Tucker Carlson Outlines 10-Point America First Platform as Third-Party Talk Grows
Carlson called for a fairer, more sovereign and productive United States while suggesting that one or more new political parties may be needed amid his widening break with President Donald Trump over the Iran war.
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Tucker Carlson unveiled a 10-point political framework Wednesday night that he said could restore America First principles, laying out positions on foreign influence, immigration, government secrecy, public health, economic production and national unity as speculation grows about a possible third-party movement.
The journalist and political commentator delivered the platform during a widely anticipated podcast in which some viewers expected him to announce the creation of a new party following his split with President Donald Trump over U.S. involvement in the war between Israel and Iran.
Carlson stopped short of making such an announcement but suggested that the country’s current two-party structure may no longer be adequate.
A third party “or multiple parties” could be necessary, he said.
“Is that the best system? I don’t know. It’s better than the one we have,” Carlson said during the podcast presentation.
Carlson’s break with Trump intensified after he criticized U.S. support for last year’s 12-day conflict between Israel and Iran.
The disagreement has placed him among a group of former Trump allies who contend that the administration has moved away from its pledge to place American interests first.
“So, here are the 10 things that when all is said and done, America should be and probably has been in the past, but certainly should be,” Carlson said….
Pentagon Develops Tactical Nuclear War Plan for Possible Conflict With Russia or China
The Pentagon is preparing a new nuclear strategy intended to expand the United States’ options for responding to a possible regional war involving Russia or China, with planners reportedly giving greater weight to shorter-range tactical nuclear weapons, according to a CBS News report.
The developing doctrine focuses on scenarios in which Moscow or Beijing attacks a U.S. ally and Washington considers a limited nuclear response.
Rather than relying primarily on long-range strategic missiles capable of striking an adversary’s homeland, the proposal would provide the president with additional weapons designed for battlefield use or attacks against specific military targets.
The strategy is being overseen by Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon’s policy chief, who has argued that the threat of massive strategic retaliation may not be credible in every regional confrontation.
“The strategy, overseen by Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon’s policy chief, would place greater emphasis on shorter-range tactical nuclear weapons in the event of a regional war, rather than relying on long-range strategic missiles,” The Telegraph reported Wednesday.
A senior Department of War official said the administration wants a wider range of realistic responses available to President Donald Trump.
“Our view is that we need credible nuclear options,” the official told NBC News.
The official said the revised policy would “expand the President’s option space by providing him with realistic and credible options and therefore strengthen deterrence.”
Tactical nuclear weapons generally carry smaller warheads and have shorter ranges than strategic systems.
They are designed for use against military formations, bases or other defined targets rather than the destruction of entire cities or an adversary’s full nuclear force…
HHS says Network for Hope compromised safety, betrayed trust
Network for Hope, whose stated mission is to “honor, save, and heal lives by empowering people, enhancing capabilities, and expanding the impact of organ, tissue, and eye donation,” serves Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, and West Virginia.
Federal investigations by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), two operating agencies under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), have revealed severe, persistent patient safety failures across nearly 30% of examined cases.
According to the government, the organization pushed to harvest organs from patients who showed signs of life or awareness.
Network of Hope reportedly ignored medical staff warnings regarding reflexes and neurological functions and relied on high-risk protocols without required safety checks.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said every donor, family, and patient deserves complete confidence that our organ donation system is safe, ethical, and worthy of their trust.
“We will not tolerate organizations that compromise patient safety or betray the trust of donors or their families,” he stated.
Responding to this on Fox News Channel, Dr. Marc Siegel said it is a widespread problem, due in part to there not being a “consensus” on death.
“This organization is using something called circulatory death, where your heart stops if you withdraw the care, and the lungs aren’t working, but your brain may still be working,” he explained.
Siegel went on to say that a patient can be on a sedative and appear dead when he or she is still alive…..
AI Designs New Viruses in Lab First
Key Takeaways
- Researchers used AI to design complete viral genomes for the first time.
- Sixteen lab-made bacteriophages successfully killed E. coli bacteria.
- Scientists say the work could help treat antibiotic-resistant infections.
- Experts also warned the breakthrough raises urgent biosafety and Biosecurity questions.
Artificial intelligence has designed new viruses in a laboratory first, with US researchers reporting that AI-created genomes produced 16 working viruses that can reproduce and kill bacteria.
The work marks the first time whole genomes have been successfully designed by AI, a step scientists say could open new paths for medicine while also sharpening concerns about misuse.
The viruses were bacteriophages, which infect only certain bacteria and do not threaten people.
Researchers at Stanford University used AI models called Evo1 and Evo2, which were trained on genetic codes from viruses, bacteria, plants and people.
They then refined the systems to generate phages, selected the most promising 302 designs, and synthesized them in the lab. Of those, 16 proved effective at killing E. coli.
Brian Hie, an assistant professor at Stanford, said the work pushed into new territory for generative AI.
Samuel King, a PhD student in the lab, said the team realized the phages were working in the early hours of the morning when clear spots began appearing on petri dishes covered with bacteria. Hie said the room later burst into applause when the results were shared.
The immediate promise is medical. New phages could help develop treatments for infections that no longer respond well to antibiotics.
Hie argued the broader potential of AI-designed biology could “massively improve human health” by supporting new drugs and therapies.
The study also points to a wider shift in synthetic biology, where computer systems may increasingly be used to design biological functions rather than only analyze them…
Thune And Cotton Are Shielding John Brennan From DOJ — Republican Senate Is Blocking Its Own Party’s Investigation
Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton have quietly blocked the Justice Department from obtaining transcripts it needs to prosecute former CIA Director John Brennan for allegedly lying to Congress — and they’ve been doing it for months, according to reporting by John Solomon at Just the News.
Earlier this year, DOJ sent letters to both the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence Committees demanding fully unredacted transcripts of Brennan’s testimony regarding the Russia collusion investigation — including records tied to the now-debunked Intelligence Community Assessment and the Steele dossier.
The letters set a hard deadline of February 23. That deadline came and went. So did the next two months.
All that is required to transmit the evidence is a floor resolution and a simple Senate vote. Neither has happened.
Thune’s team told DOJ they are trying to secure “unanimous consent” rather than hold a floor vote — which means a single Democrat can hold the entire investigation hostage.
The House, by contrast, already voted to hand over its version of the same evidence weeks ago.
The obstruction is all the more striking because it involves a Republican-controlled Senate refusing to help a Republican-controlled executive branch prosecute a figure that the same Senate referred for prosecution in the first place.
Jim Jordan’s House Judiciary Committee sent a criminal referral on Brennan to DOJ in October 2025, alleging he made false statements about the CIA’s use of the Steele dossier in drafting the 2017 ICA — the fraudulent document that set Russiagate in motion.
Prosecutors in Fort Pierce, Florida — led by veteran attorney Joe diGenova, who was appointed to lead the Russia collusion accountability case — need the Senate transcripts to complete the evidentiary picture.
DiGenova is a former U.S. Attorney who prosecuted D.C. Mayor Marion Barry and convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.
The stakes could not be higher: this is a grand jury investigation into whether Obama and Biden-era officials weaponized intelligence tools to destroy Donald Trump and his supporters….
North Korea May Be Deploying Ballistic Missiles To Russia — Or Ukraine’s Intelligence Service Wants You To Think So
Reuters reported Wednesday that Andrii Cherniak — a spokesman for Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence — is claiming that a dedicated North Korean ballistic missile unit has begun positioning in Russia’s Voronezh Oblast, potentially fielding 120 ballistic missiles and six mobile launchers, with approximately 90 North Korean troops already on the ground.
Reuters added the standard caveat: it could not independently verify the Ukrainian intelligence official’s claims. Moscow and Pyongyang did not respond. That caveat deserves considerably more weight than it typically receives in Western coverage.
The source here is Kyiv’s military intelligence directorate — an institution with a documented interest in maximizing Western alarm about Russian capabilities and coalition-building.
That does not make the claim false. It does mean the claim should be treated as a data point from an interested party, not established fact.
North Korean troops have been present in the theater since at least late 2024, and Kim Jong-un himself has acknowledged casualties — so some level of North Korean involvement is not in dispute.
Whether Pyongyang has now escalated to deploying an autonomous ballistic missile brigade is a materially different and much larger claim, and one for which the only current source is the Ukrainian government….
Immigration Courts Triple Monthly Removal Orders as Trump Administration Cuts Case Backlog
Federal immigration courts sharply increased the pace of deportation orders during the first half of 2026, giving the Trump administration a larger pool of migrants who can be arrested and removed with relatively few remaining legal options.
Immigration judges ordered 79,000 removals in June, compared with approximately 25,000 in December 2024, according to data cited in a Breitbart News report.
The increase followed changes to court procedures, the appointment of additional judges and the removal of policies that had delayed or restricted deportation proceedings during former President Joe Biden’s administration.
Andrew Arthur, a former immigration judge who now works for the Center for Immigration Studies, said the courts are resolving cases at an unusually rapid pace.
“They are plowing through these cases like a freaking snowplow in Utah snow,” Arthur said. “They’ve dropped the backlog from nearly 4 million down to less than 3.5 million.”
New kind of flu shot is on the way as the FDA approves Moderna’s mRNA-based vaccine
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new kind of flu vaccine for older people, the first made with the same mRNA technology that was key to ending the COVID-19 pandemic, manufacturer Moderna said.
The shot, named mFlusiva, is intended for adults age 50 or older.
Other brands of flu shots already have begun arriving in pharmacies ahead of fall vaccination season, and Moderna said late Wednesday that it expects some of its new version to be available soon at select retailers.
While there already are multiple flu vaccine options in the U.S., including three specifically recommended for people age 65 or older, tens of thousands of Americans die from influenza every year and older adults are among the most vulnerable.
Flu vaccines must be updated annually to best match circulating strains of the virus.
Vaccines made with the Nobel Prize-winning mRNA technology are faster to manufacturer than other types, and experts say this additional option might help if the shape-shifting flu virus mutates in a way that requires suddenly brewing new doses.
Moderna said the FDA granted full approval for mFlusiva’s use in people ages 50 to 64, based on a study of 40,000 people that found 27% fewer flu cases among people who got the new shot compared with those who got a different common flu vaccine brand.
For people 65 or older, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based manufacturer said the FDA granted what’s called accelerated approval for the shot — based on a smaller study showing it generated a strong immune response compared with an existing high-dose vaccine for seniors – while it conducts an additional study…
McConnell absence foils GOP plans to advance farm bill before August recess
A vote on the farm bill failed in the Senate Agriculture Committee on Thursday due to the prolonged absence of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and unified opposition from Democrats.
Sen. John Boozman (R-AR), the committee chairman, had hoped to send the legislation, a sweeping bill addressing agriculture and food assistance programs, to the Senate floor before lawmakers departed for the August recess.
But the vote was all but doomed to fail because of an impasse on food stamps, and how Republicans changed it as part of their party-line tax law last year.
White House launches fraud dashboard, touts success
The Trump administration unveiled a dashboard on Thursday to track fraud investigations and enforcement actions.
The dashboard, Fraud.gov, reports that the administration uncovered $229.9 billion in fraud since January 2025.
The dashboard said the administration stopped $56.4 billion in annualized fraud and $55.5 billion from indictments or settlements.
The administration’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, formally announced in February, sought to partner with agencies across the executive branch to combat fraud.
The dashboard reports three figures from each executive agency: fraud uncovered, fraud stopped and fraud enforced.
Fraud uncovered counts totals estimated through data analysis, fraud stopped represents agency actions and fraud enforced tracks how much money each agency recovered in pursuing fraud.
The Small Business Administration leads all other executive agencies in uncovered fraud at $122.9 billion, and $22.6 billion recovered since January 2025.
The SBA referred 562,000 borrowers with $22.2 billion in fraudulent Payment Protection Program funds to the U.S. Treasury Department as part of the effort, according to the dashboard.
California topped the country with 115,879 suspensions and $8.7 billion in fraudulent funds taken.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services came behind the SBA in fraud spending, with $96.2 billion in uncovered fraud since January 2025. Of that fraud, $30.5 billion has been enforced.
The Department of Labor followed with $7 billion in uncovered fraud and $1.6 billion enforced, while the Department of Education reported $2 billion in fraud and $35 million enforced.
Canadian woman accused of attacking teen wearing Trump clothing has been deported
Kaitlyn Tracey, a Canadian woman who was accused last month of assaulting a teen wearing clothing bearing the words “Trump” and “ICE,” has been ordered to return to her home country.
Kaitlyn E. Tracey, 33, approached a group of four girls on the Point Pleasant Beach boardwalk on July 3 and recorded them with her phone, according to court documents.
She allegedly yelled at two people wearing “patriotic colored” sweatpants before she slapped the victim across her face and body, according to an affidavit of probable cause. The victim wasn’t injured.
Tracey left the area.
Using surveillance video, police later identified, arrested and charged her with endangering the welfare of a child, simple assault, harassment and obstruction.
She is a Canadian citizen who entered the U.S. with a passport in 2024. The visa expired on Sept. 6, 2024, Fox News reported.
An immigration judge in Texas ordered Tracey deported to Canada on Tuesday.
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security told Fox News that Tracey received full due process, and U.S. Customers and Immigration Enforcement will return her home “as soon as possible.”
2 IDF troops killed in Hezbollah blast; IRGC: Iran will keep nuclear program TV7 Israel News 6 Aug.
1) Two IDF soldiers were killed and four others sustained critical injuries in an IED explosion attributed to Hezbollah – drawing Israeli retaliatory strikes.
2) IRGC Commander in Chief Ahmad Vahidi asserts that “As long as the United States and Israel possess nuclear weapons, (Iran will) continue working” on its own nuclear weapons program.
3) U.S. President Donald Trump stresses his hope for a negotiated solution with Iran.
Florida ‘house of horrors’ discovered as four children rescued from flea-ridden home and four adults arrested
Florida authorities have rescued four children from what they have called a “house of horrors” – where they had been sleeping on flea-ridden mattresses and in urine-soaked conditions.
Four people have been charged in connection with the investigation, which kicked off when officials from the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office visited an address in Florahome, around 60 miles from Jacksonville.
According to an arrest report obtained by People, a caseworker from the Department of Children and Families had asked the PCSO to investigate the home of a baby who had severe diaper rash and weight loss.
Medics determined that the baby’s vital signs were so weak that the baby could have died if authorities had not intervened.
Two other children were also removed from the home and placed into DCF care, along with the baby.
However, a second search warrant was obtained by the PCSO on July 28, allowing them to investigate the home and remove the fourth child.
In a social media post obtained by ABC4, Putnam County Sheriff Homer DeLoach III said that “words cannot describe the house of horrors” that the children were living in.
“Animal feces and urine everywhere, black mold, flies – small children trying to navigate hazardous flooring conditions – and the sad part is they have grown around all of this, not knowing they were dealt the absolute worst conditions I can imagine living in a first world country,” he said.
According to an arrest report Jodie Danielle Cannon, was arrested and charged with aggravated child neglect with great bodily harm and child neglect….
Victor Davis Hanson: Spain Is Overrun by Migrants
Spain’s border crisis is escalating after thousands of migrants entered the city of Ceuta during an overnight invasion.
Countries across Europe are responding, immigration has become such a major issue, and this is exactly why the United States has been adamant that we have a wall.
Hanson also discusses why more governments are calling for stronger borders and stricter enforcement of immigration laws.
BLACKS & WHITES & VITAMIN D-are we overdosing?
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Michael Savage explores the physiological differences in vitamin D absorption based on skin pigmentation and latitude. Drawing on an academic background in nutrition, the discussion examines whether standardized supplement recommendations effectively serve diverse populations or if they ignore critical biological distinctions in how different groups process nutrients.
Washington Primary Election Results: Key Congressional Matchups Are Set
Washington’s primary election has set the stage for several closely watched congressional races heading into November.
In Central Washington’s 4th Congressional District, Trump-backed Yakima County Commissioner Amanda McKinney advanced to the general election after leading a crowded Republican field. She will face Democrat John Dureski in November.
Meanwhile, in Southwest Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, incumbent Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez advanced alongside Republican State Sen. John Braun, setting up one of the state’s most competitive congressional races.
This episode breaks down the latest primary election results, candidate reaction, and what the outcomes could mean as Washington heads toward the November general election.
Off-duty Dallas ISD officer shot near Northwest Dallas store
What we know:
It happened around 11 a.m. on Thursday in a shopping center off the LBJ Freeway near Midway Road. There are Walmart and Sam’s Club stores in that area.
Images from SKY 4 showed dozens of police vehicles from multiple agencies in the store parking lot and in the alleyways near the scene. Crime scene tape surrounded a police vehicle and blood stains.
Sources told FOX 4 the shooting involved an off-duty Dallas Independent School District officer, and the suspect was someone he had taken into custody.
The officer was taken to Parkland Hospital with injuries that are critical, according to the sources.
What we don’t know:
Official sources have not yet confirmed the shooting or that an officer was injured.
It’s still not clear if the suspect is in custody.
This shooting does not appear to be related to another officer-involved shooting that happened around the same time just a few miles away in a North Dallas neighborhood, but FOX 4 is still working to get clarification.
Dallas ISD officer shot in store parking lot
JOHN SOLOMON: The Single Greatest Intrusion On Our Elections Over The Last Six Years Wasn’t Foreign. It Came From The FBI And The CIA
McKinney City Council Approves New Islamic Center Despite Heated Opposition
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The McKinney City Council voted 7-0 to approve a site plan for a 15,000-square-foot Islamic center, classroom, and gym on 5.5 acres near Virginia Parkway and Crutcher Crossing. Opponents, including an Iranian-born survivor of Sharia and U.S. Rep. Keith Self, warned of ideological clashes with the Constitution and cited historical concerns. Supporters stressed religious freedom for the growing community, following unanimous backing from city planners and the Planning and Zoning Commission. More steps like traffic studies lie ahead amid ongoing local tensions.
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Declassified FBI Files Reveal 2020 Maricopa Voter Data Breach
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The intruder used a PowerShell script from October 21 to November 2, 2020, pulling records with nonpublic information before the county patched the vulnerability. FBI agents traced it to a Fountain Hills resident who confessed, destroyed the data, and claimed no intent to misuse it, but prosecutors in Phoenix, Arizona AG, and county offices all declined charges, closing the case in 2023. Released August 4, 2026, by the White House task force, the documents highlight election security gaps, though no votes were altered and the county called the publicly accessible data a minor issue.
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