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Please consider listening to it and encouraging others to do so too. (Click HERE) World & Nation Iran to halt message exchanges with US over Israel's strikes on Lebanon, Iranian media says Iran is halting its indirect talks with U.S. negotiators in protest against Israel's attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon, Iranian state-linked media reported Monday.  Iran's Tasnim news agency, linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, reported that Tehran is cutting off talks due to the "continued crimes of the Zionist regime in Lebanon." The report comes after Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted to social media saying Lebanon must be included in the ongoing ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran. "The United States and Israel bear responsibility for the consequences of any breach of the truce," Araghchi wrote. Iran calls off negotiations with US following Israeli strike on Beirut  Iran has shut down its communications with the US through mediators in protest of Israel’s Monday strikes on Beirut, disrupting weeks of attempts to find a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and restart formal peace talks. “In light of the ongoing crimes of the Zionist regime in Lebanon and given that Lebanon was part of the ceasefire preconditions, and now this ceasefire has been violated on all fronts, including Lebanon, the Iranian negotiating team is suspending ‘discussions and exchanges of texts through intermediaries,'” the government-linked Tasnim News Agency wrote on X Monday. “The immediate halt to the aggressive and brutal operations of the Zionist regime’s army in Gaza and Lebanon, and the necessity of the regime’s complete withdrawal from the occupied areas in Lebanon, have been emphasized by Iranian officials and negotiators, and as long as Iran’s and the resistance’s stance on this matter is not satisfied, there will be no dialogue.” Trump: Relax and Let Me Negotiate Iran Deal  President Donald Trump urged people to "sit back and relax" while he negotiates with Iran to secure a deal that "will be a good one for the U.S.A." In a Truth Social post early Monday, Trump expressed confidence that negotiations with Tehran are moving in the right direction while criticizing political opponents and some Republican critics for second-guessing his approach. "Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the U.S.A. and those that are with us," Trump wrote.
US Bombs Iranian Military Sites, Kuwait Hit by Drone and Missile Fire  The United States said Monday that it bombed radar and drone sites in Iran after Tehran shot down an American drone over the weekend. Iran then said it launched a strike of its own, and Kuwait reported incoming fire. The weekend U.S. strikes on Iran's Gulf coast were in response to "aggressive Iranian actions that included the shootdown of a U.S. MQ-1 drone that was operating over international waters," the U.S. Central Command said in a post on X.
US and Europe sound alarm after Russia drone strikes NATO country  The U.S. has criticized Russia’s “reckless” behavior after a Russian drone packed with explosives crossed into NATO member Romania and detonated early on Friday, prompting condemnation from across Europe and the military alliance. Although Russian drones have repeatedly strayed into NATO territory since 2022, these incursions have not been treated as direct attacks on the alliance so far. But as Ukrainian drones targeting Russian assets have increasingly veered into NATO countries like the Baltic states and Finland, worries have surged over how often the war is leaking into alliance territory. A drone violated Romanian airspace on Friday before striking an apartment building and exploding in the southeastern city of Galați—which borders Ukraine and Moldova—Romanian officials said. Conservative Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett reportedly 'swatted'  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s home was allegedly swatted Wednesday, according to police dispatch audio shared on X. Police reportedly responded to a call alleging the sound of gunshots had been heard at Barrett’s home, according to the same audio, which was shared on X by freelance journalist Andrew Leyden. In the audio, the dispatcher indicates police units are responding to “the suspicious noise” at a residence that has “24-hour security coverage for a high-priority resident of the county.” “Be advised we have not been able to get an answer on callback to the complainant’s phone number. Unknown if it’s going to be a swatting situation,” the dispatcher says. A police officer responding to the incident can be heard telling the dispatcher that he has made contact with security on scene and that the security officer he spoke with said he “hadn’t heard anything.” Right-wing journalist predicts Tulsi Gabbard will end her tenure on a dramatic note  Right-wing journalist John Solomon predicted Thursday, outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard will make a dramatic exit by releasing evidence claiming to prove foreign interference in the 2020 election. Solomon, who works closely with Gabbard on declassifications, spoke with Bannon on the "War Room" podcast. "Tulsi is gonna go out in a blaze of glory in her final month because she will be able to release in succession some extraordinary evidence of foreign interference in our election in 2020 and since," Solomon shared. Solomon claimed the intelligence community concealed evidence of "active measures" by China, Iran, and other adversaries, and alleged Gabbard would systematically destroy the official narrative that 2020 was secure. Dem Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner breaks silence on sexting scandal – with wife glued to his side  Embattled Maine Democratic Senate hopeful Graham Platner finally addressed the infidelity scandal roiling his campaign after putting his wife forward to answer for him in a solo video that critics likened to a hostage film. Platner, 41, and wife, Amy Gertner, spoke briefly to News Center Maine Sunday after a campaign appearance in Portland, dismissing as “gossip” allegations that the horny oyster farmer exchanged sexually explicit messages with as many as a dozen women since the couple tied the knot in 2023. “It’s no surprise to me that the establishment media outlets are just going to run gossip instead of wanting to talk about the things that actually matter in this race, which are the material realities that Mainers are working with,” said Platner, attempting to pin his personal failings on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal for reporting them. Karen Bass appears to liken Spencer Pratt to Trump amid tightening LA mayoral race 'We know what it means if you put somebody who is a reality TV star in a seat of power,' Bass said during an Instagram live on Saturday  Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and her challengers spent the final weekend before Election Day crisscrossing the city as a surprisingly competitive mayoral race heads toward a likely runoff. Bass, who is seeking a second term, is up against former reality star Spencer Pratt and city council member Nithya Raman in Tuesday’s primary election. Recent polling has shown a competitive race as no candidate is expected to receive more than 50% of the vote. The top two finishers would then advance to a November runoff. On Saturday, Bass — who is backed by high-profile Democrats, including former Vice President Kamala Harris and California Gov. Gavin Newsom — stopped at Yosemite Recreation Center in Eagle Rock. DHS says ‘zero tolerance for rioters’ as police moved in on agitators breaking Delaney Hall curfew  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Sunday night that there is “zero tolerance for rioters” as New Jersey State Police moved in on agitators outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, after they refused to follow a city-imposed curfew. DHS made the comment in a series of posts on X that showed videos of what the agency described as police arresting rioters. “If you riot, you will face the consequences. Law and order prevails,” it said in one post. “Arrests are MOUNTING,” DHS said in another post. Scientists are finally moving away from the UN-backed climate doomerism that scared a generation off having babies  Almost every day now, there is another headline warning about the collapsing birth rate across the developed world, and along with it, another think piece attempting to diagnose why younger generations seem increasingly reluctant to build families. This week, new figures out of England and Wales showed that the number of babies being born has fallen to the lowest level since 1977, with couples delaying parenthood until their thirties or deciding against children altogether. The total fertility rate dropped to 1.39 children per woman, the lowest level ever recorded. The explanations offered for this phenomenon tend to revolve around economics, and certainly there is truth to them. Housing costs have exploded, and traditional childcare routes are expensive. Due to the ever-shifting nature of our economy, many young adults feel professionally unstable and financially precarious. Trump Praises Exodus of Government Attorneys  President Donald Trump on Sunday blasted The New York Times for portraying the departure of thousands of federal government attorneys as a negative development, arguing instead that the exodus is helping rid Washington of entrenched bureaucrats who opposed his agenda. In a Truth Social post, Trump responded to a Times report headlined "Trump Administration Sees Striking Exodus of Legal Talent," which detailed a sharp decline in the federal government's legal workforce since he returned to office. The president said many of the attorneys leaving government service were "Radical Left Deep State Lunatics" who had been involved in the "weaponization" of government against political opponents.
Miranda Devine: Dems can cry corruption all they want – the DOJ’s anti-weaponization fund has precedent and purpose By Miranda Devine
The rollout of the DOJ’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund” may have been botched, but the fund remains a good idea, and the hysteria from Democrats like the hypocritical Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and allied media is absurd. It’s not unprecedented or corrupt or President Trump’s personal “slush fund,” no matter how loudly they shriek. It’s just a rebranding of an existing legal settlement fund Congress authorized decades ago, as Washington lawyer and veteran Senate oversight investigator Jason Foster points out. Administrations of both parties have repeatedly used the DOJ’s “Judgment Fund” to settle legal claims against the federal government, and Democratic administrations have used it for far more questionable payouts than the Trump administration’s proposal to compensate genuine victims of lawfare. The Biden DOJ paid off FBI anti-Trump plotters Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and Andrew McCabe, for instance, along with numerous convicted criminals, who alleged bad treatment by the Bureau of Prisons. Trump’s energy initiatives may finally extract America from Mideast chaos U.S. is still short of the 20 million barrels per day of oil we consume, but we are getting closer By Dan Doyle
The way to solve the Middle East problem is to leave the Middle East problem. From the madness, a pattern is emerging: barrels are being rounded up in the Americas and the United States is quietly assembling the pieces of a new energy isolationism. It started with "Drill, Baby, Drill," the long-in-the-tooth bit of campaign rhetoric. Then came the January 2025 National Energy Emergency proclamation. Then the Big Beautiful Bill and rolled-back regs for oil and gas producers and consumers. Then Venezuela and its enormous reserves. And now the lessons of playing with fire in the Strait of Hormuz. The collective result is a reshuffling of U.S. energy access. "Let them all do it. What the hell are we doing it for?" President Donald Trump recently declared, suggesting Europe, China, Korea and Japan should be the ones to open and police the Strait of Hormuz. "We will be helpful, but they should take the lead in protecting the oil they so desperately depend on." Whatever one’s regard for Trump, the argument that the U.S. goes it alone might just be a reasonable one. Oil markets are a confusing network of alliances, logistics, seaborne routes, pipelines and refining needs. But in the simplest terms: the U.S. consumes 20 million barrels of crude per day and produces 13.6 million. Analysts will say we’re energy independent, but that’s a BTU calculation, not actual barrels. We need more physical barrels to make up the difference, and we’re almost there. |
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