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Washington has no intention of compelling West Jerusalem to pursue peace with Beirut, a Lebanese professor has told RT Direct US-mediated Israeli-Lebanese talks are unlikely to bring peace unless Washington pressures Israel to end its airstrikes and ground offensive, Naim Joseph Salem, a professor of international affairs and diplomacy at the Lebanese Army Military Academy, has told RT.Israel and Lebanon held rare negotiations in Washington on Tuesday, which the armed group Hezbollah boycotted as “futile.”While both sides described the talks as “constructive,” Salem argued that the format would likely lead to drawn-out negotiations “with no end in sight and no…

A Chinese student has pled guilty to smuggling biological material – namely, E. coli bacteria – into the United States, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last week. According to a detailed in a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of Indiana report, a Chinese national, Youhuang Xiang, applied for a U.S. Non‑Immigrant student (J‑1) visa to perform postdoctoral research in the Department of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington. He successfully received the visa, and his time began in June 2023. However, last year, the FBI “began investigating suspicious shipments from China to individuals affiliated with Indiana University,”…

President Donald Trump’s allies are scorching Pope Leo XIV as if he were an establishment rival in the GOP primaries. Trump, however, is keeping cool following his Sunday blast at the pope amid disagreements over the Iran war and U.S. migration policy. “I’m just responding to Pope Leo,” he told the media midday Monday. “There’s nothing to apologize for — he’s wrong.” Vice President JD Vance played the good cop on Fox News, saying Trump “has to look out for the interests of America … [and] it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality and what’s going…

The American military says the blockade of the vital shipping route has been “fully implemented” American warships have effectively blocked Iranian trade through the Strait of Hormuz, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) has said.“A blockade of Iranian ports has been fully implemented as US forces maintain maritime superiority in the Middle East,” CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper said in a statement on Tuesday evening.“In less than 36 hours since the blockade was implemented, US forces have completely halted economic trade going into and out of Iran by sea,” Cooper added. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), citing two unnamed US officials,…

Child murderer Axel Rudakubana’s migrant parents, police, and local officials all share blame for failing to prevent the Southport attacker from taking the lives of three innocent girls in 2024, a report has found. Nearly two years ago, Alice da Silva Aguiar (9), Bebe King (6), and Elsie Stancombe (7) had their lives ripped away from them in a brutal mass stabbing attack by Rwandan-heritage Axel Rudakubana at a Taylor Swift-themed dance party in the sleepy town of Southport in Merseyside, England. Eight other children and two adults were also injured in the vicious attack by the then-17-year-old. A report…

Pope Leo XIV’s relentless and morally confused attacks on the Orange Bad Man have failed to damage the president’s standing with church-going Catholics, who give Trump a 58 percent job approval rating. Oh, and 50 percent of Catholics who actually go to church also approve of Trump taking military action against a suicidal terrorist regime in Iran seeking nuclear weapons. While it’s true Trump has lost support amongst the broad group of those who identify as Catholic, those who actually practice the faith (which means attending church) still support the president by a 58 to 42 percent margin. That number…

House GOP opponents of a clean reauthorization of a key spy power are charging ahead with a push to amend the 18-month extension — despite Speaker Mike Johnson saying he will not allow changes to be made to the legislation. Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) is seeking consideration of an amendment to the bill reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, that would prevent data brokers from selling information to the federal government, according to text of the provision obtained exclusively by POLITICO. “Passing a clean Section 702 reauthorization without any reforms to protect the Fourth Amendment…

Peru on Tuesday marked the second day without definitive results from Sunday’s presidential election that can confirm which of the candidates will head to the upcoming June runoff. The South American nation’s electorate headed to the polls on Sunday for presidential and legislative elections — marking the first elections Peru has held them since 2021, when Marxist former President Pedro Castillo was elected. Over the past years, Peru has experienced a period of political instability that has seen it have nine different presidents in ten years. A streak of impeachments since the 2021 election facilitated this that began with Castillo…

A police dog named “Pub” helped two federal agents sniff out two massive cash seizures amounting to nearly $75,000 in undeclared cash in the first quarter of 2026. Pub, a Belgian Malinois trained to find currency and firearms, alerted Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents to a hidden stash of $44,432 in February and another pile worth $30,417 in March. The Belgian Malinois found 20 percent of the total undeclared cash discovered at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in the first quarter of the year. The larger sum was bound for Qatar, while the second was due for El Salvador. Agents reportedly…

President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged Republicans to “stick together” on a key procedural vote tied to the future of U.S. surveillance powers, wading directly into a high-stakes fight over the government’s intelligence authorities. In a Truth Social post, Trump urged Republicans to “UNIFY, and vote together to on the test vote” related to a bill that would reauthorize a controversial part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act called Section 702, which is set to expire on April 20. That section allows for warrantless wiretaps of non-U.S. citizens. Trump added that he’s working with House Speaker Mike Johnson, House Intelligence…