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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian – who is technically subordinate to “supreme leader” Mojtaba Khamenei – published a letter on Wednesday evening directly addressing the American people, a move apparently intended to portray himself as the most authoritative leader in the country at the moment. The content of the letter regurgitated years of Iranian regime talking points: denying that Iran posed a threat to any nation before the current conflict, blaming the government of Israel for all turmoil in the Middle East, and falsely claiming his terror regime had graced the Iranian people with an improved lifestyle. Beyond the text, however, the…
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a settlement between President Donald Trump’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that would have allowed churches to endorse political candidates to their congregations without risking their tax-exempt status. U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker in Tyler, an appointee of President Trump, ruled he lacked jurisdiction to approve the pact between the IRS and two Texas churches and the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB), Reuters reported. Under the proposed agreement, traditional religious communications would have been deemed exempt from the Johnson Amendment, a 1954 tax code provision named after then-Sen. Lyndon Johnson that bars religious and secular…
President Donald Trump called Friday for Congress to back a $1.5 trillion defense budget alongside yawning reductions to domestic programs — making official the ambitious military increase he’s been teasing for months. In a slate of budget fact sheets ahead of an expected broader rollout of the president’s fiscal blueprint, the White House detailed a military budget hike of more than 40 percent for the fiscal year that begins in October. The Trump administration is formally proposing Republicans in Congress enact a large chunk of that defense cash — some $350 billion — using the party-line reconciliation process to skirt…
The Iran-backed Houthi insurgency in Yemen announced on Wednesday it has launched an operation called “Holy Jihad Battle” against Israel, working in concert with Iran and one of its other terrorist proxies, Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Houthi military, which styles itself as the “Yemeni Armed Forces” or YAF even though it is not the legitimate government of Yemen, said its operation would continue “supporting and backing the fronts of resistance,” in line with the Houthis’ “religious, moral, and humanitarian duty” to its allies in the Iranian axis. Houthi spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree said missiles were launched over the weekend…
Employment in the United States expanded by 178,000 in March and the unemployment rate fell to 4.3 percent. Economists had forecast the economy would add 59,000 workers and the unemployment rate would hold steady at 4.4 percent. The prior month’s estimate of a decline of 92,000 was revised even further into negative territory to a drop of 133,000. The February jobs figures were pulled down by a large strike in the healthcare sector. March saw that reverse, with the sector adding 76,000 workers in the month. Over the past 12 months, the sector has added an average of 29,000 each…
Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV), who describes herself as “America’s #1 Most Bipartisan Member of Congress,” posted and later deleted a profanity-laced response on X to an Associated Press (AP) story about President Donald Trump’s planned attendance at Wednesday’s Supreme Court hearing on birthright citizenship. Shortly after 1:00 a.m. ET on April 1, Lee replied to an Associated Press post that said Trump would attend Wednesday’s hearing on birthright citizenship, adding that the visit would make him the “first sitting president to attend oral arguments at the nation’s highest court.” In response, Lee wrote: “So fucking fucked up. I’ll pray they…
The US has reportedly asked the NATO member to help intercept strikes on American bases in the Middle East Poland will not relocate its American-made Patriot air defense missile systems to the Middle East to help the US intercept attacks from Iran, Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz has said.Despite US President Donald Trump claiming that the Pentagon has an “unlimited” stockpile of weapons, the US-Israeli bombing campaign launched on February 28 has failed to thwart Iran’s ability to strike American bases in the region.On Tuesday, the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita reported that the US had requested that Warsaw lend at least…
The American embassy in Baghdad warned U.S. citizens in Iraq on Wednesday that they should leave the country as soon as possible, in part due to the Iraqi government not doing enough to prevent attacks or protect victims. The warning followed the shocking abduction of American freelance journalist Shelly Kittleson on Tuesday from the streets of Baghdad, believed to have been conducted by the Iran-backed jihadist militia Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH). KH, or the Hezbollah Brigade, is part of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), a group of mostly Iran-linked militants whom the Iraqi government legalized as an arm of its military during…
Wednesday on MS NOW’s “The Beat,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said President Donald Trump and Republicans have been ‘unleashing chaos and extremism on the American people and on the world.” Jeffries said, “Republicans have gotten us into a reckless war of choice with no plan, no objectives, and no clear exit strategy. The war clearly has not made us safer, but it has made life more expensive in this country. And it needs to end. Now, the American people have, as you’ve pointed out, Melissa, have expressed themselves from the very beginning of this conflict because our view in…
NASA launched Artemis II, its first crewed flight around the Moon in more than 50 years, on Wednesday.After a brief delay due to technical issues, a rocket carrying NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canada’s Jeremy Hansen, lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.As part of their ten-day journey, the astronauts will circle the Moon and return to Earth in an Orion capsule. It is the first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972.Orion is set to circle the Moon on April 6. The astronauts will travel farther from Earth…