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The WNBA has ruled that former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White are ineligible to enter the league’s draft or play in the women’s circuit after both men announced they identify as women and formally declared for the 2027 draft. The league has reportedly dismissed the moves as publicity stunts intended to mock the organization. According to reports from Front Office Sports, the WNBA stated it “is not going to give oxygen to efforts designed to mock the league or use this topic to demean and marginalize others” and “will not allow outside pressure or manufactured controversy to…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed Monday that Iran attempted to assassinate one of his two sons, publicly disclosing an alleged plot that had reportedly been known to Israel’s security establishment and barred from publication for months. “There is something here that is unbelievable. Iran targeted one of my sons. Iran tried to kill, to murder one of my sons,” Netanyahu told Channel 14 military correspondent Noam Amir during a phone interview. When Amir asked whether the attempted assassination was based on intelligence presented to the prime minister, Netanyahu declined to elaborate, instead repeating the extraordinary claim. “Iran tried to…
Iowa Democrat congressional candidate Sarah Trone Garriott declined to identify a point at which she believes abortion becomes murder or a specific circumstance in which lawmakers should intervene to prevent minors from receiving puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or gender-transition surgeries during a recent interview. Trone Garriott, a Lutheran minister and Iowa state senator challenging Republican Rep. Zach Nunn in the Third Congressional District, was asked why she voted against legislation prohibiting puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries for people under 18. She responded that health care decisions should “center parents and physicians,” arguing the legislation would take “away a parent’s…
Tehran says regional security talks have been proposed as the Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani alliance elicits concern in Israel Iran has denied reports that it has been invited to join the Mecca defense pact comprising Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan, while confirming that proposals have been made for talks with the three countries on regional security.The clarification comes after Mehdi Rahimi, the head of the Iranian parliament’s Khaneh Mellat news agency, told Al Mayadeen on Saturday that Tehran had received an invitation to become a member of the Mecca pact and was considering it.On Monday, however, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei rejected…
Recently released police bodycam footage shows the stunning moment law enforcement officers in Washington state rolled up on a blood-streaked Marine pilot who’d only moments earlier safely ejected from a combat jet. Officers with the Yakima County Sheriff’s Office found Marine Maj. Jackson Simon walking calmly along the road on June 13 shortly after his F/A-18 Hornet crashed into the side of Mount Rainier near Rimrock Lake. “Hey, sir, how are you?” Simon nonchalantly asked the officers as they made contact with him. “Good! Are you the only pilot?” one officer replied, prompting Simon to reveal that he was alone.…
The office of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani denounced antisemitic statements from Brooklyn Democrat leader Carmella Charrington on Monday but stopped short of calling for a resignation. Charrington was elected in June to serve as the Democratic district leader in Brooklyn despite having a history of antisemitic posts online, per Jewish Insider: Charrington shared an Instagram video last fall boosting the notorious pamphlet series by the founder of the Ford Motor Company, a clip that blamed Jewish people for a range of societal maladies from slavery to the proliferation of alcohol and drugs. Charrington won her race with backing…
The Peach State is set to have its first Safe Haven Baby Box, a device created to prevent infant abandonment. The device will be fully operational on Friday at the Henry County fire station located at 30 Fairview Road in Ellenwood after a blessing ceremony at 9:30 a.m., WSB-TV reported. Safe Haven Baby Boxes were created to deter parents from abandoning their newborns, potentially leaving them to die. Baby boxes are temperature-controlled incubators often built into exterior walls of fire stations, police stations, and hospitals, and can be accessed from inside. At-risk mothers can safely and legally place their newborns…
The US president has escalated the trade war with Ottawa days after negotiations collapsed and a new round of duties took effect US President Donald Trump has announced a 50% tariff on Canadian cars, trucks and auto parts starting next year, escalating a bitter trade war with Ottawa after negotiations collapsed last week.In a post on Truth Social on Monday, Trump accused Canada of “ripping off the United States of America for years” and imposing excessive tariffs on American farmers. He claimed that bilateral trade has left the US with a “$60 billion deficit.”“Not sustainable, and NOT ANYMORE! On January…
Screenshot Zohran Mamdani’s plan to build city-owned grocery stores in New York has now launched a lawsuit. Immigrant owned grocery stores are banding together to fight Mamdani’s plan because they know that the city owned stores will have an advantage that they can’t compete with. If the city owned stores can sell the same products at a much cheaper price with no worries about paying taxes, the privately owned stores will eventually go out of business. New York Post reports: Immigrant grocers sue Mamdani over government-owned supermarkets, liken plan to Walmart coming to NYC Immigrant grocers and bodegas sued Mayor…
Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-MI) said Monday that far-left streamer Hasan Piker’s comments about American Jews who support Israel are “unacceptable,” after Piker displayed a photo of Michigan state Sen. Jeremy Moss during a livestream. Scholten, vice chair of the Democratic Women’s Caucus, issued the statement four days after the Aug. 20 broadcast. Moss is a Jewish Democrat, and he won his August primary for a vacant House seat covering Michigan’s 11th District. The Grand Rapids Democrat called the streamer a “hack.” “Hasan Piker’s calls for violence against American Jews, and directly naming a Michigan elected official (and future Congressional colleague)…