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Putin humiliated as war machine plants bombarded by Ukraine

Putin faces another major setback as Ukraine targets key Russian war facilities. 😳🇺🇦🇷🇺 #VolodymyrZelenskyy #ukraine #war

Vladimir Putin has once again been humiliated by Ukraine after the embattled country launched strikes deep into Russian territory.

Ukraine targeted the dictator's military production facilities, sparking a massive blaze at the Isra plant in Ulyanovsk as long-range attacks pounded his infrastructure.

The electronics manufacturing site produces critical components for Kh-59 missiles deployed against Ukraine. Regional governor Alexei Russian said damage to industrial and civilian infrastructure has been recorded in Ulyanovsk.

"According to preliminary information, eight people were affected as a result of the enemy's drone attack-seven adults and one child," he said. Russia claimed to have shot down 592 drones overnight in the intense Ukrainian onslaught which included the region around Moscow.



Iran’s economy will have 'nothing' left 'within two weeks,' Scott Bessent warns

TEHRAN TRADE SQUEEZE: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday said Iran's battered economy could have "nothing" left to trade within two weeks as U.S. sanctions and a blockade choke off Tehran's remaining

Iran’s beleaguered economy will soon have “nothing to trade” in about two weeks after it makes its final oil deliveries, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent claimed.

Bessent assessed that the Islamic Republic is becoming desperate to make a deal because of its collapsing economy, hastened by Operation Economic Outcast, and warned that its problems will get dramatically worse in two weeks.

“I am confident, given that there’s only 15 million more barrels of Iranian oil on the water, that Iran will have nothing left to trade for anything,” Bessent told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”

“Probably within the next two weeks, they are going to make their final deliveries of oil to China, and then they will have nothing,” Bessent added. “It is an empty set. And I believe that they are feeling the pressure here, and that’s why they want a deal.”



Study: 44 Percent of Dems OK With Violence to Stop Trump

1 in 5 Americans think violence may solve U.S. divisions, poll finds | PBS News

A quarter of American adults — including 44% of self-identified Democrats — say they support the use of force to prevent President Donald Trump from being president, according to a new survey's findings described by University of Chicago political scientist Robert Pape.

Pape is also warning that the 2026 midterm elections could produce a level of political violence not seen in the U.S. in decades — and, under a worst-case scenario, could become "the most violent election in American history."

"We haven't seen this level of violence, political violence, since the 1960s," Pape said in a recent interview.




Farmer who foiled suspected Iran terror plot on UK base blasts security — and fears several terrorists still free

Shocked that security hadn't already spotted the suspicious group, she tried calling the UK's Ministry of Defence — then called 999, the UK equivalent of 911, when no one answered.

The farmer who raised the alarm over a suspected Iranian terror plot on a UK military base used by the US Air Force has blasted the lack of security there — while warning that several terrorists could still be on the run.

The unidentified woman was heading home from a party just after 1 a.m. Sunday when she spotted a “large group of hooded and masked men” in three white vans acting suspiciously near RAF Fairford in southwest England.

Shocked that security at the base hadn’t already spotted the suspicious group, she tried calling the UK’s Ministry of Defence — then called 999, the UK equivalent of 911, when no one answered.

Several men are arrested at gunpoint after explosives and chemicals were found in a van at RAF Fairford.




Walz's 'exit interview' reflecting on his tenure sparks lawmaker debate about his legacy: 'Never serious'

State Sen Julia Coleman cited $10B in tax hikes, Minneapolis riots, lockdowns and the pardon of a child rapist
Tim Walz accepts blame for fraud in MN programs but defends his legacy

Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz reflected on his legacy in a recent interview and his comments sparked immediate pushback both online and from Republican lawmakers in the state who spoke to Fox News Digital.

"Fraud — should have stopped it sooner," Walz told the Minnesota Star-Tribune in a discussion that is being dubbed an "exit interview" with the headline "Walz accepts blame for fraud but says it shouldn’t define his legacy" as he prepares to leave office in January.

"We didn’t stop them. I accept that. I think there does need to be accountability with that. And part of it is that, yep, that’s with me, I’ll step aside."

Walz claimed the state "immediately" took action on the fraud and then went on to suggest the true cost of the fraud, estimated at $9 billion by federal prosecutors, has been overstated and claimed President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom, expected to cost taxpayers around $300 million, was more expensive than the Minnesota fraud.



Report: Trump to Unveil $15 Billion Iowa Steel Project

President Trump is expected to announce a proposed $15 billion steel mill in Iowa Monday afternoon at the White House alongside executives from Minnesota-based Mesabi Metallics. The project could support more than

President Donald Trump is expected to announce Monday a Minnesota company's plan to build a $15 billion steel mill in Iowa, a project that could support more than 1,700 jobs and rank among the largest steelmaking operations in the country, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Trump is set to unveil the proposal at the White House alongside executives from Mesabi Metallics, which this month began preliminary production at the first new iron ore mine to open in Minnesota in nearly 50 years, according to the Journal.

Steel production at the proposed eastern Iowa facility could begin in 2030, a White House official told the newspaper.




Florida officials warn of ‘wildly unusual’ disease outbreak, declare state of emergency

Three Florida counties have declared states of emergency as a growing outbreak of dengue has infected hundreds across the state this year.

A mosquito-borne illness that’s typically found in other countries has reached a new high in the US.

Florida health officials have declared a local state of emergency over dengue fever, nicknamed “breakbone fever” for causing such agonizing pain in the joints and bones that they feel like they’re breaking.

The viral illness has become more common in the US in recent years.



CIA Warns Europe of Russian Attack; Nations Prepare Civil Defense

CIA Warns Europe of Russian Attack; Nations Prepare Civil Defense

European governments are accelerating civil-defense preparations as intelligence agencies warn that Russia could intensify hybrid operations — or even carry out limited military attacks — against NATO countries in the coming months.

European governments are confronting increasingly stark warnings that Russia could escalate its campaign against NATO members, as reports of a CIA alert, a new Danish intelligence assessment, and warnings from Poland's prime minister fuel concerns that Moscow may be preparing to test the alliance without launching a conventional invasion.

Earlier this month, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Russian provocations were increasing because Russian President Vladimir Putin "needs to shift attention — seeking an escalation with Europe — away from a situation on the battlefield that is not going as he had promised."




SpaceX launches Starship on 10-hour test flight, aiming to orbit Earth 6 times
SpaceX's massive spacecraft expected to deploy 26 Starlink satellites before splashing down in Pacific Ocean
SpaceX launches Starship on 10-hour test flight, aiming to orbit Earth 6 times

SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket blasted off from Texas Monday morning on its most ambitious test flight yet, aiming for a roughly 10-hour mission that would send the spacecraft around Earth six times.

Minutes into the uncrewed spacecraft's ascent, the rocket lost one of its engines, throwing into question whether the test flight would abandon its goal of reaching orbit for the first time. After several tense minutes, flight controllers decided the spacecraft was "go" for orbit and continued with the mission.

Starship successfully completed an orbital burn with just a single Raptor engine to reach the Earth's orbit about 26 minutes after liftoff.



White House reporters predict which Republicans they believe will run for president after Trump

Republicans are (quietly) making 2028 moves | CNN Politics

Three prominent White House reporters discussed which Republicans could run to succeed President Donald Trump in 2028 — and floated a wide range of names.

Politico White House bureau chief Dasha Burns, NBC News chief White House correspondent Garrett Haake and New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman sat down for a panel discussion about covering the Trump presidency Friday at the Texas Tribune Festival.

“I think there are four lanes to the Republican Party,” Haake responded. “I think one lane is the Trump successor, the sort of like, from the inside of the White House, who’s the person who gets blessed… Presumably, that’s JD Vance. Unless JD Vance decides, for whatever reason, [he] doesn’t want it, or is somehow disqualified, then maybe it’s Marco Rubio.”




Sen Kennedy says no living politicians should have buildings named after them after Trump's moves

The proposal comes as President Donald Trump seeks to put his name on the Kennedy Center and other federal buildings
Senator John Kennedy proposes rule against naming buildings after living politicians

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said on Sunday that living public officials should not have buildings named after them and proposed a rule to prohibit such renaming efforts.

This comes as President Donald Trump continues to push to rename the Kennedy Center after himself. The president has also sought to rename other prominent federal buildings in Washington, D.C., after himself since returning to the White House last year.

Kennedy said public officials, including Trump, should not "spend public money on private ads for themselves."



AOC Event Crowd Chants Anti-Israel Slogan
AOC's Ivy League warmup act leads democratic socialists in notorious anti-Israel chant

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was welcomed to a midterm campaign event in Ithaca, New York, over the weekend with anti-Israel chants led by socialist activists.

Cornell Young Democratic Socialists of America leaders Mina Petrova and Zoe Reisman led the crowd in singing "from the river to the sea" and declaring "long live the student intifada" ahead of Ocasio-Cortez's "Students vs. Billionaires" town hall on Sunday.

Roughly 2,000 people packed the Ithaca Downtown Conference Center for the event, according to the New York Post.



Gen Z voters hate capitalism — but they’ve barely even seen it

By E. J. Antoni and Annie Heim

Young voters are financially drowning — and the life raft the Democratic Socialists of America is throwing them is an anchor in disguise.

If Americans don’t see past this facade, they’ll be sinking even faster.

Consider a typical 22-year-old, fresh out of college with a business degree and a decent entry-level job in a booming city like Austin, Texas.

Rent eats a third of his paycheck, while nearly one-fifth of it goes to commuting costs.




Blockade bites hard at Iran’s borders — Trump can’t cave now

by Mark Dubowitz, Miad Maleki

To understand the economic devastation Iran is now experiencing, look no further than the trucks choking its borders.

Thousands of them have lined up at land crossings into neighboring Turkey and Afghanistan, with many drivers sitting idle for weeks.

They are there because overland routes are the only way that Iran can circumvent the punishing air and naval blockade imposed by the United States — but the regime can’t escape the cumbersome customs and security inspections that cause endless bottlenecks at the border.

Yet to listen to Iran’s leaders, you’d think they held all the cards.



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