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Honestly, any rational person who lives in the real world —  and I like to count myself among that group — must be baffled by the news media’s ongoing meltdown; the screech of one crisis after another, which reflects nothing close to reality. For example: Yesterday, I paid 98 cents for a dozen eggs. My 401(k) is kicking butt. No one I know is struggling to find work, which was definitely not the case a few years ago. American servicemen are not coming home in body bags. There are no race riots, which also wasn’t the case a few years ago. There seems to be fewer domestic terror attacks.

Harris already stated that she would use executive action to ban private gun sales, when they involve the sale of more than five annually.

Fox News producer Jake Gibson, citing a source close to Barr, said the Justice Department head approached Pelosi during the National Peace Officers Memorial Service on Capitol Hill and “asked if she had brought her handcuffs,” sparking laughter between the two.

The Somerville City Council voted to lower its local voting age Thursday, starting a process that — if successful — would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to cast ballots in municipal elections. The measure, which was passed unanimously, requires approval from the Legislature before it can be implemented.

WASHINGTON — A top House Democrat on Friday issued subpoenas for six years of President Trump’s tax returns, giving Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig a deadline of next Friday to deliver them. Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, Democrat of Massachusetts, issued the subpoenas days after Mnuchin refused to comply with demands to turn over Trump’s returns.

WASHINGTON — President Trump has effectively taken charge of the nation’s premier Fourth of July celebration in Washington, moving the gargantuan fireworks display from its usual spot on the Mall to be closer to the Potomac River and making tentative plans to address the nation from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, according to top administration officials. The president’s starring role has the potential to turn what has long been a nonpartisan celebration of the nation’s founding into another version of a Trump campaign rally.

LOS ANGELES — The mayor of Los Angeles was attempting to praise Joe Biden to the press, but Biden’s aides were more focused on shooing the press away. At the end of a made-for-cameras lunch he shared with Biden at a taco stand last week, Mayor Eric Garcetti had to raise his voice over a phalanx of Biden staff members, who were attempting to end the question-and-answer session between the former vice president and about 40 reporters and photographers swarming their table. “I want to say one last thing,” the mayor twice said over the din, before offering his homag

A new U.S. prosecutor is about to enter the center of a partisan firestorm in Washington.  John Durham, a longtime Justice Department official who is serving as a U.S. attorney in Connecticut, has reportedly been picked by Attorney General   The Justice Department has been silent on the reports about Barr’s decision, and a spokesman for the U.S.

The Alabama Senate on Tuesday evening passed legislation that bans nearly all abortions in the state, sending the measure to Gov. Kay Ivey's (R) desk to be signed into law.  Ivey has not said whether she will sign the measure, which passed by a 25-6 margin.