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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s funeral has been going on for nearly a week, but today is the final day.
The final stage of the funeral procession for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the former supreme leader of Iran, set off through the holy city of Mashhad on Thursday afternoon, after days of public ceremonies that drew hundreds of thousands of mourners in Iran and Iraq.
The procession in Ayatollah Khamenei’s hometown began hours later than scheduled and unfolded against the backdrop of renewed strikes between the United States and Iran. Iranian officials said that U.S. forces had struck railway bridges in the country’s northeast, disrupting passenger services on the route
If you were Zohran Mamdani's new Commissioner in the Office of International Affairs, charged with reaching out to government officials from countries that ideologically align with the mayor, who would you reach out to?
The answer is obvious: Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations.
It's a natural fit, right? So that is what Commissioner Ana María Archila decided to do: she scheduled a meeting with Amir-Saeid Iravani, Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations, to discuss how the City of New York and the regime in Tehran could work together for mutual benefit.
Perhaps they could share a "Death to the United States"
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Nobody in the 1850s ever wrote a novel about a man who changes society by figuring out how to mass-produce horseless carriages. Similarly, nobody a century later wrote the story of the man who turns the world upside down by building miniature electronic brains in his garage.
So how did a popular American writer of the 1940s come up with a novel that accurately portrayed the activities and historical role of Elon Musk as a pioneer in the exploitation of space?
That man was Robert A. Heinlein, and his book, published in 1950, was titled The Man Who Sold the Moon.
A twisted Queens firebug was busted for allegedly hurling Molotov cocktails at two Queens churches late Wednesday – part of what prosecutors believe was a disturbing seven-incident spree.
Yogesh Sayrange, 36, – who ranted like a madman in federal court on Thursday – admitted to tossing fiery projectiles at the Iglesia Bautista El Mesias church in Ozone Park, and the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses on in Woodhaven, along with other locations, according to cops and the feds.
“Yea, I * firebombed them,” Sayrange allegedly told investigators about a separate bombing of a deli, adding with out explaination: “They’re Muslims, scum and terrorists.”
The FBI has arrested 113 active spies from foreign nations, agency director Kash Patel said on July 8.
“[The arrests mean] our tech stays home and our defense secrets stay locked down,” a video shared by Patel on X said. “But the FBI didn’t stop there. They forced 62 removals of Chinese spies in 2026 alone.”
The video stated that this has shattered the deep cover operations of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) against the United States.
Two Fort Worth, Texas, police officers have come under fire for threatening to ticket a Christian street preacher and a former fed at a Trinity Pride Fest event. Their crime? Their speech might “offend” someone.
Either this pair never went to high school, or their educators just skipped over all that pesky “Constitution” stuff.
The first name of this female officer is Sarah (last name Stogner), but it should be “Karen.” Watch: [Tweet, video]
The back-and-forth is unbelievable; it’s disturbing to think this went down in Texas, of all places. Even though the movement Blue Lives Matter is pro-police, they were nevertheless disgusted by this anti-First Amendment display,
The New York mother beaten to death in her new home in Ireland shared a tragic, final post celebrating July 4th — lovingly posing with the asylum-seeking boyfriend who is the suspect in her murder, according to police sources.
Westchester County native Jamey Carney, 43, posted a pic seemingly wishing she was back in the Big Apple, beaming alongside Ahmad Alsaqer, the 28-year-old now identified as the person of interest in the brutal crime.
“Happy 4th y’all,” she wrote alongside the photo of them cuddling up in front of an AI-generated backdrop of Times Square, with the mom in Knicks T-shirt and Alsaqer in a Giants one.
a new agency in California that promises to “protect consumers, support honest businesses, and advance affordability for Californians.” If Vegas were to give odds, they would be heavily against any of those ever occurring.
It’s called the California Business and Consumer Services Agency, and it’s a cabinet-level department headed by Rohit Chopra, who was sworn in on July 1. It already has a bureaucratic acronym: BCSA. Catchy, isn’t it?
Chopra promises his office “will sharpen and accelerate work to promote economic growth and protect the public from abuses.”
Let us translate that from California-government-speak.
The American economy grew by 2 percent during the first three months of 2026, hardly the picture of collapse that critics of the Trump administration keep promising is just around the corner. The country has not tanked under Donald Trump, not even with tariffs in place. Trump has been accused of putting black women out of work by cutting positions in the federal government, and it is true that federal cuts have hit black women disproportionately since they have historically been overrepresented in the federal workforce. But the federal government is not, and was never meant to be, a jobs program for any single demographic,
Describing someone as ‘coloured’ is not racist, even if it does offend people of colour, an employment judge has ruled. The Mail has the story.
A tribunal concluded that although the term is “generally considered to be old fashioned” and potentially “offensive”, it is not racist when used to simply “describe” someone from an ethnic minority background as a “one-off comment”.
The ruling came in the case of mixed-heritage admin worker Amy Reeves, who heard a colleague describe two people as “coloured” while working in the office.
Communist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is being accused of cultural erasure after seemingly ‘forgetting’ one of the Big Apple’s most historic immigrant groups while virtue signaling.
As The New York Post reported, Mamdani released a map on Wednesday titled “New York City Immigrant Enclaves.”
The map shows about 30 areas across the Big Apple’s five boroughs, ranging from places like Chinatown in Manhattan to Little Mexico in Brooklyn and Little Africa in the Bronx.
Other enclaves include Little Guyana and Little Bangladesh in Queens.
As visitors from around the world descended on Washington, D.C., over the last few weeks to enjoy summer in the nation's capital, they were treated with something the Federal city had not offered in a long while: clean parks with tidy landscaping and working fountains. The fountains, especially, were a welcome sight for many as the temperatures last week soared past 100º F.
The DMV didn't host any matches, but plenty of World Cup revelers and Americans wanting to take part in the country's 250th birthday festivities were able to enjoy the efforts of President Trump to beautify the town and offer unique opportunities to enjoy its culture and history.
Kuwaiti Green Card Holder's Public Hatred
for U.S., Hamas Support Just Got Him a
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for U.S., Hamas Support Just Got Him a
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The U.S. State Department just removed the green card status of a Kuwaiti man who shared hate-filled rhetoric against the United States, our ally Israel - and white people - in social media posts and news articles written in recent years. And he will be getting a plane ticket home as a result.
An exclusive report by The Daily Wire's Mary Margaret Olohan published on Wednesday laid out the damning receipts against Tareq Alkhudari. [Tweet]
WASHINGTON — A Kuwaiti man who obtained a green card in the U.S. is being sent home after he called America “the enemy” and expressed support for terrorists.
Look, it makes sense to be concerned that the progressives who are trying to run a coup on the Democrat Party are now openly calling themselves “socialists,” but don’t forget that we have an advantage. They are morally bankrupt nincompoops who have been beaten by the establishment like the rented mules they are. Do progressive Democrats have any self-respect at all? It’s a legitimate question. The Democrat establishment, those ancient, corrupt, sleazeball party hacks, keep humiliating the eager Leftists, and they keep taking it. Their repeating the mantra “Vote blue, no matter who” is like slapping a “Kick Me” sign on their collective collectivist back.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants the national stage, the party microphone, and the 2028 speculation that comes with both.
He's spent years positioning himself as one of President Donald Trump's loudest Democratic opponents. He's told voters that he'll give a 2028 White House run “serious thought” after the midterms.
So when the California governor claims he just doesn't know enough about the Graham Platner collapse in Maine, the answer should be simple: then why are you asking Democrats to treat you like a leader?
Platner, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, for now anyway, said he would withdraw after being
How Low Can She Go? As Prosecutors Lay
Out Case Against Tyler Robinson, Owens
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Out Case Against Tyler Robinson, Owens
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The preliminary hearing in the Tyler Robinson trial has been going on this week in a Utah courtroom. Robinson is accused of assassinating Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University (UVU) on September 10, 2025. Erika Kirk and Charlie Kirk's parents, Kathryn and Robert, were able to face Robinson in court during the hearings. Throughout the week, the prosecution has laid out a very clear case that Tyler Robinson is the man responsible for the murder of Charlie Kirk, including video and DNA evidence linking Robinson to the crime.
Robinson turned himself in to the authorities at 9 p.m. on September 11, 2025, a day after the shooting.
Shortly before Independence Day, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) released an ad celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Working Families Tax Cut. President Trump signed the tax cuts into law on July 4, 2025, and thanks to that legislation, American families saw their refunds increase by 11 percent, some 25 million taxpayers took advantage of the No Tax on Overtime provisions, while millions of other Americans kept more money in their pockets thanks to the No Tax on Tips and No Tax on Social Security.
Small business owners saw their tax bill reduced by $7,000,
Welcome, dear readers, to Thursday, July 9, 2026. (Snip) Raise your hand if you still remember the name Andrew Gillum. Don't worry if your hand stayed down. I'm betting the Democrat Party would love for you to forget it, too. Anyway, now your co-workers or your other half would be wondering why your hand was up.
Fasten your seatbelts, kids.
Gillum, the former Mayor of Tallahassee, Fla., ran a genuinely electrifying campaign as the Democratic nominee for Florida governor in 2018, and he pulled off a real upset to win the primary in the first place. Barack Obama endorsed him. High-profile progressives lined up behind him. He came agonizingly close
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) shouldn't wait until late September to learn what Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) already understands.
Another shutdown fight is coming, and Democrats have a clean political incentive to force it.
They can block a funding bill, blame President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), and Republicans, then count on the press to file the paperwork. The Senate still requires 60 votes to end debate on most legislation, which means a Republican majority alone can't keep the government funded.
The calendar is blunt. Fiscal year 2027 begins on Oct. 1, and the normal appropriations process isn't on pace to finish before then.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested a serial anti-ICE doxxer and requested custody for a deportee who re-entered the United States and shot a small dog.
The first story regards Gregory John Curcio, a 68-year-old Santa Monica resident. He hates ICE so passionately that he has not only doxxed an ICE agent, putting her at risk of assault from wacko activists, but he also repeatedly harassed the agent’s mother, who lived in the same building as him.
Curcio posted the ICE agent’s home address on social media and then actively encouraged other wokies to swat her. “Swatting is harassment that often involves placing false emergency calls to law enforcement
Little Italy is a New York City landmark. It’s a cultural touchtone where movies have been set. Tourists troop over to pick up Sopranos t-shirts and go out to an Italian restaurant.
‘Little Palestine’ is Islamic colonialist nonsense that no one had ever heard of. But the Mamdani regime predictably put out a map of what it claimed were “New York City Immigrant Enclaves” which listed ‘Little Palestine’, ‘Little Pakistan’, ‘Little Yemen’, ‘Little Albania’ and ‘Little Egypt’, but didn’t mention ‘Little Italy.’
If you’re counting, that’s 5 Muslim colonial enclaves in New York City, but no Irish, Italian or Jewish enclaves.
Indeed, virtually all of the 30 ‘immigrant enclaves’ listed
Multiple instances of Texas hopsitals advertising birth tourism packages to Mexican mothers have been exposed, with former Rep. Mayra Flores releasing information showing that multiple facilities are offering steeply discounted childbirth packages to foreign nationals while American mothers face dramatically higher bills. President Trump has demanded a re-hearing on birthright citizenship in response to the evidence of extensive birth tourism operations.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered an investigation into Mission Regional Medical Center after Spanish-language billboards were seen in Mexico promoting fixed-price maternity packages for expectant mothers seeking to give birth in the United States, thereby ensuring that their children would be American citizens. Flores says the practice is not isolated
Some apparent Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers could not help but cast stones after SpaceX CEO Gwynne Shotwell announced that she and her husband would be donating their shares in the company to Trump Accounts. The accounts were authorized by a provision in last summer’s “Big Beautiful Bill” that allows $1,000 in seed money for every American born between 2025 and 2028 for the benefit of the child when he or she reaches adulthood.
On Monday, President Donald Trump announced that over 6 million children had accounts opened for them, which were funded this week. Children under 18 but born before 2025 are also eligible for Trump Accounts, but will not receive
If the allegations put forward by Tulsi Gabbard, former Director of National Intelligence, prove to be substantially true, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s legacy will be remembered as one of the greatest betrayals of the public trust in modern American history.
For four decades, Fauci occupied one of the most influential positions in the federal government. As Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), he controlled billions of taxpayer dollars, directed research priorities, advised presidents of both parties, and enjoyed a level of public credibility rarely afforded to unelected bureaucrats. Americans were encouraged to trust him -- not because he was elected, but because he was presented as