In a video for Breitbart News's American Tributes project, House Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) spoke about how the United States was "the greatest constitutional republic the world has ever known." Emmer also spoke about how "once people arrive" in the U.S. "they become Americans," adding that the U.S. was a melting pot.

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President Donald Trump on Thursday again denied reports that the United States would provide Iran with $300 billion as part of a postwar reconstruction fund as Washington and Tehran prepare to sign a memorandum of understanding aimed at formalizing a peace agreement.

It’s impossible to celebrate America’s 250th birthday without acknowledging the importance of the arts, culture and storytelling. As part of Breitbart’s special coverage for the 250, we reached out to some of Nashville’s most talented songwriters and artists and asked

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"One Tree Hil"l and "Chicago P.D." star Sophia Bush is attacking President Donald Trump with petty screeds, only days after she urged liberals to commit violence against their political opponents.

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Instagram video shows a big female moose slamming into a Toyota during what appears to be a chase involving dogs in a wild nature encounter.

The story of the birth of our nation 250 years ago is a story of disagreements, debates, compromises, and moral courage. It’s a story of a group of rebellious Englishmen who—despite their many differences—could agree on one thing: they wanted to live free.

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President Donald Trump's peace deal with Iran is fundamentally different from former President Barack Obama's infamous Iran nuclear deal, JD Vance explained.

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A Texas man who told federal agents he smokes marijuana every other day just walked away from the Supreme Court with his gun rights intact.

Federal agents had descended on Ali Hemani's Dallas-area home in 2022, chasing a terrorism lead that ultimately went nowhere.

‘To state the analogy is to expose its deficiency.’

What survived the raid was a confession. Hemani, who has American and Pakistani dual citizenship, surrendered his gun, showed agents the marijuana, and admitted in a voluntary interview that he used it every other day.

Texas treats simple possession as a low-level misdemeanor. Instead, federal prosecutors argued that Hemani's single admission — regular marijuana use — was enough on its own to support a felony charge carrying up to 15 years and a lifetime firearms ban.

It just collapsed at the Supreme Court.

Justice Neil Gorsuch made the gap explicit in the majority opinion: "No matter that the government did not assert Mr. Hemani was a drug addict. No matter that it did not contend his drug use had ever led him to pose a danger to himself or others."

The justices affirmed the dismissal 9-0 on the bottom line. The reasoning split 7-2.

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Their holding: Charging Hemani under 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(3) — the law barring "unlawful users" of controlled substances from owning guns — violated the Second Amendment.

The government tried to justify the ban by analogy to historical "habitual drunkard" laws that once restricted gun rights for chronic alcoholics. The seven-justice majority rejected it for three reasons:

• Those laws targeted people practically incapacitated by drink. Today's law requires only that someone use drugs regularly — a much lower bar.
• They aimed to protect people and their families from ruin, not to prevent violence — the purpose the government claims here.
• They came with process — a conviction, a guardianship hearing, and a magistrate's review — before anyone lost a right. Section 922(g)(3) strips gun rights the instant someone becomes a regular user, automatically.

Handing the government that kind of unchecked power, the court warned, would risk letting it "quickly swallow" the Second Amendment.

The ruling is narrow. It leaves the law untouched for addicts, people currently intoxicated, and felons.

Two concurrences hinted at larger fights ahead.

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that he doubts the broader gun-ban statute "could be an exercise of Congress's Commerce Clause powers as an original matter" — a favorite line for federalists, a headache for federal prosecutors.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, called the court's current Second Amendment framework "unworkable" — though for the opposite reason than conservatives might assume. Jackson wants courts to give the government more room to regulate guns, not less.

Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justice Elena Kagan, also wrote a separate concurring opinion.

The ruling affirms the Fifth Circuit's decision.

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The White House contrasts Trump's D.C. renovation projects with the Obama Presidential Center, citing rising costs and delays ahead of its opening.

Iran’s hardline parliament speaker and key negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned that Tehran would not honor its commitments under a newly signed memorandum with the U.S. if Washington fails to uphold its side of the deal.

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Actress Amanda Seyfried had an interesting reason for why she thinks people took issue with her comments about Charlie Kirk.

The then-39 year old commented on Kirk shortly after his assassination and now says the backlash she faced was because people wanted to bash her and tear her down.

'I commented on one thing.'

Hateful plateful

In the days after Kirk was murdered at a campus speaking tour stop in Utah, Seyfried responded to a compilation video of the political commentator — purporting to showcase his rhetoric — and said, "He was hateful."

Seyfried later justified her comments, writing on Instagram that she was "angry about misogyny and racist rhetoric."

In a recent interview with GQ Magazine, Seyfried stood firm while being described as still in disbelief over the discomfort she brought people with her remarks.

"A, I'm allowed to f**king voice my feelings, and B, do it in a way that's not unkind necessarily," she told the U.K. outlet.

Seyfried then chalked up the counterbalance of anger toward her as a societal impulse to bring people down.

"There's just an outsized fear and hatred and impulse to bash and to tear down. And I experienced a very small fraction of that."

The actress added, "I want my kids to be able to feel safe to voice their opinions as long as they're not harmful."

The Allentown, Pennsylvania, native still found herself confused, asking what to do and what to say. "And then all of a sudden I find myself with a f**king bodyguard at the airport, and I'm like, 'This is crazy.'"

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Fuel fool

Seyfried seemingly found no issues with describing Kirk as hateful so soon after his killing, and on September 17 — just seven days after his death — she called for "spirited discourse," exactly what Kirk was known for at the time of his murder.

"I don't want to add fuel to a fire. I just want to be able to give clarity to something so irresponsibly (but understandably) taken out of context. Spirited discourse — isn't that what we should be having?" Seyfried wrote as a caption for an Instagram post.

In a text image, the actress added, "We're forgetting the nuance of humanity. I can get angry about misogyny and racist rhetoric and ALSO very much agree that Charlie Kirk's murder was absolutely disturbing and deplorable in every way imaginable."

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No apologies

By December, Seyfried had apparently soured on her previous proposal of having actual discourse when she told outlet Who What Wear, "I'm not f**king apologizing."

She then downplayed the fact that she commented on the popular debater's murder so quickly after it had happened:

"I mean, for f**k's sake, I commented on one thing. I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes," she claimed about Kirk.

"What I said was pretty damn factual, and I'm free to have an opinion, of course. Thank God for Instagram. I was able to give some clarity, and it was about getting my voice back because I felt like it had been stolen and recontextualized — which is what people do, of course."

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A couple was spotted in a glass Ferris wheel pod at Download Festival setting the mood before Guns N' Roses, and Leicestershire Police are searching.

The Trump administration is preparing a significant increase in efforts to revoke the U.S. citizenship of naturalized Americans accused of obtaining citizenship through fraud or illegal conduct, according to a Justice Department official cited by CNN on Thursday.

An Oklahoma family's bathroom stop at an Alabama gas station turned into a viral restroom confrontation when a bystander objected to a dad's choice.

Players on a minor league baseball team in York, Pennsylvania, refused Thursday to comply with LGBT messaging, and their game was forfeited.

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday it would make available $107 million in emergency funding to strengthen its domestic and international response to the Ebola outbreak ‌in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.