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Hunter Biden has burst back onto the political scene with a social media spree marked by crude responses to Republican critics and self-deprecating humor about his troubled personal life. As the son of former President Biden, his return to the public eye has quickly drawn the attention of hundreds of thousands of followers on the social platform X in a matter of weeks. After spending most of his father’s presidential term under a cloud of controversy, social media users are flocking to Hunter Biden’s posts about a myriad of subjects — from resources for addicts to cryptocurrency to attacks on...

The Khatam al-Anbiya Central ‌Headquarters, Iran's joint military command, ​warned on Thursday that the United States ​would receive a ​more severe response than ⁠before if it ​attacks Iran, after Trump ​said the US would strike Iran again. The command said in a ​statement carried ​by ⁠state media: "Considering recent ​US threats against ​Iran's oil infrastructure, either oil ‌and ⁠gas exports are for everyone, or they will be available ​for ​no ⁠one." It added that the war would become ⁠more ​widespread and ​extensive...

President Donald Trump called into Fox News’s Fox & Friends on Thursday morning and told the hosts that he has always wanted to invade Iran’s Kharg Island, one of the country’s key energy infrastructure sites. Trump ranted at the media coverage of the war in Iran and fumed, “The Wall Street Journal, they did an editorial today about we’re not hitting them hard enough.” “I mean, it is just, ‘not hitting them hard enough.’ We dropped $250 million worth of bombs on them last night. The whole thing is crazy. And they’re really in submission. They just don’t know it...

Iranian state media networks have published an explicit hit list featuring nineteen senior United States and Israeli political and military figures, formally accusing them of direct responsibility for the death of Ayatollah Khamenei. The political and military leadership of the Western alliance has been placed on high security alert following the publication of a highly aggressive, state sanctioned hit list originating from Tehran. The graphic, which has been widely circulated across regional state networks and paramilitary channels, names nineteen specific high ranking officials from the United States and Israel, labeling them as defendants in the assassination of Supreme Leader Ayatollah...

Chatham House research fellow Farea al-Muslimi told the leftist outlet New York Times (NYT) that the Houthis could effectively blockade the Bab el-Mandeb with only a few terrorist strikes against vulnerable tankers and cargo ships. “They can just send a signal and only one attack has to happen – and that will send a shock across insurance companies,” he said. “I won’t be surprised now if you have a joint lockdown of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab,” he predicted. The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen declared “a complete and total ban on Israeli maritime navigation” through the Red Sea on Monday....

Iran would have “no problem” pursuing a deal with the US as long as American negotiators and US President Donald Trump can prove sincerity, the head of the Iranian parliament's national security committee, Ebrahim Azizi, said during an interview with CNN on Monday. When asked about Trump’s assertions that a deal between Tehran and Washington is near, Azizi responded that “we don’t think he’s honest.” “We have said many times that we accept a negotiation as a continuation of the battlefield,” argued Azizi. “If we could be convinced that there is sincerity from the Americans, especially from the president of...

he Khatam al-Anbiya Command, the body that coordinates between Iran’s military and the Revolutionary Guards, announced Monday that the military operation against Israel has ended, but at the same time issued a new threat that any further Israeli strike in Lebanon could lead to a harsh Iranian response. In the official statement, it was claimed that Iran’s strikes came in response to Israel’s activity in southern Lebanon and in the Dahieh neighborhood of Beirut. “Following the acts of aggression and evil by the cruel Zionist regime in southern Lebanon and in the Dahieh area, which were carried out with the...

Mohsen Rezaei, the senior military adviser to Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, set out a series of demands on behalf of Iran to end the war with the United States and Israel in an interview with CNN. Among the main demands he presented are the release of frozen Iranian assets and the thawing of billions of dollars held by the United States. Rezaei said that the release of the assets would constitute a significant test for Tehran vis-à-vis the Trump administration. "The release of the funds by the Trump administration will be a new horizon for the future of Iran and the...

Until recently, American politics operated on a simple premise: Aspiring politicians must suck up to party bosses, run for local office, earn supporters, master policy details and only then earn a shot at higher office. That model has collapsed. Today’s rising stars take a different escalator — television, social media, podcasts, activism, entertainment or the internet — that goes straight to the top. Their chief currency is not institutional support but the attention economy. Which helps explain why Los Angeles now finds itself facing the possibility that Spencer Pratt could make a mayoral runoff. Pratt, if you’ve been living under...

Four violent D.C.-area youths had the tables turned on them after trying to rob a Marine veteran of his vehicle. As FOX 5 DC reported, an Oxen Hill, Maryland man named Jheyco Borda was operating on his vehicle near Oxon Hill High School around 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday when four teenagers sauntered up to him on the sidewalk. Oxon Hill is a suburb in Maryland located just southeast of D.C. Video shared by FOX 5 DC next shows the youths cornering Borda at the bed of his truck. One youth wearing a red, white, and blue sweatshirt then pulls out...

President Donald Trump is floating the possibility of keeping the UFC arena on the White House South Lawn -- built for a series of fights on his birthday and Flag Day -- permanently. In a video posted to his official TikTok account Tuesday evening, Trump sat in the Oval Office and said that the Eiffel Tower in Paris was supposed to be a temporary structure, but that France kept it up -- suggesting that the UFC arena is "quite attractive to a lot of people" so "maybe we'll never ever take it down." "People don't know that in Paris, France,...

The Egyptians had their pyramids. The Anglo-Saxons had their barrows. And the Americans have their presidential libraries – the chief difference being that the leaders the US venerates are usually still alive at the opening. Lacking a royal family or a state religion, the US presidency has swelled to fill the void, transforming over the decades into a national personality cult, complete with its own secular temples to these powerful men. The latest pharaonic edifice is about to open on Chicago’s south side, where it looms on the skyline as a towering totem to the 44th president, Barack Obama. He...

The official account for the Obama White House was hacked on Sunday and spammed with bizarre memes. The unidentified hacker added some pictures to the @obamawhitehouse account, including an AI-generated image that claimed the White House was now under Shiite control, according to TMZ. He also added some posts to the page's Instagram Stories. But a representative for Meta - the parent company of Instagram - said the account has now been secured and all of the unauthorized content removed. The account had previously last been updated in 2017, when President Donald Trump took office for his first term. However,...

An anti-ICE agitator received a harsh lesson after deciding to get rough with New Jersey state police during a protest. On Saturday night, independent journalist Oliya Scootercaster was on scene at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark, which has been the site of multiple leftist riots over the past several days. And these protesters are well-provided for. As The Gateway Pundit reported, independent journalist Nick Sortor, who blew the lid off years of taxpayers’ abuse at the hands of Somali fraudsters, infiltrated an Antifa camp at the Newark, New Jersey, ICE protests. As he moved through the camp,...

CHICAGO — Valerie Jarrett has gone from friend, confidante and special senior advisor to Barack Obama during his two terms in office to CEO of the Obama Foundation. And with less than a month to go, she’s about to witness the birth of the Obama Presidential Center. The 19.3-acre campus in Chicago’s Jackson Park neighborhood is set to open to the public June 19. “It exceeds my wildest expectations. I think we’ve really done a great job. We worked with the community to help us on the design and the jobs and the feel,” she said. “I think people will...

AwakenedOutlaw repostedGRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE@GOP_is_Gutless·May 24Quit trashing Obama's accomplishments.He has done more than any other President before him. Here is a list of his impressive accomplishments:1. First President to be photographed smoking a joint.2. First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.3. First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.4. First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.5. First President to violate the War Powers Act.6. First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing...

Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) appears to be moving toward a possible run for the White House, Axios reported Sunday. Although she has said she has not made a decision on the matter, Ocasio-Cortez has been on a national tour rallying voters and making endorsements in several races, the outlet said. The Axios article detailed some of her recent movements and plans: Addressed the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta with Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock. (Democrats note that Warnock, the church’s senior pastor, doesn’t always allow visiting politicians to speak at this church. Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg didn’t speak...

President Trump trashed nemesis Stephen Colbert in an AI-generated video — literally. The 22-second clip shows Trump walking onto the set of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” as the host introduces his final episode. An AI-generated version of the president then man-handles his biggest basher, grabbing Colbert by the suit jacket and giving him three shakes. The president is then seen tossing Colbert into a green trash bin while the audience roars and Trump seals the lid and starts his signature dance to “Y.M.C.A.”

According to WisDOT, the motorist removed a "road closed" barrier, and proceeded to drive onto the freshly-poured roadway.

This video discusses the political controversy surrounding Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and her decision to run in Florida’s newly redrawn 20th Congressional District. Here is a summary of the key points: The Controversy: After being redrawn out of her original district, Wasserman Schultz opted to run in the 20th District, a seat historically held by Black lawmakers for over three decades (1:07 - 1:55). Backlash from the Community: The move has caused significant anger among local Black political leaders and activists, who feel that Wasserman Schultz is prioritizing her own political survival over Black representation (2:19 - 3:06). Critics, including...