Date: July 02, 2026
Host: Jim Schneider
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Leading up to the 4th of July (Independence Day) holiday, Jim brought many news stories to the attention of listeners. Here is a sample from this broadcast:
–A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that election officials can count mail-in ballots that arrive after election day as long as they are postmarked by or before that date.
–A federal judge blocked the President’s bid to federalize mail-in voting.
–President Trump has called for the Save America Act to be passed after the Supreme Court upheld Mississippi’s policy to count mail-in ballots that arrive after election day.
–A South Dakota Republican Party’s Resolutions Committee approved a censure resolution against Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who represents the state.
–The Supreme Court ruled that Title IX allows schools to provide separate sports teams for men and women defined by their gender assigned at birth.
–The Supreme Court has also upheld that the executive order restricting automatic birthright citizenship violates the 14th Amendment.
–Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin clashed last Sunday with State of the Union host Jake Tapper over temporary, protected status for Haitian and Syrian immigrants.
–Amy Curtis of Townhall.com described one of the main planks of the platform of the Democratic Socialists of America as including, “…the dismantling of police and the abolition of prisons. That means every violent criminal will be free to roam society where they can rob, assault, rape, and murder without consequences.”
–The U.S. and Iran have indirect, technical talks in Doha as they seek to agree on the flow of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz
–President Trump has discussed the possibility of resuming full scale military strikes against Iran.
–The U.S. Central Command Chief, Admiral Brad Cooper, met with senior military leaders from 11 Middle East nations in Bahrain Wednesday for regional security dialogue focused on defense cooperation and maritime security.
–The U.S.-backed Board of Peace is preparing to launch a pilot program to manage humanitarian shelters in parts of the Gaza Strip not controlled by Hamas.
–Israel and the U.S. signed an agreed allocating land for the construction of a permanent, U.S. embassy in Jerusalem.
–Iranian clerics have called for President Trump’s assassination, saying religious duty to kill our President and Prime Minister Netanyahu must not be neglected.
–A 45 year-old Muslim suspect opened fire on a youth facility for pregnant women and young mothers near Hamburg, Germany.
