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The Arab slave trade lasted over 1,300 years — yet most people know little about it. This video exposes the atrocities committed against Black Africans during the Arab slave era, including mass castration, forced conversions, and cultural erasure. It's time to uncover a hidden chapter of history that shaped the continent and its people.

“In the mid-1970s, California Congresswoman Karen Bass…was an organizer for the Venceremos Brigade…” reads the biographical record of Bass described in Armin Rosen’s article in Tablet magazine in 2020. An event blurb in an October 1975 issue of the communist Daily World newspaper describes Bass, then 22, as “leader of the Venceremos Brigade in southern California” who, as a “brigadista” and then organizer for the Venceremos Brigades, “visited Cuba every 6 months.” In that heady Age of Aquarius, hundreds of starry-eyed college kids were volunteering to “help build Cuban Socialism” and “fight U.S. Imperialism,” mostly by joyfully cutting Cuban sugar...

It is safe to say that Thursday was most definitely not a slow news day. We began with all of the Los Angeles madness that's been at the top of the charts since the weekend. We got to branch out, though, when California Senator Alex Padilla decided to make a fool of himself. Just when I thought that's what I would be leading off with this morning, Israel unloaded on Iran, which Catherine covered:The Israel Defense Forces [IDF] confirmed that it has bombed Iran's nuclear assets in a preemptive strike against the Islamic regime that has vowed to wipe Israel...

A decapitation strike, in theory, bypasses conventional battles to take out the leadership of a regime. It’s the sort of thing that the United States explores in theory, but is careful about in practice. And that’s reason #412 why we never win wars anymore. On paper, decapitation strikes, depending on how they’re implemented may violate international law. And so rather than take out Saddam, we spend years and countless lives to usher in democracy. You’re not supposed to target officers. Too bad the other side doesn’t play by those rules or care about them.

Should Israel decapitate the Iranian leadership and should the regime fall, the Trump administration must send in investigator to track down, detain, and interrogate those responsible for killing Americans and funding the insurgency. Some should be extradited to the United States to serve the rest of their lives in prison; others can be offered the opportunity to turn state’s evidence.

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A 20-year-old Blanchard man is facing up to 45 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to plotting a terrorist attack inspired by ISIS and downloading child pornography, while living a double life, his family was seemingly unaware of. Federal court documents unsealed this week, obtained by News 4, reveal disturbing details about the allegations against 20-year-old Landon Swinford, who admitted to federal authorities that he wanted to carry out an attack at the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord Family – Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in 2023. According to the FBI’s newly-released affidavit, when Swinford wasn’t busy telling...

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... I urge President Trump to stay the course, keep putting America first, and to not join in any war between other countries. Every American should hope and pray for peace.

An Irvine city councilmember in an Instagram post encouraged undocumented people to stay home on Thursday, June 12, after learning that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers would be in the city throughout the day. Later, about 200 people gathered by Angel Stadium to protest ICE activities in Orange County and elsewhere. As the Anaheim demonstration grew, some people climbed street poles to wave Mexican flags and around a dozen others stood in the middle of the street as cars drove by. Eventually, the protest turned into dancing in the streets, and then someone lit a firecracker, and at about 8...

KNOXVILLE, TN — Local Libertarian Steve Kocot was unsure about how best to invest his money and was torn between investing in shiny rocks or some of those newfangled magic computer coins. Kocot's dilemma reportedly came about as soon as he heard on the internet that the collapse of his government-manipulated fiat currency was imminent and that he needed to preserve his wealth in a more stable form before the American empire disintegrated. "It's only a matter of days or weeks or months or years or decades," he said. "Everything our government's Keynesian economic house of cards is built upon...

Canadian shipbuilder Davie announced today its plans to acquire shipbuilding assets in Galveston and Port Arthur, Texas from Gulf Copper & Manufacturing Corporation, marking a significant expansion into the U.S. shipbuilding sector. The acquisition, expected to close in summer 2025, remains subject to various conditions, including negotiations with the Galveston Wharves Board of Trustees. For Davie, the move represents a strategic step in addressing America’s critical icebreaker shortage. The U.S. currently operates only three Arctic-ready vessels, while Russia maintains a fleet of nearly 50. Both Russia and China have increased their presence in the region. “We share a vision with...

LAWTON, Okla. (KFOR) — The City of Lawton and U.S. Army Fort Sill announced Thursday evening the cancellation of this year’s Army Birthday Parade due to what they say are credible security threats. In a social media post, the City of Lawton said they coordinated with the Lawton Police Department and Fort Sill leadership to decide on the cancellation of the parade, which was originally scheduled to take place on Saturday, June 14. The threats come in the midst of planned protests

An Inland Empire lawmaker is demanding answers after she said “chemical agents” were used against her and members of Congress who were illegally denied access to a federal building. In a Thursday, June 12, letter, Rep. Norma Torres, D-Pomona, said she went to the emergency room and must take medication after the Saturday, June 7, incident at the Roybal Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles. ...

On the way to its initial Arctic deployment U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Storis (WAGB 21) has transited through the Panama Canal. The polar class 3-equivalent vessel departed from the Bollinger Shipyards in Pascagoula, Mississippi on June 3, 2025. The vessel arrived near the canal’s northern entrance on June 11. After an 18-hour hold outside Limon Bay near the Gatun locks, Storis proceeded through the first set of Panama Canal locks on its route to the Pacific. The transit took around 8 hours and the vessel exited the canal through the Miraflores locks late on June 12. U.S. military ships have...

Seven men have been found guilty of sexually exploiting two teenage girls who were repeatedly raped and assaulted in Rochdale for five years. The gang was convicted of various sexual offences against the girls between 2001 and 2006. The victims, known as Girl A and Girl B, were groomed from the age of 13 and treated as "sex slaves", being expected to "have sex with the men whenever and wherever they wanted", the trial heard. Girl A told the jury she could have been targeted by more than 200 men, while Girl B said social workers had regarded her as...

MIAMI — A judge in South Florida on June 11 signed an arrest warrant charging former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown with, attempted murder with a firearm. The criminal charge stems from a shooting at a celebrity boxing event on May 16 in Miami. The warrant also calls for Brown, 36, who played 12 seasons in the NFL, to post a $10,000 bond and remain under house arrest pending trial. Efforts to reach Brown were unsuccessful Thursday evening, The Washington Post reported.

Iran officially announced its withdrawal from nuclear negotiations with the United States- a decision that comes amid heightened hostilities following Israel’s large-scale military strikes on Iranian nuclear and military sites and Tehran’s retaliatory drone barrage. The now-collapsed talks were aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear agreement, which had limited Iran’s nuclear activity in exchange for sanctions relief- a deal the US exited in 2018 under the Donald Trump administration.

Recently indicted Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) claimed Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Weeknight” that “Republicans have sold their soul for Donald Trump.” Discussing Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed from a press conference, McIver said, “It was disgraceful. I mean, to see it honestly brought tears to my eyes. someone had dropped it in a chat to me. I watched the whole video and just the idea of how they were handling him with no regard, just throwing him on the floor, his hands up. I mean, it just brought back just a time that you don’t want to be...

Six images of galaxies taken from nearly 800,000, from upper left to lower right: the present-day universe, and 3, 4, 8, 9, and 10 billion years ago. Credit: M. Franco / C. Casey / COSMOS-Web collaboration ************************************************************ A new cosmic deep field map from the COSMOS collaboration, powered by the James Webb Space Telescope, is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the early universe. Spanning nearly the full history of cosmic time and featuring nearly 800,000 galaxies, the data shows a universe forming stars and supermassive black holes far earlier—and in greater numbers—than previously predicted. This unprecedented scope offers...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday gave a fulsome endorsement of Israel's strikes against Iran's nuclear and military targets, saying that there was "much more to come" if Iran fails to give up its uranium enrichment program.