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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will maintain the U.S. naval blockade on Iran until the regime “cries uncle” and agrees to a deal ensuring it will never obtain nuclear weapons. Speaking in a phone interview with Axios earlier in the day, Trump explained that he rejected a proposal from Tehran that would have involved reopening the Strait of Hormuz and easing the blockade before addressing the nuclear issue, making clear he will not lift the blockade until Iran agrees to U.S. demands. Trump said the blockade has proven more effective than direct military action in forcing Tehran toward concessions,…
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case from parents who sued a Florida school district for allegedly socially transitioning their daughter without their consent or knowledge. The High Court denied the parents’ request without any comment in the case of Littlejohn v. School Board of Leon County, allowing an order for the U.S. Court of the Appeals for the 11th Circuit siding with the school district to stand, The Christian Post reported. The Littlejohns filed a lawsuit in October of 2021 after learning that officials at Deerlake Middle School in Tallahassee, part of the School Board of…
The EU has protested the reopening of the Russian pavilion at the prestigious art festival Italy’s Culture Ministry is investigating the organizers of the Venice Biennale, a prestigious art festival, after Russia was allowed to return to the event, Italian media reported on Wednesday.Many cultural institutions in the West have cut ties with Russia since February 2022 over the Ukraine conflict. The Kremlin has condemned the campaign as a pointless attempt to “cancel” Russian culture.According to Corriere della Sera, inspectors were dispatched to the Biennale Foundation to examine documents and financial records related to the planned reopening of the Russian…
The U.S. Department of Justice announced the unsealing of a criminal indictment against a sitting Mexican governor and his closest allies. The case is historic in nature since it is the first time that a sitting Mexican governor has been named in a cartel-connected criminal case. On Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. District Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced that it obtained a criminal indictment against Sinaloa Governor Ruben Rocha Moya and some of his top law enforcement officials on drug conspiracy charges for their alleged role in helping the Sinaloa Cartel move tons of drugs in…
Biden administration officials may have broken the law by hiding pandemic-era small business loans to abortion giant Planned Parenthood, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) said Monday. Ernst, who chairs the committee that oversees that Small Business Administration (SBA), said evidence has emerged that agency officials disbursed and forgave Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans to Planned Parenthood, even after the organization was found ineligible for the loans, Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak first reported. Top agency officials under Biden, including SBA Administrator Isabella Guzman, allegedly hid their loan dealings with Planned Parenthood by using the code word “Benghazi” in emails, Ernst said. “We now…
US President Donald Trump has said he could withdraw some American troops stationed in Germany amid a public spat with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the war in Iran.“The United States is studying and reviewing the possible reduction of troops in Germany, with a determination to be made in the near term,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday.In 2020, near the end of his first term in office, Trump planned to withdraw around 12,000 of the roughly 36,000 American service members stationed in Germany at the time. Former President Joe Biden later deployed additional troops to Germany, citing the…
The war between the United States and Iran and the resulting financial chaos from it may have claimed yet another victim: LIV Golf. The Saudi-backed upstart golf league meant to rival the PGA Tour’s monopoly on professional golf is reportedly on the verge of failure, according to The Wall Street Journal. The Journal claims that LIV Golf will inform its players on Thursday that the Saudi Public Investment Firm (PIF) will pull its funding at the conclusion of the 2026 season. News of the PIF’s decision to cut its funding for LIV Golf comes as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia reevaluates…
The National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) on Monday filed a complaint with the FCC over late night television host Jimmy Kimmel’s remark that First Lady Melania Trump would be an “expectant widow.” The National Religious Broadcasters told the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that Kimmel’s remarks that the first lady would be an “expectant widow” came two days before an attempted assassin tried to fire his weapon right outside the ballroom during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. “Our first lady, Melania, is here. Look at Melania, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow,” he said. The religious…
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “All In,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said that while many Democrats have talked about the economic costs of the war in Iran, “My bigger problem is the moral costs of threatening wiping out Iranian civilization and the blunder of the policy.” Host Chris Hayes asked, “How sustainable do you think this current status quo is?” Khanna answered, “In terms of the Republican loyalty, I think every day that gas prices stay elevated, every day you see more and more Americans saying we want a negotiated settlement, the more there’s a chance of that cracking,…
President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has re-added an illegal alien, wanted for two decades for allegedly killing 20-year-old Blake Zieto in a hit-and-run in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Most Wanted List. The illegal alien, along with many others, had been removed from ICE’s Most Wanted List in 2021 by the Biden administration. This week, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced the re-addition of illegal alien Jesus Maltos-Chacon of Mexico, accused of killing Blake Zieto in 2006 in a horrific hit-and-run crash. The crash, which occurred on November 18, 2006, saw Blake driving…