Author: nick

[ad_1] Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. battled CNN’s Dana Bash, Sunday morning on “State of the Union,” over who holds the most responsibility for the damage caused by COVID lockdowns, why the U.S. had one of the worst death rates from the pandemic, and what should be improved to reduce the impact of future disease outbreaks. Bash said President Trump deserves blame for what happened under him in the first year of the pandemic, and disputed Kennedy’s assertion that the U.S. had the “highest death rate of any country in the world,” reading a statement that…

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[ad_1] Locked up in a cell in Madrid since his arrest on July 10, 2026, the well-known left-wing philanthropist Fergie Chambers is waiting to learn whether Spain will hand him to Washington. According to a US indictment, his crime was moving $7.5 million – money he raised, his family says, after selling his stake in Cox Enterprises and walking away from a quarter-billion-dollar inheritance – some of which funded legal defense for activists and humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza. He has been denied bail and, his supporters say, denied contact with the outside world. Stella Schnabel, his partner, has…

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[ad_1] Frustrated by the lack of progress in his war with Iran, President Donald Trump is stuck in a cycle of threatened retaliation and retreat. Officially, Trump’s restraint is intended to give ongoing diplomatic talks space. Unofficially, however, Trump’s hesitancy to go all-in has a more troubling cause: warnings from the Pentagon about the sufficiency of U.S. missile stockpiles.  Reporting on such concerns, expressed to the president by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine, has fed two widely disseminated narratives: First, that the United States has a “shortage” of the missiles necessary to continue fighting in…

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[ad_1] Last week, I was invited to join a program hosted by an independent Iranian media platform called Azad, which specializes in facilitating debates between policy experts in Iran and further abroad. My debate was with Majid Shakeri, who gained prominence as a foreign policy advisor to Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (the current speaker of the country’s parliament) during Ghalibaf’s most recent presidential campaign. Shakeri was also part of the negotiating team that went to Islamabad earlier this year to hammer out the (now-moribund) MOU with the United States. These days, when you listen to Shakeri’s interviews, you will hear him…

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[ad_1] On July 16, President Trump gave a long and detailed speech describing various ways noncitizens are impacting American elections and violating our sacred right to determine the political future of our own country. Democrats roundly dismissed the president’s speech, called him a liar, and mocked his obsession with voter fraud. But just days after the Trump speech, The Thing That Never Happens happened again, as New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill was forced to admit that more than 6,600 noncitizens had been added to the state’s voter rolls, and 400 of them actually voted in elections going back to 2023.…

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[ad_1] A decade ago, it would have been unthinkable that arresting the President of Israel would be a mainstream position. However, after starting multiple wars and committing genocide, a recent poll from The Economist/YouGov found that 49 percent of respondents agreed that the U.S. should enforce an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu. Clearly, Israel is in the midst of a PR disaster, a fact Netanyahu himself acknowledged in a 2025 meeting with Evangelical leaders in Palm Beach, Florida. Therefore, in order to sway public opinion in the United States, the Israeli government has spent more than…

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