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A new agreement involving Iran has raised serious concerns throughout Israel and across the Middle East. Questions grow about America's role, Iran's future ambitions, Hezbollah and regional security, and the developments unfolding today. Join the Conversation! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ We have a wonderful, active, and engaged community. Come join us in the comments section below! You'll need a Hyvor account (100% free) if you don't already have one. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ × Are you enjoying Tex's Place? Please consider making a contribution. Even $5, $10 or $20 goes a long way to keeping us online, and advertisement free. You can contribute by CLICKING HERE

Subcontractors say they’re owed millions, face financial ruin, after helping build Obama Presidential Center By Michael Dorgan CHICAGO — The Obama Presidential Center was billed as a lasting legacy to former President Barack Obama, and its construction was touted as an ambitious model built with aggressive goals for minority-owned and local businesses. But now, some of the very subcontractors who helped build the 19.3-acre campus on Chicago’s South Side say they are facing financial ruin as they race to recover millions of dollars they claim remain unpaid ahead of the center's grand opening Friday. Overall construction costs were reported to be $830 million in 2021, and have likely climbed past the $1 billion mark. A Fox News Digital investigation identified multiple construction firms claiming losses ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to tens of millions. The allegations cut against one of the Center's defining goals: helping minority-owned businesses...

By Ward Clark China, we are reminded continually, is not a friend to the United States. The Middle Kingdom may be a trading partner, even a valuable one, but that doesn't make them our friend. They are, at best, a rival; at worst, an enemy. Right now they would seem to be certainly an adversary, not in the least because of their continued efforts to influence American education, to make large land purchases which always seem to be near major American military installations, and perhaps most of all, to infiltrate their people illegally into the United States. The latest such incident was in Florida, where the United States Coast Guard intercepted a smuggling boat carrying 25 Chinese nationals; when the boat refused to stop for the Coast Guard hails, the Coasties disabled the boat with gunfire and took the Chinese nationals into custody. Sharp work . In a stark warning that U.S. borders are closed "by land or sea," the U.S. Coast Guard opened fire to disable a noncompl...

By Bob Hoge President Donald Trump has long vowed to eliminate or at least vastly downsize the Department of Education, saying we should “shut [it] down” and “move education back to the states where it belongs.” On Tuesday, the administration made moves to accomplish just that . Officials announced that they’re moving authority over key programs from the ED to other departments: The Department of Justice will take on enforcement of civil rights in education, while the Department of Health and Human Services will oversee special education, administration officials announced. With those moves, the Education Department has now carved away the vast majority of its functions for other agencies to handle. The two Education Department offices involved — the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services and the Office for Civil Rights — defend the rights of children with disabilities and those who experience discrimination based on race, sex or religion. The Justice Department...

By Jim Hoft The Iranian national soccer team is attempting to portray itself as the victim after being required to leave the United States immediately following its opening World Cup match against New Zealand. After battling New Zealand to a 2-2 draw in Los Angeles on Monday night, Iranian coach Amir Ghalenoei complained that his team was ordered to return to its training base in Tijuana, Mexico, just hours after the match. Ghalenoei went so far as to claim Iran was the “most oppressed” team in the entire tournament due to travel restrictions and visa complications. Coach Amir Ghalenoei said the team was ordered to leave the U.S. and return to its training base in Mexico only a few hours after opening its tournament with a 2-2 draw against New Zealand on Monday night. “They didn’t even give us time to recover,” Ghalenoei complained through an interpreter, according to The Associated Press . “After the game today, they said to us, ‘You have to leave immediately.’ It’s very importan...

A senior Abu Dhabi analyst tears into the coming US-Iran agreement, asking whether Washington has once again paid Iran to promise things. By Shachar Kleiman  Amjad Taha, a senior commentator in the United Arab Emirates, came out forcefully on Wednesday against the deal with Iran and against US President Donald Trump. " Out of 8.3 billion people on Earth, only two seem to trust Iran: Trump and JD Vance ," Taha wrote on the social media platform X. In the same post, Taha – whose account has 681,000 followers – added, " Iran promises not to pursue nuclear weapons for 60 days. No verification mechanism. No mention of ballistic missiles. No mention of proxies. The mullahs remain in power. In return? Sanctions relief, frozen assets released, oil sales allowed, the naval blockade lifted, and potentially hundreds of billions of dollars. President Trump says he got everything. Did he? Or did Iran just get paid to promise things again? " Senior commentator Amjad Ta...

By Cristina Laila A federal judge on Tuesday blocked Idaho’s law that criminalized transgender bathroom use. US District Judge Amanda Brailsford, a Biden appointee, issued a preliminary injunction blocking Idaho’s H.B. 752, which banned transgender people from using restrooms that did not match their biological gender. Idaho’s law, which was set to go into effect on July 1, threatened to jail transgender people for five years if they broke the law. The ghouls at the ACLU celebrated the judge’s ruling. “This ruling means trans folks in Idaho can continue participating in public life without the threat of being arrested for using the bathroom,” said Paul Carlos Southwick, ACLU of Idaho Legal Director. “Trans Idahoans have been understandably anxious about the disruption this unconstitutional law would cause in their daily lives. This ruling will relieve that anxiety for our trans friends and neighbors.” “This decision provides significant protections for transgender people in Idaho fr...

By Matt Walsh When first-year university student Henry Nowak was slaughtered by a foreigner named Vickrum Digwa in the streets of Southampton, England, late last year, the indigenous people of Britain — which is to say, the white people — finally began to rise up. And as they learned more details about the case, their anger grew.  Henry Nowak had been stabbed simply because he passed a Sikh on the sidewalk, noticed the large blade hanging in front of his clothing, and began recording with his cellphone. That was it.  For the crime of filming a Sikh without permission, Nowak was butchered. And as he lay dying, Nowak’s killer taunted him, hid the murder weapon, and admitted aloud that he had no viable self-defense claim.  Digwa also informed police that Nowak had “attacked him racially” — whatever that means. It wasn’t true. But as we all saw, it was convincing enough for the police. Instead of...