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President Donald Trump confirmed Friday that Iran has fully opened the contested waters of the Strait of Hormuz to all commercial shipping traffic. He took to his social media account on Truth Social to make the public confirmation. “In line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, the passage for all commercial vessels through Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open for the remaining period of ceasefire,” Iran Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said in a social media post of his own earlier. The one qualification is vessels must transit through a “coordinated route” announced by Iran’s maritime authorities, Araghchi said. Israel…

Brussels’ mandatory ID‑checking software was reportedly hacked in just two minutes after its release, Pavel Durov has said The EU’s newly unveiled age‑verification app is a “surveillance tool” disguised as a privacy‑respecting solution, Telegram founder Pavel Durov has warned. Security researchers were reportedly able to bypass its protections in under two minutes.The app, which was presented by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday, is intended to let users prove their age online without revealing personal data. Von der Leyen called it “technically ready” and said it meets the “highest privacy standards.”But Durov has dismissed those claims, alleging…

President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he had “PROHIBITED” the government of Israel from continuing its pervasive bombing campaigns throughout Lebanon as part of an agreement independent of negotiations to end hostilities with Iran. The White House is currently engaging in Pakistan-mediated talks with what remains of the Iranian Islamist terror regime after nearly two months of “Operation Epic Fury,” a Pentagon action to erode Iran’s ability to pose a threat to its neighbors and the United States. The regime has lost dozens of its senior leaders, including “supreme leader” Ali Khamenei, and much of its naval and airstrike…

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on virtually all fronts in the upcoming GOP Senate primary runoff, with a new survey showing him in an eight-point lead over the incumbent and also sweeping amongst Latino voters, young voters, and Trump-aligned voters. A nonpartisan Texas Public Opinion Research (TPOR) poll of 1,225 likely Republican runoff voters published Friday indicated that Paxton has 48 percent of the vote, Cornyn has 40, and 11 percent remain undecided.  The survey, conducted on April 6 and 7, also found that Paxton is 18 points ahead with Latino voters, five points…

At least ten experts linked to classified aerospace and nuclear programs have died or gone missing since 2023 US President Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into the mysterious deaths and disappearances of nearly a dozen American scientists with access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded nuclear and space secrets. The cases have fueled online speculation ranging from foreign espionage to a government cover-up of classified UFO research.Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Trump stated that he “just came out of a meeting on this,” noting that “It’s pretty serious stuff.”“I hope it’s random, but we’re going to know…

South African opposition leader Julius Malema, 45, was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday for illegally possessing a firearm and discharging the weapon in public. Malema is the head of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a far-left opposition party that attracted global criticism for chanting “Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer” at its rallies. South Africa’s dominant African National Congress (ANC) and its court system twisted themselves into pretzels to insist the EFF chant was not a call to violence or an example of hate speech, instead portraying it as some kind of metaphorical call to social justice…

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before the House Education and Workforce Committee on Friday, April 17. RFK Jr. testified before the House Ways and Means Committee and the Appropriations Committee on Thursday and clashed frequently with Democrats over a multitude of topics, from vaccines to the president’s health. President Donald Trump will speak later on Friday at a Turning Point USA event in Phoenix, AZ. Read the full article here

The prime minister has refused to step down, claiming he was unaware Peter Mandelson, a friend of the convicted sex trafficker, had failed his security vetting UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing new calls to resign after it was confirmed that disgraced former British Ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson had been appointed despite not being cleared by security officials.Mandelson, who was London’s envoy in Washington between February and September 2025, was arrested earlier this year over allegations that he leaked sensitive British government data to late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.The media claimed he continued friendly relations with…

President Donald Trump said on Friday that Iran has agreed to surrender its stockpile of near-weapons-grade enriched uranium, and the Iranians are evidently willing to deliver the material to inspectors, ensuring it will not be necessary to send in U.S. ground forces to secure it. Trump told CBS News on Friday that Iran has “agreed to everything” he demanded, including a permanent halt to uranium enrichment, plus a halt to all support for proxy terrorist forces such as Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. “No ground troops will be required to remove enriched uranium from Iran,” Trump told CBS…

Activist and investigative journalist Laura Loomer highlighted federal campaign finance records showing former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove gave money to two committees tied to Sen. John Cornyn’s re-election effort, less than three months before the May 26 Republican runoff in Texas. Loomer, in an exclusive post on X on Thursday, pointed to screenshots of FEC records showing a donor listed as “ROVE, MR. KARL” giving $7,000 to the Cornyn Lonestar Victory Fund and $3,500 to Texans for Senator John Cornyn Inc., both with a receipt date of March 3, 2026, and both listed in Texas.  Loomer wrote, “Rove…