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Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has described the renewed US war on Iran as the ideal outcome for Israel, provided Israelis do not have to fight it themselves. "Israel has no interest in joining the campaign - the current situation is the best for us". Israel and the US started the war with coordinated attacks on Iran on 28 February, after Israel lobbied Washington into the conflict, prompting Tehran to retaliate against US military assets across the region. The war was renewed earlier this month with the US striking Iranian targets and Iran hitting US assets across the region. Israel...

Sunday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Kelly Loeffler, the Small Business Administrator, talked about business formation. Loffler said, “We have record all time business formation in America. Just announced about on average the last six months on average about 513,000 new business formations each and every month.” The Alex Marlow Show, hosted by Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow, broadcasts coast to coast on weekdays from noon to 1 p.m. Eastern on the Salem Radio Network stations. You can listen to the radio show online here. The show also airs at 9 p.m. Eastern on the Salem TV news channel. Marlow’s podcast,...

California policymakers are dangerous not only to their neighbors but to the entire country because their ideas are often adopted by imitators in state houses and city halls. Plastic bag bans. Overbearing climate regulation. Draconian COVID rules. A crusade against condiment packets. Almost added to that list is a punishment for retail chains that dare close their stores. One San Francisco city supervisor, Bilal Mahmood, had hoped to tax shuttered grocery stores and pharmacies, because, in his view, “no San Franciscan should be forced to choose between long walks, expensive rides, or going without basic necessities.” Had Mahmood had...

A California man accused of stealing jewelry was back behind bars less than 24 hours after walking out of jail, allegedly pulling off the exact same type of crime while already on pretrial probation, authorities said. Andre Wiley, 19, was arrested last week after Sacramento County Sheriff's Office detectives said he teamed up with two other men in an alleged jewelry store theft just hours after being released from the Placer County Jail on his own recognizance for burglary, conspiracy and grand theft charges. Investigators said Wiley and 18-year-olds Andrew Ivy and Kameryus Mayhand entered a local jewelry store together....

Ann Widdecombe was bludgeoned 21 times over the head with a hammer in a 'ferocious' two-minute attack captured on camera, a court heard today. The 78-year-old former minister was ambushed in her own kitchen by a hammer-wielding intruder while she was having her lunch, it was said. Disturbing details of her brutal murder emerged today as her alleged killer Joshua Kerry appeared in court for the first time. The 28-year-old is alleged to have walked into the former MP's kitchen through an unlocked front door asking, 'Don't suppose you have bank cards and ID?' as he held a hammer out...

Jonathan Cain, a keyboardist and guitarist for the rock band Journey, slammed left-wing rocker Bruce Springsteen as an “annoying, bitter old man” who should “shut up” about politics. “You were ‘Born in the USA,’ weren’t you?” Cain said of Springsteen, adding, “So act like it.” “We’re blessed to live where we live,” Cain said during a recent appearance on the Tom Barnard Podcast. “And I’m obviously a conservative. I used to be a Democrat back in the old days, but I just couldn’t go there anymore.” “I thought Obama, maybe, but then I saw where he was going and I’m,...

When Joe Biden announced that he had written a memoir of his four years as president, the reaction on the blogosphere was mockery. Even his most ardent defenders now admit that the guy was barely functional as president, that he was kept under lock and key by White House staff for most of four years, and that the mainstream press was in on the cover-up. Biden needed cue cards to handle press questions. He needed a guy dressed in a bunny suit to keep him from saying stupid things to citizens. He needed an autopen to sign presidential documents. He...

Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega said the Central American country would no longer hold elections, further closing off any potential path for the opposition to challenge the government he leads with his wife, Rosario Murillo. Ortega, Nicaragua’s longest-serving leader, has remained in power since 2007 after previously governing during the 1980s. His current presidential term is scheduled to run through 2027. “There won’t be any more elections here for them to try to seize the government and seize power,” Ortega said. He delivered the remarks Sunday during a speech commemorating the 1979 Sandinista revolution, in which Ortega participated in the overthrow...

Beretta’s five-century history—from a small Italian workshop supplying the Venetian Republic to becoming a major manufacturer for the United States military—offers a striking backdrop to its long and increasingly strained relationship with Maryland.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday he’s stopping more than $1 billion in federal Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota over suspected fraud. “We are not sending Medicaid dollars out the door until we have confidence that they are being spent lawfully and appropriately,” Kennedy said at an announcement on Tuesday. Kennedy said if California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) want the money to fund low-income healthcare, “they need to provide documentation that these payments are legitimate.” Kennedy blamed the Biden administration and the Democratic leadership in both blue states...

“Non-workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your Uber Eats delivery fees!” That really seems like it should be the slogan of the far-left, socialist coalition taking over the Democratic Party. Yet, the Democratic Socialists of America and its prominent leaders continue with the dubious message that they are for the “working class,” despite being unable to explain what that phrase even means. Why? In a revealing interview on Saturday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was asked by The New York Times if he had a definition for what he means by “working class.” “I...

@Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 @Chicago1Ray Big round of applause 👏 goes out to Stephen Miller's (AFL) legal team They filed suit against Katie Hobbs & won Now only American citizens can vote in (15) counties in Arizona... many described it as a huge win for election integrity Can I get a Hell yeah for Stephen Miller https://x.com/Chicago1Ray/status/2079331361781883139

If you live in Arizona, GO VOTE!

Flash Flood Warning as powerful Arizona monsoon storms triggered dangerous flash flooding across Prescott Valley and Chino Valley, submerging roads, stranding vehicles, and causing emergency rescues. Heavy rain, strong winds, dust storms, and widespread power outages damaged infrastructure and severely disrupted travel. Officials urged residents to monitor Flood Watch alerts and avoid flooded roads as recovery efforts continued.

Nolan’s movie keeps the spectacle, but cuts the moral heart out of Homer’s timeless classic. Christopher Nolan’s audacity to gut one of the greatest stories ever told of its themes, meaning, and essence is an unforgivable sin that can only have been perpetrated by Hades or Hollywood. The only reason Nolan’s Odyssey is winning praise at the box office is that we stopped teaching the Classics a hundred years ago, and with it, education itself. Homer’s most important lessons do not even make the screen. What he replaces them with is an assault on the heroic and divine world of...

US President Donald Trump has imposed a 50% tariff on a wide range of goods imported from Canada, in retaliation for what he called "unequal treatment" of US cars, dairy and alcohol. Everyday consumer items like wine and hockey sticks and industrial goods such as cement are among the goods targeted. However, several key exports will be spared, such as energy, potash, critical minerals and fish. Prime Minister Mark Carney responded by saying Canada stood ready to "intensify" trade talks with the US in the coming weeks. The White House said the duties would take effect in 30 days.

Queens Borough President Donovan Richards breathed new life into a longstanding complaint among minority lawmakers that the largely lily-white DSA ignores race in its crusade to grow its ranks and dismantle capitalism. “White supremacy comes in all forms,” Richards posted on social media late Sunday.

“When we did the forced perspective stuff of the Laestrygonians ... there were these stunt men who were all seven feet,” he said, referring to the intimidating, armor-clad foes Odysseus and his men face during an island stop. “And then they got stuntmen who were under five feet. And so my double was a woman, a female stunt performer who had the greatest arms I’ve ever seen.” He continued, “And when she came into the catering tent, [it] was the first time I ever met her. I went up and I hugged herand I thanked her for all the work...

Texas Senate candidate James Talarico (D) received a harsh reception from an attendee at his town hall in Houston on Sunday. Video from the event, during which Talarico took questions for more than 90 minutes, captured by the Austin American-Statesman’s Faith Bugenhagen, shows a Black woman yelling, “So you stay here, you answer our questions or you suffer the consequences.” Other attendees clapped in support of the woman’s remarks, while one man said, “Say it with your chest.” When Talarico told the woman he appreciated her for traveling to attend the town hall, she replied, “I did it for my...

Military aid vote shows the double standard and the real agenda. Last year, a bipartisan group of members of Congress introduced H.Res.776: a resolution expressing concern about the persecution of Coptic Christians under Egypt’s Islamic regime. The resolution has only picked up 8 cosponsors and has yet to make it out of committee. By contrast, 103 House Democrats voted in favor of the Massie amendment to cut aid to Israel out of H. R. 8595 which also apportions $1.4 billion to Egypt and $1.6 billion to Jordan. Meanwhile an amendment to zero out the $1.4 billion in military aid to...