Preview With less than a month to go before the Republican National Convention, Cleveland police are teaming up with FBI agents to conduct so-called “community outreach.” The activists they’re visiting, however, call it “intimidation.”  Read more here. 

The head of a Utah-based militia was caught trying to use an explosive device at a Bureau of Land Management facility. He had hoped to bomb a remote location in Arizona, but the plan fell apart when he tasked an undercover FBI agent to build the weapon. Via RT

Via Market Watch:  It’s raining cats and dogs in parts of the U.K., and that could be good news for Brexit backers. Torrential downpours and thunderstorms began hitting the south east of England late Wednesday, causing the U.K.’s Met Office to put out flood warnings just as Thursday’s referendum got underway to decide whether the U.K. should

Election officials have removed strings of England flags from inside a polling station after voters complained the bunting breached strict impartiality rules governing the EU referendum. The Electoral Commission confirmed that a polling station in Palmers Green, north London, had been hanging the flags this morning.  They told The Huffington Post UK that while the

via Engadget: Senate amendment that would have allowed the FBI to search a suspect’s phone and online records without a court order came very close to becoming a reality today. The legislation, introduced by Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Richard Burr (R-NC) in the wake of the recent mass shooting in Orlando, missed the necessary

Yes, it’s humor and satire.

The Brits start voting in less than 2 hours on whether to remain in the EU or to bail.  For an explanation, see this USA Today article. 

Via Q13 Fox TV:  A Washington state judge says public hospitals must provide abortions on-site if they also offer maternity services. The ruling from Skagit County Superior Court Judge Raquel Montoya-Lewis on Tuesday concerned Skagit Valley Hospital, which routinely refers patients to Planned Parenthood when they seek abortions. The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington

Idaho is part of a trend in which for-profit medical schools are starting to pop up around the country, the AP reports, promising to create new family doctors for underserved rural regions. The new for-profit Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine is scheduled to open to students at Idaho State University’s Meridian campus in 2018. “On

From Pew Research: Democrats and Republicans now view each other more negatively than at any point in nearly a quarter-century, a new poll found. Fifty-five percent of Democrats say the GOP makes them feel “afraid,” while 49 percent of Republicans say the same about Democrats, according to the Pew survey. 

The only way statists know how to “fix” any problem is by throwing more taxpayer money at it. if that were the fix, why were reading scores higher when funding was lower? Slightly more than 25,000 Idaho elementary school students were reading below grade level, according to statewide test scores from this spring. As sobering

From the NRA-Institute for Legislative Action: The NRA announced today, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, a new program to get guns into the hands of statistically under-armed Americans—from homosexuals to the elderly to besieged urban communities—and make self-defense, rather than gun control, the protection of choice for all Americans. Share the Safety is a