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CAIRO — U.S. President Donald Trump said in a Saturday evening social media post he will order American forces to hold off on new strikes against Iran, claiming Mideast allies had reached the parameters of a deal to end the five-month old war.
The emerging deal “would include the Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT, and an end to Iran’s nuclear threat,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“Based on this request, I have agreed, for the future benefit of the WORLD and, likewise, the survival of a successful and prosperous Iran, to cancel the attack, subject to being able to rapidly make a DEAL,” Trump said.
A madman gunned down two people and wounded several others at a brand new In-N-Out Burger in Idaho on Saturday, sending panicked patrons running for their lives.
The shooter, who is among the dead, launched his rampage inside the burger joint in Twins Falls at around 2 p.m. local time before heading outside – in clear view of witnesses who recorded the harrowing scene.
Twin Falls Police Chief Matthew Hicks said investigators were still working to determine the final number of people injured and did not say how many people may have been involved. Hicks also said officials believe “the threat to the community is over”
The Department of Homeland Security announced the addition of 43 companies to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List, marking what officials described as the largest single expansion of the list since the law took effect.
DHS, acting on behalf of the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force, said the additions will bring the total number of listed entities to 187, a 30% increase. The department also announced technical updates to the official names of two entities already on the list, according to a July 31 announcement.
Beginning August 3, 2026, U.S.
With bi-partisan support, the Republican Congress passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act back in June and the measure has now become law. While the bill includes some good provisions like preventing large institutional investors from gobbling up single family homes, the legislation is chock full of provisions for developers and assistance to produce more allegedly “affordable housing.” The president and Members of Congress are right to acknowledge the real challenges younger Americans are facing in their attempts to achieve lifestyles similar to, if not better than, those of their parents’ generation.
For years, Washington let a critical federal healthcare program morph into something Congress never intended. What began as a lifeline for vulnerable patients has slowly become a multibillion-dollar windfall for powerful hospitals, with too little transparency, too little accountability, and far too many opportunities for abuse.
Politicians ignored the warning signs for far too long. President Donald Trump is finally doing something about it.
This week, the Trump administration unveiled a pilot program to modernize the 340B Drug Pricing Program — a commonsense reform that replaces automatic upfront discounts for hospitals with a rebate model for a limited number of drugs. The objective is simple:
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) pointed to weaknesses in President Trump’s influence in Congress amid opposition from three outgoing Republican senators to the president’s nomination of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to a permanent role overseeing the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Sens. Thom Tillis (N.C.), Bill Cassidy (La.) and John Cornyn (Texas) have all expressed skepticism about Blanche’s nomination amid questions about the status of a controversial “anti-weaponization fund” created under his watch.
Trump's new NIH chief outlines sweeping
reforms like new pandemic playbook, vaccine
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reforms like new pandemic playbook, vaccine
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National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya said the Trump administration’s newly announced ban on federally funded gain-of-function research represents a significant shift in federal biomedical policy, adding that the agency is committed to greater transparency, open scientific debate and a new approach to pandemic preparedness.
Speaking in an interview Thursday with the Just the News, No Noise TV program, Bhattacharya called the new approach “an absolutely vital policy.”
“The United States will never again support research that has a chance of causing catastrophic human harm,” he said. “We’ve been working for a year and a half on getting the details right,
Tens of thousands of migrants voluntarily
leave after crossing into Spanish territory
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leave after crossing into Spanish territory
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Tens of thousands of migrants who crossed into Spain’s tiny Ceuta territory returned voluntarily to Morocco on Friday, a day after the influx triggered chaos in the North African city and reignited the immigration debate in Europe and beyond. At least 57 migrants died on the journey.
Ceuta’s president put the number of migrants at 60,000, which was equivalent to 70% of the territory’s population. But most of them soon went back, the Spanish government said, after the sudden arrival of so many people sparked a humanitarian crisis.
For months now, a battle has been raging between Trump’s FCC and ABC News/Disney, the owners of the daytime talk show ‘The View.’
ABC News claims that ‘The View’ is a legitimate news show, a claim that is preposterous at best, while the FCC argues that it’s not a news show.
The argument is important because the decision ultimately governs what the show is and is not allowed to do.
In a way, it’s amazing that this debate is even taking place. The View is easily the most anti-Trump and anti-Republican show on network television.
Vice President JD Vance said at Friday’s cabinet meeting that the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, of which he is chair, has identified $230 billion in fraud and prevented $56 billion in fraudulent payments.
Speaking after President Donald Trump at the first-ever televised cabinet meeting from Camp David, Vance provided an update on the efforts of the task force which is implementing a whole-of-government approach in its war on fraud.
“Just since the beginning of the fraud task force that I started under the president’s leadership and direction, we have identified $230 billion dollars of fraud that’s being perpetrated against the American people,
The UN and EU's Horrific Appeasement of
the Iranian Regime's Tyranny, Betrayal
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the Iranian Regime's Tyranny, Betrayal
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The regime is murdering its youth, including two young men who were only offering help to fleeing protesters. At least 26 people linked to those protests have been hanged after trials marked by torture and forced confessions, while dozens more – in a terror state determined to instill fear – remain at urgent risk.
The only countries taking meaningful action, or even expressing disapproval of this regime and its atrocities, are the United States and Israel. The United Nations and the European Union, which endlessly lecture the world about human rights and vilify Israel for defending not only itself but them, have offered effectively no objections.
As Trump thanks Qatar for Hamas disarmament,
Israel’s past approval of aid to Hamas-run
Gaza emerges replies
Israel’s past approval of aid to Hamas-run
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President Donald Trump on Thursday announced on Truth Social the “complete disarmament of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza,” calling the news a “monumental step toward lasting peace and security.”
In his post, Trump thanked three countries for mediating the disarmament – Egypt, Qatar and Turkey. Qatar’s inclusion in the mediation is curious, given the country’s recent history in the region: Just days before Trump’s announcement, former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett posted on X that “Qatar bears responsibility for the October 7 massacre,”
Trump Rages at Jeanine Pirro Over Reflecting
Pool Charging Decision – 'What Was She Thinking?' replies
Pool Charging Decision – 'What Was She Thinking?' replies
It's probably a very uncomfortable position to be in when, as a Donald Trump appointee, you find yourself the object of his wrath in a very public Truth Social posting. That's the exact position D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro finds herself in Saturday after the president posted a scathing message on his social media platform excoriating her for failing to prosecute a Reflecting Pool vandal.
You thought you had heard the end of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool shenanigans, hadn't you?
In his post, Trump said he disagreed "100%" with Pirro over her decision to drop charges against former Olympian David Hearn,
A man who spent years trading on his father's name, collecting millions from foreign business deals, selling paintings to anonymous buyers, and leaning on a Hollywood fixer to cover his bills, now claims he cannot afford a car or a cell phone. Hunter Biden testified under oath that he owns no stocks, bonds, or savings account. His paintings, he said, are the only things he has left that might be worth anything.
The admissions came during a Feb. 9 deposition in Hunter Biden’s legal battle with Winston Taylor, formerly Winston & Strawn. His attorneys released the transcript while fighting the firm’s demand for communications involving people who may have been asked
Train Wreck In Wisconsin
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I wrote yesterday about Francesca Hong, the socialist who seems poised to capture the Democratic nomination for Governor of Wisconsin. (snip) She was sued to recover defaulted credit card debt just a couple of months ago: (snip)
Francesca Hong was diagnosed with 1) bipolar disease, 2) had a mental breakdown, 3) was placed in psychiatric hospitalization, 4) did self-harm by cutting, and 5) experienced a lithium overdose. My source: Francesca Hong in a 2023 interview. Her own words.
Video of young girl waving in 49K shirtless
African migrants in Spain holds a chilling secret… replies
African migrants in Spain holds a chilling secret… replies
The Western world has spent decades being lectured about the glorious wonders and magic of mass migration.“Diversity is our strength” became the left’s go-to slogan that they used to shut down any legit questions about borders, assimilation, crime, social factors, and whether millions of people from radically different Muslim cultures could actually live in harmony with the Western world.Now, after so many disasters, soaring crime, and filth and decay, many people are now realizing the very hard way that it was never that simple, and that slogan has been a death sentence for the West.)snip)appreciating other cultures doesn’t mean we all sit here pretending we’re compatible.
UMich medical center to pay $410,000 to
Christian employee fired for objections
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Christian employee fired for objections
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A former University of Michigan medical center employee will receive $410,000 in a settlement after the hospital illegally terminated her for refusing to use preferred pronouns and refer patients for transgender drugs or surgeries.
As part of the settlement, University of Michigan Health-West must also implement a religious accommodations policy, according to First Liberty, the legal group representing Valerie Kloosterman.
Under the policy, employees cannot be forced to use pronouns or to participate in gender transition treatments if doing so would contradict their religious beliefs.
John Cornyn lost his Republican primary because Texas voters were finally fed up with him and his RINO ways.They watched him spend years pretending to represent one of the most conservative states in America while siding with the same establishment machine his voters sent him to the Swamp to fight. So, they fired him.
That should have ended the nightmare, right?
Wrong.(snip decided that if Texas voters no longer want him, he’ll spend his remaining months sabotaging the president they overwhelmingly elected.
“On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.”
Narcissistic “Covid czar” Dr. Anthony Fauci sounded more machine than man during his tense appearance Wednesday before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. With each “respectfully decline” — Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times — you could sense the blood boiling in committee chairman Rand Paul’s veins. The Kentucky Republican’s committee colleagues on the right appeared to grow more and more incensed.
Spain installing containment fence between
Morocco and Ceuta after massive frontier
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Morocco and Ceuta after massive frontier
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CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Spain announced it was installing a 500-meter-long (1,600-foot) containment barrier on the sea border between its North African territory of Ceuta and neighboring Morocco after between 50,000 and 60,000 migrants breached the frontier earlier this week.
The death toll has climbed to 67, including some who drowned and others who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier, the Spanish government said Saturday.
A handful of exhausted migrants who swam to Ceuta’s urban Tarajal beach Saturday morning were met by soldiers who escorted them back across the border.
We had to look twice at this headline in the New York Times to believe it.
“In Trump’s Economy, Job Gains Go to Women. That’s Not an Entirely Good Thing.”
Huh? Is the Times complaining that men are being shut out of the workforce?
Maybe the subhead will clear things up?
Nope. It says “Despite the administration’s best attempts, the diminishing status of many American jobs is driving a spike in women’s employment.”
“Best attempts”? At what? Driving down women’s employment? Is that really something the Trump administration has been putting its “best efforts” to achieve?
The first was that Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s hard-socialist president, announced that illegal aliens in Spain who applied for legal status would receive it. The second was that the leftist Supreme Court announced that, while those who entered Spain over a land border could instantly be turned away, those who entered through a waterway would instantly be registered as asylum seekers, entitled to a full hearing. Spain’s geography and the shared coastline between Morocco, Ceuta, and Melilla made the outcome obvious.
A Bermuda-flagged tanker carrying liquefied natural gas through the Strait of Hormuz was reportedly struck by a missile Saturday, while US embassies in the region began urging Americans to leave the Middle East.
The Gaslog Shanghai LNG ship sustained damage to its engine room, rendering it inoperable off the Omani coast, Bloomberg reported, citing security intelligence sources.
The UK Maritime Trade Operations also alerted that a vessel was struck in the same location overnight Saturday, though the agency did not identify the ship.
The Democratic Socialists of America don’t like being called communists, though many members might echo the sentiment of leftist influencer Hasan Piker when he says, “I don’t have an issue with an end goal of communism.”
Yet, however the group self-identifies, its agenda is openly revolutionary.
Its plans call for, among other things, abolishing the United States Senate and making the executive branch and the Supreme Court subservient to the House of Representatives.
Like many a revolutionary organ, the DSA acts as a party within a party, and it increasingly represents the youth wing of the Democrats.