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The House of Representatives voted along bipartisan lines to quash a lone progressive lawmaker's bid to impeach President Donald Trump Tuesday afternoon. Lawmakers agreed to table the measure in a 344–79 vote. A vote to table is a procedural mechanism allowing House members to vote against consideration of a bill without having to vote on the bill itself. The resolution was offered by Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, who was infamously ejected from Trump's address to a joint session of Congress earlier this year for repeatedly interrupting the president. A majority of House Democrats joined Republican lawmakers to kill Green's resolution,...

Texas Teenager Karmelo Anthony has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the stabbing death of a 17-year-old at a high school track meet in April.Anthony, also 17, was indicted by a grand jury Tuesday for allegedly killing Austin Metcalf after a dispute over a seat at the University Interscholastic League’s District 11-5A championship on April 2.

The social media platform TikTok recently banned a hashtag called #SkinnyTok after European regulators warned it was promoting unrealistic body images and extreme weight loss. The company had seen an onslaught of content featuring emaciated-looking young women peddling tips on how to drop weight quickly. Now the hashtag may be gone, but eliminating this kind of harmful content is not that simple. There's still no shortage of people — on TikTok and other social media platforms — spreading unhealthy information on how to eat fewer calories and get very, very thin. Research shows that consuming this type of content on...

Israel said its airports were returning to full activity and it was lifting restrictions on civilian movements after the president announced a truce.President Trump responded with anger when there was continued fire between Israel and Iran after a U.S.-brokered cease-fire went into effect. But in subsequent hours, there were initial signs that the cease-fire might be holding.Israel said on Tuesday that it was lifting nearly all wartime restrictions on civilian movement and economic activity, and the Israeli airport authority said Ben Gurion and Haifa airports are returning to full activity.Israel had earlier Tuesday confirmed the cease-fire, saying it had achieved...

The alleged accomplice of Palm Springs bomber Guy Edward Bartkus died in a Los Angeles prison on Tuesday, according to authorities. Daniel Park, 32, was found unresponsive in his cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in downtown L.A. around 7:30 a.m., according to a release from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. A cause of death was not disclosed. Park, a native of the Seattle area, was arrested on June 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York upon returning from Poland, federal officials said. He allegedly supplied Bartkus with 270 pounds of ammonium nitrate, which is a...

ICE says Mehran Makari Saheli is an Iranian national, a convicted felon, a former member of Iran's IRGC, and has "admitted connections" to the terrorist organization Hezbollah. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials announced they arrested a former member of the the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in St. Paul this weekend. Mehran Makari Saheli was arrested on June 22 by federal officials. According to ICE, the 57-year-old Saheli was illegally present in the United States after an immigration judge ordered him to leave the country three years ago. ICE says Saheli is an Iranian national, a convicted felon, a...

After spending decades listening for radio signals, Optical SETI has made a remarkable discovery! Repeating optical signals have been detected coming, not from one star, but three! Natural explanations have come up blank, and Aliens are actually being discussed! SETI breakthrough! NASA scientist discovers three repeating ET signals coming from nearby stars! | 19:57 The Angry Astronaut | 195K subscribers | 11,074 views | June 24, 2025

Former FOX News host Tucker Carlson claims he "got fat" due to the demand of his former job while discussing it with former colleague Clayton Morris on his YouTube show Monday (June 23). “I just got fat,” Carlson said. “It’s incredibly hard physically. Everything about it is the hardest job I ever had.” Morris added that "people get cancer regularly" from working in "miserable" morning television during the discussion. Carlson's comment was the latest in his apparent rift with his former employer since his departure in April 2024. "What they’re doing is what they always do, which is just turning...

A disgruntled DOJ lawyer recently fired for apologizing to an Obama judge overseeing the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case dropped an eleventh-hour hit piece on Trump’s Third Circuit Court nominee Emil Bove. Emil Bove is set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday for his nomination to the Third Circuit Court so an angry DOJ lawyer launched an attack on his so-called proposal to defy court orders. ...... Snip...... Politico reported: A top Justice Department official who has been nominated for a federal judgeship suggested to colleagues that the administration would defy court orders in order to carry out...

“The time has come to confront, without euphemism or delay, the structural failure of aid delivery in Gaza,” Rev. Johnnie Moore, GHF’s executive chairman, wrote. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has urged the United Nations to “publicly condemn the targeting of humanitarian workers in Gaza” and to partner with the group on a new system for getting food “straight to Palestinian families,” according to a letter delivered to UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday. GHF, an Israeli- and US-backed NGO that began operating in May, says it has distributed nearly 40 million meals through “Secure Distribution Sites” that bypass Gaza’s...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. left a liberal Democratic congressman who was trying to smear him during a hearing red-faced by exposing a damning flip-flop on his part.As The Hill reported, RFK Jr. testified before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee on Tuesday morning regarding the department’s fiscal 2026 budget request and the Trump administration’s determination to “Make America Healthy Again” agenda.During the hearing, Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) tried to slander Kennedy as a conspiracy theorist. He accused the HHS Secretary of advancing a “dangerous pseudoscience” and putting American lives in danger by firing civil servants and eliminating...

The House of Representatives shut down an impeachment effort against President Trump brought by Rep. Al Green (D-TX). The House tabled the measure in a 344-79 vote. 128 Democrats joined with the GOP to block the effort. Fox News reports: Liberals who joined Republicans include all three members of House Democratic leadership – House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, R-N.Y., House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass., and House Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., voted to table the measure. Green, who has threatened to impeach Trump before, said his latest bid is aimed at the president’s strikes on Iran from over...

“Muslim Pupils Harrassing ‘Non-Believer’ Classmates in Hamburg,” European Conservative, June 20, 2025: There is a frightening trend in Hamburg’s schools: Muslim pupils are putting pressure on and harassing their non-Muslim classmates. There have been reports of girls being bullied for dressing femininely and not wearing a headscarf; others have been called ‘pig-eaters,’ and are now wary of eating their sandwiches during break between lessons. A father says he felt compelled to enrol his son in a new school because the old school made the mistake of concentrating many Muslim children in one class—with the result being that the few “non-believers”...

This article contains graphic descriptions that may not be suitable for all readers. Parental discretion is advised.RALEIGH, N.C. – Like public libraries across the country, branches in North Carolina’s capital city turn rainbow-hued each June in celebration of Pride Month. Festive book displays featuring “queer-themed” titles written for all ages – from toddlers to teens and adults – are set out for the public as innocently as if the subject in question were cooking, gardening, or personal finance. The colorful Pride books set out by Wake County civil servants are not just a benign celebration of gay dignity, hugging couples,...

A vehicle carrier transporting hundreds of Chinese electric vehicles (EV) sank in the Pacific Ocean after catching fire, fueling renewed concerns about the hazard associated with EV batteries, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The Morning Midas was carrying approximately 3,000 cars, including around 800 EVs, most of which were manufactured in China, according to the WSJ. While the exact cause of the fire is still under investigation, lithium-ion batteries used in many EVs are known to be highly flammable, and have been linked to similar maritime incidents in the past. The ship had been drifting in the ocean after...

A close friendship developed between my grandfather and Fred Trump, so much so, that Mr. Trump allocated land for my grandfather’s synagogue. They maintained their bond for nearly half a century, having been a supporter of the synagogue throughout the years of their friendship. Mr. Trump’s children were well acquainted with their father’s “Rabbi,” as he would call my grandfather...

AIR FORCE ONE - President Donald Trump woke up angry Tuesday morning, if he slept at all, and for good reason. Overnight the Iranian regime broke a ceasefire announced Monday evening by shooting a missile into northern Israel. The move sent the Israelis into an immediate military response, scrambling jets and vowing consequences. Trump had a response of his own.”They don’t know what the f*** they’re doing,” Trump said. But a few hours later aboard Air Force One, Trump cooled down, made some calls, sent out some Truths and talked to the press about what happened. “Have you spoken to...

He gave us the Ayatollah. We’re still trying to clean up his mess.On January 20, 1977, President Jimmy Carter was inaugurated. He was handed a gift, cultivated by the hard work of previous presidents and their administrations. That gift was two pillars of stability for U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East: Israel and Iran.Yes, you read that right. Israel and Iran. The two countries that are currently at war. It will shock younger people to learn that Israel and Iran were once our two top allies in the Middle East, but thus they were. Ask Middle East scholars and...

A preliminary classified U.S. report says the American bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites sealed off the entrances to two of the facilities but did not collapse their underground buildings, according to officials familiar with the findings. The early findings conclude that the strikes over the weekend set back Iran’s nuclear program by only a few months, the officials said.

An Iranian army sniper and a suspected terrorist with ties to Hezbollah are among illegal migrants living in the US who have been arrested by ICE since Sunday. Ribvar Karimi, who served as an Iranian Army sniper from 2018 to 2021, was arrested in rural Alabama, where he has been living with his American wife. When ICE agents found in him in the town of Locust Fork Sunday, he had an Islamic Republic of Iran Army identification card, DHS claimed. Karimi entered the country legally on a K-1 visa, for foreigners engaged to be married to Americans, in October under...