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[ad_1] Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain He has never been able to accept it, but even after winning the 2024 US presidential elections, Donald Trump continued to fixate on the election result of 2020, when he lost to the Democratic contender, Joe Biden.  In doing so, he mirrors the anxieties of the Democrats who lost in 2016 to Trump, forever leaving Hillary Clinton convinced that her defeat was due, not to her own failings but to the dark machinations of the Kremlin and any other number of rogue outfits tampering with the US elections.  The 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment accepted that…

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[ad_1] Sen. John Fetterman responded to New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani , when he visits in September for the U.N. General Assembly, for war crimes charges brought by the International Criminal Court. “You’re a mayor, dude,” Fetterman said during an appearance Monday with Newsmax’s Greta Van Susteren. “Fix some potholes.””He’s just a total clown, and it is just for clicks at this point. It’s just pandering to the DSA communists and their friends in New York,” Fetterman said. “The mayor does not direct arrests. The police enforce warrants. There is not a warrant. America is not part of the ICC.”ZOHRAN…

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[ad_1] From State v. Conrad, decided Monday by the Ohio Court of Appeals, in an opinion by Judge Eugene Lucci, joined by Judges Matt Lynch and Scott Ylnch: In 2025, Conrad was living with his girlfriend and their ten-month-old son in Conrad’s home in Wickliffe, Ohio. In April 2025, Conrad and his girlfriend were involved in a verbal altercation. After the girlfriend allegedly damaged Conrad’s PlayStation console in the basement, Conrad called 911. He informed the dispatcher that he would be armed “because the cops are coming in here.” The dispatcher responded, “Do not pick it up with your hands,…

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[ad_1] Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire Venezuela’s turn toward Israel did not begin in the rubble. The earthquake gave the world the story it was meant to see: rescue teams, drones, prayers, gratitude. But the real machinery was moving somewhere else. In Caracas, Venezuela’s Jewish-community leadership opened the door. The evangelical channel ran through Texas and Florida, where Trump’s faith network met Rubio’s Venezuela politics. The strangest part was waiting inside Chavismo itself, where Nicolás Maduro’s own son had spent years building the religious infrastructure that made the pivot possible. The public version began on the morning of July 3, 2026,…

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[ad_1] At his Substack, Shany Mor reflects on the revealed preferences since 10/7 of the Western NGOS, individuals, and governmental institutions “united by loosely overlapping commitments to global and transnational justice.” This group, which he dubs “Humanitarians,” could have responded to 10/7 in one of four general ways: H1: Humanitarians, especially including scholars of international law regarding armed conflict, are neutral regarding the belligerent parties in the war, and the Humanitarians collectively are genuinely committed to the humanitarian needs of civilians and noncombatants among both Israelis and Palestinians. H2: Humanitarians are indifferent to the humanitarian needs of the Israelis but…

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[ad_1] Yellow sky over Boston, July 15, 2026. Photo by Jason Pramas. Many older environmentalists, myself included, have been trying to warn our fellow human beings about the danger of global warming since the 1980s. Back then, there were fewer signs that what the vast majority of climate scientists were already saying about the then-looming crisis would come true. Over the years, we’d be more likely than people around us to worry about summers getting hotter than they had been in our childhood. Or storms getting more intense. Or getting less rain where there used to be more and more…

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