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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is pushing back on fellow Republicans who have criticized an emerging deal being negotiated by the Trump administration to end the war with Iran. Paul, who has criticized the war while joining with Democrats to support War Powers Resolution votes to curb President Trump’s actions, said those criticizing Trump should give him room to operate. “War virtually always ends with negotiations,” Paul wrote in a post on X. “Critics of President Trump’s peace negotiations should give President Trump the space to find an American First solution.” Trump on Saturday said the U.S. was getting close to...

The artificial embryos are made from collections of stem cells that can divide and multiply like a normal embryo but are unable to properly develop into a fetus or baby, allowing researchers to carry out their work with fewer ethical concerns. "This is not a real human embryo and does not have the ability to develop into an individual," Leqian Yu, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' (CAS) Institute of Zoology who is leading the experiment, said May 14 in a CAS statement. "However, it can serve as a model for studying early human development." Two types of...

Tom Steyer was in the groove last Saturday as he prepared to court black voters in historic Leimert Park, the cultural hub of Los Angeles’s Black community. Directed by R&B singer Howard Hewitt to clap “on beat,” the billionaire Democrat stood and closed his eyes, biting his lower lip and raising his arm overhead as he swayed with the crowd. He would tell the packed room of voters that he’d been a leader in pushing for reparations for the descendants of enslaved people. He would describe the Black community as “the moral leader of the United States” for as long...

President Donald Trump reignited debate over Greenland on Saturday after posting an image to Truth Social showing himself peering over snow-covered mountains toward the Arctic island territory with the caption: "Hello Greenland." The post comes amid heightened tensions between Greenlanders and the Trump administration following the opening of a new U.S. consulate in Nuuk and a controversial visit by Trump ally and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry. HUNDREDS of demonstrators gathered outside the new American diplomatic mission on Friday, chanting "Greenland is for Greenlanders" and protesting what many viewed as renewed U.S. pressure over the strategically located territory. Protest organizer Aqqalukkuluk...

I'm BAAAAACK from my trip to Spain but I almost didn't make it because yesterday I came very close to leaving this world due to suffocation at the Madrid airport and Steve Hilton was the culprit. Let me explain the background to this before revealing why I am blaming Steve Hilton for almost causing the end of ol' PJ:Our two-week trip to Spain was absolutely amazing. I could explain why in detail here but will do so in a series of videos in the near future. But as to how I almost suffocated at the Madrid airport yesterday it is...

When I think about the changes I’ve seen in this great nation over the course of my life, I’m stunned at the many bizarre deviations that have occurred right under my nose. Did I not see it coming? Was I so confident that the U.S. would always be rooted in moral values that I let down my guard? Looking back, I’m reminded of the maxim about the frog placed in a pot of comfortable room-temperature water while the heat gradually turns up until the frog is boiled alive. How many of us are so comfortable that we pay scant attention...

Usyk retreated to the corner and used Verhoeven's forward momentum against him as he landed a brutal right uppercut that floored the kickboxer and sent him halfway through the ropes from the chest up. Although Verhoeven was able to beat the count, Lyson allowed him extra time to recover as Verhoeven's corner took its time rinsing out the fallen mouthpiece, which forced the mild-mannered Usyk to complain.

If Reform UK wins the next general election, people who earn less than £75,000 ($100,000) and work overtime above a 40-hour week will pay no income tax on the extra hours. The £5bn a year tax cut announcement, made during the crucial Makerfield by-election campaign, will be seen as a direct challenge to Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester. Mr Burnham hopes to oust Sir Keir Starmer if he wins the seat. It appears to be inspired by Donald Trump’s move to scrap tax on tips and is an attempt to make it harder for Labour to define itself...

International government threatens the whole planet. People are beginning to understand that those who rule in their name have long been working to eliminate the nation-state. The United Nations is not neutral ground for national governments to discuss their differences; it is a governmental construct meant to replace national governments. The World Health Organization is not an international body meant to coordinate complex responses to global health emergencies; it is an institution vested with vast power and authority to track and regulate every human on the planet. The Bank for International Settlements, the World Bank Group, and the International Monetary...

The Obama Presidential Center’s grand opening next month will bring major road closures, Secret Service security and a massive public watch party to Hyde Park and Woodlawn, foundation officials said Monday. **SNIP** While the audience expressed excitement for much of the evening, the center’s impact on free street parking drew the loudest criticisms. Ronnissa Laster, a longtime Woodlawn resident and avowed Obama supporter, said living near the construction site for years had been “terrible” for parking and worried that the opening would make things worse. Yancy, whose ward encompasses the center, acknowledged the difficulties the center had created, telling the...

A teenage girl is facing charges, including arson, after a baseball team’s tour bus was set on fire, destroying the vehicle and everything inside, according to Winnipeg police.

Multiple sources confirmed to Fox News Digital the male gunman who allegedly opened fire with a pistol Saturday near the White House in Washington, D.C., and was fatally shot by the U.S. Secret Service, has been identified as Nasire Best, 21, of Maryland. At about 6 p.m. local time, the suspect allegedly approached a Secret Service checkpoint near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, removed a weapon from his bag and began firing at posted officers, a Secret Service spokesperson said. Best, who allegedly had prior encounters with the Secret Service and a history of mental health issues, fired about...

This Tiger has turned tail. The pot-puffing, rump-shaking homeless man called Tiger who turned Sullivan Street in Greenwich Village into his own private lair was cleared out by city authorities this week after The Post exposed his chaotic antics. The vagrant, who affixed a stuffed tiger’s tail to his behind, was evicted Saturday from his luxe encampment — which included a bed, couch, side table, and books.

The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is advancing quickly among Democrats, but the Constitution itself has the tools for defeating it. Advancing the latest “progressive” scheme to upend our Constitution and make the people serve the government, Governor Abigail Spanberger has signed a bill forcing Virginia to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC). This ruse to overturn the Electoral College, a critical safeguard that ensures equal presidential representation for all Americans, is now just 48 votes away from national implementation. The coalition seeks to force the presidential selection to be decided by popular vote alone. This would favor...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(5/24/26)[Prayer]PersonalitiesDeuteronomy 29:1-1329 These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. 2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; 3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: 4 Yet the Lord...

The Talk Shows May 24th, 2026 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Director of the National Economic Council Kevin Hassett; Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-El Salvador.); Dr. Deborah Birx; former 1st Trump admin coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Panel: Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) and Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.); Medal of Honor recipients (US Army) Lt. Col. William Swenson and Command Sergeant Major Matthew Williams.FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Illegal Alien criminal); Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.); Finland Parlement Minister of the...

Those who know what’s happening aren’t talking, and news outlets like Axios and Reuters, who can’t possibly have inside information, are. I've been watching reports all Friday and Saturday, tracking reports of events in Iran. It seems to me that those who know what’s happening aren’t talking, and news outlets like Axios and Reuters, who can’t possibly have inside information, are. I disregard as unlikely the accounts of terms of any agreement which do not come from official sources. Yes, there are some credible signs that we are reaching a critical juncture in the negotiations: The President abandoned his plans...

Jeep should be forced to change the name of its Grand Cherokee SUV to prevent it profiting from cultural appropriation, a woke law professor claims. J Janewa Osei-Tutu, a Ghanaian/Canadian/American intellectual property attorney and teacher at Miami University believes federal laws should be changed to 'protect cultural personality.' I n her paper on race, racism and the law she argues that, similar to how Pepsi or Taylor Swift cannot have their names used without permission, cultural identities should not be profited from without consent. '[W]e should also have a right to control not only the commercial use of our individual...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is taking heat from southern conservatives after she delivered a fiery speech in Montgomery, Alabama, last week, demanding that northern progressives “pull up to the South.” Speaking at the “All Roads Lead to The South” rally May 16, the prominent “Squad” member claimed the US was not a true democracy until the 1960s when the Voting Rights Act was passed, and took direct aim at the Supreme Court, accusing the high court under Chief Justice John Roberts of being “part of that long history of regression and repression in America.” Ocasio-Cortez then issued a highly controversial...

Public anger has mounted in the United Kingdom over the death of an 18-year-old British student who lay dying in a Southampton street, southern England, after being stabbed four times, only for police officers to handcuff him instead of immediately treating his wounds after his alleged attacker claimed he had been racially abused. Henry Nowak, a first-year accountancy and finance student at the University of Southampton from Chafford Hundred in Essex, was walking home from a night out with football teammates in the Portswood area in the early hours of December 3, 2025 when he encountered 23-year-old Vickrum Singh Digwa....