Cross-Examination

• RFK announcement coming: In Philadelphia this afternoon, Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be making a “major announcement” about his campaign. “I’ll be speaking about a sea change in American politics,” Kennedy teased in a video publicizing the event. “How are we going to win against the established Washington interests? It’s not through playing the game by the corrupt rules that the corrupt powers and the vested interests have rigged to keep us all in their thrall.” Almost everyone expects that Kennedy will announce his exit from the Democrat presidential primary to run as a third-party independent. Stay tuned.

• Protect women: The Democrat Party’s biggest voting bloc is women, so it’s no wonder the party continuously claims it’s all about supporting women’s rights, especially abortion. However, it turns out that those who often end up suffering the most from leftist polices are women. Policies like the Democrats’ support for gender-bending “transgender” advocacy, which has invaded women’s spaces like bathrooms and locker rooms and has displaced them in sports competitions. But it’s also seen in the Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies. In New York City over the last four years, felony assaults against women have jumped 41%. In NYC so far this year, 2,830 women have been assaulted, not including domestic violence. Who is looking out for women?

• Cutting the Green Berets: The Pentagon recently announced that it will be cutting roughly 10% of the U.S. Army’s special-operational ranks, including from the famous Green Beret commando units. That 10% amounts to 3,000 troops. This follows cuts last year, when 700 special-operations troops were trimmed from the military. The controversial cuts to special forces are being framed as a strategic transition to focus on building up conventional troops for potential warfare against China. However, the Army’s failure to reach recruitment goals has some speculating that this has played more of a leading factor in the cuts. Current projections that factor in the lower recruiting numbers estimate a drop in overall troop numbers from 453,000 to 440,000 by 2025.

• Healthcare strike ends: From Wednesday through Friday last week, 75,000 healthcare workers walked off the job, initiating the largest healthcare strike in U.S. history. It was a planned three-day strike for unionized Kaiser Permanente workers. The vast majority of the striking workers were in California, though some healthcare employees in Colorado, Oregon, and Washington also participated. While no labor deal has been reached, Kaiser and the coalition of unions have scheduled a collective bargaining meeting at the end of this week. The unions have threatened more strikes if no deal is reached during that meeting.

Headlines

• Death toll from Hamas onslaught passes 800, over 100 kidnapped, as Israel strikes Gaza (Times of Israel)

• At least 11 Americans killed in Hamas terror attack (National Review)

• Israeli officials call up 300K reservists amid counter-offensive push (Fox News)

• Hamas confirms it received support from Iran for terror attacks (Daily Wire)

• “Squad” Dems face backlash calling for “ceasefire” (Fox News)

• Democratic Socialists of America cheer murder and kidnapping of Israelis (NY Post)

• Biden admin bragged about how “quiet” Middle East has been one week before deadly attacks (Townhall)

• Biden is now blaming the media for his awful economy (National Pulse)

• Hunter Biden cheated on his sister-in-law with hookers funded by his daughter’s college fund (Washington Examiner)

• “Transgender” lawyer who wanted to “correct the errors” of Jack Phillips’s thinking may have his own case “corrected” (Daily Signal)

• Firearm manufacturer Smith & Wesson leaves Massachusetts for Tennessee (Just the News)

• Policy: Why home insurance markets are in crisis around the country (Washington Examiner)

• Satire: Biden approves continuation of border wall after getting 10% kickback from construction company (Babylon Bee)

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