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After reports surfaced that Iran had closed the vital Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump told the Iranians who are meeting in Switzerland with Vice President JD Vance, “You close it, and you won’t have a country.  You won’t even make it back to your fucking country.” On Saturday, Iran announced it was closing the Strait, claiming Israel’s retaliatory attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon violated the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed last week to end the war. Trump also threatened to take full control of the Strait and “blow the shit” out of Iran. From here, things get murky (as…

House Republicans are pressuring the CEO of Democrat fundraising machine ActBlue to comply with subpoenas regarding documents important to the investigation into possible foreign donations. In a press release Monday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil (R-WI), and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) announced they sent a letter to ActBlue’s CEO Regina Wallace-Jones “threatening to hold ActBlue in contempt of Congress for its inadequate compliance with the Committees’ subpoenas.” The committees have been probing the platform’s “fundamentally unserious approach to fraud prevention, which may allow foreign nationals and bad actors to make…

The Iranian team expects football’s governing body to address “unequal treatment” by the host nation, its manager says The Iranian national team has formally complained to FIFA about what its manager has described as systemic discrimination by the US, one of the hosts of the 2026 World Cup. Tehran expects football’s governing body to act and ensure that the host nation honors its obligations to all participating teams, Mahdi Mohammadnabi said.The tournament is being co-hosted by the US, Canada, and Mexico, with most matches taking place in the US. Iran’s head coach, Amir Ghalenoei, has previously called his side “the…

Mourners gathered Sunday in Beirut to pay their respects to a much-loved Lebanese conservationist who died after succumbing to wounds sustained in an Israeli strike on her home on the country’s southern coast near the city of Tyre. Mona Khalil, who spent more than two decades protecting sea turtles along Lebanon’s coastline, was critically injured in the strike on her home in the village of Mansouri earlier this month and died of her wounds Friday. She was 76. The Orange House, which Khalil helped build into a small conservation hub and ecotourism site in Mansouri, became a refuge for endangered…

Recently, during an appearance on Fox Business, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) proposed replacing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with a new immigration agency. On this week’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Khanna’s colleague Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) criticized those overtures. “That’s California Democrat Congressman Ro Khanna with me last week on ‘Mornings With Maria’ on Fox Business, saying Democrats want to replace ICE with a different immigration agency that does not go after illegal immigrants who are employed and who pay taxes,” host Maria Bartiromo said. “Joining me now with reaction to that and the SAVE…

A massage therapist sparked debate online after being filmed arguing about Muslims in a grocery store More than $140,000 has been raised online on behalf of a Texas woman filmed making anti-Islam comments in a grocery store.The 44-second video which surfaced on Sunday shows a woman in blue medical scrubs confronting two other women who remain off camera.The woman, identified by media reports as massage therapist Dasha Kilpatrick, says: “Islam is a terrorist organization, not a religion. I’m very educated on this subject. You need to leave. You’re not welcome here. This is not a Muslim country. This is a…

During this week’s broadcast of FNC’s “Sunday Night in America,” former Vice President Mike Pence criticized the Trump administration’s efforts to curb hostilities with Iran. According to Trump’s former vice president, the so-called memorandum of understanding (MOU) fell “far short” of what he believed the United States should be demanding. “Welcome, Mr. Vice President, happy Father’s Day,” host Trey Gowdy said. “How would you advise the President if a war is unpopular, but the cause is just — how do you reconcile the unpopularity with the justness of the cause?” Pence replied, “Well, Trey, thanks for having me on a…

Democratic congressional candidate and Lutheran minister Sarah Trone Garriott, who is challenging Republican Rep. Zach Nunn in Iowa’s Third Congressional District, delivered a 2021 sermon for Downtown Disciples, an organization that explicitly rejects the label “church” and repeatedly describes itself on its website as #BlackLivesMatter and LGBTQIA+ affirming. In October 2021, Trone Garriott gave a sermon in a park for Downtown Disciples: Progressive Faith Community. Asked in its FAQ whether it is a church, Downtown Disciples calls that a “Tough question!” and says it thinks of itself as a “spiritual community” and a “movement for wholeness in a fragmented world.”…

Millionaire football club owner Barrie Drewitt-Barlow and his spouse face 18 additional charges A British businessman who became known as the country’s ‘first gay father’ has been charged with child sex offenses, according to media reports.Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, 57, was already facing a number of criminal allegations alongside his current husband, Scott Drewitt-Barlow, 32. The couple, who bought Essex-based football club Maldon and Tiptree FC in 2025, appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court on Monday. They were reportedly hit with 18 additional charges, including rape and child sex offenses.The new charges relate to offenses allegedly committed between 2013 and 2026. According to…

The United Kingdom is set to see its seventh prime minister in the past ten years, and it appears that man will be Andy Burnham, a veteran Labour Party Westminster insider who has sought to cast himself as a “socialist” working-class hero. Andy Burnham will return to the House of Commons on Monday after having spent the past ten years outside of the London political bubble as Mayor of Greater Manchester. Previously serving as the MP for Leigh from 2001 until 2017, his return was orchestrated over the past year as it became clear that outgoing Prime Minister Sir Keir…