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Trump Defends US Power, Threatens to 'Annihilate' Iran at UN
President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to annihilate Iran's ruling
regime while predicting an agreement after the U.S. midterm elections,
telling world leaders that U.S. military force and economic pressure
were reshaping conflicts across the globe.
Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Trump said he faced a
choice between reaching an agreement that would allow Iran to rebuild
and launching further devastating military action.
"Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never
giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again?"
Trump asked.
"Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?"
Trump defends US interventions abroad ahead of 'big decision' on Iran: 'Settling years of unfinished business'
Trump posed the choice as a deal that rebuilds Iran or driving the Islamic Republic 'into hell'
President Donald Trump issued a stern warning Tuesday for Iran to make
a deal soon or face severe consequences for its pursuit of a nuclear
weapon.
"I have a big decision to make: Will a deal be made with Iran that lets
them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before –
maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or even the world?" Trump
told the United Nations General Assembly in his morning address.
"Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never
giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again? Do
I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future
greatness or generations?"
Trump expressed hope that a deal with the "cowards and traitors" of
Iran will come "right after the election, because it doesn't make sense
for them not to."
Trump again denies US is low on munitions
President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran
on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military,
government and infrastructure sites.
Delegations from the U.S. and Iran entered negotiations in June aimed
at a war-ending deal based on a memorandum of understanding signed by
both countries.
Those talks broke down as the U.S. and Iran continued to exchange
strikes, with the strategic Strait of Hormuz as the primary flashpoint.
Trump then said in August that the U.S. would launch a "crushing
economic operation" to force Tehran into submission.
Addressing world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly on
Tuesday, President Donald Trump repeated his threat to "annihilate"
Iran if it didn't reach a deal to end the war, though he added that he
doesn’t believe there will be an agreement before the midterm elections.
Netanyahu threatens to expose Mamdani at UN in feisty video message: ‘I’m going to tell the truth about you’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed Mayor Zohran Mamdani
and vowed he’d “tell the truth” about the mayor when he’s in town to
address the UN General Assembly later this week.
“Shame on you, Mr. Mamdani. Shame on you for supporting the Hamas
terrorist monsters who butchered our people. Shame on you for inciting
riots against New York Jews,” Netanyahu said in a fiery video message
on X.
Mamdani in July called for New Yorkers to protest Netanyahu’s visit,
though he’s now trying to claim he didn’t say it. He’s also backed off
his campaign promise to personally arrest the prime minister, admitting
he lacks the political power.
TV networks finally pull plug on Trump after CNN ban
America’s major TV networks have fired back at Donald Trump’s ban on
certain media at the White House by refusing to assign a reporting crew
to cover him, in an extraordinary escalation in the battle between the
press and the president.
Days after Trump took the astonishing step of banning CNN, Politico and
MS NOW from the White House because he wanted more favorable coverage,
NBC, ABC, CBS and even the Trump-friendly Fox News joined forces to
suspend White House pool duties and boycott the 80-year-old.
The move leaves Trump without a TV crew from any of the major networks
as he heads to the United Nations General Assembly on Monday ahead of a
much-anticipated state visit by Chinese president Xi Jinping later this
week.
“Effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as
pool coverage of the President. This follows the White House’s position
preventing CNN from fulfilling its assigned pool duties. There will be
no replacement pool put in place,” said an email to TV pool subscribers
released on Monday.
Iran's early attacks on Bahrain caught Navy families and sailors by surprise
On the very first day of the war, Iran targeted the Navy's Middle East
headquarters in Bahrain — before the U.S. government had evacuated all
the military families based there. Some had to wait about a week or
more to reach safety, according to multiple families who spoke to CBS
News.
"You're definitely scared," one military spouse said. "As the week goes
on, you wake up to ballistic missiles being fired. We went to sleep
with the sound of ballistic missiles again."
Iranian missiles and drones targeted Bahrain consistently for several
days after the war began, according to another spouse. The scale and
duration of those attacks appeared to take the U.S. government by
surprise, three sources who were in Bahrain at the time told CBS News,
in part because families hadn't been required to evacuate until the war
had already begun.
Socialist, communist groups coordinate, promote 'spontaneous' anti-ICE protests in Austin
Democratic Socialists of America and Party for Socialism and Liberation mobilized within hours of the shooting
Media accounts reported that protesters "quickly organized" a
spontaneous anti-ICE protest at an Austin, Texas, intersection
following the shooting of a Venezuelan man by an Immigration and
Customs Enforcement agent.
But a Fox News Digital investigation shows that the protests are being
promoted and organized by a coordinated network of far-left socialist
and communist groups, including the Democratic Socialists of America,
the Freedom Road Socialist Organization and the Party for Socialism and
Liberation, which works closely with nonprofits funded by Neville Roy
Singham, a communist American-born tech tycoon living in Shanghai.
Congressional lawmakers are investigating the Singham network for
allegedly fomenting the image of "chaos" in the U.S., including
anti-ICE protests from Minneapolis to the Delaney Hall detention center
in Newark, N.J. Sure enough, Sunday evening, BreakThrough News, a
pro-communist media platform operated by BreakThrough BT Media, a
nonprofit funded by Singham, published a "BREAKING NEWS" report from
Texas with the headline: "Austin erupts in protest…"
Lip reader reveals Trump’s surprising offer to Mamdani after their NYC meeting
President Trump invited lefty Mayor Zohran Mamdani to visit him at the
White House to “see how I work” after a meeting at Gracie Mansion
Monday, a lip reader revealed.
“What I will say, we’ll look after you, but as I say, you’re doing
great,” Trump said, expert lip reader Jeremy Freeman told The Post.
“I’ll look after you, you look after the New Yorkers,” the president
said. “And we can both make it work. I wanna support you, help me. Come
with me to the White House – see how I work.”
The 90-minute meeting focused on immigration and a Queens housing
project for which Mamdani is seeking federal help, with Trump also
sharing memories of Gracie Mansion.
Ex-ABC correspondent Terry Moran says he raised Biden health concerns — and got ‘shut down very hard’
Former ABC News correspondent Terry Moran says network brass “shut down
very hard” his attempt to report on former President Joe Biden’s health
in late 2023 or early 2024 — after he had grown concerned about the the
commander-in-chief’s condition while traveling with him months earlier.
“I tried to do the story of Biden’s health before anybody else did in
network, because I’d seen it and I got shut down very hard,” Moran said
during an appearance on The Daily Beast Podcast.
Moran, who left ABC amid a spat over one of his social media posts,
said he traveled with Biden to Japan in the spring of 2023 and closely
watched the then-80-year-old president.
Jeffries lashes out after House Dem bolsters Republican candidate on leader's home turf
Rep Jared Golden's endorsement of the New York Republican deepens his rift with Democratic leadership
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., is harshly dismissing a
fellow Democrat who publicly undermined his quest to win the majority
in Congress — on the left-wing leader's own home turf.
Jeffries hit back at Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, in a statement to Fox
News Digital on Tuesday after Golden endorsed Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y.,
a moderate Republican, for re-election in November.
"Mike Lawler is a partisan hack and Trump sycophant who Cait Conley
will defeat in November. In desperation, he is peddling an 11th-hour
endorsement from a retiring congressmember who represents an
out-of-town district more than 400 miles away," Jeffries said.
Jeffries claimed Lawler had "never shown bipartisan courage when it
matters" while lauding his Democrat opponent as a "combat veteran and
patriot."
Trump Says Freedom Will Be Coming to Cuba in UN Speech
President Donald Trump said Cuba was a failed state and freedom would
be coming to the Communist-run island in a U.N. address Tuesday that
touted greater U.S. involvement in the region.
"My administration is also seeking a fundamental change in the
situation in Cuba, where the communist regime is under great
pressure-the biggest pressure they've ever been under. It's an
absolutely failed State, it's failing like never before, and it will
fall," Trump said in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly.
"Communism will never be coming to America, but freedom will be coming to Cuba."
The Cuban delegation walked out of the U.N. General Assembly hall during Trump's remarks.
US Canceled 315,000 Obamacare Policies Last Month
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said on Tuesday
it canceled 315,000 Obamacare health plans covering about 760,000
people last month, citing unverified citizenship or immigration
documentation and suspected improper enrollments.
The move, disclosed in rule-making documents published in the U.S.
Federal Register, comes as the agency says it will bar some 569
brokers who it says "submitted statistically implausible rates of plan
year 2026 applications" that did not include applicant information,
such as a social security number.
The plans, created by Democrat President Barack Obama's signature
Affordable Care Act, offer subsidies based on income. Republican
President Donald Trump sought unsuccessfully in his first term to
overturn the law and has proposed changes that would make the plans
less comprehensive.
The administration is using an emergency-style rule-making process to
impose an immediate, industry-wide freeze on new Obamacare broker
registrations, bypassing the usual advance notice-and-comment period.
The best case for AI? Let it decide who gets into college
An AI-driven process transparent to outside evaluators could rebuild trust in an increasingly controversial system
By Hugh Hewitt
There is a debate about whether the widespread adoption and application
of artificial intelligence models will cost jobs, and if so, in which
industries.
If some obvious employment categories can be identified as ripe for
replacement by AI, patterns should emerge about which sorts of jobs are
in immediate peril.
One obvious candidate for replacement by AI is the staff of admissions
offices at the nation’s colleges and universities. There are not
enormous numbers of these positions, but there are excellent reasons to
put AI to work in those offices, and not just to save money in the
budgets of increasingly beleaguered schools.
Journalist admits: Anti-Israel narrative driving protests is based on Hamas lies
By Ahmad Sharawi
Journalist Motaz Azaiza’s new revelations exposing “SMART,” a
Hamas-controlled group of reporters used to manage the media narrative
about Gaza, reveal uncomfortable but important truths about nearly two
decades of journalism.
The world has relied on a media ecosystem that forced journalists to
operate within red lines set by Hamas — under threat of punishment if
their coverage ever crossed the terror group.
That reality was too often lost by the time Gaza’s stories reached
Western TV screens and newspaper pages — and it drove college-campus
protests and breathless claims by so-called activists, as false
allegations emerging from the coastal enclave were repeated as
unquestioned facts.
But Azaiza’s revelation should come as no surprise: Ever since its
violent takeover after Gaza’s 2007 civil war, Hamas has tightly
controlled the narrative to influence the story that reaches the
outside world.
Its goal has been to shape positive coverage of its iron-fisted rule
and to legitimize its narrative of “resistance” — that is, violence
against Israel.
