Speaker of Iran's parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has said that recent claims by US President Donald Trump regarding Iran "were false", and warned that the Strait of Hormuz "will not remain open" if the US blockade of Iranian ports continues. Trump told the AFP news agency that there were no "sticking points" left for a deal with Iran, while also issuing a series of upbeat messages on social media regarding apparent agreements with Tehran.
A trove of previously redacted documents was filed as part of the tech giant's anti-trust battle with the state of California. Amazon denies it engages in price-fixing
When Keith Czika learned the brass-instrument factory where he had worked for nearly 18 years was closing and his job was headed to China, the 62-year-old Ohioan focused on what he saw as a source of leverage: the plant's ultimate owner, billionaire investor John Paulson, a close ally of President Donald Trump.
"The President of the United States made seven claims in one hour, all seven of which were false," Ghalibaf wrote. "They did not win the war with these lies, and they will certainly not get anywhere in negotiations either."
Ghalibaf urged all to "read the real and accurate news of the negotiations in the recent interview of the Foreign Ministry spokesman," in which a Foreign Ministry spokesman claimed that Iran will not transfer its enriched uranium anywhere, contrary to earlier Trump claims that Iran had agreed to do so.
The Iran war is risking America's global security ties and damaging its reputation, especially among the world's Muslims, according to a set of State Department cables obtained by POLITICO. The cables, dated Wednesday, described the fallout of the war for America's standing in three countries in different parts of the world: Bahrain, Azerbaijan and Indonesia. U.S. diplomats at embassies in the countries' capitals painted damning portraits of an America under siege in multiple media spheres by pro-Iranian actors that are exceptionally agile in the digital space.
"Melania despises Trump," Jones said on The Shawn Johnson Podcast'.
"They essentially are not together anymore " and I don't say this with pleasure, but I want to explain why this is coming out. Why do I have to go ahead and say it?
"She understands that it is a sinking ship," Jones continued.
"The Cabinet is totally panicked. People are now challenging him openly. He hasn't run into that in a while because everybody was just worshipping him. Like those Cabinet meetings were sycophantic. He just screams at people if they disagree with him. He admits that."
Jones said Trump "got the madness of King Lear."
Across the country, Evangelicals are facing a moral dilemma -- is supporting government actions in line with their religious beliefs? The answer shows a rift in Evangelical communities, as government officials like Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth use scripture to justify war and deportation.
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"I have no comment on whether she is in the hospital or what her medical treatments are," her rep said. "She's had a long history of complicated medical conditions that she has been refreshingly open about, as evidenced in her memoir and on her podcast," the rep added. The Married ... with Children star announced her diagnosis with the chronic autoimmune disease in 2021. She recently revealed the illness had confined her to bed, though she was still determined to take her daughter, Sadie, to school. Read more
President Trump had something urgent to address while flying back to Washington from his Mar-a-Lago estate on a recent Sunday. It wasn't the Iran war, nor the partial government shutdown over Department of Homeland Security funding. He was focused on a monumental issue of a different kind, hoisting artist renderings of the $400 million White House ballroom he's building, complete with hand-carved "top-of-the-line" Corinthian columns.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was challenged over whether he would work to remove Donald Trump from office if the president were found unfit to serve amid questions about his mental health. The exchange on Capitol Hill escalated to a yelling match with Kennedy insisting that the president was the "most sane" after a series of bizarre posts in recent weeks from the 79-year-old president, including comparing himself to Jesus and threatening to wipe out a civilization. "He's very, very sane," Kennedy insisted about Trump in a separate exchange later in the hearing. According to a new book on the health and human services secretary, Kennedy wrote a diary entry about stopping his car on a New York highway in 2001 and cutting the penis from a roadkill raccoon while his children sat in the back.
I think that maybe it was staged," said podcaster Tim Dillon, previously a Trump devotee, in early April. According to Dillon, the time has come for Trump to come out and say that, "Some people are going to be upset by this, but we staged the assassination attempt in Butler to show people how important it was to vote for me and how far I was willing to go for them." While such claims are growing louder, they aren't new. In November, Tucker Carlson suggested that the FBI was involved in covering up the facts behind the shooting, posting that the "FBI lied" about the shooter's online habits.
WASHINGTON, April 17 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said the United States has barred Israel from further bombing in Lebanon, striking an unusually harsh tone with the longtime U.S. ally while stressing that any U.S. deal with Iran is not linked to the Lebanon conflict. "Israel will not be bombing Lebanon any longer. They are PROHIBITED from doing so by the U.S.A. Enough is enough!!!" Trump said in a social media post.
"I don't blame Dummkopf Trumpf. I love him."
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US bishops' doctrine chair defends church's just war tradition after JD Vance comments
" Shortly after Vice President JD Vance appeared to warn Pope Leo XIV to "be careful" when speaking about theology and taking issue with his description of the U.S. conflict in Iran as unjust, the U.S. bishops' point-man on doctrine issued a forceful statement on the Church's teaching about just war theory. Read more
