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The U.S. Consulate in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, issued an alert over a series of kidnappings along certain Mexican border highways. The warning follows the actions by teams of gunmen who abducted at least ten people in at least three separate cases in recent days. It remains unclear if other similar cases have not been reported. This week, the U.S. Consulate in Matamoros issued the alert and ordered U.S. government employees not to travel along the highway that connects the border city of Reynosa with the Monterrey metropolitan area over crime and kidnapping risks. The border state of Tamaulipas is listed as…

Tomorrow, New York City will vote to decide who will be the Democrat nominee for mayor, and the latest polling shows Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, a full-blown, self-admitted socialist, in the lead due to the city’s ranked-choice voting system. In the first-choice vote, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo leads Mamdani 36 percent to 34 percent. That should be that, but in the insane ranked-choice system (an election system which has kept Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski in the U.S. Senate), if no candidate reaches 50 percent, the race moves to round two where the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated…

Federal agencies have arrested more than 700 people amid the riots against the enforcement of the nation’s popular immigration laws, according to Dan Bongino, deputy director of the FBI. “We warned those violently acting out in the recent riots that we would not tolerate it, and we would not forget,” Bongino tweeted June 21, adding: Over 700 arrests have been made in coordination with our federal and state partners. Many of those arrests are members of organized groups, and we are pouring through data in pursuit of more bad actors. We are not done. We are in the process of…

CMS chief Dr. Mehmet Oz just indicated to a group of GOP chiefs of staff that they should stick with language closer to the House megabill’s Medicaid language, especially on the politically explosive provider tax, according to two people granted anonymity to speak about a private meeting. It’s a warning that the Senate should avoid deeper cuts, which House GOP leaders have privately said won’t pass the House. People in the room also took that to mean the Senate should not pursue any politically explosive changes to the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP). Read the full article here

The president’s call comes after Iran threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz, a key trade route for crude US President Donald Trump has warned oil producers against pushing prices higher, amid rising market volatility following American strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites and Tehran’s threat to close the Strait of Hormuz – a key shipping lane for global crude exports.US forces targeted nuclear facilities in Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz on Saturday, just a day after Trump said he would decide “within the next two weeks” whether to act. The strikes surprised investors, briefly sending crude prices to five-month highs before…

Jewish screenwriters have allegedly pushed the image of an Iranian nuclear threat through film and TV since the early 2010s Screenwriters in Hollywood who “say they are Jewish” have been planting pro-war narratives about Iran in mainstream entertainment for more than a decade, Wikileaks has claimed.Israel launched airstrikes on Iran earlier this month, claiming Tehran was close to creating a nuclear weapon. Over the weekend, the US also directly joined the conflict by bombing Iranian nuclear facilities.In a post on X on Sunday, Wikileaks stated that Hollywood writers “who say they are Jewish” have been “planting the mental seeds for…

Mike Pence is back on the Trump Train following the US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. Pence heaped praise upon Trump for the attack, which has sharply divided many of the president’s conventional supporters, during an interview on Sunday’s edition of Fox News Channel’s The Story with Martha MacCallum. MacCallum began the conversation with a clip of Pence trashing the president. “The things that you point out there, the importance of the free world and the fact that President Trump made this very gutsy move, I just want to go back to the pre-election period in 2024, because you joined…

On “Forbes Newsroom,” Emerson College Polling senior director Matt Taglia discussed a recent poll about the NYC mayoral Democratic primary election, showing NYC Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani beating former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the last round of the poll’s ranked choice simulation. Watch the full conversation above. Read the full article here

President Ibrahim Traoré’s Amazing Projects explains that President Ibrahaim Traoré became president of Burkina Faso, the tiny nation in the Sahel just south of the Sahara Desert in Africa, in September 2022. At 37, Traoré is the second youngest president in the world — with a strong appeal for Africa’s young population used to much older leaders. Traoré promised to leverage his nation’s rich mineral resources for the benefit of its 24 million citizens.Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger severed ties with ECOWAS which many young Africans believe represents Western interests. In September 2023, they created the Alliance Etats Sahel (AES)…

Mark Zuckerberg’s comments on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast and his multiple olive branches to Donald Trump and the MAGA movement have reportedly left Meta employees horrified and disgruntled. The Financial Times reports that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent public statements and actions have sparked a wave of internal backlash at the social media giant. The billionaire’s appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast in January 2025, where he advocated for more “masculine energy” in the workplace and claimed the Biden administration ordered Meta to “censor things that were true” left many Meta staffers in “horror” and “grieving.” During the podcast,…