Proponents of renewable energy often claim that wind and solar are the cheapest forms of energy and will drive down electricity rates. However, electricity costs continue to rise faster than inflation, with no sign the trend is reversing, even as the amount of wind and solar grows in the grid.  Last December, the Always On Energy Research and the Institute for Energy Research completed an analysis of electricity rates and found that residents of blue states see higher electricity bills than those of red states. 

Manufacturers around the world are leveraging AI to create drone swarms that could change the reality of war forever. Both defensive and offensive drone swarm systems are going to be hitting battlefields across the globe soon. As companies such as Swarm Defense create new systems that will launch tidal waves of drones at targets, other companies like XCaliber Technologies are rapidly working to build a wall of drones and other defensive systems that can defeat the new offensive threat.

President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated the launch of Trump accounts, saying that more than 6 million Americans had signed up for the project. Earlier in the day, he formally rang the bell to open the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ from the White House as part of a ceremony marking the launch.

Mark Twain once turned the premature report of his death in the 1890s into one of history’s greatest quips, but at the Social Security Administration the mistaken reporting of American’s deaths is no laughing matter. The agency’s internal watchdog sharply rebuked SSA workers for mistakenly reporting that 12,054 Americans had died in 2025 who actually didn’t, then failing to follow the proper procedures in repairing the damage far too often.

A South Texas hospital has been openly advertising maternity services directly to pregnant women living outside the U.S., encouraging them to travel across the border to give birth at its facility. Mission Regional Medical Center, located in Mission, Texas, has been promoting maternity packages to international patients, including through reported Spanish-language billboards targeting families in Latin America.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) is investigating a fatal officer-involved shooting that occurred early Sunday morning in downtown Memphis involving Tennessee National Guard soldiers assigned to the Memphis Safe Task Force. According to TBI, the shooting occurred at approximately 4 a.m. near the intersection of Ida B. Wells Avenue and Union Avenue. The Memphis Police Department (MPD) said its officers had responded at approximately 3:56 a.m. to reports of shots fired in the area of Ida B. Wells Avenue and Gayoso Avenue.

Former State Senator Jim Tracy passed away last Friday at the age of 69 years old after battling cancer. His funeral service will be held on Tuesday at North Boulevard Church of Christ in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, according to his obituary. Tracy, who was married for nearly 50 years, is survived by his wife, Trena, his three sons, and three grandchildren.

As the United States marks its semiquincentennial, a new biography reminds us why George Washington was eulogized by “Light Horse Harry” Lee in 1799 as having been “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” In “American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington,” prolific historian H.W. Brands delivers an in-depth look at the man who was driving events years before there was a United States.

The Tennessee Department of Military (TDM) announced on Thursday that 12 soldiers in the Tennessee Army National Guard were the first to graduate from the Volunteer State's new Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SAUS) Master Trainer course in Tullahoma. According to the TDM press release, the training prepared the 12 attendees to become "SAUS instructors, pilots, and subject matter experts." They each received specialized knowledge about reconnaissance drones, namely the Skydio RQ-28A and RQ-28-C, as well as the new Neros Archer, which was developed last year for battlefield use in Ukraine.

Philadelphia canceled its Friday's Fourth of July parade over concerns about high temperatures, and other holiday events in other communities are being canceled or rescheduled.  Temperatures reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit in Philadelphia on Friday, and the organizers of the city's Salute to Semiquincentennial Parade said that their responsibility toward the safety of expected crowds comes first, CBS News reported.