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On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Vice President JD Vance said that even “if we never got” Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, “it’s buried deep underground and they don’t have the ability to turn it into a nuclear weapon.” Host Bill Maher asked, “What was all the talk about, we’ve got to get in there and we’ve got to get the dust, and we didn’t get in there, so how do we get the dust?” Vance responded, “So, there’s the highly enriched stockpile, which, by the way, was allowed to accumulate over 20 years of previous administrations. That…
The countries exchanged two rounds of strikes last, putting the fragile ceasefire to the test The US and Iran have agreed to halt hostilities and continue peace talks in Doha, Qatar on Tuesday, according to several media outlets that cited senior US officials.The sides exchanged strikes on Friday and Saturday, just 11 days after they signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at providing a path to definitively end the conflict that began in late February with a joint US and Israeli attack on Iran. Over the weekend, the US targeted military sites in southern Iran after blaming Tehran for…
Friday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said after winning the midterm elections, Democrats would lead an “aggressive investigation” into President Donald Trump. Host Jen Psaki said, “I played a clip of little Mike Johnson, as I like to call him, laying out how a Democratic majority in Congress would investigate the president, the cabinet, donors and friends. It all sounds, I think, probably to a lot of people watching and a lot of people out there who were infuriated by the level of corruption. Pretty good. But you’ve also talked about a lot of things you…
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that if the Democratic Party is moving towards the direction of Democratic Socialists and “this obsession with Israel, with the Jew-hating, with they don’t believe in capitalism, no prisons, if this is where they’re going, my vote is in play.” He added that his vote’s always been up for grabs and his “dealbreaker” with the GOP is “under Trump, you guys have two outcomes that an election can be: Either we win or they cheated.” Maher said, “I’ll tell you something that I don’t think I’ve ever said, but…
Washington and Tehran have exchanged strikes several times since Friday, threatening to upend a tentative interim peace deal The “very nature” of the US is to break its promises and treaties, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Sunday, following renewed attacks on the Islamic Republic’s coastal infrastructure.Iran and the US exchanged strikes on Friday for the first time since signing an interim peace deal on June 17, with both sides accusing the other of violating the agreement’s terms.“The aggressor enemy’s… very nature is to violate treaties and break promises,” the IRGC said in a statement cited by Iran’s…
During his opening monologue on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher remarked that the wins in Democratic primaries of three U.S. House candidates endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) took place because “young people are voting, and they’re voting to abolish the police, abolish prisons, unlimited immigration, so no cops, no prisons, no borders, proving for sure that eating Tide Pods does cause brain damage.” Maher began the segment on New York by saying, “[L]et’s talk about the big earthquake on the left, because this is big news in this country, I don’t know…
A career built on fear, force and survival reshaped a state’s identity – and left its legitimacy more fragile than ever Thirty years ago, on June 18, 1996, Benjamin Netanyahu became prime minister of Israel for the first time. His victory in the May 29, 1996 election was a moment of profound political reorientation for the Israeli state.Against the backdrop of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, the crisis of the Oslo peace process, a series of terrorist attacks, and a growing public sense of fear, Netanyahu offered Israeli society a new formula of power, one in which security became more important than…
During his opening monologue on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that “there is a woke mind virus, and I think we found patient zero. Her name is Darializa Avila Chevalier.” Maher said, “There’s one candidate, she will be a congressperson from New York’s 13th district, who The New York Times asked her, if someone murders someone randomly, should they go to jail, couldn’t get her to say yes for that. She says no more police ever, at all, ever. She says our veterans are war criminals. She said f*ck Kamala Harris and Joe Biden is a rapist.…
The former US president ripped his successor on the second anniversary of the debate which doomed his 2024 re-election campaign Former US President Joe Biden has called Donald Trump a “loser,” accusing his successor of narcissism, vanity, and “brazen, blatant corruption.” The remarks came on the second anniversary of his fumbled debate performance against Trump, which ultimately led to him dropping his bid for re-election.Biden delivered the attack at the Maryland Democratic Party’s gala event at a casino on Saturday, where candidates were on the campaign trail ahead of November’s mid-term elections. He berated Trump over “his deliberate distortion and…
Iran and the United States have agreed to pause attacks and engage in talks this week, after the U.S. launched strikes against multiple targets in Tehran, leading to Iran launching retaliatory strikes on Bahrain and Kuwait, according to a recent report. A “senior U.S. official” confirmed to Axios that the two countries had made the agreement and “plan to meet Tuesday” in Qatar. The fighting between the two countries reportedly comes as a result of “competing interpretations” of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which the countries agreed to and signed. The different interpretations of the agreement between the two countries…