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Russia has finalized preparations to provide a $1 billion loan to Iran, with the funds ready for transfer once Tehran provides bank account details, Iranian media reported Tuesday. Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency said the payment process had been finalized but disagreements among Iranian government bodies over how the money should be spent have delayed the transfer. The loan was first reported in June and was described as the first installment of a planned $20 billion Russian loan to Iran, according to Fars.

Hezbollah has received $200 million from Iran to help Lebanese people displaced by this year’s war with Israel, say two people with direct knowledge of the transfer, the first significant aid from the group to supporters who bore the brunt of the conflict. Asked for comment, a Hezbollah official says an amount has been secured and a plan for distributing it will be announced in the coming days, without elaborating on the source of the funds. Iran has maintained financial support to Hezbollah through years of crippling US sanctions: it transferred $1 ​billion to the group in the first 10...

Beloved; October 7 revealed both the brutality of Israel’s enemies and the extraordinary courage of ordinary Israelis. Michele Bachmann and Erin Zimmerman remember that day, share powerful stories of faith and resilience, and examine how Israel has endured and recovered in the years since. Support The Israel Live Podcast Here: https://go.cbn.com/usytu Sign-Up For Our Israel Live Email List So You Don’t Miss A Thing: https://go.cbn.com/usytu The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand! Maranatha 🫡☝️

Last month I spent a few hours talking with scientists at Science Systems and Applications Inc. about their work, both their internal projects within SSAI and their support for NASA projects and the broader Moon to Mars Architecture. We talk about exploring the moon using spacecraft that were designed to study the earth. Evidence for water on the moon and proposals to study the flows of water around the surface. Space weather hazards. Asteroid impacts and impacting asteroids and why Mars needs a weather forecast if we're really going to explore it. The Questions We Need To Answer, The Solutions...

U.S. Treasury yields climbed Wednesday, trading back around multiyear highs, as traders braced for the sale of 10-year notes at a time when rising yields have rattled investors around the world. The benchmark 10-year Treasury was up nearly 8 basis points at 5.35% — its highest level since 2002. The 30-year Treasury bond rose 8.3 basis points to 5.724%, also reaching a 24-year high. The 2-year Treasury note yield was up 2.7 basis points to 4.818%. One basis point equals 0.01%, and yields and prices move in opposite directions. The Treasury plans to sell $39 billion of 10-year notes in...

Wisconsin voters will decide in November whether to approve three proposed amendments to the state Constitution. The Republican-led Legislature has placed three separate questions on the ballot. The proposed amendments would: *Prohibit the governor from using the partial veto power to create a new tax or fee. *Prohibit the government from ordering the closure of places of worship during an emergency. *Bar the government entities from discriminating against or providing preferential treatment to individuals based on race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin. Under Wisconsin law, a proposed constitutional amendment must pass the state Legislature in the exact same form...

I created this cool app to explain inflation to my kids. I used 1957, the year of my birth. According to the CPI $1 of goods in 1957 cost nearly $12. But look at housing, gold, silver, the Dow, the S&P 500. You will be shocked as I was and this has been my business for 16 years. www.DollarTimeMachine.com

The FBI arrested a 30-year-old Bellingham, Washington resident on Tuesday and charged him with conspiracy to murder persons in a foreign country for allegedly coaching, funding, and agreeing to broadcast the February 10 slaughter at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia, the attack that left 8 people dead, including 5 children. James Cody Bryant was taken into custody in Bellingham and appeared in federal court in Seattle. The charge carries a maximum sentence of life in federal prison. According to the Department of Justice announcement and the accompanying 41-page FBI criminal complaint, Bryant allegedly maintained extensive communications with 18-year-old...

SpaceX's Ship 40 is almost home. After 24 days in the Indian Ocean, a trip around the Cape of Good Hope, and six weeks on the deck of a semi-submersible, the first Starship ever pulled out of the sea is about to show up at the Port of Brownsville. SpaceX just released the hot staging footage from Flight 14, and it shows a part of the booster we have never seen in action like this, plus something critical falling off the ship. Pad 2 is already getting ready for Flight 15. And then there's Starmind. Satellites with more solar power...

The White House says it has reduced LEGAL immigration from Muslim-majority nations by more than 90 percent. Breitbart “The Trump admin — and especially those like @StephenM (Stephen Miller) who implemented it — will get no thanks or credit from far-left Jewish organizations,” he added. In 2024, President Joe Biden’s deputies welcomed a monthly inflow of roughly 14,000 migrants from Muslim-majority nations such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and Malaysia. But that monthly inflow plummeted to roughly 1,000 in February 2026, partly because of Trump’s agency reforms, such as extensive security checks. The monthly inflows are mostly set by Congress and...

All conservatives wish that Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins leaned more to the right, but the fact is that Collins represents a purple state and has survived in Washington so long by being a moderate. In a time when communists are openly seizing control of the Democrat Party, the moderate Republican will obviously and always be the better choice. Another fact about Collins that makes her a political survivor is that she can be absolutely ruthless when she wants or needs to be. Last night's first Senate debate between Collins and her Democrat opponent Graham Plat ... err, we mean...

You can’t open a newspaper or watch cable news these days without seeing a story about the pain and suffering Americans are feeling at the pump, with scary headlines such as “no relief in sight” and “the worst is yet to come.” Actually, when it comes to gas prices, the worst has come and gone – three times – all while Democrats were in the White House. Not that you’d ever know that from the mainstream media. Shortly after those headlines ran, gas prices started to moderate. AAA says they are down by about 10 cents a gallon from a...

A Texas mom is facing attempted murder charges after allegedly attacking her husband and two young kids with a knife early Tuesday morning, cops said. Holly Leeann Flores, 37, was detained after her husband called 911 around 4.20 a.m. to report he had been stabbed in the head by his wife at their home in the small town of Northlake, about half an hour north of Fort Worth. When cops arrived, they found a 3-year-old girl and a 10-month-old boy with stab wounds to their chests inside the house and rushed them to the hospital, Northlake Police Chief Robert Crawford...

Six year old thought he was gangsta', stole his mom's gun and shot his teacher.

Migration Explorer The border, the map, and the money. What changed at the border after January 2025, where three decades of immigration actually settled, county by county, and which organizations were paid to resettle people – every number from federal records and public filings, linked to source. Foreign-born counts are Census and ACS estimates and include citizens and every legal status; border figures are CBP encounters. Dollar figures are documented minimums and are never added across types. Organizations are listed because a public record documents money or an affiliation – a listing alleges no wrongdoing.

For young white American men, building a successful career in fiction has become something like trying to kick water uphill. An analysis by Jacob Savage in Compact of The New York Times’ annual “notable fiction” lists and that of several other leading magazines revealed the grim reality: "By 2021, there was not one white male millennial on the “Notable Fiction” list. There were none again in 2022, and just one apiece in 2023 and 2024 (since 2021, just 2 of 72 millennials featured were white American men). "There were no white male millennials featured in Vulture’s 2024 year-end fiction list,...

This video features Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin highlighting the Trump administration's efforts regarding immigration enforcement and deportation operations in Louisiana. Key takeaways from the video: Deportation Operations: The Secretary displays footage of deportation flights being loaded, stating that an average of six flights depart daily (0:00-1:04). He emphasizes that the administration's goal is to remove individuals who entered the country illegally, regardless of how long they have been in the U.S. (0:07-0:15, 1:11-1:18). Workforce Support: During a visit to a facility, the Secretary discusses investments in the DHS workforce, noting the importance of providing employees with the necessary tools...

I've shared several videos of Palmer Luckey, a brillaint man who become a billionaire at age 21. He was born Palmer Freeman Luckey on September 19, 1992 (age 34) in Long Beach California. He was homeschooled by his mother. He took sailing lessons, and at age 14 or 15 began taking college courses at Golden West College & Long Beach City College to learn more about his intense interest in electronics and engineering. In 2010, he began attending California State University, Long Beach Campus fulltime. In 2012 he created Reality Labs and Oculus VR (Virtural Reality). In 2014 he sold...

Friends; three years ago this day, the most horrific invasion and brutal massacre in present Israeli history took place. Since October 7th 2023’s horrific massacre against Israel civilians by Hamas; we have seen Israel decimate their arch demonic enemies and establish a surface peace and security not seen since its reestablishing in 1948. Dear friends, in light of these great victories, please DO NOT be deceived into thinking that peace has finally come to Israel or is coming; though there is much to be hopeful for. Biblically, Gog’s invasion with his Islamic nation allies is yet to be and is...

The notion that conservatives care about discrimination against whites is merely a “myth,” according to an article published last week by Law & Liberty. Citing the 2024 American National Election Survey, which asked voters a battery of questions on many topics but included questions like, “How important is being white to your identity?” and gauged their perceptions of discrimination based on whiteness, author George Hawley tries to make the case that the GOP should move on from these concerns and away from the MAGA coalition that won the presidency for Donald Trump in the 2024 election. Hawley notes that in...