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Al Arabiya issues dramatic retraction on prior 'deal reached' reporting.
Iranian president vows to not back down, as Trump still vows to get nuclear material.
AI Arabiya TV obtains what it describes as final draft of US-lran agreement,
Reuters reported that Ayatollah ordered that stockpile of uranium enriched to 60% remain strictly inside Iranian territory. Some Iranian officials then denied report to Al Jazeera.
WH says make a deal or else... "they can face a punishment from our military the likes of which has not been seen in modern history."
US Intelligence says Iran has reconstitute drone program, defense industrial base, "faster than expected" (CNN).
Tennessee GOP Gov. Bill Lee on Thursday delayed an inmate's execution by one year after the state Department of Corrections' medical staff failed to find a suitable vein to administer the lethal injection drugs into.
The man scheduled to be executed was Tony Carruthers, who was convicted of three 1994 murders and sentenced to death in 1996.
Lee scheduled the new execution to take place on May 21, 2027, exactly one year after he was initially scheduled for execution.
Carruthers' attorneys have argued that he was wrongfully convicted and stated he has mental illnesses that “continue to impair his understanding of his legal situation and his impending
A group of mostly Democratic strategists and power players are rebuilding a political action committee meant to fortify election-defense infrastructure ahead of 2028 by focusing on often overlooked state offices that control election administration, litigation and certification.
The group, Democracy Defenders, which previously worked to support legal efforts and help with post-election planning in partnership with the Harris presidential campaign, tells ABC News exclusively that they’re re-launching their political arm. It plans to spend upwards of $10 to 15 million by “protecting democracy and rule of law” in races for Attorneys General, Secretaries of State and state Supreme Court in presidential battleground states– places they see critical to safeguarding
The massive social‑services fraud carried out in Gov. Tim Walz’s Minnesota has been one of the top stories of the year as “The Quality Learing Center” came into our national lexicon and people like Walz and Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-05) kept saying, “nothing to see here, folks.”
Now the chickens have come home to roost for one of the masterminds, however, and she will be staring at concrete walls for many a year. Cry me a river: “It was never my goal to do this.” Say what? You defrauded the people for hundreds of millions of dollars, and it was an accident?
And so, the indictments on the fraud front just keep rolling in, and yes, this is what we voted for. In the latest, 15 people have been indicted in a fraud scheme in (where else) Minnesota, that may have seen the alleged perps defraud the American taxpayers to the tune of $90 million. That is, as someone once said, a big freakin' deal. Director Patel's post is on the long side for X, but it's worth the look: That's a good thing; these indictments should be followed by a swift trial and, if the accused are convicted, lengthy prison terms.
The DNC has finally released its 2024 election autopsy, and if you were hoping for a moment of genuine Democratic self-reflection, prepare to be disappointed.
The report took forever to see the light of day, and DNC Chairman Ken Martin's explanation for the delay was something else. "When I received the report late last year, it wasn't ready for primetime — not even close — and because no source material was provided, it would have meant starting over. I could not in good faith put the DNC's stamp of approval on the report that was produced,"
Is there something in the water right now? Yet another massive fraud scheme has been dragged into the sunlight, this one from Ohio, and the reported numbers are staggering. Possibly, in the billions. First, the Daily Wire's Luke Rosiak, earlier in May, blew the lid off what he describes as widespread fraud and abuse, posting the results of his investigation on X. Incentives matter. This particular program is not just asking for fraud; it's down on its knees begging for fraud, so we shouldn't be surprised when people answer the call. This may as well have been an engraved invitation.
Here are just a few of the things Mr. Rosiak uncovered:
Five people in Greater Manchester have been arrested over allegations of fraud linked to the local elections in Tameside involving the alleged fielding of fake independent candidates to split the anti-Labour vote. The Telegraph has the story.
It follows an investigation by the Manchester Mill website, which claimed fake independent candidates were put forward by the Tameside Labour group in a bid to split votes for opposition parties.
Manchester Mill reported allegations that internal messages had been posted in WhatsApp groups connected to the party, discussing planting fake independent candidates on the ballot paper.
With the 2026 midterm primary season coming into high gear, most in the media have focused on recent races in which longtime incumbent Republicans like Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and U.S. Republican Rep. Thomas Massie (KY-4) have lost their reelection bids.
While those elections certainly deserve attention, a more significant development is the fact that the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is mobilizing their hundreds of “chapters” to “prepare for a busy election season in 2026.”
So far, the “DSA’s ambitious electoral agenda in 2026” includes nearly “90 endorsees, including more than a dozen congressional candidates.”
The United States' aircraft carrier Nimitz and its strike group arrived in the Caribbean this week as tensions with Cuba continue amid negotiations and the wake of the U.S.'s indictment of Raul Castro.
The arrival comes even as President Donald Trump downplayed the threat of an escalation in negotiations with Cuba on Wednesday. Trump has previously hinted at what he called a "friendly takeover" of Cuba as the island's government faces an economic and energy crisis and mounting domestic opposition. The United States Southern Command said the aircraft carrier was accompanied by Carrier Air Wing 17, USS Gridley and USNS Patuxent,
After the Department of Justice unveiled charges against Raúl Castro, the former socialist leader of Cuba, Congress is divided between those eager to see the regime forcefully toppled and those who think America has its hands full with Iran.
On Tuesday, it was revealed that a Florida grand jury has indicted Castro and five others in connection with the fatal downing of two American planes in 1996 that resulted in the deaths of three Americans delivering aid to Cuba. The charges come amid a U.S. blockade of shipments to the island.
Castro, whose brother Fidel led the nation from 1959 to 2008, has been charged with murder.
President Donald Trump called the indictment of former Cuban President Raúl Castro a “very big moment” for Cuban Americans, who he believes “appreciate” the indictment. Trump spoke to reporters on the tarmac of Joint Base Andrews shortly after Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the indictment.
I think the Cuban population of Miami, and certainly beyond Miami, people that came there that were decimated, whose families were ruined, appreciate what the Attorney General just did today,” Trump said.
Virginia’s new Democrat Governor Abigail Spanberger has just announced that she is signing an executive order to keep ICE agents away from polling places.
Why do you suppose such a thing would be necessary?
Democrats assure us that illegal aliens are not voting because they are forbidden from doing so by law. So why would they be worried about ICE showing up at polling places? It just doesn’t make any sense. Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger said Tuesday that she plans to issue an executive order on Wednesday to help election workers respond if federal agents show up at polling sites in Virginia.
Folks, I think we've officially reached the tipping point when it comes to the fall of communist Cuba. If anyone else was president, I wouldn't buy it myself, but Donald Trump is, and I do. Ironically, it happened on May 20, when the country should be celebrating its independence, but it's a day that the regime refuses to acknowledge.
"Today marks the beginning of the end for the Castro family," Rep. María Salazar said, following the big news on Wednesday.
In case you missed it, that big news was the Department of Justice (DOJ) announcing that it was charging Raúl Castro with conspiracy to kill U.S.—
President Donald Trump spoke at the Congressional Picnic on the White House South Lawn and made a point that normal folks understood straight away.
He listed better economic signs, including factory construction, housing starts, and consumer spending, then added, “We have an economy; people aren't seeing it yet.” His critics treated that line like a confession. A plainer reading points elsewhere: Trump was taking a shot at a media class that wouldn't recognize good economic news if it landed on the South Lawn with a brass band wearing bowl cuts. From The Daily Beast:
The distinguished political scientist Graham Allison, author of the 2015 Atlantic article “The Thucydides Trap,” argued that often in history an established power will stage a preventive war against an ascendant adversary—for fear that otherwise it will soon lose its primacy.
His title derives from two passages in the first book of the ancient Greek historian Thucydides (460–400/395? BC), author of The Peloponnesian War.
Thucydides, on these two occasions, felt that the most likely cause of the Spartan-Athenian war (431–404) was Spartan fear of an increasingly powerful rival Athenian empire.
A judge has sensationally thrown out the criminal charges against the Virginia school principal who allegedly failed to stop the first grader who shot a teacher in her classroom — calling the indictment “a mashup of legal theory.”
Former assistant principal Ebony Parker sobbed in court after Judge Rebecca Robinson tossed the charges mid-trial. Robinson found that Parker was not criminally liable for teacher Abby Zwerner getting shot by a 6-year-old student....But Robinson said the eight counts of child neglect that Parker faced for allegedly failing to intervene after reports the boy brought a firearm to school on Jan. 6, 2023, “is not a crime” under Virginia law.
How many times have Democrats told us illegal aliens and other 'non-citizens' weren't getting SNAP benefits? Too many to count. In the state of Wisconsin, Democratic Governor Tony Evers and Democratic AG Josh Kaul have both refused to turn over the state's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) information to the federal government.
Now we are getting a glimpse into why.
As of July 1, some 7,000 'documented non-citizens' — illegal aliens — will no longer be eligible for the state's food stamp program. And the media spin has already begun.
A LEGO-style campaign ad supporting Spencer Pratt for Los Angeles mayor went viral last week because it turned the city’s public safety collapse into a blunt, darkly comic takedown of Mayor Karen Bass’s leadership. The ad’s mix of crime imagery, homelessness, drug-use scenes, and wildfire symbolism made it an amazingly memorable political ad.
Another ad from another creator is going viral, and it is brilliant.
The ad opens with three guys at a backyard barbecue, tiptoeing around the elephant in the room about the Los Angeles mayoral election. They all claim they aren’t sure who they're voting for. They each claim not to be following the race.
Thank God and the Virginia Supreme Court that Democrats' far-left redistricting power-grab got kicked to the curb. Lest you thought that the worst thing about that despicable machination was simply that Virginia Republican voters would be disenfranchised, read on and be enlightened.
Virginia Democrats weren’t just trying to shut out their right-leaning neighbors from having a voice in the U.S. House, you know. And they certainly weren’t planning to install fair-minded, rational legislators to represent the interests of all Virginians in D.C.
Rather, the Democrats who greedily gerrymandered Old Dominion saw the state as merely a stepping stone from which they could hoist a veritable freak show
Yet ANOTHER Indian illegal alien truck driver named Singh has caused a deadly accident, and once again, California Democrats are complicit, as the alien received his commercial driver’s license (CDL) from the state of Commiefornia.
Manvir Singh was driving a semi-truck near Sacramento when he killed two people in a hit-and-run crash on May 19, according to Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin: [Tweet]
As Melugin noted, Singh — who tried to leave his truck and run away after the crash — now faces charges of “vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and hit-and-run resulting in death. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer request,
Two men accused of killing an off-duty Florida firefighter for his Nike sneakers and iPhone boasted about the murder just moments after the heinous act, according to a witness who saw the gunman “smiling about it.”
Torrey Holston, 26, and Jose Garcia Romero, 27, allegedly killed Coral Springs-Parkland firefighter Christopher Randazzo, 39, in front of a Lauderdale-by-the-Sea resort when he left his second job as a bartender at Aruba Beach Cafe around 1 a.m. on Oct. 19, 2019.
Holston was heard saying, “I can’t believe I just caught a body,” witness Cheyenne Papach testified Tuesday.
“And he was smiling about it.” [snip] “I think I got him,” Holston allegedly said after the shooting,
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., defended the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) from fraud allegations related to its funding of hate hoaxes, stating “what its donors love about the Southern Poverty Law Center is how effective it’s been.” After donors purchased a decade of race riots and left-wing violence to help Democrats, he must be right.
At a Wednesday hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, Raskin was attempting to defend the SPLC from a federal fraud indictment which showed how the organization that claims to dismantle “hate groups” actually funds them in order to manufacture hate and then fundraise even more off the chaos.
As Democrats scramble to protect the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) after it was indicted for fraud, Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., attempted to have the truth about an infamous anti-Trump hoax the SPLC peddled removed from the congressional record.
At a Wednesday hearing of the House Judiciary Committee titled “The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate,” ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., launched into the heavily debunked claim that President Donald Trump praised white supremacists at a 2017 Charlottesville rally as “very fine people.” Notably, the hearing took place in light of a grand jury indictment of the SPLC that detailed its reported funding of an individual involved in planning