Author: Press Room
On this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said President Donald Trump had not made the case for the military action in Iran. Warner said, “Americans are paying $122 million a day extra in gas coming right out of their pockets, that, combined with the declining job numbers, that combined with the stock market crashing, going into this war without I don’t feel like the appropriate preparation or having made the case the American public, I think we’ve got a lot of explaining to do. We don’t know how long Iran will last. The notion and…
Well, that didn’t take long. Mojtaba Khamenei has risen to the appointment of Iran Supreme Leader, as the country’s national television news service confirmed Monday, however it has since emerged the man following his father into the post has been wounded in an unspecified incident at a time and place unknown. AP reports television news anchors referred to the mid-level Shiite cleric as “janbaz,” or wounded by the enemy, in the “Ramadan war,” which is how media in Iranian regime refers to the current conflict. It does not elaborate on the mystery injury. However, Khamenei’s father and his wife were killed…
Sunday on CBS’s “Face The Nation,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) said President Donald Trump’s military action in Iran was exposing the troops to “completely unnecessary risk.” Partial transcript as follows: MARGARET BRENNAN: The Pentagon may be looking at a supplemental budget request to fund this new war in the Middle East. CSIS estimates the first 100 hours of the war cost nearly $4 billion. Have you heard an estimate on cost? Where are we on this supplemental? Will it get any Democratic support? KAINE: We don’t know that the White House is sending a supplemental. So we had a classified…
House Republicans are descending on President Donald Trump’s Doral resort Monday for their annual policy retreat, with hopes of sketching out their legislative priorities before the midterms. Trump may have just upended that plan. The president on Sunday said he wouldn’t sign any bills until Republicans pass the sweeping elections overhaul known as the SAVE America Act. Paired with a new Middle East War, surging oil prices and persistent internal turmoil threatening the House GOP’s razor-thin majority, the kickoff of the party’s South Florida gathering is looking anything but sunny. Here’s a preview of what’s coming at the retreat: —…
Belgian judge Bart Willocx, President of the Antwerp Court of Appeal, warned Monday the country is at risk of turning into a narco-state as a result of international drug crime and mafia groups forming a “parallel force” in society. Willocx stressed that the port of Antwerp makes Belgium vulnerable to drug smuggling-related criminality, as it is one of the main entry points for cocaine smugglers in Europe. “The amount of money that is involved – to influence people, to corrupt people and to bribe – it is so big that it is really a danger for the stability of our society,” Willcocx…
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) admitted that an “improvised explosive device” was thrown at an anti-Islam protest that took place outside of the New York City (NYC) mayor’s residence. In a post on X, NYC Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch shared that two people, Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi, had been “arrested on scene yesterday and are in custody in connection with this matter.” Tisch added that the NYPD Bomb Squad was also conducting an analysis on a second device. “The NYPD Bomb Squad has conducted a preliminary analysis of a device that was ignited and deployed at a…
The military operation against Iran entered its tenth day on Monday. Iran’s new supreme leader is settling into the role, but is reportedly already wounded. **** **Monday’s live updates below. All updates in Eastern time** 05:30 AM: The new Supreme Leader is wounded already Well, that didn’t take long. Khamenei junior is said to have been wounded already. Read the full report from our Simon Kent here. FILE – Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, attends the annual Quds, or Jerusalem Day rally in Tehran, Iran, on May 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File) 05:20…
Ryan Millsap, a film studio executive and real estate developer, says a years-long dispute involving activists occupying land he owns near Atlanta helped push him into politics and ultimately led to his decision to run for Congress in Georgia’s 10th Congressional District. Appearing on Breitbart News Saturday with Washington Bureau Chief Matt Boyle, Millsap discussed his campaign for the seat being vacated by Rep. Mike Collins, who is running for the U.S. Senate. Boyle noted that Millsap has “pledged $4 million of his own money toward this race.” Millsap told Boyle that his entry into the race followed a dispute…
More than 160 people, mostly schoolgirls, were killed by a suspected US-Israeli strike Videos released online and verified by a number of news agencies have amplified accusations that the US is behind the deadly strike on an Iranian girls‘ school that left over 160 people dead. The footage shows what appears to be a US Tomahawk missile impacting near the school in Minab, southern Iran.A video shared by Mehr News agency claims to show “the moment when Israeli and American terrorists struck Minab school” on February 28. Both the Washington Post and New York Times verified the authenticity of the…
Fans are becoming increasingly upset at left-wing rocker Bruce Springsteen for the absurdly sky-high ticket prices for his 2026 anti-Trump crusade concert tour. Last month, the “Born in the USA” singer announced the dates for his 2026 “Land of Hope and Dreams” U.S. tour pumping himself up as the savior of democracy and a leader in anti-Trumpism. But ticket prices are so high that one fan wrote on social media, “Unfortunately no one can afford to actually go…..,” Fox News reported “We are living through dark, disturbing, and dangerous times,” Springsteen exclaimed in a video for the tour. “But do…