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House Republican appropriators are publicly rebuking the Trump administration for seeking must-have military cash through a party-line reconciliation bill that’s not guaranteed to clear Congress. In a report they plan to release later this week, obtained by POLITICO, House appropriators warn that the White House is trying to fund “critical efforts” like weapons and military equipment through the party-line process, rather than using it to “scale up” military dollars beyond Congress’ regular government funding bills. “This approach is risky and uncoordinated,” reads the report, an official addendum that goes along with the chamber’s defense funding bill for the fiscal year…

Tehran’s new approach suggests the old rules of regional conflict are collapsing Over the past year, the nature of the Iran-Israel conflict has undergone a significant transformation. What previously appeared as a series of isolated crises is increasingly taking on the characteristics of a sustained, direct confrontation. In this context, Operation True Promise 5, announced by Tehran in June, has become evidence of a new reality which demonstrates that the previous mechanisms of deterrence have become ineffective.The new round of escalation was triggered by Israel’s fierce strikes on Lebanon. For Tehran, Lebanon is not only an important element of regional…

From religious ritualistic rape to the sadistic rape of Palestinian prisoners including children, this is a society drunk on violence, depravity and without any recognisable boundaries 18-month old Karim tortured by the Zionist forces in Gaza. Photo: Osama Al-Kahlout In recent weeks, Zionist forces tortured an 18-month old child to force his father, who witnessed the abuse, to confess. The horrific event took place in Central Gaza, in the Al Maghazi refugee camp. The father, Osama Abu Nasser was already suffering from Zionist-enforced poverty after his horse, his sole means of income, was killed. He took his son to buy supplies for the…

A police officer and a civilian were killed Monday morning during a shooting in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood. The Montreal Gazette noted that one suspect was also killed and a second suspect is still at large. Update: Global News reported that the most recent alert regarding the Montreal shooting and sheltering in place was lifted at 3 p.m. local time. Montreal chief of police Fady Dagher indicated the shooting began at 11:35 p.m. local time and indicated that the male suspect “was shot and killed right away,” according to the New York Times. There does not appear to be continued focus on pursuing a second suspect. Original…

The House will begin consideration of a bipartisan housing bill Tuesday, with a final vote potentially taking place the same day, accelerating a previous plan to secure congressional passage of the legislation, according to four people familiar with the planning granted anonymity to discuss planning not yet public. The Senate will hold a final vote on the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act Monday. House leadership had planned to fast-track approval of the housing affordability bill by suspending the rules, a maneuver that limits debate but requires a two-thirds majority vote, as soon as Wednesday, but are looking to move…

The concept of building AI data centers in orbit has gained renewed momentum following SpaceX’s record-breaking IPO that raised over $85 billion and valued the company in the trillions. Elon Musk’s success and the massive pushback against AI data centers in rural and suburban communities has spurred competitors including Jeff Bezos to develop their own plans for space-based data centers CNBC reports that the successful public debut of SpaceX, which raised $85 billion and made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire, has brought the once far-fetched idea of space-based AI data centers into the realm of plausibility. While significant skepticism…

Vice President JD Vance said Monday that frozen Iranian funds would not be released unless the United States continues to see progress, while describing a Qatar-assisted oversight mechanism for funds that could be used to buy American soybeans. Vance’s remarks came after a reporter asked whether Iran had already agreed that frozen funds could be used to buy American soybeans. Vance replied, “Yeah, that was something that came up yesterday. We actually asked the Qataris to help us set up the mechanism so that we could ensure that the money goes where we want it to go. And they agreed…

Alan Greenspan, who as Federal Reserve chairman for more than 18 years presided over the longest U.S. economic expansion then on record and won acclaim as the “Maestro” of American prosperity—only to share the blame for the crisis that followed his departure—died Monday at his home in Washington. He was 100. The cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease, said his wife of 29 years, NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell. The couple married in 1997 and had no children; Ms. Mitchell is his only immediate survivor. Across 18½ years and four presidents, from 1987 to 2006, Mr. Greenspan was treated as…

Rage Against the Machine’s frontman Tom Morello despises artists who refrain from spraying political commentary from the stage, saying they should be condemned to “an extra hot layer of hell.” The self-styled socialist and Hollywood Hills resident – who has an estimated net worth of some $40 million thanks to the benevolent capitalist system which he professes to despise – used an interview with Katrin Riedl of Germany’s  Metal Hammer magazine to deliver his sneering critique of artists who back away limelight: “When people say that musicians should not be involved in politics, it means they are people that disagree with your politics,” he shared, before continuing:…

Alan Dershowitz is scheduled to speak with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on July 20 as part of its ongoing Jeffery Epstein investigation. “I asked to be allowed to set the record straight and correct various misconceptions,” Dershowitz said in a text message. “I look forward to doing so.” The prominent criminal defense attorney who once represented O.J. Simpson and President Donald Trump also worked on Epstein’s 2008 plea deal, which many have argued allowed Epstein — who died by suicide behind bars in 2019 — to continue to prey on young women and girls for another several…