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Officials said 13 people were injured during a car-ramming attack at a bus stop in Israel on Thursday, the Jewish News Syndicate reported.The outlet said the suspected terrorist attack happened near the Karkur Junction, which is east of Caesarea. A 17-year-old girl was critically wounded."Eli Bin, director-general of the Magen David Adom emergency response group, said that paramedics treated casualties with injuries of varying degrees, including two seriously wounded people," the Syndicate said.According to Israel Police spokesperson Aryeh Doron, the driver hit the bus stop, then drove a few hundred meters, ramming into an officer and his vehicle..."The suspect, identified...

Representative Mike Quigley (R-IL) said Friday on CNN’s “News Central” that President Donald Trump should be thanking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky because he had been fighting for democracy. When asked about his reaction to the Oval Office meeting between Trump and Zelensky, Quigley said, “I just think people should appreciate the fact that we are fundamentally a different nation than we were just weeks ago. We are alone in the world, and we are less safe.”

Iowa became the first state to strike anti-discrimination protections for transgender people from its civil rights code on Friday after the state’s Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed hotly contested legislation into law. The bill, introduced last week, sped through the legislature despite widespread opposition from Democrats and LGBTQ rights advocates who flooded the statehouse in Des Moines to protest its passage.

...But a phone call between the two leaders in June played out differently from previous ones, according to four people familiar with the call. Biden had barely finished telling Zelenskyy he’d just greenlighted another $1 billion in U.S. military assistance for Ukraine when Zelenskyy started listing all the additional help he needed and wasn’t getting. Biden lost his temper, the people familiar with the call said. The American people were being quite generous, and his administration and the U.S. military were working hard to help Ukraine, he said, raising his voice, and Zelenskyy could show a little more gratitude.

Trump is taking the fight to China on trade, and it goes well beyond Tariffs. If you don't know what the De Minimus Value is, you might want to get familiar with it.

Many have touted today's ruling in the High Court against Ofcom as a "win" for free speech. The initial optics are, of course, great and the usual suspects are taking a victory lap... Tom Harwood's former employer Guido Fawkes proclaimed: GB News Victorious Against Two-Tier Ofcom Fantastic! The enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that. Unfortunately, after careful review of the actual decision in favor of GB News, I fear this will serve as a classic example of winning the battle but losing the war. Why be such a debbie-downer? Well... UPDATE: An Ofcom spokesperson says: "We...

During a Friday meeting in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance made it clear to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he is “gambling with World War III.” Regarding Zelensky’s past, he portrayed the president of Ukraine for three years in a comedy series called “Servant of the People” (2015). In a shock win, he was eventually elected president of the country in 2019. Zelensky swiftly dismissed the idea of a ceasefire and asserted that there must be “security guarantees,” provided by the West, before one could occur. Trump was not happy with Zelensky’s choice of...

Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Wednesday on CNN’s “Situation Room” that millions of Americans are “downright ashamed” of President Donald Trump’s actions in dealing with Ukraine.Schiff said, “This is an effort to pressure Zelensky into giving up something for nothing. And I have to say this, on top of the resolution at the United Nations– where the United States sided with Russia, betrayed Ukraine – is one of the most shameful incidents in modern history. I think millions and millions and millions of Americans watching this not only disagree with the president but, maybe for the first time, are just...

Consistent with recent executive orders issued by the White House, the Social Security Administration will continue to implement efficiencies and reduce costs, with a renewed focus on mission critical work for the American people. The agency plans to reduce the size of its bloated workforce and organizational structure, with a significant focus on functions and employees who do not directly provide mission critical services. Social Security recently set a staffing target of 50,000, down from the current level of approximately 57,000 employees. Rumor of a 50 percent reduction is false. Initial steps to reduce the workforce included offering a limited...

CNN chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour said Friday on “Inside Politics” that after the Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky devolved into shouting that Russian President Vladimir Putin was the “only winner.” Host Dana Bash said, “Wow. Just, wow. That was, uh, that was something.” As Amanpour held her face in her hands, Bash said, “Look at her face. I mean, Christiane, please take it away.” Amanpour said, “Never in the history of modern diplomacy — war, peace, whatever — have I ever, ever, ever seen anything like it. We...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent blasted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s behavior during White House visit on Friday as “unacceptable” and “one of the great diplomatic own goals in history,” underscoring the deepening rift between Washington and Kyiv. “It’s very difficult to do an economic deal with a leader who doesn’t want to do a peace deal,” Bessent said in an interview with Bloomberg Television, following a contentious Oval Office meeting that derailed a planned agreement granting the U.S. access to Ukraine’s critical minerals. The collapse of the deal marks a setback for Ukraine as it sought to deepen economic ties with...

Democrats inflated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s sense of arrogance and entitlement before Friday’s disastrous Oval Office meeting, with Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) even calling Zelensky the real leader of the free world. For years, D.C. insiders have been advising Ukraine — badly. Democrats — newcomers to the Ukrainian cause, after appeasing Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first six years of President Barack Obama’s term — set Ukraine up to oppose Trump. They did so by interfering in the 2016 election on behalf of Hillary Clinton, and then again with Zelensky’s tone-deaf visit in September 2024, when he appeared to...

When German and Russian defense sensitivities led Russia to mobilize and Germany to respond; and then Poland became a target for division between the two, all of Europe and then the U.S. became participants in a trench war that killed millions of young men. When the health system of the time was totally unable to cope with the influenza that followed the war, millions more died. I don't want to see that for my family, my country or my world. As much as I dislike the Russian history of paranoid aggression, and as much as I admire Ukraine's determined resistance...

Senator Lindsey Graham spoke outside the Oval Office a few moments ago - and it's clear his views on Zelensky have shifted. Graham, a formerly staunch defender of Ukraine, just told reporters that Zelensky needs to resign or someone else needs to take over negotiations. The senator added that he did not believe Zelensky should have brought up ceasefires or security concerns ahead of the deal. He's also called on Zelensky to "apologise" to Americans during his Fox News interview, which is expected later tonight.

Research led by Burkhard Militzer, University of California Berkeley This false color photograph of Neptune was made from Voyager 2 images taken through three filters: blue, green, and a filter that passes light at a wavelength that is absorbed by methane gas. (Credit: NASA/JPL) In a nutshell Uranus and Neptune have weird, disorganized magnetic fields because their interiors naturally separate into two distinct layers—a flowing water-rich upper layer and a stable hydrocarbon-rich lower layer. Using advanced simulations of 540 atoms under extreme pressure and temperature, Berkeley physicist Burkhard Militzer discovered that planetary ices (water, methane, and ammonia) spontaneously separate rather...

Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich provides details on the tensions between President Donald Trump and the Ukrainian president as Zelenskyy exits the White House early without signing a mineral deal.

My friend James Creigh recently alerted me to a new study showing that relatively young (18-to-40-year-old) American women who consider themselves “liberal” are more than twice as likely to be unhappy as those calling themselves “conservative.” According to the 2024 American Family Survey of 3,000 individuals, only 12 percent of liberal women said they were “completely satisfied with life,” compared with 28 percent of moderate and 37 percent of conservative women. Other statistics, for example on very high suicide rates among young American males, suggest that the existence of a depressing ennui is not restricted to women. How and where...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an unusual tactic rarely seen in high-level negotiations, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky decided to try insulting the people he was begging for money from. Zelensky further decided that the best place to insult that person would be their work office, surrounded by dozens of colleagues, with several cameras recording the insult. "It is unorthodox, but I firmly believe going into a person's country, visiting them in their home, and then insulting them on national television is the best way to earn their trust and support," he explained. "First, I will explain that they do not know...

WASHINGTON — President Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he was “gambling with World War III” during a fiery Oval Office exchange Friday — before canceling a press conference and declaring that the wartime leader was “not ready for peace.” The high-stakes visit — initially expected to include the signing of a framework deal giving the US a stake in Ukraine’s rare-earth elements — went off the rails when Zelensky seemed to condescend Vice President JD Vance.“What kind of diplomacy, JD, you are [sic] speaking about?” Zelensky asked in a critical tone of voice after a relatively cordial first...

Ailing Pope Francis’ health deteriorates as he has suffered a worrying breathing crisis, Vatican sources reveal. In his 13th day in the hospital, the pontiff suffered a bout of bronchospasm, with caused him to breath vomit, among other complications. The Sun reported: “Vatican insiders detailed the alarming episode, stating: ‘This afternoon, after a morning spent alternating respiratory physiotherapy with prayer in the chapel, the Holy Father presented an isolated attack of bronchospasm which, however, led to an episode of vomiting with inhalation and a sudden worsening of his respiratory condition’.