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Belgian federation to challenge FIFA’s decision to let Folarin Balogun play in World Cup match The Belgian soccer federation wants an explanation from FIFA about a decision to let U.S forward Folarin Balogun play at the World Cup despite getting a red card in his previous game. https://apnews.com/article/world-cup-balogun-belgium-fifa-84795f69bc7a2b6ebe5f7486f34654d7?

Shooting at July Fourth cookout near Coney Island beach leaves 8 wounded, including 4 kids NEW YORK (AP) — A shooting at a Fourth of July cookout near New York’s Coney Island beach wounded eight people, including four children, police said. https://apnews.com/article/coney-island-shooting-d34d2faedfc06ee55c3d6d280d590678?

Trump mixes patriotism with partisanship as he celebrates America’s 250th anniversary Speaking in Washington on Saturday, President Donald Trump honored veterans, including several from World War II and one of the first Black officers to lead a Special Forces team in combat in Vietnam. Yet Trump also leaned into partisan territory unusual for an Independence Day address, which presidents typically use as a moment to unify the country. Read more. Why this matters: Trump stumped again for the SAVE America Act, an elections bill that’s encountering challenges even from fellow Republicans in Congress. He highlighted his support for the Second Amendment and revived denunciations of communism, which are becoming an increasingly central part of Trump’s message ahead of the November midterms. The event organizers were largely aligned with the White House, supplanting a bipartisan organization that was launched by Congress a decade ago. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ Photos from 250th anniversary celebrations 150 people from 50 countries become US citizens at Mount Vernon on America’s 250th birthday Trump posts a doctored photo of the Obamas and Air Force One with graffiti spray-painted on plane Belgian diamond group that won tariff relief gifted Trump a lavishly encrusted ring Trump pardons former Abramoff partner, 9 people convicted of violating vehicle emissions controls Trump administration’s interpretation of slavery under George Washington can be reinstalled White House report brands Smithsonian leadership as radical activists who can’t be trusted Trump’s administration won’t seek new bids to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

Ukraine Ukraine’s capital Kyiv came under a deadly Russian attack early Monday morning that killed at least 15 people and wounded dozens more, city officials said. The strikes come before a NATO summit in Turkey, where President Trump is expected to meet with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky. Read more. MORE: Almost every Russian region hit by fuel crisis as Ukraine escalates drone attacks

Voter ID bill House Speaker Mike Johnson said he plans to quickly move to advance President Trump’s voter ID legislation through the arduous budget reconciliation process once the House returns to Washington. The decision comes amid heightened tensions in the GOP ranks after a few Republicans brought the floor to a halt last week. Read more.

Iranian leader's funeral A massive funeral procession for Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei got underway today in Tehran as large crowds of mourners gathered. Notably absent, however, is Khamenei’s son and successor Mojtaba, who has still not appeared in public since his father’s killing in late February. Read more. Mourners throng funeral procession in Tehran for Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei His flag-draped coffin, and those of his family killed Feb. 28 in an airstrike at the start of the war launched by Israel and the United States, sat on board a truck as a procession began Monday. Read more. Why this matters: The massive turnout, encouraged by Iran’s theocracy as a sign of strength, came as it negotiates with the U.S. over a permanent end to the war that killed the 86-year-old cleric. Talks appear to be on hold until after the burial. Authorities have shut down streets, airspace and daily life for the mourning, which began Saturday and will end Thursday as Khamenei is buried at the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, his birthplace. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ WATCH: Coffin paraded through Tehran Photos of the funeral Khamenei’s other sons appear at his funeral in Iran as new supreme leader remains in hiding

World Cup controversy The soccer world is up in arms over FIFA’s decision to allow Team USA’s Folarin Balogun to be eligible to play against Belgium today despite being sent off in the previous match. A source familiar with the matter told CNN on Sunday that President Donald Trump spoke with FIFA President Gianni Infantino this week after Balogun’s red card and asked him to review the call. Read more. ANALYSIS: Trump’s red card call stirs political storm around World Cup FIFA lifts US star’s suspension at World Cup after Trump call President Donald Trump intervened on behalf of star U.S. forward Folarin Balogun, whose red-card suspension was lifted, allowing him to play against Belgium on Monday. Read more. Why this matters: Trump called FIFA president Gianni Infantino after the game with Bosnia-Herzegovina asking FIFA to review the red card, according to a person familiar with the call who spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter. It appeared to be the first time since 1962 that a red card during a World Cup didn’t result in a suspension. The extraordinary move triggered praise from Trump and outrage from Belgium’s team. “Thank you to FIFA for doing what was right, and reversing a great injustice!” Trump said in a statement on social media. The Royal Belgian Football Association said it was “astonished.” RELATED COVERAGE ➤ UEFA says decision by FIFA to let U.S. forward play at World Cup is ‘incomprehensible’ Previewing the US match against Belgium

THIS DAY IN HISTORY July 6 1957 Althea Gibson is first African American to win Wimbledon Althea Gibson claims the women’s singles tennis title at Wimbledon and becomes the first African American to win a championship at London’s All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT African History 1967 Civil war breaks out in Nigeria American Revolution 1775 Congress issues a “Declaration on the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms” Arts & Entertainment 1957 John Lennon meets Paul McCartney for the first time 1994 “Forrest Gump” opens, winning Tom Hanks a second Oscar Crime 1946 George “Bugs” Moran is arrested Early 20th Century U.S. 1900 Warren Earp killed in Arizona 1944 Fire engulfs circus big top in Hartford, killing 167 Early U.S. 1785 Continental Congress sets the dollar as the official U.S. currency Holocaust 1942 Anne Frank’s family takes refuge Religion 1935 Dalai Lama, leader of Tibet, is born Sports 1933 Major League Baseball’s first All-Star Game is held U.S. Presidents 1946 George Walker Bush is born Women’s History 1976 First women inducted into the U.S. Naval Academy

🎆 1 for the road: D.C.'s July 4th hangover Fireworks explode over the Lincoln Memorial during Salute to America on Saturday. Photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP Washington is recovering from all the ingredients of an epic July 4th hangover: a late night, too much sun and a heaping dose of secondhand smoke, Axios D.C.'s Mimi Montgomery and Cuneyt Dil write. Why it matters: The lead-up to the 250th extravaganza — a swath of road, airspace and river closures; hordes of tourists and traffic — has already put locals on edge. People listen to President Trump speak Saturday night on the National Mall, with "FREEDOM 250" projected on the Washington Monument. Photo: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Then came the event itself: Severe storms prompted National Mall evacuations. Extreme heat left attendees baking in long lines. And a world-record fireworks attempt produced so much smoke that some spectators couldn't see the finale. But as the N.Y. Times puts it on today's front page: "No Ruining This Birthday Party." Keep reading.

🤖 Trading AI compute like oil Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios An Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup is building a trading market for AI computing power — letting companies buy, sell and hedge access to GPUs, similar to how oil traders trade barrels of crude, Axios' Madison Mills writes. Why it matters: Goldman Sachs estimates $7.6 trillion will be spent globally on compute, power and data centers by 2031, but the financial infrastructure to sustain that spending doesn't yet exist. Ornn, founded by 20-something entrepreneurs Kush Bavaria and Wayne Nelms, wants to help build that infrastructure. So far, AI companies have tried to lock up supply and prices through long-term pre-purchasing agreements. Keep reading.

Trump's clean-energy toll Data: Cox Automotive. (Share of light-duty sales and does not include plug-in hybrid vehicles.) Chart: Ben Geman/Axios The GOP budget law President Trump signed a year ago has darkened the outlook for some clean-energy sources, but stopped far short of strangling low-carbon tech, Axios' Ben Geman writes. 🚘 EVs fell to 5.9% of new U.S. car sales in the second quarter of 2026, per Cox Automotive — about two points below a year earlier (charted above). 🪁 On wind, BloombergNEF's now projects 42% less power-generating capacity than it did before the law. It also pared back solar forecasts. 🏭 On manufacturing, the U.S. has seen billions of dollars in project cancellations spanning batteries, EVs and industrial decarbonization equipment, per joint tracking from MIT and Rhodium Group researchers. The other side: Rising power demand, including Big Tech's voracious energy needs for AI, is offsetting some of the headwinds the 2025 law created.

Medicare for All gets new life Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios The success of Democratic socialists and progressives in this year's primaries is a sign of new enthusiasm for Medicare for All, Axios' Maya Goldman writes. Why it matters: Frustration with the medical system is fueling appetite for big-government fixes to drug prices, premiums, and long-term care costs. Zoom in: Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old DSA-backed attorney, unseated 15-term Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado, accusing her of being too cozy with pharma and insurers despite DeGette's own support for Medicare for All. Brad Lander and Claire Valdez beat establishment favorites in NYC primaries the week before. Lander leaned on his fight, as NYC comptroller, against shifting retired city workers onto a privatized Medicare Advantage plan. Valdez ran explicitly on Medicare for All. Before that, Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton and Maine's Graham Platner touted their support for a single-payer system in winning Senate primaries over more moderate opponents. Keep reading ...

📸 1,000 words Photo: Daniel Torok/The White House via X President Trump flies over Mount Rushmore aboard the new Air Force One on Friday. Chief White House photographer Daniel Torok tells the story behind the image: "In 2001, the iconic Air Force One was photographed flying over Mount Rushmore. Twenty-five years later, hanging out of a South Dakota Air National Guard Black Hawk with Isaac Apon, we photographed its successor — the new Air Force One (VC-25B) — flying once again over one of America's most iconic monuments."

📱 Memory chip squeeze Data: FactSet. Chart: Matt Phillips/Axios Memory chip makers are raking in record profits with no end in sight. You'll see it in the price of your next phone or laptop, Axios Markets co-author Matt Phillips writes. Why it matters: Shares of Micron Technology, Sandisk and the like have helped carry the market over the last year, as seemingly inexhaustible demand from the AI boom pushed profitability to unprecedented levels. 🔬 Zoom in: Prices for DRAM memory chips used in PCs and servers were up roughly 660% in the year through June, according to data from Bernstein Research. Benchmark prices for broadly used NAND flash memory — which allows devices to retain data when powered off — are also up 660% over the last year. Apple has blamed surging memory costs for its recent price increases. 🇨🇳 Between the lines: Bernstein's Mark Newman warned that desperate buyers may push the government to loosen restrictions on cheaper Chinese memory chips — some from companies currently blacklisted by the Pentagon.

⚽ Inside Trump's FIFA call Via Truth Social President Trump called FIFA President Gianni Infantino about U.S. striker Folarin Balogun's suspension before soccer's governing body lifted it, clearing him to play Belgium tonight, U.S. officials tell Axios' Marc Caputo and Rebecca Falconer. Why it matters: The reversal — and the White House's role in it — has become the biggest twist of this year's World Cup. Balogun drew a red card in Team USA's 2–0 win over Bosnia-Herzegovina. The reversal appears to be the first time since 1962 that a red card during a World Cup didn't result in a suspension. FIFA cited Article 27 of its rules, which lets its disciplinary committee "fully or partially suspend the implementation of a disciplinary measure" and place a player on probation instead. 🔎 Zoom in: Trump called Infantino to understand why a red card was given to Balogun and why the one-game suspension was imposed, according to a source familiar with the call. Infantino explained the rules, noted the U.S. had already filed a challenge, and said an independent FIFA body was reviewing the matter. "There's nothing I can do," Infantino said, per the source. "He wanted to understand what the red card meant and what the process is," a source familiar with the call said, adding that Trump "just knew the guy was 'suspended'" and isn't "a soccer guy." 👀 Behind the scenes: The effort to challenge the red card started before Trump's call. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who led the U.S. delegation to the Bosnia game, read through FIFA's rules on the flight home and began mapping out how the U.S. might contest the call. Andrew Giuliani, executive director of the White House Task Force on the World Cup, then took up the effort, pulling in Trump-aligned lawyers and supporters to pressure FIFA. A Trump adviser downplayed the idea that the president shaped the outcome, noting he hadn't asked Infantino for specific action: "If Trump had put his thumb on the scale and achieved this result, he would have a field day bragging about it." 📺 What's next: The U.S. men's national team faces Belgium tonight at 8 ET in Seattle in the Round of 16 (Fox). Oddsmakers call it a coin flip as the U.S. tries to make the quarterfinals for the first time in 24 years. Match Day preview.

Vance's hot summer Photo illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Photos via Getty Images This is JD Vance's summer: The vice president penned a bestselling book, helped broker a tentative peace deal with Iran, embarked on a media blitz and — most importantly for him — impressed the man in the Oval Office, Axios' Marc Caputo writes. Why it matters: Vance's performances on TV, in polls and on the global chessboard underscore how, at least at this moment, the VP looks like President Trump's undisputed political heir if he runs in 2028. "JD is earning it, and Trump sees it," a senior Trump adviser said, adding that Secretary of State Marco Rubio — the other top aide seen as a potential heir — "wasn't planning to run anyway, and he'd be even less likely to do so now." 🔎 Inside the room: For months, Trump has compared and almost pitted Vance and Rubio against one another, asking advisers whom they'd prefer atop a 2028 ticket. That parlor game is now on hold. "POTUS isn't asking, 'JD or Marco?' anymore," an insider said. "He's no longer asking: 'How's JD doing?' He's now saying: 'JD looks great, right?'" Zoom in: Vance's inflection point came in mid-June, when he and presidential envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff helped broker the memorandum of understanding with Iran, a step toward ending the war. Vance, already scheduled to go on a book tour for "Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith," benefited from the breaking news attention on his role in the peace talks. 🧮 By the numbers: Vance gave 33 interviews in June, from conservative podcasts to a White House press briefing to gaggles with reporters to sit-downs with Bill Maher on HBO and the liberal daytime talk show "The View" on ABC, according to Vance's office. "The president doesn't watch 'The View.' But he saw the clips and loved what he saw," one of Trump's advisers said. Vance, as finance chair of the Republican National Committee, has made fundraising trips coast to coast and accounted for about $70 million in contributions, building a network he'd tap if he runs for president. Vance's favorability among all Americans is underwater, roughly equal to Trump's. But among Republicans, his net favorability rating is 62%, just shy of Trump's 65% and well above Rubio's 51%, according to polling released last month by Navigator Research, a Democratic-aligned firm. 🎙️ The intrigue: Though Trump is pleased with Vance at the moment, the president isn't too happy with a top veep ally — commentator Tucker Carlson, who's become increasingly critical of the president. "So far, Tucker isn't a problem. But it could be if Trump tells JD to distance himself from him," another adviser to Trump said.

Lost Byzantine City Egyptian officials announced the discovery of a Byzantine-era city in the country’s western desert on Saturday. The well-preserved city is located in the Dakhla Oasis and reveals scenes of daily life. See photos here. The city was organized by north-south and east-west streets, forming public squares. Many of the houses had vaulted roofs and reception halls, with researchers also uncovering bread ovens, kitchens, and stone grinding tools. Overlooking the city was a basilica-style church, alongside two watchtowers to protect the town. There was also a building fortified with thick defensive walls. The city dates back to the fourth century, with gold coins discovered from the reign of Roman Emperor Constantius II. Bronze coins were also found showcasing Byzantine emperors, Latin phrases, and Christian symbols (When did Christianity come to Egypt?). Separately, Egypt revealed the discovery of 18 additional tombs at Marina el-Alamein, an archaeological site 62 miles west of Alexandria. See photos.

Now every sales pitch that these guys gave for solar on my house said it would basically pay for itself... Dont believe it, for every dollar per kilowatt hour I pay the electric utility, they give literally less than 2 cents for what I give them...and yet they put it everywhere... Before You Go Solar In 2026 | Panels That Pay You Back

Will have to go over it...

Well that got personal fast... Sorry my brother if my posts did harm or caused any distress.

If they are caught, a full scale revolt is in the offing..

Not sure what version of Gods Word you use, but mine has the following.. Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Yes, just have to dig a little and see who all he has as the members of his cabinet..... President Donald Trump’s Cabinet includes several prominent Catholics, making it one of the most Catholic administrations in U.S. history. If all nominees are confirmed, more than a third of Trump’s Cabinet would be Catholic National Catholic Reporter. Confirmed Catholic Cabinet Members Marco Rubio – Secretary of State, Florida Catholic, first Latino to hold the position Christianity Today. John Ratcliffe – Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), confirmed 74–25 Christianity Today. Sean Duffy – Secretary of Transportation, confirmed after leading his family in prayer before the Senate hearing National Catholic Reporter. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – Nominated for Secretary of Health and Human Services; Catholic, credits faith for recovery from addiction, but supports legal abortion EWTN. Scott Turner – Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Catholic EWTN. Pete Hegseth – Secretary of Defense, though not Catholic, is part of the broader administration team Christianity Today. Doug Collins – Nominee for Veterans Affairs Secretary, former Southern Baptist pastor and chaplain Christianity Today. Other Catholic Administration Figures Elise Stefanik – Nominated as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations EWTN. Tom Homan – “Border Czar,” Catholic, former ICE Director EWTN. J.D. Vance – Vice President, Catholic, considered one of the most articulate Catholic politicians in modern times EWTN.

The core beliefs of followers of God go directly to these questions... Was He fully man (as well as fully God) or not..