YOUR CALL IS IMPORTANT TO US:  As the search for bodies continues in the Texas flood zone, local, state, and federal officials are deflecting questions about warnings ahead of the catastrophic flood and the response afterwards.   Two days after the floods …

BORN ON THE 4TH OF JULY: A federal judge in New Hampshire blocked the Trump administration from enforcing the President’s executive order ending birthright citizenship after certifying a class-action lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, thereby doing an end run …

SWEPT AWAY: Federal response to the Texas flooding disaster was delayed by cost-cutting and control of federal emergency management from the top, several news agencies report.   CNN reports, for example that FEMA was unable to pre-position response teams because they did …

YOU’RE FIRED: The Supreme Court again yesterday bowed to President Trump, allowing him to proceed with mass firings of federal employees and the dismantling of agencies. They overruled a lower court order blocking the firings.   In an unsigned decision, the court …

SWEPT AWAY: Responders are searching flood debris in Texas with little hope of finding anyone alive after five days. The number of confirmed dead is now 105 with 27 of them children and counselors from Camp Mystic on the Guadalupe River. …

SWEPT AWAY: At least 80 people are dead and some unaccounted for following the flash flooding that ravaged Kerr County, Texas overnight Friday into Saturday. Forty-one people are missing.   Homes, mobile homes, cars, enormous trees … and people … were washed …

WASHED AWAY: Twenty-five girls are missing from a summer camp and 24 people are already confirmed dead in massive flash flooding along the Guadalupe River in Texas. An unknown number of people also are missing.   Between 10 and 15 inches of …

THE BIG VOTE: Happy Fourth!   The House of representatives yesterday by a margin of only four votes passed President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” the 940-page tax, spending, and policy bill that Republican leaders hope will transform America and its economy. … …

LIGHT RAP: A federal jury yesterday acquitted music mogul Sean “Diddy” combs of sex trafficking and racketeering charges that could have sent him to prison for the rest of his life, but found him guilty on the lesser counts of transporting …

NEWS BLUES: In a decision that bolsters President Trump’s efforts to discredit and intimidate the news media, Paramount has settled for $16 million the President’s lawsuit against CBS’s “60 Minutes” for their editing of a pre-election interview with then Vice President …