Ukraine has launched its largest drone attack on Moscow since the start of the full-scale war, sparking fires in and around the Russian capital
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An Ohio voting-rights group is insisting it did nothing to justify the “swarms” of FBI agents who fanned out across the state on June 12, searching offices and visiting the homes of employees and volunteers with the Ohio Organizing Collaborative.
Meanwhile, the FBI hasn’t given any public hint of its reasons for the action or shown that they were justified.
“We’ve done nothing wrong,” Rev. Michael Harrison Sr., chairman of the collaborative’s board, said in an interview on MS Now. “In the midst of having done nothing wrong, there’s nothing to find, and there are no charges to be filed.”
The collaborative says it has registered more than 600,000 Ohioans to vote. It focuses particularly on traditionally disempowered groups. Its leader said the FBI effort didn’t come as a complete surprise.
“Whenever you’re doing the right thing, there will always be pushback,” he said during the MS Now interview. “Whenever you’re providing opportunity for the marginalized or left out, there will always be some level of pushback.”
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Palantir, the data analytics company whose software powers the Trump administration’s deportation operations, has hired a former Democratic senator and a team of Democratic lobbyists with close ties to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, adding to a growing roster of Democrat-connected operatives the company has brought on in recent months.
The company registered Avoq LLC as a lobbying firm effective May 1, according to a disclosure signed on June 15. The four-person team representing Palantir is led by firm partner Steve Elmendorf, one of the top fundraisers for congressional Democrats, who has raised hundreds of thousands of bundled campaign dollars for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, including hosting DCCC fundraisers featuring Jeffries as a speaker. Elmendorf co-founded Avoq and previously served as chief of staff to former Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt.
Joining Elmendorf is Cedric Grant, who served as Jeffries’ first chief of staff in the House, before joining Avoq, where he specializes in outreach to House Democratic Leadership and the Congressional Black Caucus, according to his firm bio. Like Elmendorf, Grant is also a campaign contribution bundler and fundraiser host for the DCCC. Also working for Palantir on the Avoq team are Keith Castaldo, a former general counsel to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Joseph Orlando, a former staffer for Democratic Reps. Frank Pallone and Jan Schakowsky, and another bundler for the House Democrats’ campaign group.
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Melat Kiros, a socialist congressional candidate challenging incumbent Democrat Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District, believes there is a need for a “Trans Bill of Rights,” considering it “horrific” to protect children from gender mutilation surgery.
Kiros announced that her campaign page was being updated to include a “Trans Bill of Rights,” during an appearance on the Call Me Limbo podcast.
“Like, we’re actually updating the website right now. I wrote all of our policy page a year ago now, but we’re updating it this week, and some of the things that we’re adding in there is also a Trans Bill of Rights,” she said, calling for greater “force” in pushing the transgender agenda.
“You know, I think we have to be so forceful and clear and aggressive in our protection and our advocacy for the trans community, especially for trans kids,” she continued, asserting that there are ballot measures in Colorado coming up that she considers to be “just horrific” and “absolutely destructive for young trans kids.”
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Toronto police have linked multiple shootings, including one at the U.S. Consulate in March, to complex gun-for-hire networks
TORONTO — Police in Canada said Tuesday they have linked multiple shootings, including at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto in March, to “multilayered” gun-for-hire networks that have also targeted synagogues in the city.
Toronto police Chief Myron Demkiw told a news conference that young adults are being recruited through encrypted messages and paid by the networks to carry out the shootings and have to film them to get paid. Some of the firearms used in the attacks have since been seized by investigators.
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President Trump said on Tuesday that he would send the deal to end the war with Iran and open nuclear discussions with Tehran to Congress for approval. “I wouldn’t mind,” the president said when asked by a reporter during a bilateral meeting with United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. “I mean,…
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Well, isn’t this a turn of events?
For years, the left has been pushing a false narrative that President Trump was best buds with Jeffrey Epstein.
But, the New York Times just published a new report that completely flips that script on its head!
Apparently, the disgraced billionaire pedophile busied himself in his final days trying to take down President Trump.
Contrary to the story that Democrats want you to believe, Epstein hated Trump and was angry with for turning him into the cops.
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Ukraine hit a major Moscow oil refinery for a second time in a week and disrupted commercial flights at the city’s airports in one of its biggest drone attacks since Russia’s all-out invasion of its neighbor more than four years ago, Russian officials said Thursday.
The attack came hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he had held “an important coordination call” with the presidents of the United States and France, and had won key pledges of further support from the G7 summit this week.
Zelenskyy was expected in Brussels later Thursday for talks with NATO and European Union leaders, including discussions about the possible building of a continental system to protect against ballistic missiles. Russia has relentlessly struck Ukraine with those types of missiles, which air defenses struggle to counter.
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The US-Iran framework deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and bring the two adversaries back to the negotiating table over Tehran’s nuclear programme was signed on Wednesday amid differing reports and growing confusion over its contents.
Despite an earlier announcement that the agreement would be signed at a ceremony in Switzerland on Friday, US President Donald Trump signed a physical copy of the deal while dining with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palace of Versailles.
In Tehran, President Masoud Pezeshkian also signed the document on Wednesday, according to the state-run IRNA news agency, which posted an image of him holding up the deal with his signature next to Trump’s.
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War Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. military was in a position to restart operations against Iran “if we need to,” shortly after President Donald Trump signed the memorandum of understanding in Versailles, France.
Speaking to reporters on the tarmac before departing from Brussels, Belgium, Hegseth indicated that, though the MOU sought to end the war with Iran, the U.S. was also prepared to launch renewed strikes if Tehran was not seen as having fulfilled its commitments under the deal.
“We will be prepared to recommence if, underneath the timeline of these talks, Iran does not do what it says it’s going to do, which is give up nuclear weapons, give up nuclear ambitions, give away their nuclear material, close nuclear facilities. Then the War Department is here and prepared to restart if we need to. We prefer not to, but we are prepared,” he said.
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Congress often appears to function via the mantra of “one step forward, four steps back.” Even when policymakers take action — as in recent steps to fight fraud in government programs — they continue to ignore bigger issues with entitlement spending.
The annual release of the Medicare trustees’ report illustrates the problem. This year’s report showed that, by the end of last year at least, the administration’s anti-fraud efforts had not delayed the program’s (technical) insolvency date. Meanwhile, another year passed without lawmakers acting to fix a program that has been functionally insolvent for years.
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The House Freedom Caucus is facing an exodus of its most prominent members, placing a question mark over its future after years at the center of GOP congressional fights.
More than a half-dozen caucus members are departing Washington after making runs for higher office, meaning next year will lack some of the loudest voices who made trouble for GOP leadership over the last two Congresses. One of the biggest absences will be Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), a conservative firebrand who lost the Republican nomination for Texas attorney general.
“I think it’s going to be a massive loss,” Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) said of Roy, who is policy chairman of the Freedom Caucus. “I mean, he is an intellectual superpower. I’m amazed at how engaged he is on so many issues.”
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President Trump’s deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for lifting sanctions on Iran is getting strong pushback from Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill who warn that giving Iran’s theocratic regime access to billions of dollars in economic relief would be a major “blunder.” Some Republicans are warning that the likely outcome of…
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Consider this juxtaposition: In a few weeks, Washington, D.C., will be the epicenter for America’s 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. A few months later, Washington, D.C. will likely be led by a democratic socialist for the first time ever.
As of now, democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George has a commanding lead in the Democrat Party’s primary for mayor of the nation’s capital, which occurred on June 16.
Lewis George, the first and only democratic socialist member on the DC City Council since the late 1990s, says her “people-first platform” will “improve the lives of the people in D.C. …by strategically and effectively utilizing all that the government can offer and do.”
Specifically, she wants the government to provide “childcare for all,” “affordable utilities for all,” “arts and culture for all,” “reliable transportation for all,” “good jobs for all,” and “homes for all.”
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FBI Director Kash Patel announced Tuesday that the feds disrupted a “two wave” domestic terrorist plot targeting the UFC Freedom 250 celebration prior to the event held on the White House South Lawn, Sunday.
Five anti-Israel, Epstein-obsessed suspects are currently in custody following a multi-state operation that was initiated when the threat was discovered on June 10. The suspects have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
Investigators have identified a potential network of 23 anti-Trump suspects involved in the pre-operational planning on encrypted Signal chats.
The patriotic UFC event was held on the South Lawn as part of President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday weekend, drawing an estimated 4,300 attendees, including about 1,200 active-duty service members. Another 85,000 people watched the grand spectacle on giant screens at the nearby Ellipse.
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Federal investigators executed search warrants at the headquarters of a Soros-aligned voter mobilization organization in Ohio as part of what sources described as an ongoing fraud investigation.
FBI agents searched the offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative on June 11 and conducted interviews with members of the organization across the state, according to reports. Some agents reportedly served subpoenas or sought to seize electronic devices during the operation.
Multiple sources familiar with the matter later told CBS News that the federal action was tied to a fraud-related investigation.
The Department of Justice declined to discuss the specifics of the case.
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The Trump administration announced Tuesday that oversight of special education and civil rights enforcement in schools will be transferred to other federal agencies, continuing the administration’s effort to reduce the role of the Department of Education.
Under the new arrangement, the Department of Justice will assume responsibility for enforcing civil rights laws in education, while the Department of Health and Human Services will oversee special education programs. The move leaves most of the Education Department’s major functions assigned to other federal agencies.
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The list of dangerous and deadly policies for which the Biden administration has blood on its hands seems like it is never-ending. From allowing millions of illegal immigrants across the southern border, many of whom are murderers, rapists, and child predators, to facilitating what they did once they came into the country illegally is nothing short of criminal. Since last year, the Trump administration has been cracking down on one of the most horrific results of Joe Biden’s open borders policy.
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A federal judge upheld former Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan’s conviction of obstruction of justice for helping an illegal alien evade ICE.
Dugan resigned in January after she was convicted.
In April, federal court judge Lynn Adelman denied motions filed by Dugan, including a judgment of acquittal or a new trial.
Dugan’s attorneys asked Adelman to reconsider, citing a case out of Virginia.
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Thanks to our lord and savior Donald J. Trump, these stories are less frequent than they were during the People Who Controlled Joe Biden Administration. We still get the occasional advertisement for homeschooling. Like a Colorado teacher who made girls kiss in the classroom as part of “sketches” and graded them on it. And, yes, the teacher IS on the LGBTQ spectrum. However, did you guess?
Jennifer Honka is a now-former teacher from Denver Public Schools. She taught French Language and Culture at Northeast Early College for eight years. So maybe instead of a lesson in tolerance of Ls, Gs, Bs, Ts, and whatever the Qs are, it was just a misguided lesson in French kissing in between lessons in how to make macarons and how to surrender in war.
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A crash in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region has left 31 people dead(Image: Amhara Communications)
At least 31 people have been killed and 33 others injured after a bus plunged into a ravine in Ethiopia, police said.
The bus was travelling from Dessie to the capital, Addis Ababa, early on Monday when it veered off the road and fell down a cliff in the northern Amhara region, according to state-run Amhara Media Corporation.
The crash occurred in an area leading to Kombolcha, according to commander Getachew Muhiye, who was quoted in a statement from the regional government’s communications bureau. Among the 31 people killed was the driver, while 33 others suffered a range of serious and minor injuries, Mr Muhiye told state media. The death toll had previously been reported as 28.
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KAMPALA, Uganda — An opposition figure in Uganda was detained Monday on the orders of the army chief, whose increased role in his father’s administration has worried opposition and human rights defenders.
Erias Lukwago was taken from his house by armed soldiers after he had sought to serve Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who is army chief and the president’s son, with court papers related to Kainerugaba’s threats against another opposition figure, according to Lukwago’s party. Kainerugaba confirmed the arrest on his social media and threatened to inflict “hurt and pain” against him.
Lukwago is a former mayor of the Ugandan capital of Kampala and the president of the People’s Front for Freedom opposition group. He is the attorney for Kizza Besigye, a four-time presidential candidate who faces treason charges in a criminal case that his supporters see as politically motivated.
Here’s What Former Judge Hannah Dugan Tried to Argue to Get Her Obstruction Conviction Reconsidered– townhall.com
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Amy mentioned this yesterday, but let’s revisit the simple lesson here about Hannah Dugan, the former Wisconsin judge who blocked an ICE operation by escorting an illegal immigrant out a nonpublic exit after she discovered federal agents were there to arrest him in April 2025. Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, 30, was in her courtroom on a domestic battery case. Dugan was arrested and charged with obstruction and was later found guilty.
She attempted to persuade the court to reconsider, even to grant her a new trial. Both motions were denied by Judge Lynn Adelman, who, by all accounts, is not a conservative. Here’s what Duggan tried to argue in her hail-mary motion (via WISN 12 ABC):
🚨 JUST IN: A federal judge has UPHELD the felony conviction against former Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan, who was found GUILTY of helping an illegal evade ICE agents at the courthouse
Dugan now faces up to FIVE YEARS in prison, disbarment, and steep fines.
FAFO! 🔥
h/t… pic.twitter.com/7xCdBepW98
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 16, 2026
🚨 A federal judge upheld the conviction of former Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan, who was found guilty of obstruction after helping a man evade ICE agents at a Wisconsin courthouse. pic.twitter.com/zRVEyDJDic
— SCOTUS Wire (@scotus_wire) June 16, 2026
Can a state court judge help an illegal immigrant escape law enforcement? No, that’s a crime. Judge Dugan of Wisconsin moved to recondider her conviction. Judge Adelman (no conservative jurist) denies the motion. Good opinion explaining why, in part persuaded by Judge Wilkinson pic.twitter.com/jWMHjMsQAk
— Eric W. (@EWess92) June 16, 2026