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Trump Threatens New Iran Strikes Later Wednesday
President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened additional
military strikes against Iran later in the day, warning that Tehran
would be hit "very hard" if it does not agree to a peace deal with the
United States following a new round of attacks between the two
countries.
"We're going to be attacking them very hard," Trump told reporters, while also saying a diplomatic resolution remains possible.
The warning came after Iran launched missile and drone attacks
targeting U.S. facilities in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan in retaliation
for recent American military action against Iranian targets.
Trump says US snuck 'millions of barrels' of oil through Strait of Hormuz without Iran's knowledge
President Donald Trump says the U.S. has secreted 22 oil tankers
through the Strait of Hormuz without Iran's knowledge in recent days.
Trump made the statement during an event inside the Oval Office, saying
the operations took place at night with "no lights," and outside of
Iran's detection.
"I'm just announcing today for the first time, but we've been taking
out millions of barrels of oil, millions of barrels. Every night, we've
been taking out oil, but now I'm gonna tell you because they just
figured it out," Trump said. "It was very hard for me. I wanted to say
it so badly, but I didn't want to ruin it."
"Millions of dollars of barrels have come out, and that's why it's at $85-$90 a barrel instead of $250," he added.
Trump vows attacks on Iran for 'playing' US over peace deal
President Donald Trump warned on Wednesday that he would renew US
attacks on Iran, saying Tehran had taken too long to agree a deal to
end the Middle East war and accusing its negotiators of "playing us for
suckers."
The remarks came after Iran and the US once again traded fire following
the downing of an American helicopter, further straining a ceasefire
that took effect in April but has been marked by sporadic flare-ups of
violence.
The exchange drew international calls for restraint on the eve of the
World Cup, which the US is co-hosting and Iran is participating in,
including from the head of the United Nations who cautioned against a
return to all-out war.
"We hit them hard yesterday. We're going to hit them again hard today," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
Emergency action seeks to prevent erasure of 'mother' and 'father' in code of largest US town
New York's legislature voted to use nonbinary terms 'gestating parent' and 'non-gestating parent' in its state code
Officials in America's largest township are pushing back against a New
York Democrat-backed bill that would replace "mother" and "father" in
state law with gender-neutral parental terms, passing an emergency
resolution to preserve those terms.
Officials in America's most populated township are taking urgent action
to stop a Democrat-backed bill that would replace "mother" and "father"
in New York State law with gender-neutral parental terms.
The emergency resolution from Hempstead Township comes just days after
New York State Legislature passed a bill that would replace "mother"
with the term "gestating parent" and "father" with "non-gestating
parent." It would also change "paternity" to "parentage."
Democrats say the measure is an effort to be more "inclusive" of the
state's residents with non-traditional "gender identities." It is now
awaiting action from Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul.
Former Louisiana mayor gets jail time for sex with son's teen friend at house party
Misty Roberts, 43, was convicted of having sex with a 16-year-old at a drunken birthday party she hosted for her own son
A former Louisiana mayor convicted of having sex with her teenage son's
friend at an alcohol-fueled party was branded a "predator" in court
Tuesday by the victim's mother before a judge sentenced the disgraced
politician to 90 days behind bars.
Misty Roberts, 43, the former mayor of DeRidder, was convicted in March
of carnal knowledge of a juvenile and indecent behavior with a juvenile
after having sex with the 16-year-old boy during a July 2024 birthday
party for her son at her home. Prosecutors had urged the court to
impose the maximum 17-year sentence, arguing Roberts had failed to
accept responsibility for her actions.
"This is not a dumb lady. This is somebody who managed an entire city
budget," prosecutor Charles Robinson said according to the New York
Post, arguing that Roberts "has not come to the realization of
accountability."
Instead, Judge D. Kent Savoie sentenced Roberts to 90 days in jail,
along with two suspended five-year sentences. He also ordered her to
undergo therapy, register as a sex offender and submit to regular drug
and alcohol testing.
San Francisco judge not convinced reparations fund will be discriminatory during lawsuit hearing
Judge Joseph Quinn ruled last week that a lawsuit challenging the city's race-based reparations fund is premature
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Joseph Quinn ruled last week that a
lawsuit challenging the city's race-based reparations fund is
premature, sustaining a demurrer against the suit.
A demurrer is an objection stating that the evidence presented was not sufficient to proceed for a review by the judge.
"We are disappointed by the Superior Court's ruling, but remain
undeterred. The government cannot use taxpayer money to administer
funds for programs that discriminate on the basis of race. The next
step will be to either amend the complaint or appeal," a Pacific Legal
Foundation spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Tuesday.
Meta Sidesteps Trump Plan to Take 'Pieces' of AI Firms
Meta is taking a pass, politely, on President Donald Trump's pitch for
the U.S. government to take a stake in the country's top artificial
intelligence companies.
The company's chief global affairs officer, Joel Kaplan, told a
Washington audience Wednesday that the idea has barely registered
inside the social media giant, even as the White House signals interest
in equity arrangements with AI developers preparing for blockbuster
public offerings.
"Honestly, it's just not something that I've spent, we've spent a ton
of time on," Kaplan said at Politico's Energy Summit when asked about
the federal government taking a "sizable equity stake" in Meta or its
rivals.
Top takeaways from the primary elections in Maine and South Carolina: 'Movement about us'
The scandal-plagued combat vet will now face GOP Sen. Susan Collins in a race that could determine Senate control
Graham Platner, the progressive left, and Donald Trump appear to be the
big winners in Tuesday's high-profile primaries in Maine and South
Carolina.
Platner, the oyster farmer and military combat veteran who has been
facing plenty of incoming fire amid mounting controversies, cruised to
the Democratic nomination Tuesday in left-leaning Maine and will now
face longtime moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins in a key race that
is among a handful which will likely determine if Republicans hold
their Senate majority in the midterm elections.
Meanwhile, in solidly red South Carolina, Trump-backed Sen. Lindsey
Graham won a majority of the vote in the Senate GOP primary and will
avoid a runoff against a primary challenger from the right.
China builds for war while America waits on permits
A single major Chinese shipyard can exceed the total output of the entire U.S. commercial shipbuilding industry
By Kevin Cramer
China has approved the world's first commercial brain chip, Beinao-2.
Kurt Knutsson, The CyberGuy, explains the chip's potential to
revolutionize lives by restoring movement and sight.
For too long, the debate over permitting reform has been confined to
the wonky world of Washington insiders — endless discussions about
transmission lines, pipelines, lawsuits, and administrative procedures.
Policymakers fixate on the bark while missing the trees, let alone the
forest. The stakes are far higher than connecting a natural gas plant,
wind farm or data center to the grid. The most important reason for
permitting reform is to grow the U.S. defense industrial base at the
speed, scale and cost efficiency needed to deter a major conflict with
China, and to quickly prevail if deterrence fails.
This imperative requires a sustained U.S. capability to outperform our
adversaries in the production of weapons, ships, munitions, and
material. Yet for more than two decades, America’s national security,
economic policies, and stifling environmental review processes hollowed
out domestic manufacturing and largely transferred our defense-related
industrial capabilities and control of global supply chains to China.
The results are stark. China dominates global manufacturing,
particularly those industries indispensable to defense. Its steel
production exceeds America’s by roughly 12-to-1. In shipbuilding, China
possesses capacity roughly 230 times that of the United States. A
single major Chinese shipyard can exceed the total output of the entire
U.S. commercial shipbuilding industry. American policymakers — both
Democrats and Republicans — have been comatose on this front for far
too long.
Democrats’ Gaza genocide claims reveal the depths of their depravity
By Rich Lowry
The spirit of Buchenwald lives on, we are supposed to believe, in the Israeli military operation in Gaza.
It’s now nearly mandatory for progressive Democrats to denounce Israel
for its alleged genocide, while Tucker Carlson and Hasan Piker —
radical influencers on the right and left respectively — say that the
moral offense is the same as the Holocaust, even if the scale is less
extensive.
Israel’s haters surely enjoy the perversity of accusing the Jewish
state of the same enormity that contributed to its creation, of
comparing the Jews to heinous murderers of Jews.
The charge is a grotesque libel.
