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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President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced he would extend the ceasefire with Iran to give the Tehran government time to coordinate a unified proposal.
“Based on the fact that the Government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so and, upon the request of Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, of Pakistan, we have been asked to hold our Attack on the Country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal,” he posted on Truth Social.
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President Donald Trump said Tuesday he’s not open to extending the two-week ceasefire with Iran when it expires on Wednesday but he’s confident the U.S. and Iran will come to an agreement soon.
“We don’t have much time,” the president said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
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This past weekend, the self-proclaimed leaders of the global Left gathered in Barcelona to complain about Donald Trump and to declare that they are the real and legitimate representatives of the global masses, as they pushed back against the American president, his policies, and his purported destruction of the post-World War II institutions they profess to respect and cherish. The Global Progressive Mobilization conference, which drew some 6,000 elected representatives and activists from around the world, was organized and hosted by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who has positioned himself as Trump’s chief international critic over the last several weeks. Sanchez said that he intends to turn Barcelona into a “hub of resistance” to Trump and the global Right and told the gathering that he will “twist the arm of the people who think they are completely untouchable.”
It is not entirely clear what Sanchez can actually do to twist anyone’s arm, literally or figuratively. As the prime minister of Spain, he oversees a lower-mid-tier EU economy and commands a lower-mid-tier global military. He talks a good game and proclaims to represent the morally superior political position, but his actions belie ulterior motives. He demands an end to American and Israeli tyranny and neocolonialism, even as he openly and unashamedly embraces ideas and partners that demonstrate, at best, an indifference to genuine tyrannical and colonial behavior.
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Iran’s announcement that the Strait of Hormuz is open to commercial traffic triggered an immediate decline in oil prices, a development national political reporter Neil W. McCabe said reflects easing geopolitical fears rather than a significant change in global supply.
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President Donald Trump reportedly signaled Friday that the end of the United States’ conflict with Iran could be coming soon, stating that the Iranians have “agreed to everything,” including getting rid of its enriched uranium.
The announcement marks a significant step in peace negotiations in the Middle East. The U.S. and Israel have been engaged in a military conflict with Iran since February.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi declared Friday the Strait of Hormuz “completely open after the implementation of a U.S.-mediated ceasefire that paused Israeli operations in Lebanon.
“In line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, the passage for all commercial vessels through Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open for the remaining period of ceasefire, on the coordinated route as already announced by Ports and Maritime Organisation of the Islamic Rep. of Iran,” Araghchi posted to X.
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“We’re going to move it as expeditiously as possible. We’re going to do our part and fund those essential functions of the government, and then we’ll do the rest of Homeland Security.”
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Members of the House Freedom Caucus are urging colleagues to oppose extending Temporary Protected Status for Haitian migrants ahead of a final House vote Thursday, citing concerns about public safety.
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Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons will step down on May 31 amid an ongoing battle over funding and reforms for the law enforcement agency.
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The anti-tariff priesthood has delivered yet another paper purporting to expose the folly of Trump’s trade strategy.
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that China has agreed not to send weapons to Iran.
Trump made the announcement in a post on Truth Social, and he said that he is “permanently opening the Strait of Hormuz.”
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The prognosis of the Iran War is now so couched in politics and so warped by the American Left that the public has grown tired and wants it all to go away. But in truth, the situation is so fluid that any accurate prediction is impossible. Yet there is good reason to believe in an eventual outcome quite favorable to the U.S. and one far better than the status quo ante bellum.
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The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz by the U.S. and Iran may cause further headaches for consumers due to disruptions in major commodity markets.
President Donald Trump announced a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would begin Monday, placing further strain on an already challenged economy. Consumers will suffer under rising prices caused by the strait’s blockade, including disruptions to commodities such as fertilizer, sulfur, steel and oil, market analysts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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Artificial intelligence is expected to drive economic growth for decades, but one question matters most. Where are those jobs going to be created?
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Criminal migrants across the country are increasingly avoiding deportation thanks to an unlikely source: public attorneys using local taxpayer dollars to represent them in immigration court.
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China’s strongman leader Xi Jinping carried out a record number of disciplinary actions against Chinese Communist Party members and government officials, a Taiwanese intelligence agency assessed, as Xi conducted a massive purge of People’s Liberation Army leaders ahead of a 2027 deadline to be ready to invade Taiwan.
The Taiwan government’s National Security Bureau reportedly assessed that the CCP had punished nearly one million CCP members and People’s Republic of China officials during 2025, a new report found, which seems to dovetail with Xi’s removal of a host of high-ranking Chinese military brass as he prepares the PLA for war and increases his already iron-like grip on power in the country.
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President Donald Trump said Tuesday night that he has agreed to Pakistan’s proposed a two-week ceasefire with Iran if the Middle Eastern country reopens the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran has not indicated whether it will agree to reopen the strait, but an Iranian official told Reuters earlier Tuesday that it is “positively reviewing” Pakistan’s proposal.
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Russia and China on Tuesday vetoed a resolution of the United Nations Security Council calling for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz amid the ongoing Iran war.
UNSC resolutions require that no member oppose the move and a single objection would have doomed the vote. The resolution failed with 11 nations voting for it, two against, and two abstaining, the Associated Press reported.
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For years, China relied on exploiting U.S. sanctions to import steeply discounted oil from pariah states like Iran and Venezuela to fuel its economy and military buildup. Now, President Donald Trump’s interventions against both Caracas and Tehran have upended this lucrative arrangement.
China is suddenly confronted with a very different strategic calculus ahead of a key meeting with the American president in Beijing tentatively scheduled for next month. “I think it’s really China that all of this is centered on a grand strategic calculus,” Brent Sadler of the Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for National Security told the Just the News, No Noise TV show, referring to the Iran war and intervention in Venezuela.
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday published an open letter to the American people in which he asked them to question whether the American government had their interests at heart and denounced the ongoing war against his country.
Pezeshkian argued that Iran maintained a strong military to defend itself and said that “portraying Iran as a threat is neither consistent with historical reality nor with present-day observable facts.”
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, among President Donald Trump’s closest European allies, is facing his toughest reelection bid in more than a decade – putting at risk what is arguably Trump’s most reliable bulwark against what he considers the European Union’s longtime efforts to “do damage to the U.S.”
Hungarians will go to the polls April 12, and polls show Orbán’s Fidesz (Hungarian Civic Union) party running further behind than at any other time since Orbán’s current tenure, which began in 2010. The election leader right now is the Tisza (Respect and Freedom) party, founded in 2024.
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Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles said Monday his country had barred U.S. planes from using its airspace in the Iran war.
Robles’ statement came after Spain said the U.S. could not use jointly operated military bases in the country in relation to the war, according to the Associated Press.
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With Iran’s launch of two long-range missiles on Friday, putting nearly all of Europe in striking distance, the regime showed that it possesses a capability that President Donald Trump previously cited as a key justification for the U.S. conflict with the Islamic Republic after years of denying it publicly.
Iran fired the intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) at the joint U.S.-U.K. airbase on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, more than 2,000 miles from Tehran, on the same day that the British government gave the United States the green light to use the facility to launch strikes on Iran.
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President Donald Trump is executing the playbook he developed for Venezuela to pressure the communist Cuban regime to capitulate, thereby removing the last major bastion of foreign adversary influence in the Western Hemisphere.
And after essentially cutting off the island’s oil supply, there are signs that the regime is starting to feel the heat.
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President Donald Trump denied Monday that the U.S. was in direct talks with the new Iranian supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, and insisted he was dealing with someone whom he believed held actual authority.
“We’re dealing with a man who I believe is the most respected and the leader,” he told reporters. “We have not heard from the son.”
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