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Please consider listening to it and encouraging others to do so too. (Click on Book Cover) World & Nation Trump warns US will ‘bomb the s–t’ out of Oman if they interfere in Strait of Hormuz conflict President Trump on Monday warned Oman that the US will “bomb the s–t” out of them if they interfere in the simmering conflict with Iran in the Strait of Hormuz. “If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the s–t out of them,” Trump said bluntly in an interview with Fox News’ Trey Yingst as a tentative cease-fire agreement between the US and Iran is due to expire. Iran said last week that it was in talks with Oman about how to reopen the world’s busiest oil shipping channel, which has been the site of frequent conflict since the start of the war.
Trump confirms IRGC backchannel, but calls for Iran's 'white flag of surrender' Trump holding strategic patience with Iran: 'Midterms have nothing to do with my thinking' The 60-day ceasefire deadline is expiring Monday, but President Donald Trump's resolve on ending Iran's nuclear weapons aspirations is not, he told Fox News on Monday morning, where he confirmed there is a backchannel for peace talks with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. "They should put up the white flag of surrender," Trump said in a phone interview, confirming reports of the IRGC backchannel talks that bypass mediators and Iranian political officials. While the 60-day ceasefire expires Monday, Trump said there is still time for peace and Iran's relenting to Trump's primary demand: "The number one Goal is, and always will be, that Iran cannot have, in any way, shape, or form, a Nuclear Weapon," as he wrote on Truth Social around the time of the exclusive call with Fox News' Trey Yingst.
CEO says doing business in state ‘sucks’ as company heads to Texas amid California exodus Digital Brands Group relocated its headquarters to Round Rock as LA County lost nearly $1.9B in taxpayer income "Doing business in the state of California sucks," Hil Davis, a California businessman, bluntly told Fox News Digital. That frustration ultimately drove Davis, CEO of Digital Brands Group, more than 1,300 miles to Texas. The apparel and e-commerce company relocated its headquarters to Round Rock, just north of Austin, leasing roughly 70,000 square feet of warehouse and office space as it expands its collegiate sports apparel business. Davis said the sprawling Texas facility costs roughly the same as the company’s former space in Vernon, California, about five miles south of Los Angeles. Daylight saving time fight puts Senate up against a ticking clock Trump urged Republican senators to let the permanent daylight saving time bill clear after the House passed it The House of Representatives approved a bill earlier this year to thrust the nation onto permanent daylight saving time. In other words, the House voted to ditch the twice-a-year ritual of springing forward and falling back. Now it’s up to the Senate to sync up. "Around the country, people are going to be excited because they don’t have to go back and forth," opined Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., one of the biggest advocates of shifting to year-round daylight saving time. Under this temporal regime, Florida and many southern states would benefit from "more" sun later in the afternoon and evening in the winter. Supreme Court Tells Trump No Again on $5 Million Carroll Verdict The Supreme Court on Monday again rebuffed President Donald Trump's push to throw out a jury's $5 million finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her. The Republican president's lawyers had asked the justices to reconsider their refusal to hear his appeal. The court denied Trump's petition along with several others. It's unusual — although not unheard of — for the court to grant such requests. Trump paid the judgment shortly after the court declined to take up his appeal in June.
Pro-life publisher facing demands to retract calling abortion ‘killing’ fires back: ‘The answer is No’ Attorneys cite Texas Supreme Court precedent holding that such language is constitutionally protected opinion ’ A prominent pro-life organization is refusing demands to remove years of abortion-related reporting and to issue sweeping retractions after attorneys representing 13 abortion-rights advocates accused it of publishing false and defamatory claims about their pregnancies. "The answer is ‘No,’" attorneys for Live Action wrote in a fiery response obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital ahead of its public release Monday. The Thomas More Society, representing Live Action, argues that much of the disputed coverage is constitutionally protected speech, including the organization's use of terms such as "killing" to describe abortion, and signals that it is prepared to defend Live Action in court if the dispute escalates. Mom and daughter told to cover up XX-XY T-shirts, say they were threatened with ejection at Fever-Dream game A security guard gave a mother and daughter the choice to cover up their shirts or leave State Farm Arena during overtime The Indiana Fever visited the Atlanta Dream Sunday evening. It was a thrilling game between two of the WNBA’s most exciting teams, but what happened to a mother and daughter in the stands, just feet away from the court, was the biggest story of the night. Georgia locals, Kasey Thomason, and her daughter, Annie, bought tickets just two rows back from courtside. They each wore an XX-XY Athletics T-shirt to support Sophie Cunningham and the ongoing fight to keep women’s sports and spaces female. Kasey wore an XX-XY shirt with the letters in stars and stripes, while Annie wore a Riley Gaines collaborative piece with "XX" on the front and "For the Girls" on the back. They were able to wear their shirts with no hassle or issue, until overtime when a security guard approached them. Fauci was privately informed about questions over COVID-19 vaccines and miscarriages, new texts show Dr. Anthony Fauci was privately informed in January 2021 that the initial studies on COVID-19 vaccination did not include women in the first trimester of pregnancy because of miscarriage risk, according to new texts released by Sens. Rand Paul and Ron Johnson. “I am corrected on pregnancy studies. Initial Studies [sic] avoid vaccination in first trimester due to possible fever and higher rates of miscarriage in first trimester,” Dr. John Mascola texted Fauci on Jan. 25, 2021. Mascola was serving as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID) Vaccine Research Center at the time. The full context of the text messages isn’t entirely clear, and it was publicly reported at the time that the vaccine had not been tested on early pregnancies during the initial clinical trials. After Mascola’s message, Fauci said there was a theoretical risk that COVID-19 vaccinations during pregnancy could cause miscarriages due to the potential for a fever. Sen. Paul, Gov. DeSantis Rip Fauci Over ABC COVID Role
Rep. Andy Harris: Fauci Didn't Trust Americans With COVID Vax Facts Ukraine Energy Company Says Its Facilities Seriously Damaged After 13 Russian Strikes in Week Russia attacked facilities of Ukraine's Naftogaz Group 13 times over the past week and has targeted its premises almost 300 times since the start of the year, the state energy company said Monday. Russia has repeatedly battered the Ukrainian power grid since its all-out invasion more than four years ago. Moscow hopes to sap Ukraine's will to fight by denying civilians light, heating and running water during the bitter winter months. Ukrainian officials, who say Russia is "weaponizing winter," fear Moscow will pursue its campaign through the coming winter, too. The Biden cover-up: Inside 'Operation Round River,' the secret FBI machine that buried 14 leads The Federal Bureau of Investigation had 14 confidential sources feeding it dirt on former President Joe Biden's family. Instead of running the leads down, agents built a secret operation to bury them, then quietly branded the senators and journalists asking questions as tools of Russian disinformation. That's not a conspiracy theory. It's sitting in a declassified intelligence summary released this week, and it should make you furious, no matter what your party. The operation had a code name, Round River. Newly declassified records show that around December 2019, while Washington was consumed by the first Trump impeachment, analysts inside the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force quietly pulled every piece of confidential source reporting the bureau had on what they called the "Ukraine narrative." That meant Burisma, Hunter Biden's board seat, and allegations of Ukrainian influence-peddling going back to at least 2015, when Joe Biden was vice president running point on Ukraine policy. The stated purpose, per the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, was to flag that reporting as Russian disinformation. Here's the catch. The same summary admits the team "did not corroborate any of the allegations." They didn't disprove them either. They just stamped a label on the file and walked away. Mamdani goes after Amazon — and shows off his stunning hypocrisy By Santiago Vidal Calvo
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has a message for Amazon: Using delivery contractors to perform essential work is exploitation. City Hall’s message to itself? Just send us the invoice. City Council Member Tiffany Cabán’s Delivery Protection Act, which Mamdani has promised to sign, would require Amazon and others to employ last-mile warehouse and delivery workers directly. Mayor Zohran Mamdani has backed a City Council bill that would force Amazon to directly hire delivery drivers. Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Abdul El-Sayed Speaks at a General Election Kickoff Rally for Michigan Demcrats at Renaissance High School Friday, Aug. 7, 2026, in Detroit, Michigan. From New York to Texas, states should respect local control on data centers At least 16 states are considering limits on new facilities even as localities negotiate deals worth millions By John Arnold
There are already nearly 4,600 data centers in the United States and thousands more in the works. In 2025, companies spent almost $400 billion on U.S.-based data centers, with spending trending even higher this year. From New York to Texas, the backlash is growing. "Leading the nation," read a sign on the podium as New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul introduced a statewide moratorium on hyperscale data centers. Texas followed on Aug. 3, when Republican Gov. Greg Abbott announced a pause on new data center grid connections until state agencies can audit the projects. At least 14 other states are considering similar actions, including Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and even Virginia, whose northern suburbs are the data center capital of the world. These misguided efforts seek to protect residents from data centers by ensuring they miss out on the benefits. Communities that excluded canals and railroads in the 19th century often found themselves bypassed by new economic activity. |
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