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US Central Command reporting destruction of a drone in the Red Sea launched from Yemen... "The Real Debate" independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joins the Joe Biden-Donald Trump debate... Also, from tonight's debate the remarks of Joe Biden regarding rapes... In Oklahoma the elected Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters directing...all classrooms in the state have a Bible...school curriculum include teaching from the Bible... Ursula von der Leyen selected for a second term as European Commission President... Fires and power outages reported in the northern Israeli city of Safed following a rocket barrage from Lebanon... An attack on a...

Hamas-friendly gulf state paid American operative $250,000 'for [a] PBS documentary,' DOJ filings reveal.. Qatar, the oil-rich gulf monarchy that harbors Hamas and other terrorist groups, has used a number of conduits to influence unwitting American audiences: tens of millions of dollars in funding for universities, think tanks, military museums, and alleged bribes to prominent members of Congress. Add PBS documentaries to the list. A Qatari-backed front group, Yemen Crisis Watch, paid $250,000 to travel journalist Burt Wolf from September 2017 to January 2018 for a documentary about the war in Yemen that aired on PBS affiliates, according to previously...

Airport whistleblowers have alleged that Hezbollah is storing large quantities of Iranian weapons, missiles, and explosives at Beirut's main civilian airport, according to the Telegraph. Among the weapons allegedly stored at Rafic Hariri International Airport are Iranian-made Falaq artillery rockets, Fateh-110 and M-600 short-range missiles, and road-mobile ballistic missiles with ranges exceeding 150 miles. The whistleblowers also claim the presence of AT-14 Kornet anti-tank guided missiles, Burkan short-range ballistic missiles, and RDX explosives. An airport worker expressed fears about the potential consequences of an attack or explosion at the airport, drawing comparisons to the devastating 2020 Beirut port blast. "Beirut...

A 750ft cargo ship has sunk in the Red Sea days after Yemen's Houthi rebels said they launched a blistering drone attack on the vessel, reportedly killing one mariner on board. Dramatic footage released by the group shows the moment a barrage of rockets slammed into the MV Tutor, with a direct hit triggering a huge explosion after striking the centre of the defenceless coal carrier. It would be the second ship sunk as part of the rebels' campaign targeting Red Sea shipping after the Rubymar, which was carrying more than 41,000 tonnes of fertiliser, went down in March around...

A drone attack caused damage to a merchant vessel 65 nautical miles west of Yemen's Hodeidah, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) and British security firm Ambrey said on Sunday. "All crew members are reported safe, and the vessel is proceeding to its next port of call," UKMTO said in an advisory note. In a separate note, Ambrey identified the vessel as a "Liberia-flagged fully cellular container ship", without providing its name. It said no injuries were reported.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Yemen's Houthis said early on Sunday that they had conducted a joint military operation with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq militant group, targeting four ships at Israel's northern Haifa port. The Houthi military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, said in a televised statement that the two groups launched a drone attack on two cement tankers and two cargo ships at the Haifa port on Saturday.

The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower — which had been leading the response against Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden — is returning home. U.S. Central Command announced that the carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt will head to the Middle East to maintain a presence in the region. The Eisenhower was deployed to the region more than seven months ago — just a few weeks after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack against Israel.

Early Saturday morning in Ukraine explosions reported in several areas... A US State Department official dealing with Israel-Palestinian affairs resigning... Israeli forces killing 45 Palestinians as troops continue operations in Gaza.. US aircraft carriers redeploying the USS Dwight Eisenhower departing the Red Sea heading to the Eastern Mediterranean... Explosions reported near a merchant vessel off the southern coast of Yemen... A meeting between the visiting German Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck and China's Premier Li Qiang cancelled... The Russian military in Syria saying that three US drones came dangerous close to a Russian warplane... A deadly attack at a grocery store in...

Massive Ukrainian drone attacks aimed at several areas of Russia's Krasnodar Region early Friday... In France a legislative candidate for the National Rally hospitalized following an attack while he handed out leaflets... US Central Command saying it destroyed four drone boats and two aerial drones in the Red Sea off Yemen... Russian President Vladimir Putin says that it is possible Russia will supply weapons to North Korea... The US Court of Appeals in Washington DC hearing the appeal of TikTok... The debate next Thursday set between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Excluded Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr... The US...

The head of the Shiite Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, threatened to expand his war against Israel in a speech on Wednesday, boasting that he allegedly has 100,000 terrorists at his disposal and suggesting war with Cyprus may also be imminent. Hezbollah, one of many Iranian proxy terrorist organizations, has long maintained ties with the Sunni jihadist group Hamas. The group has expanded its attacks on Israel since October 7, when Hamas terrorists launched an unprecedented invasion of Israel that resulted in an estimated 1,200 deaths, the abduction of about 250 people, and widespread torture, rape, and other atrocities....

United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Tuesday that the Greek-owned coal carrier MV Tutor, struck by Houthi missiles and an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) on July 12, has sunk in the Red Sea. The Tutor became the second ship sunk by the Iran-backed Yemeni terrorists since they began their campaign of wanton attacks on commercial shipping in November. It also appears to have been the first ship to be severely damaged by a Houthi USV attack. The weapon was evidently a remote-controlled small boat packed with explosives.

US politics a Fox News poll showing Joe Biden the leader nationally... Israel strikes in southern Syria killing a Syrian officer.. US Central Command reports two drone boats destroyed along with... US Central Command says that it killed an Islamic state leader... The relatives of the hundreds of victims of two deadly Boeing 737Max crashes want the US Justice Department... The Governor of Louisiana signing legislation mandating display of the Ten Commandments from the Old Testament of the Bible in all public school classrooms... With Israel messaging plans for war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, its leader warning his group would...

Why does it seem the Pentagon is far better at spending money than actually putting together a successful operation? The failed “Operation Prosperity Guardian” and the disastrous floating Gaza pier are but two recent examples of enormously expensive initiatives that, though they no-doubt enriched military contractors, were incapable of meeting their stated goals. To great fanfare, last December the Pentagon announced the launch of Operation Prosperity Guardian, a joint US/UK military operation to halt the Yemeni Houthi disruption of Israel-linked commercial shipping through the Red Sea. The Houthis announced their policy in response to civilian deaths in Israel’s war on...

And the terrorists can thank Rep. Ilhan Omar. After six months of Iran using its Houthi Jihadis to impose a blockade near Yemen while defying Biden to do anything about it, the Islamic global terror state is moving on to a Somali blockade.Current reports suggest that the Houthis, an Iranian Shiite terror group, is negotiating to provide weapons to Yemen’s Al-Shabaab, a Sunni Jihadist group allied with Al Qaeda, to expand Iran’s control over shipping. While Al-Shabaab has operated using the conventional Al Qaeda playbook of rifles and IEDs, the Houthis (pictured above) can offer upgraded drones and missile technology.And...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Iran and Sweden carried out a prisoner swap Saturday that saw Tehran release a European Union diplomat and another man for an Iranian convicted in Stockholm of committing war crimes over his part in 1988 mass executions in the Islamic Republic. The arrest of Hamid Nouri by Sweden in 2019 as he traveled there as a tourist likely sparked the detentions of the two Swedes, part of a long-running strategy by Iran since its 1979 Islamic Revolution to use those with ties abroad as chip in negotiations with the West.

The Biden administration is close to finalizing a treaty with Saudi Arabia that would commit the U.S. to help defend the Gulf nation as part of a long-shot deal to encourage diplomatic ties between Riyadh and Israel, U.S. and Saudi officials said. But the success of the diplomatic effort hinges on Israel’s commitment to a separate Palestinian state, and more immediately an end to the war in Gaza, an unlikely proposition amid months of fruitless cease-fire talks and an Israeli weekend raid to retrieve hostages from the heart of the territory. The U.S. aims to present Israeli leaders with an...

The U.S. Navy prepared for decades to potentially fight the Soviet Union, then later Russia and China, on the world's waterways. But instead of a global power, the Navy finds itself locked in combat with a shadowy, Iran-backed rebel group based in Yemen. The U.S.-led campaign against the Houthi rebels, overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, has turned into the most intense running sea battle the Navy has faced since World War II, its leaders and experts told The Associated Press. The combat pits the Navy's mission to keep international waterways open against a group whose former...

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Democrat US Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania at fault in that accident... In Buenos Aires clashes between demonstrators and police with at least 33 arrests... Politics in Washington US Attorney General Merrick Garland held in contempt by a vote of the Republican-controlled US House... At least 80 dead following a boat accident in Congo... The United States Treasury expanding economic warfare against Russia targeting trading on the Moscow Exchange... In the Red Sea off Yemen a merchant vessel attacked and sinking... US politics in the latest mix of polls and Economist/YouGov national poll giving Donald Trump 42 percent... The US...

Multiple massive explosions reported in Ukraine's capital city... Russian air defenses repelling a Ukrainian attack on the port city of Sevastopol... US Central Command says it destroyed two cruise missile launchers in Yemen... The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons saying it can't find evidence to back up the notion of two ISIS chemical weapons attacks in Syria... Late news from the French political scene tonight National Rally (RN) President Jordan Bardella confirming that an actual deal has been cut with... More US economic warfare against China... Hamas reportedly demanding an Israeli troop pullout from Gaza... An Israeli strike...