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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Moscow, Russia, on Monday and is expected to meet dictator Vladimir Putin for discussions on his country’s ongoing conflict with America. Araghchi is concluding an extended travel itinerary that included stops in Pakistan — which has become a key negotiator between Tehran and Washington — and Oman, which previously served in a similar role. Russia has consistently been one of Iran’s closest allies, a leading member of the anti-American BRICS coalition that Iran belongs to, and a consistent antagonist to American interests at the United Nations Security Council. Russian officials this week repeated…
Senate Republicans moved closer to installing Kevin Warsh as the next Federal Reserve chairman after Sen. Thom Tillis said Sunday he would end his weeks-long blockade of the nomination. Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, had refused to advance Warsh or any other Fed nominee while the Justice Department pursued a criminal investigation into current Chairman Jerome Powell over cost overruns in a renovation of the central bank’s headquarters. Critics on both sides of the aisle had called the probe politically motivated.The impasse broke Friday when Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, announced the Justice Department…
The armed suspect at the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) Dinner “charged from 50 yards away,” President Donald Trump said during a late night press conference Saturday. Trump held a press conference after being whisked away at the WHCA dinner after a gunman charged a magnetometer and shot a Secret Service member in the chest. The agent was wearing a bulletproof vest, and while he was shot at a close distance “with a very powerful gun,” Trump said the “vest did the job” and that the officer is “doing great.” The president provided further details on the shocking incident, contending that…
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — According to the attorney for the six-member family of Mohamed Sabri Soliman, the group was re-detained by ICE on Saturday after their release earlier in the week as a result of a federal judge’s decision. According to a social media post by the family’s counsel, Michigan-based Immigration Attorney Eric Lee, ICE said, “Deportation is imminent.” Within hours, Lee says the deportation flight turned around after a federal judge issued an emergency stay. On Thursday, Federal District Judge Bred Biery had ordered the release of the six-member family of Mohamed Sabri Soliman, an Egyptian national, who is…
President Donald Trump posted a video of the suspected gunman charging through the Washington Hilton, where the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) Dinner was held, on Saturday night. After being whisked away from the premises after a gunman charged a magnetometer and shot a Secret Service member in the chest, Trump held a press conference alongside other officials, all of whom detailed exactly what happened. “Tonight, you saw the very worst and the very best of this country,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said during the press conference. “You saw the very worst by the actions of that coward that…
Pyongyang’s soldiers are “true heroes of our time,” Defense Minister Andrey Belousov has said Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov has awarded North Korean troops, who helped liberate Russia’s Kursk Region from Ukrainian forces, with the Order of Courage during his visit to Pyongyang.Last year, North Korean soldiers, acting under the June 2024 Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty between Moscow and Pyongyang, joined the Russian operation to repel a large-scale Ukrainian incursion into the border region. They also participated in mine-clearing activities in the area.During a ceremony on Sunday, Belousov said that it was “a truly special day in the record of…
President Donald Trump described the Washington Hilton Hotel, where the Washington Correspondents Dinner was being held, as “not a particularly secure building,” and added that “we need the ballroom.” During a press conference, hours after shots were heard at the hotel – leading to Trump, first lady Melania Trump, and several other Cabinet members being escorted out – Trump spoke about the need for the ballroom. Trump expressed that there was a need for “levels of security that probably nobody’s ever seen before.” “We looked at all of the conditions that took place tonight, and I will say, it’s not…
Washington and Tehran have clashed over who holds the most leverage in their nearly two-month standoff The US is mistaken to believe that it has the most leverage in the war against Iran, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said, as indirect talks between Tehran and Washington remain stalled.The two sides disagree over which can outlast the other in the standoff triggered by the US-Israeli attack in late February. Pakistan-mediated negotiations have so far failed to produce a breakthrough.“We have all the cards. If they want to talk, they can come to us, or they can call us,” US President…
A group of five far-left pro-Palestine activists accused of having broken into an Israeli arms factory in Germany are due to appear in court on Monday. The group — three women and two men — is collectively referred to as the “Ulm 5” and is composed of nationals of the UK, Spain, Ireland, and Germany aged between 25 and 40 years. The German newspaper Die Welt reports that the indictment states that the five individuals are allegedly members of the “Palestine Action Germany” organization, a cousin of the group proscribed by the British government last year. The five suspects stand accused of…
Saturday, following reports of an apparent assassination attempt on President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, CNN’s Van Jones raised the possibility of the suspect being made into “some sort of hero.” The left-leaning Jones cited efforts to lionize Luigi Mangione, and he urged all to condemn political violence. Jones said, “I’m starting to worry about something, though, which is that the shooter survived, which means on Monday he’s going to court, which means there is a danger that people try to make him some sort of hero. You watch what happened with Luigi [Mangione], who shot…