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By Nick Arama The U.S. has been pounding Iran again for the past two weeks.  While the U.S. took a pause Saturday and talks are continuing with the regime, the regime is obviously up a creek without a paddle. While their facilities are getting hit and taken out, U.S. action is also hitting them hard in the wallet.  President Donald Trump announced that they were going to use any of the Iranian regime money they could lay their hands on to pay off any damage that Iran was causing, such as with shipping. And they've been going after Iran's money big time, as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has explained, even tracking down Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei's "money man," and freezing regime-related accounts. Bessent said they were preserving that money for "the American people." Bessent explained how they've been tracking accounts all over the world, and now they've also frozen a crypto wallet containing about $130 million linked to the Iranian Revo...

By SIMON KENT U.S. President Donald Trump will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, a White House official confirmed, as diplomatic efforts to end the war with Russia pick up speed. “President Zelensky is slated to meet with President Trump at the White House on Tuesday,” the official told AFP on condition of anonymity on Friday as reported by Euronews. Zelensky said this week he had spoken with Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and the U.S. president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as part of efforts to revive stalled talks aimed at ending the four-year war, the report notes. U.S.-led efforts to end the war have fallen to the wayside as the conflict with Iran took center stage in internatrional affairs. Trump and Zelensky have made efforts before to meet an agreed stance on the conflict with a heated Oval Office clash in February, 2025, a standout. On that occasion Trump evicted Zelensky from the White House after the press and American pe...

By Catherine Salgado Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) has openly promised to be the one senator necessary to force a roll call vote exposing who will or will not vote for crucial election integrity legislation just before the August congressional recess. Congressional rules acknowledge that the ability of any senator to demand a roll call vote is grounded in Article I, Section 5, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, which states that “the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the Journal.” Therefore, it requires only one senator to start the process for such a vote. Notably, election reform is wildly popular not only with Republican but even with Democrat voters. The SAVE America Act has bipartisan voter support. Scott Presler begged that one senator “to object to unanimous consent & ‘ask for the yeas and nays.’” Mike Lee replied on X: WOW! On behalf of millions of Americans, thank you for consistentl...

By Matt Margolis It's been coming for a while, but this week, the once-conservative firebrand Tucker Carlson has doubled down on a version of reality that would make Iran's mullahs blush. Carlson used an appearance on the East Meets West with Olga and Tara podcast to unload on a provision in the fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act that would expand defense-technology cooperation between the United States and Israel. His verdict? Lawmakers who back the measure are acting against America's own interests, effectively merging our nations’ militaries. Carlson didn't stop at policy disagreement. He accused the Republican Party of handing the country's sovereignty to a foreign government, sparing only two members from his contempt. "The Republican Party has decided that the interest of Israel is more important than the interest of the United States," Carlson said on the podcast. "There are a couple of exceptions Marjorie Taylor Greene, ...

By Jacob Wheeler German police shot and killed a Muslim man who previously tried to join the Islamic State after he rammed a vehicle into Berlin’s Pride festival on Saturday and then attacked bystanders with a machete, leaving one person dead and several others injured. Die Zeit , a national German newspaper, reported that 21-year-old Abdul Ballout was shot and killed by police at a complex in Spandau, one of Berlin’s largest boroughs. The Associated Press also confirmed the report a short time later. Police launched a massive manhunt for Ballout, who police say deliberately drove a white van into Berlin’s Tiergarten park around 10 p.m., killing one woman and injuring at least 29 others before attacking festivalgoers with what authorities said may have been a machete. Ballout is said to have fled the “horrific scene” on foot. German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt connected the attack to radical Islamist ideology. The BBC reported Sunday Ballout is a German citizen of Leb...

By Ward Clark Alaska is a place like no other. It's a state like no other. Here in the Great Land, we live in a state into which you could drop Texas, California, and Montana, and still have room left over. We have more seaside shoreline than all of the lower 48 combined. Minnesota has 10,000 lakes? Alaska has over three million. I'm fond of describing my state with four words: Clean, wild, vast, and free. Most people, even Alaskans, have a hard time wrapping their heads around how big Alaska really is. We are also a state with a small population for such a vast land. As of this writing, there are about 739,000 residents in the Great Land. We are number 48 in the list of states by population, with only Wyoming and Vermont having fewer residents. We have, by a wide margin, the lowest population density, in part because the land is so vast, but also because more or less half of the state's population lives in the Anchorage metropolitan area. So, a small political tilt cou...

By Green Beret Nap Time Alright, you want a conspiracy theory? Trump’s rise and ultimate win in 2016 was shocking to all of the globalists, communists, socialists, and democrats that had created the most robust NGO fraud and propaganda ecosystems in history under Obama, that they knew if an outsider came in, they would be exposed. So, they used a fake intelligence dossier paid for by Hillary Clinton and abused FISA to spy on his campaign and then tied him and his team up in investigations and trials for almost the entirety of his first term. This was just the beginning of lawfare. This bought them time to “clarify” records in the DoJ. They also impeached him over a phone call on purely bipartisan lines with zero proof… and then impeached him again over something else idiotic. They were so afraid, in fact, that they used USAID money to fund foreign pathogen research labs, in coordination with our enemies, to develop COVID and release it on the world to rig the 2020 elect...

By Nick Arama We've reported on the disparity in cash on hand between Republicans and Democrats heading into the midterms, with Republicans having far more and Democrats in deep trouble.  But a new report from the New York Times indicates just how severe things are for the Democrats .  The Democratic Party is so short on cash that leaders at its headquarters have undertaken a new gambit to mask the severity of the problems: asking vendors not to send bills until after the midterm elections. The bookkeeping maneuver, which was described by three people briefed on it, is the latest sign of financial duress for the Democratic National Committee and its embattled leader as money troubles threaten to undercut Democratic momentum with 100 days until the midterms. You know it's bad when you have more than 24 people finking to the NY Times about how bad things are, including current and former DNC officials. They're saying that DNC Chair Ken Martin is "gripped by the fear ...

By Rich Calder Families of 9/11 victims are demanding NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani be banned from the 25th anniversary of the attacks at Ground Zero, branding him an apologist for Islamic terror whose presence would be an insult to the memories of nearly 3,000 people murdered. “Our objection is based on his public record — his failure to meaningfully acknowledge the horror of that day, and his employment of, support for, or association with individuals who have minimized 9/11, defended terrorists, or even suggested America ‘deserved’ the attacks,” said Giovanni Galante – whose 29-year-old wife Grace Catherine Galante was among 2,977 innocents killed by al-Qaeda terrorists. Galante, 55, is one of the organizers of a petition drive that has collected over 1,100 signatures in a little over a week, including from at least 300 victims’ families. Giovanni Galante – whose 29-year-old wife Grace Catherine Galante was among 2,977 innocents killed by al-Qaeda terrorists on 9/11 — i...

The Texas Republican wants museum director fired over taxpayer-funded 'woke nonsense' By Madison Colombo Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas., joins 'Fox & Friends Weekend' to discuss Republican lawmakers' claims that the Smithsonian Museum is using its exhibits for left-wing activism instead of history. Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, threw his support behind President Donald Trump's executive action targeting alleged ideological bias at the Smithsonian and called for museum officials to be fired over what he called left-wing influence at the institution. Speaking on "Fox & Friends Weekend," Gill applauded Trump's directive to place warning signs along National Park Service walkways outside the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History . "This is the first time, I think, that we've had a president who takes this stuff seriously, who doesn't just look the other way and allow the left to continue their long march ...