In a recent interview, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) correctly pointed out that Democrats have lost sight of the important economic issues facing working-class Americans as the party works to rebuild itself after a devastating loss in the 2024 presidential election: "The party, as a whole, has lost its focus on working people."
Zohran Mamdani is the future of the Democratic Party
Dummkopf Trumpf is considering buying the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, potentially sinking UK PM Sir Keir Starmer's plan to cede away the sovereignty of this British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT).
MapThis is good-for-nothing US Secretary of Treasury oligarch Scott Bessent's vindicative idea.
Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan arrived by car to Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square, where a military band and a "jubilant crowd" eagerly awaited their arrival, according to Chinese state news outlet Xinhua. They were greeted by Kim Jong Un and his wife Ri Sol Ju, flanked by banners that read "Eternal Friendship between North Korea and China" and "Long Live the Unbreakable Friendship and Unity between North Korea and China", the report added.
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The conflict was supposed to force Iran to compromise. Instead, Tehran is negotiating from a position of surprising strength.
Nine people were injured in a shooting near the England team's World Cup base early on Saturday morning. As first reported by The Athletic and The Independent on Sunday, police were called to Troost Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, at approximately 4:00 a.m. Those affected sought treatment at nearby hospitals, and thankfully none of the injuries is believed to be life-threatening. Neither newspaper reports that any suspects have yet been taken into custody, according to the Kansas City Police Department. The incident occurred about seven kilometres from Swope Soccer Village, the England squad's base for the tournament under manager Thomas Tuchel.
Iran launched missiles at Israel on Sunday in retaliation for the Israeli strike in Beirut earlier in the day, Israeli officials said. Why it matters: This would be a major regional escalation. It would be the first Iranian missile attack on Israel since the ceasefire was announced on April 8. Iran's military said Israel had "crossed all red lines" in intensifying its attacks in southern Lebanon and targeting the south Beirut suburb of Dahieh. "If it expands its attacks in that area, or responds to Iran's action, it will face more forceful blows, and devastating attacks will be launched" against Israel and its supporters, the military added.
Amid ongoing scrutiny over the U.S. war with Iran, President Donald Trump on Sunday defended his foreign policy stance " and denied that he ever campaigned on the promise of "no new wars." In a wide-ranging interview with NBC's Kristen Welker that aired on Sunday's "Meet the Press," Trump said he built a "tremendous military." "First of all, I didn't guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?" Trump said. "I built our military. I inherited a terrible military. We had no equipment. We had nothing. I built a tremendous military. When you say I promised, I didn't promise anything."
President Donald Trump stormed out of a Meet the Press interview Sunday " after moderator Kristen Welker repeatedly fact-checked his claims on a variety of topics including; Jan. 6, his "anti-weaponization" fund, and election fraud. The heated six-minute final block of the interview began with Welker pressing Trump about the $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund he continues to promote " despite his administration officially abandoning its efforts to launch the fund. Welker pressed " attempting to confirm that Trump is indeed throwing in the towel.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that the Kremlin ordered an attack on the infrastructure around the Chernobyl nuclear site in "an extremely vile Russian strike. As of now, [luckily] there are no readings exceeding normal background radiation levels."
Vladimir Putin is a desperate and vicious geriatric, like his counterparts Dummkopf Trumpf and Benjamin Netanyahu
The D.C. Superior Court has dismissed a breach of contract lawsuit against Chuck Redd after the musician backed out of a scheduled 2025 Christmas Eve performance at the Kennedy Center. Redd backed out of the performance in protest of Trump's effort to rename the center after himself. The court found the suit brought against Redd violated DC's Anti-SLAPP law which blocks meritless lawsuits intended to silence political views.
Utah's two U.S. senators are questioning a new Pentagon policy that leaves "Christian" off the designation for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Department of War recently announced the reduction in the number of religious affiliation categories for service members from over 200 down to 31. Categories that were removed from the list include "atheist" and "humanist," and "Wicca." The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is included as a religious category on the updated list. But the faith was not included in the list of faiths labeled "Christian."
A federal judge ordered CIA employee David Rush held in pre-trial detention. He was found recently with $40 million of gold bars in his house. Rush allegedly created a secret intelligence program to funnel millions of dollars from the federal government to himself.
What else will the FBI uncover?This case is a devastating and embarrassing blow to CIA counterintelligence agents and their Office of Security
For decades, oil traders, executives and analysts warned that closing the Strait of Hormuz would be a global economic catastrophe. It's now been more than three months since the waterway was effectively blocked, creating the worst supply shock in modern history. But a slew of workarounds is keeping crude oil below $100 a barrel, defying many of the industry's grimmest forecasts for prices as high as $200.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Several FBI analysts tied to the creation of a 2023 memo warning of a potential threat from Catholic "violent extremists" were fired Friday, according to their lawyer, the latest wave of terminations under the leadership of its director Kash Patel. The fired employees included four intelligence analysts and a supervisory analyst. The FBI declined to comment. "This action is manifestly unjust, completely unsupported by the facts, and subverts standard FBI policy and procedure," their lawyer, David Laufman, said in a statement. "These individuals deserved far better for the exceptional and faithful public service they rendered to protect our country."
Multiple people were shot Saturday near a busy community street festival in Toledo, Ohio, and a search for the suspects was ongoing as victims were taken to nearby hospitals, police said. Toledo police officers responded to a report of a person shot near the Old West End Festival at about 5:30 p.m. When they arrived, they found multiple shooting victims, the police department said in a statement. Police said "many victims" were transported to medical facilities but did not provide further details on the injuries and how many people were shot. Authorities also did not provide any details on what may have set off the shooting.
