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23/07/2024

The historic First Baptist Dallas church in Texas went up in flames on Friday, severely damaging the historic sanctuary of the building.

According to the AP, the Victorian-style church, which was built in 1890, caught on fire around 6:30pm. Firefighters contained the fire three hours later.

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23/07/2024

President Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 elections has the Democrats in a scramble to find a worthy replacement. As for who might take his place: Vice President Kamala Harris seems to lead that list.

But another, more concerning question lingers: how do you replace a Presidential candidate so late in the game? After all, the Democrat Party is now the first major party to select a nominee outside of the traditional primary and caucus process in over 50 years.

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22/07/2024

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testified earlier today before an outraged House Oversight Committee following last week’s nearly successful assassination attempt.

Chairman James Comer opened that hearing with remarks that the director should resign for her agency’s failures leading up to July 13.

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22/07/2024

Trump is now using his attempted assassination to his own advantage.

Despite promising not to speak of the incident again, Trump recounted his experience at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Saturday. He told the 13,000 attendees, “It was exactly a week ago today almost to the hour, almost to the minute.”

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22/07/2024

President Biden wasn’t the only one casting his vote on Harris. Multiple Democrat leaders are coming forward to endorse the vice president.

Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton posted a joint statement on X saying, “We are honored to join the President in endorsing Vice President Harris and will do whatever we can to support her.”

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22/07/2024

Tonight on FISM News: Joe Biden ends his presidential campaign and endorses Kamala Harris, Republicans call on President Biden to resign, and a Microsoft outage causes chaos around the world.

22/07/2024

Tensions between Congress and federal security agencies are hitting new highs as Republicans accuse FBI and Secret Service officials of stonewalling answers about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

FBI Director Chirs Wray has declined to testify before Congress about the assassination attempt.

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22/07/2024

More than 200 staffers for lawmakers of both parties are calling for Congress to boycott an upcoming speech from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Staffers representing 122 congressional offices anonymously signed the letter, calling Hamas’ attack on October 7th horrific, but also attacking Israel for “waging war against the people of Gaza.” Netanyahu is set to appear in front of a joint session of Congress on Wednesday.

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19/07/2024

The Fed is now saying the U.S. economy is slowing along with inflation.

The Federal Reserve’s latest Beige Book reports slight economic growth over the past three months. Significantly, five of the 12 districts reported flat or declining economic activity. That’s three more districts than in the previous report.

It’s a slowdown that businesses expect to continue through the end of the year. Unemployment also ticked higher and is now at 4.1%. At the same time, turnover in the labor market declined.

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19/07/2024

The walls appear to be closing in for President Joe Biden as more top Democrats ask him to step aside.

According to a story first broken by Republican operatives on the Ruthless podcast, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) spoke with Biden over the weekend, making the case for him to leave the 2024 presidential race.

The news was seemingly confirmed by ABC’s Jonathan Karl, who said Schumer’s staff wouldn’t deny the meeting took place.

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19/07/2024

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has agreed to testify before Congress next week, after receiving a subpoena from the House Oversight Committee.

Republicans have grown increasingly critical of the Secret Service as more information has emerged about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) calling on Cheatle to resign.

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19/07/2024

President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid, which means he will now self-isolate in his Delaware home.

The White House posted on social media that “President Biden is vaccinated, boosted, and he is experiencing mild symptoms following a positive COVID-19 test. He will be returning to Delaware where he will self-isolate and will continue to carry out all of his duties fully during that time.”

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18/07/2024

President Joe Biden is now setting his sights on the Supreme Court.

The Washington Post reports Biden is working on a series of major reforms, including term limits and an enforceable code of ethics. It comes amid a series of ethics complaints from Democrats against Conservative justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. Biden has grown increasingly critical of the Court in recent years and has grown even more vocal in light of its ruling on presidential immunity that favored Donald Trump.

Biden is also reportedly considering a constitutional amendment that would override the Supreme Court’s ruling. It’s not the first time President Biden has floated the idea of making changes to the high court. Before the 2020 election, Biden refused to say whether he would add justices to the bench.

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18/07/2024

Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez (N.J.) was found guilty on all 16 counts in his federal corruption trial, including charges of corruption, bribery, obstruction of justice, acting as a foreign agent, and conspiracy. Prosecutors say Menendez and his wife accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, gold bars, a car, and mortgage payments from three businessmen who wanted his help.

In exchange, Menendez, who served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, helped steer billions of dollars in American aid to Egypt, where one of the businessmen had ties to government officials. He’s also accused of seeking to influence criminal probes as well. Menendez said he was shocked by the verdict and plans to appeal.

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18/07/2024

President Joe Biden is back to bashing Donald Trump. He spoke at the NAACP National Convention yesterday and didn’t shy away from his anti-Trump rhetoric, often laced with curse words. Biden said criticizing the former president’s actions is “fair game,” despite the bipartisan call to cool the political temperature.

The president even said that Trump called the National Guard on “peaceful” George Floyd protesters. Biden also praised Vice President Kamala Harris and said she would make a great president.

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18/07/2024

Local law enforcement officials say they tried to warn a command center about the gunman before he killed one person and tried to assassinate the former president last weekend in Pennsylvania.

According to a local news outlet, a Beaver County police officer spotted Thomas Matthew Crooks with a rangefinder while he was on the roof. The policeman took a picture of him and warned a command center. After Crooks momentarily disappeared from the scene, the same countersniper officer sent a warning again.

According to the Daily Mail, law enforcement warned of the shooter an hour before he carried out his act. The picture was then circulated at the Secret Service.

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17/07/2024

Israeli officials have confirmed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be meeting with President Joe Biden next week ahead of Netanyahu’s address to Congress.

The meeting is reportedly set to take place on July 22nd. The White House has yet to confirm or deny whether a meeting will take place. One official told the Times of Israel that “the president has known prime minister Netanyahu for three decades. They will likely see each other when the prime minister is here over the course of that week, but we have nothing to announce at this time.”

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17/07/2024

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is refusing to resign after a would-be assassin almost took Trump’s life.

Cheatle admitted that ultimate responsibility rested in her hands, however, despite the tragic event, she said she isn’t stepping down.

According to the Daily Mail, Cheatle also told ABC News that the building where the shooter launched his attack had a “sloped roof,” which she claimed was a safety concern for law enforcement. For that reason, the building was only secured from the inside.

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17/07/2024

In a recent interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, President Joe Biden was asked about his recent struggles and calls for him to step aside.

A new NBC poll found over 60% of Democrats want someone else to be at the top of the presidential ticket, while 80% of all voters have concerns about Biden’s mental fitness.

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17/07/2024

Only days after officially endorsing Donald Trump, the billionaire has now pledged to spend $45 million a month on a new Trump super PAC. It’s called America PAC – which the Wall Street Journal reports is focused on “registering voters and persuading constituents to vote early and request mail-in ballots in swing states” to counter similar “get out the vote” efforts by Democrats.

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14/07/2024

Donald Trump survived a weekend assassination attempt days before he is due to accept the formal Republican presidential nomination, in an attack that will further inflame the U.S. political divide and has raised questions about the security failures.

Authorities identified a rally attendee who was shot and killed as Corey Comperatore, 50, of Sarver, Pennsylvania, who Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro told reporters was killed when he dove on top of his family to protect them from the hail of bullets.

“Corey was an avid supporter of the former president, and was so excited to be there last night with him in the community,” Shapiro said, adding, “Political disagreements can never, ever be addressed through violence.”

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14/07/2024

House Republicans are raising concerns over a growing number of illegal Chinese national border crossings.

Yesterday, 17 House GOP members sent a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas requesting information about the status of Chinese illegal immigrants.

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13/07/2024

The U.S. will deploy more long-range missiles in Germany starting in 2026, including more advanced missiles that have ever been deployed to Europe.

According to the joint announcement, the new units will include SM-6, Tomahawk, and developmental hypersonic weapons.

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13/07/2024

The IDF is taking responsibility for security failures on October 7th.

In a new report officials outline how the IDF failed to live up to its standards during Hamas’ terror attack – especially in the small border village Kibbutz Be’eri, where over 100 civilians were killed and 30 taken hostage.

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12/07/2024

Former President Obama and ex-speaker Nancy Pelosi have allegedly met in private over President Biden.

Sources told CNN that even though both agree that Biden will likely not beat Trump in November, they’re not quite sure what to do about it.

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12/07/2024

U.S. consumer prices fell one-tenth of a percent in June – the first monthly drop in four years.

The new Labor Department data released yesterday was largely driven by a nearly 4% decline in gasoline prices. Unfortunately, shelter costs and food prices saw slight gains month-over-month.

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12/07/2024

Archeologists have found five musket balls dating back to 1775 when colonial Americans confronted British troops in the event that became known as “the Shot Heard ‘Round the World.”

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12/07/2024

Texas officials are facing criticism as millions of residents in the Houston area are still without power.

Following the devastation of Hurricane Beryl, more than two million residents were left without power. Houston Mayor John Whitmire blamed the utility company CenterPoint Energy and publicly called on the company to do more to restore power.

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11/07/2024

While NATO met in Washington this week, Russia hosted a meeting of its own.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a three-day trip to Moscow – his first since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. He was seen Monday giving a hug to Russian President Vladimir Puntin and was quoted calling Russia a “trusted friend.” The State Department responded to the news, saying that India is aware of US concerns regarding Russia.

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11/07/2024

The House passed a proof of citizenship bill for voter registration yesterday.

The vote happened largely along party lines, with five Democrats voting in favor of the legislation. The Biden administration “strongly opposed” the measure, saying there are laws already in place to block noncitizens from voting.

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