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Washington has ramped up sanctions on Tehran just weeks after the Islamic Republic signed a strategic partnership with Moscow Russia is ready to broker talks between the US and Iran, including on Tehran’s nuclear program and its regional proxy network, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Bloomberg on Tuesday.Trump expressed interest in talking to Iran about those issues, both in his phone call to Putin in February and via representatives at the high-level US-Russian meeting in Riyadh just days later, the news agency wrote, citing anonymous officials.“Russia believes that the United States and Iran should resolve all problems through negotiations,” Peskov…

State broadcaster SABC Interviews activist wearing “Kill All White People” T-Shirt In a continuing escalation, the racist South African government is investigating minority civil rights group AfriForum for “high treason” for going to Washington to meet with the Trump administration and members of the United States Congress. Speaking to Afrikaner activist Ernst Roets, X host Tucker Carlson came out in favor of an Afrikaner homeland. Breaking News: The South African government is targeting its opponents by entertaining false charges of high treason against those who fight for property rights and expose the human rights abuses against Afrikaners. As @AfriForum‘s CEO,…

For the fifth consecutive year, tennis participation in the U.S. increased. Last year saw a 1.9 … [+] million or over eight percent increase from the estimated 23.8 million Americans who played tennis at some point in 2023 to bring the number of people who raised a racket in 2024 up to an all-time high of 25.7 million. (Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images The year the COVID-19 pandemic began and the years since have been what you might call a high five for tennis in the U.S. Since those social distancing days that…

WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 31: U.S. President Donald Trump hold up an executive order, “Unleashing … [+]Getty Images It’s an uncertain time for investors and consumers alike. The Trump administration imposed tariff disruption of 25% charges on most imports from Mexico and Canada and an additional 10% on top of existing tariffs for Chinese imports have set off a three-front trade war for the U.S. There are already retaliatory tariffs from the three countries. Investment markets are showing concern and displeasure. There are increased chances of a recession and possible inflation. Most investors could benefit from one simple action: Do…

Politicians in Britain and Europe flew into a complete meltdown after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a suspension of American aid to Ukraine, with some going so far as to suggest the leader of the free world is a “traitor” and a “Russian asset”. On Monday evening, the White House announced a temporary pause of military aid to Ukraine in the wake of comments from Volodymyr Zelensky in which he rejected an immediate ceasefire with Russia and declared that peace between the warring nations is “still very, very far away.” While the Trump administration said that aid would once again…

Disney sparked backlash online after news broke it would be pulling the plug on a Tiana princess series for its streaming platform, Disney+. The decision to nix the Tiana series — a spin-off of The Princess and the Frog film– comes as Walt Disney Animation Studios cuts back on long-form streaming content in general. Per the Hollywood Reporter: A spokesperson confirmed there will be some layoffs in its Vancouver studio as a result of this shift in business strategy. In addition to the Tiana series, the studio is also scrapping an unannounced feature-length project that was set to go straight to Disney+. Tiana was first announced in…

A complaint was filed against Democrat Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford last week related to a nonprofit’s donor event email touting her winning the April 1 election as a “[c]hance to put two more House seats in play for 2026.” The complaint was filed by a concerned citizen with the help of the Wisconsin GOP to the Wisconsin Judicial Commission, accusing Dane County Circuit Judge Crawford of courting donors with the promise of upholding future Democrat gerrymandering to swipe two U.S. House seats from Republicans.  The complaint points to an email about a “donor advisory briefing” on Jan. 13, in which donors would…

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Tuesday denounced the Taliban regime in Afghanistan for restricting women’s rights.”The Taliban are literally building a social dungeon for 50% of the Afghan population just because they are women,” Baerbock said in Berlin. “Your actions are not and will not be without consequences.”The foreign minister attended a conference organized to hold the Taliban accountable for violations of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).Afghanistan is a party to the landmark treaty on women’s rights, which was adopted in 1979.But the Taliban have overseen a crackdown on the…

Speaker Mike Johnson acknowledged several GOP lawmakers have “hesitation” over backing the six-month extension of government funding that he and President Donald Trump are pushing ahead of a Friday midnight shutdown deadline. “But I think once people understand the necessity of it, I think they’ll get on board and we’ll pass it,” he told reporters Tuesday. A group of House Republicans is meeting with Trump at the White House tomorrow as top party leaders try to get members on board with the patch running through September. Johnson said his goal is to put the funding bill on the House floor…

Linda McMahon says the Department of Education needs to be overhauled.The newly confirmed education secretary described the task ahead as a “historic final mission.”President Donald Trump has repeatedly called for the department to be shut down.The newly confirmed education secretary, Linda McMahon, told staffers on Monday that the department must embark on a “momentous final mission” as it undergoes a “historic overhaul.””This review of our programs is long overdue. The Department of Education is not working as intended,” McMahon wrote in an email.Business Insider reviewed McMahon’s email, titled “Our Department’s Final Mission.” McMahon was confirmed as education secretary on Monday,…