https://thedingodaily.com News with an edge. The facts, raw and unfiltered. en-us Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:15:55 +0000 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-29-trump-pushes-rfk-jr-cut-more-vaccines-measles-30-year-high https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-29-trump-pushes-rfk-jr-cut-more-vaccines-measles-30-year-high Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:16:42 +0000 Politics Measles is at its highest rate in 30 years. Whooping cough deaths are rising. Flu and tetanus are killing more Americans than they were a few years ago. Donald Trump's response to all of this, according to the Wall Street Journal, is to push Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to cut vaccines even faster. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-29-iran-missiles-us-troops-trump-netanyahu-productive-talks https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-29-iran-missiles-us-troops-trump-netanyahu-productive-talks Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:45:47 +0000 Politics While Donald Trump was busy calling his White House meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu 'productive,' Iran launched a volley of missiles at U.S. forces somewhere in the Middle East. The U.S. intercepted all of them. Nobody, according to the experts, has any idea how to make any of this stop. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-29-cyclospora-lettuce-outbreak-11000-cases-trump-food-safety https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-29-cyclospora-lettuce-outbreak-11000-cases-trump-food-safety Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:41:03 +0000 Politics More than 11,000 Americans have been infected with a intestinal parasite linked to lettuce this summer, spanning over 40 states, in what is now the largest known cyclospora outbreak in the country's history. This is happening, per Axios, at the exact moment the Trump administration is out here telling everyone to ditch processed food and eat whole, fresh vegetables. You genuinely cannot make this up. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-29-maga-falling-out-of-love-with-vance-rubio-rising https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-29-maga-falling-out-of-love-with-vance-rubio-rising Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:38:58 +0000 Politics JD Vance is losing the Republican Party and gaining a sauerkraut diet, which about sums up where his 2028 presidential ambitions currently stand. The Washington Post reports he's facing attacks from within the GOP 'unlike that faced by other vice-presidents in decades,' while Fox News pundits are openly griping that he keeps contradicting the president in public. The good news for Vance is that Trump apparently loves his new figure. The bad news is that's genuinely one of the best things happening to him right now. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-29-jared-leto-ten-women-accusations-bbc-documentary https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-29-jared-leto-ten-women-accusations-bbc-documentary Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:08:05 +0000 Crime A BBC documentary airing this week features ten women accusing Oscar-winning actor Jared Leto of sexual misconduct spanning more than a decade, with alleged victims ranging in age from 14 to 19. Four of those women allege criminal conduct, including what would be classified as statutory rape under California law. Leto has not responded to a single one of the allegations put to him by the BBC. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-29-fauci-diary-trump-obnoxious-adolescent-senate-hearing https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-29-fauci-diary-trump-obnoxious-adolescent-senate-hearing Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:35:00 +0000 Politics Anthony Fauci, 85 years old and apparently done being polite about it, is headed to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to face a Senate grilling from Rand Paul about COVID-19 origins. But before he even sat down, Rand Paul released what he called Fauci's 'diary' — a 1,100-page document in which the former public health official described Donald Trump as, among other things, 'rambling,' 'crazy,' 'bumbling,' 'incompetent,' 'an idiot,' 'a true embarrassment,' 'totally nuts,' and 'truly an obnoxious adolescent.' Seven. Separate. Insults. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-29-supreme-court-record-low-approval-rating-2026 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-29-supreme-court-record-low-approval-rating-2026 Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:00:22 +0000 Politics Congratulations are in order. For the first time in modern polling history, all three branches of the United States government are simultaneously drowning in public disapproval. The Supreme Court, long the last institution Americans could stomach, just hit a record-low 33% approval rating — and the country didn't even flinch. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-gop-leaders-dallas-midterm-convention-trump-2026 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-gop-leaders-dallas-midterm-convention-trump-2026 Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:31:35 +0000 Politics Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Speaker Mike Johnson are flying to Dallas in September to wrap their arms around a president who has made their jobs significantly harder, according to Axios. They are doing this not out of love or loyalty or strategic genius. They are doing this because Donald Trump does not allow the people beneath him to exist publicly as anything other than fans. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-ice-agents-racial-slurs-los-angeles-court-documents https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-ice-agents-racial-slurs-los-angeles-court-documents Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:59:30 +0000 Politics While ICE agents were out in Los Angeles on the Fourth of July 2025, at least one of them was busy texting his colleagues about all the 'tonks' selling food in Long Beach. That slur, along with 'wet,' the abbreviated version of a slur used against undocumented Mexicans, showed up repeatedly in internal communications now made public through federal court documents. Happy Independence Day, everyone. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-treasury-whistleblower-program-bessent-somali-mafia-comparis https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-treasury-whistleblower-program-bessent-somali-mafia-comparis Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:56:37 +0000 Politics The Trump Treasury Department launched a shiny new whistleblower portal on Monday, promising Americans up to 30% of whatever fraud penalties the government recovers if they rat out financial criminals. That part is fine, actually. The part where Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent publicly compared Somali community members to the mafia and the cartels in the same breath is where things get a little harder to swallow. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-chip-stocks-crash-apple-5-trillion-nasdaq-correction https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-chip-stocks-crash-apple-5-trillion-nasdaq-correction Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:51:35 +0000 Economy Samsung and SK Hynix lost more than 15% of their value in a single morning. Kioxia dropped 18%. Dell fell 13%. And somewhere in the middle of all that carnage, Apple quietly crossed a $5 trillion market cap for the first time in history, like a guy whistling past a burning building he definitely doesn't own. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-nvidia-jensen-huang-lutnick-china-chip-export-probe https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-nvidia-jensen-huang-lutnick-china-chip-export-probe Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:18:35 +0000 Politics Jensen Huang, the leather-jacket-wearing CEO of the most valuable semiconductor company on Earth, spent his Tuesday in Washington getting grilled by the Trump administration over whether his company has been sneaking advanced chips into China. According to Axios, Huang met with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick as federal officials investigate potential export control violations involving Nvidia hardware. When the government starts scheduling meetings with your CEO, it is usually not to give him an award. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-ai-not-driving-us-productivity-boom-analysis https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-ai-not-driving-us-productivity-boom-analysis Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:14:13 +0000 Economy Everyone has been telling you that artificial intelligence is turbocharging the American economy. The charts, the TED talks, the breathless CNBC segments, the venture capitalists explaining it to you like you're a golden retriever. There's just one problem: a provocative new analysis suggests it's not actually true. At least not yet. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-barron-trump-subpoena-tate-brothers-congress https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-barron-trump-subpoena-tate-brothers-congress Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:43:20 +0000 Politics Barron Trump, the 20-year-old crypto millionaire who has carefully avoided saying anything publicly since he told a crowd he liked his suitcase at age four, may soon be forced to explain himself to Congress. A Democratic congresswoman is calling for him to testify about his connections to Andrew and Tristan Tate, two men currently fighting extradition to the UK on charges of rape, assault, trafficking, and offenses involving indecent images of a child. This is the company the First Family keeps. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-the-rock-star-who-killed-her-own-party-charli-xcxs-anticeleb https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-the-rock-star-who-killed-her-own-party-charli-xcxs-anticeleb Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:24:42 +0000 Opinion Charli xcx was the party for two years. "Brat summer" was a full-blown media event—a lime-green fever that took over political campaigns, group chats, and awards ceremonies, and left Charli standing at the exact center of pop culture's attention economy. So, it’s a genuinely strange thing to watch the same artist spend her follow-up album, Music, Fashion, Film, trying to talk her way out of the room she just filled. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-beshear-demands-mcconnell-prove-hes-alive-or-resign https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-beshear-demands-mcconnell-prove-hes-alive-or-resign Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:53:39 +0000 Politics Mitch McConnell has not been seen outside of staged photographs released by his own office in more than 40 days, and Kentucky's Democratic governor has finally put in writing what a lot of people have been thinking out loud: show up and speak, or get out. Governor Andy Beshear sent a letter directly to McConnell and his staff demanding the 84-year-old senator either address his constituents verbally and demonstrate he can still do the job, or resign his seat. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-reagan-fcc-chair-trump-abc-license-unconstitutional https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-reagan-fcc-chair-trump-abc-license-unconstitutional Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:20:28 +0000 Politics When the guy Ronald Reagan put in charge of the FCC calls your media crackdown unconstitutional, you have officially lost the argument. A coalition of former FCC chairs and senior officials, appointed by presidents from both parties, filed a blistering response Tuesday to the Trump administration's effort to pull ABC's broadcast licenses, calling the whole thing a 'grave violation' of the Constitution and a deliberate attempt to threaten every broadcaster in America into submission. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-nyc-flood-watch-life-threatening-flash-floods-july-2026 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-nyc-flood-watch-life-threatening-flash-floods-july-2026 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:49:33 +0000 Politics New York City is under a Flood Watch Tuesday, with the National Weather Service warning of life-threatening flash flooding across the five boroughs and most of the Northeast. Some areas could see 2 to 3 inches of rain per hour, and the Catskills are looking at 6 to 8 inches total before this thing lets up. Hundreds of flights are already canceled, and Monday night in New Jersey was just the appetizer. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-nato-commander-warns-math-not-in-favor-of-west https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-nato-commander-warns-math-not-in-favor-of-west Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:49:03 +0000 World NATO just pledged 900 Patriot missiles and $40 billion in new air defenses at its summit in Ankara. Days later, the alliance's own top transformation commander went on record to explain why that still might not be enough. Admiral Pierre Vandier did not sugarcoat it: "Today, the math is not in favor of the West." https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-openai-anthropic-120-billion-revenue-mcdonalds-starbucks https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-openai-anthropic-120-billion-revenue-mcdonalds-starbucks Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:17:27 +0000 Economy Two companies that didn't exist in any meaningful commercial form five years ago are now collectively printing money faster than the golden arches and the green mermaid put together. According to Axios, OpenAI and Anthropic are on pace for a combined annual revenue rate of roughly $120 billion. Let that number sit with you for a second. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-pay-off-credit-card-debt-while-saving-money https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-pay-off-credit-card-debt-while-saving-money Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:44:02 +0000 Economy Here is a thing millions of Americans are doing wrong right now: throwing every spare dollar at their credit card balance while their savings account sits at zero, feeling virtuous about it, and then getting absolutely blindsided the next time their car breaks down. According to financial experts who spoke with NPR, that strategy doesn't get you out of debt — it just puts you on a timer until you're right back in it. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-trump-doj-supreme-court-mail-voting-midterms-2026 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-trump-doj-supreme-court-mail-voting-midterms-2026 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:10:49 +0000 Politics Donald Trump signed an executive order in March giving himself the power to decide who gets a mail ballot in America. Two courts have now told him to go pound sand. So naturally, his Justice Department is running to the Supreme Court asking them to let it happen anyway, with the midterms three months out. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-japan-71-earthquake-kumamoto-mall-collapse-2026 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-japan-71-earthquake-kumamoto-mall-collapse-2026 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:39:43 +0000 World A 7.1 magnitude earthquake tore through southern Japan on Tuesday afternoon, trapping people inside a collapsed shopping mall, derailing a cargo train, and sending at least 50 people to hospitals. The Japan Meteorological Agency rated it at the highest end of the seismic intensity scale. A tsunami warning went out for two inland seas, then got lifted, which is the best possible version of events when a 7.1 hits. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-ice-force-fed-hunger-striker-document-confirms https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-ice-force-fed-hunger-striker-document-confirms Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:38:31 +0000 Politics The Trump administration didn't just ignore hunger strikers in immigration detention. According to a government document reviewed by the Guardian, they strapped at least one of them down and forced a tube through their nose. Healthcare associations and international human rights groups have a word for that: torture. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-ai-tokens-wall-street-winners-losers-study https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-ai-tokens-wall-street-winners-losers-study Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:07:37 +0000 Economy Sam Altman wants to sell you intelligence the way your utility company sells you electricity, and a new economic study tracking 380 trillion AI tokens suggests the market already believes him. The AI economy is no longer just a Silicon Valley story, and Wall Street has been quietly placing its bets for a while now. The rest of us are just catching up. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-ice-houston-shooting-witness-released-judge-order https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-ice-houston-shooting-witness-released-judge-order Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:06:54 +0000 Politics An ICE officer shoots a 52-year-old Mexican homebuilder during a traffic stop in Houston. The man's passengers, who watched him die, get thrown into federal custody. Then the government tells everyone the dead man tried to run over the agents with his van. The witnesses say that's a lie. A federal judge, apparently, found that worth taking seriously. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-graham-funeral-trump-netanyahu-zelenskyy-weapons https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-graham-funeral-trump-netanyahu-zelenskyy-weapons Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:06:23 +0000 Politics Lindsey Graham died on July 11, and Washington is burying him today with all the pomp a 30-year Senate career can buy. But if you're wondering why both Benjamin Netanyahu and Volodymyr Zelenskyy flew in for the occasion, the answer has very little to do with grief. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-americans-paying-for-trump-iran-war-cost-of-living https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-americans-paying-for-trump-iran-war-cost-of-living Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:34:59 +0000 Politics Five months ago, the Trump administration sold America a war against Iran that was going to wrap up in a matter of weeks. It has not wrapped up. What it has done is push gas above $4 a gallon, stretch food pantry lines, and start deploying spouses with a single day's notice. The Guardian spent time talking to regular Americans about what this thing actually costs, and the answers are not going to show up in any victory lap press conference. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-evan-barker-democrat-fundraiser-votes-trump-nothing-left https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-evan-barker-democrat-fundraiser-votes-trump-nothing-left Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:02:45 +0000 Politics Evan Barker raised money for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush, and Jasmine Crockett. She was seven months pregnant, standing in Tom Steyer's San Francisco mansion, watching a billionaire's wife butcher a Brandi Carlile song off-key while donors clinked champagne glasses. That was the moment she decided the Democratic Party was finished. In 2024, she voted for Donald Trump. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-democrats-socialism-republican-surrender-playbook https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-democrats-socialism-republican-surrender-playbook Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:02:01 +0000 Politics Republicans didn't wake up one morning and decide to become a cult of personality. According to Axios, they surrendered to Donald Trump one stage at a time, over a full decade, while insisting the whole way down that they were still in control. Now Axios is watching Democrats and clocking the same early warning signs on the left. Buckle up. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-trump-billion-dollars-swing-voters-corruption-democrats https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-trump-billion-dollars-swing-voters-corruption-democrats Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:31:01 +0000 Politics Donald Trump made more than a billion dollars in his first year back in office, struck a deal with his own government to stop the IRS from auditing his family, and openly told The New York Times that he doesn't bother limiting his business ventures because, as he put it, "nobody cared." He was, unfortunately, at least partially right. NPR sat in on focus groups with Pennsylvania swing voters earlier this month, and half of them basically said: yeah, so what. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-jj-55-billion-baby-powder-cancer-settlement https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-jj-55-billion-baby-powder-cancer-settlement Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:59:02 +0000 Economy Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay up to $5.5 billion to settle roughly 76,000 lawsuits claiming its baby powder gave people ovarian cancer. The company would like you to know, very sincerely, that its baby powder absolutely did not give anyone ovarian cancer. They're just paying five and a half billion dollars to clear the air. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-71-earthquake-kumamoto-japan-tsunami-warning-2026 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-71-earthquake-kumamoto-japan-tsunami-warning-2026 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:27:23 +0000 World Japan got hit with a 7.1-magnitude earthquake Tuesday afternoon that registered at the absolute maximum level on the country's own seismic intensity scale. Tsunami warnings went out almost immediately. This is not a drill, and it is not a small thing. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-nvidia-loses-most-valuable-company-apple-ai-selloff https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-nvidia-loses-most-valuable-company-apple-ai-selloff Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:26:49 +0000 Economy Nvidia spent months as the crown jewel of the global economy, the living symbol of AI mania, worth more than any company on earth. Then Monday happened. One news story, one five percent drop, and Apple quietly walked over and picked up the crown while Nvidia was still checking its phone. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-hurricane-genevieve-fausto-hawaii-pacific-2026 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-hurricane-genevieve-fausto-hawaii-pacific-2026 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:54:58 +0000 Science The Pacific Ocean is running two storms simultaneously this week, and one of them just briefly hit Category 5, the first East Pacific storm to do so in two years. Hurricane Genevieve is sitting at 145 mph sustained winds and churning northwest while Tropical Storm Fausto is barreling toward the general vicinity of Hawaii. Neither is directly threatening a major population center right now, but 'not directly threatening' is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-cracker-barrel-ceo-out-after-logo-rebrand-fiasco https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-cracker-barrel-ceo-out-after-logo-rebrand-fiasco Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:17:37 +0000 Economy A restaurant chain managed to anger its customers so thoroughly over a new logo that the President of the United States took time out of his schedule to publicly demand they change it back. Julie Masino, Cracker Barrel's chief executive, is now leaving the company with a $4.6 million goodbye check, and no statement whatsoever about why she's gone. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-fox-poll-70-percent-voters-oppose-local-data-centers https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-fox-poll-70-percent-voters-oppose-local-data-centers Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:45:33 +0000 Politics The AI boom has a public relations problem, and it is a big one. A new Fox News poll finds that by a 40-point margin, American voters do not want a data center built anywhere near them. That's not a niche finding from some lefty think tank. That's Fox News asking Fox News viewers, and the answer is still: hard no. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-both-red-panda-cubs-santa-barbara-zoo-dead-2026 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-both-red-panda-cubs-santa-barbara-zoo-dead-2026 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:12:59 +0000 Science Both red panda cubs born at the Santa Barbara Zoo this summer are dead. The second cub, pulled from his mother on July 19 after staff noticed he wasn't nursing properly, died over the weekend despite round-the-clock care in a temperature-controlled incubator. His sibling had already died on July 21. NBC News has the story. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-savannah-guthrie-pleads-mothers-kidnappers-six-months https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-savannah-guthrie-pleads-mothers-kidnappers-six-months Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:12:28 +0000 Crime An 84-year-old woman who needs daily medication was kidnapped from her home near Tucson, Arizona, six months ago. Her daughter, NBC anchor Savannah Guthrie, posted another desperate plea to her mother's abductors this week. There are no arrests, no confirmed motive, and at least one ransom note that says Nancy Guthrie is already dead. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-scientists-urban-trees-mandatory-infrastructure-roi https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-scientists-urban-trees-mandatory-infrastructure-roi Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:21:13 +0000 Science Dozens of scientists just published a paper arguing that trees — yes, trees, the tall wooden things you walk past every morning without looking up — should be treated as mandatory city infrastructure, like roads or sewage systems. Their case is pretty hard to argue with: every dollar a city spends on parks returns three dollars in local economic benefits every year. We're leaving money on the literal ground, and it's covered in leaves. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-indian-grey-hornbill-self-sustaining-gir-national-park https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-28-indian-grey-hornbill-self-sustaining-gir-national-park Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:11:37 +0000 Science A bird that hadn't nested in one of India's most famous wildlife reserves since the 1960s just bred successfully for the fourth year running, without any human intervention required. Forty Indian grey hornbills are now living, eating, and raising chicks inside Gir National Park in Gujarat, a place that hadn't seen a single nesting pair in over half a century. Good news is rare enough that when conservation actually works, it deserves more than a footnote. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-rubio-state-department-cuba-blacklist-left-wing-americans https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-rubio-state-department-cuba-blacklist-left-wing-americans Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:36:51 +0000 Politics The State Department just published a 100-page report arguing that Ben & Jerry's ice cream guy, the Amazon Labor Union, and sitting members of the United States Congress are all, in some meaningful sense, agents of Cuban influence. This is not a bit. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is running a full McCarthyite blacklist operation out of Foggy Bottom, and he'd like you to know he's proud of it. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-hegseth-gutted-civilian-casualty-team-bombed-school https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-hegseth-gutted-civilian-casualty-team-bombed-school Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:35:09 +0000 Politics Pete Hegseth dismantled the Pentagon's civilian protection unit, slashed its staff by 77 percent, and scrapped the database used to track civilian deaths in war zones. Then, in February, the U.S. bombed an elementary school in Iran and killed more than 150 people, most of them children. These two facts are not unrelated. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-google-deleting-ice-detention-center-reviews https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-google-deleting-ice-detention-center-reviews Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:32:08 +0000 Politics Thousands of people detained by ICE, or their desperate family members, took the time to leave Google Maps reviews of immigration detention facilities describing roach infestations, language barriers, freezing cells, and staff they called cruel and racist. Google has been quietly deleting them. All of them. With no public explanation, and apparently no end in sight. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-cancer-patients-prove-dying-correctly-keep-medicaid https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-cancer-patients-prove-dying-correctly-keep-medicaid Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:29:40 +0000 Politics The Trump administration has found a new way to take healthcare away from dying people, and it is almost elegant in its cruelty. A rule just issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services means that even if you have pancreatic cancer, HIV, or Parkinson's disease, a government bureaucrat now gets to decide whether you are sick enough to qualify for Medicaid without working. Your doctor's opinion does not factor into it. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-gop-house-ways-means-subpoenas-breakthrough-news https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-gop-house-ways-means-subpoenas-breakthrough-news Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:27:20 +0000 Politics The Republican-led House Ways and Means Committee has issued a subpoena to Breakthrough News, a left-leaning independent media outlet, because apparently the legislative branch of the United States government has nothing better to do. Democracy Now! reported the subpoena this week, and while the specific stated rationale remains thin on public detail, the pattern here is not subtle and it is not new. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-tribal-nations-data-center-moratoriums-ai-consultation https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-tribal-nations-data-center-moratoriums-ai-consultation Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:25:35 +0000 Politics New York Governor Kathy Hochul made national headlines on July 14 when she signed a one-year pause on data center construction, becoming the first governor in the country to pump the brakes on the AI infrastructure boom. The Seminole Nation had already done the same thing in March. Nobody called it a landmark moment when they did it. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-kohberger-withdraw-guilty-plea-idaho-student-killings https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-kohberger-withdraw-guilty-plea-idaho-student-killings Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:31:33 +0000 Crime Bryan Kohberger stabbed four college students to death, left his DNA at the scene, pleaded guilty, and is now serving four consecutive life sentences. So naturally, he has decided he is innocent. The man convicted of the 2022 murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin filed Monday in Ada County District Court to withdraw his guilty plea and demand a new trial, which is the legal equivalent of setting your house on fire and then suing the fire department. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-biden-ghostwriter-tapes-released-classified-documents https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-biden-ghostwriter-tapes-released-classified-documents Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:59:09 +0000 Politics Joe Biden, on tape, in his own voice, telling his ghostwriter "I just found all the classified stuff downstairs" like he'd stumbled across a box of old VHS tapes. That line alone spent two years locked in a court battle. Now it's out, and so is everything else. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-wisconsin-tornado-menasha-appleton-damage-power-outage https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-07-27-wisconsin-tornado-menasha-appleton-damage-power-outage Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:58:26 +0000 World At 12:20 in the afternoon on Monday, the sky over northeastern Wisconsin went black as midnight. Then the roofs started coming off. A tornado confirmed by the National Weather Service tore through Winnebago and Outagamie counties, shredding homes down to their outer walls, scattering twisted metal across highways, and knocking out power to more than 30,000 people.