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Please consider listening to it and encouraging others to do so too. (Click on Book Cover) World & Nation Trump says he has a ‘big decision’ coming up on Iran: ‘Do I want to go in and annihilate them?’ President Trump said Thursday that he was at a crossroads over whether to renew attacks in Iran to wipe out the regime and bring the war to an end. “I have a big decision coming up. Do I want to go in and annihilate them or do I not?” he told Axios. “It’s a big decision. Anything could happen with me.” Trump’s comments echo previous threats he’s levied against Tehran since the war began. Iran trade plummets under US blockade, bureaucratic errors
Iran adds new defenses at deeply buried nuclear site after Trump warns Islamic State not to ‘get cute’ White House issues explosive response to UN-backed report claiming US committed war crimes against world’s No.1 sponsor of terror, Iran South Korea rules out military involvement in US-Iran war: report South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said Friday that his country will not deploy military assets to the Middle East in a way "that would involve or enter war," a report said. "There won't be deployment that would involve or enter war. I can tell you that very clearly," Lee said, according to Reuters. "We won't deploy military assets in any form to that end." He reportedly added that it "is also clear that we must do the minimum as other countries do to protect our commercial shipping and crude shipments, and also the safety of our people." The remarks come after President Donald Trump said in mid-August that he personally reached out to South Korea's president to request support for U.S. operations against Iran, but that Lee had declined. Early Voting Begins in US Midterm Elections In-person voting for this year's midterm elections begins Friday, ushering in the final six weeks for Americans to decide who they trust to lead Congress through a cost-of-living crisis, a prolonged war in Iran and other pressing issues. Election administrators say they're prepared and confident the vote will be accurate and secure. Nevertheless, President Donald Trump has continued efforts to challenge certain voting methods and reshape how U.S. elections are run, through court challenges, a federal effort to identify noncitizen voters and efforts to obtain voter data from state election officials. Friday is the start of early voting in Virginia. Voters in a handful of other states, including Idaho, Minnesota and South Dakota, are able to cast absentee ballots in person, typically at a local election office or voting center. More expansive early voting is scheduled to begin in those and other states in the coming weeks. Ex-Dem fundraiser claims internal polling showed Harris ‘dead last’ among Biden replacements Lindy Li, a former Democratic fundraiser who switched her party affiliation over unheeded warning signs about President Joe Biden's decline in the 2024 election, says Democrats had internal polling showing that Kamala Harris was far from the party’s best shot at beating Donald Trump. But that polling wasn’t convenient. "The polling numbers went directly against the narrative that the party wanted to espouse," Li said. "They knew that skipping over Kamala Harris would be a slap in the face to the bedrock of the party, which is Black women in particular, and they just wouldn't have it," Li told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview. Li is chronicling the months leading up to Biden's withdrawal from the race in her new book, "Unburdened," revealing that the party’s internal thinking behind why Harris was made the nominee and how many of the party’s top figures had long known that Biden’s age had created an unavoidable political liability. Microsoft, OpenAI workers privately worried their work is ‘largest theft of labor in human history’ Microsoft and OpenAI workers privately shared concerns that their use of millions of news articles to develop AI bots could represent the “largest theft of labor in human history,” according to newly unsealed court docs. One internal Microsoft document from 2023 warned that millions of people would consider LLMs “hoovering up” their work to be “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” according to legal filings revealed as part of the New York Times’ case against the two firms. OpenAI’s head of ChatGPT, meanwhile, acknowledged that the company’s products pose an “existential threat” to publishers, according to another internal document. Ukraine war latest: Russian general eliminated in occupied part of Donetsk Oblast, military says Russian Major General Anton Grunis, commander of Russia's 4th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, was killed in a Ukrainian drone strike in the occupied part of Donetsk Oblast, Robert "Madyar" Brovdi, commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, confirmed on Sept. 16. "The general Grunis was eliminated on Sept. 12, 2026, in his nighttime lair in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk Oblast," "Madyar" said. The 427th Separate Unmanned Systems Brigade "Rarog" carried out the strike with their drones, Brovdi said. Apti Alaudinov, commander of Russia's Akhmat special forces and deputy head of the Russian Armed Forces' Main Military-Political Directorate, also confirmed Grunis's death, according to Russian independent outlet Astra. Why Ilhan Omar can't be kicked out of the US for marrying brother: Immigration officials Oh, brother! Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s marriage to her alleged brother won’t get her kicked out of the US, but other matters in her immigration file might, sources told The Post. In 2009, Omar wed self-described ‘dirty dandy’ Ahmed Elmi, a UK national long rumored to be her brother. But the federal probe into Somalia-born Omar’s past is more likely to focus on how she became as US citizen as a teenager and paperwork filed by her father. The father, Nur Said Mohamed Elmi was long identified as an “educator” before his death in 2020, at which point his military record emerged. Jasmine Crockett torched for honoring singer with notorious history of violence: 'Completely vile' The Texas Democrat entered a member statement recognizing Brown and Usher Raymond despite Brown's history of violence Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, who recently lost her Senate bid, is facing online backlash after she honored music artist Chris Brown by entering him into the congressional record this past weekend. "Now, y’all know, I tend to get in trouble every once in a while. I’m a make this real quick. I need to know who run it! So is Dallas in the building?" Crockett said as she took the stage alongside Brown on Saturday evening. "Let’s give it up for Chris Brown," she added to applause from the audience. The moment drew scrutiny from viewers online, raising questions about Crockett’s status as a lawmaker and whether it should be used to celebrate Brown, someone with a history of domestic violence. Dave Rubin breaks down Hasan Piker's transition from Twitch streamer to political player The right-wing commentator and former Young Turks colleague traces Piker's rise from loud newcomer to progressive icon Hasan Piker may be a major name in online political media now, but when he got his start at The Young Turks, a network co-founded by his uncle, Cenk Uygur, he was a young, loud guy looking to make a splash in the online political discourse. Dave Rubin, who formerly worked on The Young Turks, recalls Piker as "a big dude" who was "really loud." "[Cenk] just put Hasan on air, even though virtually everyone there wanted to be on air," Rubin recalled in a conversation with Fox News Digital. Rubin said that most of the staff at The Young Turks wanted to be on camera, but "once [Hasan] just showed up, he just got on camera. Cenk just gave him the keys to the kingdom and I guess he became some sort of personality since then." While Piker has continued to profess anti-capitalist and progressive views while building an audience of loyal followers, Rubin later had a political epiphany and realigned himself with the right. In a 2017 PragerU video, Rubin explained that the left had gone from being "progressive to regressive," pointing to cancel culture and calls for censorship, among other things. Flock CEO, tech rivals called to testify before senators over AI camera privacy concerns Senator Josh Hawley says he is investigating who has access to hundreds of millions of Americans' data The CEOs of four companies, including Flock Safety, are being called to testify before a Senate panel next week as lawmakers look to crack down on AI-powered surveillance camera tracking Americans’ movements, Fox News Digital has learned. A number of lawmakers and several governors have called for investigations into alleged privacy violations regarding the handling of images and data generated by AI-backed surveillance cameras. The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism will hold a hearing titled "Always Watching: Flock’s Nationwide AI Surveillance Network" on Sept. 23. Trump Drug Pricing Plan to Cover All 50 States The Trump administration plans to announce that all 50 states will have access to most-favored-nation pricing for certain drugs through Medicaid, Semafor reported Friday. President Donald Trump is expected to highlight the initiative at the White House alongside the governors of South Dakota, Mississippi, and Arkansas as his administration focuses on prescription drug costs ahead of the November midterms.. . . The White House Council of Economic Advisers estimates that the effort will generate $27.6 billion in net savings for state governments and $36.6 billion in federal savings over 10 years, according to Semafor. The administration argues that tying prices for certain Medicaid drugs to those paid in other countries can reduce government spending while expanding access.
Pape: US Strategic Reserve Running Dry, China Gains Strategic Leverage America is rapidly depleting one of its most important defenses against the global energy crisis, leaving Washington with dramatically less flexibility to contain another surge in oil prices, respond to a major supply disruption or help cushion allies from shortages, writes analyst Robert Pape. At the same time, China has entered the crisis with a vastly larger estimated oil stockpile and has demonstrated an ability to slash imports and consumption — a disparity that could take on added geopolitical importance as President Donald Trump prepares for high-stakes talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping. University of Chicago political scientist Pape warns in a new analysis that the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve has fallen to approximately 285 million barrels, its lowest level since 1982. Supreme Court that Left calls ‘biased’ was near unanimous 62% of the time By Jonathan Turley
The Supreme Court is once again under attack from those calling for packing, or even eliminating, the institution as hopelessly ideological and divided. The Philadelphia Inquirer recently proclaimed that “The Supreme Court’s conservative majority keeps choosing ideology over impartiality.” Other media outlets reported “devastating” polling showing the Court as unpopular and losing institutional respect. Looking at the actual rulings disproves the argument of a “biased” court. The Court ruled unanimously in more than 44% of cases, slightly up from the prior year. When you add the roughly 11% of opinions that were 8-1 and 6% that were 7-1 or 7-2, the rate of unanimous or nearly unanimous jumps to 62%. In over 77% of cases, there was no ideological split in the resulting opinions. We should use Reagan as a guide in handling our modern arms race with China Trump should use meeting with Xi Jinping to turn America's chip advantage into negotiating leverage By Chris Stewart
I can still remember, as a young Air Force officer, sitting in the cockpit of my B-1 bomber knowing that we could deliver nuclear weapons virtually anywhere in the world. I also remember watching President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1986 to negotiate nuclear arms reductions. The whole world was watching. The nuclear arms race was a global threat, and the world’s two most powerful nations had a responsibility to confront it. Now imagine that, as Reagan sat across the table from Gorbachev, American companies were selling Moscow the technology it needed to make its nuclear arsenal even more powerful. The idea would have been absurd. |
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