A Millennial Democrat hoping to dive into the U.S. Senate has abandoned her campaign after damaging posts she made about her constituents resurfaced.

Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, 39, announced on Sunday that she was throwing in the towel and endorsing whichever competitor wins the Democratic primary in the pivotal race.

McMorrow called for a change in the leadership of the Democratic Party and said she would continue in that fight.

“I want to be very clear about what this announcement is not. I may be suspending this campaign, but I am not leaving the fight,” McMorrow wrote in a statement on social media.

The Democrat tried to launch the Senate campaign after a speech she gave at the 2024 DNC went viral online, but her campaign was damaged greatly by the resurfaced posts. She had deleted thousands of tweets, but a CNN investigation documented the missing missives.

“I had a dream that the US amicably broke off into The Ring (coasts+Can+Mex+parts Mich/Tex) and Middle America,” she wrote after Democrats lost the 2016 presidential election.

McMorrow, who lived for a time in California, responded positively in another post to a user calling everyone outside California “morons.”

“There are days like these that make me miss California even more,” Morrow responded at the time.

She also appeared to try to cover up posts that contradicted her claim in her book that she moved to Michigan “permanently” in 2014.

In her announcement Sunday, McMorrow called for a change in the leadership of the Democratic Party and said she would continue in that fight.

RELATED: CNN unearths embarrassing deleted tweets from Michigan Democrat running for Senate — it could tank her campaign

“I love this country. I love Michigan. And I love the little girl who waves at me from the window every morning, trusting the grown-ups to leave her a state and a country worth inheriting,” McMorrow wrote about her daughter.

“That’s who I’m fighting for. And I’m not going anywhere,” she added. “I hope you’ll join me.”

The Michigan primary election will be held on August 4.

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Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) is demanding that the Trump administration hit Chinese generic drugmakers with new tariffs over their alleged use of Uyghur forced labor, according to a letter exclusively obtained by Blaze News.

Scott, chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, sent the letter Monday to Ambassador Jamieson Greer of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative — and he’s naming names.

‘Forced labor practices are categorically unacceptable and create a dynamic in which American workers and manufacturers are undercut.’

He singled out Sinopharm, China’s largest state-owned pharmaceutical conglomerate, as an entity under scrutiny for forced-labor ties in Xinjiang, where China has detained more than 1 million Uyghurs since 2017. The company retains an active pharmaceutical import license in the United States despite the scrutiny.

“Recent reports raise concerns about whether upstream suppliers serving the U.S. generic drug market may abuse Uyghur forced labor,” Scott wrote.

Sinopharm and other Chinese firms, Scott claimed, feed key ingredients into Indian generic drug manufacturers — some of which supply a large share of America’s Medicaid-reimbursed prescriptions.

Scott wrote, “Forced labor practices are categorically unacceptable and create a dynamic in which American workers and manufacturers are undercut by non-viable competitive pricing reliant on the systemic exploitation of human beings.”

Sinopharm and Greer did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

RELATED: Eli Lilly strikes a $3 billion Chinese drug deal

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The senator is calling on USTR to apply its already-proposed Section 301 tariffs to generic drugs and ingredients wherever forced labor or Chinese state subsidies are propping up the market. The rates are currently set at 10% and 12.5%.

But he’s not stopping there. Scott wants an entirely new, higher tariff tier created specifically to punish “the most egregious participants in forced labor use.” He’s also demanding that the drug tariffs hit at the same time as tariffs on every other Chinese good — no carve-outs, no delays.

He says current enforcement doesn’t come close to matching the scale of the problem. Despite the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act’s presumption that anything made in Xinjiang involves “forced labor,” only one of 43 licensed pharmaceutical companies in the region has actually landed on the UFLPA Entity List.

Meanwhile, Customs and Border Protection data shows pharmaceuticals and chemicals are the second-largest category of goods blocked under forced-labor import laws, Scott claimed. More than $19 million in shipments have been denied entry since 2022.

RELATED: Chinese fraudster convicted for ripping off Americans with bogus COVID tests

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The tariff push is one of several efforts under way to confront the issue. Separately, other proposals are seeking to restrict taxpayer-funded Medicaid reimbursement for medications whose upstream production relies on forced labor, alongside a push to add significantly more Xinjiang-linked entities to the UFLPA Entity List.

Scott framed the tariff request as part of a much larger pattern of Chinese trade abuse. He pointed to currency manipulation, China’s spot on the USTR’s Priority Watch List for intellectual property theft, its blown commitments under the 2020 Phase One trade deal, and a Chinese mining company’s alleged role covering up a pollution disaster in Zambia.

“China’s reputation as both a trade cheat and a human rights violator remains unparalleled in the global economy,” Scott wrote.

The letter builds on Scott’s broader campaign against America’s reliance on Chinese-linked generic drugs. It follows an October 2025 investigative report he released with Ranking Member Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and the bipartisan Clear Labels Act, which the two introduced in January to force country-of-origin labeling on prescription drugs.

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Immigration isn’t just one issue among many — it’s the issue driving nearly every other political battle in America.

And after the latest Supreme Court ruling to uphold a broad conception of birthright citizenship and reject President Donald Trump’s executive order, BlazeTV host John Doyle is sounding the alarm.

“It’s kind of like if you have cancer for years, and now it’s progressed to stage three. Well, because the cancer’s been around for a while, you actually just have to let it progress to stage four. It would be inconsiderate to the tumor,” Doyle says.

“Don’t you believe in growth for the sake of growth? The ideology of a tumor, it’s completely suicidal,” he continues, explaining that the ruling “has to be defied in some way, very legally, very coolly.”

“And Kavanaugh, though he technically dissented, he did so on a statutory basis, and basically you can’t just overturn this with an executive order; you have to pass legislation to do so,” Doyle says.

“There’s already guys in Congress working to get legislation here, so it’s not the end of everything. And frankly, just going decade to decade, the fact that we even have a president who is willing to challenge this and people occupying Congress, even if in the minority, willing to challenge, I’ll take that as an absolute win,” he continues.

However, Doyle notes that it “doesn’t really matter how it’s done.”

“This is obviously a civilizational threat to us, a threat to the lives of patriots specifically, especially considering travel is far easier now than it was in the 19th century. Anyone can literally just show up here in a day and give birth, secure citizenship,” he says.

“If you are a foreigner, the easiest thing in the world for you to do is to get pregnant and plop out the baby on U.S. soil, and then Amy Coney Barrett will be there to catch it,” he adds.

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The husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may face charges after he allegedly drove his convertible into a parked car in Napa Valley and drove away Friday.

The Napa County Sheriff’s Office said deputies found Paul Pelosi about a quarter of a mile away from the alleged accident with damage to the front of his brown Maserati.

‘Mr. Paul Pelosi has personally apologized to the owner of the vehicle.’

Police said he told them he hit something but was unaware of what caused the damage to his vehicle.

No injuries were reported. A witness saw the crash and called 911 at about 2:30 p.m.

The 86-year-old did not have alcohol in his system, according to police. He was not arrested, and the sheriff’s office recommended a misdemeanor charge of leaving the scene of an accident.

Photos of the damage in the case were obtained and published by the New York Post.

The sheriff’s office also said it referred Paul Pelosi to the Department of Motor Vehicles to determine whether he should be allowed to continue driving.

Paul Pelosi previously pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of driving under the influence in Napa County in 2022. He was sentenced to five days in jail and three years of probation but served only two days in jail.

A spokesperson for the Pelosis released a brief statement about the hit-and-run report.

“Mr. Paul Pelosi has personally apologized to the owner of the vehicle and assured them that he would take responsibility for the damage to their vehicle,” the spokesperson said. “Speaker Pelosi will not be commenting further on this private matter.”

RELATED: Bodycam footage from the Paul Pelosi attack FINALLY released

Paul Pelosi was also apparently involved in a lethal car accident when he was only 16 years old.

His 19-year-old brother David was killed when Pelosi crashed his sports car near San Mateo in 1957, according to the Daily Mail, citing an article from the San Francisco Examiner in February 1957.

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With just a few months under new leadership in the gaming division, Microsoft is set to perform a significant overhaul of Xbox, including a number of job cuts in the process.

Microsoft’s Xbox is planning some major changes to the company — with some staff reductions starting as soon as Monday — under the new CEO, Asha Sharma.

‘I also want to be direct that the roles eliminated today are not being replaced by AI. At the same time, what is true is that AI is changing how work gets done.’

Bloomberg reported that Xbox plans to lay off 3,200 workers in that division alone. Some 1,600 jobs were reportedly eliminated on Monday, and 1,600 more are planned over the next 12 months.

Planned cuts across Microsoft, including outside Xbox, on Monday amounted to 6,400 employees, according to Bloomberg.

RELATED: Microsoft says business must pay to use its AI — and eyes cheap Chinese model for lowly consumers

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“We are still early on this journey, and there will be more changes ahead; other parts of our business will need to make similar changes,” Chief People Officer Amy Coleman wrote in a memo published on Monday.

In addition to the staff reductions, Xbox is seemingly gearing up to reverse course on several growth initiatives overseen by Sharma’s predecessor, Phil Spencer.

Xbox will reportedly sell or attempt to sell five different studios in the near future, all of which were acquired under Spencer in an attempt to grow the company.

These studios include Ninja Theory, Undead Labs, Double Fine, and Compulsion Games, with a view to sell a fifth studio based in Lyon, France, that has yet to begin the consultation process to “review potential strategic options.” Bloomberg reported this process will take longer due to strict labor laws in the country.

Sharma wrote that those acquisitions over the past decade “created meaningful value,” but “they did not grow at the pace we expected,” adding that “in a typical year” Xbox was losing 64 cents for every dollar it invested.

Sharma said that the restructuring would affect several internal studios as well, including Activision, Bethesda/ZeniMax, Blizzard, King, Mojang, and XBOX Game Studios. She emphasized the importance of Mojang (Minecraft) and King (Candy Crush) and added that they would now report directly to her as the two consistent cash cows of the company.

While many employees worry that their jobs will be replaced by artificial intelligence, especially in the tech industry, Coleman addressed this issue head-on: “I also want to be direct that the roles eliminated today are not being replaced by AI. At the same time, what is true is that AI is changing how work gets done. Some of the tasks we do every day can now be automated, and that means we all need to keep learning, keep building new skills, and keep adapting as the work evolves.”

This announcement comes just months after Microsoft’s first-ever buyout program for retirement-age employees in the United States. Coleman’s announcement reported that 30% of eligible employees chose to participate in the program. In April, CNBC reported that there were roughly 125,000 U.S. Microsoft employees as of June 2025 and that about 7% of the workforce was eligible for this one-time program.

Assuming these figures are accurate, this program may have bought out up to around 2,600 more employees earlier this year.

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A Democrat is facing fierce blowback for posting his support for the Mexican soccer team in the World Cup.

Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona (D) posted photos of himself and his wife in Mexican soccer jerseys along with hundreds of other fans watching the Mexico versus England match on Sunday.

‘You are a fcking disgrace to America.’

“Lots of people out in Tucson to watch Mexico take on England. Tucson and La Rosa sure know how to do the World Cup!” he wrote on the X social media platform.

Many critics responded that it was improper for a politician representing Americans to root for another nation’s team.

“It’s your country’s 250th birthday. Where’s your USA jersey?” said Tricia McLaughlin, the former spokesperson for Homeland Security.

“What a fcking clown. Move to Mexico, asshat,” said former Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker.

“Mexico is a huge rival of United States in soccer. Everybody knows this,” read another response. “I don’t know who advised you to put on a Mexican jersey as an American politician but it’s a horrible look.”

“Mark, I say this with all due respect… You are a fcking disgrace to America,” said another detractor.

“You pandering c**t. You’re a US Senator, you can’t be seen wearing the national team jersey of any other country,” said another critic.

Less than two weeks earlier, Kelly basically characterized himself as a lukewarm soccer fan. “I’ll be honest, soccer was never really my thing. But the World Cup is converting me,” he posted on June 25, just before USA’s unsuccessful match against Turkey.

Other Democrats have also been heavily criticized for supporting teams other than Team USA in the World Cup.

RELATED: Dems hoping to blame Trump for World Cup failures forced to switch strategy after success

Kelly’s support didn’t appear to help the Mexican team. Mexico lost 3-2 and was knocked out of the competition by England.

The Democrat is considered one of many possible contenders for the Democratic 2028 presidential nomination, but polling shows he is far behind other candidates.

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The British public and the world at large have been provided with yet more evidence that the U.K. justice system holds whites — white men in particular — to a different standard than virtually every other group.

Damning footage shows a group of six black individuals hectoring a young white man on Broad Street in Birmingham, England, on June 21.

‘The police have lost the benefit of the doubt.’

As the voices grow louder, the individual focus of the mob’s rage — a 20-year-old white man who has been identified as Cody Harper — turns his head to address someone to his left, video shows.

Apparently seizing upon the distraction, a man from the mob dressed in a black jacket makes a cowardly attack from the right, knocking Harper to the ground. The victim of this sneak attack attempts to stand up, but a different coward rushes in, this time punching Harper in the back of the head.

Harper attempts once again to regain his footing — only to be tackled against a nearby wall by a female police officer who was apparently disinterested in the attackers now fleeing the scene.

Disoriented after having been thrown to the ground, then sucker-punched, Harper blindly throws a punch in self-defense — but succeeds only in brushing off the officer’s cap.

The female officer — who failed to identify herself as police — lunges for the Harper’s neck then proceeds to handcuff the victim.

After Harper points out both that “they’re tryin’ to smack me up” and that he was just trying to “go home,” the female officer appears to call him a “dick.”

RELATED: UK cop failures, Sikh killer’s lies in Henry Nowak case are EVEN WORSE than previously disclosed

“You’re under arrest for assault on police,” says the female officer, who — with another female police officer — proceeds to march Harper over to a police car. A male cop then shoves Harper into the police cruiser, and more female cops are later gathered in the area, video shows.

A witness off-camera explains to one of the officers: “Someone clotheslined him, then someone hit him from behind, and that’s when you went in. All I can say in his defense is he probably thought you were one of the attackers at that moment.”

The woman nods comprehendingly and replies, “Right. OK. So someone assaulted him first, right? OK.”

After the footage of this incident went viral online, Birmingham Police said in a July 2 statement, “We are aware of footage showing the arrest of a man after a disorder on Broad Street at 1.30am on 21 June. Officers found a group of men fighting. As the incident was dealt with, an officer was punched. One man was arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer.”

In addition to characterizing a violent, seemingly unprovoked mob attack on a single individual as a “fight” and claiming their lady officer was in the right, Birmingham Police implored the public not to share video of the incident — just as police in Northern Ireland asked the public last month not to spread video evidence of a beheading attempt, allegedly by a Sudanese asylum-seeker.

“The incident has been reviewed, and we have no concerns over the officer’s actions and we are satisfied that they were reasonable and proportionate in the circumstances,” the police department said in its July 2 statement. “We would ask that footage is not further shared to allow the legal process to take its course.”

RELATED: ‘Symbol of a country adrift’: White French boy ‘lynched’ by pack of thugs who smiled while filming the murder

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The official response by police exacerbated the public outrage over the incident, including from lawmakers.

James McMurdock, a Reform UK member of Parliament, wrote, “I can’t let this go unchallenged. That young man was, in my opinion and based on the video below, the clear victim of an assault. The video shows, for reasons that are entirely beyond my comprehension, the officer steaming directly into the victim.”

“The officer made no effort to prevent the attack or apprehend the men who had just administered the violence. What I see in the video is the officer using speed and aggression at the moment of peak danger and confusion against the victim,” continued McMurdock. “The victim then controls himself the moment he realises it is now a police officer attacking him and not one of the multiple men who were attacking him a fraction of a second earlier.”

McMurdock said that Birmingham Police should drop the charges and put questions to the female officer about “why she went for the victim on the ground and not the attackers!”

Robert Jenrick, another member of Parliament for Reform UK, said that “it’s baffling that he was arrested while the two black men who attacked him weren’t.”

In addition to raising concern about “the clear unequal treatment” by the female officer, Jenrick took issue with Birmingham Police’s characterization of the attacks as a “fight.”

“This wouldn’t be a one off incident either. We saw two-tier policing by Hampshire Police when they came to the scene of Henry Nowak. We saw it for decades across the county with the Grooming Gangs that went unpunished,” wrote Jenrick. “The police have lost the benefit of the doubt in the eyes of many. They’ve had enough.”

After similar critiques, the Birmingham Police issued a revised statement on July 3, this time expressing interest in an “assault.” The revised statement refers to the arrest of a “20-year-old man,” presumably Harper, but does not suggest he is the victim of the assault.

‘Our commitment to racial equity means producing equality of policing outcomes.’

“We are carrying out an investigation to identify people involved in an assault in Birmingham city centre,” said Birmingham Police. “We are aware of footage on social media showing the incident before the man is arrested. Recognising that an assault has taken place, we are now carrying out active enquiries to identify those involved.”

Birmingham Police noted further that “although officers were in the area when this assault took place, they were involved in the arrest of another man at the time.”

Cody Harper is set to appear at Birmingham magistrates’ court on July 23.

This incident took place just weeks after Southampton police released bodycam footage showing their two-tiered approach to the scene of the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak.

After fatally stabbing Nowak in an unprovoked attack on Dec. 3, a knife-wielding Sikh named Vickrum Digwa told police that he was the victim of a racist attack.

When police from the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary arrived on the scene, they reflexively adopted Digwa’s framing of events and treated Nowak as a racist and a criminal as the teen lay dying — handcuffing him and brushing off his repeated complaints about having been stabbed and being unable to breathe.

The officers instead took a sympathetic approach to Digwa, never once handcuffing him even after discovering Nowak’s stab wounds.

Officers’ approach to Nowak and Harper may be informed, in part, by the anti-racism guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs’ Council, which explicitly calls for treating people differently on the basis of race:

Our commitment to racial equity means producing equality of policing outcomes for people from different ethnic groups by responding to individuals and communities according to their specific needs, circumstances, and experiences, with understanding that these will be racialised and with the aim of reducing harm. It does not mean treating everyone “the same” or being “colour blind” (racial equality).Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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The City of Newport Beach in Southern California said police made 402 arrests after “social media posts drew a large influx of juveniles and young adults to the Newport Pier area within a matter of minutes” on July 4.

Officials added that “as the crowd quickly grew into the thousands, dangerous and unlawful behavior escalated, blocking roadways, preventing emergency access and putting families, visitors and first responders at risk.”

‘I’ve lived here 54, 55 years, and I’ve never seen anything like that. It’s very sad.’

However, officials said “more than 350 officers responded quickly to restore order, reopen emergency access routes and protect the community.”

KTLA-TV reported that video of the chaos shows hundreds of people in a parking lot along West Balboa Boulevard — and that some were seen fist-fighting while others vandalized property and looted some local businesses, including a grocery store.

In a statement issued Sunday afternoon, Newport Beach officials said a “large group of unruly juveniles and young adults created dangerous conditions” on the Balboa Peninsula during Independence Day celebrations, KTLA noted.

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City officials stated that tens of thousands of people were drawn to the community throughout the day, but things didn’t get out of hand until “late in the evening” when social media posts drew a large influx of people to the Newport Pier in a short amount of time.

That verified reports of previous social media posts advertising a “TikTok Takeover” in Newport Beach.

RELATED: Video: 2 female police officers assaulted, injured in July 4 mob attack; guns, spear recovered

“As the crowd rapidly grew, individuals engaged in increasingly dangerous and unlawful behavior, blocking roadways, restricting emergency vehicle access, and throwing explosive mortars, fireworks, and other projectiles at police officers, into densely packed crowds and near families with children,” the city’s statement reads, according to KTLA. “The sudden influx of thousands of people into a confined area within a short period of time created an immediate threat to public safety and required a coordinated regional law enforcement response.”

The gathering was eventually declared an unlawful assembly, and law enforcement worked to restore order, the station said.

One Newport Beach police officer was struck by a mortar, KTLA reported, adding that the officer was treated at the scene and released.

The 402 arrests made between midnight July 3 and 6 a.m. July 5 were more than six times the 60 arrests made during the same period last year, the station said.

Officials said approximately 200 of the arrests involved individuals who refused lawful dispersal orders, while those “responsible for inciting the crowd, engaging in violent, criminal behavior, and threatening public safety” also were taken into custody, KTLA reported.

RELATED: Bodycam video: Thug ambushes, repeatedly stabs Florida deputy. Sheriff’s office reveals what ultimately saved deputy’s life.

A longtime Newport Beach resident spoke to the station Monday morning and said the scene over the holiday weekend was unlike anything he’d experienced before.

“This year was the worst I’ve ever seen,” the resident, named John, told KTLA. “Last year was kind of a little crazy, but this year … was a riot. I’ve lived here 54, 55 years, and I’ve never seen anything like that. It’s very sad.”

“Come to the city, please. Come enjoy yourself. … It’s Fourth of July. … Greatest country in the world, right?” he added to the station. “Beautiful beach, the water’s warm, there’s a little bit of surf. … Why wouldn’t you come here? Please come, but please don’t do what you did [this year].”

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