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By Micah Barkley President Donald Trump approved an agreement with Saudi Arabia that could enable the country to enrich its own uranium for a civilian nuclear program, major news outlets reported Tuesday. Anonymous sources told the Wall Street Journal and the Associated Press that the 30-year deal directly involves U.S. firms in development and is expected to be worth tens of billions of dollars. The deal could be formally announced as early as Wednesday, the AP reported. Congress was expected to review the deal, where it could face concerns from lawmakers who fear that helping the Saudis enrich uranium could trigger new rounds of nuclear problems. Though enriched uranium is used peacefully in many reactors, the technology can be applied to making weapons-grade material, according to The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, a nonprofit organization in Washington. The United States has 26 nuclear cooperation agreements, known as 123 Agreements , covering 50 co...

By Tim O'Brien Gen Xers and Millennials tend to have a pessimistic view of whether the Social Security program and Medicare will run out of money when they need it. One way to address that concern would be to put an end to the billions and billions of dollars that are stolen from the fund each year. In other words, quit voting for Democrats who take a soft-on-fraud-and-corruption stance every time. You want your government to arrest these thieves, which is what happened to Khalid Satary, who was indicted and charged with ripping off Medicare to the tune of $547 million between 2016 and 2019. That’s an average of $182 million per year. Nice work if you can get it, right? The feds arrested Satary, a 54-year-old foreign national, on July 20 on allegations that he conspired with patient recruiters, telemarketing call centers, and telemedicine companies to use deceptive marketing programs and illegal kickbacks and bribes, all to generate cancer genetic (CGx) test samples that earn...

By Jennifer Oliver O'Connell If it wasn't already clear, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) made it very clear this week that he doesn't intend to have the Senate take up Republican legislative priorities - not the SAVE America Act, and not keeping the government open. As RedState reported on Tuesday: On Tuesday night, the House passed a stopgap measure that calls for the funding of the federal government until December 4th. That's after the midterm elections, which means Republicans could avert a pre-election government shutdown, assuming the measure passes the Senate. But that is not a done deal, of course, considering Democrats would love nothing better than to instigate another shutdown to try and pin on President Trump and congressional Republicans ahead of November: Really, Democrats have no worries. Thune is doing their work for them, making it plain he has no interest in taking up the continuing resolution (CR) presented by House Speaker Mike Johnson...

By Teri Christoph President Trump signaled Wednesday morning that any patience he might have left for Iran has pretty much dissipated at this point – and he issued what may be his most lethal threat yet. In a post on Truth Social, the president told the Islamic Republic in no uncertain terms that if they fire on ships traversing the Strait of Hormuz – "whether it be by Missile, Rocket, Drone, or any other device or weapon" – the United States will respond in kind by bombing and destroying "ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT, including those located next to, or in, the Capital City of Tehran." Here's the president's entire post: From this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it be by Missile, Rocket, Drone, or any other device or weapon, the United States will bomb and destroy ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT, including those located next to, or in, the Capital City of Tehran. Thank you for your attenti...

By Nick Arama It seems California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been running for president in 2028 forever now, and it's still two years away. We're not even close to it yet, and it's not going well for him. People are already tired of him.  Newsom is already throwing tantrums on X about another likely 2028 candidate, Vice President JD Vance, and Vance's appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast.  Rogan and Vance spoke about how they both loved California, having lived there, but how it's gone to pot.  Joe Rogan and Vice President JD Vance spent nearly 20 minutes talking about California in a recent podcast episode, oscillating between how much they love the state and how much it’s “going further and further down the toilet.” [....] The duo spent almost three hours in a wide-ranging conversation largely centered on politics, circling back to California several times, a state where they’ve both lived. Rogan and Vance each talked about how much they admired the state but ...

By David Manney New York City communist Mayor Zohran Mamdani spent months promising to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. His lawyers finally delivered the answer anybody familiar with American law could see coming. Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. pic.twitter.com/YRezmW6YVx — Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) July 22, 2026 “We do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant,” Mamdani admitted Tuesday. His administration reviewed “every avenue” for using the International Criminal Court warrant if Netanyahu visits New York for the United Nations General Assembly in September. City lawyers found no legal path, proving that Mamdani's campaign pledge was never within the mayor's power. Mamdani still called Netanyahu a war criminal and demanded that the federal government join the ICC and execute the warrant, while also declaring Netanyahu unwelcome in New York . I hate to be the one to break it to the Democratic Socialist, but m...

By Rusty Weiss Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon is wasting no time.  Hours after New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) publicly admitted that a software error had allowed nearly 400 non-citizens to actually cast ballots in the state, Dhillon fired off a formal letter launching a federal probe and demanding detailed records on the roughly 6,600 erroneously registered non-citizens—as well as specific voting information for those who cast ballots.  She called the revelation "unacceptable and illegal," while giving the state just five business days to respond. "Ensuring that U.S. citizens’ votes are not illegally diluted by noncitizens’ votes is of paramount importance," Dhillon wrote. "We therefore write to formally request additional information to assess New Jersey’s compliance with various federal statutes ..." Dhillon is asking the state to hand over the full names, dates of birth, nationalities, addresses, and registration details for the ro...

To everyone raging at Trump’s moves on Iran, calling them random, weak, or proof he “has no plan”: I get the anger. The ceasefire, the MoU, the pauses, they look confusing, even contradictory, especially if you want the regime gone yesterday. But here’s the truth most people miss: This isn’t a simple game. It’s multi-dimensional chess on a board most observers only see one corner of.  The Islamic Republic isn’t a normal adversary. It’s a suicidal hostage-taker with proxies, lifelines from Russia/China/Europe/Gulf states, deep domestic infiltration, and 90 million Iranian lives as its ultimate shield. One reckless move can turn victory into regional chaos and mass slaughter. Trump isn’t playing checkers or delivering instant checkmate. He’s systematically neutralizing pieces, sanctions, diplomacy, military pressure, narrative warfare, and internal fractures, while managing American politics, oil ma...