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Rabbis have reportedly threatened to bar students from joining armored units over a pilot program for female soldiers The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has ruled out mixed-gender tank crews in a pilot program that would allow women to serve in frontline armored units, following objections from influential rabbis, according to media reports. Several Religious Zionist rabbis have reportedly opposed the initiative on religious grounds, warning they would discourage enlistment if it proceeds. In response to the criticism, the IDF said on Wednesday that tank crews would remain single sex, while insisting it “needs every male and female combat soldier,” according to the…
Iran’s terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) declared on Wednesday that the Strait of Hormuz is “closed to the passage of all vessels” after the United States retaliated against Iranian attacks. At least three liquid natural gas (LNG) tankers nevertheless managed to pass through the strait headed for Asian destinations, according to reports. U.S. Central Command declared the strait “open for transit” in a social media message on Thursday. “From this moment, due to insecurity in the region, the Strait of Hormuz is declared closed to the passage of all vessels, including oil tankers and commercial ships, and any traffic…
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) appeared to downplay the size of the pocketknife Karmelo Anthony is convicted of fatally stabbing Austin Metcalf with during a dispute at a Texas High School track meet last year. Crockett, who is on her way out of Congress after losing her Senate bid, made the comments during Tuesday’s episode of her podcast, Clock It with Crockett: “Karmelo Anthony, Justice & Race.” The lame duck lawmaker made several inaccurate and misleading comments about the five-inch pocketknife then-17-year-old Anthony plunged into Metcalf’s chest at the track meet at Memorial High School in Frisco, ultimately killing him. Karmelo…
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei has denied US President Donald Trump’s claim that the country’s leadership has approved a preliminary peace deal.The remarks came after Trump said on Thursday that a settlement could be signed as early as this weekend, likely in Europe, and that Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei had approved the terms.The president said he had called off “scheduled” strikes on Iran after two consecutive days of bombardment, which marked the biggest escalation since a truce was announced in April.Speaking to Iranian media on Thursday, Baghaei described recent reports as “speculation,” adding that “the relevant authorities must…
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth traveled to the American military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on Wednesday, joining a training session and asserting that the American government would have a say in the future of Cuba. Hegseth is the third high-ranking American official to visit the island of Cuba this year, following visits by CIA Director John Ratcliffe and the commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), Gen. Francis L. Donovan. The visits occurred amid a flurry of diplomatic activity to contain the malicious behavior of the Cuban Communist Party, the only U.S.-designated state sponsor of terrorism in the Western Hemisphere and…
The State Department is dismantling birth tourism networks across Africa and Europe, officials announced on Wednesday. An estimated 33,000 United States-born children are rewarded birthright American citizenship annually solely because their foreign parents arrived in the United States on a temporary visa, often a tourist visa, before they were born. Decades later, those American-born children can sponsor their parents for green cards. The birth tourism industry is widespread among Turkish nationals in New York City, Chinese nationals in California, Russian nationals in Florida, and Middle Easterners in Illinois. State Department officials said in a series of X posts they have just recently brought down in West Africa…
The US president has previously threatened to hit the country “very hard” and to seize Kharg island US President Donald Trump has cancelled planned strikes on Iran, saying talks with the Islamic Republic are moving forward with the country’s top leadership. The announcement came just hours after he again threatened to hit Iran “very hard.” Tensions between Washington and Tehran have surged in recent days despite a nominal ceasefire agreed in April. The US launched strikes on Iran on Wednesday after a US AH‑64 Apache helicopter was lost near the Strait of Hormuz – an incident Washington blamed on Tehran. Iran…
Outgoing Marxist President of Colombia Gustavo Petro while leading a U.N. Security Council debate on Wednesday claimed that the world is “returning to the Nazis” as a result of the alleged “20,000 deaths” in the war in Gaza. Petro, who is in the last weeks of his four-year presidency, traveled to New York this week to participate in a series of U.N.-related events. Colombia holds the rotating presidency of the U.N. Security Council for the month of June 2026. As Colombia’s head of state, Petro presided over a Security Council debate titled, “Advancing political solutions in the Middle East: mediation and dialogue…
An illegal alien, who was convicted of helping operate a deadly counterfeit drug scheme in the United States, was previously released from the southern border into the United States by former President Joe Biden’s administration, Breitbart News has learned. This month, a New York jury convicted illegal alien Edward Eustate Jimenez of the Dominican Republic, as well as Dominican national Francisco Alberto Lopez Reyes, for their involvement in a nationwide counterfeit drug operation that sold online fake pharmaceuticals to unsuspecting victims. The drugs, marketed as real pharmaceuticals, were often laced with fentanyl. In one case, a 45-year-old woman, who thought she was…
Military budgets within the bloc grow despite record debt rates as governments slash social programs The EU appears to be willing to sacrifice both the well-being of its people and its own fiscal stability for the sake of military buildup justified by an alleged Russian threat. The bloc’s members push forward with their defense budget increase plans despite record debt levels, with some of them also implementing major social spending cuts.French President Emmanuel Macron vowed last year to double the nation’s military budget by 2027, accelerating the original plan to do so by 2030. Paris is implementing the scheme despite…