"While Texas moved quickly and aggressively, California could not provide the clear, expedited approval process needed to compete. This is an enormous loss for Solano County, California workers and our state's manufacturing economy." "Joshua Arce, executive director for the California Alliance of Jobs, which represents thousands of union construction workers across the state, confirmed that "10,000 permanent jobs and thousands of union construction jobs" that would have accompanied Saronic's Port Alpha shipyard in California are headed to Texas instead. He said "state leaders failed to act with the urgency this project demanded." Read more
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Iran has accused the United States of committing a "cowardly war crime" by striking near a children's cancer hospital and compared its actions to Israel's targeting of healthcare facilities in Gaza. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said in a post on X on Thursday that the US carried out a "barbaric" attack and 211 patients "undergoing chemotherapy" were evacuated from Shahid Baghaei Specialised Hospital in the southwestern city of Ahvaz. A doctor at the treatment centre told reporters the blast was "intense" and "so close" that they thought the hospital had been hit. "This barbaric attack, reminiscent of Israel's atrocities against healthcare facilities, caused severe suffering and anxiety upon the hospitalised children, and forced the emergency evacuation," said Baghaei.
INSIDE RUSSIA
The moment I checked into the hospital, I received a call from Russia. The caller addressed me by my name and asked how I was feeling.
At the moment when I was preparing for a surgery!
He said he represented the Russian Ministry of Defense and offered me to sign a military contract.
Now, do you believe it was a coincidence? After everything that has happened around me, the timing is impossible to ignore.
Intelligence on China was collected, analyzed in Trump's first term. Information does not show Beijing changed votes. Trump administration working to exert federal control over US elections. The White House is considering releasing sensitive intelligence related to China and its ability to interfere in U.S. elections that some Trump officials worry could be misleading, according to four people with knowledge of the deliberations.
In a move that will place hundreds of thousands of green card applicants under broader scrutiny each year, the Trump administration is allowing immigration officers to consider whether some applicants have used taxpayer-funded benefits " including Medicaid, food stamps and housing assistance " when determining whether they qualify for permanent legal status. The Department of Homeland Security is poised to rescind a 2022 Biden-era regulation narrowing how officers apply a long-standing "public charge" test " an immigration screening tool used to determine whether applicants are likely to rely on government support " according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials.
Revised plan aims to keep something going' amid fears Netanyahu may gamble on new all-out offensive before Israeli elections.v Read more
During negotiations with the U.S. in Switzerland last month, the Iranian government reportedly warned Vice President JD Vance that President Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner were undermining the chances of a peace deal. Drop Site News reports, citing an unnamed Iranian official, that Iranian negotiators believed Witkoff and Kushner were more interested in trying to profit off the talks in financial markets than reaching a lasting agreement. The Iranians were also worried about Kushner and Witkoff leaking information to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu The Iranians sent a private message to Vance through an intermediary following earlier communication through Pakistani mediators. Those earlier communications reportedly included written documentation that "individuals close to President Trump" were using the war and diplomatic talks to manipulate markets. Read more
VPOTUS JD Vance wasted three hours on multi-millionaire Joe Rogan's imbecilic podcast where he blew off the insult made at the 14 June White House UFC cage match that Michele Obama was really a man. The VPOTUS has nothing better to do with his American taxpayer-funded salary while a treasury-depleting war rages on against Iran on Israel's behalf, the US Senate is in session, ICE murders are piling up, and a US Senator is about to be buried or lie in state.
UFC thug Josh Hokit is not a good human being. Neither are JD Vance and Joe Rogaine
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and D/FBI Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel established a hasty war room in the West Wing lasting seven hours to feverishly determine who leaked information about the security deficiencies on the Qatari-gifted airplane meant to be used as Air Force One. D/FBI Patel was diverted at the last minute from a trip to Chicago and some officials were asked to turn over their phones to investigators on White House grounds.
"Bribe Force One" is a disaster
On Saturday nights in Hiltons, Virginia, the Carter Family Fold continues a tradition that has endured for generations. During a recent visit, I watched dancers fill the old wooden floor while Daniel Grindstaff and The Uptown Troubadours, along with other musicians, played music that you couldn't hardly resist getting up and dancing to. This music venue felt less like a concert and more like stepping into another era. Experienced dancers took to the floor with an ease that comes only from years of knowing the steps. Before long, many of the audience members joined them and children eagerly followed, learning the dances simply by watching and doing, just as generations before them had. Read more
What is this?
Black lawmakers and activists across the Deep South argue they have been abandoned by the Democratic Party to fight an existential crisis on their own. They say they've been let down by nearly all corners of the party: would be-presidential hopefuls who have flocked to early and swing states but don't bring their megaphones elsewhere; congressional leadership focused on majority-making battlegrounds while safe Black seats are drawn out; and years of chronic underfunding that has allowed local party apparatus to wither away. Read more
The 38-year-old has since ridden more than 118,000 miles and visited 80 different countries on her bike, documenting it all for 3.3 million fans on YouTube who follow her from dirt roads in South Africa to river crossings in Ecuador.
She told her story in her 2025 memoir, Free Ride, and her next book, Beyond Fear, is due in 2027.
This launches efforts to undermine election trust, challenge midterm results, and centralize power through narrative control and institutional changes.
After Maine Democrats warned him to stay out of choosing Graham Platner's replacement in their senate race, US Senator Chuck Schumer (D-Israel) boldly announced: "I'm staying out" of the Maine Senate Race. D'uh.
Status quo, AIPAC Democrats, Republicans, and dinosaurs do not want to to abolish ICE or DHS, but "tweak" them a little. Uh-huh.Read more
