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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia fired hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles at Ukraine’s biggest cities in an overnight barrage that killed at least 11 people and set fire to a world-renowned religious landmark, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other officials said Monday. The attacks on the capital of Kyiv, and the second-largest city of Kharkiv, came after Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke separately by phone with U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday. The exchange suggests Washington hasn’t given up on its diplomatic efforts to stop the fighting that followed Moscow’s all-out invasion of its neighbor in…

Actor Rainn Wilson — perhaps best known his role as Dwight Schrute on the popular NBC sitcom, The Office — blasted Democrats over their “hypocrisy” regarding Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner (D)’s Nazi tattoo. “The political right is all up in arms about it [Platner’s tattoo], ‘Oh, he’s a racist, see?’” Wilson told Fox News on Sunday, before surmising, “But they won’t look at their own side when people show racist tendencies or say racist things.” The actor went on to acknowledge that the left also does this. “And it’s the same on the left,” Wilson said. “They’re willing to…

The British government has announced plans to require age verification for access to online platforms The UK’s move to ban social media for under-16s is a ruse to implement digital surveillance of all internet users, X owner Elon Musk has declared, accusing the British government of building a “police state.”British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the ban on Monday, promising that the measure would protect “the safety and happiness of our children.”Children under 16 will be barred from “user-to-user” platforms such as X, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook, according to a statement from Starmer’s office. They will also be prohibited from…

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that Paris is prepared to deploy its aircraft carrier to the Strait of Hormuz “within two or three days” to ensure the free movement of ships in the wake of a peace deal between the United States and Iran. Speaking ahead of the G7 summit in Évian, France, President Macron doubled down on his commitment to lead an international coalition to ensure that the Strait of Hormuz remains open and ensure the free flow of energy, which has been restricted for months after the Islamist regime in Tehran claimed to have dropped sea…

What the Yale Budget Lab Got Wrong About Immigration and Productivity If you were told that the Yale Budget Lab had studied the economic consequences of Donald Trump’s immigration policies, you would probably be able to guess that it would find the reduction in immigration those policies brought about was harmful. The exact details might be harder to surmise without any further information, but there’s just about zero chance the Yale Budget Lab would produce a study that discovered unforeseen benefits from Trump’s policies toward immigration. For one thing, immigrants are holy beings in the liberal imagination, almost wholly responsible…

As Washington and Tehran prepare to sign a historic peace agreement, many Israelis fear the deal preserves Iran’s military power and sets the stage for the next war After more than three and a half months of fighting and intense back-and-forth negotiations, US President Donald Trump announced that Washington and Tehran, under Pakistani mediation, have reached a final agreement to end hostilities between them.The deal is expected to be signed in Geneva on June 19.According to reports, the memorandum of understanding stipulates that upon signing, both sides will declare an immediate, complete, and permanent end to all hostilities across the region,…

At a recent “counter-disinformation” conference at the University of Cambridge, European technologist Robin Berjon suggested that “military force” may have to be used against American tech platforms to bring them into line. “I’m not advocating that we should go and start shooting Google just yet,” said Berjon. “But the thing is, if you want to do just regulation, you have to be willing to go all the way up to force.” Later in the panel discussion, Berjon doubled down. “It’s not as if I want kinetic options,” he said. “But the more we push, the more it’s likely that they…

Iranian military leaders celebrated the news on Monday that the country had agreed to the terms of a memorandum of understanding with the United States to end the current conflict, suggesting that the agreement represented “defeat and surrender” for America. The message from the Iranian armed forces command center, the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, was markedly more belligerent and undiplomatic than the confirmation statements from Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and other leaders in the civilian wing of the Iranian regime. These leaders, while emphasizing that they had aggressively defended the interests of the Iranian terror state in negotiations with…

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) said all options, including adding seats and term limits, are on the table for Democrats who are attempting to regain a foothold on the Supreme Court. Host Kristen Welker said, “Some of your colleagues and fellow Democrats are calling for adding additional seats to the Supreme Court. Would you support that? Would you vote to add additional seats to the Supreme Court?” Warnock said, “I think we have to look at what’s happening in our country because it’s very serious. Donald Trump, in this most recent iteration, began this terrible…

The Reform UK leader has accused the British government of “obsessive” racism against whites Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has taken to Substack to accuse the British government of infecting the UK with “deep anti-white racism.” He also published damning racism and crime statistics in an essay, much of which would have been previously unspeakable.Farage announced his migration to the platform on Saturday, saying that the move to Substack would allow him to speak directly to the British public without “the mainstream media constantly distort[ing] what I say.” One day later, Farage used this new platform to unleash a 7,000-word…