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The Associated Press reports: U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the share of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high, according to federal data posted Thursday. The fraction of kids exempted from vaccine requirements rose to 4.1%, up from 3.7% the year before. It’s the third record-breaking year in a row for the exemption rate, …

NPR reports: The Department of Defense has reversed a decision to stop sharing satellite weather data that hurricane forecasters rely on. In June, the Navy announced that it would stop sharing the crucial information about storms, as peak hurricane season loomed in the Atlantic. In response, scientists and weather forecasters expressed fear that the missing data could lead to less …

CBS News reports: The White House will undergo a $200 million extensive renovation of its East Wing, President Donald Trump’s latest construction project of the executive mansion. Construction will begin in September on an approximately 90,000 square foot White House state ballroom with a 650-person seating capacity. Trump and other “patriot donors” will pay for the $200 million-dollar renovation, according …

“Look at these presidents. We were just talking about your typical standard president, I noticed something about these guys. I want to take you through it. They all got into politics young. And there’s nothing wrong with getting into politics young. But — and then they became president. They started working their way up the ladder. President Trump got into …

“Insightful. Women are built to be traded to another tribe (or captured) and slide seamlessly into their new culture. That keeps them safe, even though they are physically weak. 20 years after they are captured, they are the matriarchs who enforce that culture. “That is why women conform to the dominant culture, and thereby amplify that culture. IMO, that is why …

New Haven’s ABC affiliate reports: State police say former WWE CEO Vince McMahon was issued a misdemeanor summons for reckless driving after allegedly causing a multi-vehicle crash on the Merritt Parkway last week. According to an accident report from Connecticut State Police, the three-vehicle crash happened in the area of Exit 41 on Route 15 North around 9:22 a.m. on …

Mediaite reports: Alan Dershowitz said he is suing a Martha’s Vineyard food vendor who refused to serve the former Harvard Law professor pierogi because of his politics. Dershowitz, a former Democrat who represented President Donald Trump in the first impeachment trial, has frequently lamented his pariah status on Martha’s Vineyard, the posh vacation spot for the wealthy and often liberal. …

Axios reports: Elon Musk’s new political party is so far a no-go on the launch pad. A Musk-backed “America Party” could disrupt the midterms and escalate his feud with President Trump. But “Musk has read the room,” said Dan Ives, a Wedbush Securities analyst who’s followed him for decades. The rockets-to-robotaxis billionaire hasn’t taken visible steps to make formal filings …

“It’s very early on, but I know that the process is supposed to be the pain, that they wanna drag this out. I can’t see them wanting to make it to discovery. I just don’t see that happening. I think they’ll fake kill Brigitte first. Like they’ll be like, ‘Oh, Brigitte passed away from stress because of what Candace did. …

The New York Times reports: Lee Zeldin said on Tuesday the Trump administration would revoke the scientific determination that underpins the government’s legal authority to combat climate change. Speaking on a conservative podcast called “Ruthless,” Mr. Zeldin said the E.P.A. planned to rescind the 2009 declaration, known as the “endangerment finding,” which concluded that planet-warming greenhouse gases pose a threat …

“There’s talk of more police officers. There’s talk of, you know, more omnipresence. But we need to deputize ourselves. Sean, let’s take you as an example. My understanding is you train really hard in MMA. I’m guessing you train with your firearm, as well. [Hannity: ‘I do.’] We each need to empower ourselves not to be a victim. Bystander apathy …

The Hill reports: In the immediate hours after at least four people were fatally shot, including an off-duty police officer, after a man carrying a long gun opened fire in Manhattan, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle began taking familiar sides in the gun control debate. On Fox News, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) suggested that gun control laws would …

NewsNation reports: Heston Cobb, 21, who goes by “Heston James” on his now-deleted TikTok account that had 1.6 million followers, was arrested at his home in Tempe on Wednesday, according to a Tempe Police Department statement. The department said between the months of March and July, businesses in the area started reporting several instances of a group of men coming …

NewsNation reports: One Tennessee school district will no longer accept doctors’ notes to excuse an absence despite objections from parents. Lawrence County School System officials said the school is instituting the policy to teach students work ethic and reliability, saying that students will be expected to go to work sick or injured as adults. With no federally mandated sick leave, …

The New York Post reports: President Trump will sign an executive order Thursday calling on states and cities to “remove vagrant individuals” from the streets — and rehouse homeless people, drug addicts, and those suffering from mental problems in “treatment centers.”  States and municipalities that already crackdown on open illicit drug use and urban camping, loitering or squatting, and tracking …

The Hill reports: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, is calling on the Justice Department (DOJ) to charge former senior national health adviser Anthony Fauci with lying to Congress to test whether former President Biden’s pardon of Fauci will hold up in court. “I do believe Anthony Fauci committed a felony by lying to Congress,” …

The Guardian reports: One of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the US says he caught measles in west Texas and traveled back home – but he seems not to have alerted local authorities of his illness, which means the highly transmissible virus may have spread onward. Brian Hooker, chief scientific officer of Children’s Health Defense, filmed an interview in …

“James Comey’s FBI rigged the Hillary Clinton investigation so we would, you know, we would never know how badly she damaged our national security when they didn’t probe those crucial thumb drives. What a colossal cover-up this has been. It is a huge cover-up. They’ve tried to push a narrative that basically they want to change our country that’s something …

NBC News reports: The Coca-Cola Company said Tuesday that it will launch a version of its signature drink made with U.S. cane sugar. The announcement comes days after President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he had “been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so.” …

Snopes reports: In mid-July 2025, after Bahrain’s Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa visited the Oval Office to meet with U.S. President Trump, an image comparison began circulating online. The pair of images showed how the Oval Office looked during the Biden administration compared to its appearance a few months into Trump’s second term. A Snopes reader wrote in …