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“Operation Trust Me Bro failed,” Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has said, after the US president suspended efforts to guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz Iran’s top negotiator has mocked US President Donald Trump after he abruptly suspended American efforts to guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz, adding that Washington was again spreading falsehoods about ongoing talks.In a post on X on Wednesday, Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf ridiculed Trump with a sarcastic one-liner: “Operation Trust Me Bro failed. Now back to routine with Operation Fauxios.”Ghalibaf’s comments came after Trump paused ‘Project Freedom’, an operation aimed at clearing a…

A federal judge has sentenced two Ohio brothers who posed as Middle Eastern royalty in a series of multimillion-dollar fraud schemes to more than twenty years in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Donald Nugent sentenced Zubair and Muzzammil Al Zubair, ages 42 and 31, to 24 years and 23 years in prison respectively, as well as $21 million in restitution, in schemes that also involved an East Cleveland official in the mayor’s office. “You stole a lot of money, defrauded people and put East Cleveland in a terrible light,” Nugent told the brothers during their Tuesday sentencing. “You basically flaunted…

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said that while there were an elevated number of antisemitic incidents in 2025 relative to recent years, there was a decline from 2024 to 2025 and part of that was due to “a two-thirds drop on college campuses year over year. I think that’s a function of the fact that campuses started enforcing their policies, instituting new rules, in part because of pressure from the White House, in part because of oversight from Congress, in part because of pressure from groups like ADL with our campus report card that…

President Donald Trump’s new national counterterrorism strategy accuses the EU of allowing hostile groups to “exploit open borders” US President Donald Trump has signed a new national counterterrorism strategy that describes Europe as both a target and “incubator of terror threats,” while also singling out drug cartels and violent left-wing extremists as major dangers to America.The 16-page document, released by the White House on Wednesday, says Washington’s counterterrorism policy will be guided by “America First,” “common sense,” and “Peace through Strength.”The strategy lists three major categories of terrorist threats facing the US: “narcoterrorists and transnational gangs,” “legacy Islamist terrorists,” and “violent left-wing extremists,…

The Chinese communist regime, through its embassy in Panama, accused U.S. ambassador Kevin Marino Cabrera of “denigrating” Huawei and spreading rumors about China after he suggested that Chinese companies like Huawei are not trustworthy. Ambassador Cabrera spoke this week with the Panamanian newspaper La Prensa about the Panama Canal, tariffs, the extradition of a long-wanted suspect in Hezbollah’s 1994 bombing of a commercial airplane, Panama’s relations with the U.S. and China, and Panamanian cybersecurity, among other subjects. Cybersecurity has gained newfound notoriety in the Central American nation over the past weeks after a series of hacking attacks targeted the nation’s Social Security…

Karen Bass, the current Mayor of Los Angeles, dropped an F-bomb in a bizarre Freudian slip during Wednesday night’s debate against reality television star Spencer Pratt and councilmember Nithya Raman. The slip occurred when the debate segued into the destructive Palisades Fire of 2025 and reports that dozens of fire trucks were in need of repair prior to that fateful day. It was when Bass had to utter the word “trucks” that another word slipped out. “So yes, there were fire trucks that were broken, but there were also fire fucks,” Bass said before she immediately corrected herself to say…

Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II Karim has attended the consecration ceremony at the St. George Cathedral in Al-Hasakah St. George Orthodox Cathedral in the Syrian city of Al-Hasakah has reopened its doors following a four-year restoration.The reconstruction of one of the largest Syriac Orthodox churches in the region began in June 2022, after surveyors identified structural damage caused by a combination of age, weather conditions, and years of war. The restoration project included repairs to the walls and ceilings, as well as the cathedral’s roof, interior and exterior decorative elements, electrical systems, and sewage systems, according to Syria’s SANA…

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party remains first-place across Britain and ready to breakthrough in the devolved parliaments for the first time in the last polls before local elections take place nationwide on Thursday, votes that are being interpreted as a referendum on the performance of the left-wing Westminster government. National opinion polling on the eve of the May 2026 local elections puts Nigel Farage’s Reform UK ahead of all other challengers, prompting the Brexit leader to hail his lead over the governing Labour Party who presently dominate the Westminster Parliament. Under British election law no polling can be published on…

Welsh childcare workers have been urged to contact police over suspected racist hate incidents involving children Childcare workers in Wales have been told to call police on children as young as three if they are suspected of “racist” behavior, according to a new official guidance backed by the Labour government.The document, produced by Diversity and Anti‑Racist Professional Learning (DARPL), an organization that has received over £1.3 million ($1.7 million) from the Welsh government, advises childcare workers to assess whether a child’s behavior could be deemed a “hate crime” and, if so, to call authorities.The guidance applies to children aged 12…

Nigel Farage leads the field of party leaders in Britain in terms of who the public feels best understands the problems facing the country, a poll released on the eve of local elections in the UK found. A survey from IPSOS released this week found that 38 per cent of the public believe that Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has the best understanding of the issues facing the country. The Brexit champion was followed by Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch at 33 per cent, Labour Party Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Liberal Democrat Ed Davey at 32 per cent,…