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Life As A Conservative At CNN [Interview With Scott Jennings]

CNN's most influential conservative voice, Scott Jennings, joins Mike to discuss the media landscape and President Trump's successes in office. Plus, Scott has a big announcement!

2 Chinese Nationals Charged with Spying Inside the U.S. for Beijing, Justice Department Says

Two Chinese nationals have been charged with spying inside the United States on behalf of Beijing, including by taking photographs of a naval base, coordinating a cash dead-drop and participating in efforts to recruit members of the military who they thought might be open to working for Chinese intelligence.

Russia Ramps Up Offensives on 2 Fronts in Ukraine as Both Sides Seek an Advantage Before the Fall

An emboldened Russia has ramped up military offensives on two fronts in Ukraine. That is scattering Kyiv’s precious reserve troops and threatening to expand the fighting to a new Ukrainian region as each side seeks an advantage before the fighting season wanes in the autumn. Analysts and military commanders say Moscow aims to maximize its territorial gains before seriously considering a full ceasefire. Ukraine wants to slow the Russian advance for as long as possible and extract heavy losses. Kremlin forces are steadily gaining ground in the eastern logistics hub of Pokrovsk. Its capture would hand them a major battlefield victory. The fighting there has also brought combat to the border of the neighboring Dnipropetrovsk region.

Jury in Diddy's Sex Trafficking Trial to Resume Deliberations After Reaching Partial Verdict

The jury in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial is set to resume deliberations. The jury reached a verdict Tuesday on all but one of the five counts the hip-hop mogul faces. Judge Arun Subramanian ordered the jury to continue deliberating for a third day on Wednesday. The jury said Tuesday it was unable to reach consensus on the top charge of racketeering conspiracy. It indicated it had already decided about other charges, including sex trafficking. Subramanian, prosecutors and Combs’ defense team said less than 13 hours of deliberations was too soon to give up on reaching a verdict on all counts. The jury's partial verdict remains under wraps for now.

Hey NYC: Elections 101, PAY ATTN!

If rational people don’t vote smart NYC is a goner!

Ceasefire in Gaza Coming Soon?!

Trump has announced that a ceasefire in Gaza is potentially going forward.

Medicaid and the Big Beautiful bill

Mamdani: the Future of Democrats

The path forward for the “One Big Beautiful Bill"

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Trump and Musk are at it again

Elon Musk takes aim at Trump again. The president threatens to deport him.

UPenn To Ban Transgender Athletes, Ending Civil Rights Case Focused On Swimmer Lia Thomas

The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender women from its women’s sports teams to resolve a federal civil rights case that found the school violated the rights of female athletes. The U.S. Education Department announced the voluntary agreement Tuesday. The case focused on Lia Thomas, the transgender swimmer who last competed for the Ivy League school in Philadelphia in 2022, when she became the first openly transgender athlete to win a Division I title. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader attempt to remove transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports. Under the agreement, Penn agreed to restore all individual Division I swimming records and titles to female athletes who lost out to Thomas, the Education Department said. Penn also agreed to send a personalized apology letter to each of those swimmers. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Thomas would be stripped of her awards and honors at Penn. The university must also announce that it “will not allow males to compete in female athletic programs” and it must adopt “biology-based” definitions of male and female, the department said. Education Secretary Linda McMahon called it a victory for women and girls. “The Department commends UPenn for rectifying its past harms against women and girls, and we will continue to fight relentlessly to restore Title IX’s proper application and enforce it to the fullest extent of the law,” McMahon said in a statement. The Education Department opened its investigation in February and concluded in April that Penn had violated Title IX, a 1972 law forbidding sex discrimination in education. Such findings have almost always been resolved through voluntary agreements. If Penn had fought the finding, the department could have moved to refer the case to the Justice Department or pursued a separate process to cut the school’s federal funding. In February, the Education Department asked the NCAA and the National Federation of State High School Associations, or NFSHSA, to restore titles, awards and records it says have been “misappropriated by biological males competing in female categories.” The most obvious target at the college level was in women’s swimming, where Thomas won the national title in the 500-yard freestyle in 2022. The NCAA has updated its record books when recruiting and other violations have stripped titles from certain schools, but the organization, like the NFSHSA, has not responded to the federal government's request. Determining which events had a transgender athlete participating years later would be challenging.

Zohran Mamdani's Background

Mamdani just received the democratic nomination in NYC’s Mayoral election. Mamdani may be charismatic and promise the moon, but the socialist democrat would be a disaster for New York.

Consequences of Israel’s crushing defeat of Iran

In the aftermath of Operation Rising Lion, Haviv Rettig Gur joined Hugh to discuss the immediate and longer term consequences of Israel’s crushing defeat of Iran. Join Hugh LIVE: Weekdays, 3-6PM ET. Visit Hugh's website: https://hughhewitt.com Follow Hugh on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hughhewitt The Hugh Hewitt Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hughhewittshow/ Subscribe to The Hugh Hewitt Show's podcast here: Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/HHShowApple Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/HHShowGoogle Spotify: http://bit.ly/HHShowSpotify Check out the Hughniverse for a commercial-free archive of The Hugh Hewitt Radio Show and The Aftershow with Duane "Generalissimo" Patterson anytime you want: https://www.hughniverse.com