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Trump administration officials on Tuesday slammed a leaked preliminary intelligence assessment of the damage done to Iran’s nuclear facilities by weekend US airstrikes that the president has touted as a massive success. The classified Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) bomb damage assessment — deemed a “low confidence” estimation of the effectiveness of Saturday’s strikes on the Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz sites — reportedly determined that Iran could bring its nuclear program back online as quickly as within one to two months, according to Fox News. On the high end, estimates indicate that Iran could restart uranium enrichment within a year, according...

President Donald Trump shared Breitbart News’s Jon Kahn’s #1 hit tribute song “Fighter” on Truth Social Tuesday after securing a ceasefire in the 12-Day War between Israel and Iran. The president shared Kahn’s song — which the singer/songwriter released in September 2024 as a tribute to Trump following the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania — less than 24 hours after Trump announced the ceasefire agreement he successfully brokered between Israel and Iran. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114740816878333153 2 MIN OR THIS: https://x.com/mrjondavid/status/1836456015996555634? When Kahn released “Fighter” on X last September with a moving music video, he explained that the song was for Trump and...

Zohran Mamdani is holding onto a commanding 8-point lead with more than 80% of first-round pick votes reported. He was at 43.77% to Andrew Cuomo's 35.75%, according to the Board of Elections.

Mira Murati just closed a $2 billion seed round for her new AI company, Thinking Machines Lab, pushing its valuation to $10 billion, even though the company’s only been alive for six months and hasn’t shared anything about what it’s building. The deal just wrapped up, and people directly involved reportedly say it’s one of the largest early-stage rounds ever done in Silicon Valley. That’s not just rare. That’s almost unheard of. The startup, based in San Francisco, hasn’t launched a product, released a prototype, or even given investors a roadmap. Still, the round was led by Andreessen Horowitz,...

New research has found that being overworked can physically alter the brain. Researchers in South Korea set out to understand how working long hours impact the cognitive and emotional health of employees. The study, published in the journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine, assessed the brain volume of 110 healthcare workers who were classified by the categories of overworked — working greater than or equal to 52 hours per week — and non-overworked. […] The increased brain volume as observed was found in regions associated with executive functions, (study co-author Wanhyung) Lee said, such as memory, decision-making and attention — as...

Vice President JD Vance credited President Donald Trump's decisive leadership and "America first" strategy for avoiding another prolonged conflict in the Middle East, highlighting the administration's success in brokering a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, Blaze Media reported. Vance offered rare insight this week into the strategic thinking behind the recent U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Iran, emphasizing the restraint and clarity Trump demonstrated in resolving what could have become a major military entanglement. Speaking with Blaze TV host Steve Deace on Tuesday, Vance pointed to the president's refusal to repeat what he described as the missteps of previous U.S....

Here it is. Ex-Biden official Neera Tanden admitted under oath to the House Oversight Committee during a closed-door testimony on Tuesday that she controlled Joe Biden’s autopen. House Oversight Chairman James Comer recently identified five Biden aides who were involved in the cover-up of Joe Biden’s mental decline and autopen scandal. Director of Domestic Policy Council Neera Tanden was brought before the Committee on Tuesday and admitted she was authorized to use Joe Biden’s autopen between October 2021 to May 2023. According to the Washington Examiner, Neera Tanden testified that she was also authorized to direct the autopen, however, she...

I really wish I could stop reading the Sunday New York Times. The political content is pure communism, but it’s the arts coverage that lures me in every week. A recent Sunday edition of the Times offered stories about a new film honoring Nat King Cole, a review of a documentary about the lives of ballerinas, a fantastic profile of the British band Pulp, and an interview with Mia Threapleton, an actress in the new Wes Anderson movie The Phoenician Scheme. Then there’s the book review section, which included books about the history of spies in American high society, how...

…Housing affordability and quality-of-life concerns are pushing longtime Black New Yorkers out of the city, underscoring Democrats’ challenges with their base ahead of the mayoral election… For the better part of the 35 years that she lived in Brooklyn’s East New York neighborhood, Dorinda Pannell made affordable housing her top — if not only — mission. A lifelong Democrat, tenant leader with East Brooklyn Congregations and avid voter, Ms. Pannell, 75, known to her neighbors in the Linden Houses as “Miss P,” spent years organizing her fellow residents to push for better housing conditions. She even took her fight to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Washington politicians sounded the alarm Tuesday that a ceasefire agreement brokered by President Trump between Israel and Iran may be a slippery slope that leads to peace in the Middle East. Democrats criticized Trump's involvement in Israel and Iran's war, calling it unconstitutional and blasting it for threatening peace in the region. "No one wants that," said Senator Chuck Schumer. "Peace opens up the frightening possibility of no war. Not on my watch!" "Death!" he added. "I like death!" New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed the ceasefire as a sham, saying it requires Iran to stop launching...

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Cudahy vice mayor allegedly told gang leaders to 'get your f***ing members in order' FOX EXCLUSIVE: A Los Angeles County official is allegedly being investigated by the FBI after she posted a video to social media calling on gang members to defend their territory from United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Cynthia Gonzalez, the vice mayor of Cudahy in southeast Los Angeles County, allegedly shared a video on social media late last week in which she appeared to encourage 18th Street and Florencia 13 gang members to protect their turf from ICE agents. "Not for nothing, but I want...

From myocarditis to turbo cancer, emerging research offers hope for the millions injured by mRNA shots. Millions of people injured by mRNA injections have been completely abandoned by our public health agencies. In the absence of meaningful support, it is critically important to identify and advance safe, evidence-based strategies to aid recovery. At the McCullough Foundation, ongoing research has highlighted the following key interventions: Vitamin D Mounting evidence supports vitamin D as a critical intervention for vaccine injury: Myocarditis Protection: 73.3% of mRNA vaccine-induced myocarditis cases were vitamin D deficient, and low levels correlated with significantly worse inflammation, higher troponin...

Last week, In-N-Out filed a lawsuit against online prankster Bryan Arnett, who posed as an employee at multiple local restaurants, took orders from unsuspecting customers and made lewd comments while wearing In-N-Out-branded clothing. In the video, which has since been restricted to private viewing, Arnett, a resident of Fillmore, is seen interacting with customers and making comments that In-N-Out says damage the chain’s reputation. The pranks themselves were purportedly captured on Easter Sunday, at a time when the restaurants were closed, the lawsuit states. The lawsuit also accuses Arnett of asking customers if they want their food made “doggy style,”...

LSU Baseball singing along to “Courtesy Of The Red, White, And Blue” by Toby Keith in front of Charles Schwab Field in Omaha where the Tigers just secured their program’s 8th National Championship

On May 14, China scored a major coup in its effort to increase Chinese influence in Latin America. President Gustavo Petro of Colombia signed a joint cooperation plan with the Chinese, formally adding the key Latin American country to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Colombia is the first country to join the BRI since Jordan signed onto the project in December of 2023, and its accession is a sharp pivot in Colombian foreign policy, which has traditionally been strongly aligned with the U.S. The agreement came after Petro travelled to Beijing to attend the fourth ministerial meeting of the...

In April 2025, Tucker Carlson invited Matt Walsh onto his podcast. The conversation covered everything from same-sex adoption and surrogacy to foreign policy isolationism. It is well worth listening to. But beyond the substance of the conversation, there was simply something powerful about a discussion between two men with such influence on the American Right—each man has an audience of several million subscribers on YouTube alone. In the age of digital media, each man far surpasses the reach of any legacy-news media personality. Matt Walsh and Tucker Carlson could be fairly described as two of the most influential men in...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Leo appoints Cardinal Roche, same-sex ‘blessing’ supporters to Dicastery for Consecrated LifeThe new members include 5 cardinals – including Cardinal Arthur Roche – 5 bishops, 4 priests, 4 religious women, and one lay woman.Pope Leo today appointed a rank of members to the Vatican office overseeing religious orders and the Latin Mass communities, including some cardinals who have opposed the traditional Mass and supported blessings for same-sex couples.As outlined in the Holy See Press Office bulletin on June 24, Leo XIV appointed 19 new members to the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic...

Former MSNBC host Joy Reid has revealed that she's become disillusioned with the Democratic Party to the point where she's 'barely hanging on'. The left-wing commentator said she believes the current Democrat line-up is fueling Donald Trump's agenda by failing to provide effective political opposition. 'I've been a Democrat since I was old enough to vote, but I'm barely hanging on,' Reid told The Breakfast Club podcast on Tuesday. 'At this point, the party is not bigger than the future of my kids. I have three children, that have to live in this country as black people, and fascism doesn't...

[Catholic Caucus] The Pope meets French Bishops -- The Traditional Mass Orders Ignored in Vocation Crisis reportThe gravest crisis in a great part of the Church is that of vocations -- and France is no exception, of course. In Rorate, we have covered it often, including making clear that, with current trends persisting, a huge proportion of active priests in France in a few decades will be those dedicated exclusively or mostly to the Traditional Latin Mass (cf. here, for instance).Leo XIV met with the outgoing board of the French Bishops' Conference (CEF) last week, and, as Silere non Possum...