Pastor Freed from Chinese Prison after Trump Raised His Case with Xi Jinping

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The pastor of a prominent underground church in China who was imprisoned by Chinese authorities last year has been released and reunited with his family in the U.S., according to reports.

Ezra Jin, founder of Zion Church, was one of nearly 30 Zion Church pastors and staff members detained in October during one of China’s largest crackdowns on evangelical churches in decades, according to the nonprofit advocacy group Luke Alliance.

Jin was released from detention and arrived in Los Angeles on Friday, ChinaAid reported. According to the Christian human rights organization, Chinese authorities told Jin he was being released due to negotiations between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

During a high-profile state visit to Beijing in May, Trump raised Jin’s case directly with the Chinese leader. On his flight back to the U.S., Trump told reporters that Xi promised to “strongly consider” the pastor’s release.

“We are feeling so overwhelmed with joy. We thank God for this tremendous miracle,” his daughter Grace Jin Drexel said in a family statement to CNN. (Read more from “Pastor Freed from Chinese Prison after Trump Raised His Case with Xi Jinping” HERE)

Feds Smash Indian Criminal Gangs in U.S.

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Cops in the United States, Canada, and Europe arrested 24 Indian criminals from three different murderous drug gangs who were welcomed by progressive governments as they imported millions of wage-cutting Indian migrants.

Americans were already dealing with migrant Central American gangs, such as MS-13, and the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang welcomed by prior presidents.

The Justice Department reported the huge 50-site sweep on Tuesday:

Law enforcement in the United States, Canada, and Europe have arrested 24 defendants – 11 of them in California – connected to three India-based transnational organized crime groups charged with a litany of criminal acts, including the assassination in Canada in 2023 of a prominent Indian political and religious figure, the Justice Department announced today.

“Three defendants have been arrested in Canada, one defendant was arrested in Spain, and … Law enforcement is looking for 10 fugitives – seven in the United States, two in India, and one in Europe,” the statement said. (Read more from “Feds Smash Indian Criminal Gangs in U.S.” HERE)

Email Suggests Mitch McConnell Health Response Is Coordinated Effort

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Republican Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell’s office sent an email Tuesday that included a compilation of statements from senators and acquaintances claiming they spoke to the former majority leader for similar lengths of time and discussed related topics.

McConnell’s office provided no new details on his health despite his nearly month long hospitalization. Several of McConnell’s colleagues and acquaintances, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune and CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings, made similar statements about McConnell that McConnell’s staff later shared in an email obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“As the Senator continues to recover, we will be sure to keep you updated. Wanted to flag the following tweets for you. And I’m sure you have the latest statement from a McConnell spokesperson: ‘Senator McConnell appreciates the outpouring of support he’s receiving while he continues his recovery in the hospital. The Senator continues to improve, and is working closely with his staff on Kentucky and Senate matters while the Senate is out of session,’” the email read.

The statements in the email included similar details, including the length of the conversations with McConnell and what they discussed. Thune claimed he spoke to McConnell on the phone Monday, where they had a “lengthy and substantive conversation” about several topics such as national security, a source familiar told the DCNF.

Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso and Jennings claimed Tuesday they spoke to McConnell for “roughly 20 minutes” about a variety of political topics, including the Maine Senate race and the Iran war. (Read more from “Email Suggests Mitch McConnell Health Response Is Coordinated Effort” HERE)

Graham Platner’s Ex-Girlfriend Alleges Scandal-Scarred Maine Dem Would Sneakily Pull off Condoms During Sex

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One of Graham Platner’s ex-girlfriends alleged Tuesday that the embattled Maine Democrat repeatedly removed his condom during sex without asking permission.

“He would pull condoms off,” Lyndsey Fifield said in an interview with the Washington Post. “He would do it in a sneaky way. He wouldn’t tell me.”

“I confronted him both during and after [sex] because he knew that I was not on birth control and how dangerous that was,” Fifield added. “He would act like cute about it, like ‘Oh sneaky me.’”

Fifield estimated that Platner removed his condom at least six times during intercourse without consent.

Her account was corroborated by a friend, Emily Zanotti, who recalled Fifield “discovered that he had been taking off condoms in the middle of sex,”

“She was extremely angry about the situation and about what he had done,” Zanotti said. (Read more from “Graham Platner’s Ex-Girlfriend Alleges Scandal-Scarred Maine Dem Would Sneakily Pull off Condoms During Sex” HERE)

Photo credit: Instagram via @lyndseyfifield

This is the ‘Strongest Predictor of Colorectal Cancer’ under 50 — it Increases your Odds by 850%

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. . .A new study has identified the “strongest predictor of colorectal cancer” in adults under 50 — increasing the odds of a diagnosis by a staggering 850%.

“This research lends support to the question of who does or doesn’t warrant a colonoscopy,” Dr. Sandra Kavalukas, a colorectal surgeon at the University of Louisville School of Medicine and lead author of the study, said in a statement.

Generally, Americans without a family history of the disease are advised to start getting screened at age 45. But experts warn that this guidance leaves many younger adults — who are experiencing the fastest rise in colorectal cancer rates — dangerously exposed.

“Many of the early-onset colorectal cancers that I see have no family history,” said Kavalukas, who hopes this research will help doctors identify which young symptomatic patients could benefit from earlier colonoscopies.

In the study, researchers combed through the records of 443 patients under 50 who got colonoscopies between 2021 and 2023 at University of Louisville Health.

Nearly half of them were diagnosed with early-onset colorectal cancer, with rectal bleeding standing out as the biggest warning sign. (Read more from “This is the ‘Strongest Predictor of Colorectal Cancer’ under 50 — it Increases your Odds by 850%” HERE)

Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Faces Hit And Run Charge After Allegedly Smashing Into Parked Car

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Paul Pelosi could face a criminal count after allegedly plowing his convertible into a parked car in California wine country and driving off.

Napa County Sheriff’s Office (NCSO) deputies reached the 6700 block of Yount Street in Yountville shortly after 2:30 p.m. on July 3, answering a 911 call about a hit and run, the New York Post reported citing a press release . A witness watched a brown convertible head north, strike an empty and legally parked car, tear into its rear and shove one tire over the curb, then pause briefly before fleeing, according to the outlet.

Deputies caught up with the battered convertible a short distance away on Yountville Cross Road, where a California Highway Patrol unit had already pulled in behind it, according to NBC Bay Area. The car sat partly in the roadway with heavy damage to its front right side, and deputies identified the driver as Pelosi, 86, through his license, the outlet reported. He told them he knew he had hit something but could not say what.

Investigators cleared alcohol as a factor after a roadside breath test read 0.00, the NCSO said.

Deputies never took Pelosi into custody, a step the sheriff’s office called routine for this class of misdemeanor under state law. The department wants the Napa County District Attorney to weigh a misdemeanor count of hit and run causing property damage, and it referred Pelosi for a driving re-evaluation through the state motor vehicle agency, a move it described as common for older drivers. (Read more from “Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Faces Hit And Run Charge After Allegedly Smashing Into Parked Car” HERE)

How US Soccer got Folarin Balogun’s Suspension Overturned — including Trump’s Phone Call

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. . .Folarin Balogun, the dynamic U.S. striker who’s scored a goal in each of the three matches he’s played in this World Cup, will play against Belgium in Monday’s massive Round of 16 showdown.

FIFA lifted the highly controversial one-game ban Sunday that would have prevented Balogun from playing against Belgium. He had received a straight red card for accidentally stepping on the right ankle of Bosnia-Herzegovina defender Tarik Muharemovic in Wednesday’s Round of 32 match.

With no evidence of intent by Balogun to harm Muharemovic, and the match referee not even issuing a yellow card in real time before VAR intervened to send him off, justice was served.

The Post has learned exclusively that this justice was served after U.S. Soccer threatened legal action against FIFA for incorrectly applying its video assistant referee process.

A source with intimate knowledge of the process told The Post on Sunday that, despite FIFA’s rules that a case such as Balogun’s cannot be appealed, a group that was led by U.S. Soccer CEO JT Batson and COO Dan Helfrich fought the ruling based on VAR having been applied incorrectly. (Read more from “How US Soccer got Folarin Balogun’s Suspension Overturned — including Trump’s Phone Call” HERE)

Trump Signs 11 Pardons for Individuals ‘Persecuted’ by Biden Admin: ‘I AM SETTING THEM ALL FREE’; President Donald Trump Reportedly Still Mulling Over Diddy Pardon

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By New York Post. President Trump signed 11 pardons Friday, including one for the convicted former business partner of infamous lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a White House official told The Post.

Adam Kidan was sentenced to 70 months in prison in 2006 after pleading guilty to conspiracy and fraud charges related to his attempt, along with Abramoff, to purchase SunCruz Casinos for $147.5 million with a counterfeit wire transfer document.

Kidan, an entrepreneur, has since gone on to start multiple staffing companies and has become a major Republican donor.

The bulk of the pardons are for individuals convicted of tampering with emission control systems on cars and trucks, including by selling “defeat devices” and “tuners” to maximize the engine power, in violation of the Clean Air Act.

Trump had teased issuing six pardons to people convicted during the Biden administration for “fixing their car,” earlier Friday on Truth Social.

(Read more from “Trump Signs 11 Pardons for Individuals ‘Persecuted’ by Biden Admin: ‘I AM SETTING THEM ALL FREE’” HERE)

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President Donald Trump Reportedly Still Mulling Over Diddy Pardon

By TMZ. Donald Trump might be getting ready to break out the pardon pen again … and one name that’s apparently still floating around behind closed doors is Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Trump was expected to huddle with advisers Friday over a new batch of pardons … and CBS News reports Diddy remains one of several high-profile names POTUS has been privately considering.

One source told CBS … Diddy is not expected to be among the formal recommendations from the White House pardon team … though a White House official noted, “President Trump is the ultimate decider on any clemency related actions.”

The latest report lines up with what TMZ first told you back in October … when sources said Trump was “vacillating” on commuting Diddy’s sentence while some White House staffers were urging him not to. The White House Communications Office disputed our reporting at the time, but TMZ stood by the story. (Read more from “President Donald Trump Reportedly Still Mulling Over Diddy Pardon” HERE)

Five American Inventions That Changed The World

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The United States has spent its quarter millennium of existence creating tools that reshaped the modern world.

As the country celebrates its 250th birthday, here are five tools invented within its borders that completely transformed how humanity lives. . .

The Telephone — 1876

Working from his laboratory in Boston, Massachusetts, Alexander Graham Bell changed human communication on March 7, 1876, when the U.S. Patent Office granted him Patent No. 174,465 for transmitting speech by electrical current. Three days later, he spoke the first clear sentence sent by telephone, “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you!” . . .

The Airplane — 1903

Orville and Wilbur Wright, who ran a bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio, achieved what inventors had chased for more than a century: powered flight controlled by a pilot. On Dec. 17, 1903, Orville Wright piloted a powered flying machine he and his brother Wilbur had built off the sand at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The machine stayed aloft for 12 seconds and covered 120 feet during the first flight. . .

The Internet — 1969

The World Wide Web began as a U.S. defense project. On Oct. 29, 1969, researchers at UCLA sent the first message between two computers over ARPANET, a network funded by the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency. The message traveled from UCLA to the Stanford Research Institute. The system crashed after transmitting the first two letters of “login” from one computer to the other. So, the first transmission on the internet read simply “lo.”

(Read more from “Five American Inventions That Changed The World” HERE)

City Officials Raise Somali Flag After Cancelling Independence Day Fireworks

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A city in New York appears to be celebrating America’s 250th birthday differently.

Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan confirmed Tuesday that the city cancelled its Independence Day firework show, WGRZ reported Wednesday. However, some other city officials found time to celebrate Somali Independence Day, social media posts show.

Ryan’s office did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

“The Somali flag was raised in front of Buffalo City Hall in New York State on 1 July 2026, as the local Somali community gathered to mark Somalia’s Independence Day in a ceremony promoted by a Buffalo city council member,” Somali National News Agency posted Wednesday.

Somali Independence Day is celebrated on July 1 to commemorate when the Trust Territory of Somalia broke away from Italy and united with the State of Somaliland in 1960, forming the Federal Republic of Somalia. (Read more from “City Officials Raise Somali Flag After Cancelling Independence Day Fireworks” HERE)