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Please consider listening to it and encouraging others to do so too. (Click HERE) World & Nation Trump Threatens New Iran Strikes Later Wednesday  President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened additional military strikes against Iran later in the day, warning that Tehran would be hit "very hard" if it does not agree to a peace deal with the United States following a new round of attacks between the two countries. "We're going to be attacking them very hard," Trump told reporters, while also saying a diplomatic resolution remains possible. The warning came after Iran launched missile and drone attacks targeting U.S. facilities in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan in retaliation for recent American military action against Iranian targets. Trump says US snuck 'millions of barrels' of oil through Strait of Hormuz without Iran's knowledge  President Donald Trump says the U.S. has secreted 22 oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz without Iran's knowledge in recent days. Trump made the statement during an event inside the Oval Office, saying the operations took place at night with "no lights," and outside of Iran's detection. "I'm just announcing today for the first time, but we've been taking out millions of barrels of oil, millions of barrels. Every night, we've been taking out oil, but now I'm gonna tell you because they just figured it out," Trump said. "It was very hard for me. I wanted to say it so badly, but I didn't want to ruin it." "Millions of dollars of barrels have come out, and that's why it's at $85-$90 a barrel instead of $250," he added. Trump vows attacks on Iran for 'playing' US over peace deal  President Donald Trump warned on Wednesday that he would renew US attacks on Iran, saying Tehran had taken too long to agree a deal to end the Middle East war and accusing its negotiators of "playing us for suckers." The remarks came after Iran and the US once again traded fire following the downing of an American helicopter, further straining a ceasefire that took effect in April but has been marked by sporadic flare-ups of violence. The exchange drew international calls for restraint on the eve of the World Cup, which the US is co-hosting and Iran is participating in, including from the head of the United Nations who cautioned against a return to all-out war. "We hit them hard yesterday. We're going to hit them again hard today," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
Emergency action seeks to prevent erasure of 'mother' and 'father' in code of largest US town New York's legislature voted to use nonbinary terms 'gestating parent' and 'non-gestating parent' in its state code  Officials in America's largest township are pushing back against a New York Democrat-backed bill that would replace "mother" and "father" in state law with gender-neutral parental terms, passing an emergency resolution to preserve those terms. Officials in America's most populated township are taking urgent action to stop a Democrat-backed bill that would replace "mother" and "father" in New York State law with gender-neutral parental terms. The emergency resolution from Hempstead Township comes just days after New York State Legislature passed a bill that would replace "mother" with the term "gestating parent" and "father" with "non-gestating parent." It would also change "paternity" to "parentage." Democrats say the measure is an effort to be more "inclusive" of the state's residents with non-traditional "gender identities." It is now awaiting action from Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul. Former Louisiana mayor gets jail time for sex with son's teen friend at house party Misty Roberts, 43, was convicted of having sex with a 16-year-old at a drunken birthday party she hosted for her own son  A former Louisiana mayor convicted of having sex with her teenage son's friend at an alcohol-fueled party was branded a "predator" in court Tuesday by the victim's mother before a judge sentenced the disgraced politician to 90 days behind bars. Misty Roberts, 43, the former mayor of DeRidder, was convicted in March of carnal knowledge of a juvenile and indecent behavior with a juvenile after having sex with the 16-year-old boy during a July 2024 birthday party for her son at her home. Prosecutors had urged the court to impose the maximum 17-year sentence, arguing Roberts had failed to accept responsibility for her actions. "This is not a dumb lady. This is somebody who managed an entire city budget," prosecutor Charles Robinson said according to the New York Post, arguing that Roberts "has not come to the realization of accountability." Instead, Judge D. Kent Savoie sentenced Roberts to 90 days in jail, along with two suspended five-year sentences. He also ordered her to undergo therapy, register as a sex offender and submit to regular drug and alcohol testing. San Francisco judge not convinced reparations fund will be discriminatory during lawsuit hearing Judge Joseph Quinn ruled last week that a lawsuit challenging the city's race-based reparations fund is premature  San Francisco Superior Court Judge Joseph Quinn ruled last week that a lawsuit challenging the city's race-based reparations fund is premature, sustaining a demurrer against the suit. A demurrer is an objection stating that the evidence presented was not sufficient to proceed for a review by the judge. "We are disappointed by the Superior Court's ruling, but remain undeterred. The government cannot use taxpayer money to administer funds for programs that discriminate on the basis of race. The next step will be to either amend the complaint or appeal," a Pacific Legal Foundation spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Tuesday. Meta Sidesteps Trump Plan to Take 'Pieces' of AI Firms  Meta is taking a pass, politely, on President Donald Trump's pitch for the U.S. government to take a stake in the country's top artificial intelligence companies. The company's chief global affairs officer, Joel Kaplan, told a Washington audience Wednesday that the idea has barely registered inside the social media giant, even as the White House signals interest in equity arrangements with AI developers preparing for blockbuster public offerings. "Honestly, it's just not something that I've spent, we've spent a ton of time on," Kaplan said at Politico's Energy Summit when asked about the federal government taking a "sizable equity stake" in Meta or its rivals.
Top takeaways from the primary elections in Maine and South Carolina: 'Movement about us' The scandal-plagued combat vet will now face GOP Sen. Susan Collins in a race that could determine Senate control  Graham Platner, the progressive left, and Donald Trump appear to be the big winners in Tuesday's high-profile primaries in Maine and South Carolina. Platner, the oyster farmer and military combat veteran who has been facing plenty of incoming fire amid mounting controversies, cruised to the Democratic nomination Tuesday in left-leaning Maine and will now face longtime moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins in a key race that is among a handful which will likely determine if Republicans hold their Senate majority in the midterm elections. Meanwhile, in solidly red South Carolina, Trump-backed Sen. Lindsey Graham won a majority of the vote in the Senate GOP primary and will avoid a runoff against a primary challenger from the right. China builds for war while America waits on permits A single major Chinese shipyard can exceed the total output of the entire U.S. commercial shipbuilding industry By Kevin Cramer
China has approved the world's first commercial brain chip, Beinao-2. Kurt Knutsson, The CyberGuy, explains the chip's potential to revolutionize lives by restoring movement and sight. For too long, the debate over permitting reform has been confined to the wonky world of Washington insiders — endless discussions about transmission lines, pipelines, lawsuits, and administrative procedures. Policymakers fixate on the bark while missing the trees, let alone the forest. The stakes are far higher than connecting a natural gas plant, wind farm or data center to the grid. The most important reason for permitting reform is to grow the U.S. defense industrial base at the speed, scale and cost efficiency needed to deter a major conflict with China, and to quickly prevail if deterrence fails. This imperative requires a sustained U.S. capability to outperform our adversaries in the production of weapons, ships, munitions, and material. Yet for more than two decades, America’s national security, economic policies, and stifling environmental review processes hollowed out domestic manufacturing and largely transferred our defense-related industrial capabilities and control of global supply chains to China. The results are stark. China dominates global manufacturing, particularly those industries indispensable to defense. Its steel production exceeds America’s by roughly 12-to-1. In shipbuilding, China possesses capacity roughly 230 times that of the United States. A single major Chinese shipyard can exceed the total output of the entire U.S. commercial shipbuilding industry. American policymakers — both Democrats and Republicans — have been comatose on this front for far too long. Democrats’ Gaza genocide claims reveal the depths of their depravity By Rich Lowry
The spirit of Buchenwald lives on, we are supposed to believe, in the Israeli military operation in Gaza. It’s now nearly mandatory for progressive Democrats to denounce Israel for its alleged genocide, while Tucker Carlson and Hasan Piker — radical influencers on the right and left respectively — say that the moral offense is the same as the Holocaust, even if the scale is less extensive. Israel’s haters surely enjoy the perversity of accusing the Jewish state of the same enormity that contributed to its creation, of comparing the Jews to heinous murderers of Jews. The charge is a grotesque libel. |
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