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Lebanese President Joseph Aoun discussed ceasefire efforts in his country with Vice President JD Vance in a phone call on Monday. Lebanon is hoping to resolve the conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed terrorists of Hezbollah, while Iran seeks to protect its Lebanese proxy by linking the conflict to U.S.-Iran peace talks. According to Aoun’s office, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani also participated in the call. Qatar and Pakistan have been acting as mediators between the United States and Iran. The Lebanese presidential office said Vance initiated the call and…

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has busted several fraud schemes across the country in recent weeks, FBI Director Kash Patel said in his latest weekly update to the agency. Patel highlighted some of the results of Operation Riptide, which focuses on “criminal actors and the key services they rely on, their infrastructure, their tools and services, their communications platforms, and their money.” FBI Cleveland, for instance, disrupted a Chinese phishing platform “linked to the theft of millions of credit card numbers and nearly $1.9 billion dollars in losses worldwide,” Patel revealed. As a result of the efforts of the…

Senate Republicans’ farm bill proposal rejects Democrats’ demands to delay a planned shift of some food aid costs to states, according to three people familiar with the plans — jeopardizing hopes of winning bipartisan support for the package. Democrats say they will oppose a farm bill that doesn’t push back a requirement that will soon force some states to pay for some Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, a provision included in the domestic policy megalaw Republicans passed last year. Senate Agriculture Chair John Boozman (R-Ark.) gave Senate staff and industry representatives a private preview of his farm bill text Monday…

Three people have been killed and five others wounded in a shooting at a school in Tacloban City in the central Philippines, according to local officials.The shooting took place inside the San Jose National High School campus at around 9 AM local time on Monday.Videos circulating on social media appear to show children hiding under desks, crying, and screaming as loud gunshots can be heard nearby. In one clip, a person appears to be struck after approaching a classroom doorway. The footage has not been independently verified.According to an initial report from the Tacloban City Police Office, eight people were…

There is no guesswork when it comes to President Donald Trump’s objectives with Iran, State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said during a Monday morning discussion on Breitbart News Daily. Host Mike Slater pointed out that Vice President JD Vance, a chief negotiator, has been in Switzerland and asked Pigott to share what he could about “what’s going on there.” “Well, I certainly don’t want to get ahead of where these conversations are going. It seems like there’s been various reports through yesterday in the evening,” Pigott said. “I think fundamentally, and what’s important here is that President Trump has been very…

An illegal alien has been sentenced to just five years in prison for raping a dead man on a subway car in the sanctuary city of New York City, New York. Felix Rojas, a 44-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, was convicted last year of raping the corpse of 37-year-old Jorge Gonzalez on the R train. This month, Rojas was sentenced for the rape of a corpse. According to prosecutors, Gonzalez boarded the train and eventually died on a bench. Almost three hours later, surveillance footage shows Rojas boarding the train, noticing Gonzalez’s lifeless body, and sexually assaulting him for more than…

Donald Trump is about to come face to face with one of his frequent punching bags: Senate Republicans. They might just be in a mood to punch back. The president was invited to GOP senators’ Wednesday lunch to push for his No. 1 priority, the GOP election bill known as the SAVE America Act. But several outgoing Republicans who have clashed with Trump said Monday they will be there to deliver a reality check: The bill isn’t passing, and it’s time to move on. “I’m going to be there front and center,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) told reporters. “It will…

Ramiro Valdes participated in all of the keystone moments of the Caribbean nation’s fight to topple the US-backed Batista dictatorship Cuban revolutionary commander Ramiro Valdes Menendez, a figure revered in the island nation as a hero who fought alongside Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, has passed away at the age of 94.In an X post on Sunday, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said Valdes’ death “hurt deeply, like that of a father.”“Every act in Commander Ramiro’s life was marked by his absolute loyalty to the leadership of Fidel and Raul [Castro], to his fellow fighters, and to the Moncada Program,” he…

Outgoing Marxist President of Colombia Gustavo Petro on Sunday claimed that Israel allegedly “compromised” the software used in Sunday’s presidential runoff election, which resulted in the victory of outsider conservative Abelardo de la Espriella. Petro, who has not presented evidence of his accusations at press time, claimed Israel is “the only country with the capacity to do this in the world.” The Colombian president has not publicly recognized the results of Sunday’s runoff election as of Monday morning. According to preliminary results published by Colombia’s National Civil Registry, de la Espriella became the next president-elect of Colombia after he obtained 49.66…

Although Iran proclaimed the Strait of Hormuz was once again closed on Saturday, tankers continued to move through the vital waterway, including Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs) and liquid natural gas (LNG) tankers. The strait was ostensibly reopened on Thursday, after President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed their Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to establish the framework for a peace deal. Just a few days later, on Saturday, Tehran announced the strait was closed again because Israel was still fighting Iran’s terrorist proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) responded by stating that Iran “does not control…