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Recent U.S. intelligence reports raised alarms about Israel spying on American officials to gain insight into the Trump administration’s approach to the Iran War, according to separate reports from the New York Times and NBC News. The Times reported Saturday that U.S. intelligence offices discern an elevated threat of Israeli espionage operations targeting Steve Witkoff, the top American negotiator with Iran, Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon’s under secretary of defense for policy, and Michael DiMino, one of Colby’s top deputies. Colby and DiMino are widely perceived to be part of an America First faction that is skeptical of military intervention in...

Recently, I’ve had the opportunity to dig into the secret case files of dozens of illegal alien habeas corpus cases filed in federal district court in Minnesota. The hidden files reveal a judicial system far more broken than you can imagine. The habeas corpus petitions are filed as civil cases on behalf of illegal aliens who are being held in ICE custody in anticipation of their upcoming deportation. The number of cases filed skyrocketed during Operation Metro Surge earlier this year. The filing pace has dropped off (but not stopped) since the surge wound down. So far in 2026, nearly...

The city pulled the plug on a planned Knicks watch party outside Madison Square Garden for Game 3 of the NBA Finals Monday night with President Trump expected to be in the house. The move comes as security for the game will be amped up with TSA-level surveillance and scrutiny – and widespread street and sidewalk closures around the arena, officials said. “The permit for the Plaza33 Game 3 watch party was denied by the city’s permitting office in consultation with the NYPD,” an MSG spokesperson said in a statement to The Post. “However, the White House will confirm that...

Israel has hit southern Beirut in the first attack on the Lebanese capital since a truce brokered by the US last week. Two air strikes on two apartment buildings in a stronghold of Iran-backed Hezbollah killed two people and injured at least 20, including women and children, Lebanon's health ministry said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had struck "terrorist headquarters in the Dahieh district of Beirut, in response to Hezbollah's firing at Israeli territory". Israel had limited its Beirut attacks under US pressure over concerns strikes there could put a wider peace deal in jeopardy. But on Sunday night,...

A 25-year-old man faces a felony charge after authorities say he managed to bypass airport gate agents and board a full United Airlines flight to Los Angeles using a fake boarding pass, triggering an explosives sweep that forced every passenger off the aircraft. Abdulrahman Oriyomi was arrested Friday morning and charged with felony impairing or interrupting the operation of a critical infrastructure facility. The charges stem from an incident last month at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport.

John Eisenhower, retired U.S. Army Brigadier General and son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, talked about his father's role as Supreme Allied Commander Europe. He also spoke about President Eisenhower's relationships with American and British generals and how Eisenhower compromised with Allied nations to bring World War II in Europe to an end. Dwight Eisenhower's Son Talks About D-Day | 53:50 C-SPAN's American History TV | 56.1K subscribers | 3,691 views | June 6, 2026

SWITZERLAND’S World Cup stars are on red alert after being warned of SNAKES next to their training camp. The Swiss have jetted out to San Diego to prepare for their World Cup opener against Qatar on June 13. The team are already dealing with humid temperatures in the US as they get used to their new surroundings. But the squad have another alarming problem to deal with after a ‘snake area’ was marked up on the map of their training camp. The official Switzerland team account posted a picture of their facility with labels of its different sections. They showed...

The U.S. launched retaliatory airstrikes against Iranian military sites on Sunday after Tehran launched its own wave of missiles and drones targeting Kuwait and Bahrain. U.S. and allied forces successfully intercepted the strikes. Iran launched multiple missile barrages toward Israel on Sunday, prompting air raid sirens across regions and sending civilians into shelters, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The military said the Israeli Air Force (IAF) was actively working to intercept incoming threats and strike targets where necessary. "At this time, the Israeli Air Force is operating to intercept and strike threats where necessary to remove the threat,"...

I'm hoping to retire within the next 7-10 years. Maybe even sooner if possible. I have zero interest in living in an assisted living community or anything like that. I'm hoping buy some land in a rural area, at least 10 acres or so. I want to build my own little cabin and basically just be left alone. I honestly don't know if I can truly be off-grid. I will have a vehicle so I'll probably go the nearest town every so often for food and supplies. I can get batteries and power them via solar or a with a...

Judges turned their backs on the law to let illegals pour into the country. They use the law to keep them here. You have to credit the White House for telling it like it is. On their new webpage concerning the threat posed by mass illegal immigration, it states that illegals are aliens among us. Not surprisingly, this is viewed by the Democrats and liberal media as a “grotesque violation” against human rights, and an expression of “white supremacy.” The president is accused of anti-immigrant bias. Apparently, enforcing constitutional law regarding borders, immigration, and security is a form of discrimination....

Summary Missiles were launched from Iran toward Israel a short time ago and defense systems are operating to intercept the threat, the Israeli military said in a statement. US bases and and Israeli assets in the region have become "legitimate targets," Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said in a post on X on Sunday. US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he did not plan to withdraw US troops from the region, telling NBC News that “I think we’ll keep them there until such time as we have a completion.” A US-drafted resolution sent to countries on the...

While Alan Milburn was busy insisting that Britain's youth worklessness crisis has nothing to do with immigration, a think tank quietly published figures that told a very different story. According to the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), which was set up by former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, 27 young non-EU migrants have been hired for every one young British worker since 2020. In other words, while the number of non-EU under-25s on UK payrolls has risen by 290,000 since the start of the decade, the number of young Britons employed increased by just 11,000 over the same...

This week, the House Committee on Homeland Security held a hearing detailing how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) helped facilitate and benefited from the historic Biden-Harris border crisis, as well as how far-left NGOs are still working to help inadmissible aliens undermine federal immigration law under the Trump administration. In the hearing, witnesses laid out in detail how NGOs received more than $6 billion from the Biden-Harris administration, including through grants from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and others. They also testified about how the Biden-Harris administration handed over unaccompanied alien children (UACs)...

Amid ongoing scrutiny over the U.S. war with Iran, President Donald Trump on Sunday defended his foreign policy stance — and denied that he ever campaigned on the promise of “no new wars.” In a wide-ranging interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker that aired on Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” Trump said he built a “tremendous military.” “First of all, I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?” Trump said. “I built our military. I inherited a terrible military. We had no equipment. We had nothing. I built a tremendous military. When you say...

Iran has launched a salvo of ballistic missiles toward Israel, triggering sirens across the northern region with no immediate reports of impacts or casualties

VIDEOLet's see... The network news shows, especially the Sunday CNN shows have been talking incessantly about the California elections, both the L.A. mayoral election and the gubernatorial election, for weeks yet on the first Sunday after the elections with the third place DEMOCRAT candidates "miraculously" surging up the mail-in ballots towards second place to the runoff elections, NOT A WORD from them about those elections. Why would that be? This video helps clear up the mystery as to why CNN is now completely silent about the elections that they have been obsessed with for weeks... until now. NBC also appeared...

Explanation: It was visible around the world. The sunset conjunction of Jupiter (left) and Venus (right) in 2012 was visible almost no matter where you lived on Earth. Anyone on our planet with a clear western horizon at sunset could see them. That year, a creative photographer traveled away from the town lights of Szubin, Poland to photograph a near closest approach of the two planets. The bright planets were then separated by only three degrees and his daughter struck a humorous pose. A faint red sunset still glowed in the background. Jupiter and Venus are together again this week...

Digital ID is set to be expanded, in a move the government hopes will stop Aussies from being bogged down by online paperwork. #9News

British Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy has said that not all ethnic groups should be treated the same by police in the wake of the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak, who died in police handcuffs after officers refused to believe he had been stabbed by a Sikh man. Lammy, who also serves as the left-wing Labour Party government’s Justice Secretary, said that while the “starting point” should be equality before the law, it is not always appropriate to be treated “the same”, noting the disproportionate arrest rates of certain ethnic minority groups, such as Roma travelers [Gypsies] and black Britons....

LOS ANGELES — The co-founder of Aspiration Partners, a Southern California-based, environmentally-conscious online bank, was sentenced on Monday to 14 years in federal prison for defrauding lenders and investors out of $248 million. U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson in Los Angeles rebuffed Joe Sanberg’s bid to be spared prison all together because of his past anti-poverty work and his purported good intentions in trying to save the struggling bank he helped set up in 2013. “The circumstances of this offense are among the worst I have encountered,” said Wilson, a Ronald Reagan appointee who has served more than 40 years...