Trump-backed Daylight Saving Time bill
clears key House hurdle
Posted By: Ida Lou Pino, 7/14/2026 1:13:06 PM
A bipartisan push to make Daylight Saving Time permanent is heading for a chamber-wide vote after clearing a key House hurdle. The House Rules Committee on Monday teed up a floor vote on the Sunshine Protection Act, which would allow states to enact Daylight Saving Time year-round — with an option to opt out. The committee approved the rule in a 6-4 vote. The measure has the support of many coastal lawmakers and President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly urged Congress to make Daylight Saving Time permanent and end the twice-a-year ritual of changing clocks
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A bipartisan push to make Daylight Saving Time permanent is heading for a chamber-wide vote after clearing a key House hurdle. The House Rules Committee on Monday teed up a floor vote on the Sunshine Protection Act, which would allow states to enact Daylight Saving Time year-round — with an option to opt out. The committee approved the rule in a 6-4 vote. The measure has the support of many coastal lawmakers and President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly urged Congress to make Daylight Saving Time permanent and end the twice-a-year ritual of changing clocks
A bipartisan push to make Daylight Saving Time permanent is heading for a chamber-wide vote after clearing a key House hurdle. The House Rules Committee on Monday teed up a floor vote on the Sunshine Protection Act, which would allow states to enact Daylight Saving Time year-round — with an option to opt out. The committee approved the rule in a 6-4 vote. The measure has the support of many coastal lawmakers and President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly urged Congress to make Daylight Saving Time permanent and end the twice-a-year ritual of changing clocks
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pop singer who’s got nothing to say
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Two sisters — two different goals. The little sister of clean-cut Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is making a name for herself one dramatic ballad and split at a time. In a recent virtual chat with Interview Magazine, Beata MonaLisa, AKA Bea, (yes, that’s her real name: “I was born with it. It’s from my grandma Mona and great grandma Lisa,” she explained to the outlet) proved she’s not living in the shadows of her older, by three years, sister, who’s known for challenging the government with her strong opinions on climate change and societal issues.
Another favorite in the knockout round of the 2026 World Cup bit the dust Monday. After Germany was defeated by Paraguay in penalty kicks in a massive upset, another World Cup power received its walking papers early Tuesday as the Netherlands lost to Morocco in penalty kicks. Perhaps the moment that the Dutch will be thinking about for the next four years is Morocco’s second penalty kick, where Soufiane Rahimi appeared to have his shot blocked.
Team Trump’s fraud crackdown is turning up billions in stolen taxpayer money, even as Democrats do their best to ignore, deny and even enable it. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s announcement Tuesday of a massive takedown — 455 perps collared across nearly every US state and territory — roped in a whopping $6.5 billion in scams. The operation marked “the greatest combined federal and state effort combating health-care fraud in history,” Blanche noted.
Acting AG Todd Blanche announces 455 people
charged for $6.5B in health care fraud schemes 16 replies
charged for $6.5B in health care fraud schemes 16 replies
WASHINGTON — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Tuesday that the feds have charged hundreds of defendants in recent weeks for seeking to bilk taxpayer-funded programs out of $6.5 billion. “This announcement marks the greatest combined federal and state effort in combating health care fraud in history,” Blanche told reporters at the Department of Justice’s headquarters in DC. “These individuals participated in health care fraud schemes involving over $6.5 billion in false claims submitted to Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care programs.”
UK PM Keir Starmer says he won’t resign
after his Labour Party hammered in local elections 8 replies
after his Labour Party hammered in local elections 8 replies
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer insisted Friday he was “not going to walk away” from the job with his Labour Party on course to be badly beaten in local and regional elections. Control of 136 local authorites in England, as well as the devolved parliaments in Scotland and Wales, were up for grabs Thursday. While many commentators had expected Labour to suffer heavy defeats amid public discontent with the economy, immigration and Starmer himself, partial results indicated the party was on track to take worse losses than even the most pessimistic predictions suggested.
The War Department released more than 160 files Friday related to sightings of UFOs dating back nearly 80 years, two days after President Trump predicted, “I think some of it’s going to be very interesting to people.” The disclosure of 162 files by the Pentagon follows a presidential order from February calling for transparency around “alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs).”
Greta Thunberg and apparent beau skip
Gaza flotilla following sexual misconduct allegations 18 replies
Gaza flotilla following sexual misconduct allegations 18 replies
Never mind saving the planet — they just wanted to rock on the boat. Lefty activists reportedly got frisky on the so-called freedom flotilla meant to bring aid to Gaza — becoming the subject of a recent sex scandal. And even the Swedish queen of sanctimony herself is rumored to have chosen to “seas” the day aboard the vessel.
Wild photos captured firefighters battling a raging five-alarm fire at historic Queens church, which suffered another devastating inferno over a century ago, on Thursday evening. The blaze started at a residence attached to the First Reformed Church of Astoria on 12th Street, between 27th Avenue and Main Avenue, around 6:45 p.m., according to the FDNY. Roughly 270 firefighters and EMS workers responded to the scene as the flames spread to the church and grew into a 5-alarm fire, fire officials added.
Congressman Tim Burchett says seeing “pictures and video of things that defy any reason” convinced him that aliens exist — and demanded the government come clean to the American people about its knowledge of extraterrestrials. Burchett (R-Tenn.) appeared on NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” on Tuesday, days after President Trump said the Pentagon would release documents on unidentified aerial phenomena “very, very soon.” “These people are seeing something out there,” he said of the recent uptick in UFO sightings across the US.
Fires, floods and extreme weather will
imperil a third of all life on land in
the next 60 years 31 replies
imperil a third of all life on land in
the next 60 years 31 replies
This forecast does not look good. Archaeologists might need to locate Noah’s lost ark sooner than we think. By 2085, over a third of all land animals’ habitats could be adversely impacted by extreme weather events such as fires and floods, should temperatures continue to surge worldwide, per an alarming study in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution. If we don’t reverse course, this “Day After Tomorrow”-esque confluence of events could potentially expedite extinctions.
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Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger says concertgoers want to escape from politics and everyday worries rather than sit through political speeches.
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Two years after a bullet nearly killed
President Trump, a new report reveals
an unthinkable truth… 15 replies
President Trump, a new report reveals
an unthinkable truth… 15 replies
Today marks the two-year anniversary of the day President Trump came within inches of being assassinated in Butler, Pennsylvania. And all this time later, the official story looks even worse, thanks to a new report that was just released.A new inspector general report says the Secret Service missed more than 100 radio transmissions from local law enforcement about the suspicious man who would later be identified as Thomas Crooks.
One hundred. Pure insanity.
Comments:
What a farce! This is almost as big a scam as gullible warming. No government can "save" daylight. Changing the clocks does not increase the amount of daylight - - it just clumsily shifts the work hours. If employers and employees want more daylight after work hours - - they can just start and end the workday an hour ealier. And what does "permanent" daylight "savings" do to New Year celebrations? Does the ball drop at daylight mdnight - - or at actual midnight? Stupid - - stupid - - stupid.