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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that his country’s chances of buying advanced F-35 fighter jets from the United States are looking up after his meeting with President Donald Trump at the NATO summit this week. “We discussed the F-35 issue. We made payments of $1.3 to $1.4 billion for the jets, and we saw that Mr. Trump was well-intentioned about delivering them,” Erdogan said during a news conference from the summit at The Hague. “Together with my friend Trump we are opening the door to a new chapter in Turkish-American relations,” he declared. Erdogan said at the…

Republican leaders are expecting to finish up their domestic-policy megabill the same way they’ve advanced it this far: by tweaking their plans for President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda and daring holdouts to vote against it. It might work, and GOP leaders are projecting confidence that the bill will land on Trump’s desk in time to meet their arbitrary July 4 target. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Friday he expects his chamber to start voting as soon as Saturday. But there are reasons the deadline could slip, and several of them were on display this week as Republicans dug in…

Stopping the insults is a precondition for resuming nuclear talks, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has accused US President Donald Trump of showing disrespect to the country’s leadership, warning that his barbs undermine any potential for renewed negotiations.In a statement posted on Saturday, Araghchi said that if Trump is sincere about pursuing a nuclear deal with Iran, he must “put aside the disrespectful and unacceptable tone towards Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and stop hurting his millions of heartfelt followers.”Araghchi further warned that Iran would not tolerate threats and insults, asserting: “If illusions…

Credit: CBP/X screenshot A massive human smuggling ring with Iranian terror ties was busted up by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), raising more concerns about potential terror sleeper cells in America as the Iran-Israel war continues. The CBP revealed on Friday night that it had executed a federal search warrant at a human smuggling hub in Los Angeles tied to national security threats from Iran. During the operation, two people were arrested thanks to a combined effort from the CBP’s Special Response Team, Border Patrol tactical units, and Air and Marine Operations. WATCH: BREAKING CBP executed a federal…

Microsoft Research Asia, an influential research institute based in Beijing and Shanghai, has continued to conduct AI research at high risk of abuse, including facial recognition, with sanctioned Chinese universities linked to the communist country’s military. Despite these ties Microsoft insists there are guardrails against such sensitive research at the institute.   Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) was originally founded in 1998 as the Microsoft China Research Institute. By 2016, a Chinese media outlet reported that it had trained nearly 5,000 interns, with hundreds going on to Chinese tech giants and prestigious universities.  It now employs over 300 scientists and researchers at…

South Korean police detained six Americans on Friday caught with over 1,000 bottles carrying rice, Bibles, and American money that they reportedly intended to send across the sea to North Korea. The incident is the largest scale of its kind in years, since leftist former President Moon Jae-in began cracking down on missionary activities targeting the repressive communist state as part of its campaign to ingratiate Seoul with the rogue regime. While Moon’s successor, Yoon Suk-yeol, was a hardline conservative during his term, he did not lift many of the restrictions imposed on individuals seeking to send political leaflets, religious…

USC freshman basketball phenom Alijah Arenas recently opened up about his terrifying experience surviving a fiery Tesla Cybertruck crash earlier this year. The crash in Elon Musk’s EV left Arenas in a medically-induced coma due to smoke inhalation. The Los Angeles Times reports that USC’s top basketball recruit, Alijah Arenas, shared the harrowing details of his narrow escape from a burning Tesla Cybertruck after a crash in April. The five-star prospect from Chatsworth High was on his way home from an early morning workout when the incident occurred, forever changing his life. Arenas recounted the moments leading up to the crash,…

On Thursday, during an appearance on ABC’s “The View,” co-host Joy Behar accused President Donald Trump of lying so much that she can no longer discern the truth. Behar said, “This was just a preliminary report and Trump’s CIA director is backing their claim that the damage was severe. But if Trump already had made up his mind about this, he already made up his mind before he knew and we knew what really happened so is he obliterating the truth? He loves that word. Look, I personally would like it to have been successful. I think Iran, a rogue…

The US president accused the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader of ingratitude for claiming to have won the standoff with Israel US President Donald Trump has announced having halted plans to potentially ease sanctions on Iran, criticizing the Islamic Republic’s leadership for claiming victory in its recent standoff with Israel.Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday declared that Iran had triumphed over Israel and the US following 12 days of direct military hostilities. The confrontation began when Israel killed senior Iranian commanders and targeted its nuclear sites. The exchange of long-range strikes culminated in the US intervening with the use…

RINO Rep. Don Bacon will not seek reelection in 2026 in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District. BREAKING: DON BACON, Nebraska Republican, will not seek releection. JOE BIDEN and KAMALA HARRIS both won the Omaha based seat. This will become a prime pickup opportunity for Democrats in 2026. — Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) June 27, 2025 Speaking to NOTUS earlier this year, Bacon confirmed he was discussing with his family whether to seek reelection next year, promising a final decision by late summer. “It is a family decision,” Bacon told the news outlet. Recall that Don Bacon came out and called on President…