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The IRGC insists Tehran “has not pursued nuclear weapons” and will “firmly defend” its territory President Donald Trump said on Friday that the US would work alongside Iran, using “a lot of excavators” to recover Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium and bring it to the United States. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei, however, reiterated that Iran would not give up the stockpile, which he described as “as sacred as Iranian soil.” Tehran maintains it is not seeking nuclear weapons, a claim disputed by the US and Israel.The US and Iran continue behind-the-scenes talks as the two-week ceasefire is set…
The Christian population of southern Lebanon could be able to return to their homes following the U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement with Israel that took effect on Friday, but it remains to be seen how many will do so given the scale of destruction from the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that Israel and the Lebanese government, represented by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Joseph Aoun respectively, had agreed to a ten-day ceasefire “in order to achieve peace between their countries.” To that end, Trump said he would invite Netanyahu and Aoun to the White…
Thursday on MS NOW’s “Deadline,” political commentator Alex Wagner predicted Secretary of War Pete Hegseth “will be found guilty of war crimes.” Host Nicolle Wallace said, “When your character on SNL is indiscernible from your performance publicly televised press conferences you are Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense politically speaking, you are done. I don’t know when he’ll be fired, but he will be fired. He will be done. He will be, probably at a network other than Fox. He will be so tarnished by this, but he clearly doesn’t know that yet.” Wagner said, “He will be found guilty of war…
Israel has been increasingly using accusations of anti-Jewish bigotry against its critics The US could impose travel restrictions on European officials attending the FIFA World Cup this summer over concerns of rising anti-Semitism, Euractiv has reported.The idea was raised by Yehuda Kaploun, an ultra-Orthodox rabbi serving as special envoy for combating anti-Semitism under President Donald Trump, the outlet said on Friday.Kaploun spoke this week at an event organized by the European Jewish Association in Brussels, stating that his office is “holding countries accountable for ministers who are saying things, and they are not being allowed into the country.”An EU official…
Mariela Castro, daughter of Cuba’s nonagenarian communist dictator Raúl Castro, said Thursday that her father is actively involved in the “decision-making” of the Cuban regime’s negotiations with the United States. Mariela, 63, is the second of Raúl Castro’s four children and the head of CENESEX, the Cuban regime’s National Center for Sex Education, which enforces communist ideology on the nation’s LGBT community. The younger Castro spoke with Agence France-Presse (AFP) about the current situation in Cuba as well as the recent negotiations between Cuba and the U.S. as confirmed by both countries. “My father is closely following all the news and contributing to the…
Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Beat,” former White House special counsel Ty Cobb said President Donald Trump was “crazy” and had an “absence of any frontal lobe controls.” Cobb said, “I’m quoted early in that New York Times article as saying that a man is insane. I don’t think there’s any doubt about it. If you’ll keep in mind. A year and a half ago, just before the election, George Conway, published, or his PAC, published an open letter in the New York Times where 230 psychiatrists and mental health professionals called out malignant narcissism of of this man. Since…
Prime Minister Robert Fico says the bloc abused its power by seeking to force the country to stop buying energy from Russia Slovakia will file a lawsuit with the EU’s Court of Justice challenging the bloc’s decision to ban imports of Russian gas, Prime Minister Robert Fico has said.In January, the EU formally approved a plan to phase out Russian pipeline gas by 2027, overriding vetoes from Slovakia and Hungary.“We object that where it was not possible to use a qualified majority, it was used, and that the right of a sovereign EU member state to veto something was circumvented,”…
Thursday on FNC’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) declared the U.S. strikes against the Iranian regime to be an “unprecedented military defeat” for the Iranians. He noted the amount of time it had taken Iran to build up its military, and the 39 days it took to “destroy it.” “Do you think that these are people that get it?” host Jesse Watters asked. “Are they pragmatic? Can they do a deal? Are they capable of it? Or do you have a bunch of just suicidal fanatics in a bunker that might just want to go down swinging? Cruz…
On Thursday’s broadcast of “CBS Mornings,” New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) said that democratic socialism “is a politics that can flourish anywhere” and at first, he “was told that you could only be a Democratic socialist in Northwest Queens. Then I became the Mayor. Now the next question is the state. Then it’ll be — the next question will be the country.” Co-host Vladimir Duthiers asked, “After your campaign win, there were a lot of questions about whether Democrats across the country could have similar success. Do you think it’s possible a democratic socialist platform can translate into something…
The draft law was criticized for allegedly conflating legitimate criticism of Israel with anti-Jewish sentiment French lawmakers linked to President Emmanuel Macron have withdrawn a controversial bill aimed at expanding anti-Semitism laws in the country, which had been set for debate in parliament on Thursday.The “law to combat renewed forms of anti-Semitism” was drafted in 2024 by a group of MPs led by Caroline Yadan, a lawmaker affiliated with Macron’s Renaissance Party. Despite the withdrawal, lawmakers have reportedly indicated they may reintroduce a similar proposal by June.The draft aimed to broaden the definition of ‘apology for terrorism’ to include ‘indirect’…