Intelligence community files released by the White House claim that China paid American journalists, social media influencers, and leveraged relationships with American businesses in order to sabotage President Donald Trump during his first term in the White House, with a CIA document claiming the foreign government went as far as to pay journalists to print negative articles. In a Thursday speech delivered to the nation, Trump cited a CIA document that showed the agency determined, beginning in 2019, China "sought to identify U.S. journalists who had reported negatively on the U.S. president and pay them large sums of money to write more negative articles about him," adding that the adversarial government "wanted the U.S. president to lose the next election.

“Another f***ing IIR went out re election security.” That was the response of FBI Foreign Interference Task Force Lead Nikki Floris to a tip in late September 2020 about possible Chinese election interference in the upcoming presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, according to newly declassified documents.

American technological infrastructure is the building block for our modern lives. Data centers are not some side issue or a fringe zoning dispute; they account for a significant part of the physical foundation of the American economy. They are the functional infrastructure that can put the United States in a position to reindustrialize and onshore our economy, while allowing us to have the tools we need to compete with China. The loudest forces working to stop that buildout fall into exactly two categories: people who are simply misinformed about what these facilities actually do, and people who are being actively used, wittingly or not, to psyop American communities into fighting against their own country’s interests. Every generation has an infrastructure fight. Some generations argued over interstate highway buildouts. Others, tragically, thanks to a very similar hysteria, set America back on the nuclear energy front by half a century. Today, the NIMBY fight is over a big warehouse full of computer servers, known as a data center, and whether America can keep building the physical machinery that runs our new innovation age.

The Homeland Security Department found more than a quarter million illegal aliens were registered to vote in four states – California, Nevada, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, according to a review the agency conducted on publicly available data.  The finding is detailed in a memo titled “PREVENTING ALIEN VOTING” obtained by Just the News on Thursday ahead of President Donald Trump’s speech about election integrity.

Arrests by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency have spiked in the last few weeks, with a daily average hitting 1,400 people.  The pace of ICE arrests in the first 12 days of July sets the Trump administration on track to reach the highest number of arrests in a single month, the Washington Post reported. 

Nearly two-thirds of Minnesota 11th graders are below grade level in math, and the class of 2025 posted the worst academic performance on record for a graduating cohort even as it earned the highest graduation rate ever. As measured by the state’s Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment, the spring 2025 proficiency results reflect the percentage of juniors meeting the state’s academic math standards, which include content students must “satisfactorily complete” by the time they graduate. (Seventy-seven percent of 11th graders statewide took the test.)

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is calling out Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly mistreating a whistleblower through lawfare. Sarah Wynn-Williams, Meta’s former global head of public policy, testified before Congress that the company worked “hand in glove” with the Chinese Communist Party. Now, Congress is investigating and demanding answers.

Two-thirds of Californians say they oppose Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order banning the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035, according to a new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California. The poll shows a strong shift in public attitudes toward the ban. In July 2021, 51% of Californians supported the ban on gas-powered vehicle sales, according to SF Gate. 

Andy Burnham will become British prime minister Monday after the ruling left-wing Labour Party formally declared him its new leader on Friday. Burnham ran unopposed, with 379 of Labour’s 403 members of Parliament backing his bid, according to CBS News. He replaces deeply unpopular outgoing Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who faced weeks of pressure to quit after Labour’s disastrous showing in May’s local elections.

Thursday night at the White House, President Donald Trump addressed the nation and presented new evidence detailing multiple security breaches in elections he said were concealed by a self-proclaimed "shadow government" and the Biden administration.