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On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Brad Lander discussed his primary win over Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), which he stated “says Democratic voters want to reset the U.S. relationship with Israel,” and said he’s unsure Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) “is in our party any more, to be honest.” Lander began by saying that Democratic voters “want leaders who are going to fight, not just Donald Trump, but the billionaires who are rigging the economy against us. And that’s what I think tonight’s election is about.” He added that the candidates who have won prior primaries are progressive candidates “who…

The first deaths since Sunday have put pressure on a ceasefire with Hezbollah tied to regional peace efforts Israeli troops have killed two people in southern Lebanon, in the first reported fatalities since Sunday. The fragile Israeli-Hezbollah ceasefire is a key condition set by Iran for peace talks with the US, a process that has drawn sharp criticism from West Jerusalem.The incident occurred on Tuesday in the Muslim-majority town of Nabatieh al-Fawqa and left another person wounded, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said.The Israeli military claimed that “Hezbollah terrorists operating under civilian cover” approached its positions and failed to respond to warning…

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said that “the Lebanon-Israel war needed to stop, no matter what, and so I guess I’m glad that that was included in Iran’s price” to open the Strait of Hormuz. Host Anderson Cooper asked, “Do you think the U.S. is going to be able to or wants to pressure Israel to end their military operations in Lebanon?” Murphy answered, “Well, I do think that we know that it is a precondition to ending the war in Iran, and I guess I do give credit to the president that he finally…

Kiev’s veneration of Ukrainian nationalists who supported Hitler’s Reich and perpetrated a genocide against Poles during WWII has triggered diplomatic and political outrage Vladimir Zelensky will skip a major gathering of Kiev’s key backers in Poland to keep it free of “scandals,” the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has said. His absence is linked to Kiev’s honoring of Nazi-collaborators who murdered over 100,000 Polish men, women, and children during World War II.Tensions between Ukraine and Poland – a key supporter of Kiev – escalated in recent weeks when Zelensky named a special-forces unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which collaborated with Nazi Germany during…

The governor of Sinaloa filed a letter to the state legislature in an attempt to help a fugitive police chief who is wanted by the U.S. government on drug trafficking conspiracy charges get his pension while he continues to live in her state. Acting Sinaloa Governor Yeraldine Bonilla Valverde sent a petition last month for the reinstatement of the pension of Jorge Alberto Contreras, the former head of the Sinaloa State Investigations Agency. State legislators read that petition this week and turned it over to a committee for review. The move comes at a time when Contreras has also been…

CNN called New York’s 10th Congressional District Democrat primary for Brad Lander on Tuesday, with the New York City comptroller defeating Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), one of Congress’s most prominent critics of President Donald Trump. The former New York City comptroller was being interviewed live on CNN when anchor Kaitlan Collins interrupted the segment to announce that the network had officially projected his victory. The real-time disclosure caught the challenger off-guard as he processed the definitive moment of a bitter primary campaign on air. “We can now project that Brad Lander will defeat the incumbent, Congressman Dan Goldman, in the…

President Donald Trump on Wednesday will come face-to-face with Senate Republicans for the first time in months as the party struggles to set its priorities heading into the midterms. After weeks of shadowboxing with each other, Trump is scheduled to visit Capitol Hill and press the conference to pass his signature election security bill that has languished for months. Senate Republicans — several of whom have openly agonized that Trump isn’t focused enough on helping their party keep its tenuous control of Congress — have their own agenda for talks. Let’s be clear: Wednesday’s lunch isn’t going to change the…

Gasoline prices have not fallen fast enough despite a sharp drop in the price of oil, the US president has said US President Donald Trump has ordered the Justice Department to investigate major oil companies, accusing them of gouging consumers by keeping gasoline prices high despite a drop in the price of oil.Oil prices surged after the US and Israel launched a bombing campaign against Iran in February, disrupting global trade.In a post on Truth Social on Wednesday, Trump said he directed the Justice Department to “immediately start looking into this,” adding that he expected prices to fall “a lot…

Colombian leftists rioted and attempted to block the streets of Bogotá and other cities on Sunday to protest the election of conservative outsider Abelardo de la Espriella as the next president of Colombia. At least one person was shot dead during the riots that took place in the city of Cali. Authorities are still investigating the death at press time. Colombia held its highly anticipated 2026 presidential runoff election on Sunday, June 21, in which President-elect de la Espriella, a 47-year-old lawyer and businessman, defeated far-left Senator Iván Cepeda. The Organization of American States (OAS), highlighted the election as a peaceful,…

Aber Kawas, a Palestinian American activist, won her bid for New York State Senate District 32 on Tuesday following NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s endorsement. Kawas ran as part of the Democratic Socialists for America coalition that Mamdani had popularized. “Palestine was on the ballot, and now a Palestinian-American democratic socialist is going to Albany. Kawas is exactly who New Yorkers need fighting for them in the State Senate. Because socialists get it done,” NYC-DSA said upon her winning. Kawas came into the race with more than just a bit of controversy, having blamed the September 11 terrorist attacks on capitalism, racism,…