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By Hank Berrien Senator Tim Sheehy (R-MT) minced no words when weighing in on the Trump administration’s ongoing negotiations with Iran. The former Navy SEAL-turned-senator lit up Fox News Monday, delivering a scorching message about Tehran’s regime without diplomatic fluff. Sheehy, who fought in both Iraq and Afghanistan, isn’t buying the mullahs’ charm offensive for a single second. “This is a murderous regime that doesn’t want a deal,” Sheehy declared flatly. “They don’t want $6 gasoline. They don’t want the Straits to be open. They want you and your family and all of us to be killed.” Sheehy’s assessment was clear: Iran isn’t negotiating. It’s stalling, using a classic “rope-a-dope” designed to run out the clock on Trump’s presidency. “They want to buy time,” Sheehy warned. “They want to buy as much time as they can because President Trump’s the only president who’s ever actually gone after them head to head.” Sheehy is not like the typical armchair hawks on Capito...

By Jonathan Turley Since her confirmation in 2022, Justice Kentaji Brown Jackson has established a legacy that is fast becoming one of the most radical in the Court’s history. Her sole dissents have drawn sharp criticism from both her conservative and liberal colleagues. However, for critics of some of these decisions, Justice Jackson continues to publish opinions that are not just, as she describes it, cathartic but chilling. Worse yet, the latest judicial jump scare was shared by her colleague, Justice Sonya Sotomayor, in her concurring opinion in United States v. Hemani. At issue in the case was an effort to prosecute Ali Hemani for recreational use of marijuana, a prosecution that threatened up to 15 years and to strip him of his gun rights under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) Writing for the majority, Justice Neil Gorsuch ruled that the provision was not “consistent with the Second Amendment.” Gorsuch noted that Hemani was not alleged to be a drug addict or to have used his guns in...

State Department calls the acquisition a 'flagship US investment' that will catalyze further deals in the DRC     By Paul Tilsley JOHANNESBURG — In what’s being hailed as a major win for the Trump administration against Chinese domination of the rare earth minerals market, the U.S. has supported an American company, Virtus Minerals, in developing two major mines producing cobalt and copper in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This is claimed to be the first U.S. rare earth minerals acquisition in the African nation since President Donald Trump announced the Washington Accord last December. Historically, China has been the heavy lifter of these metals. The Strategic Studies Institute reported that 80% of the world’s cobalt is produced in the DRC — and 80% of that is controlled by China. Cobalt, used in a wide range of applications, from electric cars and mobile phones to military jets, is on the U.S. government’s list of critical minerals. Copper, also...

By Kevin Downey Jr. If you argue politics with a liberal, you know this mission is akin to debating a statue of Helen Keller that is angrily giving you the silent treatment. Though I firmly ascribe to the mantra, "Time is life and life is short. Don't waste your life on a doofus," I occasionally find myself on Facebook trying to gavage facts down the throats of many a doofus, only to have them spew them back out faster than a friend with lap-band surgery regurgitates a hamburger bun. Your rainbow-haired batwanger -in-law is incapable of assessing facts, which we know because our favorite Soviet defector, Yuri Bezmenov, told us this in 1984.  If you can't watch the entire 6:50-minute video, please watch about one minute starting at the 1:16 mark. This is where Bezmenov explains why "demoralized" people cannot accept facts: Liberals respond to reports of illegal immigrant crime the same way ...

By Ben Smith Federal immigration authorities have arrested a former Illinois teacher accused of helping two Tren de Aragua-linked gunmen carry out a deadly Chicago house-party shooting after DHS said Chicago police previously released her without notifying ICE. The Department of Homeland Security announced Monday that Homeland Security Investigations agents took Giovanna Mercedes Moreno Occhipinti, 32, into custody on May 13. DHS said the Venezuelan national, who also holds Italian citizenship, drove the alleged shooters to the scene, helped them escape afterward, and remained in the United States illegally after overstaying her Visa Waiver Program admission. This illegal alien former school teacher HELPED FACILITATE A TDA MASS SHOOTING. Giovanna Mercedes Moreno Occhipinti drove the Tren de Aragua shooters to the mass shooting site and then helped them evade law enforcement. Illinois sanctuary politicians RELEASED HER after she was… https://t.co/BkYyUL7GPX pic.twitter.com/TShK3Lr...

  By Shane Harris Last week, the British government released one of the most shocking reports in the history of Western civilization detailing the mass rape and abuse of tens of thousands of young girls – all while the authorities turned a blind eye. But if you only get your information from the liberal media, you likely know nothing about what should be the biggest international news story of the year. As AMAC Newsline reported , Member of Parliament Rupert Lowe, who has quickly become a leading voice on the British right, released the report on June 16. For years, conservatives in Britain and throughout the Anglosphere had raised the alarm about so-called “grooming gangs” in the U.K., only to have liberals dismiss the claims of mass rape and abuse as “racist dog whistles” and “conspiracy theories.” In fact, the British government was so eager to suppress public discussion of the country’s child rape epidemic that it imprisoned dozens of people for the heinous crime of po...

By Adam Sabes Tyler Robinson has spent over nine months dodging a plea in the Charlie Kirk assassination case, and a former federal prosecutor says he's following the same playbook as one of the most notorious murderers in recent memory with one goal in mind. Robinson, 23, faces several charges after he allegedly shot and killed conservative icon Kirk at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, 2025. He has yet to enter a plea, as an arraignment cannot be held until the preliminary hearing has been conducted in Utah. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for July 6-10. Robinson's legal team has flooded the court with motions, successfully delaying the case at every chance they've gotten. Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told Fox News Digital that Robinson's defense is running the same playbook as one of the most notorious murderers in recent memory: Bryan Kohberger. "Tyler Robinson hasn't entered a plea because the defense is filing a lot of pretr...

By Ronny Reyes Iran has arrested more than 3,000 citizens in recent months accused of collaborating with “the enemy,” the nation’s judiciary said Monday. The Islamic republic has taken 3,292 people into custody, claiming 684 individuals carried out “operational actions” for Israel, Iranian Judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir told Tehran’s semi-official Student News Network (SNN). Another 1,258 were accused of carrying out political propaganda against the state , with 1,061 indictments issued so far on the individuals in custody. Along with being arrested, Jahangir noted that hundreds of suspected traitors have already had their assets confiscated by the state. Last week, the judiciary claimed that it had seized the properties of 100 “traitors” in the Isfahan province alone, without providing further details. The latest waves of arrests come after the Islamic republic arrested more than 50,000 peopl e in the wake of the anti-regime protests in January that led to a...

By Sister Toldjah One of the most closely watched primaries in New York City involving Mamdani-backed challengers has been the 13th Congressional District race, pitting incumbent Democrat Rep. Adriano Espaillat against Democratic socialist and self-proclaimed community organizer Darializa Avila Chevalier. Avila Chevalier, as RedState has documented , is a couple fries short of a Happy Meal, if you catch my meaning, and has established herself as perhaps the only Democrat challenger in the Big Apple that might be too woke and far left even for them, with recent polling and prediction markets shifting back into Espaillat's direction after Avila Chevalier appeared to experience a mid-May surge. One that hasn't received as much media attention but which will also be interesting to see play out on Primary Day Tuesday is the one in the 10th Congressional District - "one of the most progressive and most Jewish districts in America" according to the New York Times - wh...

By Ward Clark Talk about a rags-to-riches-to-rags again story; the saga of Minnesota Democrat Representative Ilhan Omar (MN-05) and her fiscal woes continues apace. First, she and her husband had a net worth of somewhere north of $30 million; then it was only a few thousand - and now they're broke? All because of mistakes in accounting? I don't know about you, but I smell a rat . In a financial report meant to cover 2024, the Minnesota Democrat claimed that she and her husband controlled between $6 million and $30 million in assets, figures that raised eyebrows as conservatives honed in on allegations of fraud among Minneapolis’ Somali community. In a recently filed 2025 report reviewed by Fox News Digital, however, Omar revised the value of her and her spouse’s assets down to, at most, $125,000. Taking the lower-end estimate of Omar’s assets as reported in the disclosure — just $20,000 — and comparing it against both the low and high estimates of her debt — $30,000 and $1...