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 My son has narrated the last book I wrote.
Please consider listening to it and encouraging others to do so too. (Click HERE) World & Nation Iranian Sources: Supreme Leader Orders Enriched Uranium Stay in Iran  Iran's Supreme Leader has issued a directive that the country's near-weapons-grade uranium should not be sent abroad, two senior Iranian sources said, reinforcing Tehran's position on one of the main U.S. demands in negotiations aimed at ending the conflict. Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei's order could further complicate President Donald Trump’s diplomatic efforts to secure a broader agreement involving Iran and Israel. Israeli officials have told Reuters that Trump has assured Israel that Iran's stockpile of highly enriched uranium, needed to make an atomic weapon, will be sent out of Iran and that any agreement must include provisions addressing the issue.
Pakistan Steps Up Diplomatic Bid to Get US-Iran Peace Talks on Track  Pakistan stepped up diplomatic efforts on Thursday to hasten U.S. and Iran peace talks, as Tehran said it was reviewing Washington's latest responses and President Donald Trump suggested he could wait a few days for "the right answers" from Tehran but was also willing to resume attacks on the country. Six weeks since a fragile ceasefire took effect, talks to end the war have made little progress, while soaring oil prices have raised concern over inflation and the impact on the global economy. Trump also faces domestic pressure ahead of November's midterm elections, with his approval rating dropping close to its lowest since he returned to the White House on the surge in fuel prices.
Americans Returning From DRC Must Enter Via Dulles, Get Ebola Screening  Americans who have been in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, or South Sudan within the last three weeks must only return to the United States through Washington Dulles for enhanced screening, the State Department said. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Customs and Border Protection are applying enhanced public health screening at Dulles in response to the Ebola outbreak. An Air France flight from Paris to Detroit on Wednesday was ordered diverted to Montreal after a passenger from the DRC boarded "in error," CBP said. The CDC on Monday said it was suspending entry of travelers who have been in the DRC and South Sudan within the prior weeks of arrival in the United States to reduce the risk of Ebola spread. Fmr Prosecutor Accused of Emailing Self Jack Smith's Sealed Trump Report  Carmen Lineberger, a former federal prosecutor in Florida, has been indicted on charges she emailed herself a report from then-special counsel Jack Smith on the investigation of President Donald Trump's retention of classified documents despite a judge's order that it remain sealed. Lineberger, who worked in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida and managed its Fort Pierce branch, is charged with theft of government property and concealment of government records. She has pleaded not guilty and was released on a written promise to appear in court. Trump Admin Adds 82 Immigration Judges in Renewed Focus on Border  The Trump administration announced Thursday the hiring of more than 80 new federal immigration judges, escalating its effort to speed up deportation cases and revive one of President Donald Trump's central campaign promises amid frustration among parts of the MAGA base that the administration’s domestic agenda has stalled during the conflict with Iran. As first reported by CBS News, the Justice Department said 77 permanent and five temporary immigration judges were sworn in this week, marking the largest immigration judge class in department history. The move comes after the administration removed more than 100 immigration judges over the past year while reshaping the immigration court system to align with its mass deportation agenda.
Prosecutors Seek 50-Year Sentence for Nonprofit Leader at Center of Sprawling Minnesota Fraud Case  The former leader of a Minnesota nonprofit who was convicted for her role at the center of a staggering $250 million fraud case that helped ignite a federal immigration crackdown should spend 50 years in prison, prosecutors argued in a court filing. Aimee Bock, who ran the organization Feeding our Future, which claimed it helped provide millions of meals to children in need during the pandemic, is set to be sentenced Thursday in federal court in Minneapolis. "Feeding Our Future operated like a cash pipeline, open to anyone willing to submit fraudulent claims and pay kickbacks," prosecutors said in the Monday filing. "The ripple effects of her actions are profound, immeasurable, and will have lasting consequences for both Minnesota and the nation." Bock was convicted last year of multiple counts involving conspiracy, wire fraud, and bribery. She has long insisted she is innocent. Ukraine Says Its Drones Hit Another Refinery Deep Inside Russia as Long-Range Strikes Escalate  Ukrainian drones smashed into another Russian refinery overnight, starting a fire that produced huge clouds of black smoke, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday, in what appeared to be the latest long-range attack on Moscow's vital oil industry. The drones targeted the Syzran oil refinery, located more than 800 kilometers (500 miles) inside Russia, Zelenskyy said on social media, where he posted a video of the aftermath. It was not possible to verify the video or independently confirm the attack. The governor of Russia's Samara region, Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, said that two people were killed by Ukrainian drones in Syzran but he didn't mention the refinery. Russia's Astra news outlet said that Ukrainian drones struck the Syzran refinery owned by oil and gas giant Rosneft. JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon has blunt message for ‘ideologue’ Mamdani: ‘I don’t care what he says’  JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon cautioned Mayor Zohran Mamdani about his hard-left vision for the Big Apple, warning the millennial mayor that he can relentlessly preach morality and ideology — but if the city keeps struggling, he’s failing to do his job. “I don’t care what he says. What does he do? I will judge that … because you can talk about morality and ideology all you want, but if things don’t get better, you didn’t do a good job,” the Wall Street titan told Bloomberg TV Thursday. “And my view, and I’m talking about him now, I have seen mayors who make statements, and they make it worse and worse and worse, you know, and they don’t know, they can’t get into details of why is affordable housing not there anymore? Why does this not work? DNC ‘autopsy’ of 2024 defeat says Biden loyalists neglected Harris, claims GOP ‘learned more from Obama’ than Dems  Allies of former President Joe Biden failed to give former Vice President Kamala Harris needed support before her 107-day sprint to Election Day 2024, according to an error-strewn draft of the Democratic National Committee’s “autopsy” of Donald Trump’s crushing victory. The draft, obtained Thursday by CNN, also faulted Team Biden for not conducting advanced polling on Harris prior to the 46th president abandoning his re-election bid that July and failing to push back effectively on the narrative that she was an ineffective “border czar.” “The national campaign did not effectively drive Trump’s negatives, and the White House did not effectively support Vice President Harris over three and half years to improve her standing before the candidate switch,” the report read, while arguing that Harris’ immigration portfolio had been “poorly framed by Republicans.” Socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson walks back stinging comments about Starbucks, as fears mount that coffee giant may pull out of liberal city  Seattle’s lefty Mayor Katie Wilson admitted she was wrong to slam Starbucks and push for a boycott of the mega-coffee chain birthed in the Pacific city. Wilson, 43, issued a terse mea culpa to the New York Times this week as questions swirl about whether the liberal Northwest city can attract and retain businesses, including Starbucks, which recently chose to expand its footprint in Tennessee. The Democratic socialist made waves last fall when she joined a barista union rally as mayor-elect and expressed her disgust with one of Seattle’s most recognizable businesses. ‘Phantom employees' scandal spurs GOP crackdown on $36B incentive for companies to bypass Americans Rep. Grothman's bill seeks close the loophole creating a 'significant financial incentive' to hire foreign workers  The discovery of 10,000 "phantom employees" exploiting a federal work program has helped spur Republicans to tackle the financial incentives behind a foreign worker pipeline costing Americans hundreds of thousands of jobs per year. Under current federal law, hundreds of thousands of foreign students and employers participating in the Optional Practical Training (OPT) extension program are exempt from paying Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes, which companies are required to pay for domestic workers. This has led to the creation of a "significant financial incentive" for employers to hire foreign OPT workers over Americans. Republican Rep. Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin introduced a bill Thursday, titled the "OPT Fair Tax Act," that eliminates that incentive by requiring employers to pay the same Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes paid for American workers. By closing the loophole, Grothman believes the bill "helps create a more level playing field for American graduates entering the workforce." James Murdoch strikes deal for New York magazine and Vox Media  Promising a commitment to “ambitious journalism and agenda-setting conversations,” media scion James Murdoch has struck a deal with the Vox Media digital company to acquire New York magazine, the Vox Media Podcast Network and the Vox editorial brand. The deal with Vox, widely seen as liberal-leaning, represents a major move toward his own media empire for the 53-year-old younger son of Rupert Murdoch, who himself owned New York Magazine from 1976 until 1991. And it comes less than a year after the Murdoch family reached a deal on control of the 95-year-old mogul’s media empire after his death, ensuring no change in direction at Fox News, the most popular network for conservatives, under Rupert’s chosen heir, Lachlan Murdoch. Under the new deal, expected to close within weeks, Lupa Systems, James Murdoch’s media company, acquires the three divisions - about half of Vox Media. Neither Vox Media nor Lupa was disclosing the sum. The New York Times cited people familiar with the matter saying it was more than $300 million. The acquired divisions will operate, according to a statement, as a subsidiary of Lupa - called Vox Media. US must create a demilitarized zone along the Hormuz Strait Even after more combat operations to reduce the Iranian military to ruins, international law about waterways must be articulated and enforced — with or without NATO’s help By Hugh Hewitt
The United States, alongside coalition allies like the U.K. and France, established two no-fly zones in Iraq in the 1990s after the first Gulf War that followed Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, which remained in place until the major combat operations in Iraq ended after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The northern "no-fly" zone was established in April 1991. The southern no-fly zone was established in August 1992. The northern zone was designed to protect Iraqi Kurds from more retribution from Saddam Hussein. The southern zone was established to protect the Shia populations there that Saddam had massacred after his massive defeat at the hands of the "Coalition of the Willing" in the "100 Hours" campaign to expel Saddam's forces from Kuwait. Those two operations were low-intensity conflicts and carried on for years. It’s time to reprise that sort of operation. The Strait of Hormuz is an international waterway, protected by customary law of the sea for as long as humankind has voyaged, though never without peril from pirates or, since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran. While the Iranian navy’s capital ships have been sunk, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps ("IRGC") continues to menace shipping in the Strait via mines, drones and missiles, both short range and longer range. NAACP’s moronic ‘voting rights’ boycott will only hurt black teen athletes By New York Post Editorial Board
When it comes to moronic political stunts, the NAACP’s call for a black boycott of athletic programs at southern universities is hard to beat. After all, the group’s “Out of Bounds” campaign, backed by the Congressional Black Caucus, looks primed to harm the very people it claims to champion: black teen athletes. The campaign asks these teens — as well as families, fans, alumni and others — to stay away from public universities in southern states that are (purportedly) weakening black voting rights. Should black teens sacrifice their futures to help Dems? |
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