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In April 2025, amid active congressional investigations, federal FARA violation requests, a sitting faculty member who had publicly hoped Iran would bomb a US military base, Hamas symbols spray-painted on dorm walls, a student body that had just voted 68% to boycott Israel, and an ongoing war in which Iran was targeting American institutions — Georgetown University’s interim president flew to Doha and signed a ten-year contract renewal with Qatar Foundation. He then accepted a ceremony in which Georgetown’s highest honor, the President’s Medal, was given to Sheikha Moza bint Nasser — the Qatari royal who had publicly praised Hamas...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that, despite the exchange of strikes between Iran and Israel, a deal to end the war in the Middle East could be reached “in two or three days.” “They were going back and forth [with strikes], and now they both agreed, through me, to stop, and now we’re in the final throes of what will be a very, very good deal,” Trump told reporters in New York, where he was attending the NBA finals in Madison Square Garden. Trump said the deal would stop Iran from having nuclear weapons and result in the...

Steve Hilton, the Republican gubernatorial candidate backed by President Donald Trump, publicly distanced himself from the president’s claims that California’s election results were “rigged” as he argued his team had “seen nothing” to suggest this was the case. Speaking on CNN’s OutFront on Monday, Hilton was pressed by host Erin Burnett on Trump’s repeated allegations, without evidence, that both the California governor’s race and the Los Angeles mayoral contest were “crooked” and “rigged.” “Just in terms of where you stand, are you worried that there’s fraud right now? Or are you just frustrated that the count is slow, but that...

Despite intensified diplomatic messaging, both sides have warned they will retaliate if attacked again, leaving the region in a highly unstable standoff where deterrence and escalation risks remain tightly intertwined.

Candidate Nithya Raman in the Los Angeles mayoral race came in third place on election night, June 2, so far behind second place finisher Spencer Platt that she essentially conceded the election in a tearful farewell. And then, miracle of miracle, over the next few days as more and more mail-in ballots kept rolling in, Raman suddenly surged in the votes, often exceeding first place Karen Bass in some counts and doubling the percentage of her election day returns to the extent that by Sunday she surpassed Pratt in the vote, thus apparently landing a spot in the November runoff...

Republican, Trump-backed candidate Steve Hilton won the second of two spots in the California Governor’s Primary race on Monday evening, nearly a week after election day. Decision Desk called the race for Steve Hilton on Monday evening after another mail-in ballot dump favored Democrat Steyer – but it wasn’t enough to put him over the finish line. Hilton will face off against Democrat Xavier Becerra, the former Health and Human Services Secretary for Biden. Becerra has 27.66% to Hilton’s 25.10 %, according to Decision Desk.

There are books you read once and never fully put down. Being There by Jerzy Kosinski is one of mine. It belongs to that rare category of literature I think of as Kafkaesque: writing that seems absurd on the surface but cuts so precisely into the truth of how human beings actually function that it leaves you unsettled long after the last page. Kosinski understood something about us that most of us prefer not to examine — that we do not really listen to the people we elevate. We listen to ourselves, reflected back. It’s a story about a gardener...

I'm starting to think diversity is not, indeed, our strength. Surprisingly, the Police Service of Northern Ireland was quick to admit that the suspect is Somali. Normally, the police and media would report the suspect as a "Belfast man" in a situation like this! The victim not only had his throat cut, but according to reports, had at least one of his eyes gouged out by the Somali man. Here's one witness testimony from the BBC, which also reported that the man is "believed to be Somali": A resident told BBC News NI how she was in her home when...

Andrei Jikh 3.21M subscribers Your 401K Is Their Exit Strategy (SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI) Their massive IPOS are coming that will be difficult for markets to absorb. Taken together their IPOs are valued at 4.2 trillion dollars. Watch the video if you have the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhRjvX_t4hc&t=216s

'Nude isn't lewd': World Naked Bike Ride returns to Madison this June The 12-mile ride is a protest against oil dependency — and a statement that every body has a place in public. MADISON, Wis. -- Whether you love it, hate it or just tolerate it, the World Naked Bike Ride will return to Madison later this month. Organizers said the ride will begin at 11 a.m. on June 20. Madison is one of dozens of cities holding a ride worldwide. Organizers expect 160-200 people to join this year's event. The annual ride serves as a protest against oil dependency...

“Qatar bought a soccer team, a giant energy conglomerate — and, it seems, a French President.” — Biff Spackle.In April 2024, a 73-page secret report landed on the desk of France’s President Macron. It said the Muslim Brotherhood (once aligned with Nazi Germany) had spent forty years (yes, four decades) secretly infiltrating French neighborhoods, schools, and city halls. And all of it was bankrolled by Qatar and Turkey. Emmanuel Macron read the report. He understood it. Then he locked it in a drawer. And full credit for this story goes to Behind the Narrative 📣. This is the story he...

The Brief The jury at the trial of Karmelo Anthony will get the case on Tuesday after four days of testimony. Anthony is charged with murder in the 2025 stabbing death of Austin Metcalf. If convicted, Anthony could face up to 99 years in prison. =========================================================================== MCKINNEY, Texas - A Texas jury will soon decide the fate of Karmelo Anthony. Anthony, 19, has been charged with murder in connection with the stabbing death of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf. Investigators said Anthony and Metcalf got into an argument over stadium seating during a track meet in Frisco on April 2, 2025. When...

Johnson travelled from Los Angeles to Brisbane last month to meet the family of his partner, Kate Tolo, 30, for the first time Johnson said his trip to Australia undid some of his anti-ageing work amounting to a 'biological insult' that took weeks for his body to recover from. 'I decided to live in her mum’s world. I ate everything she prepared, including meat, bread, and pasta, and embraced the discomfort of being an introvert in a week-long marathon social interaction with the entire extended family,' 'I experienced a huge spike in food noise when in Australia,' he said. 'The...

A man has been seriously injured in a stabbing in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where footage from the scene appeared to show an attempted beheading. The suspect was arrested after bystanders intervened. The incident was reported shortly after 10:30 p.m. on Monday on Kinnaird Avenue in north Belfast, where officers from the Police Service of Northern Ireland responded to a stabbing. Police said one man was taken to hospital with serious injuries. A second man was arrested in connection with the incident. Graphic footage posted by witnesses showed the suspect on top of the victim in the middle of the road...

Rabbi Boaz Sluck, a 55-year-old reserve soldier who was seriously wounded by an explosive drone during operations in southern Lebanon, spoke to Arutz Sheva-Israel National News from his bed at Rambam Health Care Campus and recounted the moments he says miraculously left him alive. “I was wounded in several parts of my body. I needed ten units of blood. What saved me was the protective vest our team commander purchased for us through donations, which prevented shrapnel from penetrating my vital organs," Sluck said. According to Sluck, the entire incident unfolded within seconds. He described spotting the explosive drone entering...

There is certainly a new flavor of socialism emerging amongst the younger generation. The updated addition to the socialist dogma is tinged with what is called the Me-First perspective, the current rallying cry for a new batch of socialists attempting to upset the economic apple cart. This latest flavor is not too far from the traditional utopian idea that socialism could work somehow if all that is tweaked are price controls, the elimination of private ownership, slowing down market forces, and stifling entrepreneurial incentive and motivation. In other words, the new age socialists' prevailing cry for a socialist fix to...

The California Election 2026 primary is over. And yet, it’s not over, because the counting continues. Democrat leaders will justify the long counting period because they emphasize creating as much ease as possible for everyone to vote. Everyone gets a mail-in ballot, and everyone can vote from wherever they please in the state. A Los Angeles County resident can vote in Orange County or elsewhere in the state, and they can even vote with a provisional ballot if they don’t bring the original ballot with them. The state allows ballots to be counted up to seven days after Election Day,...

A judge's decision to rule Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby eligible on Monday morning roiled college sports, with reactions ranging from doomsday predictions to informal chatter about Big 12 schools attempting to not play the Red Raiders this season. The reaction around college sports was nearly unanimous, with the idea of Sorsby playing in 2026 after admitting to thousands of bets on sports -- including 40 on his own team -- representing the latest crossroads for an industry that has faced a dizzying number of them in recent years. ACC commissioner Jim Phillips told ESPN the ruling represents a "horrendous...

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An NBA Finals watch party in Manhattan descended into violent chaos on Monday night as fans brawled and police deployed pepper spray in a desperate attempt to disperse the crowds. New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a short-notice big-screen viewing at Bryant Park after the visit of president Donald Trump to Madison Square Garden forced the cancelation of a previously-planned event outside the arena itself. 5,000 free tickets were dished out to Knicks fans to watch Game 3 of the NBA Finals, but scenes turned ugly midway through the night, leading to riot police being deployed. It is understood...