Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (D) on Tuesday called on Senator Mitch McConnell to “directly and verbally address the people of Kentucky” – or resign.

Beshear said McConnell must provide proof of his capacity to serve or resign.

“As Governor of the state you serve, I am calling on you to directly and verbally address the people of Kentucky and provide proof of your capacity to serve, or resign,” Beshear wrote in a letter, CNN first reported.

“Per our research, a vacancy in the Senate occurs when a senator dies, resigns, or is expelled by a vote of the Senate itself,” Beshear said.

“If you are unwilling to voluntarily show that you still have the capacity to serve, I will insist Leader Thune fully investigate your condition, report to the American people, and begin the process if warranted,” Beshear wrote.

The Governor’s letter comes after McConnell released his second ‘proof of life’ photo amid a 44-day absence from the Senate.

The latest photo is dated Sunday.

“Senator McConnell continues his recovery from a fall at home in June,” read a statement from the Capitol’s Office of Attending Physician.

“OAP physicians visit with the Senator every day, discussing all aspects of his rehabilitation care. Since his discharge from hospital care, he has maintained a strenuous course of physical therapy and rehabilitation, including multiple sessions a day designed to rebuild strength and reduce the risk of future falls. His bout with childhood polio continues to be a significant factor in his mobility,” the statement read.

McConnell also said he will not be able to attend this year’s Fancy Farm picnic.

NEW — McConnell’s office releases new photo of him and his wife Elaine Chao. Photo was taken yesterday, per his office

McConnell says in new statement he’s “keeping up with intense physical therapy per my doctors’ orders”

Office of the Attending Physician says McConnell has… pic.twitter.com/l1QVuFEoWJ

— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) July 27, 2026

Earlier this month McConnell released his first proof of life photo shortly after Senator Lindsey Graham unexpectedly passed away.

Rumors began swirling last week that McConnell was ‘brain dead’ and being kept alive by machines.

According to the statement, McConnell did not suffer from a heart attack or a stroke.

The 84-year-old Kentucky Senator said he was hospitalized after he took a fall.

“My doctors have confirmed that I didn’t break any bones or suffer a concussion. I didn’t have a heart attack or a stroke. I don’t have any tumors or hemorrhages. But I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital. While receiving excellent care over the past several weeks, I’ve also had to deal with a mild case of pneumonia,” McConnell said.

“Senator McConnell has experienced several falls throughout the year that have been attributed to his post-polio condition. He was admitted to the hospital four weeks ago after falling at home and sustaining minor injuries,” a statement from the Office of the Attending Physician said.

MCCONNELL releases a photo – and statement.

“To my fellow Kentuckians –

“When you elected me to a seventh term and made me our Commonwealth’s longest serving Senator, you did so trusting that I’d keep showing up to fight for you every day. And over the past several weeks,… pic.twitter.com/YTzTXDhEgu

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) July 12, 2026

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When it comes to accepting cash from foreign countries, including China, Harvard tops the list of American universities.

This is a major concern. Some might even call it a national security issue. China steals millions in intellectual property from the United States every year and higher education gives them direct access.

At the end of Trump’s first term, Senate Republicans began to focus heavily on this issue. Now they are looking at it again and Senator Tom Cotton is leading the charge.

FOX News reports:

Harvard tops nation in foreign cash haul as Cotton demands probe into China funding

One Ivy League institution has taken in more money from foreign countries, including China, than any other university in the country.

The U.S. Department of Education has, for years, compiled a list of federally funded universities that have taken in funding from abroad. The Trump administration sought to revamp the agency’s online reporting portal, and, in doing so, it has shown that one institution, Harvard University, has scored more foreign funding than any other college in the country.

Harvard is in the crosshairs of Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., for its ties to China and other foreign nations because of the reams of outside cash the university has taken in. And the Senate Republican, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, wants Education Secretary Linda McMahon to open an investigation into China’s cash flow into higher education.

“I remain concerned that millions in additional transactions with sanctioned Chinese entities may not have been reported,” Cotton wrote. “Therefore, I encourage additional scrutiny of financial ties between American universities and Communist China.”…

Cotton noted that since the portal was relaunched in January, reporting data has shown that federally funded universities accepted more than $6.8 billion from “Communist China — including more than $300 million from sanctioned entities.”

Cotton is right to go after them for this.

Communist China’s investments in American universities undermine our innovation and national security.

I’m encouraging @EDSecMcMahon to investigate financial ties between Communist China and federally-funded universities. https://t.co/Xdpj0Zw8h0

— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) July 27, 2026

Senate Republicans won’t allow the CCP to buy influence and radicalize the next generation at our universities. https://t.co/AYIXaaXAOj

— Senate Republicans (@SenateGOP) July 27, 2026

Harvard does not get a pass based simply on their age and reputation as an elite institution.

This all deserves to be investigated.

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New Jersey Democratic Governor Mikie Sherrill is refusing to let the truth shine regarding the ongoing voter roll scandal, as the software vendor she blamed for it is now revealing what really happened.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Sherrill took to X last Tuesday to say that she had learned of a “serious software error” in the state’s Motor Vehicle System that allowed thousands of foreign nationals to register to vote between June 2023 and June 2024. This “coincidentally” occurred right in the midst of the 2024 election campaign.

Sherill, of course, tried to assure everyone that the impact was ‘minor.’

“Last week I learned that a serious software error in New Jersey’s Motor Vehicle System led to the registration of roughly 6,600 people who indicated that they were not U.S. citizens between June 2023 and June 2024, almost three years prior to my taking office,” she wrote.

“Our preliminary analysis shows fewer than 400 individuals who were newly registered for the first time because of the error voted,” she added. “They were registered as Democrats, Republicans, and Unaffiliated voters and were scattered across the state.”

But Sherrill appears to be hiding a potentially larger scandal.

On Tuesday, she announced during a press conference in Trenton that she will not be releasing the names of these voters to the Trump Administration, accusing Team Trump of “weaponizing the government against individuals that disagree with them.”

WATCH:

BREAKING: In a suspicious development, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) just announced she will BLOCK the release of 6,000+ noncitizens to the Trump admin who were ILLEGALLY registered to vote in her state

And she just referred to the noncitizens as “CITIZENS OF NEW… pic.twitter.com/wh4LwZ8can

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 28, 2026

REPORTER: The Trump administration is seeking, I believe, by today, the list of noncitizens who are registered to vote and the approximately 400 that did vote. To what extent will your administration comply with the Trump administration’s request in that regard?

SHERRILL: As I have said, I am not in the habit of turning over private, identifying information of the citizens of New Jersey.

This federal government is weaponizing the government against individuals that diagree with them…I am working to protect people and their private data here in New Jersey.

Meanwhile, IDEMIA, the French software vendor blamed for the illegal voter registration, says Sherill’s claim that they caused the ‘glitch’ is a lie.

IDEMIA pointed out that the state already had access to data showing that those individuals were not citizens, but registered them to vote anyway.

“The 6,600 records submitted to the (Motor Vehicle Commission) and Division of Elections contained correct information according to the design specifications as set out by the state,” Lisa Shoemaker, a spokesperson for IDEMIA,” explained to The Post.

“All 6,600 individuals indicated ‘Yes’ to wanting to register to vote and ‘NO’ to being a US Citizen,” she added. “This information was recorded correctly and always available.”

“At no point was a noncitizen ever marked as a citizen in the database.”

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Labour leftists will fight for their ‘sacred’ handouts.

In a sense, it doesn’t really matter who is the British Prime Minister: unless he or she can tackle the mounting budget deficit, it will end in abject failure.

And to balance the budget, one has to cut from the one-third-of-a-trillion-pound welfare spending.

Andy Burnham has barely been in office for a week and is already deep into the fight, with Labour MPs threatening to rebel if he makes ‘punitive’ cuts to welfare.

The prime minister has set his sights on welfare reforms. Andy Burnham has suggested he wants to make it harder for people to claim benefits in a bid to bring down the welfare bill.#gmb #politics pic.twitter.com/po7vlHzcfe

— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) July 27, 2026

The Telegraph reported:

“The Prime Minister is planning to strip young people of their benefits unless they agree to do training or voluntary work under proposals to reduce the £333bn welfare bill.

However, backbenchers on the party’s Left have warned Mr. Burnham against repeating the ‘failed politics of welfare cuts’ and signaled that they would oppose such a move.”

WATCH: Andy Burnham to BBC on welfare benefits :

I want to provide more support for people on benefits seeking work, but support should be conditional upon seeking work.

We have to get serious on reducing the welfare bill; oftentimes it pushes people into even more crisis pic.twitter.com/ddjkYOlkQS

— The Global Watchdog (@glwatchdog) July 27, 2026

Former PM Keir Starmer had 120 Labour MPs in arms when he tried to tighten the disability benefits rules.

“The welfare rebellion in the Commons last July is widely regarded as the moment Sir Keir’s remaining political authority drained away, as he was forced into a ‘farcical climbdown’.”

NEW: Labour MPs have threatened to rebel if Andy Burnham makes “punitive” cuts to welfare

Kim Johnson and John McDonnell have personally warned Andy Burnham against the “failed politics of welfare cuts”

— GB Politics (@GBPolitcs) July 28, 2026

“During his first Downing Street speech, Mr. Burnham promised to ‘bring the welfare bill down’ and use the money saved to bolster defense spending.

While the Prime Minister has since insisted he will not make ‘crude’ cuts to disability benefits, [Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Pat] McFadden was clear that the benefits bill had to come down.”

Labour MPs warned Burnham he will lose the support of his governing party if he approaches welfare reform with a focus on “punitive” cuts, as Britain’s new PM prepares to announce plans to alleviate rising youth unemployment https://t.co/4PgCdzl8lq

— Bloomberg (@business) July 27, 2026

Read more:

New British PM Burnham Halts Insane ‘Early Release’ of Criminals as Controversy Mounts Over Imminent Freeing of Policeman’s Killers

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Villagers across three Plateau State local government areas have reported helicopter and drone activity preceding recent attacks on Christian communities, according to on-the-ground interviews, youth leader testimony, and statements from elected officials.

Anthony Moses Dakkas, national youth leader of the Takkass Youths, a predominantly Christian community, told security officials at a public meeting that residents had seen a helicopter landing in Takkass land before the attacks, pressing officials on what he described as the government’s awareness of the aircraft. “Do you know where the helicopter is? You should know it,” he said. Moses added that the helicopter “used to land here, in Takas,” and warned that the community would take further action if the government failed to respond.

The reports fit a longer pattern of helicopter sightings preceding attacks on Christian communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt. Eyewitnesses in Benue State first described a helicopter overhead during attacks on the Agatu community in 2016.

The pattern recurred in southern Kaduna, where survivors of several attacks reported seeing a helicopter shortly before assaults, believing it was conducting surveillance or delivering supplies to the attackers. Christian Solidarity Worldwide also reported that children displaced from Kajuru LGA would shake and run at the sound of a passing helicopter, associating it with an imminent attack.

The most detailed case came on June 5, 2022, when terrorists reportedly deployed a helicopter during attacks that killed more than 30 people in the villages of Dogon Noma, Ungwan Sarki, Ungwan Maikori, and Ungwan Gamu in Kajuru LGA, according to Adara Development Association President Awemi Maisamari. A ReliefWeb report said that as villagers mobilized to repel the attackers, the helicopter carried out airstrikes against them, providing cover that allowed the attackers to move and fire more freely.

Dogon Noma village head Ibrahim Usman told community leaders that locals believed the helicopter’s arrival meant relief had come, until they realized it was attacking alongside the bandits, after which the village was burned. Kaduna State Commissioner for Internal Security Samuel Aruwan said the helicopter was an Air Force asset dispatched under Operation Whirl Punch that scanned the area and intercepted the retreating bandits rather than supporting them. Analysts noted the incident marked the first time a helicopter was alleged to have directly fired on victim communities on the attackers’ behalf, distinct from the earlier, less specific surveillance and resupply reports from 2016 through 2019.

A separate, unresolved helicopter incident occurred July 2, 2026 in Kaboji, Mashegu LGA, Niger State, though it involved rival bandit factions rather than an attack on a Christian community. A video posted by X user @secmxx showed suspected security personnel and armed men loading injured fighters onto a helicopter, captioned as an airlift of Dogo Gide’s men from Kaboji primary school.

247 Ureports described it as the aftermath of a clash between Dogo Gide’s fighters and a rival faction, Lakurawa, saying a military helicopter evacuated the wounded gunmen rather than arresting them, with no official Army statement at the time. Gaskiya News Hausa reported a security source’s account that the flight was a joint Army–Air Force operation retrieving wounded fighters stranded after a forest clash, airlifted for investigation rather than rescued.

A DUBAWA fact-check confirmed the landing through eyewitnesses, one of whom said a Nigerian Police Force helicopter set down at an old cemetery, not the primary school named in the viral video, between 11 a.m. and noon, and that a tall, masked Fulani man believed to be Dogo Gide was seen nearby. None of these accounts has been independently verified by the Nigerian military, and the identity of those evacuated and the branch of security forces responsible remain disputed.

In addition to the helicopter reports, eyewitnesses are increasingly reporting the use of drones by Fulani attackers to conduct surveillance before an assault. On June 10, 2026, Fulani Islamists killed two Christian volunteer watchmen in Tahos, a farming community of roughly 500 to 600 residents in Riyom LGA, Plateau State. According to the village king, the watchmen were shot with precision despite hiding in concealed positions in the dark, leading him to suspect the attackers used drones or night-vision equipment for targeting.

Local leaders in the area have separately said Fulani attackers are increasingly deploying drones in addition to their standard AK-47 assault rifles, while Christian communities generally lack any comparable technology and depend on volunteer watchmen armed with single-shot muskets.

One reason Christians are concerned about the possible use of helicopters and drones in these attacks is that both require significant financial resources, while drones also require specialized technical expertise. This raises questions about how Fulani, who on average have relatively low levels of education and few resources, are able to purchase and operate them. Helicopters are even more expensive, and in Nigeria it is extremely difficult for civilians to own one.

Consequently, many Christian communities believe that the use of drones, and particularly helicopters, may suggest some degree of military complicity in these attacks.

The alleged complicity of security forces in these attacks is a common thread running through numerous eyewitness testimonies. In Riyom LGA, Islamist Fulani herdsmen attacked Jol village for a full week beginning July 15. During the attack, an army officer stationed in neighboring Sho community, Barkin Ladi, reportedly abandoned his post, changed into plain clothes, and joined the attackers. A local security official confirmed that the officer had been arrested. Reports of these incidents come from eyewitnesses and have not been verified through official channels.

Gankis Emmanuel Dalyop, 47, youth leader of Jol Ward, said the community had “not rested” since the attacks began. He described the attackers traveling roughly three to four kilometers by motorcycle from a settlement locals call Mahanga, formerly Rangkum before its Fulani occupants renamed it. According to Dalyop, they then crossed a river on foot and arrived in groups of 200 to 400 people, typically between 4 and 8 p.m.

Dalyop said the attackers track the village at night using a drone that they “fly in the air at night,” which he distinguished from drones operated by security forces. He added that vigilantes stationed nearby alert residents so they can call in security forces.

He said the conflict has lasted 25 to 26 years and that Fulani settlers now occupy roughly 98 percent of the community’s traditional land. “We are just using 2% of our land,” he said.

Asked why neighboring Fulani settlements never attack one another, Dalyop replied, “They only face us.” He added that Fulani contacts who privately share information have declined to identify the organizers of the attacks because “they are afraid of their neighbours.”

His response underscores the difficulty of independently verifying allegations of security force involvement or the reported use of helicopters. Official sources willing to corroborate these claims are difficult to find. Until stronger evidence can be established, the allegations are easily dismissed by authorities, which also means meaningful steps may not be taken to protect Christian communities from these threats.

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