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National Rally (RN) legislator Jean-Philippe Tanguy from the Somme region is preparing legislation to bring back brothels in France. Tanguy says his idea is endorsed by the RN's National Assembly leader Marine Le Pen. The end result of the proposed law would be to have the prostitutes manage the brothels which would be a new yet undetermined name... In the National Assembly a key win for the government of President Emmanuel Macron led by Prime Minister Sebasten Lecornu. The "Social Security Budget" approved 247-234 but 93 lawmakers took the route of abstention... A prime time forum for the leading 2027...

Vladimir Putin’s blundering chief TV propagandist has given away the top secret location of Russia’s most elite drone unit. An unburied toilet sign in a report by Vladimir Solovyov led to the Rubicon HQ being geolocated. The trail leads to Hall D and part of Hall C at the Patriot Exhibition Centre, near Moscow. The site has been already targeted by Ukrainian attack drones, and could be again. Solovyov is a highly-paid state TV propagandist for Putin and the war - and the careless blunder failing to mask the toilet signs in a report about Rubicon is a huge embarrassment....

Witkoff noted that these concessions were partly achieved because the U.S. side tested Russia’s willingness to adopt a more flexible stance. Trump and his team focused on securing a long-term peace agreement rather than a temporary ceasefire during the Anchorage meeting, he added. “We stayed there for quite some time because we actually made progress on how we might get to a peace deal,” Witkoff said. According to him, Trump began to sense that many preconditions for a comprehensive deal were already in place, prompting efforts to negotiate a full peace agreement.

President Donald Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, arrived in Kyiv on Monday to discuss security and sanctions against Russia with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trump has said he will make a “major statement” regarding Russia on Monday, as he’s set to welcome NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte to the White House.

As the peace negotiations face the inevitable hurdles from both the Russian and the Ukrainian sides, it’s now the Europeans that are doing their level best to derail the process. And it’s UK’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer and France’s President Emmanuel Macron who are the self-appointed ‘saboteurs-in-chief’ tasked with posturing and lecturing to the all-too-friendly MSM. Now, Starmer and Macron started to patronize US President Donald J. Trump and his team, ‘warning’ them against ‘trusting Vladimir Putin’. Besides that, they both made it clear they will not relax any sanctions on Russia as part of a ceasefire deal – effectively...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky pushed back against President Donald Trump’s criticism that he isn’t ready for peace, insisting that only Russia is standing in the way of the ceasefire. President Zelensky appears to be undertaking a concerted effort to reset rhetoric around the Ukraine war, after he emerged from Friday’s failed attempt to create a new future relationship between Ukraine and the United States being accused of not truly being ready for peace at all. Attempting to turn that narrative on its head, Zelensky published several statements and made comments on Monday insisting that Ukraine is in fact absolutely ready...

US politics the debate between the Vice-Presidential candidates... Credit ratings agency Standard and Poors lowering Israel's long-term credit rating from A+ to A... Late night attacks by Israeli warplanes in Lebanon... The recently appointed French Prime Minister Michel Barnier speaking about the need to cut spending... Russian Aerospace Forces in Syria hitting three jihadist bases... In the Ukraine War Russian troops advancing into the center of the town of Voehledar in the disputed Donetsk Region... Iran said it hit military targets in Israel...A Palestinian man killed in the Iranian missile attack... Dutch Party of Freedom leader Geert Wilders pushing for...

A nighttime curfew remains in force in parts of the French Caribbean territory of Martinique...33 arrests...associated with protests against the high cost of living... In Missouri Marcellus Williams executed... Swiss security firm Proton says that the "Dark Web" contains personal information for more than three thousand US congressional staffers... In Canada Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announcing amendments to the Alberta Bill of Rights... US Central Command took down one Houthi drone... "the extensive aggression against Lebanon that shed the blood of thousands of innocent people will not remain unanswered" Iran's President at the UN... Syrian air defenses repelling an Israeli...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is planning to devote much of his energy in the remaining months of his term as Republican leader, as well as the next few years of his term, to ensuring Ukraine is supported as its war with Russia rages on. "It may not be fashionable now, but I’m a Ronald Reagan Republican: peace through strength," the longtime Senate GOP leader said during a speech in Shelbyville, Kentucky, per local outlet the Kentucky Lantern. McConnell has been a proponent of continued support for Ukraine, even after members of his party began to push back.

Hollywood star Sean Penn has turned his righteous anger toward his own side of the political spectrum, slamming fellow leftists who want to end the Ukraine war through a peace deal with Russia. Sean Penn — who is chummy with Ukraine President Volodymr Zelensky — spoke in an interview with Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast. The actor singled out leftists who are calling for peace talks with Russia, saying that could jeopardize Ukraine’s freedom. “How dare we talk about their negotiation?” he demanded, asking Americans how they would feel if somebody seized New York “and your mother and father lived there...

"Hey it's Tucker Carlson. You may have found yourself wondering recently as the world slides closer to nuclear annihilation than at any time in human history why exactly are we at war with Russia? It seems like there's a pretty significant downside to this particular foreign policy decision starting with economic collapse and potentially with extinction. So is there a good reason we're doing it. So many innocent young people have been killed, so many hundreds of billions of dollars have been wasted, some of them from the US Treasury. So what's the point...

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a speech on June 26 seeking to persuade as many Wagner fighters and leaders as possible to join the Russian military and continue fighting against Ukraine and to cause individuals most loyal to Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin to self-identify. Putin continued to denounce the organizers of the armed rebellion as traitors. Putin thanked Russian society and the Russian security forces for defending Russia’s sovereignty and expressed gratitude to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko for brokering negotiations with the perpetrators of the rebellion. Putin did not name Prigozhin specifically, but Putin’s speech leaves little room for...

Good detail on yesterdays counteroffensive

Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) Monday on FNC’s “Fox & Friends” that the Biden administration’s “blank check policy” on the war in Ukraine was not acceptable. DeSantis said, “They have effectively a blank check policy with no clear strategic objective identified, and these things can escalate. I don’t think it’s in our interest to be getting into a proxy war with China getting involved over things like the borderlands or over Crimea. So I think it would behoove them to identify what is the strategic objective that they are trying to achieve. But just saying it’s an open-ended blank check, that’s...

Senior U.S. officials are advising Ukraine to hold off on launching a major offensive against Russian forces until the latest supply of U.S. weaponry is in place and training has been provided, a senior Biden administration official said on Friday. The official, speaking to a small group of reporters on condition of anonymity, said the United States was holding fast to its decision not to provide Abrams tanks to Ukraine at this time, amid a controversy with Germany over tanks. U.S. talks with Ukraine about any counter-offensive have been in the context of ensuring the Ukrainians devote enough time first...

JUST IN - Ukraine's Zelensky named TIME Person of the Year.

As climate policy moves forward and the world's food and energy supplies implode people will starve and freeze to death. The other week Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic expressed his belief that some people will not make it through next winter. He did not cite climate policy in connection with this... But other factors are in play that give cover as power plants are shut down and farms are closed to prevent cow gas emissions and the list goes on. These factors alone are causing deaths but more deaths will follow as climate policy takes hold. The conflict with Russia over...

A sense of unreality continues to permeate Russia and their claims to annexation of southern Ukraine, and that may be almost literally. Newsweek reports today that the Kremlin added “fake cheers” to Vladimir Putin’s speech on Friday announcing the annexation to sell this glorious nonsense to a Russian audience that has clearly grown tired of the war. And speaking of the audience … Unedited footage from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annexation speech in Moscow on Friday appears to show fake cheers were edited onto clips broadcast on state TV, while reports say that people were bussed in to attend the...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on Sunday he is requesting “at least $12 billion” in aid for Ukraine in a stop-gap spending bill. Schumer said during a press conference on Sunday, “Ukraine has made significant advances against Russia in the war, the vicious war that Putin has waged against the Ukrainian people.”

Here we go… It was only a matter of time before the DOJ-NSD architects of the Trump targeting operation came out from the shadows. This is the moment long-time readers of CTH should have been waiting for. For the past five years Mary McCord has been one of a small and select lawfare group organizing the targeting of President Trump. Mary McCord led the support team who created the Carter Page FISA warrant using the Steele Dossier to replace the required ‘Wood’s file’. McCord was the DOJ-NSD official who traveled with DOJ Deputy AG Sally Yates to talk to former...