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US and Iranian officials are due to meet in Qatar’s capital on Tuesday after Tehran “requested talks” following days of reciprocal attacks that threatened their interim deal, according to President Donald Trump.
However, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei says the Iranian delegation is not currently scheduled to hold talks with the US and is only visiting Qatar to advance efforts to secure the release of frozen assets.
A CBS News Chicago reporter and photographer were attacked Monday afternoon near the Adler Planetarium while preparing for a live report, according to the station and Chicago police. The incident happened around 4:25 p.m. in the 900 block of East Solidarity Drive, near Adler Planetarium, Chicago Police told Fox News Digital. Multiple men arrived in a truck before they allegedly exited the vehicle and rushed at the victims as they shouted racial slurs at one of the journalists, according to police. The men ordered a dog to attack the pair of journalists. But when the dog did not attack
The other day, I argued that the modern panic industry has mastered a single, lucrative trick: detect something, strip away all quantitative context, and declare a crisis before the science can deliver a verdict. The mold-sniffing dog and the Florida government’s botched candy arsenic announcement were my examples. I suggested the playbook was institutional and repeatable.
I did not anticipate how quickly the next example would arrive—or how much larger it would be.
The plastics-in-blood story is now everywhere. Microscopic images circulating in journals, documentaries, and social media feeds show strange, alien-looking geometric fragments suspended in human blood samples—translucent shards and angular clusters
Kyiv — Once Russian soldiers reach certain parts of the front lines of the war in Ukraine, they can expect to live an average of just 20 to 35 minutes, according to a grim estimate by Russian military bloggers, cited by Oxford historian Peter Frankopan in a Foreign Policy report. CBS News has not independently verified the claim. But similar accounts are becoming increasingly common on Russian military channels, suggesting that more Russians are becoming aware of the war and its toll on their side — a toll Kremlin officials have long sought to shield from view.
The war has inflicted staggering losses on Russia's young men.
We're headed into the dog days of summer, so it's not surprising that the topic of air conditioning is on the minds of many Americans these days. A heatwave has been pummeling much of Europe for the past week, and the East Coast of the United States is about to be placed firmly under a "heat dome," with temperatures expected to climb into the 100s later this week in Virginia and North Carolina. Our ACs will be humming, to be sure, along with the usual warnings of possible "rolling brownouts" to keep the power grids operational during the surge in usage.
And no one is loving our temperature-controlled houses, more
Democrat administrations in 25 states and the District of Columbia on Monday filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its recent guidance on new Medicaid work requirements, arguing that strict eligibility requirements will prevent eligible Americans from accessing care.
The governors and attorneys general who filed the lawsuit allege that an interim released earlier this month from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services oversteps the text of the GOP’s budget reconciliation bill passed last year that overhauled Medicaid. Medicaid, a federal-state joint program, provides health insurance coverage for low-income adults, pregnant women, and children, covering roughly 72 million adults and an additional 7.3 million minors.
President Donald Trump said on Sunday that work will begin Sept. 1 on the public East Potomac Golf Course despite a federal judge's warning of "serious consequences" if the administration begins major work without getting approval and notifying the court in advance.
Trump took a tour of some of the projects he has commissioned or plans to on a rainy Sunday morning.
The president's motorcade swung by Lafayette Park near the White House and around Memorial Circle in front of Arlington National Cemetery, where he plans to build his 250-foot-high triumphal arch, and by the Kennedy Center, to which he had added his name before a judge ordered it removed.
Monday’s bombshell Supreme Court ruling established that “election day” isn’t really election day at all; it’s a period of time. Specifically, the court decided 5-4 in Watson v. RNC that states could count mail-in ballots even if they were received after the election date, as long as they were postmarked in time. Naturally, many conservatives, including President Trump, were deeply disappointed by the decision, which to many seemed to defy common sense and the notion of election integrity. California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and his ilk were almost certainly cheering; after all, they still haven’t certified the governor’s primary, which was held on June 2.
A clown show.
Expert stock picker Nancy Pelosi revealed her post-Congress retirement plan Monday.
The 86-year-old Pelosi has spent 40 years in Congress, building an incredible stock portfolio while leading the Democratic Party, and will finally retire in January. Her next project will be a fake “bipartisan” academic center at the University of California, Berkeley, aptly named the Nancy Pelosi Institute, where students and future civic “leaders” will be brainwashed beginning in January 2027. “I think all of us in public service who have an opportunity to do so want to use our experience to train leaders for the future,”
‘Fully substantiated’: Report says
Biden leaders pushed ‘gender’ rule
on schools despite court order replies
Biden leaders pushed ‘gender’ rule
on schools despite court order replies
The U.S. Department of Education has promised to take action after a new investigation substantiated evidence that Biden administration officials pressured schools to comply with “radical gender identity” policies in alleged violation [of] a court order.
Department spokesperson Amelia Joy told The College Fix the Biden administration showed a “complete disregard” for Title IX, and instead “continued to implement its radical gender identity agenda through what appears to be coercion and intimidation of Federal employees.”
Supreme Court refuses to review E. Jean
Carroll’s $5M sex abuse, defamation
verdict vs. Trump replies
Carroll’s $5M sex abuse, defamation
verdict vs. Trump replies
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up President Trump’s appeal of the $5 million sexual abuse and defamation verdict that followed a lawsuit by former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.
Now Trump will have no choice but to pony up the $5 million to the 82-year-old, who has repeatedly claimed that the president sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room during the mid-1990s.
Trump’s lawyers argued that, as president, he should not be distracted from his executive duties in order to deal with “decades-old, false allegations.”
The Supreme Court formally blocked President Trump’s attempt to dismiss Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook in a ruling that is likely to reassure markets of the central bank’s independence.
Trump attempted to fire Cook, a Biden appointee, on Aug. 25, 2025, via a Truth Social post, citing accusations by Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte that she had committed mortgage fraud as justification.
Cook has denied wrongdoing, and independent analyses have questioned Pulte’s claims, which date from before she was appointed to the Fed board in May 2022. Cook sued to block her removal and was granted an injunction by a DC federal judge, keeping her in her position
The Supreme Court ruled Monday morning that President Donald Trump can fire bureaucrats from the executive branch.
In the 6-3 decision on Trump v. Slaughter, the court ruled that “The FTC’s for-cause removal provision is contrary to the separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution.”
The ruling states that officers in the executive branch, who “derive their offices from [the president’s] appointment,” must “remain accountable to the President,” meaning “those officers must be removable by the President.”
Trump removed Rebecca Slaughter, a former aide to Democratic New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, from
Democratic socialists, high on their victories last Tuesday, are already calling out House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Gov. Kathy Hochul; the hard left’s hatred for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was already well-established. So when will they get serious about fighting back?
One election night DSA crowd shouted, “You’re next” when Jeffries (D-NY) showed his face; NYC DSA chief Gustavo Gordillo told the New York Times that Hochul “knows we’re coming for her.”
Lefty candidates across the country talk of ousting Jeffries and Schumer (D-NY) from leadership, while regular Democrats wonder if they have what it takes to beat back the radicals.
The Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruled that state laws allowing for the counting of mail-in ballots after election day are not in violation of federal law, a blow to the Republican National Committee and President Donald Trump’s administration.
On Monday, SCOTUS issued a 5-4 ruling that permits states to count mail-in ballots — sent on or before election day — that are received by state election officials after election day.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the majority’s opinion, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts as well as Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Just as his party is overrun by Communist revolutionaries, former President Barack Obama has decided to take center stage in a frenetic public relations campaign, ostensibly to promote his so-called library.
He’s here, there and everywhere, silkily opining about everything under the sun, except the only thing that matters: the disintegration of his party. Like Nero playing the fiddle while Rome burned, Obama is curiously detached from the disaster he helped create.
Democrats desperately need a leader to rally around, but all they have is Obama.
He is the only former Democratic president who is still sharp, charismatic and dynamic enough to take up the mantle. Former President Bill Clinton,
For the last decade, legacy news outlets have produced endless handwringing over the rise of President Trump and “MAGA-aligned” Republicans. And what some have called a “hostile takeover” of the Republican Party has indeed been a problem, arguably turning the party into a personality cult. But at least it has been acknowledged. The radical progressive and socialist takeover of the Democratic Party poses an equal, if not greater, problem. But one would hardly know it, given our media’s selective sense of urgency. The last three years have seen a flurry of activity both inside and outside the political space, suggesting
The United Kingdom, like the U.S. and other Western countries, issues visas to those workers who have special skills deemed vital to the national economy. But it turns out that in the U.K., the Home Office has a most peculiar and expansive definition of the categories of people eligible for such visas. More on the latest travesty can be found here.
A total of 159 kebab shops across Britain have been granted Home Office licenses allowing them to sponsor overseas workers under the skilled worker visa scheme.
The licenses enable businesses to recruit workers from abroad, with sponsored employees often able to bring family members with them to the UK….
How digital price tags are spreading at
retailers like Walmart — and sparking
‘surveillance’ fears replies
retailers like Walmart — and sparking
‘surveillance’ fears replies
The growing use of digital price tags at Walmart and other big US retailers is stirring fresh anxiety that prices on groceries and other basic goods could be subjected to high-tech manipulation — and labor unions are looking to capitalize on the fears.
Walmart said it is rapidly installing the tags — which can raise or lower the prices displayed on their tiny LED screens en masse with the click of a button — in all of its 4,600 US stores by the end of the year. The idea, Walmart says, is to free staffers from the decades-old, time-consuming task of switching out paper tags slotted on shelves.
This is the age of the YOLO candidate. Are you a terrible person with a clear record of awfulness? You would be perfect for the U.S. Senate! Democrats have found just that sort of guy in Maine; Republicans have found one in Texas. Both would be perfect additions to the large and growing cast of bloviators, morons, and preening hacks that constitute what was once known as the world’s most deliberative body. Both sides justify these candidates along similar lines: “[Institution or policy] has failed [interest or faction that sees its demands as indistinguishable from the national interest]. Our only response is to elect [person of bad character
As the Trump administration and Vice President JD Vance intensify efforts to crack down on wasteful federal spending, one of the federal government’s largest green-energy projects has largely escaped serious scrutiny: the U.S. Postal Service’s nearly $10 billion electric vehicle modernization effort.
The “greening” of the USPS fleet was central to former President Joe Biden’s climate agenda and the Inflation Reduction Act, which directed billions toward replacing aging mail trucks with a new generation of electric delivery vehicles. But years into the effort, inspectors general, lawmakers, and outside analysts are raising concerns over delays, unused vehicles, infrastructure failures, and mounting financial pressure
The Biden administration’s special envoy for "LGBTQI+ Persons," gender activist Jessica Stern, had a mandate to put gay and transgender issues at the forefront of American foreign policy, according to internal emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The trove of emails reveals just how far the Democrats went to impose fringe views about gender and sexuality on American diplomats and allied countries across the globe.
The internal emails, along with records of speeches and conference calls, span Stern’s tenure as the second ever "U.S. Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI+) Persons." They document how Stern performed
Climate researcher Judith Curry says the
era of ‘climate stupidity’ is done
and declares victory replies
era of ‘climate stupidity’ is done
and declares victory replies
American climatologist Dr. Judith Curry on Tuesday announced that she would no longer maintain her influential blog, “Climate Etc.”
“It’s time to declare victory against climate stupidity and move on,” said in her final post. The reelection of President Donald Trump came with an overall shift in the political landscape regarding climate and energy issues. Since then, major media outlets shut down their climate desks, corporations are easing back on emission-reduction targets, and polls consistently show the public rates climate change low on their list of priorities.
Some figures like Curry who disputed the “climate crisis” narrative — often in the face of vitriol from those who support it —
U.S., Iran reportedly to 'stand down'
after weekend of military skirmishes,
resume talks in Qatar replies
after weekend of military skirmishes,
resume talks in Qatar replies
The United States and Iran will reportedly "stand down for now” after a weekend of military skirmishes in the Strait of Hormuz, and both sides will try to reboot peace talks in Qatar this week.
Officials told multiple news outlets, including Axios, CNN and Fox News, that there was an easing of tensions after several days of exchanging fire near the Strait.
“Technical talks are slated to continue on all areas of the MOU. Both sides will stand down for now and vessels can move freely," the White House told Fox News.
Axios reported that the two sides will resume talks in Doha on Tuesday.