The Independent

 Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch has given Joe Biden a terse warning over the president’s plans to shake up the structure of the Supreme Court.“I just say: Be careful,” Gorsuch told Fox News Sunday.The justice, appointed by Donald Trump, did not weigh in directly about Biden’s proposed term limits and other reforms for the court, saying it would not be “helpful” during an election year, but emphasized how important it is for the high court to remain independent. “If you’re in the majority, you don’t need judges and juries, to hear you, to protect your rights, if you’re popular,”...

Justice Neil Gorsuch gives two-word warning to Biden over Supreme Court reforms

BIN: Black Information Network

A Republican group claimed Vice President Kamala Harris is ineligible to run for president, citing a racist Supreme Court ruling from over 170 years ago.

GOP Group Claims Dred Scott Ruling Makes Harris Ineligible For Presidency

WashingtonExaminer

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said Tuesday that the Biden family will “finally” be held accountable for their foreign business dealings House Republicans unveiled their impeachment report against President Joe Biden on Monday, in which Comer said they discovered that Biden created over a dozen shell companies to launder money from adversaries of […]

Biden family ‘finally’ to be held accountable for foreign dealings: James Comer

Missouri State

For more than a decade, former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill held a crucial seat for Democrats in a state otherwise dominated by Republicans. But in his first reelection since unseating two-term McCaskill in 2018, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has turned the once-competitive Show-Me State seat into a GOP sanctuary that’s out of reach for Democrats […]

Josh Hawley turns once-blue Missouri Senate seat into ruby-red refuge

Los Angeles County, CA

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Herbie J Pilato

It's been 33 years since actress Nancy Kulp died of cancer in 1991 at 69. Best known as Miss Jane Hathaway on TV's classic country comedy, The Beverly Hillbillies(CBS, 1962-1971, Kulp was a trailblazing political advocate. She was a Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania’s 9th congressional district. She later worked as an artist-in-residence at Juniata College and taught acting. And she was also gay. Long divorced, she came out of the closet at the age of 67 and acknowledged she was a lesbian. This is her story.

The Secret Gay Life of Nancy Kulp ('The Beverly Hillbillies'): 33 Years After Her Tragic Death

It's been 14 years since actor James MacArthur died of natural causes at only 72 years old. Best known as Danny “Danno” Williams on the original TV adaptation of Hawaii Five-0 (the famed crime-adventure series, CBS, 1968-1980), MacArthur was the adopted son of acting legend Helen Hayes. This is his story.

'Hawaii Five-0'' Actor James MacArthur Was Adopted by Helen Hayes): A Look Back at His Tragic Death

Hawaii State

Fox News

Sen. Mazie Hirono easily won her second Senate re-election campaign in Hawaii and is the favorite to win a third term in November.

Mazie Hirono wins Hawaii Senate primary, setting Dems up for much-needed November win

Phoenix, AZ

PHOENIX — An appeals court in Arizona upheld the trial court’s injunction requiring Phoenix to remove homeless encampments in an area called “the zone” and to keep the are from becoming a “public nuisance.” The city owns the property, so it must maintain it and keep it free of nuisance and biohazardous material; there was enough evidence of “persistent violence, drug use, other crime, human waste and litter” in the zone that allowed the lower court to conclude that its harm was “more than ‘relatively slight.’”

Phoenix must take down the zone

Maine State

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Sagadahoc County, ME

Lewiston, ME

The Maine Monitor

Editor’s note: This story contains references to suicide. When a bill to strengthen Maine’s yellow flag law went into effect earlier this month, Sagadahoc County Sheriff Joel Merry said he felt a sense of relief.

Law enforcement officers can now get a warrant to take someone into protective custody

Los Angeles, CA

LOS ANGELES (CN) — Four men charged in the murder of actor Johnny Wactor appeared in court Thursday for their arraignment. Three pleaded not guilty while the fourth, charged with robbery and currently out on bail, pleaded guilty. The 37-year-old Wactor, a workaday actor who appeared sporadically on a...

Teen pleads guilty, 3 fight charges in shooting death of ‘General Hospital’ actor

Minnesota State

 Hundreds of former staffers who worked for President George H. W. Bush, President George W. Bush, Senator John McCain and Senator Mitt Romney have published an open letter asking fellow Republicans to vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in November.The group of more than 200 people warns that another four “chaotic” years of Donald Trump “will hurt real, everyday people and weaken our sacred institutions”.They raised concerns about Project 2025, the 900-page plan authored by former Trump aides and endorsed by The Hertiage Foundation, as well as the former president’s potential to grovel to dictators like Vladimir Putin.“Of...

More than 200 Republicans who worked for Bush, McCain and Romney endorse Harris

Georgia State

Winder, GA

Daily Coffee Press

A 50-year-old former jailer has been charged by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) with cruelty to inmates and violation of oath of office. On Sunday, July 21, the Barrow County Sheriff’s Office requested the GBI to investigate an incident involving one of their jailers, Lolita Lightner of Winder, Georgia.

Former Jailer at Georgia County Jail Arrested

Wyoming State

Cheyenne, WY

WyoFile

WHITE MOUNTAIN—“That’s a lot of horses,” lamented Cheyenne resident Robyn Smith from a high-desert ridgeline. It wasn’t her first exasperated exclamation. “Argh, oh crap,” was her immediate reaction to learning a federal judge had given the Bureau of Land Management the OK to proceed with plans to fully remove two wild horse herds from the landscape in southwest Wyoming.

BLM wins two lawsuits, clearing way for elimination of two Wyoming wild horse herds

New Orleans, LA

NEW ORLEANS — A federal court in Louisiana denied six Orleans Parish prison deputies’ effort to dismiss excessive force claims brought against them on the argument that the detainee is only alleging his handcuffs were too tight. The magistrate found their characterization is “inconsistent” with the detainee’s alleged injuries and his claim that the deputies used a shield to “slam him to the floor” and choke him.

More than tight handcuffs

NewsNation

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) took aim Monday at Vice President Harris’s foreign policy chops, saying Harris does not elicit fear in the country’s adversaries overseas. “The only person that our adversaries fear less than Joe Biden is Kamala Harris,” Johnson said in an interview on “Fox & Friends” with Brian Kilmeade, saying that’s true “whether […]

Speaker Johnson: Harris is only person US adversaries fear less than Biden

Chicago, IL

Palm Springs Tribune

Taylor Swift broke Wembley stadium records playing the venue eight times in a single tour at her final London show in of the Eras Tour and debuted her track So Long London live from her latest album, Tortured Poets Department . The timing of her last European performance is politically intriguing, as it coincides with the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where she might have the opportunity to endorse Kamala Harris for President.

Taylor Swift’s Potential DNC Appearance and Endorsement of Kamala Harris: Will It Happen?

Oregon State

California State

(CN) — After more than a century of being blocked by a series of dams, the Klamath River is once again free-flowing after two cofferdams in northern California were breached on Wednesday, according to the office of Governor Gavin Newsom. Letting the river flow without being constrained by dams...

Klamath River and its salmon free-flowing after final two dams breached in California

VIENNA (AP) — Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels in defiance of international demands, a confidential report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said Thursday. The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency, seen by The Associated Press, said that as...

Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels, UN says

Salem, OH

Northern Kentucky Tribune

Every day, 8-year-old Emma sits in a small garden outside her grandmother’s home in Salem, Ohio, writing letters to her mom and sometimes singing songs her mother used to sing to her.

Thousands of parents die of overdoses; advocates say their kids need more help

OAKLAND, Calif. — Merck & Co., the pharmacology giant that manufactures the anti-inflammatory treatment montelukast aka Singulair, defeated product liability claims in a California federal court. Patients sued, alleging montelukast can cause neuropsychiatric events and homicidal thoughts, as the drug crosses the blood-brain barrier. The Singulair label warns users that this can happen, and nothing on the record suggests the label warnings are inadequate for physicians prescribing montelukast to adults.

Singulair warnings OK’d

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Biden taps trio of federal court nominees

WASHINGTON (CN) — The Biden administration on Wednesday announced three more nominees for U.S. district courts as it aims to surpass the Trump administration’s judicial confirmations...

Biden taps trio of federal court nominees

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