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An archbishop in Lebanon has appealed to the international community to do whatever it can to protect innocent civilians from the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. “Any assault on this historic quarter would place innocent lives at immediate risk and could lead to widespread destruction, further displacement, and an irreparable wound to the historic Christian presence and to the human fabric of Southern Lebanon.” “Its Old Quarter is not merely a historic area – it is a living place of faith, memory, family life, coexistence, and continuous Christian witness. “It is home to civilians, elderly people, children, and families who...

Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democrat primary challenger to Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), is standing behind her position that “all deportation is wrong,” including deportations for illegal aliens convicted of the most heinous crimes like child sexual abuse, murder, domestic abuse, and kidnapping.

Tuesday, British Member of Parliament Rupert Lowe, the leader of the Restore Britain party (sorry to say, at this point I think it is more accurate to look at Nigel Farage and his Reform Party as controlled opposition rather than a real choice), released a report that probably ensures that British politics won't be quite the same. His 219-page "The Rape Gang Inquiry Report" unmasks the concerted effort by British officials to cover up the systematic rape of British girls in their early teens, if that, intimidate the girls into refusing to press charges, and protect the feral Pakistani gangs...

New secret Hamas internal documents have been provided by IDF intelligence to the Amit Terrorism and Intelligence Research Institute, which provided them exclusively to The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. An analysis by the Amit Center includes six documents viewed by the Post, of which three are covered in this article, showing the progression of Hamas’s secret plans from 2022 to 2023 to systematically deceive Israel into complacency so as to surprise the IDF during the October 7 massacre. Although much is already known by now about Hamas’s deception, these original documents have not previously been made public and reveal a...

When Javier Milei entered the race to be Argentina’s president, 108 notable economists said his policies could be a disaster. Three years later, the maverick president continues to prove them wrong.***A letter signed by 108 economists from around the world, that included Thomas Piketty and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo, released before the 2023 election, warned that Milei’s economic platform was "fraught with risks that make them potentially very harmful for the Argentine economy and the Argentine people." They also added in their letter that, "However, while apparently simple solutions may be appealing, they are likely to cause...

Former President Barack Obama talks about patriotism in MS NOW's Michele Norris' exclusive interview in conjunction with the opening of his presidential library. The full interview will air as part of a two-hour special on Friday, June 19 at 9pm ET on MS NOW. FORMER PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I do think it's important to ground. What happened during my presidency in this broader sweep of American history, and as I said before, you know, this idea that, you know, on the right and you see this in the Trump administration, this idea that any suggestion or criticism that America...

A prominent Pakistani-American businessman who spent years cozying up to powerful Democrats stands accused of being part of a $38 million Medicaid scam. Civic leader and well-known Brooklyn Community Board 13 member Pervez Siddiqui, 78, was arrested Monday along with seven co-conspirators. They are alleged to have run a large-scale Medicaid kickback and false-billing scheme through two social adult day care (SADC) centers in Brooklyn: APNA Adult Daycare and Ashiana Social Adult Daycare. The scam ran from 2019 through December 2025, feds allege, with seniors being signed up for day cares that they rarely or never attended, then getting a...

The scientists have been right about climate change all along, says former Vice President Al Gore on the 20th anniversary of the release of "An Inconvenient Truth," the Oscar-winning documentary about Gore's campaign to educate people about climate change. When asked by ABC News chief meteorologist and chief climate correspondent Ginger Zee whether the film and its predictions on global warming hold up, Gore responded, "Unfortunately, yes." "The scientists were dead right on all the important elements of it, and it really is insane that we are continuing to use the sky as an open sewer and we're trapping so...

President Trump has made a deal with Iran. On Friday, Vice President JD Vance will attend the official signing in Geneva of a 14-point US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding that covers the naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's nuclear ambitions, the lifting of sanctions, a $300bn reconstruction fund for Iran and a ceasefire. The deal has gone down badly in the US, and with good reason. Gerry argues that it's a calamity for America and a betrayal of the Iranian people. Could it also be the undoing of JD Vance? It looks like he's been set up as the...

Rising support for anti-immigration parties across Europe is forcing Brussels to rethink policies it once championed. Ursula von der Leyen welcomed new EU measures to speed up deportations this week, presenting them as proof that Brussels is finally getting tougher on illegal immigration. Yet the measures are intended to deal with a problem created in large part by immigration policies that her own European People’s Party (EPP) spent years supporting. On Wednesday, the European Parliament approved legislation allowing member states to expand detention powers, accelerate deportations and establish so-called “return hubs” in non-EU countries for migrants ordered to leave the...

A Florida law disqualifying 18- to 20-year-olds from legal concealed carry violated the Second Amendment, a Florida appeals court ruled Wednesday. “Eighteen- to 20-year-olds can defend the country without restriction but can only utilize their Second Amendment right to self-defense with severe restrictions,” the three-judge panel stated in its opinion. Police arrested 18-year-old Jaylen Tyrus Eubanks in 2024 for carrying a concealed firearm in violation of Florida law that restricts licensing provisions of concealed carry to eligible United States citizens 21 years or older. A trial court denied Eubanks’ motion to dismiss the lawsuit, ruling that “licensing provisions for concealed...

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, has criticized comedian Jerry Seinfeld after he told a streamer that "Palestine doesn't exist" as he walked out of an NBA Finals game after he was repeatedly asked to say "Free Palestine." While being interviewed by TMZ on Capitol Hill, Omar called Seinfeld's comment "disgusting," "disturbing," and "genocidal language," and argued that the remark is intended to erase Palestinian existence. "Jerry Seinfeld has been a really horrific human being and an example when it comes to talking about the reality of the genocide that Israel has carried out," Omar told TMZ. "And I think when people...

Latino voters shifted sharply toward President Trump in each of the last two presidential elections, a trend that shocked and confounded Democrats. Many in the party have been asking: Why did this happen, and what can we do about it? Those questions are even more urgent now for Democrats, with Latino voters set to play a key midterm role in deciding who wins control of Congress. They make up at least 20 percent of the population in a majority of the most competitive House districts. And Latinos also account for a significant slice of voters in two crucial Senate races...

Germany’s Social Democrats have fallen to a record low support as voters continue to abandon the establishment in favour of outsider parties like the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), which continues to maintain its lead in the polls. This week’s RTL/ntv political support barometer has found that the Social Democrats (SPD), the oldest survivng major political party in Germany, has had its poorest showing since the Forsa Institute began the survey, falling to just 11 per cent support among voters. This is down from 16.4 per cent at the last federal election in 2025. The establishment left-wing party, which remained in...

June 17, 2026

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When Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced that employees would be required to return to the office five days a week, he argued that in-person work would strengthen culture, collaboration, and innovation. Similar explanations have accompanied countless workplace decisions in recent years. Job cuts, pay freezes, and restructurings have routinely been packaged as opportunities for companies to become more agile, resilient, or future-ready. Whether these explanations are sincere or strategic, often bear only a passing resemblance to reality. The obvious question is: who even falls for statements that seem absurdly false or self-serving? According to new research out of Cornell University,...

A toddler was left in a critical condition after ending up in a zoo's crocodile enclosure, while a man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Officers were called to Johnson's of Old Hurst in Huntingdon, at 1.24pm to reports of a "distressing" incident involving a three-year-old child. The boy suffered serious wounds and was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital in a "critical but stable" condition, according to Cambridgeshire Police. A 30-year-old man, from Norfolk, has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, police added.

Still-missing Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei authorized in-person meetings with the US to finalize the peace deal, according to a report. Khamenei gave his negotiation team the green light to head to Switzerland for the first round of negotiations with the US on Friday under the memorandum of understanding, according to a statement released by his office. Khamenei, who has yet to be seen in public since he was injured at the start of the war, instructed his team not to yield to any demands made by Washington that he deems excessive. The ayatollah, who ascended to the seat when...

President Donald Trump told Marc Caputo of Axios on Thursday that the U.S. had bombarded Iran into “unconditional surrender.” His remarks came a day after he signed a memo of understanding meant to end the current war. Pundits and politicians from across the political spectrum have panned the deal as being too lenient on Iran. Some of the loudest criticisms have come from the right. Fox News host Mark Levin called it “unthinkable,” while his Fox colleague Trey Gowdy said the deal will make Iran “richer.” Meanwhile, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Trump is getting “very poor advice.” The arrangement,...