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On one hand, we are winning the war with Iran. This week, bombings greatly accelerated and are not likely to end without real capitulation and surrender. On the other hand, the Vice President seems to be at odds with the administration, unhappy that we are in a (winning) war and casting blame for the failure of his peace effort, which is really only Iran’s fault.
On one hand, the President has declassified documents credibly showing foreign influence and interference with our elections. On the other hand, major news outlets seem determined to keep their viewers from knowing this
The new platform of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) got a lot of attention this week.
The revision to the DSA platform, "Workers Deserve More," plans to abolish the Senate entirely and replace the president and Supreme Court with an executive branch and judiciary elected by and subordinate to Congress.
They also want to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), defund the Department of War, end deportations, ease restrictions on immigration control for migration between countries, and "extend full voting rights to people with criminal convictions and noncitizens."
Report: President Trump Orders CENTCOM
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to 'Rain Hell' on IRGC After US Service
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Iran is finding out that the United States under President Trump doesn't mess around when U.S. servicemembers are killed by its reckless missile strikes.
As RedState wrote earlier on Saturday:
The U.S. Central Command, which oversees American military operations in the Middle East, has now revealed that two United States service members were killed and one remains missing following a missile and drone attack by Iran. The attack was targeted at the U.S. forces in Jordan.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth reacted to the attack in an X post in an update, writing:
Godspeed, heroes.
Their sacrifice only stiffens our resolve.
There’s not a whole lot of information yet, but a corpse was found Saturday at a Boston-area property owned by Conan Harris, husband to Squad Member Rep. Ayanna Pressley (MA-7). The couple does not live in the house but rents it out to tenants.
Here’s what we know:
Police spokesperson James Moccia told CBS News Boston officers were called to 25 Malta Street in Boston's Mattapan neighborhood at 1:52 p.m. "for a report to investigate a person."
When they arrived, they found the person deceased, Moccia said.
Moccia did not have any further details and said the homicide unit is handling the investigation.
Iranian state TV, amid a series of threats from Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei against the “Great Satan” America, has labeled Donald Trump the “'number one target of the Iranians.'”
Amir-Hossein Tahmasebi is a host on Iranian state TV, and therefore acts as a mouthpiece of the terrorist regime's sentiments. Indeed, the Iranian parliament has a €50 million (about $57 million) price on Trump‘s head, besides a bounty on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Earlier this month, Tahmasebi commented on Trump's presence at the NATO summit, and expressed the official regime determination to assassinate the U.S. president. Unsurprisingly, the Iranian parliament is promoting the same goal:
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” New York City DSA Co-Chair Gustavo Gordillo said that if a private store in New York City is put out of business by one of the government-run grocery stores in the city, “then maybe they shouldn’t have been in that business in the first place.”
Host Martha MacCallum asked, “I guess the question is, how does the government become more democratized if the government takes over more of the power? So, for example, here in New York, if you have government-owned grocery stores, right? And that was what Mamdani promised, I know you were supportive of his election,
Prominent House Democrats appeared befuddled when asked about the Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) platform that seeks to destroy the American political system guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
That, from a report Saturday by Fox News.
“I don’t support that,” Rep. Ro Khanna, (D-CA), said when asked about the new agenda. “I haven’t read the proposal.”
The DSA platform includes eliminating the Senate, the presidency, and the Supreme Court, measures which essentially would rewrite the U.S. Constitution and would end American governance as we know it.
State Dept to Americans Abroad: Exercise
Extreme Caution Due to 'Heightened Tensions
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Extreme Caution Due to 'Heightened Tensions
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Things in the Middle East are growing very spicy indeed, with two American service members killed in the line of duty and President Trump ordering, shall we say, a vigorous reply to be visited upon Iran. Things are liable to get worse before they get better, and now the Trump administration is taking steps to keep Americans in the rest of the world safe.
On Saturday, the State Department issued a travel warning to Americans traveling abroad. The post reads:
Worldwide Caution: Due to heightened tensions in the Middle East, the security environment remains complex with the potential for unforeseen escalation. We remind Americans in the region of the continued need for caution
In 1990, New Jersey passed a law banning over 30 named “assault firearms” and any weapons “substantially identical” to those named. The law had a few other nuances that also limited gun buyers’ and owners’ rights. At the same time, New Jersey banned all magazines with a capacity of more than 15 rounds.
In 2018, New Jersey amended the law to ban all magazines holding more than 10 rounds. It was that amendment that finally spurred legal action, in the form of a lawsuit filed by the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs, Inc., Blake Ellman, and Marc Weinberg.
Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) put her IQ on full display on Friday when she was asked about the Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) desire to abolish the Senate.
The Democratic Socialists of America recently unveiled their new “Workers Deserve More” platform, which includes abolishing the Senate and expanding the House of Representatives, replacing the Supreme Court and the President with Congressionally chosen leaders, ranked-choice voting in all elections, open borders and amnesty for all, and abolishing private businesses.
During a Friday appearance on Fox News, New York City DSA co-chair Gustavo Gordillo discussed the DSA’s vision, describing the democratically elected Senate as “a non-democratic institution.”
The View co-host Sunny Hostin is representing her son after she reportedly says he received a citation in New York while jogging, claiming he had “no intent to trespass.”
Sunny, who is also a lawyer and former federal prosecutor, wrote a letter to an assistant district attorney for the New Rochelle City Court, obtained by TMZ on Monday, July 13.
In the letter, she reportedly asked the prosecutor to dismiss the violation and noted that her 24-year-old son, Gabriel Hostin, is “a 2025 Harvard University graduate with no criminal history or prior contact with the criminal justice system,” who was simply “in the area training.”
Two U.S. service members were killed in action in Jordan during Iranian attacks on a U.S. base in Jordan on Friday, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed Saturday.
"On July 17, two U.S. service members in Jordan were killed in action as U.S. Central Command … and partner forces defended against Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks. Additionally, one service member is currently missing," CENTCOM wrote in a statement on X.
"Four American service members were medically evacuated to Jordanian hospitals. They have since been discharged. Other personnel who were evaluated for minor injuries have returned to duty.
The radical left is having an absolute, total meltdown, and corporate America is once again bowing at the altar of woke madness! Just days after Florida officially renamed Palm Beach International Airport in honor of President Donald J. Trump, United Airlines was caught instructing reservation agents to let passengers switch flights for free if they don’t want to land at the newly named President Donald J. Trump International Airport.According to an explosive internal memo obtained by Live And Let’s Fly per FOX Business, United Airlines executives actively instructed their reservation agents to give free pass upgrades to anti-Trump crybabies.
Detached from reality:’ School choice
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advocate blasts NEA president's annual
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For Becky Pringle, outgoing president of the nation’s largest teachers union, education appears to be synonymous with political organizing, at least to one critic, Corey DeAngelis, the founder of the Educational Freedom Institute, and a fellow at the Americans for Fair Treatment and the Heritage Foundation.
At the National Education Association’s 2026 Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly in Denver, Pringle’s nearly 40-minute speech was largely dedicated to highlighting the union’s political and social accomplishments – priorities that critics say diverge from the unions’ original purpose of ensuring fair pay and working conditions and instead diving into the deep-end of the radical left.
Six goons were arrested and charged in one of the largest gun and drug trafficking busts in Nassau County’s history, according to the local district attorney’s office. The multi-agency, 14-month investigation recovered 47 illegal handguns and more than one kilogram of cocaine and heroin that the dealers peddled on Long Island and Queens. The massive dragnet also pulled in assistance from the ATF, DEA, NYPD, Suffolk County Police, and the US Secret Service.
“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin tried to talk cops out of issuing her Ivy League-educated son a trespassing citation — telling them he “has no criminal record” and repeatedly citing her legal background, according to newly released police bodycam footage.
The TV personality and former federal prosecutor was on the phone with her 24-year-old son, Gabriel Hostin, when he was stopped by police along Metro-North Railroad tracks in Westchester County last month.
“My name is Sunny Hostin and I’m one of the co-hosts of ‘The View’ and I’m a former federal prosecutor,” the 57-year-old mom can be heard saying to the responding officers in the bodycam footage obtained Friday by The Post.
New York City doled out more than $2.6 billion in cash assistance to city residents in 2025, a Fox News Digital review of city records showed. The money reached a record 864,999 people, a 30-year high not matched since before former Mayor Rudy Giuliani instituted major welfare reform in the early 2000s. The $2.6 billion figure represents a 71% increase from 2022's $1.57 billion, data showed. When coupled with payments from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the city paid out more than $7 billion in welfare to residents in 2024, according to a Fox News analysis of data from
Mamdani desperately seeking legal loophole
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to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu when Israel
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he’s desperately seeking a legal loophole to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged war crimes when he visits in NYC in September.
The Pro-Palestine, Israel-hating, socialist pol said in an interview published Saturday that it’s unclear whether he has the authority to order the NYPD to arrest Netanyahu during the prime minister’s expected trip to the Big Apple for the U.N. General Assembly – but is in an “active conversation” with the city’s Law Department about the matter.
“I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague,” Mamdani bluntly told The New York Times, referring to the United Nation’s International Court of Justice.
DOJ says it is no longer illegal for federal
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The Justice Department this week determined in an opinion that a federal law banning TikTok from government devices no longer applies to the social video app after the United States created its own version with non-Chinese investors.
The deal for a U.S. TikTok was reached in January and is funded by the software giant Oracle, the Emirati investment firm MGX, and the California-based private equity fund Silver Lake. TikTok’s former operations head, Adam Presser, is its CEO.
The new version was created after Congress passed a law in 2022 that banned TikTok from federal devices over national security concerns.
British runner Josh Kerr on Saturday broke the men's world record for fastest mile, defeating a 27-year-old record.
Kerr broke the record at a Diamond League meet in London where he defeated Moroccan legend Hicham El Guerrouj’s mark of 3 minutes, 43.13 seconds, setting a new record with 3 minutes, 42.66 seconds, according to the Associated Press.
“It was just me, my shoes and the track,” Kerr told the BBC. “I was absolutely deaf in that last 110 meters."
Airlines are warning that changes to existing practices around Daylight Saving Time (DST) would have a major impact on the industry and that changes would need to be implemented over time to account for challenges it would create for scheduling. Airlines for America (A4A), a trade group that represents leading air carriers in the U.S., released a statement this week which warned that changes to DST "would have considerable implications for aviation, including passenger disruption, crew and aircraft positioning, and domestic and international connectivity issues."
"Airlines operate expansive interconnected domestic and global networks that are reliant on stability and predictability. Any changes would need an implementation timeline that reflects these global
A House task force chairman says companies helping foreign nationals travel to the United States to give birth so their children obtain U.S. citizenship could be engaging in a criminal conspiracy.
Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, who chairs the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses, told Fox News Digital that his panel has subpoenaed several so-called "birth tourism companies" as it investigates firms advertising services to help foreign nationals travel to the United States to give birth"Right now, under current law, birth tourism is illegal. You cannot come into the United States for the purpose of giving birth," Gill said.
A terror group from Egypt told the FBI it was responsible for downing TWA Flight 800 and killing all 230 people aboard, according to newly surfaced FBI records featured in a new documentary marking the 30th anniversary of the tragedy.
An explosive claim buried in a trove of newly obtained Freedom of Information Act documents is reviving decades-old questions about whether a missile or bomb brought down the Boeing 747-100 off Long Island on July 17, 1996.
Among the records obtained by the transparency nonprofit Judicial Watch is a New York teletype dated two days after the crash, case file 265A-NY-259028: “FBI headquarters received faxes
President Trump pointed out Canada’s forestry mismanagement and failure to follow through with their previous promises of investment have led to catastrophic wildfires now producing smoke streams making U.S. Northern cities and states live under dangerous conditions.
Prime Minister Mark Carney was asked about the U.S. government position, and he immediately hit back by saying the cause of Canada’s wildfires is ‘climate change’ and President Trump’s unwillingness to support the Paris Climate Treaty has created the problem that Canada is now dealing with.
In short, according to the official policy of the Canadian government, their wildfires are caused by Trump’s refusal to accept global “climate change” policies. WATCH: