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US forces board Comoros-flagged tanker and disable Mozambique-flagged amid Naval blockade on Iran (via US Central Command – July 25, 2026 Iran said on Saturday that negotiations to reopen the Strait of Hormuz are close to completion, but made new demands from the US, including an end to the Naval blockade. Oman is currently negotiating with Iran to reach an agreement on the use of the Strait of Hormuz, which is crucial to ending the US blockade. According to CBS, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said negotiations with Oman are “approaching the final stages.” Still, “this is not a sign…
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) will vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general after Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) announced they would not support him. Cassidy’s support now puts Blanche, the acting attorney general, on a path to be confirmed. The outgoing Louisiana senator, who lost to a Trump-backed challenger in Louisiana’s Republican Senate primary earlier this year, announced Friday morning on the Senate floor that he will vote for Blanche shortly after they spoke on the phone. Cassidy said the choice “is between Mr. Blanche and another acting attorney general who may not run the department…
Investigative reporter Catherine Herridge secured a major, though temporary, victory for press freedom after a federal judge clarified that she will not have to keep paying an $800-per-day contempt fine while her legal team asks the U.S. Supreme Court to hear her First Amendment case. The court also denied plaintiff Yanping Chen’s request to increase the daily fine to a staggering $5,000 and ordered that the money Herridge has already paid be returned, Herridge announced Friday in a statement on X. The district court has clarified that I don’t have to pay the $800 daily contempt fine for refusing to…
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that the Trump administration has stopped short of naming collapsing the regime in Iran as an objective, and “I think that’s because, after the Iraq War, the phrase regime change is radioactive.” After Cruz advocated for arming the Iranian protesters to pursue the collapse of the Iranian regime, host Martha MacCallum asked, “So, how would you go down that road? We haven’t heard much about that since, in the early days — as you just pointed out — there was this push, that looked like…
State Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D-MI) said leftist Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, the U.S. Senate candidate who won his Democrat primary in Michigan this week, asked her for advice moving into the midterms. McMorrow told Politico’s Playbook that he asked for feedback on what he did right and how he could improve, the outlet reported Friday. She told him, “You got the message right. It was sticky. It was repeatable.” As far as how he could improve, she said, “Being able to recognize that there are good people who just have a slightly different worldview is going to be really important. It’s…
Wikipedia has become a compromised propaganda tool, the online encyclopedia’s co-founder-turned-critic Larry Sanger has said, warning that its content is now increasingly informing AI.In an interview with the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung published on Friday, Sanger argued that Wikipedia’s lack of an adequate governance structure allowed “specific ideological viewpoints” to shape its content, turning the online encyclopedia into a “globalist, academic, secular and progressive” consensus.“Wikipedia was recognized early on as an important propaganda organ,” Sanger told the outlet. He argued that while the platform’s anonymity policy makes it difficult to determine who edits its content, “what we know as fact,…
China Is Broke – Rulers Are Desperate – Bad Things Are Going to HappenGordan Chang says –China is broke. China’s rulers are desperate. Bad things are going to happen in that country.If anyone would know, Gordan Chang would know.This is the report Gordan is referring to –Beijing is launching a wave of aggressive revenue-raising measures to fill its empty state coffers. Instead of addressing structural economic flaws, the regime’s solution is a ruthless tax dragnet targeting wealth everywhere it can find it.On top of auditing ultra-rich offshore trusts, Chinese mainland authorities have now begun enforcing a 20% personal income tax…
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued the U.S. should pursue “regime collapse” in Iran by arming protesters in the country, including the Kurds, and said that “I don’t care that Erdogan in Turkey doesn’t like it. It is in our interest not to have a theocratic lunatic leading Iran, who is actively trying to, and, tragically, succeeding in killing Americans, and so, I think we ought to go down that road.” Cruz began by saying, “I think the president has had extraordinary leadership standing up to the threat of Iran. The…
The ongoing lawfare nonsense to oppose President Trump on absolutely everything continued Friday with the news that two left-wing judges have ordered a halt on construction of the White House ballroom. Barry Obama appointee, Judge Patricia A. Millett, and Joe Biden appointee, Judge Bradley N. Garcia, claim that Trump must get the approval of Congress for his ballroom. Those two were all that’s needed in a three-judge federal appeals panel. Trump-appointed Judge Neomi Rao dissented. “Each President is a temporary tenant, not the owner, of the White House and its Executive Residence,” wrote the judges. “We are aware of no instance…
From Burger King to the Governor’s Office – Katie Hobbs Takes ControlVetoes, Appointments, Contracts — and the Expanding Reach of Executive PowerTHE THREE MUSKETEERS: THE KATIE HOBBS FILE – PART 2Guest post by Linda BrickmanSECTION 1. THE GOVERNOR ARRIVES WITH A PENKatie Hobbs did not enter the Governor’s Office quietly.She arrived promising cooperation, moderation, and a willingness to work across party lines. Arizona voters had elected a Democratic governor and a Republican-controlled Legislature. That arrangement seemed to require negotiation.But Hobbs found another instrument…The VETO PEN.During her first year in office, Hobbs vetoed 143 bills — more than any Arizona governor…