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Iran’s top national security official warned Saturday that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the United States “corrects its behavior,” issuing a sweeping list of demands as Vice President JD Vance said Washington remains in the “middle of the game” and is continuing to apply diplomatic, economic, and military pressure on Tehran. Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and a former senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander, demanded that the United States end military action and threats against Iran and its regional allies, lift its naval blockade, withdraw U.S. naval and air forces from…

The UAV entered the Balkan country through Romanian airspace and crashed near a strategic energy corridor, officials said A Ukrainian drone has crashed in Bulgaria, exploding near a critical gas pipeline, the country’s Defense Ministry has said.The UAV entered Bulgarian airspace from Romania at around 8:10am on Saturday and detonated near the former Kardam border checkpoint, just one kilometer from Bulgaria’s compressor station on the Trans-Balkan Pipeline. No casualties or damage were reported.The pipeline forms part of the Vertical Gas Corridor, a strategic route that transports gas across Southeastern and Central Europe, linking Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Moldova, and…

Photo by Mr. Kjetil Ree America First Legal has taken its landmark challenge against the deeply flawed 2020 Census straight to the U.S. Supreme Court, demanding that the justices reverse a lower court’s dismissal and force accountability for a count that systematically undercounted red states while padding blue ones. On August 7, AFL, co-founded by Trump senior advisor Stephen Miller, filed a jurisdictional statement with the Supreme Court. The group is asking the high court to hear its case and overturn the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida’s ruling that dismissed the lawsuit. A divided three-judge panel…

Hunter Biden gives an update on his dad’s cancer to BBC Newsnight. Credit: BBC Newsnight screenshot Hunter Biden has provided a heartbreaking update regarding his father’s ongoing battle with fast-acting prostate cancer. As TGP readers know, it was reported in May 2025 that the then 82-year-old Joe Biden was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that had already spread to his bones. This was just four months after Joe Biden exited the White House for good. President Trump responded after the news broke last year, seemingly suggesting that it was swept under the rug by former White House…

A Spanish woman who was allegedly murdered by her former Moroccan boyfriend has been revealed to have been a volunteer for a Red Cross group which combats gender-based violence. Late last month, 27-year-old Paula Solanas de Miguel was found dead in her apartment in the northern Spanish city of Santander. Police came to the scene after being called by her ex-boyfriend, 39-year-old Moroccan Nabil Khalissi, who reportedly confessed to killing her during the call. According to a neighbour who heard the medical examiners leaving the scene of the crime, “They said something like it was horrifying and that they couldn’t remember seeing anything like…

Two Utah Republicans are at odds over an immigration proposal that would increase the number of work visas for migrants and offer amnesty to some illegals. “Utah should take a hard pass on bringing in more cheap foreign labor. Now that long-standing bipartisan immigration laws are actually being enforced, lawmakers are being lobbied hard to reopen the spigot. Instead of feeding that dependence on foreign workers, we need policies that help put our own citizens to work,” Chaffetz wrote in an op ed for the Deseret News in response to a bill recently sponsored by Utah’s Republican U.S. Senator John…

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) shared that she would vote against nominating Todd Blanche to serve as the next attorney general, noting that the United States “needs an Attorney General who will check the worst impulses of this administration.” In a post on X, Murkowski expressed that while the politicization of the Department of Justice (DOJ) “did not start” with the Trump administration, it “has accelerated during it,” and added that she had issues with how the Epstein files were released, among other things. “I have had numerous constructive meetings with Mr. Blanche and he comes across as decent and capable.…

James Fishback Republican Florida gubernatorial candidate and Byron Donalds’ primary challenger, James Fishback, leveled serious accusations against Donalds this week, claiming that the gubernatorial candidate is now under investigation for sex trafficking.  The Department of Justice and Byron Donalds’ campaign have both denied the claims. In a video statement, Fishback claimed a “government whistleblower” came forward, tying Donalds to an ongoing federal investigation into Rep. Cory Mills and claiming that the investigation centers around federal sex trafficking. Details of the DOJ’s investigation into Mills, reported last month, remain unclear, but we know it is, in part, focused on his finances.…

British counter-terrorism police have reportedly reopened an inquiry into an apparent attempted firebombing of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage’s home last year. According to a report from the BBC, the counter-terror police unit investigating the killing of former Conservative government minister and Reform UK spokeswoman Anne Widdecombe will also investigate an April 2025 incident at Nigel Farage’s home in South London, in which the Reform boss claimed a “lit incendiary device” was pushed through the letterbox of his front door. A Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) London spokesman told the public broadcaster that it was investigating an “attempted burglary” at a property…

Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico is refusing to answer questions about his residency and voting history after publicly demanding that Republican opponent Ken Paxton answer questions about allegations concerning his conduct. Talarico’s campaign promoted an ad on X writing, “Ken Paxton is refusing to answer basic questions about his corruption and criminal record. Texans are demanding answers. What are you hiding, @KenPaxtonTX?”  The challenge comes as The Texas Tribune and ProPublica reported that Talarico voted in five elections using his parents’ address after buying a home about six miles away in June 2022, and did not update his voter…