:57 pmAugust 14, 2026 1:57 pm

Arizona’s retreat from Flock Safety’s automated license plate reader network has spread to five cities and Pinal County, while four other municipal police departments have suspended the system, restricted data sharing, tightened search controls or opened investigations into alleged misuse....

REPORT: Xavier Becerra’s HHS Funneled Nearly $80 Million to CAIR and Terror-Linked Islamist Groups

August 14, 2026 1:38 pmAugust 15, 2026 9:02 am

A significant portion of nearly $80 million in U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) grants to organizations with documented ties to terrorism and extremism flowed to California, according to reporting from Just the News drawing on a Middle...