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The heads of Iranian universities issued a statement on Sunday welcoming students deported from America for supporting Hamas, an Iran-backed terrorist organization, or other jihadist movements. “Iran’s universities, [the statement] said, are ready to accept students who are being expelled by US immigration officials for showing sympathy for the Palestinian cause,” the Iranian state propaganda outlet PressTV reported. PressTV did not name the universities signing the joint statement but noted that the statement indicated the Iranian jihadist regime would “facilitate” the transfer of students who support Iran’s genocidal anti-Israel positions from American colleges to Iranian ones through its “Supreme Council…

A second South Carolina death row inmate, 41-year-old Mikal Mahdi, has chosen to have his execution carried out by a firing squad. Breitbart News reported in March that double murderer Brad Sigmon was executed by firing squad in South Carolina on March 7, 2025. The Associated Press reported that 67-year-old Sigmon was shot at 6:05 p.m. “by three volunteer prison employees.” He was pronounced dead at 6:08 p.m. FOX News noted that Sigmon was the fourth inmate in the U.S. since 1976 to die by firing squad. Now Mahdi has chosen the firing squad as well. FOX News quoted one of Mahdi’s lawyers, David…

PARIS (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been sentenced to a five-year ban on running for public office for embezzling EU funds, a major political earthquake. The ruling, which takes effect immediately, is likely to bar her from running in France’s next presidential election.Le Pen, who was twice runner-up to French President Emmanuel Macron, has enjoyed growing support in recent years. Monday’s verdict will weigh heavily on political life, both in France and more widely in Europe, and on her own future as a political force.What does the ruling say?For Le Pen, the worst-case scenario materialized.The 56-year-old…

The Republican nervousness around the special election in Florida’s deep-red 6th Congressional District was enough to bring Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin to the area to canvass over the weekend. Buoyed by strong performances in recent special elections, including a narrow state Senate win in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the DNC is now turning its attention to the race between Republican state Sen. Randy Fine and progressive teacher Josh Weil. “I wanted to come out to make sure that we help close strong in this election,” Martin, a longtime Democratic tactician and Minnesota state party leader, told Florida Playbook in…

Donald Trump’s push to repurpose the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) amid funding cuts and staffing losses poses a huge threat to water safety and environmental advances in one of the big environmental success stories in the US in recent decades: the clean-up of the Hudson River.Once a byword for environmental degradation, the Hudson River is now recovering, in part due to the work of Riverkeeper, a non-profit environmental organization that established a model of legal activism for water protection and inspired more than 300 programs globally. It is also where Robert F Kennedy Jr cut his teeth as an…

Screenshot: America / X Billionaire entrepreneur and Trump advisor Elon Musk dropped a bombshell this weekend during a fiery 100-minute town hall in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he campaigned for conservative judge Brad Schimel in the state’s upcoming Supreme Court election on Tuesday. Joined by Antonio Gracias, a private equity titan and a key member of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team tasked with rooting out waste in the federal government, Musk unveiled a shocking chart: a dramatic spike in Social Security Numbers issued to non-citizens, soaring from 270,000 in 2021 to a mind-blowing 2.1 million in 2024. That’s…

MIAMI, FLORIDA – DECEMBER 05: FIFA President Gianni Infantino poses for a photo whilst pointing at … More The FIFA Club World Cup Trophy during the reception after the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup Draw at Telemundo Studios on December 05, 2024 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Eva Marie Uzcategui – FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)FIFA via Getty Images The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup is set to be a groundbreaking event, not only due to its expanded format but also because of the significant financial rewards it offers to participating teams. With a total prize pool of $1 billion, the…

Headquarters of the soon-to-be dismantled U.S. Department of Education Getty Images The full consequences of dismantling or shutting down several functions of the Department of Education remain unclear, and many uncertainties persist. However, one certainty is that the proposal will negatively impact all levels of education – from early childhood to graduate and post-doctoral education and training. Experts in the field of education assert that the effects on lower-income and minority students will be both significant and detrimental. For example, the impact on Latinos in higher education will likely have long-term effects on degree completion rates, job and career opportunities,…

On Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, said he released the Signal chat among senior national security officials to show that the Trump administration does not take national security seriously. Goldberg said, “When they do something wrong, they go on the attack, and they attack the messenger. You know, and the odd thing about this one is I didn’t really actually do anything. I’d like to claim that I was some bold investigative reporter. All I did was answer a message request from Mike Waltz on Signal and the rest of it just came on…

Billions of dollars in clean energy spending and jobs have overwhelmingly flowed to parts of the US represented by Republican lawmakers. But these members of Congress are still largely reticent to break with Donald Trump’s demands to kill off key incentives for renewables, even as their districts bask in the rewards.The president has called for the dismantling of the Inflation Reduction Act – a sweeping bill passed by Democrats that has helped turbocharge investments in wind, solar, nuclear, batteries and electric vehicle manufacturing in the US – calling it a “giant scam”. Trump froze funding allocated under the act and…