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Trump denies cover-up in Jeffrey Epstein case | 13 July 2025 | U.S. President Donald Trump has pushed back against claims of a cover-up in the Jeffrey Epstein case, defending his administration's handling of the release of files related to the disgraced financier CIA/Mossad asset and convicted sex offender's death in jail. Some of Trump's allies, including journalist Tucker Carlson and former adviser Steve Bannon, have criticized a report by the Department of Justice and the FBI, which found no evidence of a list of powerful individuals to whom Epstein trafficked underage girls. The report also found no signs of foul play in Epstein's 2019 death at a Manhattan correctional facility, which was ruled a suicide. In a Truth Social post on Saturday, Trump claimed that the Epstein Files were created by prominent Democrats, including former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. "They created the Epstein Files, just like they created the FAKE Hillary Clinton/Christopher Steele Dossier that they used on me, and now my so-called 'friends' are playing right into their hands," he wrote.

Tucker Carlson: govt is 'covering up' Epstein files to protect U.S., Israeli intelligence services | 8 July 2025 | Tucker Carlson believes the government is "covering up" the Epstein files to protect U.S. and Israeli intelligence services. The former Fox News host is leading a MAGA backlash against the Trump admins' failure to deliver on its promise to release Epstein's anticipated "client list." Trump and his allies had long teased the release of significant information about the disgraced Epstein’s mysterious death and a list of influential figures linked to his crimes. But in a major U-turn this week, Attorney General Pam Bondi said there is no evidence Epstein was murdered or that he kept anything amounting to a "client list." On his podcast today, Tucker said it was "obvious" that Bondi was "covering up crimes." "The only other explanation that I can think of...is that intel services are at the very center of this story, U.S. and Israeli, and they're being protected," he said.

'I Won't Miss,' Texas Man Wrote in Alleged Threat to Assassinate Trump | 13 July 2025 | Police in San Antonio arrested a Texas man Thursday night after he allegedly threatened to assassinate President Donald Trump. The alleged threat was made in a Facebook post, where the man reportedly wrote, "I won't miss." San Antonio police officers arrested 52-year-old Robert Herrera for threatening to assassinate President Trump via a Facebook post. The threat happened three days before the first anniversary of the attack that nearly took the then-presidential candidate's life. "I won’t miss,” Herrera wrote on Facebook in response to an article posted by a San Antonio news outlet's coverage of the president's planned trip to the Texas Hill Country, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas reported on Friday.

Secret Service officials were aware of 'classified threat' 10 days before Butler assassination attempt, failed to tell agents guarding Trump | 12 July 2025 | Senior-level Secret Service officials failed to share "classified threat information" related to President Trump with those assigned to protect him during the Pennsylvania campaign rally where he was nearly assassinated, according to a congressional watchdog report. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) found the classified intelligence had been presented to Secret Service officials a full 10 days before the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt in Butler, but the agency's "siloed practice for sharing" sensitive information resulted in few being aware of the threat against Trump's life. The nature of the threat, described as "highly classified" by Secret Service officials in the report, is not explained.

Secret Service agent suspended over Trump assassination attempt is unmasked - as widow of firefighter killed blasts agency | 10 July 2025 | A Secret Service agent suspended over the attempted assassination of Donald Trump failed to secure the perimeter of the campaign rally, it has been revealed, as the heartbroken widow of a firefighter shot dead in the botched attack hit out. Myosoty Perez was one of six agents suspended for between 10 and 42 days following the July 13, 2024 attack in Butler, Pennsylvania. She was sent to the location of the rally ahead of time and was specifically tasked with helping to secure the surrounds, the New York Post revealed. Shooter Thomas Crooks, 20, fired off eight shots from a nearby rooftop, narrowly missing Trump's vital organs and scraping his ear in a horrifying moment caught on live television. Firefighter Corey Comperatore was in the crowd and tragically killed by a stray bullet. His heartbroken widow Helen launched a blistering attack on the Secret Service for failing to protect "the love of her life" during an interview with Fox News almost a year on from his death.

Trump eyeing new aid package for Ukraine - CBS | 13 July 2025 | U.S. President Donald Trump is considering authorizing new military aid to Ukraine, which would be his first major assistance package to the country since taking office in January, CBS News reported on Saturday, citing sources. Multiple diplomatic sources told CBS News that the potential funding "could be intended to send a message to Russia" after a surge in drone and missile strikes on Ukraine in recent days. Moscow maintains that its strikes only target military-related facilities. Trump could tap into 3.85 billion in leftover presidential drawdown authority from the Biden regime to aid Ukraine, according to CBS.

U.S. pours $1.5 billion into building secretive sprawling Israeli military bases | 8 July 2025 | The U.S. is overseeing a sprawling military construction initiative in Israel, with projects valued at more than 1.5 billion, funded entirely through American aid, Haaretz has revealed citing newly surfaced documents from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The massive infrastructure programme includes the construction of airbase runways, helicopter hangars, ammunition storage, command centres, and a new headquarters for Israel's elite naval commando unit, Shayetet 13. The project is being financed through military assistance provided under the terms of the 3.8 billion annual aid package agreed in 2016 by former U.S. President Barack Obama. Haaretz, which first reported the story, notes that the U.S. military aid is also covering upgrades to accommodate Israel's new fleet of CH-53K heavy-lift helicopters and KC-46 Pegasus refuelling aircraft.

Israeli strike kills at least 10 children queueing for medical treatment in Gaza | 10 July 2025 | At least 15 people, including 10 children, have been killed by an Israeli strike as they queued outside a medical point in central Gaza, amid intensifying Israeli attacks that left 82 people dead across the strip. The uptick in Israeli bombing came as negotiators said a Gaza ceasefire deal was in sight, but not yet achieved. The strike on Thursday morning hit families waiting for nutritional supplements and medical treatment in front of a medical point in Deir al-Balah, medical sources said. Project Hope, which runs the facility, said operations at the clinic had been suspended until further notice. The Israeli military said it had targeted a Hamas terrorist who had participated in the 7 October 2023 attack, but "regrets any harm to uninvolved individuals" and that the incident was under review.

Dozens arrested after UK brands Palestine Action a 'terror group' | 13 July 2025 | More than 70 people were arrested across the UK on Saturday on suspicion of supporting the activist group Palestine Action, which was recently designated a terrorist organization. The Metropolitan Police said 41 people were arrested in London, where protesters gathered in Parliament Square to demonstrate against Israel's war in Gaza. Some held signs reading "I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action." Arrests were also made in Manchester, Cardiff, and Leeds. It has been illegal to be a member of Palestine Action or to show support for the group since Saturday, when the new designation came into effect.

Arizona health officials investigating 'a sudden die-off' of prairie dogs in Townsend Winona area, which could be plague related | 13 July 2025 | After an Arizona resident succumbed to pneumonic plague in a Flagstaff emergency room, health officials are cautioning residents to be careful around sick pets and animals. Health officials are also investigating"a sudden die-off" of prairie dogs near the city [of Flagstaff], which could be plague related. The unidentified resident, who died shortly after checking into the ER with symptoms, tested positive for Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes pneumonic plague, the county announced Friday. The bacteria is the cause of the three most common forms of plague in humans. One of them, the bubonic plague, was known as the "Black Death" and is believed to have killed an estimated 25 million people in fourteenth-century Europe.

Arizona resident dies from plague, health officials say | 12 July 2025 | A resident of Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, health officials confirmed on Friday. This was the first recorded death from the disease in the county since 2007, Coconino County Health and Human Services reported. In that case, a person had an interaction with a dead animal infected with the disease. Plague, known as the "Black Death" in the 14th century, killed up to half of Europe's population. It is now rare in humans and can be treated with antibiotics. Coconino County government said the risk to the public of exposure remains low.

Arizona patient dies in emergency room from plague | 11 July 2025 | A person in northern Arizona has died from a case of pneumonic plague, local health officials said. The unidentified patient, from Coconino County, showed up to the Flagstaff Medical Center Emergency Department and died there the same day, Northern Arizona Healthcare said in a statement. It is unclear when the death occurred. The hospital noted that "appropriate initial management" and "attempts to provide life-saving resuscitation" was performed, but "the patient did not recover." Rapid diagnostic testing led to a presumptive diagnosis of Yersinia pestis.

Moderna gets full U.S. approval for COVID vaccine in children 6 months and older | 10 July 2025 | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted full approval for Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, Spikevax, in children aged 6 months through 11 years who are at an increased risk of the disease, the company said on Thursday. The shot was previously available for pediatric populations under emergency use authorization. Moderna said it expects to have its updated vaccine available for eligible populations in the U.S. for the 2025-26 respiratory virus season.

Biden doctor pleads the Fifth when asked if he was told to lie about president's mental fitness - before slinking away from deposition --"This is unprecedented, and I think that this adds more fuel to the fire that there was a cover-up," Comer declared. | 9 July 2025 | Joe Biden's former doctor refused to answer a single question Wednesday about the ex-president's health and cognitive decline -- stunningly invoking his right against self-incrimination before slinking out of a congressional deposition. Dr. Kevin O'Connor is facing claims that he shielded the public from Biden's decline while the 46th president was in office -- and even covered up his powerful patient's advanced-stage prostate cancer. "Dr. O'Connor pleaded the Fifth Amendment," House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) revealed after the doctor's swift departure. According to Comer, O'Connor, Biden's longtime personal physician, was asked two key questions: "Were you ever told to lie about the president's health?" and "Did you ever believe President [sic] Biden was unfit to execute his duties?" In both instances, O'Connor took the Fifth.

White House waives executive privilege for Biden doctor Kevin O'Connor in cover-up probe | 8 July 2025 | President Donald Trump's White House is waiving executive privilege for a key member of former President [sic] Joe Biden's inner circle, Fox News Digital has learned. Former White House physician Kevin O'Connor was set to testify this week in House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer's probe into allegations that Biden's senior aides covered up his mental and physical decline while president. "In light of the unique and extraordinary nature of the matters under investigation, President Trump has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the national interest, and therefore is not justified, with respect to particular subjects within the purview of the House Oversight Committee," a letter to O'Connor sent by the White House, obtained by Fox News Digital by a source familiar, said.

Confirmed: CEO of Weather Modification Company Reveals Cloud Seeding Operations Were Conducted in Texas Two Days Before Deadly Flood | 8 July 2025 | The CEO of a weather modification technology company has confirmed that cloud seeding operations took place in Texas just two days before the deadly central Texas flood occurred. NBC News reported that Augustus Doricko, the CEO of Rainmaker, a weather modification company, said that planes had released silver iodide in the atmosphere in Texas two days prior to the fatal floods that have claimed over 100 lives. Doricko claims the cloud seeding operations did not cause the flooding in Texas. Per Bloomberg: "According to Doricko, Rainmaker flew a brief 20-minute cloud seeding mission in south-central Texas last Tuesday, but suspended all operations that same day due to abnormally high moisture content in the air."

Epicenter of Texas floods hit with dangerous new flash flooding - just 9 days after 129 were killed | 13 July 2025 | New flash flooding hit parts of Kerr County, Texas, on Sunday, just nine days after the same region saw devastating floods that left 129 dead. "Life-threatening flash flooding" struck Kerr and Gillespie Counties, as rainfall rates were expected to reach one to two inches per hour. A "considerable" flash flood warning is in place and alerts should have been sent to all phones in the area, according to the National Weather Service. Areas afflicted include places devastated by last week's flooding, such as Hunt and Kerrville, home to Camp Mystic, a Christian girls' summer camp where 27 campers and counselors lost their lives.

Pediatrician fired for vile post suggesting Texas flood victims were Trump supporters who got 'what they voted for'| 7 July 2025 | A pediatrician has been fired over a vile post suggesting that the more than 80 killed in the horrific Texas floods -- including dozens of kids -- were President Trump supporters who got "what they voted for." Dr. Christina B. Propst drew widespread scorn following the disparaging, since-deleted post under her old Facebook username, Chris Tina, according to Mediaite. "May all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry," Probst wrote in the now-viral post. "Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts." Propst's employer, Blue Fish Pediatrics, initially said the employee had been suspended -- before announcing that "the individual is no longer employed" there.

Suspect in anti-ICE Texas shooting granted green card under Biden administration | 9 July 2025 | One of the suspects charged with ties to the anti-ICE attack at the Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas, was granted a green card under the Biden regime and is a prior recipient of DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Daniel Rolando Sanchez-Estrada, 38, is the husband of one of the alleged attackers. He is referenced in the unsealed criminal complaint lodged against 10 individuals who allegedly attacked the detention center over the weekend, which resulted in an Alvarado police officer being shot in the neck.The 10 suspects are facing federal charges, including multiple counts of attempted murder of a federal officer and "discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence." Sanchez-Estrada was part of a separate criminal complaint, as he was arrested by the FBI on Monday on a felony charge of "conspiracy to tamper with evidence" as they were executing a search warrant.

Trump slaps 50% tariff on Brazil as punishment for witch hunt trial against ex-president Jair Bolsonaro | 9 July 2025 | Donald Trump has hit Brazil with a 50 percent import tariff on "any and all" goods sent to the United States as punishment for the 'witch hunt' trial against former president Jair Bolsonaro. Trump fired off a furious letter to Brazilian President [unelected dirt-bag] Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Wednesday laying out the details of his new tariff. "The way that Brazil has treated former President Bolsonaro, a Highly Respected Leader throughout the world...is an international disgrace," Trump wrote in the letter, which he shared to Truth Social.

Department of Justice Anti-Semitism Task Force Chair Leo Terrell: I will 'ELIMINATE Jewish Taxes in America!' | 12 July 2025 | The Trump administration is launching another offensive against Washington, D.C. -- a city President Donald Trump has long insulted and sought to overhaul -- this time over allegations of a "lukewarm" response from D.C. officials to rising threats of anti-Semitism in the nation's capital. Leo Terrell, the chair of the Department of Justice's Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, slammed Mayor Muriel Bowser for her "lukewarm response" to a "crisis" of anti-Semitism in the city in a series of posts to his X account this week. Terrell posted a back-and-forth with Bowser's office over his request to meet directly with the mayor to discuss rising anti-Semitism in the city -- including what he said were "Jewish taxes" levied against the community in the form of increased security costs. Terrell posted Saturday on X: "I am going to ELIMINATE Jewish Taxes in America!."