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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.
