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The US military launched a fresh wave of strikes on Iran Wednesday evening, hours after President Trump warned additional attacks on the Islamic Republic were coming to try and force Tehran to re-enter serious peace negotiations.
“U.S. Central Command [CENTCOM] forces began launching additional self-defense strikes today at 5:15 p.m. ET against multiple targets in Iran at the Commander in Chief’s direction,” the Tampa, Fla.-based combat command said in a statement on X. “The strikes are in response to Iran’s unwarranted and continued aggression.”
There were no immediate reports on specific targets, damage or casualties. Wednesday’s attacks came after
President Trump took this TruthSocial platform on Wednesday to let us in on some rather earth-shattering news in the ongoing war with Iran. According to President Trump, over 200 tankers carrying more than 100 million barrels of crude oil have safely transited the Straits of Hormuz under Iran's nose with U.S. military protection. Last month, I directed our Great U.S. Military to execute a secret mission to support Oil Tankers and other Commercial Ships through the Strait of Hormuz. Today, I am pleased to announce that this effort has resulted in more than 100 MILLION Barrels of Oil making its way through the Strait, and into the Open Market.
Iran announced it was closing the Strait of Hormuz to all vessels after the United States launched strikes on “multiple targets” on Wednesday evening.
“From this moment on, due to insecurity in the region, the Strait of Hormuz is declared closed to the traffic of any type of vessel, including oil tankers and commercial vessels, and any traffic will be affected,” the Iranian military said in a statement. The strait provides access to roughly a fifth of the global oil supply. While Iran has closed the strait, the U.S. maintains a blockade on Iranian ports. The interruption has sent
The State Department is dismantling birth tourism networks across Africa and Europe, officials announced on Wednesday.
An estimated 33,000 United States-born children are rewarded birthright American citizenship annually solely because their foreign parents arrived in the United States on a temporary visa, often a tourist visa, before they were born. Decades later, those American-born children can sponsor their parents for green cards.
The birth tourism industry is widespread among Turkish nationals in New York City, Chinese nationals in California, Russian nationals in Florida, and Middle Easterners in Illinois.
State Department officials said in a series of X posts they have just recently brought down in West Africa
The U.S. government seized 13 fake job recruiting websites allegedly used by suspected agents of the Chinese government to target American security clearance holders Wednesday.
The suspected agents created the “consulting company websites” starting in November 2023, advertising “generic ‘consulting’ jobs,” according to an affidavit cited by a U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) press release Wednesday. The alleged postings indicated an intent to recruit both current and former American government and military personnel “to provide expertise to unspecified clients.”
Conspirators recruited through social media, job postings and recruiting platforms with postings connected to topics the Chinese Communist Party cared about, according to court documents. The postings used aliases, AI-generated imagery and stolen identities
The Postal Service proposed a new rule pushing states to turn over their mail-in and absentee voter rolls to the agency, a move in line with President Donald Trump’s March executive order tightening regulations on mail-in voting in federal elections. Since the start of his second administration, Trump has made election integrity and security a central issue, signing multiple executive orders to require proof of citizenship and crack down on mail-in voting fraud, essentially establishing a national voter verification system. His efforts have run into several legal hurdles, with judges ruling against requirements for proof of citizenship, and several Democratic states sue over the mail-in voting order.
Masked men targeted homes belonging to migrants in Belfast on Tuesday night, after a Sudanese asylum seeker was charged with attempted murder over a knife attack.
Rioters set fire to homes, a Middle Eastern supermarket, cars and buses, forcing some people to flee. Video footage shared on social media showed children being carried out of buildings on fire. Police vehicles were attacked, while a fire service spokesman said they had attended 62 incidents. Hadi Alodid, 30, was remanded in custody after appearing at Belfast Magistrates' Court today. He was charged with the attempted stabbing murder of Stephen Ogilvie, threats to kill an NHS radiographer on the same day
On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the Southern Poverty Law Center. Republicans are rightfully scrutinizing the organization's practices, and one of their witnesses was Dr. Alveda King. In case you're unfamiliar with Dr. King, she's a child of the Civil Rights movement. Her father is Alfred Daniel King, the younger brother of Martin Luther King Jr., and she's quite accomplished in her own right. She represented the 28th District in the Georgia House of Representatives as a Democrat, but she eventually switched to the Republican Party and has famously said that she is a Christian first before associating with any political party.
Noncitizens who illegally vote in U.S. elections will face deportation, among other stricter penalties, according to new guidance from the Department of Homeland Security.
The general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, James Percival, directed the leadership of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enforce the stricter penalties against noncitizens who vote.
Percival’s letter cites an executive order on election integrity signed by President Donald Trump in March 2025, calling for actions across federal agencies to secure the vote.
Percival also referenced the Immigration and Nationality Act, which directs the removal of aliens who illegally vote or make a false claim to U.S. citizenship.
A report found that Social Security is on track to be insolvent by the end of 2032, and beneficiaries may experience a 22 percent benefit cut if the looming insolvency is not addressed.
Social Security provides guaranteed retirement income to over 70 million Americans. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities states that Social Security keeps more Americans out of poverty than any other program in the United States.
The 2025 report found that the projected Old-Age and Survivors Insurance fund, which pays benefits to retirees and survivors of deceased workers, would be depleted by 2033. In August, it moved the insolvency date to 2032,
It goes without saying that the administration of President Donald Trump has quite a bit on its plate at the moment.
Domestic issues, forthcoming midterms, and the Iran conflict are all thorny topics the administration is grappling with, while navigating the pitfalls of a hyper-partisan political landscape.
Despite that, however, the Trump administration is still tackling issues that many would consider bipartisan — like exorbitant and mysterious hospital billing practices. According to The Hill, the Trump administration has warned hundreds of hospitals that they were not in compliance with federal price transparency requirements.
In laymen’s terms, the Trump administration has identified hundreds of hospitals had failed to
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. would hit Iran "very hard" again, escalating his public threats as he pressed Tehran to sign a deal.
"We hit them hard yesterday, and we're going to hit them hard again today," Trump said at a White House signing event for the Secure America Act. "We're going to be attacking them and attacking them very hard." Trump said Iran "should sign the deal" and said that the U.S. wants an agreement "that's meaningful and works."
"We'll see what happens with the deal," Trump said.
The comments come after Trump warned on Truth Social that Iran had taken too long to negotiate
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. would hit Iran "very hard" again, escalating his public threats as he pressed Tehran to sign a deal.
"We hit them hard yesterday, and we're going to hit them hard again today," Trump said at a White House signing event for the Secure America Act. "We're going to be attacking them and attacking them very hard." Trump said Iran "should sign the deal" and said that the U.S. wants an agreement "that's meaningful and works."
"We'll see what happens with the deal," Trump said.
The comments come after Trump warned on Truth Social that Iran had taken too long to negotiate
Ron Johnson calls on Trump administration
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Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is calling for transparency and accountability on COVID-19 vaccine injuries and says he's asking the Trump administration to implement an International Classification of Diseases code for COVID-19 vaccine injuries.
“Trump's [Department of Health and Human Services] has to acknowledge that these injection injuries are real. [snip] Johnson's request follows an investigation of 11 million pages of subpoenaed data on COVID-19 vaccine surveillance data, prompting Senate hearings by the chamber's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, including one June 3 titled, “Plausible Mechanisms of COVID-19 Injections Causing Cancer and Attacks on Scientific Publications."
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A Danish man spent years building a clothing company. Over the years, he fashioned, through hard work, careful study, trial and error, attention to trends, and sheer perseverance, a popular clothing brand. In the last few days, however, he has come to the brink of ruin, and of seeing all his labors come to naught. (snip) A Linkedin user asked on the platform what you would remove from Earth that would make it better if you could only choose one thing. (snip) To the question of what he would remove from the Earth in order to make it a better place, Tobia Sloth answered: “Islam.”
Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner claimed that he has been able to "make a living on the sea" since leaving the armed forces during a Friday rally, an assertion his financial disclosures don’t appear to support. Platner, who is running for Senate in Maine to unseat incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins, has long identified himself as an oyster farmer and harbor master, giving a blue-collar tinge to his left-wing campaign. Financial disclosures, however, show that he brings in relatively little money from oyster farming, with reports suggesting that Platner receives the majority of his income through veteran’s disability payments.
Do you know who Willis Havilland Carrier is? No? Maybe you should. He’s the engineer who, way back in 1902, invented what we now call air conditioning. His invention has been cooling American houses and businesses ever since. But it’s also done something even more important: Saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
Think that’s hyperbole? It isn’t.
As America prepares for yet another long, hot summer, most of us will stay indoors to work and relax. Why? When the torrid weather arrives, we simply turn on our air conditioning and immediately feel cool air filling our rooms and making us comfortable.
But comfort is a bonus to AC’s real impact: saving lives.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) conceded the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary race Tuesday less than two hours after polls closed, as returns showed the firebrand congresswoman trailing Trump-backed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette by double digits.
“This isn’t the end of the fight, but it is the end of a chapter,” Mace said in her concession speech, during which she endorsed state Attorney General Alan Wilson in a runoff race against Evette. Serving South Carolina has been the greatest honor of my life,” Mace wrote on X, shortly after conceding. “Every vote I cast, every hearing I called, every fight I picked — it was always for you.”
So, Victor, let’s start out local. California election. This thing—no, there’s no state in America, and in fact, I’ve read there’s no country, non-first-world or first-world country, that counts votes like California does.
And we saw the other day there was a dump of votes that came in one tranche, 10,000 votes exactly, for the mayoral race, and not a single one of those 10,000 votes went to Spencer Pratt. They were divided amongst the two Democrats, Karen Bass and, I’m sorry, I can’t remember the lady who’s probably gonna prevail. [Nithya Raman]
And then,
President Donald Trump said Tuesday night that Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte will begin serving as acting director of national intelligence at the end of next week.
Trump announced Pulte's appointment last week, and the official will replace Tulsi Gabbard in the post. Gabbard revealed last month that she would resign June 30 to support her husband in his battle with a rare form of bone cancer.
The president said in a post on Truth Social that Pulte will now take over as acting director on June 19 and that the FHFA official is working with Gabbard in the transition.
South Carolina’s Lt. Governor Pamela Evette and Attorney General Alan Wilson are moving on to the Republican gubernatorial runoff on June 23. They are the two top vote-getters in South Carolina’s Republican primary for governor.
The Trump magic did the trick. President Donald Trump’s endorsement put Wilson at the top — but not by much. Evette was gaining 29% of the vote with 77% reporting, and Wilson was just behind her at 26%. Other candidates were much farther behind, with U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman and businessman Rom Reddy at 17% and 15%, and U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace trailing at 11%.
Former S.C. State Senator Katrina Shealy said on WIS-TV
Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s ex-political director argued that her former boss “shouldn’t be a U.S. senator,” revealing that she quit her job after becoming “disturbed” by what she had learned about him and claiming that she was offered hush money in a new bombshell exposé.
Genevieve McDonald, a former Maine state representative who said she joined Platner’s campaign because she believed he genuinely wanted to fight for the working class, released a damning op-ed in the Washington Post on Monday evening, a day before the state’s Democrat primary.
“I know firsthand why Graham Platner shouldn’t be a U.S. senator,”
It’s not often life showcases a problem in real time. It is now in the form of California and the Senate.
It’s become clear that California voting is designed to give Democrats the ability to cheat. Aside from Ranked Choice Voting scam and a universal mail-out of ballots, the state allows 30 days for votes to be counted, a fraud facilitator if ever there was one.
We’re seeing it play itself out very much in real time. Last week in Los Angeles in the battle for Mayor, at one point after an update of 24,000 votes, Spencer Pratt, a guy with 30% support, did not gain a single vote.
Last week's blockbuster jobs report, with more than 265,000 jobs added when including upward employment revisions, was very welcome news to almost all Americans. The exception would be the economists of the Left who throughout Donald Trump's now-five-and-a-half years in the White House keep getting the economy dead wrong. Just a few months ago a gaggle of economists on the Left, led by Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman, started warning of "stagflation," a witch's brew of high inflation and high unemployment at the same time. He wrote that "any statement that things aren't as bad as they were in the 1970s should come with the caveat 'so far.'"