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Olivia Troye, a first-term Trump administration staffer who emerged as a vocal critic of the president in 2020, is launching a run for Congress as a Democrat in Virginia. In a Tuesday campaign launch video, Troye cast herself as the candidate best positioned to take on President Donald Trump, pointing to the president bypassing Congress in sending federal immigration agents to U.S. cities and starting a war in Iran. “Trump doesn’t scare me,” she said. “I took him on when it mattered the most. And I’m ready to do it again. It’s time to send some real courage to Congress.”…

Washington could “wind down” its operation and would prefer to do so through “a big successful negotiation,” the vice president has said   The US has achieved its objectives in Iran, Vice President J.D. Vance has claimed, adding Washington could begin winding down its military operation against the Islamic Republic.In a Fox News interview on Monday, after US negotiators left talks in Pakistan without securing an agreement to end the conflict, Vance said Washington had made “a lot of progress” in the negotiations, adding that “the ball is in Iran’s court” on whether to move forward.“I do think that we’re…

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Iranian activist Masih Alinejad discussed the revocation of green cards of relatives of Iranian regime propagandist Masoumeh Ebtekar and said that the reason it took so long is because the policies of Presidents Obama and Biden were “all about appeasement.” After Alinejad noted that Ebtekar attacked her for protesting against mandatory hijabs while her own daughter-in-law was in the U.S., host Anderson Cooper asked, “Why did it take so long for people to realize this?” Alinejad responded, “I think you know better than me, because President Biden and President Obama, let’s be very clear…

Gun stores in Virginia are seeing sales surge as residents of the state buy up firearms and ammo trying to beat the effective dates of new gun controls. The Fauquier Times noted, “Early indicators suggest Virginians are responding to a slate of proposed gun-control legislation with a noticeable spike in firearm background checks — a sign that gun sales are on the rise.” For example, there were 79,846 background checks in March 2026 compared to only 47,069 checks in March 2025. Henrico County’s Knight and Pawn owner, Ben Goldberg, said, “Every time the Democratic Party does any sort of gun legislation,…

At least 16 people, mostly students, have been injured in the incident, according to the police A former student has opened fire at a vocational high school in the city of Siverek in south-eastern Türkiye, wounding more than a dozen people before committing suicide, the local governor has said.At least 16 people were injured in the attack on Tuesday, police said. Among them were ten students, four teachers, a police officer, and a canteen operator, they added.Footage from Siverek in the country’s Sanliurfa province captured multiple students fleeing the school in panic as the incident unfolded.The 18-year-old attacker, who was…

British comic legend John Cleese has blasted Black Lives Matter and the wider liberal elites for their collective silence in the wake of the Easter massacre of Christians in Nigeria who were targeted by Islamic terrorists. “It looks rather as though Black Lives Don’t Matter,” Cleese lamented on his social media account. He further added a sideswipe of liberal media by observing, “Also, writing about it would damage the image of the murderers who killed these poor people.” The 86-year-old actor/comedian was responding to a post from the Chair of the DOJ Task Force to Combat Antisemitism and Senior Counsel at The…

Vini “Mad Dog” Lopez, a former longtime drummer for Bruce Springsteen, said the rock legend should show “respect” for President Donald Trump by virtue of him being president. The original E Street Band Drummer and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer revealed his thoughts about Bruce Springsteen’s and Trump contentious relationship in an interview with the New York Post. “You gotta have respect for the president,” said Lopez in response to Springsteen calling the White House a “corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless and treasonous administration” during his “Land of Hope and Dreams” tour. “Trump is the president of the United States —…

The Department of Homeland Security has been shut down for 59 days. GOP leaders are meeting Tuesday hoping to hash out next steps for a funding plan to quickly end it. Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Speaker Mike Johnson will get together for their weekly meeting as Republicans stare down President Donald Trump’s June 1 deadline to pass a party-line reconciliation bill that would restore lapsed DHS dollars for immigration enforcement. Thune said Monday he would pursue an “anorexic” measure narrowly focused on Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol. Republicans hope that path will allow them to bypass…

The Israeli leader criticized the continent’s NATO members for refusing to back the war with Iran Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Europe has forgotten the lessons of the Second World War and the Holocaust, as he criticized European nations for not helping Israel and the US fight Iran.Many European countries, including the UK, France, and Germany, have rejected US President Donald Trump’s call to help unblock the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran closed to “enemy ships” following the US-Israeli attack on February 28.Speaking on Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday, Netanyahu described Europeans as ungrateful and argued that by waging…

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on Tuesday praised Spain for being with China in the “right side of history” after meeting with socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in Beijing. Sánchez is presently conducting an official tour of China that saw him meet with Xi at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The ongoing visit marks the fourth time Sánchez has visited China in the past four years, seeking to deepen Spain’s political and commercial ties with with the Chinese communist regime. Per the Chinese state-run Xinhua News Agency, Xi called upon China and Spain to deepen their cooperation in trade, energy,…