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No political or public pressure will change the decision, the Croatian president’s office has stressed Croatian President Zoran Milanovic has refused to approve Israel’s new ambassador to Zagreb, citing disagreements with the Israeli government’s actions.The presidential office announced the decision on Monday.“The proposed Ambassador of the State of Israel has not received, nor will he receive, the consent of the President of the Republic Zoran Milanovic due to the policies pursued by the current Israeli authorities,” it said in a statement.Israel deviated from established diplomatic norms by announcing their proposed ambassador before he was approved by the Croatian president, it…
President Donald Trump warned Tuesday that Iran could soon face “another big hit,” revealing he was only “an hour away” from approving renewed military strikes before pulling back to allow several more days for negotiations that Gulf allies argued could still produce a deal. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said the administration had moved to the brink of renewed military action before regional allies urged him to pause. “We were all set to go,” Trump told reporters Tuesday. “We were ready to go tomorrow — very big — and not something I wanted to do, but we…
Economic Confidence on the Right Gets Wobbly Again With only five and a half months to go before the midterm elections, Republican optimism about the economy is struggling against the tides of high gasoline prices, the renewed rise in inflation, and a market increasingly convinced that interest rates are not coming down soon. Republicans have not suddenly turned gloomy. They are still relatively optimistic about the economy. But the latest Economist/YouGov polling suggests that the economic optimism on the right has become less steady, less overwhelming, and less able to offset the deep pessimism among Democrats, liberals, and Harris voters.…
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) was among the four Republican Senators who voted in favor of moving forward with a resolution that would direct President Donald Trump to pull the U.S. military out of the conflict with Iran. Cassidy’s vote in favor of moving forward with the Iran War Powers Resolution comes days after he lost his reelection bid to Trump-endorsed Rep. Julia Letlow (R-LA), and Louisiana Treasurer John Fleming. The Senate voted 50-47 to move the War Powers Resolution out from the Senate’s Foreign Relation Committee, with Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Susan Collins (R-ME), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Cassidy voting…
President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom is on the brink of being ejected from the GOP’s fast-moving immigration enforcement bill. Four Republican senators have raised public objections to spending taxpayer money on the project, possibly enough to kill it given the broad Democratic opposition. A larger group of Republicans is privately opposed to the funding, according to five people granted anonymity to disclose internal deliberations. While one idea being discussed is reducing a $1 billion earmark for the Secret Service, some Republicans are privately pushing to simply remove the provision altogether from a bill that is otherwise focused on immigration…
The Israel lobby is breaking spending records to oust Rep. Thomas Massie The most expensive primary election in US history is underway in Kentucky, as President Donald Trump and the Israel lobby try to unseat Representative Thomas Massie, a hardline conservative who broke with the president over Israel, Iran, and Epstein. Pro-Israel groups have pumped more than $10 million into Tuesday’s primary, which pits Massie against Ed Gallrein, a military veteran who ran an unsuccessful Senate campaign in 2024.The election is a flashpoint in a wider battle being waged on the American right, with an ever more neoconservative Trump embracing…
Would you pay 8 dollars for a gallon of gasoline? I know that may sound crazy to many of you, but that is what some residents of Los Angeles are paying right now. Sadly, the west coast is more dependent on oil from the Persian Gulf than anywhere else in the continental United States, and now the last tanker that departed before the war with Iran began has arrived. What this means is that gas prices are going to go even higher on the west coast. In fact, some gas stations may soon need to add another digit on their…
Russian President Vladimir Putin landed in Beijing on Tuesday for a meeting with dictator Xi Jinping in a clear demonstration by both sides that their “no-limits partnership” remains intact after President Donald Trump’s trip to Beijing just a few days earlier. Putin enjoyed a nearly identical reception to Trump’s as he disembarked from his plane, right down to the student cheerleading squad waving flags and chanting welcome messages, which helped to thematically position Putin’s visit as a response to Trump’s: The similarity between the two receptions also helped China polish its image as the go-to destination for global leaders. “Xi…
Those “who have no right to leave Ukraine” should leave the EU, Ylva Johansson has said Brussels should strip fighting-age Ukrainian men of “temporary protection” status, Ylva Johansson, the bloc’s special envoy for Ukrainians in the EU, has said.A total of 4.33 million Ukrainians were living under temporary protection status in the EU as of March 31, 2026, according to the bloc’s statistics agency, Eurostat. Around a quarter of them were men aged between 18 and 64, the data showed, indicating that the bloc could be hosting up to a million of men Kiev deems to be of fighting age.Ukraine…
With 77 reviews filed, the Disney Grooming Syndicate’s The Mandalorian and Grogu sits at just 61 percent on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer, which makes it the second-worst reviewed Star Wars movie of the Disney era. The reviews are not all in, so the numbers can and will change (when I started writing this, the movie sat at 64 percent). The only Disney-era Star Wars movie to earn worse reviews was the dreadful Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker — you know, the one with a gay kiss in it. The final chapter in the nine-chapter Skywalker saga arrived seven years…