Vice President JD Vance all but confirmed a detail being floated as part of the tentative U.S.-Iran peace deal: Iranian access to $300 billion in reconstruction funds.
In its efforts to secure European approval of its "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) system, Tesla has presented self-published safety statistics to regulators in Sweden and the Netherlands that independent traffic-safety researchers have said amount to misleading marketing.
LONDON " Britain will ban children under 16 from using a range of social media apps including Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube to protect young people from harmful content and excessive screen time, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday, Starmer told a news conference that he will fight back if technology companies resist the move, and acknowledged some teens would try to find their way around a ban.
But he said he is "not prepared to compromise on the safety and happiness of our children."
The U.S.-Iran framework agreement appears to omit some of the most important provisions that Israel wanted.
The peace deal with Tehran is an Iranian victory.
The peace agreement announced by the US is actually a victory for Iran.
President Trump has announced that the United States and Iran have reached an agreement to end the war. "Congratulations to all!" Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. Then, he went to watch the loud show he had arranged for his birthday on the White House's South Lawn.
However, the United States doesn't have much to celebrate: in record time, Trump and his team lost a war to a mediocre, yet extremely dangerous military opponent, writes Tom Nichols, in an analysis published in The Atlantic.
For most of its 250-year history, the White House South Lawn has been reserved for state dinners, diplomatic ceremonies, Easter egg rolls, turkey pardons and carefully choreographed displays of presidential power. On Sunday night it hosted cage fights. Yet if the event was intended as a celebration of American strength and exceptionalism, it also repeatedly descended into something cruder. The most striking example came after prospect Josh Hokit stopped Derrick Lewis in the second round of their heavyweight bout. After exiting the cage to present Trump with a necklace at ringside, Hokit delivered a rambling post-fight interview that veered from praise for the president to religion before concluding with the false conspiracy claim that "Michelle Obama is a man."
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky posted photos of reports that Russian officials submit to Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin: "I thank all friends of Ukraine and everyone who helps us obtain important information and supports Ukrainian intelligence operations."
Europe's great wartime leader clowned Vladimir Putin last Dec 2025
A plane crash at Butler Memorial Airport killed 12 people, including a pilot and 11 skydivers. The plane was a locally-based, ten-person aircraft and the crash happened during takeoff, approximately an hour's drive south of Kansas City.
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In the UK, four Samaritans from Palestine Action were cruelly sentenced to a combined total of more than 25 years in prison, after a judge callously ruled that they could be treated as terrorists. Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, and Fatema Zainab Rajwani were convicted of criminal damage last month in relation to a well-intentioned 2024 raid against a murderous Israeli arms factory in Bristol.
The "ZF" is the powerful analog of AIPAC in the UK
Shay's loved ones are seen surrounding the burial spot. In the seconds after Shay's coffin is lowered into the ground, a loud "Hello!" is heard. It's followed by a loud knocking and then, "It's Shay! I'm in here; let me out!" Though clearly shocked and confused at first, the family members break into smiles and tearful laughter. Read more
Donald Trump has accused Benjamin Netanyahu of having "no fucking judgment" as he launched another foul-mouthed attack on the Israeli prime minister.
The US president said an Israel's attack on Beirut on Sunday had "pissed me off very much".
He was speaking amid fears that the Israeli strikes could scupper a deal to end the Iran war at the last minute. Read more
Only 3% of individuals detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the first 14 months of the second Trump administration had a violent felony conviction, according to an ABC News analysis of government data.
Elon Musk, newly crowned world's first trillionaire, faced renewed criticism on Friday, June 12, over anti-immigrant riots in Belfast after researchers said violent narratives he amplified on his platform X amassed millions of views. Clashes broke out in the Northern Irish capital after a brutal knife attack on Monday, with police charging a Sudanese national named Hadi Alodid with attempted murder. Musk amplified calls for protest across Britain from anti-immigration activist Tommy Robinson and wrote to his 240 million followers on X: "Only by protesting REPEATEDLY and LOUDLY will there be any change." He also boosted anti-immigration posts and messages from Rupert Lowe, leader of the fringe hard-right party Restore Britain, extending his reach to millions of users on the platform.
I have a LibreOffice document of my favorite quotes that I have gathered over the years (actually, more like decades). An excerpt from the first page follows ...
As he futilely tried against Democrat NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani in 2025, AIPAC attack hippo US Senator John Fetterman (D-Israel) smeared Graham Platner (D-ME) on Faux News after the progressive easily became the Democratic candidate for the US Senate, representing the non-Islamophobic people of Maine:
John Fetterman is not a good human being
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)"Donald J. Trump's claim that a peace deal with Iran was imminent suffered a stunning rebuke on Thursday when a flotilla of warships from the Iranian navy blockaded The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
