Trump Says He ‘Checked Out Perfectly’ in Latest Physical Exam

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President Donald Trump says he “checked out perfectly” in his latest physical examination at Walter Reed Military Medical Center on Tuesday.

Trump took to Truth Social during his ride home from Walter Reed in the early afternoon.

“Just finished my 6 month physical at Walter Reed Military Medical Center. Everything checked out PERFECTLY. Thank you to the great Doctors and Staff! Heading back to the White House,” he wrote.

In total, the president spent about three and a half hours at Walter Reed, arriving just before 9:00 a.m. and departing just before 12:30 p.m. Though it was closed to reporters, the White House press guidance noted that Trump was set to meet with service members and staff ahead of his exam.

Trump’s last physical was in October. U.S. Navy Captain and Presidential Physician Sean Barbabella reported at the time that the president showed “excellent overall health” and had the cardiac age of someone 14 years his junior[.] (Read more from “Trump Says He ‘Checked Out Perfectly’ in Latest Physical Exam” HERE)

Report: Two New York Democrat Candidates Want Federal Funds for Childrens’ ‘Drag Story Hour’ Program

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Two New York Democrats running against each other in a congressional primary reportedly want to subsidize the program known as “Drag Story Hour” for school children, the news coming as the program has already been a drain on taxpayer money.

Incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman and former city Comptroller Brad Lander have reportedly expressed support for throwing federal funds at the program, the New York Post reported Tuesday:

“Unfortunately, the Majority does not allow funding from Members of Congress to support LGBTQIA+ programming,” Goldman wrote on a questionnaire from the Jim Owles LGBT Liberal Democratic Club in response to a question about whether he had “hosted, funded, or otherwise supported” a Drag Story Hour.

“However, once we take back the House, I certainly cannot wait to fund programs like Drag Story Hours and other programs,” added Goldman, who is seeking a third term.

In addition, a Lander spokesman told the outlet that if the Democrat won election he was looking forward to “funding affordable housing, health care, child care, USAID, libraries, and lots of arts and culture programs, most certainly including Drag Story Hour.” (Read more from “Report: Two New York Democrat Candidates Want Federal Funds for Childrens’ ‘Drag Story Hour’ Program” HERE)

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Epstein Reporter Says They Were ‘Permanently Injured’ after Alleged ‘Pulsed Energy’ Attack; Rogue Republican Massie Drops Melania Epstein Files Bomb

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By Raw Story. Veteran journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, who last week revealed she was “fleeing the country” after claiming to have been targeted by “direct energy weapon attacks” linked to her reporting on Jeffrey Epstein, said Saturday that the alleged attacks have since left her “permanently injured.”

“We should all understand this is real. These are the most cowardly weapons ever created,” Valdes-Rodriguez wrote in a social media post on Substack Saturday evening.

“They attack you at your most vulnerable and trusting, in your home, in bed, and do not kill right away. They plant pain and illness that can take years, months, weeks, days to kill, and do it in a manner intended to gaslight the target into doubting their own experience, as the pulsed energy can hit one person and not the others.”

While Valdes-Rodriguez did not provide evidence to support her claim, direct energy weapons are a real technology used by some U.S. law enforcement agencies, and the White House earlier this year promoted a claim that the Trump administration had used a secret “sonic weapon” – a type of direct energy weapon – in its attack on Venezuela, allegedly causing Venezuelans to bleed from their noses and vomit blood.

Valdes-Rodriguez’s reporting has largely centered around Epstein’s mysterious compound in New Mexico, having uncovered several previously unknown details about the disgraced financier, including that his compound may have been used to surveil two U.S. nuclear weapons labs. (Read more from “Epstein Reporter Says They Were ‘Permanently Injured’ after Alleged ‘Pulsed Energy’ Attack” HERE)

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Rogue Republican Massie Drops Melania Epstein Files Bomb

By The Daily Beast. Rep. Thomas Massie has claimed that Melania Trump “knows” Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running his child sex abuse ring alone.

Massie, 55, appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday and confirmed that he personally planned to reveal more names from the Epstein files after a lack of clear action from the acting attorney general.

“Todd Blanche is violating the law. There’s still millions of files they haven’t released,” he said.

“We know from talking to the victims’ lawyers that their own 302 forms haven’t been released. We know the files have been over-redacted. I have released at least three names of billionaires who are implicated in this.”

The Republican, who lost his House primary last week, added, “I don’t think it’s possible to get to convictions with Todd Blanche at the top and with the FBI director, Kash Patel, at the top, because they have effectively both perjured themselves by saying there’s nobody else in the files.” (Read more from “Rogue Republican Massie Drops Melania Epstein Files Bomb” HERE)

US Facing ‘Existential Crisis’ As Fertility Rate Continues To Decline

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The U.S. is facing a worsening fertility crisis, according to analysts.

While the nation’s fertility rate has been declining for decades, it dropped to a new record low in 2025. Experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that deregulation, improving fertility care and bringing down costs related to raising children could help boost the declining birth rate.

The U.S. general fertility rate was 53.1 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 in 2025, down from 53.8 in 2024, according to National Center for Health Statistics data published in April.

“While there are many factors contributing to the declining birth rate, three reasons stand out to me: First, there is the influence of smart phones and social media,” Heritage Foundation Senior Policy Analyst Emma Water told the DCNF. “Since the introduction of the iPhone, [every] country has seen a marked decline in births that doesn’t look like it is reversing any time soon, including the U.S. … we are seeing more men and women replace meaningful time with others with scrolling, screen addictions, or a sense that there is too much to be done.”

“Second, we cannot discount the role of abortion, birth control, and reproductive technologies,” Waters said. “While we can have a meaningful conversation about the morality of each separately, the statistics don’t lie: The last year that the birth rate was above replacement was 1972, and since the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade erroneously created a constitutional right to abortion in 1973, the birth rate has never recovered.” (Read more from “US Facing ‘Existential Crisis’ As Fertility Rate Continues To Decline” HERE)

US Launches Self-Defense Strikes on Mine-Laying Boats in Southern Iran, CENTCOM says

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The US military launched “self-defense strikes” against Iranian boats that were reportedly laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz Monday, according to Central Command.

CENTCOM spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins said US military “eliminated” two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps boats that were seen setting mines in the strait, and also took out a surface-to-air missile site in Bandar Abbas, according to Fox News.

The missile site based at Iran’s primary naval station was reportedly targeting US warplanes, Hawkins said. He insisted that the “self-defense strikes” were conducted “to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces.”

“U.S. Central Command continues to defend our forces while using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire,” Hawkins said in a statement obtained by the outlet.

The US strikes — and mine-laying efforts by the IRGC — are both violations of a tenuous cease-fire that appears on the cusp of being extended after a framework to end the Iran war surfaced following whirlwind negotiations over the weekend. (Read more from “US Launches Self-Defense Strikes on Mine-Laying Boats in Southern Iran, CENTCOM says” HERE)

Gunman who Believed He was Jesus Christ Opened Fire on White House Checkpoint, Shot Dead by Secret Service

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A crazed gunman who believed he was Jesus Christ pulled out a revolver and opened fire outside the White House Saturday night, before he was quickly taken down by a barrage of shots from the Secret Service, sources said.

Nasire Best, 21, fired at a checkpoint at about 6:10 p.m. after being seen pacing in a strange manner up and down 17th St. Northwest, sources told The Post. He only got off a few shots before he was shot and killed in a hail of bullets from federal officers.

At least one bystander was hit and seriously wounded in the fusillade, the sources said.

The sound of shots from the incident terrifed members of the press who were doing their normal reporting at the White House, including one ABC reporter who was seen diving for cover during a live stream.

“I was in the middle of taping on my iPhone for a social video from the White House North Lawn when we heard the shots,” said Selina Wang, a senior ABC White House correspondent. (Read more from “Gunman who Believed He was Jesus Christ Opened Fire on White House Checkpoint, Shot Dead by Secret Service” HERE)

One Type of Sitting may Pose Greater Dementia Risk than Others, Study Suggests

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For years, researchers have believed prolonged sitting could raise dementia risk — but new findings suggest the type of sitting may matter more than previously thought.

The research, which was published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine in March, found that replacing mentally passive sedentary behavior with mentally active sedentary behavior was associated with a significant reduction in dementia risk.

Mentally active sedentary behaviors could include reading, office work and other activities that keep the brain engaged while sitting, while mentally passive behaviors may include watching television or other low-engagement screen activities.

To gather the findings, Swedish researchers analyzed data from more than 20,000 adults between ages 35 and 64 who were tracked over a 19-year period, between 1997 and 2016, according to a press release.

Participants answered questions about their sitting habits, physical activity and other lifestyle behaviors, while dementia diagnoses were identified using Swedish health and death records.

Mentally active sedentary behavior was associated with “a significant reduction in dementia risk” compared to more passive sitting activities. (Read more from “One Type of Sitting may Pose Greater Dementia Risk than Others, Study Suggests” HERE)

Trump: Iran’s Enriched Uranium to Be ‘Immediately Turned’ Over to U.S. or Destroyed in Iran

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President Donald Trump explained in a Truth Social post on Monday that Iran’s enriched uranium would either be “immediately turned over” to the United States or would be destroyed “in place” in Iran.

In the post, Trump said that if the enriched uranium was not turned over to the U.S. to be “destroyed,” it would be “destroyed in place” in Iran or at another location.

“The Enriched Uranium (Nuclear Dust!) will either be immediately turned over to the United States to be brought home and destroyed or, preferably, in conjunction and coordination with the Islamic Republic of Iran, destroyed in place or, at another acceptable location, with the Atomic Energy Commission, or its equivalent, being witness to this process and event,” Trump said.

Trump’s post comes after a New York Times report on Saturday said that “two U.S. officials” revealed that Iran had “committed in broad terms to surrendering the near-weapons-grade uranium stockpile,” Breitbart News’s Joshua Klein reported:

In a report published late Saturday evening, the New York Times cited two U.S. officials as saying Tehran committed in broad terms to surrendering the near-weapons-grade uranium stockpile — one of the central demands of the Trump administration’s campaign against the Iranian regime and a potentially significant breakthrough after Iranian officials had consistently sought to separate the uranium issue from the initial ceasefire framework and defer it to later negotiations.

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PHOTO: Remains of 17-Year-Old Sailor Killed at Pearl Harbor Will Be Buried with Honors in Hometown

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A 17-year-old U.S. Navy sailor killed when enemy Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor during World War II will finally be laid to rest in his hometown.

Fireman 3rd Class Royle Luker will be buried Saturday in his hometown of Plainview, Arkansas, where he grew up before enlisting in June 1941, Stars and Stripes reported Thursday.

The article said forensic methods at the time did not allow officials to identify his remains, thus he was buried in a grave marked “unknown.”

Luker, who was the son of a World War I veteran, will be buried with full military honors at New Bethel Cemetery, and his remains are being returned home more than 84 years after his death, per Fox News. The outlet noted that modern forensic testing and DNA analysis confirmed his identity through living relatives.

Luker was aboard the USS West Virginia during the attack that killed 105 of its crew members on December 7, 1941. The vessel was hit by several torpedoes and sank at Ford Island, the Stripes article continued, citing a press release from the Navy. (Read more from “PHOTO: Remains of 17-Year-Old Sailor Killed at Pearl Harbor Will Be Buried with Honors in Hometown” HERE)

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Gonorrhea and Syphilis Skyrocket in Europe — and this Country has the Highest Spike

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Europe is dealing with a full-blown sexual health crisis as cases of gonorrhea and syphilis skyrocket to unprecedented levels, shocking new data show.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) revealed the continent is in the grips of a dirty STI explosion not seen in over a decade.

Gonorrhea cases across Europe hiked a staggering 303% since 2015, clocking in at 106,331 painful infections, while syphilis cases more than doubled over the same period, topping more than 45,550 cases.

Spain ranks as Europe’s hotspot, racking up 37,169 gonorrhea cases and 11,556 syphilis infections in 2024, according to the BBC.

Meanwhile, congenital syphilis — where the dangerous infection passes directly from pregnant mothers to their newborns — nearly doubled in participating European countries between 2023 and 2024.

Health officials are blaming “widening gaps” in testing and lack of condom use for the nasty surge. (Read more from “Gonorrhea and Syphilis Skyrocket in Europe — and this Country has the Highest Spike” HERE)