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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 Ukraine Agrees to Trump's Major Peace Deal  Ukraine supports the essence of a framework for peace following talks with the United States in Geneva, but some of the most sensitive issues of the framework remain to be discussed between the countries' presidents, a Ukrainian official said Tuesday. When reached for comment, the White House pointed Newsmax to a new X statement from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, which quoted Secretary of State Marco Rubio's Sunday night remarks that remaining issues are "not insurmountable." "Over the past week, the United States has made tremendous progress towards a peace deal by bringing both Ukraine and Russia to the table," Leavitt wrote in the post. "There are a few delicate, but not insurmountable, details that must be sorted out and will require further talks between Ukraine, Russia, and the United States." The news comes as U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll held secret talks with a Russian delegation in Abu Dhabi on Monday, following a weekend round of discussions with Ukrainian officials in Geneva. The previously undisclosed meetings suggest the administration's new diplomatic push is gaining momentum.
Trump May Name New Fed Chair by Christmas  U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday there was a very good chance President Donald Trump would announce a new chairman of the Federal Reserve before Christmas. "So we're going to have the last interview in the second round today. Andrew, we got five very strong candidates," Bessent said in an interview with CNBC. Jerome Powell's term as Fed chair ends in May.
Texas House Democrat: Current district not ‘viable’ if Supreme Court upholds new map  Rep. Julie Johnson (D-Texas) said Sunday that her current district will not be “viable” if the Supreme Court upholds a new congressional map. “If these new, very partisan, racially based, gerrymandered maps go forward, that makes the 32nd Congressional District — it swings it 46 points, it doesn’t really make it a viable seat,” Johnson told NewsNation’s Chris Stirewalt on “The Hill Sunday.” On Friday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito temporarily put back in place a congressional map from Texas that creates five GOP pickup chances until the nation’s highest court decides on the Lone Star State’s emergency appeal. Alito’s order let Texas Republicans use their politically friendly map as the candidate filing period continued. The justice ordered those against the map to write a response by Monday. Johnson told White House that GOP isn't interested in extending ACA subsidies  Speaker Mike Johnson has told the White House that most House Republicans have little interest in extending the Affordable Care Act's enhanced subsidies, sources familiar with the conversation told CBS News. Johnson delivered the message in a phone call with senior administration officials as President Trump's advisers were drafting a plan to continue the subsidies for an additional two years. That plan that was initially expected to emerge this week. The Wall Street Journal first reported Johnson's warning to the White House regarding the lack of GOP House support for the plan. Any White House health care plan would require overwhelming Republican support in the House to be enacted. Democratic senator 'not aware' if Trump gave any illegal military orders amid video controversy  Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., admitted she was "not aware" of whether President Donald Trump has issued any illegal orders to the military following backlash to a controversial video she posted last week. Slotkin faced questions during an interview Sunday on ABC's "This Week" about the recent reaction to a social media video she and five other Democratic lawmakers made encouraging service members to "refuse illegal orders." "Do you believe President Trump has issued any illegal orders?" host Martha Raddatz asked. "To my knowledge, I am not aware of things that are illegal, but certainly there are some legal gymnastics that are going on with these Caribbean strikes and everything related to Venezuela," Slotkin responded. Trump Calls Epstein Investigation a ‘Democrat Problem’  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) appeared to question why Jeffrey Epstein records were not released under former President Joe Biden, a concern which has repeatedly been raised by GOP leaders. Schumer said reporters asked why Epstein files were not released during Biden’s term, noting that many Americans were seeking answers at the time. President Donald Trump has signed legislation to release the complete Epstein files. When asked why the documents hadn't been released in the last several years, Schumer said, "That’s the question every American is asking. Not every American, but so many Americans are asking." Netanyahu Revives Plan to Limit Prisoner Exchanges  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu re-raised the possibility of implementing a years-old recommendation to legally limit the number of Palestinian prisoners the government can exchange for Israeli hostages, Ynet News reported. The recommendations were authored by the 2008 Shamgar Committee, a commission of inquiry set up by former Prime Minister Ehud Barak to introduce legal limits on the negotiations over kidnapped Israelis. Its conclusions were submitted to the government four years later but were never implemented.
Trump seizes control of Republicans' 2026 election strategy with his presidency on the line  President Donald Trump isn't on the ballot in next November's midterm elections, but he’s plunging into them with his own presidency at stake. He's calling candidates, making early endorsements, shaping strategy and pushing economic messaging to try to keep Congress in Republican hands, according to nine Republicans involved in election strategy. As early as this summer, 18 months before Election Day 2026, Trump was urging Republican congressmen exploring Senate or gubernatorial runs to stand for reelection instead to avoid party primary fights, according to a White House official, a senior Trump adviser and a party operative. Such an early, hands-on involvement in midterm elections is unprecedented for a president in modern times. Mayor-elect Mamdani’s pick for community safety committee Alex Vitale is anti-cop professor who penned ‘The End of Policing’  One of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team picks to advise on community safety is an author who once penned a book titled “The End of Policing.” Alex Vitale, a Brooklyn College sociology professor, was among those tapped on Monday to help staff Mamdani’s committee on community safety amid the mayoral turnover. “I’m excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC,” Vitale posted on X touting the news. The liberal professor is behind a 2017 anti-cop book — titled “The End of Policing” — that decries “broken windows” and other proactive policies. Ken Burns’ ‘childish canard’ makes a woke mockery of America’s founding Few documentary films have the natural authority of a Ken Burns production. The narrator of his works, Peter Coyote, is as close as we have today to “the voice of God,” the phase once associated with legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite at the height of the power of broadcast news. This makes it especially outrageous that Burns feeds the viewers of his new epic documentary, “The American Revolution,” a childish canard right at the outset. Burns implies that the Iroquois Confederacy, a union of six Indian tribes or nations in New York state, crucially influenced the founding of the United States. This is a nice fairy tale, but has no connection to reality — and Burns and his colleagues, who worked on the documentary for about a decade, had time to verify this claim. Your COVID dollars at . . . work? UK cops’ Israeli-smearing lies and other commentary Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) and three co-defendants stand “charged with stealing federal COVID funds” to enrich themselves, fund her House campaign and buy bling like a 3.14-carat diamond ring, reports the Washington Examiner’s Byron York. Florida’s Division of Emergency Management erroneously overpaid her her health-care biz an extra $5 million as part of a federal COVID program — and Cherfilus-McCormick & Co. failed to report the mistake, they then used the dough for personal purposes and straw donations to her campaign, and lied to the IRS about it. Ah, those days when the feds were “shoveling billions out the door in the name of COVID relief”: “Who knows how much” was stolen or wasted? West Midlands Police was “brazenly twisting the truth” when it claimed “Maccabi Tel Aviv fans . . . had thrown ‘innocent members of the public into the river’ in Amsterdam last year” to justify banning Maccabi fans from “their team’s clash with Aston Villa in Birmingham” on Nov. 6, marvels Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill; in fact, “they were accusing Maccabi fans of things that were actually done to them.” Now “Dutch law enforcement is accusing West Midlands Police of using ‘fake claims.’” On the river story: “The only known case, say the Dutch, related to a man who supported Maccabi. He was filmed by his Amsterdam tormentors who said he could leave the freezing water if he said ‘Free Palestine’.” And that’s just one of many WMP ban-justifiying claims that the Dutch say “are simply ‘not true’.” The UK must get to the bottom of this “most serious police scandal.” |
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