President Donald Trump on Friday announced that Iran had sought to resume peace talks with the United States and that he had agreed to do so, but would not halt combat operations in the interim.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has asked us to continue ‘talks.’ We have agreed to do so, but the United States has stated to them, in no uncertain terms, that the Cease Fire is OVER! Thank you for your attention to this matter,” he posted on Truth Social.
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In December 2025, India seized over 100,000 forged diplomas from 28 universities that had been accepted by American companies for employment.
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The United States Central Command said Tuesday it has launched new airstrikes on Iran after it targeted three vessels in the Strait of Hormuz earlier in the day.
The U.S. said the strikes were on commercial vessels that were transiting the strait, which were “crewed by innocent civilians in an international waterway.”
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Manufacturers around the world are leveraging AI to create drone swarms that could change the reality of war forever.
Both defensive and offensive drone swarm systems are going to be hitting battlefields across the globe soon. As companies such as Swarm Defense create new systems that will launch tidal waves of drones at targets, other companies like XCaliber Technologies are rapidly working to build a wall of drones and other defensive systems that can defeat the new offensive threat.
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A South Texas hospital has been openly advertising maternity services directly to pregnant women living outside the U.S., encouraging them to travel across the border to give birth at its facility.
Mission Regional Medical Center, located in Mission, Texas, has been promoting maternity packages to international patients, including through reported Spanish-language billboards targeting families in Latin America.
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A former CEO pled not guilty to charges concerning an alleged $800 million plot that reportedly provided subprime loans to illegal aliens.
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The Mortgage Bankers Association’s recent report appears to show that immigration contributes to an increase in home prices.
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President Donald Trump has made fighting illegal immigration the centerpiece of his second administration, but for too many families across the country, finding justice has been elusive.
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The United States Central Command said Friday that it has struck Iranian drone and missile storage locations in response to Iran’s attack on a commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz Thursday evening.
Iran’s strike Thursday came just hours after the Iranian military warned that ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz require their authorization. Those that don’t comply, it said, “will be dealt with.”
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President Donald Trump on Friday warned European nations that they would face a 100% tariff on their goods if they imposed a digital services tax on American companies.
“Numerous European Countries have been discussing the imminent implementation of a Digital Services Tax on American Companies,” he posted on Truth Social. “Some of these Countries are close to actually doing this. Please let this statement serve to represent that any Country that imposes such a Tax will immediately be met with a 100% TARIFF on any and all Goods sent to the United States of America.”
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Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi on Friday warned that ships seeking passage through the Strait of Hormuz must coordinate with Tehran, in accordance with a memorandum of understanding (MOU) it signed with the U.S.
“Safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, with ambiguous arrangements, parallel routes, or decision-making outside of Iran’s considerations as the coastal state, cannot be guaranteed,” he posted on X. “Any credible framework must be based on coordination with Iran and the provisions of paragraph five of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding. Otherwise, the outcome will be the suspension of the designated parallel route.”
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“The big Oil Companies are not dropping their price at the pump commensurate with the sharply lower prices they are paying for Oil. Those prices are dropping like a rock! In other words, customers are being ‘gouged.’ I have instructed the DOJ to immediately start looking into this. Gasoline prices better start going down a lot faster than what I’m seeing!”
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Lisa Daftari, Editor-in-Chief of The Foreign Desk, said the U.S. must approach ongoing negotiations with Tehran cautiously, arguing that the Iranian regime has spent decades mastering the art of using diplomacy to advance its own interests while avoiding meaningful concessions.
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Abelardo de la Espriella, a conservative political newcomer backed by President Donald Trump, declared victory Sunday in Colombia’s cliffhanger presidential election as Latin America continued to shift to the right during the American president’s second term.
De La Espriella captured 49.7% of the vote, with liberal Iván Cepeda taking 48.7% in a runoff seen as a verdict on outgoing President Gustavo Petro and a stagnant economy ridden by crime.
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British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced Monday that he will resign as leader of the Labour Party after losing the confidence of his parliamentary colleagues, but said he will remain in office for months while the party selects a successor.
The announcement marks the end of a turbulent period for Starmer, whose government has faced mounting political pressure and poor electoral results. Rather than stepping aside immediately, Starmer said he would stay on as caretaker prime minister until a leadership contest concludes after Parliament returns from its summer recess.
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Israel and Hezbollah reportedly agreed Friday to renew their ceasefire to end their fighting in southern Lebanon and help the US and Iran reach a broader deal to end their roughly four-month-long war.
CBS News is reporting the ceasefire, based on what it said was information from three diplomats briefed on the matter. The ceasefire follows renewed fighting overnight between Israel and Hezbollah.
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The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that the alleged ringleader of a foiled plot to carry out a mass-casualty attack on the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House is a Mexican national in the country illegally.
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President Donald Trump signed the “Memorandum of Understanding” with Iran, which is aimed at ending the conflict in the Middle East, while visiting French President Emmanuel Macron at Versailles on Wednesday evening.
A Trump administration official read the terms outlined in the memorandum to reporters earlier in the day, which addressed Iran’s nuclear program, ongoing fighting in Lebanon, sanctions relief, and plans for the release of frozen funds.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday had harsh words for Israel over its conduct in Lebanon and suggested that the Syrian government may be better suited to handle Hezbollah.
Israel and Hezbollah have been engaged in fierce fighting in southern Lebanon and a ceasefire there has become a sticking point in the larger Iran deal. Trump, for his part, criticized Israel over its propensity to cause collateral damage in strikes
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President Donald Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday that he is ready to help end the conflict in Ukraine.
He called the end of hostilities “vital” during a conversation between the two leaders, which lasted nearly an hour, according to a statement from Kremlin foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov, Reuters reported.
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President Donald Trump announced over the weekend that the United States has reached a comprehensive deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran, ending months of conflict and authorizing the immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to global shipping.
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The United States military said Wednesday evening that it has begun its next wave of self-defense strikes on Iran amid tensions over the downing of an American helicopter earlier this week.
The move is the second wave of strikes on the Middle Eastern country after the U.S. launched strikes on Iran on Tuesday evening in response to the downing of a U.S. Apache helicopter.
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The U.S. military launched “self defense” attacks against Iran on Tuesday evening in response to the downing of an American helicopter, officials said.
“U.S. Central Command forces began launching self-defense strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. ET today at the Commander in Chief’s direction, in response to yesterday’s downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter,” CENTCOM posted on X. “The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression.”
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President Donald Trump said Tuesday the Iranians shot down the U.S. Apache helicopter that fell overnight near the Strait of Hormuz and is calling for a response.
“I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
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President Donald Trump early Monday demanded that Iran and Israel stop firing missiles at each other after a weekend of violence between the two threatened a fragile Mideast ceasefire.
“Israel and Iran must immediately stop ‘shooting,'” the president wrote on his Truth Social account.
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Eighty-two years ago on June 6, 1944, the United States, Great Britain, the Free French forces, Canada, and other Allies launched one of the most audacious military operations in history: the seaborne invasion of Normandy, France. Code-named Operation Overlord, the assault thrust 160,000 troops onto five beaches in a last-ditch bid to open a Western Front and crush Hitler’s Nazi empire.
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President Donald Trump said Monday that he does not “care” if peace negotiations with Iran are over, stating that the negotiations had been taking too much time.
The comment comes after Iran said it was suspending talks with the United States over the continued fighting in Lebanon, with the Iranian foreign minister asserting that the ongoing ceasefire agreement included Lebanon.
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The Islamic Republic of Iran suspended negotiations with the United States on Monday amid the ongoing U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports and Israeli strikes against the terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon, an ally of Tehran.
Iran argues that the U.S. and Israel are in violation of the fragile ceasefire that began in April.
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Federal agents arrested two U.S. citizens in Minnesota on charges of conspiring to defraud Medicaid of more than $21 million through a multi-year scheme involving false claims for autism-related services under the state’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) program.
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Chinese government officials are working to shore up their country’s grip over the Panama Canal, the South China Morning Post reported, as a battle over influence in the key waterway intensifies with Washington.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Panamanian Foreign Minister Javier Martinez-Acha that Panama should not allow any third parties to influence the bilateral ties between China and Panama, the South China Morning Post reported, citing a Chinese Foreign Ministry readout on Wednesday. The discussion between the leaders comes as a dispute simmers over who will operate ports within the Panama Canal, with the U.S. playing an active role, according to the outlet.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping may not need to launch a full-scale invasion of Taiwan to put the island, the U.S. and the global tech economy in crisis, according to national security experts.
Some advisers to President Donald Trump reportedly fear Xi could move against Taiwan within the next five years following Trump’s recent summit with the Chinese leader, Axios reported. One Trump adviser told the outlet the summit signaled a “much higher likelihood” that Taiwan could be “on the table” during that window, warning that the highly vulnerable U.S. semiconductor supply chain would not be ready for such a crisis.
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Following the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) newly unsealed indictment against former Cuban leader Raul Castro and several co-defendants over the 1996 Brothers to the Rescue shoot-down, EJ Haust, official guest host of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, said the case highlights growing pressure on Cuba’s communist regime and renewed American attention on the island nation.
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The Trump administration announced a record-high increase in immigration judges on Thursday to speed up its deportation efforts.
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The distinguished political scientist Graham Allison, author of the 2015 Atlantic article “The Thucydides Trap,” argued that often in history an established power will stage a preventive war against an ascendant adversary — for fear that otherwise it will soon lose its primacy.
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The Supreme Court determined that a U.S.-based company — Havana Docks — can recover damages from four major cruise lines that used its docks previously confiscated by the Cuban government.
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On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing banks to more aggressively scrutinize illegal immigrants, closing a fiscal fence around American taxpayer interests and resources, and likely further incentivizing self-deportations.
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In an exclusive interview conducted 11 years ago, former Rep. Barney Frank told Michael Patrick Leahy that Congress exercised virtually no oversight over the controversial Uranium One transaction that ultimately gave the Russian government control of roughly 20 percent of America’s uranium deposits.
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Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez said Monday that his country has no “aggressive plans or intentions” to attack any country including the United States – following a news report that the Communist-run island nation has acquired over 300 drones with possible plans to use them to attack American military vessels, the U.S. military base at Guantanomo Bay, Cuba, and possibly Key West, Florida.
According to Axios, which based its report on classified intelligence that was shared by a U.S. official, the findings could become a pretext for U.S. military action against Cuba.
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President Donald Trump returned to the U.S. on Friday following a 36-hour summit in China with Chinese President Xi Jinping, concluding talks that produced agreements on trade, aviation, and Iran while setting the stage for a reciprocal visit by Xi to the U.S. in September.
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The majority of Americans across both political parties would support President Donald Trump taking executive action to vet new artificial intelligence models for safety, a new poll from Institute for Family Studies and YouGov shows.
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Many of our conservative friends are extremely concerned that President Trump’s visit to Red China, and his effusive praise of Communist Dictator Xi Jinping, signals a weakening of our security posture towards the Communist Chinese behemoth.
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“Both countries agreed that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.”
That was the White House’s readout of the May 13 meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, conveying at least the U.S. understanding of how the meeting shaped up on the question of the Iran war — and the all-important fate of Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
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President Donald Trump on Monday stated that the ceasefire with Iran was “on life support” amid a growing diplomatic deadline between Tehran and Washington and the exchange of live rounds across the Persian Gulf.
It’s unbelievably weak. After reading that garbage they sent over? I didn’t even waste my time reading all of it. It’s on life support,” he told reporters. “I would say the ceasefire is on massive life support, where the doctor walks in and says, ‘sir, your loved one has approximately 1% chance of living.'”
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President Donald Trump on Friday announced that Russia and Ukraine would observe a three-day ceasefire to mark the anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had already declared a unilateral ceasefire to mark Russia’s victory in the “Great Patriotic War,” Russia’s name for World War II. The Kremlin further warned Ukraine against attempting to target Moscow during the festivities.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday morning at a Pentagon briefing that the U.S.-Iran ceasefire “is not over,” amid the sides exchanging fire at or near the Strait of Hormuz.
Hegseth also said the U.S. guiding vessels through the strait, a global shipping channel off the Iranian coast, is a “temporary solution,” according to CBS News.
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President Donald Trump said his call Wednesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin included an offer for Russia to help with the conflict in Iran and the enrichment of uranium, which he declined in hopes of getting the war in Ukraine to end instead.
The president expressed confidence that a resolution to the Russia-Ukraine war could come “relatively quickly” after the call or that a ceasefire could take place while Russia hosts its Victory Day celebrations on May 9.
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Amid renewed but fragile diplomatic talks between the U.S. and Iran, veteran D.C. political reporter Neil W. McCabe suggests that the current ceasefire may be less about peace and more about strategic timing.
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The Trump administration and state leadership are working relentlessly to obtain private, federal and state investments and grants, as well as foreign direct investment in new enrichment technology, advanced nuclear power plants, and other innovations that are being built and deployed in partnership with the Tennessee Valley Authority and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker said Friday that the “time is over for negotiations with Iran’s regime,” as the United States and Iran engage in peace talks to end the military conflict in the Middle East.
The U.S. and Israel began a military operation against Iran in February, which eliminated some of Iran’s top leaders, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Iran has retaliated with strikes on U.S. military bases in the region and on Israel.
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Republican Indiana Sen. Jim Banks introduced a bill on Monday to overturn a rule he says has been manipulated by Democrats to unfairly targets career schools and military students.
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