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President Donald Trump predicted Wednesday that the war with Iran will end “immediately after” the November midterm elections, saying Tehran “can’t hold out any longer” as the United States intensifies military and economic pressure on the regime. “I think the war is going to end immediately after the election because they can’t hold out any longer,” Trump told reporters before departing for Dallas. The president accused Iran of prolonging the war in an effort to influence the upcoming elections. “They’re desperate to try and affect the election so that we could get a nice, weak group of people in there and…

A closely watched inflation barometer rose less than expected in August. The producer price index, excluding food and energy, rose 0.2 percent last month, a slowdown from the previous month’s revised 0.3 percent increase and lower than the 0.3 percent forecast by economists. Headline PPI rose 0.4 percent after climbing an upwardly revised 0.1 percent in July. That matched the consensus forecast. Higher fuel prices have pushed up headline PPI since the start of the war with Iran. Compared with a year ago, the PPI is up 5.4 percent. That is higher than the previous month’s 4.8 percent year-over-year increase…

Tuesday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) said President Donald Trump sounds like he is “truly out of his mind.” Earlier at a 9/11 event, Trump said, “The United States Steel building was creaking, really creaking, and we thought it was going to fall down. The truth is, it creaked a lot. It creaked. It still creaks, but it never came down. And I’ll never forget, two firemen—we thought it was coming down on top of us, two firemen, big, strong guys. And I’m not the smallest guy in the world. They grabbed me under the arm…

The reported attack on the base in Jordan came amid a renewed standoff over the Strait of Hormuz Multiple US military aircraft were damaged in an Iranian strike on a key American airbase in Jordan, CBS reported on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the matter.The attack reportedly took place overnight on Tuesday and targeted Muwaffaq Salti Air Base near Azraq, about 100 km northeast of Amman, a major hub for US air operations in the region.One A-10 Thunderbolt, known as the Warthog, suffered severe wing damage, while around eight F-15s were lightly damaged but returned to service, according to the…

Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins Missouri’s congressional map battle has exploded into a full-blown constitutional crisis, with Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins trapped between directly conflicting orders from the federal and state courts. Chief U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark will not stop the Missouri Supreme Court from hauling Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins into court Thursday morning over the state’s congressional map fight. Clark, a Trump appointee, denied Hoskins’ emergency request late Wednesday night. The secretary of state asked the federal court to enjoin the state high court from proceeding with a 10 a.m. Thursday show-cause hearing…

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — San Antonio City Council members requested an environmental study in what may be the city’s last hope to stop or delay the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) plan to convert an existing warehouse on the city’s southeast side. Council member Jalen McKee-Rodriguez submitted the request with four members’ concurrence in late August. As reported by Breitbart Texas, ICE awarded GardaWorld Federal Services a $17.3 million contract to renovate the existing warehouse and operate the facility on August 25. The contract calls for the company to modify a warehouse of more than 600,000 square feet on…

During an interview with PBS released on Tuesday’s “Settle In” podcast, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said that he hasn’t been able to figure out the fair solution for transgender athletes despite trying to do so for years. Newsom said, “[A]s someone that’s not been intellectual on this, that’s had to practice the issue of how I address the question of fairness over multiple years as it relates to sports, I have been confronted. And I couldn’t figure it out, and I tried.” Host Amna Nawaz then cut in to ask, “Have you figured out?” Newsom answered, “No. I failed.”…

A major Houthi attack has exposed how little is known about the military commitments binding Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan A massive attack by Yemeni’s Houthis on Saudi Arabia has become the first serious test for the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement – a defense pact between Riyadh, Ankara, and Islamabad established just a month ago. We’re no longer talking about a future security architecture in abstract terms. Rather, a very concrete question is being posed: What actions should Saudi Arabia’s allies undertake following a strike on its territory?According to the Saudi-led coalition, Houthi missiles and drones struck civilian and economic…

Pastor Lorenzo Sewell during the Republican National Midterm Convention in Dallas, Texas. Detroit pastor Lorenzo Sewell just brought the house down at the Republican National Committee’s first-ever midterm convention in Dallas. On Wednesday night at the American Airlines Center, during the Republican National Committee’s first-ever midterm convention, the senior pastor of 180 Church unleashed a short, fiery sermon titled “Enough Is Enough.” The crowd roared as Sewell framed the November midterms as spiritual warfare, not just another election cycle. “How many know that we are saying today, not today, Satan? You will not steal our country. You will not have…

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The Texas State Board of Education will now require high school social studies classes to teach about Mohammed’s taking of female captives as “harem slaves.” Friday’s vote to adopt the curriculum changes, which included other additions to the state-mandated curriculum on early Islam, came after objections from dozens of Muslim speakers. The board voted 8 -4 on Friday to approve the curriculum rewrite after months of debate. The changes included referring to Mohammed as the “Prophet of Islam” rather than “the Prophet Mohammed,” after State Board of Education member Brandon Hall objected during the meeting, saying not everyone accepts Mohammed…