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Voters going to the polls in Sweden...latest set of polls showing a tighter race... Today's US inflation report showing the Consumer Price Index remained at 3.4... More than 3300 deaths now reported from the Ebola outbreak... 44 people hurt...train derailment in northwestern France... On the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States family members called on President Trump to hold Saudi Arabia to account... In Brazil...Supreme Court and Federal Police opening a corruption probe...leading opposition candidate Flavio Bolsonaro... North Korea launching a projectile eastwards... In the British House of Commons assisted death legislation failing... "BRICS" leaders...

It starts with the generals and goes straight through political waste and fraud in his ballooned-up budget and ends with a demoralized force of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines. That will be Pete Hegseth’s legacy when he’s gone, and it will take at least a decade and probably more to repair the damage he has done to our nation’s security. The New York Times reported last week that Hegseth “has fired or blocked the promotions of more than 80 generals and admirals.” The Times called it a “purge,” and that’s what it is. Ten percent of the military’s high-ranking leadership...

The Trump administration's effort to implement new United States Postal Service (USPS) requirements for mail-in ballots ahead of the November midterms hit another roadblock Thursday, as a unanimous federal appeals court refused to lift the preliminary injunction blocking mandatory enforcement of the rule while the case is appealed. On Thursday, a 1st Circuit Court of Appeals panel (consisting of Judges Gustavo Gelpi, Julie Rikelman, and Seth Aframe, all Biden appointees) denied the Trump administration's request to stay Judge Indira Talwani's preliminary injunction, meaning the injunction remains in effect while the appeal proceeds. To review: * Trump's election-integrity executive order directed...

U.S. Defense Secretary Hegseth has returned to posting about Canada, sharing a Canadian Coast Guard Pride message with only a flag emoji days after Prime Minister Mark Carney criticized American officials for using memes and mockery during a serious dispute between the neighboring countries. •Hegseth quoted a Canadian Coast Guard post about its participation in Ottawa’s Pride celebration and added a Canadian flag emoji. •The post came after Carney said U.S. officials should “stop doing memes,” “stop throwing shade” and become serious about renewed trade discussions. •Unlike Hegseth’s earlier message about Canadian cadets, the latest post contained no written criticism,...

The Presidential Election year budget in France to be considered in the coming months with opinion polling this week pushing the notion of public support for cutting spending. The opinion poll conducted by the government itself with 40 percent respondents speaking of France's current financial situation as "very worrying'. That is up five percent from January... South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung on a four-day visit to France starting tomorrow. President Lee and French President Emmnuel Macron discussing security and economic connections between France and South Korea... France's increasingly confrontational stance towards China reflected in the new rules imposing fees...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an executive order honoring the victims of 9/11 on Friday. Then he handed the ceremonial pen to a lawyer who once represented an al-Qaeda terrorist. Yes, really. The surreal ceremony unfolded at City Hall just one week before the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Mamdani gathered senior administration officials to sign two executive orders related to the tragedy. You just knew this was going to be a fiasco. And it was. The first “order” establishes September 11 as an official New York City “Day of Remembrance and Service,” complete with a...

At least 10 killed and 62 wounded in an explosion at a military base in Bolivia... At the Pentagon about 50 officials for the Joint Chiefs of Staff given polygraph... Republican Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky says that President Trump's executive order on beef labeling falls short... US and Chinese officials are expected to discuss AI...safety risks... A new era of "Artificial General Intelligence" (AGI) has been proclaimed by Open AI CEO Greg Brockman... A federal district judge extending her order blocking US Postal Service mail-in ballot rules... Two killed in an Israeli attack on a motorcycle in southern Lebanon......

Who wants to tell them? In Spain, a gay couple says that if the ‘far-right’ wins the next election, they will seek asylum in Palestine because they consider it the most ‘progressive’ place on earth.This is mental illness. How can they be so dumb? pic.twitter.com/8VHmJa32vV— Dr. Maalouf ‏ (@realMaalouf) September 3, 2026If the right-wing Vox Party wins (the country is currently embroiled in mass protests against the far-left government), these gents are going to apply for asylum in ... an Islamic terror den known for lobbing off the heads of gay people. I would ask for political asylum in Gaza,...

A coalition of British peace and faith organisations has launched a campaign demanding that the Government rule out any return to military conscription, as heightened tensions with Russia intensify debate over Britain’s military preparedness. Thirteen organisations, including ForcesWatch, the Peace Pledge Union and Quakers in Britain, are backing a petition calling for ministers to reject compulsory military service or any form of national service involving the armed forces. The campaign comes as the UK faces renewed discussion over the size and resilience of its armed forces. The Conservatives have previously proposed a national service scheme, while Labour has expanded opportunities...

President Donald Trump is privately discussing with senior aides whether to declare the U.S. war with Iran over, even as the Pentagon extends troop deployments into 2027 and the conflict continues to disrupt shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, The Wall Street Journal reported.The apparent contradiction underscores the uncertainty surrounding the administration's strategy. Trump has told advisers he favors declaring an end to the war and believes the combination of economic pressure and U.S. military dominance has put Washington in a winning position.The Journal reported that Trump has argued Iran's economy is collapsing and that U.S. forces have achieved "almost...

Senator John Fetterman may be a Democrat, but he has also been one of the most vocal critics of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). During a recent appearance on FOX News, Fetterman dropped some serious truths about the DSA, saying that they are anti-American, but buried in his comments was a huge truth about these people that doesn’t get mentioned nearly enough. Fetterman says, ‘they want to impoverish middle class whites’ and that is absolutely correct. Listen to any one of them talk long enough and they will eventually link capitalism to white supremacy. It’s not true, but it...

There are several ways that wars end. –One side conquers and annexes the other. –One side surrenders and gives up some of their land, treasure, and authority in a peace treaty. –One side has a domestic change of government and the new one befriends the other side. –Things reach a stalemate and the shooting stops in an ongoing, uncomfortable sort of permanent ceasefire. The USA-Iran War has never fit comfortably into such normal classifications. During the first 47 years of the war, the Twelver regime of Iran didn’t just attack the United States, but attacked countless countries and interests all...

The Pentagon is standing behind a controversial social media post by U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth about a Canadian cadet program. Hegseth on Monday posted an image from the Cadet Training Centre in Vernon, B.C., depicting two young women in uniform with the caption "this is real" alongside a Canadian flag. The online response to Hegseth's post was filled with remarks belittling the physical appearance of the people in the photo, but it also triggered massive backlash from Canadians. Some people posted that it was unfair for Hegseth to target the youth program in an attempt to disparage the Canadian...

🚨 Recent satellite imagery suggests that the Department of War has conducted a covert dredging operation to open up a never-before-used shipping corridor through the Omani side of the Strait of Hormuz.The corridor in question is an approximately 1,600-foot-wide waterway with a natural depth of about 93 feet, meaning that only a small amount of dredging would have been necessary to make it safe for VLCCs (Very Large Crude Carriers). Worth noting, ships navigating this corridor remain completely outside the Iranian regime’s line of sight due to the Omani island of Jazirat Musandam and the curvature of the Earth. Follow:...

At least seven wounded in a Ukrainian drone attack... The US Justice Department backing down on a claim...government agencies were hacked by Chinese state-sponsored hackers... The transcript of former banking CEO Jes Staley's Jeffrey Epstein interview... deadly Israeli attack in the city of Jenin in the "West Bank"... In Ecuador former President Lenin Moreno found guilty of corruption... United States planning to cut off military aid to the Kurdish forces... Fitch Ratings Service keeping France at an A+... In the UK one person killed and six others injured when a sign fell... US House will meet next week to vote...

It didn’t happen all at once, but the timelines and the new document dumps paint a disturbing picture of what we knew would appear on the canvas long before Trump’s second presidency and the disclosures that exposed the whole deep state circus. We have former presidents, including Obama, ordering intelligence assessments to thread in Russian collusion nonsense; a former CIA director who lied about how the Steele Dossier, the document responsible for this hoax, was used in analyzing the intelligence; and the media’s incessant and destructive crusade to make this ruse legitimate. They failed because there was no evidence, and...

CNN’s chyron was already doing the heavy lifting for the narrative — treating Trump’s victory talk like some embarrassing rerun of 2003 — when Scott Jennings decided to ignore the script and talk about results instead. Let's not pretend Jennings ever gives one single damn about a script ... While the rest of the NewsNight panel treated “ongoing war” as settled fact, Jennings pointed to the scoreboard that actually matters: Iran’s defense industrial base has been smashed, its oil exports have been shut off since the naval blockade resumed, and the U.S. Navy has already shepherded 750 million barrels of...

Progressive leader, Ian Bassin, tells how the left is running wargames against Republicans before the election. The enemy of the left is always Republicans and ordinary Americans. ======================================================================================== They may be stone-cold crazy and communist sympathizers but they sure are organized. Far left leader Ian Bassin told viewers this week on “The Court of History” how the Democrats are role-playing wargames before the midterm elections so they can take over Congress. The wargames involves progressive heroes Marc Elias and Norm Eisen, two of the most ruthless, Trump-hating worms on the planet. Attorney Jeff Clark tweeted out this video of former...

Just one day after calling President Donald Trump a “fat pig,” Jelly Roll doubled down on his remarks. The famous singer stepped in as guest host of Tuesday’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and refused to back down amid backlash over comments he made Monday on the very same stage. “Now, let’s be honest for a second. Any U.S. president should be able to handle a few jokes, right?” he told the audience, Tuesday. Determined not to walk back his stance, Jelly Roll continued. “They should also be able to handle gas prices, healthcare, and the occasional international conflict, but...

Left-wing voting organizations are racing back to Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in a renewed attempt to shut down President Donald Trump’s mail-ballot integrity rules before the November midterms. On Wednesday, the plaintiffs filed a 29-page memorandum asking Talwani to immediately issue a temporary restraining order and then a preliminary injunction blocking the U.S. Postal Service’s final Ballot Mail for Federal Elections rule. The new filing comes just hours after Talwani was forced to vacate her nationwide injunction following the Supreme Court’s August 24 ruling in Trump v. California. As The Gateway Pundit reported on Wednesday, Talwani conceded that,...