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  • Top Iranian official says Tehran would forgo highly enriched uranium in nuclear deal with Trump

    05/14/2025 8:52:48 PM PDT · by ETCM
    NBC News ^ | May 14, 2025 | Richard Engel
    Iran is ready to sign a nuclear deal with certain conditions with President Donald Trump in exchange for lifting economic sanctions, a top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader told NBC News on Wednesday. Ali Shamkhani, a top political, military and nuclear adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is one of the most senior Iranian officials to speak publicly about the ongoing discussions. He said Iran would commit to never making nuclear weapons, getting rid of its stockpiles of highly enriched uranium which can be weaponized, agree to only enrich uranium to the lower levels needed for civilian use,...
  • NEW: Former Member of Michigan Army National Guard Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said Arrested For Plotting Mass Shooting at Military Base on Behalf of ISIS

    05/14/2025 7:54:45 PM PDT · by bitt · 13 replies
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com ^ | May. 14, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    The Feds arrested former member of Michigan Army National Guard Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said for plotting a mass shooting at a military base in Warren, Michigan. The DOJ announced that Said, 19, was charged in a criminal complaint with “attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and distributing information related to a destructive device.” “According to the complaint, Said informed two undercover law enforcement officers of a plan he had devised and formulated to conduct a mass-shooting at the U.S. Army’s Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command (TACOM) facility at the Detroit Arsenal in Warren, Michigan. In April 2025, the...
  • Bypassed by Trump, Israel dismayed but silent

    05/14/2025 7:39:57 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 19 replies
    Reuters ^ | May 14, 2025 1:01 PM | James Mackenzie
    SummaryTrump's Middle East focus shifts to Gulf business deals PM Netanyahu's right-wing govt at odds with some U.S. policy shifts U.S.-Israel relations strong but diverging priorities evident, say observers JERUSALEM, May 14 (Reuters) - Israel's right-wing government has maintained a diplomatic silence this week as U.S. President Donald Trump fired off a blizzard of announcements that have shaken Israeli assumptions about their country's standing with its most important ally.Trump's decision to bypass Israel during his current visit to the Middle East had already been seen as a marker of the his administration's increased focus on lucrative business deals with wealthy...
  • Former Member of Michigan Army National Guard Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said Arrested For Plotting Mass Shooting at Military Base on Behalf of ISIS

    05/14/2025 5:54:28 PM PDT · by george76 · 32 replies
    Gateway Pundit, ^ | May. 14, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    The Feds arrested former member of Michigan Army National Guard Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said for plotting a mass shooting at a military base in Warren, Michigan. The DOJ announced that Said, 19, was charged in a criminal complaint with “attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and distributing information related to a destructive device.” “According to the complaint, Said informed two undercover law enforcement officers of a plan he had devised and formulated to conduct a mass-shooting at the U.S. Army’s Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command (TACOM) facility at the Detroit Arsenal in Warren, Michigan. In April 2025, the...
  • ‘RAISES SERIOUS QUESTIONS’: White House Calls Out Episcopal Church Over Refusal to Help White Refugees

    05/14/2025 3:39:26 PM PDT · by george76 · 56 replies
    Daily Signal ^ | May 13, 2025 | Tyler O'Neil |
    The White House condemned the Episcopal Church on Tuesday after it withdrew from federal refugee resettlement programs in protest when the government asked the church to resettle white refugees from South Africa. In a Monday letter, a top church leader noted South Africa’s history of Apartheid and said that assisting the refugees cuts against its “steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation.” The Episcopal Church’s government relations arm had touted in 2024 its efforts to help “undocumented immigrants.” The Episcopal Church’s decision to terminate its decades-long partnership with the U.S. government over the resettlement of 59 desperate Afrikaner refugees raises...
  • Balochistan DECLARES Independence From Pakistan

    05/14/2025 2:23:37 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 54 replies
    Mahyar Tousi TV ^ | 14/5/25 | Mahyar Tousi
    The Baloch of western Pakistan have declared themselves independant. Summarizes Baloch Welfare Assn of India's letter to the Indian PM enumerating the Pakistani's attrocities and human rights violations. Speaks to son of political prisoner being kept in perpetual solitary. Describes Balochis as non-militant moderates.
  • A teenage illegal alien who was driving without a license at over 90 mph when he crashed into a woman & killed her in Aurora, CO last year has been given only community service & probation by the Arapahoe District Attorney’s Office. Zero prison time.

    05/14/2025 1:30:16 PM PDT · by airdalechief · 82 replies
    https://x.com/ ^ | 9:14 AM · May 14, 2025 | Bill Melugin
    NEW: A teenage illegal alien who was driving without a license at over 90 mph when he crashed into a woman & killed her in Aurora, CO last year has been given only community service & probation by the Arapahoe District Attorney’s Office. Zero prison time.
  • South Africa Vows to Fight ‘Treasonous Act of Misinformation’ as Afrikaner Refugees Land in U.S.

    05/14/2025 1:17:30 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 40 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/14/2025 | Joel B. Pollak
    The South African president’s office vowed Wednesday to fight the “treasonous act of misinformation,” which it blames for spreading abroad what it considers false narratives about the persecution of white Afrikaners. The warning came two days after the first charter flight of several dozen Afrikaner refugees arrived in the U.S. On Tuesday, President Cyril Ramaphosa called the refugees “cowards” for “running away” — a sentiment that his party, the African National Congress (ANC), echoed. The ANC claimed that the Afrikaners were not being persecuted, while faulting them for abandoning “transformation,” a policy of racial economic redistribution. Ramaphosa’s representative, Minister in...
  • Six illegal migrants charged in South Carolina mother’s murder defy ‘decency’ in ‘civilized society’: sheriff

    05/14/2025 9:19:38 AM PDT · by rightwingintelligentsia · 38 replies
    The New York Post ^ | May 14, 2025 | Audrey Conklin, Fox News
    Authorities in Lancaster, South Carolina, have charged six illegal immigrants between the ages of 13 and 21 in connection with the “random” May 2 murder of a mother who was driving to meet friends in Rock Hill. Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office deputies located Larisha Sharrell Thompson, 40, deceased with a gunshot wound behind the wheel of her vehicle on Riverside Road in Lancaster, which is located about an hour south of Charlotte, North Carolina. On May 12, authorities announced the arrests of three adults, including Asael Aminadas Torres-Chirinos, 21; Jarby Ardon Ramos-Odari, 18; Jeyson Sobied Pineda-Salgado, 17; and three juveniles,...
  • Nigerian Journalists Questioned, Detained for Reporting New Details About Murder of Christian Woman

    05/14/2025 11:03:11 AM PDT · by george76 · 2 replies
    Gateway Pundit, ^ | May. 14, 2025 | Allison Bradley,
    SOKOTO, NIGERIA – Monday, May 12 marks three years since radical jihadists in Nigeria murdered a 22-year-old Christian woman, and new first hand testimony is shedding light on her final moments. However, the Nigerian Department of State Services detained the three journalists today for about four hours after publishing the new report. Deborah Emmanuel’s story first made international headlines when a violent Muslim mob beat her to death in 2022. Journalists identified her as a victim of a so-called “blasphemy” murder in the capital of Nigeria’s Sokoto state. Judd Saul, the founder of Equipping the Persecuted and executive director of...
  • Kaine: ‘Serious Consequence’ Likely if El Salvador Is Colluding with Trump

    05/14/2025 11:02:37 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 37 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/14/2025 | Pam Key
    Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) said Wednesday on CNN’s “News Central” that he is advancing legislation that would force the Trump administration to produce a human rights report on El Salvador that would result in “serious consequences” if violations were found. Kaine said, “We just want the administration to follow the law and so there is a privileged motion, which means even a single senator can file it and you’ll be guaranteed a vote that will require the administration within 30 days to produce a human rights report on El Salvador, including the conditions of the prison to which American residents...
  • Trump’s embrace of Syria and its jihadist-turned-president could shake up the Middle East

    05/14/2025 10:23:18 AM PDT · by McGruff · 31 replies
    CNN ^ | May 14, 2025 | Mostafa Salem
    US President Donald Trump on Wednesday had tea with a former jihadist who until recently had a $10 million US bounty on his head. Interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, once known by his militant nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, met Trump in Riyadh six months after leading a swift campaign that toppled the half-a-century-old Assad regime, ejecting Iran-backed armed groups and declaring himself leader of the country. Al Sharaa was placed on the US Specially Designated Global Terrorist list in 2013 for heading al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, known as Al Nusra Front, and allegedly orchestrating suicide bombings across...
  • Democrats to Fly 'Qatar-a-Lago' Banner Near Trump's Palm Beach Home

    05/14/2025 9:52:50 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 51 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 5/14/25 | Anna Commander
    In an exclusive statement to Newsweek, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) said it plans to fly a banner near President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate on Wednesday amid backlash over a luxury plane gifted by Qatar.
  • German Chancellor Merz Vows Creation of ‘Strongest Conventional Army in Europe’

    05/14/2025 9:32:20 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 95 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/14/2025 | Kurt Zindulka
    In his first address to the Bundestag parliament on Wednesday, Chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed to rearm Germany so that the country would have the “strongest” military force in Europe. Following years of chronic underinvestment in defence and relying on the United States for protection, Chancellor Merz told lawmakers that “strengthening the Bundeswehr is our top priority” and will make “every effort to continue to achieve the greatest possible agreement between the European and American partners.” In this context, Merz promised to expand Germany’s military forces “into the strongest conventional army in Europe,” Die Welt reports.
  • Trump’s Riyadh Speech Heralds The End Of Failed Neocon Foreign Policy

    05/14/2025 9:13:01 AM PDT · by Heartlander · 40 replies
    The Federalist ^ | May 14, 2025 | John Daniel Davidson
    Trump’s Riyadh Speech Heralds The End Of Failed Neocon Foreign PolicyTruly looking out for American interests means refraining from trying to remake foreign countries in our own image.In what was probably the most important presidential speech in decades, President Donald Trump repudiated decades of failed interventionist U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East during an official visit to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday.Not only did Trump lambast neocon “nation-building” in the region, he more or less vowed never to pursue the kinds of neocon misadventures that spilt American blood and treasure over the past 25 years in the insane pursuit...
  • Predicting the midterms is easy …

    05/14/2025 7:22:45 AM PDT · by george76 · 66 replies
    X ^ | May 14, 2025 | Catturd
    Predicting the midterms is easy … If Republicans continue to do what they’re doing, which is going against Trump’s Cabinet picks, being worthless and lazy, and doing nothing to help Trump, they’ll lose in a landslide. It’s almost like they want to lose. ... That's exactly what they want. It's easier to blame the democrats when our country falls apart because they'll say they don't have the majority. They have no intention of passing Trumps agenda. Most of them are in on the take. ... Makes sense, they lose, democrats get majority, impeach Trump and they get to continue their...
  • Five Suspected Tren de Aragua Members Shot Inside Mexico City Bar

    05/14/2025 6:58:20 AM PDT · by dynachrome · 33 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 5-13-25 | Ildefonso Ortiz and Brandon Darby
    A group of gunmen fired into a crowded bar, hitting five Venezuelan migrants suspected of being members of the Tren De Aragua gang. Two of the TDA members died during the attack, while three others sustained injuries. The attack occurred on Monday night at the Foro Santa Maria bar in Mexico City’s Cuauhtemoc borough. The gunmen, who remain at large, went into the bar, fired over two dozen shots at the table where the five victims were seated, and then fled. The victims included three men and two women. By the time paramedics arrived, two of the men had died...
  • Trump urges Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa to sign Abraham Accords recognizing Israel

    05/14/2025 6:08:21 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 30 replies
    NY Post ^ | 05/14/2025 | Diana Glebova and Steven Nelson
    RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — President Trump urged Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa to sign the Abraham Accords in a previously unplanned meeting on Wednesday, one day after lifting all sanctions on the Middle Eastern country. The two leaders met on the sidelines of a Gulf Cooperation Council gathering in Riyadh, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan phoning into the conversation. Syria currently doesn’t recognize Israel’s statehood, and the Abraham Accords were just one of Trump’s requests to Syria in an effort to normalize relations. Trump also told the Syrian leader to make all foreign terrorists leave Syria, deport Palestinian terrorists, help...
  • South Africa’s President Calls Afrikaner Refugees ‘Cowards’ for ‘Running Away’

    05/14/2025 5:27:15 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 92 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/14/2025 | Joel B. Pollak
    South African President Cyril Ramaphosa slammed Afrikaner refugees who left for the United States on Tuesday, saying that it was “cowardly” for them to leave racial discrimination and threatened expropriation. Ramaphosa spoke the day after after the first flight of 49 white Afrikaners granted refugee status by the U.S. arrived in Washington, DC. As many as 70,000 more have sought to apply to enter the U.S. under the policy. Ramaphosa, who styles himself as a pro-business moderate, and is set to speak to U.S. President Donald Trump later this month, made the remark at a surprise visit to a local...
  • Russian delegation to meet Ukrainian officials in Turkey, but unclear if Putin will attend

    05/14/2025 4:02:32 AM PDT · by McGruff · 33 replies
    ABC News ^ | May 14, 2025 | Kevin Shalvey
    Moscow on Wednesday said it would send a delegation to Istanbul to meet with Ukrainian officials, potentially bringing diplomats from the two at-war countries together for the first known in-person direct talks in more than three years. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed on Wednesday that Russian diplomats would travel to Turkey, but didn't detail which officials would be present. The confirmation followed an act of one-upmanship from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, who on Wednesday said he would be willing to meet personally with Russian President Vladimir Putin, should the latter decide to travel to Turkey. "We are ready for...