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A top Iranian lawmaker appeared to warn President Donald Trump about his personal safety Saturday, telling the president to “worry about his own security” as tensions escalate over control of the Strait of Hormuz. “The U.S. President ought to worry about his own security rather than his endless bluffing regarding the Strait of Hormuz; before he ends up hiding in a food truck,” Ebrahim Azizi, chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, wrote on X. Azizi’s reference to a “food truck” appeared to invoke an extraordinary security operation during Trump’s trip to Turkey last month, when…

During an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) said that democratic socialists have been around for a long time and “people have always had a broad spectrum of ideas in our party and in our country, in the days of Harry Truman and Barack Obama.” Co-host Kailey Leinz asked, “Well, as you speak about the Democratic Party, Congressman, what’s the difference between a Democrat, a progressive, and a socialist? Because I’m hearing from a lot of your Republican colleagues across the country that there is no line.” Casar…

Screencap of YouTube video. Republican Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, who serves as the House Majority Leader, recently described what is happening to the Democrat Party as a ‘Bolshevik Revolution.’ Scalise marveled at the fact that the left is no longer content with the idea of defunding the police and now wants to shut down prisons. He suggests that the choice between the two parties has never been more clear and he is right. The Democrats have gone over a radical cliff. Transcript via Real Clear Politics: HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER REP. STEVE SCALISE (R-LA): A lot of elections, people talk…

BAELEN, Belgium (AP) – Firefighters battled a massive wildfire in eastern Belgium on Sunday that has burned more than 27 square kilometers (10 square miles) in the High Fens, a large nature reserve, in one of the country’s worst wildfires in recent history. About 600 residents in nearby municipalities in Waimes and Bütgenbach, in Liège province near the German border, were told to evacuate Saturday as winds shifted and smoke spread through the area. Authorities also advised tourists to leave, while a nearby gymnasium was opened to receive evacuees. Liège provincial governor Hervé Jamar said in a statement Sunday that…

Democrat Senate candidate and pastor Adam Hamilton asked in a 2015 video how much “latitude” Christians have to push back on the Bible, including whether they can say the Apostle Paul was “wrong.” Hamilton made the comments at an event run by an LGBTQ-affirming Christian group. He spoke during a pastors’ panel hosted by the Reformation Project. The nonprofit was founded in 2013 by Matthew Vines to reform church teaching on sexual orientation and gender identity. Hamilton traced the questions to congregants who came out to him as gay, saying it left him without a framework for reading scripture. “How…

Russian escort-turned Ukraine assassin Margarita Reut – Screengrab/X Not a word of condemnation of Kiev’s bombing spree by the Western media. While all the MSM trumpets that Ukraine is ‘turning the tables in the war’ and highlights every single missile and drone strike on Russian territory, there’s one aspect of this war that is literally booming. The Kiev bombing campaign abroad: be it a Ukrainian oligarch in Monaco, a Russian General in Moscow or a Submarine commander defector in Crimea, the ‘defenders of democracy’ are blasting away, as the West applauds. This last Thursday, a Ukrainian submarine commander who defected to…

Former ABC News field producer Samira Said accused CBS News chief correspondent Matt Gutman of making sexualized remarks toward her while the two worked together at ABC, according to a wrongful-termination lawsuit filed Friday in Los Angeles. Said worked as a field producer in ABC News’s Los Angeles bureau from 2021 until 2025. Her complaint names Gutman, ABC, and The Walt Disney Company, according to TMZ. Gutman left ABC for CBS in January and now serves as chief correspondent. The lawsuit alleges Gutman created a hostile work environment during two assignments. In one, Said alleges she was placed on an…

The country has launched a campaign to shape how AI models answer questions about its war on Hamas and the IDF amid declining public support in the US Israel has spent tens of millions of dollars to boost its image in the US by seeking to influence how AI platforms portray the country, Politico has reported.US public attitudes toward Israel have deteriorated in recent years, first over its response to the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks and more recently over the US-Israeli war on Iran and its cost to taxpayers. Six in ten US adults now view Israel somewhat or…

A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Department of Homeland Security from obtaining 17 million Commercial Driver’s License records. US District Judge Anthony Trenga, a George W. Bush appointee, entered an administrative stay and prevented the Trump Administration from obtaining the records it subpoenaed. Judge Trenga also ordered the DHS to immediately return any subpoenaed documents and not inspect the records. The judge said he needs more time to consider the motion to quash the subpoenas. On Friday, 21 Democrat state attorneys general and DC filed lawsuits challenging the records request. The blue state attorneys general sued the Department…

Over eight in ten British voters believe that the left-wing Labour Party government is not doing enough to prevent illegal immigrants from reaching English shores, potentially spelling trouble for recently installed Prime Minister Andy Burnham. A Find Out Now survey of over 10,000 voters conducted for the Mail on Sunday has further demonstrated the public dissatisfaction with the response to the migrant crisis in the English Channel, with 82 per cent of respondents saying that they believe the government should do more to stop the arrival of people smuggler-operated migrant boats, compared to just five per cent who disagreed. The…