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Reports suggested Thursday that diplomacy is progressing toward a possible resolution of the Iran War as the ceasefire entered its 44th day. President Donald Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland that the U.S. is in “the final stages of Iran,” and that if the Iranians did not convey a satisfactory answer “within a few days,” kinetic operations against Iran would resume. Bloomberg reported Thursday that the Iranian regime felt the latest U.S. deal proposal has “narrowed the gaps,” citing the Iranian Student News Association. ISNA did not disclose the source for that information. Axios, citing anonymous sources,…

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Alan Macleod reports on a network of anti-government Cuban media outlets funded by USAID, NED and Open Society to sow discontent and soften up the Caribbean nation for a potential U.S. invasion. Cuban flag outside the Palace of the Revolution, which houses the government in Havana. (Marco Zanferrari, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons) By Alan MacLeodMintPress News Amid escalating U.S. aggression towards the Cuban island through a maximum pressure campaign and the threat of military intervention, the United States government has been covertly funding a huge network of Cuban media outlets, which claim to be independent, in a push for regime…

While addressing a crowd of manufacturing workers in Missouri this week, Vice President J.D. Vance detailed how his staff is tirelessly working to root out fraud in the federal government. “There is a simple principle that I have, which is: If you are committing fraud against the American people, you should go to prison,” Vance said. After waiting for the cheers to die down, he continued, “If you are a public official, and you are not fighting against fraud, you ought to have your money taken away, because [officials] should not be able to steal from all of you.” Yes,…

“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union;…”– Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862 Dr. Wanjiru Njoya is the Walter E. Williams Research Fellow…

After the Supreme Court struck down many of President Donald Trump’s tariffs in February, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., cosponsored legislation seeking to directly compensate Americans for the tariffs’ costs. Refunds are currently being given to the U.S. businesses that paid them, not to consumers directly. Gillibrand was one of eight co-sponsors of the Tariff Refunds for Working Families Act (S.4093), which would provide tax rebates using funds collected from tariffs imposed by the Trump administration. Individual recipients would receive rebates of $600; joint filers would receive $1,200. The measure would provide an extra $600 per child. (The bill has eight…

A 56-year-old Haitian man being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in Arizona died from complications from an untreated tooth infection, a medical examiner’s report released earlier this month found. Emmanuel Damas died on March 2 after being transferred to a local hospital from the Central Arizona Florence Correctional Center, a private correctional complex that houses ICE detainees. A report by the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office, obtained through a public records request, concluded that Damas “died as a result of Complications of Necrotizing Mediastinitis with Neck and Retropharyngeal Abscess in the setting of Severe Dental Caries and…

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Free speech advocates want to know more about the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) rumored database that tracks critics of the Trump administration’s immigration policies and its potential to chill constitutionally protected speech. But so far, the agency has ignored repeated Freedom of Information Act requests for public records.  Amidst the rising tensions between federal immigration agents and protestors earlier this year, President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, announced on Fox News in January his push to create a database to prosecute people who “impede or interfere” with immigration operations. Such a database, according to Homan, would include those…

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