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Please consider listening to it and encouraging others to do so too. (Click on Book Cover) World & Nation Trump: 'Possible' US Will Increase Iran Strikes After Midterms President Donald Trump, while defending the United States' ongoing military campaign against Iran, said that the conflict has extended into its seventh month. He said he deliberately chose to go beyond his initial operational timeline because he didn't want Iran to "come back in some different form." He further said in an extensive interview with Time magazine this week that it's "possible" that the administration is considering increasing military strikes on Iran following the midterms, while noting that the United States has been actively replenishing its military stockpiles. Iranian negotiators kicked out of US as talks stall, Trump lays out 'possible' timeline for more strikes Secretary of State Rubio concluded Iranian officials had 'overstayed their welcome' after weekend talks stalled Secretary of State Marco Rubio abruptly ended talks and ordered the Iranian delegation to leave the U.S. after negotiations stalled, yet again, with no clear sign of a breakthrough more than seven months into the conflict. And now, President Donald Trump is directly warning Iran it's "possible" he will go harder with strikes in the Middle East after the midterm elections in November and revealed the U.S. military has significantly rebuilt its arsenal in recent months. The latest messaging from the White House and State Department signals an increasingly strained diplomatic track, after days of negotiations failed to close the gap between Washington and Tehran over the terms of ending the war. Trump handing 1 million Americans Obamacare refund checks in 30 states Biden admin overcharged on user fees and residents in 30 states will get paid back The Trump administration is issuing refund checks to about 1 million Americans, accompanied by a personal letter from President Donald Trump, to people the administration says were overcharged for Obamacare. An administration official told Fox News Digital that the U.S. Treasury began issuing $500 refund checks to more than 950,000 Americans across 30 states. Each refund comes with a letter from Trump himself. "For years, the Biden administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov," the letter says. "That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now I’m returning it to you!" Trump Says He Regrets Nominating Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett President Donald Trump said in a new interview that he regrets nominating Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, faulting them for ruling against his policies. "Yeah. Yeah. What can I do? I put them in," Trump told Time magazine in an interview published Thursday. "They voted against me too often," he added. "I gave them the position of a lifetime, and they vote against me often. They vote for me too." Trump compared the justices with others in the high court who were nominated by Democrats, who he said "stick like glue" when they vote.
Supreme Court hands Trump major victory in stunning reversal The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to resume deporting immigrants to countries other their own, including those with human rights abuse allegations. According to multiple reports, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to restart what are also known as third-country violations. Legal report Chris Geidner reported that the court's Democratic appointees dissented. The New York Times noted that the Trump administration can, for the time being, resume rapid deportations to countries like Equatorial Guinea, where deportees have been beaten by the police, as well as countries like Liberia, Honduras and the Central African Republic. Encouraging signs from the Strait of Hormuz We’ve all heard the apocryphal Winston Churchill line about the Americans always doing the right thing after exhausting all the alternatives. That doesn’t quite apply to the fight for the Strait of Hormuz, but after appearing surprised by Iran’s effective closure of the strait early in the war and then seeming powerless to reverse it, CENTCOM has largely reopened the strait in what could prove a turning point in this latest chapter of the conflict with Iran. The U.S. military created a safe passage hugging the coast of Oman and has been providing military protection to ships transiting through it. At the same time, the Gulf states came up with the ingenious idea of shuttling oil through the risky waters of the strait with vessels often controlled by the producers themselves, then pumping that oil onto commercial tankers from the safety of the Gulf of Oman to be carried to their ultimate destination — before repeating the process again. Motorcycle patrols swarm Iranian cities, checkpoints rise as regime braces for unrest Iranian security forces have stepped up their presence in Tehran and other cities, with motorcycle patrols, checkpoints and forces positioned across major urban areas as authorities brace for possible unrest, multiple sources inside Iran told Fox News Digital. The security buildup comes as university students have returned to the streets in Tehran, protesting compulsory hijab rules, rising education costs and political repression, videos published in Iran International show. Sources inside Iran confirmed to Fox News Digital that motorcycle units have been operating across Tehran and other cities during events surrounding Iran’s annual "Sacred Defense Week," while members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Basij and law enforcement have been positioned at major squares and other locations. Iran receives US feedback on seven-day trust-building plan, main issue is sequencing Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi received US feedback via Qatari mediators in Doha on Tuesday on a seven-day plan aimed at building trust between Washington and Tehran, with sequencing the main sticking point, an official, who was not Iranian butwas briefed on the talks, told Reuters. Araghchi is expected to discuss the US response in Tehran on Wednesday, the official said. Iran last week presented a seven-day proposal under which Araghchi said the Strait of Hormuz could be reopened and normal maritime passage restored if the necessary conditions were met. US President Donald Trump subsequently rejected the proposal, prompting further Qatari mediation. The Qatari mediators conveyed the feedback they had received from Washington on Monday, meeting Araghchi and his team on their way back from the United States, the official said. Flydubai pilot was stabbed in head, had arm ‘split in two’ before flight saved by ‘superheroes,’ Netanyahu says The Flydubai pilot attacked in the attempted hijacking of his Israel-bound plane was stabbed in the head and had his arm “split in two,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed Thursday — praising the “superhero” passengers who saved the plane in drama like “Hollywood on steroids.” Heroic Captain Smit Machchhar, an Indian national, was seen almost unconscious and covered in blood after he was attacked Wednesday by his co-pilot, an “Islamist radical” on a suicide mission to bring down their flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, Netanyahu told “Fox and Friends.” “He was stabbed in the head, and his arm was basically split in two, and there was a lot of blood,” Netanyahu revealed of the horrific injuries the pilot suffered. Omani co-pilot ‘underwent Islamist radical indoctrination’ was on suicidal mission to ‘down the plane,’ Netanyahu says
Israel-bound flydubai plane was likely just 40 seconds from catastrophe: Terrifying ‘stroke of luck’ Accused flydubai plane hijacker is religious extremist who refused to shake women’s hands: ‘We hired a terrorist’ Christa Pike likely has ‘brain injury’ after botched execution — here’s what went wrong: ‘Degraded’ drugs, damaged veins Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike will likely have brain damage after her botched execution, during which she chillingly lifted her head and asked if the pain she was feeling was normal. Pike, 50, was rushed to the hospital Wednesday after the Tennessee Department of Corrections administered two doses of the highly potent sedative, Pentobarbital, but it failed to kill her. The murderer, who was sentenced to death for the monstrous 1995 slaying of a classmate, was “being provided life-saving measures” in the hospital, her lawyers said – but she likely has a brain injury as a result. Christa Pike still alive, ‘snoring’ after 2 lethal injections as Tennessee governor halts all executions
Traumatized witnesses reveal Christa Pike’s hair-raising question after botched execution Christa Pike is first death row inmate ever to survive lethal injection, expert says Harvard sued in alleged anti-white discrimination case, latest step in Trump crackdown on woke academia The feds are suing Harvard University for data related to allegations its hiring practices discriminate against white men — the latest step in the Trump administration’s crackdown on woke practices in academia. In a lawsuit filed late Tuesday in a Massachusetts federal court, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission accused the university of failing to comply with an investigation launched last year into what it called “systemic discrimination” against white, Asian, male and heterosexual workers. In April 2025, Trump-appointed EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas filed a civil rights charge against Harvard, claiming its recruitment and promotion efforts violated Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits employer discrimination. Don Lemon admits Trump has delivered ‘pretty much every promise’ he made on policy TDS-addled Don Lemon admitted that President Trump has delivered on “pretty much every promise” he made on policy to American voters. The out-of-character remark came Wednesday as the former CNN anchor was discussing how seriously he takes the commander-in-chief’s comments about potentially running for a third term. “I think you always take the person who is the president of the United States seriously and pretty much every promise that he has made – pretty much, like, policy-wise – he has delivered,” Lemon said on the “Who’s With Me?” podcast. “Like he said, ‘Look what I’m gonna do with immigration, I’m gonna do this with taxes, I’m gonna do this with healthcare,’ and he did all of them,” Lemon continued, adding that the only thing Trump hasn’t been able to deliver on is “pretty much the economy.” 7 Senate Races Within Margin of Error Veteran political analyst Charlie Cook says at least seven U.S. Senate races are now polling within the margin of error, leaving control of the chamber deeply uncertain with just weeks remaining before the midterm elections. "The Senate battlefield is the more explosive of the two chambers," Cook wrote in his latest Substack analysis, "Margin-of-error races as far as the eye can see." Five of those closely contested seats are currently held by Republicans, Cook said. Three involve GOP incumbents — Sens. Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, and Jon Husted of Ohio — while Iowa and Texas feature open seats. Miranda Devine: The lynch mob is out for the ‘Cornell 7’ — proving we’ve learned nothing from past injustices By Miranda Devine
The “Cornell 7” gang rape case is descending into the same lynch-mob hysteria as the notorious Duke lacrosse or “mattress girl” hoaxes of old — only with social media making everything worse. It seems we have learned nothing from past injustices. A young woman who goes by “Jane Doe” has filed a civil lawsuit two years after she alleged she was gang-raped by seven men in a sordid, drug-fueled sexual encounter at the Chi Phi fraternity house at the elite Cornell University, where she was a student at the time. Yet, according to Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten, citing Doe’s sworn statement to campus investigators in November 2024, she “described her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious and consensual.” When she told the young men to stop, they did. I escaped communism. America must not ignore the urgent warning signs No communist revolution has delivered the justice, equality and prosperity it promised By Gerson Moreno
I am an immigrant from Colombia, a country that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) — a communist revolutionary group — spent half a century tearing apart. FARC murdered thousands of Colombians through sanctioned massacres, kidnappings, and terrorism, and the war the FARC drove displaced over 7 million Colombians, resulting in one of the largest internal displacement crises in the world. I am now a naturalized citizen of the United States, a country that millions from around the world are still trying to reach. So, I read the latest polling on American capitalism with a particular kind of alarm. This polling is the result of a survey released by The Free Press using a method to surface the opinions people keep to themselves. The finding: just one in three Americans holds a positive view of capitalism. Not one in three Democrats. One in three Americans. Before the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) take a victory lap, consider the rest. That same survey found that most Americans remain wary of socialism, and Gallup found that while capitalism drew 54% approval, free enterprise drew 81% and small business 95%, compared with 37% for big business. Americans have not turned against free enterprise, ownership or entrepreneurial risk. Yet DSA candidates keep winning elections. The gap between Americans’ faith in free enterprise and the DSA’s wins is a real vulnerability, and it deserves an honest question: Why not communism? |
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