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Putin humiliated as war machine plants bombarded by Ukraine
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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’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
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
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
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.
