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House Speaker Mike Johnson confirmed that lawmakers are "delivering on our promise to make America great again."

Then the legislators voted 218-214 to adopt Senate changes to President Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill."

It's a landmark for tax cuts and spending that includes many of Trump's priorities. The $3.3 trillion measure installs in America budget priorities and spending – or not spending – points adopted by Republicans.

Trump, on social media, said, "The USA is on track to break every record on growth. Go Republicans, beat the Crooked Democrats tonight! Pro-growth tax cuts never fail."

The nearly 900-page bill, read aloud on demands from Democrats who were trying to delay, and possibly even derail, the plan, extends the president's 2017 tax cuts and further eliminates taxes on tips and overtime – a marquee promise that the president pledged repeatedly on the campaign trail.

The child tax credit is doubled and Trump's new plan for $1000 "MAGA account" for new babies is included.

The tax cuts alone will cost $4.5 trillion over the next ten years, according to projections from the Congressional Budget Office. To offset the massive price tag Republicans included $1.2 trillion in spending cuts, mainly trimming Medicaid.

Lawmakers used a tactic called reconciliation, so the tax and spending bill did not need 60 votes in the Senate, which had approved the plan 51-50 with the tiebreaker from Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday.

The House originally adopted the plan late in May.

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The evidence has been plain since they were mandated by so many government agencies and private corporations during the reign of the COVID-19 pandemic: those mRNA shots could cause major heart troubles, especially in young men, by triggering myocarditis and pericarditis.

Now the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has updated the safety labeling on all mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to warn those who take them to beware.

COVID erupted, according to most measured assessments, from a Wuhan, Chinese, lab experimenting on horrific bat viruses late in 2019. It circled the globe and millions died.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's Health and Human Services secretary, has charged that ex-White House coronavirus adviser Anthony Fauci probably played a large role in the creation of the infection, and has called for a commission to investigate its origins.

Kennedy, in an interview with talk show host Tucker Carlson, said Fauci, as chief of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, funded potentially dangerous research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

Asked why Joe Biden issued a pre-emptive pardon to Fauci in his last day in office, Kennedy said, "I would be speculating, but I think that he had a lot of liability on creating coronavirus. He was funding precisely that research, and he was giving them the technology."

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Over 100,000 living armed services members and veterans have been negatively impacted by illegally mandated anthrax vaccines and COVID-19 shots. Yet according to military sources, the efforts of President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to right those wrongs, though greatly appreciated, are falling drastically short due to bureaucratic obstruction.

WorldNetDaily spoke to Retired Air Force Col. Tom "Buzz" Rempfer, author of "Unyielding: Marathons Against Illegal Mandates" and advocate for service members and veterans subjected to illegal medical experimentation in the military.

Rempfer, whose book has been highly praised by everyone from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to COVID vaccine whistleblower doctors Peter McCollough and Harvey Risch, greatly appreciates the steps Trump and Hegseth have taken to help restore the careers of those affected by the Biden-era military's 2021 COVID-19 shot mandate. "We've come so far," he told WND, "watching the tide turn when Congress rescinded the mandate, when Trump signed the executive order [to reinstate troops], and when the Sec Def declared it was 'unlawful as implemented.'"

However, lamented Rempfer, "The corrections process isn't working, and it hasn't worked for over 20 years. The only way to fix the problem is through pardons or amnesty, wherein you take the adjudication step away from the DoD deep state bureaucrats."

To that end, Rempfer pointed to the work of Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc., or STARRS, the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates and the Calvert Task Group. Members of each of these organizations sent a letter to President Trump on June 5 expressing their grave concerns about both the COVID-19 and earlier anthrax vaccination mandates.

"As STARRS suggests," Rempfer told WND, "pardons or amnesty are the swiftest means to right the wrongs committed against services members who were affected by either of the mandates."

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The continued collapse of Tehran's stock market indices this week, compounded by massive capital flight following the recent war, reflect deepening economic turmoil throughout Iran.

On Wednesday, July 2 alone, over 13,200 billion tomans were withdrawn from the Tehran Stock Exchange – a historic record. Reports had already surfaced of the regime's desperate efforts to curb this exodus, including deliberate technical disruptions in multiple currency exchange offices as early as Monday.

A future clouded by uncertainty

Abbas Abdi – a former student leader involved in the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover and ex-deputy head of the Iran-based Presidential Strategic Research Center – recently wrote:

"On the surface, administrative, production and service sectors seem to have returned to normal after the war. But one thing has fundamentally changed: our perception of the future."

That perception is now defined by uncertainty and fear. Growing anxiety within the regime's inner circles reflects a deep concern that collapse is not only possible, but imminent. Many regime officials, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commanders and business elites have already secured escape plans abroad – particularly in Canada and Latin America – and arranged foreign citizenship for their children, the so-called Aghazadeh ("children of the elite"), as a safeguard should the regime fall.

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Methodist preachers, historically, were the circuit riders who evangelized much of the western United States before the states all were states. They adhered to a tradition of John Wesley's teachings and followed the population as it moved into new lands.

Now not only are circuit riders gone, but apparently so are Wesley's teachings, as the United Methodist Church in America has established a solid reputation for leftist ideologies and agendas. Homosexual clergy? Old hat. Rainbow parades. Sure. Sins? Don't worry.

But an opinion piece released at EndTimeHeadlines reveals that one congregation has taken the agenda to an extreme.

With an F-bomb-laden, LGBT "worship anthem" in which a performer loudly proclaims "I'm f****** gay."

The commentary said, "It was once said that when the Church stops offending the world, it has stopped representing Christ. That grim warning came true again in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where Zao MKE Church – an official United Methodist congregation – recently led its Sunday worship with a profane, self-glorifying anthem titled, 'I'm F****** Gay.'"

The editorial explained the "pastors" are two biological females, Jonah and Cameron Overton, "who have transitioned and now present themselves as a gay male couple." The congregation rejoiced queerness, profanity and "Christian rejection."

"The chorus included the line, 'I'm f****** gay and thank God for that,' with the F-bomb blaring through the sanctuary. They even admitted replacing it with 'freakin" in other verses – for the kids in attendance – but kept one original for good measure. In a church. On Sunday. In the name of Jesus," the commentary said.

Explains the publication, "The United Methodist Church was once a movement of revival, holiness, and deep commitment to Scripture. It stood for Wesleyan theology, sanctification, the pursuit of righteousness. But today? It's quickly becoming a cautionary tale. A denomination drunk on cultural approval, hollowing itself out from the inside. You can call yourself 'Jesus-rooted' all you want – but if your message is indistinguishable from a drag club with a fog machine, something has gone terribly wrong."

That, it said, "is not a song lyric. It's a theological tragedy. It's what happens when man becomes the measure, when self becomes sacred, and when the Church forgets it is not here to mimic the world – but to confront it."

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Religious chieftains in Iran, those purportedly directing the faith lives of millions of Iranians oppressed by the nation's Islamic regime, have issued a "fatwa" against President Donald Trump, calling him an "enemy of god," and insisting that the punishment for such an offense is "usually death."

They are insisting that Muslims worldwide rise up to enforce their ideological wishes.

They cite Trump's "threat" to assassinate Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, which actually never happened. In fact, Trump has stated he deterred a plan to assassinate Khamenei.

It is the Middle East Media Research Institute that described the threats to Trump from Nasser Makarem Shirazi, a "grand ayatollah," and Hossein Nouri Hamedani, another "grand ayatollah" operating in the Islamic regime.

Shirazi "issued a fatwa stating that the punishment for U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who threatened Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei with assassination, is the same as the punishment for muhareb – that is, a person defined as an enemy of God and Islam who is gravely threatening or conducting an armed rebellion against the Islamic public order."

The institute reported, "In Shi'ite Islam, and particularly under Iranian religious law, the punishment for this is particularly severe and is usually death; less often, it could be exile, amputation of the transgressor's right arm and left leg, or crucifixion. … It should be noted that President Trump never threatened to assassinate Khamenei and it was even reported that he had prevented such an assassination."

The demands by Shirazi, 98, an authority whose demands "obligates his followers to obey him," were echoed shortly later by Hamedani is a similar statement.

He stated, "that any harm or insult to Khamenei was fundamentally harm or insult to Islam, and that the punishment for anyone harming or threatening him was like that for a muhareb. He added that protecting Khamenei was a religious obligation for all Muslims, and that any assistance to those harming him is also considered punishable by death according to the religion."

And he actually pursued a threat against Trump, demanding his followers "are obligated to make these enemies regret their words and actions…"

Shirazi's statement was, "In the name of Allah the Merciful and Beneficent, any person or regime that threatens the leader of the Islamic ummah [Khamenei] or its religious authorities, with the aim of harming the ummah and its rule, or who actually attacks it, is considered a muhareb. Any cooperation with him [the attacker] or reinforcement of him by Muslims or Islamic governments is strictly forbidden. All Muslims around the world are obligated to make these enemies regret their words and actions, and if they must endure hardship or damage for doing so, their reward will be the same as that of a jihad fighter for Allah. May it be God's will to protect Islamic society from its enemies and to hasten the appearance of Imam Mahdi."

Reaction online confirmed "there is a lesson here" when Trump prevents an assassination attempt, then is condemned by the regime anyway.

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A review by the CIA of a scheme by John Brennan, James Comey and others in the Barack Obama administration found the anti-Trump activists tried to use lies in official government assessments to "get" then-candidate and now-President Donald Trump.

A newly released eight-page review, unleashed by CIA director John Ratcliffe, puts in the crosshairs the government's December 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment about Russia and the just-finished presidential election.

The new report, ordered by Ratcliffe and done by the CIA's Directorate of Analysis, found the "decision by agency heads to include the Steele Dossier in the ICA ran counter to fundamental tradecraft principles and ultimately undermined the credibility of a key judgment."

The dossier, created by ex-British agent Christopher Steele, made wild and unsubstantiated allegations about Trump and his, or his campaign's links to Russia. It claimed that Vladimir Putin was interfering to help Trump win the election, and more.

Only the claims all were fabrications.

The review "pointed the finger at Brennan as well as at the leadership of the FBI at the time," James Comey.

Ratcliffe confirmed that government document was done "through an atypical & corrupt process under the politically charged environments" imposed by Brennan and Comey.

A report at Just the News pointed out that Steele's complaints about Trump were "baseless."

Even so ,CIA and FBI chiefs at the time expressed "high confidence" that Putin had "aspired" to help Trump win.

The dossier, in fact, was funded by payments made through a series of companies, legal teams and individuals by Hillary Clinton's failed campaign for president at the time. In fact, her campaign later was fined for incorrectly reporting the cash turned over for the work of assembling the dossier.

"The procedural anomalies that characterized the ICA's development had a direct impact on the tradecraft applied to its most contentious finding. With analysts operating under severe time constraints, limited information sharing, and heightened senior-level scrutiny, several aspects of tradecraft rigor were compromised—particularly in supporting the judgment that Putin 'aspired' to help Trump win," the new report affirms.

"The DA Review identified multiple specific concerns, including: a higher confidence level than was justified; insufficient exploration of alternative scenarios; lack of transparency on source uncertainty; uneven argumentation; and the inclusion of unsubstantiated Steele Dossier material," it said.

The review revealed that "ICA authors and multiple senior CIA managers – including the two senior leaders of the CIA mission center responsible for Russia— strongly opposed including the Dossier, asserting that it did not meet even the most basic tradecraft standards.":

Some CIA officials even had warned using the lies would risk "the credibility of the entire paper," Just the News reported.

"Despite these objections, Brennan showed a preference for narrative consistency over analytical soundness. When confronted with specific flaws in the Dossier by the two mission center leaders—one with extensive operational experience and the other with a strong analytic background – he appeared more swayed by the Dossier's general conformity with existing theories than by legitimate tradecraft concerns."

Their report at the time "implicitly elevated unsubstantiated claims to the status of credible supporting evidence, compromising the analytical integrity of the judgment," the new report said.

Just the News explained, "CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis tweeted Tuesday that newly-declassified documents 'show how Brennan and Comey personally intervened to insert the Steele dossier's lies into intelligence analysis. We must have zero tolerance for the weaponization of intelligence.'"

The House Intelligence Committee concluded in 2018, "The majority of the Intelligence Community Assessment judgments on Russia's election activities employed proper analytic tradecraft" but the "judgments on Putin's strategic intentions did not."

In fact, that report found "significant intelligence tradecraft failings" that were evident in the claims.

"A two-year investigation by Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller 'did not establish' any criminal Trump-Russia collusion," Just the News said.

Later, DOJ special counsel John Durham concluded, "neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation."

In fact, some operatives had wanted a review of Clinton's actions, and claims she "approved a plan concerning Trump and Russia" in order to distract the public from her own scandals.

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The Supreme Court just days ago declared unconstitutional a scheme by school officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, to impose mandatory LGBT indoctrination on children as young as three years old.

The practical effect of the ruling was to force school officials to allow parents to opt their children out of the offensive teachings, over the protests by the district that it really didn't have the ability to manage such a situation.

It was because of the obvious scheming in which officials insisted on feeding children a reading diet of books that "normalized" LGBT beliefs, including the scientifically impossible concept that boys can turn into girls, and the district's instructions to teachers to ridicule and correct students who disagreed.

The school, with its agenda, moved well beyond exposing children to other beliefs, according an analysis posted online at Scotusblog.

It moved into requiring students to adopt the school's "certain values and beliefs," in short, its religion.

The analysis charged, "The court didn't say that merely exposing children to ideas contrary to their faith is unconstitutional. [Justice Samuel] Alito acknowledged that not every curriculum dispute triggers a free exercise claim. The key, he explained, is the combination of normative messaging and institutional reinforcement. The majority pointed not only to the content of the books, which portrayed same-sex marriage and gender transition as joyful and self-affirming, but also to the teacher guidance documents distributed by MCPS.

"Those documents instructed teachers on how to respond to student questions or objections. If a child said that 'a boy can't marry a boy,' teachers were told to respond, 'Two men who love each other can decide they want to get married.' If a student said a character can't be a boy if he was born a girl, the teacher should say, 'That comment is hurtful.' One prompt advised teachers to explain that '[w]hen we're born, people make a guess about our gender and label us 'boy' or 'girl' based on our body parts. Sometimes they're right and sometimes they're wrong.'

"Teachers were told to '[d]isrupt either/or thinking' and were discouraged from presenting these topics as optional or neutral," the analysis said.

"In short, this was not passive exposure to diversity. It was, in the court's words, a curriculum 'designed to present certain values and beliefs as things to be celebrated, and certain contrary values and beliefs as things to be rejected.' And when combined with mandatory attendance, a lack of opt-out rights, and the young age of the students – some as young as five – the court found that this amounted to more than discomfort. It was a constitutional burden on religious formation."

The analysis noted the school was imposing "moral instruction for young children without offering a way out."

The case was brought against the school by parents who charged that the school was violating the Constitution by imposing on their protected religious rights, with which the Supreme Court agreed.

The court found the school imposed on young children "real pressure to conform" to the school's religion.

"For advocates working at the intersection of religious liberty and public education, this case is both a warning and a roadmap. The warning is clear: Ignoring procedural pluralism – by eliminating opt-outs and dismissing religious objections as mere bigotry – risks violating constitutional protections. But the roadmap is more hopeful. If school districts want to honor inclusion without coercion, they must offer parents meaningful ways to participate and dissent. Opt-out policies, clear notice, and open dialogue with families aren't threats to diversity – they're how pluralism works in practice," the analysis found.

It said, "When public schools act as both educators and moral guides, they carry a responsibility to make space for conscience, not just as a matter of fairness, but as a matter of constitutional law."

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Raphael Warnock was a preacher at an Atlanta church before he was elected to the United States Senate.

And he still faces controversies over the money, tens of thousands of dollars, he continues to take from the congregation each year, and the lavish, luxury home, owned by the church, that he occupies.

In fact, the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust has asked the Senate Select Committee on Ethics to investigate what "appears" to be his violation of Senate ethics rules by accepting the "lavish" housing scheme and then refusing to report it on his financial disclosures.

Notwithstanding his own behavior, the senator now is insisting that Christians abide by his beliefs about the Bible.

He recently delivered a lengthy diatribe against Republicans, accusing them of being Robin Hood in reverse and taking from kids to give to the wealthy.

"We're taking away health care from kids and then burdening them with the debt," Warnock said. "We are engaged in Robin Hood in reverse, this body of stealing from the poor in order to give to the rich. This massive transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top. This is socialism for the rich."

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A man who admits murdering and crucifying a Christian pastor is now giving interviews, and says he was doing God's will, with 13 other Christian leaders targeted for "execution."

Adam Christopher Sheafe, 51, is openly confessing to killing 76-year-old William Schonemann at his New River, Arizona, home in April.

The victim was found dead in his bed, covered in blood, on April 28, when deputies conducted a welfare check. Sheafe had placed a crown of thorns on the pastor's head.