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West Jerusalem’s escalation in Lebanon has undermined diplomatic efforts between Washington and Tehran, Mohammad Marandi has said Israel has a clear interest in prolonging US hostilities with Iran and has been successfully sabotaging efforts to reach a peace agreement, Tehran-based Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi has told RT.The political analyst was commenting on the latest escalation of Israeli military operations against Lebanon, including strikes on Beirut, which have triggered a new surge in tensions between Washington and Tehran and could bring negotiations to a permanent halt.Tehran has said that continued Israeli violence effectively voids the fragile ceasefire with the US, which…

NBA star Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors has signed an endorsement deal with the Chinese company Li-Ning after departing from Under Armour. Curry’s deal with Li-Ning aims to expand his “Curry Brand venture globally,” per ESPN, which will reportedly run for 10 years. Curry opted for Li-Ning over other pitches from American and foreign companies. One factor in Curry’s ultimate decision was his comfort while testing the shoes of two Li-Ning signature athletes: Jimmy Butler, his fellow Warriors teammate, and Dwyane Wade. Li-Ning plans to build Curry Brand stores in the United States and in China. Curry’s agent, Jeff Austin,…

Tuesday on CNN’s “The Source,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said Democrats will “force” Republicans to vote on President Donald Trump’s anti-weaponization fund. Host Kaitlan Collins said, “When it comes to this fund, is what you heard from the attorney general today. The acting attorney general. Enough? Booker said, “No. It’s not. How many times have they told us one thing and done another? We’ve seen this administration lie over and over and over again unless we pass legislation stopping this I don’t trust that the Trump administration might not pick this up and change their mind later down the road. And…

Speaker Mike Johnson said in an interview Tuesday he believes a controversial “Anti-Weaponization Fund” and security funding for a White House ballroom are both “off the table” for the GOP’s stalled immigration enforcement bill. “I think the president’s been pretty clear via the Department of Justice — their statement [is] that it’s now being set aside,” Johnson said. “So I understand there’s some senators that want a little more than that, but in terms of clarification, so I suppose they’re in the process of doing that.” The DOJ statement Monday said it would “abide by” a temporary court order blocking…

Family members of Vickrum Digwa, the murderer of Henry Nowak, face weapons charges relating to the same day that the 18-year-old was stabbed to death and left to bleed out in front of police. On Monday, Vickrum Digwa, 23, was handed a so-called “life sentence” of at least 21 years in prison over the murder of Henry Nowak, having stabbed the 18-year-old several times on December 4th of last year with a ceremonial Sikh knife. Meanwhile, Vickrum’s mother, Kiran Kaur, was previously found guilty of assisting her son during the killing by removing the murder weapon from the scene of…

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer would share no details Tuesday afternoon of his meeting earlier in the day with Graham Platner — the embattled candidate for a Maine Senate seat who was not the New York Democrat’s first choice for challenging incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins. “I met with Graham Platner today,” Schumer told reporters at his weekly news conference. “We’re going to beat Susan Collins and take back the Senate.” Schumer’s comments came as Platner faces a litany of potentially damaging scandals, the latest involving revelations he exchanged sexual text messages with other women while he was married. Schumer…

The Lebanon-based militant group has shared footage of attacks on Israeli troops operating near Beaufort Castle The militant group Hezbollah has released a video showing its kamikaze drones attacking Israeli soldiers in the immediate vicinity of Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon.The 900-year-old medieval fortress was seized by the Israeli military over the weekend, with West Jerusalem hailing it as a major achievement and vowing to push deeper into the country. The castle, a key vantage point in the area, housed an Israeli military base for two decades during the occupation of southern Lebanon, which ended in 2000.The group released footage of its…

Sandro Castro, grandson of late Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro, mocked Elián González, a former refugee turned regime mascot and lawmaker, this week in a “recap” video of his most recent party. Castro’s latest Instagram “content,” published on Monday evening, comes hours after the self-described “influencer” reportedly hosted a weekend-long party at Varadero beach, one of the island’s most beautiful natural sites. The Cuban independent outlet Cibercuba reported that Castro’s party coincided with a separate three-day-long festivity hosted by a Cuban regime-run hotel in Varadero celebrating the start of this year’s summer season. Much like Castro’s life, the Varadero parties did not appear to be…

New Jersey police scooped up the Antifa rioters blocking ICE’s Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ, late Sunday night. “ZERO tolerance for rioters,” said a post from the Department of Homeland Security after the police arrested many of the Antifa rioters. DHS officials displayed their success in shutting down the rioters, who have harassed the ICE facility for months.   The police intervention was made possible by New Jersey’s Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill. She cracked down on the protestors once President Donald Trump’s homeland security chief, Markwayne Mullin, threatened to move customs officers out of the nearby Newark airport.…

Dr. Adam Hamawy, a progressive plastic surgeon whose life-saving work in the Army has been contrasted with his long ago association with a terrorist Muslim cleric, prevailed in a crowded Democratic primary field Tuesday to succeed retiring Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, the Associated Press projects. Hamawy was one of a dozen active candidates in the 12th Congressional District, where the liberal Watson Coleman is retiring after 12 years in office (a 13th candidate was on the ballot but dropped out of the race). Hamawy is now the prohibitive front-runner to win the seat in November. Background: Hamawy, who lives in…