"A Democratic Senate candidate from Maine, Graham Platner, said he covered up a tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol that he got on his chest nearly two decades ago.

"It's the latest controversy surrounding the Marine and U.S. Army veteran and oyster farmer. He was recently under scrutiny for posts he made on Reddit forums years ago in which he called himself a socialist-turned-communist and said all police are bastards, among other comments. He has since apologized for his posts, noting that he was struggling with mental health challenges at the time."

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"The House Judiciary Committee referred former CIA Director John Brennan to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution on Tuesday over allegations that he 'knowingly made false statements' to Congress about his role in the Russia collusion hoax.

"In the letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi obtained by The Federalist, Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, argued that 'Brennan made numerous willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact contradicted by the record established by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and the CIA.'

"'Making false statements before Congress,' Jordan wrote, 'is a crime that undermines the integrity of the Committee's constitutional duty to conduct oversight.'"

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"Decades of faulty medical guidance telling parents to keep peanuts away from babies likely fueled the childhood food allergy crisis, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

"Health experts spent years recommending that parents avoid exposing infants to common allergens as food allergy rates climbed. But a 2015 trial flipped that thinking on its head, finding that feeding peanuts to babies slashed their chances of developing an allergy by over 80 percent, New York Times reported.

"After national guidelines reversed course in 2017, food allergy rates in children under 3 dropped 36 percent between 2017 and 2020 compared to 2012-2015 levels. Peanut allergies specifically fell 43 percent."

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"Cartels have severely pumped the brakes on trafficking fentanyl into the United States, and experts say that's thanks to the Trump administration's aggressive crackdown.

"Fentanyl seizures year-over-year at the southern border have been cut roughly in half almost every month since President Donald Trump took office, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data. In June, it was only a 42 percent decrease, but there was a 70 percent drop in May.

"According to experts, the plunge isn't because authorities are catching less fentanyl -- it's because cartels simply aren't trafficking as much. They said a suite of interconnected Trump policies that enhanced border security and increased targeting of cartels by U.S. and Mexican agencies -- under pressure from Trump -- have forced the criminal organizations to scale back operations."

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"During his campaign to secure the 2020 Democrat presidential nomination, Joe Biden infamously told the leftist co-hosts of ABC's The View that, 'from the beginning,' he believed Anita Hill's unsubstantiated allegations of sexual harassment against now-Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

"'Not only didn't I vote for Clarence Thomas, I believed [Hill] from the beginning. I was against Clarence Thomas, I did everything in my power to defeat Clarence Thomas and he won by the smallest margin anyone ever won going on the Supreme Court,' Biden said in the 2019 interview.

"But if Biden's claim about believing Hill is true, then why did he leave a voicemail on Thomas' answering machine praising him as a 'person of character' after his confirmation to the Supreme Court?

"Obtained by The Federalist, the voice message in question further underscores Biden's duplicitous behavior throughout Thomas' Senate confirmation. As the then-chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Delaware Democrat had an instrumental role in shepherding the three-ring circus that sought to sink the George H.W. Bush nominee's appointment to the highest court in the land."

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"Since returning to office, President Trump has faced an onslaught of leftist-backed lawfare seeking to grind the implementation of his voters' agenda to a halt. Unsurprisingly, many of these lawsuits have been filed in districts predominated by Democrat-appointed judges, who have been more than happy to issue a myriad of preliminary injunctions and temporary restraining orders blocking enforcement of the administration's policies.

"Now, with the U.S. Supreme Court largely agreeing to shut down this lower court judicial coup for the time being, a number of rogue judges have taken to anonymously attacking the high court for stopping the crisis they helped create.

"The latest instance of this phenomenon came on Saturday, when The New York Times published an article highlighting criticisms from more than three-dozen unnamed lower court judges about the Supreme Court's handling of cases involving the Trump administration. More specifically, these (mostly Democrat-appointed) jurists attacked the high court for its management of the 'emergency' docket."

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"Those who follow the news might have noticed something different about the current government shutdown, which is now entering its third week.

"Namely, the lack of horror stories that usually accompany shutdowns. Anyone want to guess why that is?"

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"Rolling blackouts. A worthless currency. A once-mighty industry on life support. Doctors, engineers and students leaving in droves in search of a future. That all sounds like Venezuela, but I'm talking about Cuba.

"As Venezuela's crisis deepens, another -- quieter but just as dangerous -- is unfolding just 90 miles from Florida. The drama may be smaller, but the danger is real. If Venezuela is wobbling, Cuba is starting to fall. ...

"Venezuela's collapse dominates the headlines, but Cuba's slow-motion breakdown could have far more profound consequences. A failed state just 90 miles from Florida would unleash new migration waves, invite rival powers into the region, and test America's resolve. Havana's flickering lights may be the hemisphere's next alarm bell."

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"After two years of war prompted by its Oct. 7 massacre, Hamas freed all remaining living hostages on Monday as President Donald Trump arrived in Israel to celebrate the peace deal he brokered that could reshape the Middle East.

"Israel confirmed the safe return of 20 hostages and reciprocated by freeing nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners in an exchange that was a key benchmark of the deal brokered by Trump and his team last week.

"Trump arrived in Israel and was greeted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and headed immediately to the Knesset to address Israel's political leadership. He also met with families of the hostages."

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"Democrats and media outlets were quick to blame climate change and oil companies for the devastating Palisades Fire that ravaged Los Angeles earlier this year. But that narrative crumbled on Wednesday when federal law enforcement officials charged a man for deliberately starting the fire.

"Federal prosecutors in California charged Jonathan Rinderknecht with one count of destruction of property by means of fire, a charge that carries a maximum time of 20 years in federal prison. 'While we cannot bring back what victims lost, we hope this criminal case brings some measure of justice to those affected by this horrific tragedy,' said acting U.S. attorney Bill Essayli.

"The charge -- which Essayli said was informed by witness statements, video surveillance, cell phone data, and an analysis of fire dynamics conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives -- cuts against the narrative prominent Democratic lawmakers and media outlets pushed following the tragic event."

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