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IRNA – Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has rejected the idea of holding direct negotiations with the United States as long as the “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran is in place, saying Washington has agreed to hold indirect negotiations. Speaking at a meeting with Algerian elites and media figures in Algiers on Tuesday, Araqchi said bilateral talks should be conducted on equal footing, not under maximum pressure and military threats. “As long as maximum pressure and threats exist, there is no ground for fair negotiations, and we will not hold direct negotiations,” he said. However, he hastened to add, the path...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

“In America, the rule of law is king. But where says some is the King of America? I’ll tell you Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain.” –Thomas Paine “To give praise which is not due might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature. They know, and will therefore say, that kings are the servants, not the proprietors of the people.” –Thomas Jefferson

U.S. stocks climbed in early trading on Monday, reversing deep losses in a matter of minutes after President Donald Trump signaled a willingness to negotiate tariffs with U.S. trade partners. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 470 points, or 1.2%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq rose 2.5%. The S&P 500 gained 1.8%. "Countries from all over the World are talking to us," Trump said on Truth Social. "Tough but fair parameters are being set." The market gains recovered some losses that stretch back to Trump's announcement of far-reaching tariffs last week. The Dow suffered its worst week since 2020, and the...

personal sovereignty There’s no two ways about it: The United States of America and its 50 state governments love putting people in prison. The U.S. has both the highest number of prisoners and the highest per capita incarceration rate in the modern world at 655 adults per 100,000. (It’s worth noting that China’s incarceration statistics are dubious, and they execute far more people than the United States. Indeed, the so-called People’s Republic executes more people annually than the rest of the world combined.) Still, that’s more than 2.2 million Americans in state and federal prisons as well as county jails....

Yemen launched a major assault, firing ballistic and hypersonic missiles at Israel and U.S. warships. The attack marks a dangerous escalation in regional tensions, with the Yemeni Armed Forces vowing to continue their blockade on Israeli navigation in the Red and Arabian Seas.

The Supreme Court will be issuing Opinions from the October 2024 term this morning at 10:00.Scotusblog will be live-blogging the opinions here:Live blog March 26A list of the cases pending for this term are located here:October 2024 term

WASHINGTON — President Trump reacted warmly Friday to a report that the US could be offered “associate membership” in the British Commonwealth. “I Love King Charles. Sounds good to me!” the president wrote on Truth Social, linking to a report by the Sun that a proposal could be made by the monarch when Trump makes a state visit to the UK later this year. The Commonwealth of Nations, established in 1926, has 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former colonies of the British Empire.Among its members are Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan and South...

TBN Israel's Yair Pinto reports on the Israel-Hamas War and rising Houthi tensions. Pinto reports that the U.S. has escalated attacks on the Houthis in Yemen, eliminating at least 53, including senior leaders. Meanwhile, Hezbollah is under pressure from both Israel and new clashes in Syria. In Gaza, Hamas continues to violate ceasefire talks while the IDF strikes terrorist targets. Plus, Israeli forces uncover a weapons depot with UNRWA equipment in northern Samaria. Stay up-to-date with the latest developments here on TBN Israel.

The Sons of Liberty flag is very meaningful to us, as it’s the flag that inspired the backdrop of our logo. Its origins go back to 1765, when a secretive group of patriots known as “the Loyal Nine” was formed – the group behind the original Boston Tea Party. The flag was then known as “the Rebellious Stripes” and it was banned by the British king, the highest endorsement the Crown could give.

The U.S. and Israeli Air Forces conducted joint military drills this week, including with a B-52 bomber: a clear message to the Iranian regime and its nuclear program. Plus, President Trump’s threats to Hamas intensify. What comes next in Gaza? Watch now!

After his mauling from President Trump live on TV and then being booted out of the White House, Ukraine’s Zelensky immediately phoned European leaders. That reaction shows that the Ukrainian actor-turned-president had flown to Washington from Kiev not to merely sign a supposed minerals deal with the U.S., but to inveigle Trump into a trap to escalate the proxy war in Ukraine against Russia. No doubt there is consternation and alarm among the Europeans that their agenda for prolonging the war against Russia is in disarray. Worst still, a furious Trump may now cut Ukraine loose and leave it completely...

Tulsi Gabbard says there’s 30 US FUNDED biolabs in Ukraine..

Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, by Scott Horton. The Libertarian Institute. 690 pp. Provoked is a monumental work, an essential guide to understanding how the United States and Russia came to face off in an horrific bloodletting on Russia’s border a generation after the Soviet Union abandoned communism. Scott Horton seems to have read every published English-language source bearing on the deterioration of Washington’s relationship with Moscow, and has produced an acerbic, polemical, factually dense first draft of history. His book is long (more than 1,200 pages in the Kindle...

New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said after his unofficial victory Sunday that a top priority is to make his country and the rest of Europe stronger so that they can become independent from the U.S. with President Donald Trump in office. “My absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve independence from the USA,” Merz said, according to the news outlet Politico . He also said Trump's recent comments show "Americans, at least this part of the Americans, this administration, are largely indifferent to the fate of Europe.”...

BOSTON -- When the puck drops on the championship game of the 4 Nations Face-Off, the United States believes it will have its full complement of forwards, with Auston Matthews, Matthew Tkachuk and Brady Tkachuk all expected to play.

HANOI, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Vietnam's National Assembly on Tuesday approved a bold bureaucratic reform plan that will slash up to a fifth of government bodies, as the country tries to cut costs and improve administrative efficiency. The number of government ministries will be reduced to 14 from the current of 18, to be up and running from March 1, the assembly said in a statement... More than 97% of the lawmakers present approved the plan. The assembly earlier on Tuesday passed an amendment to a law on organising government, paving the way for approval of the planned cull of...

Bill Guerin, the general manager of the U.S. team at the 4 Nations Face-Off, rejoiced at the notion that President Donald Trump should be at the USA-Canada final on Thursday. In an interview with Fox News, it was suggested the the sitting president could come and see the highly anticipated rematch between the two host countries of the tournament, which has garnered heaps of attention due to the political climate between them — and only escalated from there after three fights broke out in the first nine seconds of the first game. “We would love it if president Trump was...

U.S. and Russian officials have reportedly agreed on a framework that could see the end of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, but at a potentially steep price for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. According to U.S. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce, the meeting culminated in an agreement to form “high-level teams,” led by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, to draft a peace agreement, as reported earlier by The Gateway Pundit. The U.S. delegation also includes National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Special Envoy Ambassador Steve Witkoff. According to Sergey Lagodinsky, a German lawyer and...

USA 3- Canada 1 Nuff said.