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Iran and Oman are drafting a protocol to “monitor transit” through the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported Thursday morning, citing an official.Tanker traffic through the key oil-shipping route “should be supervised and coordinated” with the two countries, said Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister of legal and international affairs, according to a translation of IRNA’s report.“Of course, these requirements will not mean restrictions, but rather to facilitate and ensure safe passage and provide better services to ships that pass through this route,” Gharibabadi reportedly said.U.S. stock indexes, which were trading sharply lower Thursday morning after President...

ALBANY– Gov. Kathy Hochul is quietly negotiating a possible deal with one of New York’s top labor leaders to allow public workers from teachers to nurses hired after 2014 to retire at 55, sources said. The age is currently 62 for those hired in the past 14 years. The potential fat pork deal pact would involve more than a billion dollars in sweetening pensions for the unionized public employees. Legislative leaders are being kept in the wings of the talks – which could be wed into the state budget package and lead to taxpayers footing billions – with Hochul dealing...

Giuliani claimed Muslims 'wanna take over' Britain and called the Quran a 'cult of death' on Piers Morgan's showfacebook sharing buttontwitter sharing buttonwhatsapp sharing buttonmessenger sharing buttonemail sharing buttonsharethis sharing button Rudy Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and personal lawyer to US President Donald Trump, has said that the king of England might be a Muslim and that Muslims "wanna take over" Britain, calling the Quran a "cult of death". Giuliani made the outburst in an interview on British journalist Piers Morgan's YouTube show on Monday, while arguing in favour of the US-Israeli war on Iran. "I have...

The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has launched an interactive online tool tracking knife attacks across Berlin, as the party seeks to make rising violent crime a central issue in the city’s election campaign. The so-called “knife app” provides a detailed overview of incidents reported by police over the past 30 days, including an interactive map showing where attacks occurred, the number of injuries, and comparisons with official police crime statistics (PKS). AfD leader Kristin Brinker accused the ruling CDU-SPD coalition of failing to provide sufficient transparency on violent crime, arguing that public concern over safety has grown. Domestic policy spokesman...

The New York Times just confirmed what we've long suspected: ActBlue knowingly let in fraudulent foreign donations to help Democrats win. Yet another example of the left's embrace of fraud. Everyone involved must face the full weight of the law.

Buckingham Palace has confirmed King Charles will not issue an Easter message this year.

Conservative influencer Isabel Brown has condemned The View cohosts in a new online tirade, following intense criticism from the talk show's cohosts over the 28-year-old's recent remarks on stage at CPAC regarding motherhood and marriage. Hours after the show's telecast, Brown released a social media video and an exclusive statement to Entertainment Weekly reacting to panelists Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, and guest cohost Whitney Cummings tearing into Brown in response to the online personality's comments on stage at the conservative event.(snip) In her statement to EW, Brown says, "I'm truly sad for the hate and contempt The View...

The movement looks organic. Concerned citizens, local advocacy groups, earnest letters to Congress, worried neighbors at zoning board meetings, all raising reasonable-sounding alarms about electricity consumption, water use, and the pace of technological change. If you accept that framing, the anti-AI, anti-data-center movement is a spontaneous democratic response to corporate excess. Accepting that framing, however, requires ignoring a substantial and growing body of evidence pointing toward a very different conclusion. The evidence suggests something more deliberate, more coordinated, and more consequential than neighbors worried about noise ordinances. A December 8, 2025 letter convened by Food and Water Watch, signed...

Betcha a VHS copy of To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! that Kristi Noem wishes the story of her crossdressing husband and his “bimbofication” fetish had broken today instead of yesterday. That way, she could’ve dismissed it as an April Fools’ Day prank. But no luck — the Noem photos and scandal appear to be legitimate — and Trump’s enemies are howling with laughter. (By the way, isn’t it a little weird how the left keeps insisting that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife is a “private citizen” and her social media support of terrorism, dismissal of sexual violence...

"The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)" is a song from the 1933 Warner Bros. Pictures film Gold Diggers of 1933, sung in the opening sequence by Ginger Rogers and chorus. Of special note is an extreme close-up of Rogers singing a verse in Pig Latin. The lyrics were written by Al Dubin and the music by Harry Warren. It became a standard with a well-known melody. It is one of the songs of the Broadway musical 42nd Street. "We're In The Money" - featuring Ginger Rogers (Gold Diggers of 1933) [video]

Our task force isn’t wasting any time cracking down on fraud. This morning in the LA area, federal law enforcement is taking down fraudsters who stole $50M+ from Americans by defrauding our healthcare and hospice systems. Thanks to @DrOzCMS and @USAttyEssayli for their work.

There was a time when Christians in America were told they were imagining things.No one is targeting your faith, they said. No one is trying to silence biblical truth. No one is punishing believers for simply standing on what Scripture teaches.Then a story like Jaden Ivey's comes along--and the mask slips.The Chicago Bulls did not waive Jaden Ivey because he committed a crime. He was not arrested. He was not accused of violence. He was not cut for some drunken scandal, sexual misconduct, or disgraceful off-court behavior that so often gets excused in professional sports. He was waived after publicly...

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump has FIRED Attorney General Pam Bondi — FOX The firing took place Wednesday night

A lot of us have been wondering if and when Trump would slap down Tucker Carlson. Tucker has been taking potshots—no, firing broadsides—at Trump's policies and the core beliefs of almost every conservative for most of his time as a podcaster. He has essentially called anybody who supports Israel demonic, while implicitly supporting the expansion of Sharia law into the West. He has backstabbed Trump, tried to destroy him and his base, and provided aid and comfort to our enemies. Hasn't Trump noticed? He has... Trump posted a link to Douglas Murray's piece, which absolutely eviscerated Tucker, within about half...

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday Donald Trump’s mocking comments about his marriage did not merit a response, calling them “neither elegant nor up to standard”. […] On Wednesday, Trump made fun of the French president and his wife at a private lunch as he lambasted NATO allies for not joining the war against Iran. The US president imitated a French accent and said that Macron’s wife “treats him extremely badly” and that Macron was still “recovering from the right to the jaw”. On a visit to Seoul, Macron, who was accompanied by his wife Brigitte, said Trump’s comments...

...The collaboration between the French-Egyptian Center for the Study of the Temples of Karnak (CFEETK), the Supreme Council of Antiquities, and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) has completed the project of reassembly and restoration of the gate of the wall of King Ramses III, located in the northern area of the Karnak complex...As for the intervention on the gate of the wall built by Ramses III, belonging to the Twentieth Dynasty, the work has involved a complex process of dismantling, restoration, and relocation of the stone elements. The structure, whose base had been located in the 19th...

President Donald Trump has reportedly already fired Attorney General Pam Bondi, according to two sources familiar with the matter who spoke with Fox News Digital. Bondi met with Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday night ahead of his speech to the nation on the war in Iran where was reportedly informed of her ouster, according to two sources familiar with the meeting. One of those sources said that by the time Trump took his place behind the podium for the address, Bondi had already lost her job and was on her way back to Florida. Trump is reportedly considering...

Just hours after the Artemis II mission successfully launched its historic deep space lunar flyby, the four-person crew experienced a problem with the Orion spacecraft’s high-tech toilet. Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch — the only woman onboard the 10-day mission — first reported the issue to Mission Control not long after Wednesday night’s breathtaking liftoff from Kennedy Space Center. “The toilet fan is reported to be jammed,” NASA spokesperson Gary Jordan said during live mission commentary, according to Space.com. “Now the ground teams are coming up with instructions on how to get into the fan and clear that area...

Russia plans to send a second oil tanker to Cuba. The announcement comes just two days after sanctioned Russian tanker Anatoly Kolodkin docked at the Cuban port of Matanzas laden with 730,000 barrels of oil, marking the first time in three months that an oil tanker reached the island.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a persuasive argument in favor of maintaining birthright citizenship, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson ate an entire stick of glue. The government counsel paused his oral arguments to watch in morbid fascination as Jackson steadily devoured the purple glue stick. "Yumm... chomp. Nom-nom," Jackson could be heard saying as she swallowed another glob of glue. "Gulp. Munch munch. Mmm..." "I... I don't even know how to respond," said Solicitor General John Sauer. Witnesses reported that Justice Jackson's powerful argument rendered the government litigation team utterly speechless. "They had no comeback. She took the wind right out...