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The Congressional Black Caucus is emphatically declaring its support for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — and denouncing Sen. Elissa Slotkin’s call for new leadership in Congress. In a statement posted to social media on Friday, the entirely Democratic CBC declared that it stands united behind the nation’s first Black minority leader of the House. The caucus accused the Michigan senator of “posturing for higher office in 2028” and called attention to her votes to approve multiple members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet. “House Democrats don’t need a lesson on reading the political moment from someone who handed Donald Trump…

Hostilities have resumed in the region nearly two weeks after Washington and Tehran signed an interim peace framework The US and Iran exchanged strikes for the first time since signing an interim peace framework on June 17.On Friday, US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that American forces had struck missile, drone and radar sites in Iran in response to a drone attack on the Singaporean-flagged cargo ship Ever Lovely the previous day. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had retaliated by firing at American bases in the region.Both sides accused each other of violating the memorandum of understanding (MoU)…

Newly uncovered documents prove that disturbing experiments on kittens continue under the second Trump administration and the watch of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a move that directly conflicts with the values of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. Documents revealed via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit prove that the National Institutes of Health is investing more than $2 million into controversial experiments on cats and kittens at a breeding operation based at the University of Florida (UF). These experiments involve breeding more than 100 cats with Niemann-Pick type C1 (NPC1), a fatal neurodegenerative disease…

The independent outlet Iran International reported on Thursday, citing a report from a South Korean think tank, that a defecting North Korean diplomat claimed the tunnel technology used to construct key Iranian nuclear facilities was sold to the rogue terrorist state by Pyongyang. The diplomat, Ryu Hyun-woo, claimed that Iran used the technology it paid North Korea for to construct tunnels in the underground uranium enrichment facilities in Natanz and Isfahan, two of the three sites that President Donald Trump ordered airstrikes on in June 2025 to stop illicit nuclear activity. Trump also ordered airstrikes on a similar facility in…

Friday on CNN’s “The Arena,” Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) claimed that President Donald Trump had sunk the country into an “abyss of corruption and authoritarianism.” Discussing the Trump administration, Raskin said, “We know that they’ve been attacking law firms. They’ve been attacking colleges, universities. So that’s a projection of their own style. We want to move the country forward. Of course, they have saturated us in corruption, authoritarianism, government violence against US citizens.” He added, “We know that they don’t have any positive program or policy for the country. Their only real policies have been illegal, unconstitutional and disastrous, like…

Protests have broken out in Beirut after the Lebanese government signed a peace agreement with Israel and the US that was rejected by Hezbollah.People gathered in the streets waving Hezbollah and Iranian flags. Armed Hezbollah supporters rode in motorcades, while government troops were deployed across the capital and set up checkpoints.Under the agreement signed on Friday, Israel and Lebanon affirmed “the right of each state to exist in peace” and expressed their intention to conclude a lasting peace.Hezbollah, however, has demanded that Israel completely withdraw its troops from southern Lebanon.Hassan Fadlallah, a Hezbollah MP, warned that the Lebanese government would…

America’s expansive, near-immediate response to aid victims of the twin earthquakes in Venezuela on Wednesday has defied ominous predictions that streamlining the country’s international response by eliminating USAID would leave it flat-footed in the face of disaster. Venezuela, where severe earthquakes are uncommon but not unprecedented, suffered two earthquakes in quick succession late on Wednesday documented as being above a magnitude 7, devastating the state of La Guaira and the capital of Caracas. As of Friday morning, the Venezuelan socialist government has documented 589 people dead and over 2,000 injured, as well as untold numbers missing under the rubble of collapsed…

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani touted the fulfillment of one of his campaign promises Friday after the Independent Rent Guidelines Board approved a rent freeze, saying more than two million New Yorkers living in rent-stabilized apartments will have their rent frozen next year. “New York, the Independent Rent Guidelines Board just froze the rent,” Mamdani said in an announcement video. “That means if you’re one of the more than two million New Yorkers who lives in a rent stabilized apartment, your rent is going to be frozen next year.” The video included both English and Spanish closed captions, and…

The Commerce Committee’s top Democrat Maria Cantwell and Sen. Richard Blumenthal warned House lawmakers against advancing their chamber’s version of the Kids Online Safety Act, arguing it would face intense lobbying from tech companies in the Senate and risk unraveling years of bipartisan work. “If it is passed by the House it will come to the Senate,” Blumenthal, the bill’s Senate cosponsor, told reporters at a Friday press briefing. The Connecticut Democrat said he is concerned senators will be influenced by the tech industry’s “armies of lawyers and lobbyists” who may “confuse and exploit” misunderstandings about a House bill with…

Multiple news outlets with reporters on the ground in Beijing reported on Friday that a small aircraft, described by Reuters as about the “size of a car,” had crashed into the Chinese capital’s Citic Tower, its tallest building. Concurrent with reports of the dramatic incident stated that Chinese police were threatening eyewitnesses not to take photos and pressuring them to delete any images of the crash on their phones. The Chinese government’s main English-language news outlets — the Xinhua News Agency and the Global Times newspaper — have not at press time addressed the incident. Reuters reported that searches for the…