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 My son has narrated the last book I wrote.
Please consider listening to it and encouraging others to do so too. (Click HERE) World & Nation Hormuz Uncertainty Persists Despite Ceasefire Uncertainty lingers over the future of the Strait of Hormuz despite a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Iran, as shipping companies and energy markets weigh whether commercial traffic can safely return to one of the world's most important oil chokepoints. The Hill reported Monday that mixed messages from Washington and Tehran continue to fuel uncertainty about the waterway's future, even as the Trump administration says maritime traffic is beginning to recover. U.S. Central Command said over the weekend that commercial vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz had increased and that safe passage remained intact, according to The Hill.
Iran's Players Leave Powerful Note Calling for Peace After World Cup Draw Iran's national soccer team left behind a handwritten message invoking the nation's ancient heritage and calling for peace among nations as it departed Los Angeles following a hard-fought World Cup draw, according to Mediaite. After Saturday's scoreless match against Belgium at SoFi Stadium, Iranian players left a note in the locker room thanking the city and supporters who backed the team through a turbulent opening week of the tournament. "From the ancient Persia of thousands of years ago to the civilized Iran of today, the spirit of Iran remains alive and steadfast," the note said, according to Mediaite.
Far from a millionaire, Ilhan Omar now claims a potentially negative net worth Omar's office blames an accounting error that listed assets without liabilities and overstated her husband's net worth Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s latest financial disclosures show dramatically lower reported asset values than an earlier filing that listed millions of dollars in businesses connected to her husband. In a financial report meant to cover 2024, the Minnesota Democrat claimed that she and her husband controlled between $6 million and $30 million in assets, figures that raised eyebrows as conservatives honed in on allegations of fraud among Minneapolis’ Somali community. In a recently filed 2025 report reviewed by Fox News Digital, however, Omar revised the value of her and her spouse’s assets down to, at most, $125,000. Taking the lower-end estimate of Omar’s assets as reported in the disclosure — just $20,000 — and comparing it against both the low and high estimates of her debt — $30,000 and $100,000, respectively — would leave the congresswoman with a negative net worth. Congressional financial disclosures report broad ranges, so the filings do not establish a precise net worth. Her husband has between $15,000 and $50,000 of credit card debt while the congresswoman has a student loan balance also worth between $15,000 and $50,000. Fed's Warsh Not Seeking WH Advice Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh is not seeking advice from the White House about interest rates, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Monday. "We're very close friends. We've known each other for 30 years," Hassett said Monday during an appearance on CNBC's "Squawk Box." "We definitely talk. But he's not asking the White House for advice what to do with interest rates."
FBI brings back fugitive accused in $3.7B Medicare fraud scheme after capture in Turkey The FBI said Ibrahim Khaldoon Hilmi fled the US in May 2025 before Turkish authorities detained him A fugitive accused of helping mastermind a $3.7 billion Medicare fraud scheme — one of the largest in U.S. history — is in American custody after authorities tracked him down in Turkey and flew him back to the U.S. to face charges, the FBI announced Monday. Ibrahim Khaldoon Hilmi was recently detained by Turkish authorities after he fled the U.S. in May 2025, the FBI said. The FBI's Critical Incident Response Group flew out to Turkey and transported Hilmi to the U.S. on Friday through a foreign transfer of custody operation. FBI Director Kash Patel hailed the operation as a major victory in the bureau's effort to track down fugitives accused of stealing taxpayer dollars. Sixth suspect charged in alleged plot to turn White House UFC event into mass-casualty attack Jordan W. Rincker allegedly transferred a shotgun and funneled cash to co-defendants who planned to storm the White House The FBI has publicly identified an additional suspect in the alleged plot targeting the UFC Freedom 250 event in Washington, D.C., after court documents were unsealed Monday in the Western District of Missouri. The newly unsealed criminal complaint names Missouri defendant Jordan W. Rincker as an alleged member of the conspiracy, bringing the total number of publicly identified defendants to six. Five suspects were charged mid-June in connection with the alleged plot. The alleged plan involved using explosive-laden drones to hit buildings near the event, force a mass evacuation and steer crowds toward a prestaged sniper team, FBI officials said. LAUSD superintendent resigns after FBI raids home, district office Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has submitted his resignation to the district and members of the Board of Education, district officials have confirmed to Nexstar’s KTLA. His departure comes nearly four months after FBI agents raided his home and district office as part of an investigation tied to school district contracts and a failed artificial intelligence chatbot project connected to the district. “It has been a great honor to serve you,” Carvalho wrote in a resignation letter addressed to students, families, teachers and staff, according to the Los Angeles Times. He added that he stepped down to allow schools to remain focused on students and learning “without distraction.” LAUSD, the nation’s second-largest school district, placed Carvalho on paid administrative leave shortly after the Feb. 25 raids. Federal authorities have not announced any criminal charges against the now-former superintendent. However, the investigation is focused at least in part on his interactions with contractors connected to AllHere, a now-defunct company that developed an AI-powered chatbot known as “Ed” for LAUSD. Cops could be forced into race-based guessing game after Supreme Court move, Thomas joins dissent 'What about dark-skinned Latinos, other Latinos, and members of other minority groups?' the dissent asked Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas on Monday dissented from the Supreme Court’s refusal to take up a case that they said forces police officers to create a separate set of rules for racial minorities. "It is dangerous to allow an individual to be treated differently based on statistics, studies, or expert testimony that purports to show that members of the racial or ethnic group to which he belongs are more likely to act in a certain way than are members of other groups," Alito wrote on behalf of himself and Thomas. "Here, the special treatment helped the individual; in other situations it will not." The case, U.S. v. Donte J. Carter, involved a Black man whose firearm and theft convictions were vacated after the D.C. Court of Appeals held that police seized him before they had reasonable suspicion. Officers later recovered a .40-caliber pistol from Carter’s pants and the government said the gun had been stolen from an FBI agent’s vehicle. The Anthony Fauci, COVID-19 origins cover-up runs ‘deep’ into our intelligence community By Miranda Devine
On her final day as director of national intelligence Friday, Tulsi Gabbard released damning declassified evidence accusing Dr. Anthony Fauci of causing the COVID-19 pandemic, engaging in a cover-up about the virus’s origins in China and lying to Congress about it. Perhaps most disturbingly, he was assisted by the US intelligence community. “It’s time you know the truth,” said Gabbard when she released “never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024 … The tactics used to hide the truth are straight from the deep state playbook.” Trump’s federal watchdogs are doing the job past IGs let slide — and the old guard hates it By Anthony D’Esposito
A former federal inspector general has been sniping at President Donald Trump’s approach to rooting out government fraud — but his complaints sound less like a serious defense of oversight and more like a bitter kiss-off from a spurned ex-bureaucrat. “The watchdogs have crossed a dangerous line,” Mark Greenblatt intoned in the Daily Beast. “They’ve become lapdogs” — “MAGA lapdogs,” as his headline put it. He’s furious that my inspector general colleagues and I are joining the wide-ranging effort, led by Vice President JD Vance, to crack down on the fraud that’s looting our national treasury. Greenblatt’s argument rests on a flawed premise: He claims that supporting such a mission somehow prevents an inspector general from conducting independent oversight. That’s nonsense. |
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