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The implementation of a Gaza ceasefire agreement is "going better than expected" and the truce can hold, US Vice-President JD Vance has said during a visit to Israel.Vance also warned that "if Hamas does not co-operate, it will be obliterated", while refusing to give a deadline for when the Palestinian group must disarm - a part of US proposals yet to be agreed.US President Donald Trump, who brokered the ceasefire deal earlier this month, said America's "great allies" in the Middle East would be ready to "go into Gaza with a heavy force and 'straighten out Hamas' if Hamas continues...

“If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States"Rising outrage by families of 9/11 victims and FBI agents involved in the original World Trade Center bombing investigation, along with attacks from political rivals and questions from the one or two media outlets not in the tank for his campaign, forced Zohran Mamdani to answer why he had campaigned at the Al-Taqwa Mosque, which had been under NYPD surveillance, and tweeted a photo of himself with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted coconspirator in the World Trade Center bombing.And Mamdani’s response was accusing critics of ‘Islamophobia’.“The same imam...

A planned summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin was put on hold on Tuesday, as Moscow's rejection of an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine cast a cloud over attempts at negotiations. A senior White House official told Reuters "there are no plans for President Trump to meet with President Putin in the immediate future" after Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had a "productive call" but opted against an in-person meeting. Trump had announced last week that he and Putin would meet soon in Hungary to try to bring an end...

Don’t blame the enforcement of the law; blame the Democrat lawlessness that made enforcement necessary. It’s apparently “cruel” to enforce immigration law, at least that’s what the left has been telling us for months now. “Trump’s cruel immigration machine is still tearing families apart,” Jordan Foster, Dylan Gee, and Dina Francesca Haynes wrote for MSNBC.California Democrat Scott Peters said in June that ICE raids are “cruel and wasteful.” ICE agents, according to Peters, “took away four undocumented dishwashers and line cooks.”“Instead of targeting real threats, this administration is carrying out a cruel agenda that will disrupt our economy, further erode...

Today, Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) referred former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Brennan to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution after Brennan knowingly made false statements during his transcribed interview before the Committee in 2023. While testifying, Brennan made numerous willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact that were contradicted by the record established by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and the CIA including:

The bills would return Pennsylvania to the Kermit Gosnell era, with legal protections for abortionists and late-term abortions.The Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee votes on a package of six bills Wednesday that will make it possible for pregnant Pennsylvania women to kill their unborn babies up to birth. It will also turn Pennsylvania into an abortion tourism destination, allowing women from states with stronger pro-life rules to kill their babies in Pennsylvania with no legal entanglements. Currently Pennsylvania bans abortion after 24 weeks (six months), though even then state law makes an exception “when the pregnancy poses a serious health risk...

President Donald Trump and his team want Americans to have more babies. In fact, that was the prevailing narrative when the White House announced new guidance last week explicitly designed to “increase access” to in vitro fertilization. “We want to make it easier for all couples to have babies, raise children, and start the families they’ve always dreamed about,” Trump said.The means the administration are promoting to seemingly reach that end — lowering the prices of IVF and other assisted reproductive technology drugs as well as offering a new employer fertility insurance benefit — however are morally, ethically, and functionally...

A serial harasser of women who was sentenced in 2023 to 5½ years in jail and prison for following, grabbing, groping and chasing his victims has apparently been released — and was seen approaching several women in San Francisco on Monday. From about 2 to 3 p.m., a Chronicle reporter observed Bill Gene Hobbs, 37, approaching women in Dolores Park as well as areas of the Castro and Duboce Triangle — sliding up next to them on the grass or at cafe tables or crossing the street to talk to them. At other times, he sat on the street curb,...

Kevin Rudd, Australia’s ambassador to America, who trash talked Trump in the past found himself getting some payback in the Oval Office duding the US/Australia meeting. Not a great idea to get into fights with Trump, Chuckle.

I am continuing to prepare for President Donald Trump’s trip to Budapest, where he will meet with President Putin. In order to negotiate an end to the war with Ukraine, it is necessary to know for what Putin sent his soldiers there. To clarify, I am not asking “why,” but “what for.” Since the beginning of Putin’s attack on Ukraine, political scientists, psychologists, and other experts have attempted to explain the attack based on Putin’s psyche: his desire to prove to world leaders that he is the most powerful, his dream of being remembered as the “gatherer of Russian lands,”...

Soros and his minions, that plethora of illicit NGOs that rob American taxpayers, along with his network of billionaires who are intent upon destroying America as founded, saw the fruits of their misspent dollars at work on Saturday as a few thousands of aging hippies, most of them recruited and paid, showed up at their local “no kings” protests and made utter fools of themselves.When confronted by a question about why they were participating, few, if any, could answer coherently. They cry “fascism” but cannot define it. Still, they “know” Charlie Kirk was a bad man! They are glad he’s...

Democracy is liberalism’s “political corollary.”Many people argue that democracy is incompatible with capitalism but they differ on whether democracy will kill capitalism or whether capitalism will kill democracy. Peter Thiel, for example, famously said, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” Thiel’s argument has a long pedigree. The classical economists from Adam Smith to John Stuart Mill all worried that democracy would kill capitalism. Even Marx and Engels agreed with the analysis arguing that under democracy “The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of...

President Trump offered these comments on the "reckless and completely unnecessary" 2025 government shutdown and praised OMB Director Russ Vought as the "Darth Vader" of budget cuts. "They call him Darth Vader. I call him a fine man," Trump said about Vought. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Over one million federal workers right now, as you know, are going unpaid. That's the Democrats' fault. And children, tourists—unable to visit the museums in Washington, D.C. We now have beautiful, safe streets, but we don't have the museums open. We should probably just open them. But we are doing things that nobody's ever done—nobody's...

Why Washington Must Accelerate the U.A.E. Chip PartnershipThe United States and China are locked in a technology cold war. Beijing’s latest move—restricting exports of rare earth minerals critical to advanced manufacturing of everything from semiconductors to defense systems—shows that China is willing to weaponize every advantage it has. But the trade war is only part of the story. China’s quest to become a hegemonic power runs through the Gulf, where it seeks to establish a military presence to secure energy and shipping routes vital to its economy. For years, Beijing has courted the region’s energy and capital-rich states through the...

One of Europe’s crown jewels, a centuries-old relic of irreplaceable artistic and historical import, has fallen into the hands of vandals intent on abusing it for their own selfish gain. I’m not talking about the heist at the Louvre over the weekend, in which thieves broke into the most famous art museum in the world and stole nine items from a collection of priceless treasures that once belonged to French royals of no less significance than Napoleon Bonaparte. I’m talking about the plunder of Canterbury Cathedral, in which a church founded by St. Augustine of Canterbury and famed as the...

What drives Trump’s politics is nostalgia for the age of coal, when dirty fuel and no environmental regulations created his version of a great America.Arguably, no technology freed the world from the drudgery and cold of premodern times more than coal. It fueled the Industrial Revolution and rising standards of living that transformed what a human life meant after 1800. The cost of this freedom soon meant slaughtered workers, rising carbon dioxide levels, and the threat of planetary ecological catastrophe. Today, arguably no technology dooms the world’s future more than coal, with its environmental destruction, pumping of carbon dioxide into...

A young man who filmed a video threatening ICE agents and then tried to lie his way out of it is about to learn the hard way that there are consequences. As The Gateway Pundit reported, teenage-looking individuals went on TikTok last week. They decided to piggyback off reports of bounties that have been issued against ICE agents trying to enforce our immigration laws. In the video, one of the young men smiles as he pulls down his mask. Rap music plays in the background, and his cronies stand behind him. There is also a threatening message in the video,...

...(setting aside the meaningless, for-show charges against a bunch of random Russians no one has ever heard of and no one will ever see anyway). I’ve followed this case closely since 2018 because, even among all the injustices carried out by Mueller’s thugs, this one stood out as particularly grotesque. I’ll write more about it later, but in short: Mueller’s team went through General Flynn’s old client list and targeted one of his former clients on a matter that had nothing to do with Trump or Russia, purely to pressure him into saying something damaging about Flynn and by extension,...

I've had a rough few days and have emerged from a cloud of medication to a barrage of intemperate emails from British readers demanding to know what I make of Jews being killed on the streets of Manchester, Jews being forbidden from attending footie matches in Birmingham, and Jews being arrested and interrogated for ten hours for perambulating the streets of London while wearing visible marks of their faith.Well, obviously, I'm shocked, shocked to find Jew-hate going on at Rick's Café Keffiyeh. But I'm not in the least bit shocked, shocked to find that yet again the public discourse in...

A U.S. marshal and a suspect were shot and wounded Tuesday morning, Oct. 21, during a traffic stop in South Los Angeles, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The shooting was reported about 8:50 a.m. in the 400 block of East 20th Street, according to Officer Luis Alanis, a spokesperson for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE officers and U.S. marshals pulled over an undocumented resident who had “previously escaped from custody,” Tricia McLaughlin, an assistant secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, said in a statement. The suspect had rammed his car into law enforcement vehicles and tried...