US Central Command Completes Twelfth Consecutive Night of Iran Strikes * The Gateway Pundit * by Jordan Conradson– www.thegatewaypundit.com News Source
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Video footage of U.S. Central Command completing precision strikes further degrading Iranian military capabilities, released July 22, 2026. (U.S. Central Command video)
US Central Command announced on Wednesday that US forces completed a twelfth consecutive night of attacks to degrade Iranian military capabilities.
In footage released by CENTCOM, Iranian military vehicles and boats are seen being blown up in airstrikes.
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CENTCOM said in a statement,
At 10:30 p.m. ET on July 22, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces completed another round of strikes against Iran for the 12th consecutive night.
U.S. forces struck Iranian military targets including maritime capabilities, missile and drone storage facilities, coastal surveillance sites, and air defense assets. The strikes further degrade Iran’s ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial vessels.
This month, American forces have targeted dozens of Iranian military sites on land while resuming a blockade against Iran at sea. As of today, CENTCOM has redirected nine commercial vessels and disabled one to prevent ships from entering or departing Iranian ports.
AI can become more biased than humans while choosing who gets hired; study finds |– timesofindia.indiatimes.com News Source
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Artificial intelligence is increasingly being trusted to help employers screen CVs, rank candidates and even conduct early-stage interviews. The promise is simple: AI can process thousands of applications quickly, reduce administrative workloads and, in theory, make hiring decisions more objective than humans. According to a recent review by MIT Technology, based on the 2024 study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology titled “Costly Exploration Produces Stereotypes With Dimensions of Warmth and Competence”, large language models (LLMs) may not only inherit human biases from the data they are trained on but also develop entirely new stereotypes based on their own experiences. Rather than simply reflecting existing prejudice, these systems can create fresh patterns of discrimination as they attempt to optimise decision-making over time.The findings are particularly significant because businesses are rapidly integrating AI into recruitment. If these systems begin making assumptions about groups of applicants after only a handful of hiring decisions, they could gradually reinforce unfair employment practices without any explicit human instruction.The research, conducted by scientists at Princeton University and the University of Chicago, builds on earlier psychological work showing how stereotypes can emerge from repeated decision-making. It suggests that the same learning strategies that make AI effective at solving complex problems can also make it unusually prone to stereotyping job candidates.
Trump says Netanyahu will not be arrested despite Mamdani’s call to detain ‘war criminal’– www.lifesitenews.com News Source
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(LifeSiteNews) — In apparent response to statements from New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani regarding the potential of arresting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he enters the city to attend a United Nations General Assembly, President Donald Trump declared no such detaining will occur.
“Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America,” the 47th U.S. president wrote in a Monday post on Truth Social.
Trump’s public comment came out after Mamdani stated in a New York Times interview that his office was in “active conversation with our legal department” to consider potentially arresting Netanyahu if he comes to the city for the UN General Assembly in September.
Yet, after Trump’s post, Mamdani released a short candid video statement on Tuesday that, on X alone, has garnered more than 64 million views in less than 24 hours.
“Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal, the architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people,” the 34-year-old politician stated. “He is responsible for the killing of more than 73,000 people, for the maiming of tens of thousands of children, as those who survive undergo amputation without anesthesia,” he said regarding massive scale atrocities executed by the Israeli army in Gaza.
Democrats Who Rail Against ‘Epstein Class’ Accepted Donations from ‘Pedo Island’ Guest Reid Hoffman– slaynews.com News Source
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Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) and Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) have both denounced what they call the “Epstein class,” but campaign finance records show that each has benefited from the political support of billionaire LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.
Hoffman has acknowledged maintaining a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein after the convicted sex offender’s 2008 conviction.
The billionaire has also admitted to visiting Epstein’s notorious private “Pedophile Island” in the Caribbean.
Talarico, who is running for the U.S. Senate against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, declared last month that “The Epstein class has no place in Texas.”
Ossoff has repeatedly used the same phrase while criticizing President Donald Trump and wealthy political donors.
Speaking at an Atlanta rally in February, Ossoff said, “This is the Epstein class ruling our country.
Trans activist Samuel ‘Roxie’ Cain avoids prison after making death threats at Nancy Mace | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com News Source
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Cain, 20, was sentenced to five years, suspended to 30 months of house arrest, followed by five years of probation.
A South Carolina transgender activist who threatened to assassinate Congresswoman Nancy Mace has avoided prison time. Samuel “Roxie Wolfe” Theodore Cain, 20, was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in prison, suspended to 30 months of house arrest, followed by five years of probation, according to WRDW.
Cain, who pleaded guilty to making threats against Mace, issued the following May 2025 since-deleted social media post: “I’M GOING TO ASSASSINATE REPRESENTATIVE NANCY MACE WITH A GUN AND I’M BEING 100% DEAD A**,” an arrest warrant states
The sentence also issued a permanent restraining order to protect Mace. While in prison, Cain had also reportedly expressed a desire to kill the congresswoman if given the opportunity while speaking to a “jailhouse informant,” according to Mace’s victim impact statement. The comments were allegedly made while discussing the September 2025 assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
Democrat Civil War Erupts as Warren and Schumer Back Rival Michigan Senate Candidates– slaynews.com News Source
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A growing Democratic Party power struggle is spilling into the open as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) back opposing candidates in Michigan’s closely watched Senate primary.
Warren endorsed far-left Abdul El-Sayed on Monday in the race to replace retiring Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), placing herself directly against Schumer, who is supporting Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI).
The competing endorsements expose the widening divide between the Democrat establishment and the party’s progressive wing, which is attempting to expand its influence in Congress.
Warren Joins Progressive Push for El-Sayed
Warren announced her endorsement just hours after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) appeared with El-Sayed at a campaign event.
Penn State law school still requires students to take ‘antiracism’ class– www.thecollegefix.com News Source
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OPINION: Federal government needs to investigate civil rights complaint against public institution
Neither public scrutiny nor a civil rights complaint have swayed Penn State Dickinson Law leaders from their goal of pushing “antiracist” beliefs on students.
Only real consequences will prompt change at an institution where Marxist beliefs are so deeply embedded. But the federal government has not yet said whether it will investigate the public institution.
A screenshot of thefall course ‘Race & Equal Protection of the Laws’ at Dickinson Law; Penn State University
This spring, reports by the Washington Free Beacon and a civil rights complaint from the watchdog group Protect the Public’s Trust drew public attention to the law school’s “antiracist” focus, including a required first-year class on the subject.
Detroit Jewish Donors Plan GOP Fundraisers if El-Sayed Wins– www.breitbart.com News Source
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Jewish Democrat donors in Metro Detroit are planning fundraisers for presumptive Republican nominee Mike Rogers as a “hedge” should far-left Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed win Michigan’s August 4 Democrat primary, according to a report published Monday.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that several prominent Metro Detroit Jews who have long raised money for Democrats are preparing fundraisers for the former congressman, while others plan to help him outright if El-Sayed takes the nomination, one person close to Rep. Haley Stevens’ (D-MI) campaign said.
Dennis Bernard, national chair of government relations for the nonpartisan Jewish Federations of North America and a Metro Detroit resident, said those donors have made their position clear should El-Sayed prevail.
“There are leaders in our Jewish community who are longtime, lifelong Democrats and Democratic fundraisers, who are very concerned with where their party’s going,” Bernard said. “And if this is the case, they’ve made it clear, both financially and with their vote, that they would support Mike Rogers in the event El-Sayed wins the primary.”
Detroit-area Jewish Democrats have approached him over golf outings asking for introductions to Rogers, Bernard added.
“This is a truly once-in-a-lifetime moment where you have to become a single-issue voter,” he said. “And that issue is antisemitism, our Judaism, and Israel. This is where you put party third: our people first, our country second.”
Leo XIV Approves Another Communist Bishop & the “Queer Jesus” University Medal– www.lifesitenews.com News Source
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Pope Leo XIV is set to present a sustainability medal at Villanova University, his alma mater, which has hosted performances of The Vagina Monologues, promoted LGBT events, and implemented gender-inclusive policies. The Pope has approved another bishop under the Vatican’s deal with China, a policy critics say has accelerated the persecution of the underground Church. The pattern is clear: the Vatican is rewarding institutions that promote gender ideology and regimes that suppress the faith.
We take a look at the growing divide: bishops who defend the Traditional Latin Mass face restrictions, while universities that promote “Queer Jesus” theology receive papal recognition. Cardinals Sarah and Burke have called for broader access to the Latin Mass, but their voices are increasingly marginalized. The faithful are watching. The hierarchy is silent. And the Pope is sending mixed signals that leave everyone confused.
This is not a series of isolated incidents, it is a direction. A direction away from tradition, away from clarity, and away from the Catholic faith as it has always been understood. The question is whether anyone in Rome will notice before it is too late.
Federal Appeals Court Hands Victory to Trump in Mail-In Voting Battle– slaynews.com News Source
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President Donald Trump secured a temporary legal victory in his effort to strengthen oversight of mail-in voting after a federal appeals court paused a ruling that had blocked a proposed U.S. Postal Service election rule.
A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the Postal Service may continue moving forward with the Trump-backed proposal while litigation proceeds.
The proposed rule would require states to provide the Postal Service with approved absentee voter lists before mail-in ballots are delivered.
However, the administration cannot yet implement the policy because a separate federal judge in Massachusetts issued an injunction last month blocking the rule, and that order remains in effect.
Here we go again…a 140-year-old church in Buffalo, New York has been torched twice in 4 days by arson. It’s almost like they’re erasing Christian culture, one historic flame at a time… pic.twitter.com/Y1QIadijvZ
Socialist Candidate Calls for More Migrants in Government to Combat ‘Exploitive’ Nature of Americans– slaynews.com News Source
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Colorado socialist congressional candidate Melat Kiros called for more migrants and people with “heritage in the global south” to seek elected office to push back against the “exploitative” nature of the American people.
Kiros is arguing that the United States plays an “exploitative and extractive” role in the world.
The Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidate made the remarks during the Wa’Ela Tigrai event in Denver last weekend.
During the event, she discussed her congressional campaign after defeating longtime incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) in last month’s Democrat primary.
Kiros said changing the international order would require electing officials who understand what she described as American exploitation on a “fundamental level.”
Oregon’s war on confused children, by the numbers: It’s REALLY bad– www.theblaze.com News Source
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For the better part of two decades, confused children across the Anglosphere deceived into believing that they might be in the wrong bodies have been widely subjected to medications that adversely affect bone density, cognitive performance, emotional stability, and/or future fertility. This horrific experiment, briefly provided a patina of legitimacy by so-called experts and politicians, has not only been ruinous but is based on junk science.
To the chagrin of the profitable and predatory child sex-rejection industry, the Trump administration, like the British government, has taken action nationwide against the “chemical and surgical mutilation of children.” However, some blue states appear keen to continue waging war on America’s youth.
‘1 in every 630 boys in Oregon received cross-sex hormones.’
Canada cancels joint bridge-opening celebration with US amid trade tensions | US news– www.theguardian.com News Source
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A planned joint US-Canada ceremony on Friday celebrating the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, is no longer expected to take place after Donald Trump announced a 50% tariff on most Canadian goods.
In announcing the tariffs, the president accused Canada of unfairly discriminating against US automobiles, alcohol and dairy products, escalating tensions with one of the United States’ closest allies.
“In light of trade action threatened by the United States earlier this week, it would be inappropriate to proceed with a celebratory event between the two countries,” said Jenna Ghassabeh, a spokesperson for Canada’s infrastructure minister, Gregor Robertson, in an emailed statement.
Appeals court rules DOJ must hand over tapes of Biden, biographer to Heritage Foundation | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com News Source
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Biden could not remember when he was vice president, under President Barack Obama, nor was he clear on when his son Beau Biden died from cancer.
The Heritage Foundation has sought the release of recordings from 2016-17 between Joe Biden and his ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer. The recordings are redacted. The existence of those files came to light after prosecutor Robert Hur interviewed then-President Joe Biden over classified documents in 2023.
A federal appeals court just removed the last hurdle to the Heritage Foundation’s effort. Biden tried to block the Department of Justice from releasing the tapes but on Monday night, that appeal was denied in a 2-1 decision. “We conclude that Biden has not shown a likelihood that the requested materials must be withheld from disclosure,” said the appeals court.
Hur’s reports on the conversations with Zwonitzer revealed that Biden could not remember when he was vice president, under President Barack Obama, nor was he clear on when his son Beau Biden died from cancer.
OpenAI admits its agent went rogue and hacked AI startup Hugging Face– www.scientificamerican.com News Source
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An OpenAI autonomous agent went rogue and hacked into another artificial intelligence (AI) startup’s infrastructure, the ChatGPT maker said in a blog post.
The agent, which was powered by some of OpenAI’s most advanced models, ran amok during a security test. It freed itself from confinement—a protocol AI labs use to insulate tests from the wider Internet—and get onto the internet. Once online, the agent tried to hack into Hugging Face, an AI startup that hosts open-source models and datasets.
“I think this is interesting as it shows the problem of mis-specified goals,” says Philip Torr, a professor of engineering science and AI safety expert at the University of Oxford. “The model wasn’t malicious it was just doing what it was optimized to do.”
The dean of Hillsdale College’s Van Andel Graduate School of Government testified before the House Oversight Committee July 21 about the Smithsonian’s leftist bias. Matthew Spalding spoke to the committee about the importance of preserving accurate history in the hearing titled “Rewriting American History: Examining The Smithsonian’s Efforts To Reshape The Past.”
Calling the National Museum of American History (NMAH) one of the country’s “greatest treasures,” Spalding criticized the people in charge of the museum for pushing a leftist agenda in testimony titled “Who Killed America’s Story”?
“The National Museum of American History is no longer the nation’s museum of American history,” Spalding said.
Spalding referenced the White House’s “Saving America’s Story” report, which detailed the ideological capture of the Smithsonian Institution in more than 150 pages. The report contains photographic proof describing NMAH’s failure to present an accurate version of American history to attendees.
German Nuclear Fuel Plant Cleared to Work With Russia’s Rosatom– www.themoscowtimes.com News Source
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Germany on Wednesday approved an application by French firm Framatome to produce nuclear fuel rods under a licensing agreement with state-backed Russian firms despite political concerns, arguing it lacked the legal basis for a rejection.
A Framatome subsidiary had applied to produce at its plant in northern Germany fuel elements to supply nuclear plants in the eastern European market using Russian licenses and technology in a joint venture with Russian firms TVEL/Rosatom.
Despite political concerns due to Russia’s war in Ukraine, the environment ministry in the state of Lower Saxony with guidance from the federal environment ministry granted the necessary approval subject to certain conditions.
A spokesperson for the federal ministry said that while the government in Berlin has a critical view of the cooperation with a Russian state-owned company, the decision was made in accordance with the relevant nuclear laws of Germany.
“The appropriate instrument to address this, however, is not nuclear law, but rather EU-wide sanctions, including those in the nuclear sector,” the ministry said in a statement.
Why conservatives cling to conspiracies long after they’re debunked– www.dailykos.com News Source
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After director Christopher Nolan’s new film “The Odyssey” saw great success at the box office last weekend, it became clear that the campaign against the film’s diverse cast, led by racist multibillionaire Elon Musk, failed.
You’d think that the right would move on from this battle, choosing instead to tilt at another windmill. But a strange post from a right-wing influencer called “Mr. Obvious” shows that conservatives are going down a different path.
Instead of accepting defeat, Mr. Obvious claimed that the success of “The Odyssey” was a mirage, alleging that producers were “FAKING ticket sales” and buying up seats “to make the movie look like a success.”
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None of this is really happening, but the lurid fantasy is a microcosm of a conservative phenomenon that has existed for a long time.
The right thrives on conspiracy culture. Since the era of the John Birch Society during the Cold War, conspiracies have been a core feature of the conservative movement. There’s a clear timeline from worrying about fluoridated water being a communist plot all the way up to President Donald Trump’s insistence of a Democratic scheme to attack Christmas.
According to the latest figures, 17,907 individuals have been left homeless following the disaster.
The Venezuelans who remain displaced have been forced into crowded shelters or to sleep outdoors, grappling with a severe lack of clean water and deplorable sanitary conditions in the wake of the June 24 tremors.
Aid organizations describe the aftermath as a significant medical emergency. They caution that without swift intervention, the crisis is poised to claim more lives in the coming days and weeks.
Eugenio Cova, head of the trauma unit at Caracas’s Hospital del Oeste Dr. José Gregorio Hernández, articulated the immediate concern: “The issue we foresee just around the corner is the infections that patients who have been exposed to the disaster for the longest time might bring.”
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The Venezuelan government has been accused of remaining largely absent in the first 48–72 hours of the earthquake, downplaying the death toll, poor coordination and underlying systemic failures.
Two 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes – the bigger one the strongest to hit the country in more than a century – toppled or damaged 58,000–59,000 buildings, especially in La Guaira, the hardest-hit coastal state and parts of Caracas, and displaced at least 15,800 people.
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Residents in La Guaira have lashed out at the self-described socialist government of Delcy Rodríguez, alleging that the initial absence of a serious government search-and-rescue operation left them alone to scour for neighbours and loved ones with their bare hands.
However, Rodríguez fiercely defended her government at a press conference, saying politicisation of human tragedy is “disgraceful.”
“We did not wait one day, two days or three days. We activated immediately,” she said, wearing a black ribbon as a symbol of mourning.
Almost half of U.S. Muslims favor Hamas– www.americanthinker.com News Source EXCERPT:
According to a Pew survey, 44% of American Muslims recently surveyed expressed a favorable opinion of Hamas.
The United States designated Hamas a foreign terrorist organization long before it killed 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023, raped women, burned families alive, tortured civilians, and kidnapped children and elderly grandparents. Its leaders have repeatedly declared that Israel should cease to exist.
Yet nearly half of Muslim Americans surveyed said they view the group favorably.
Many Muslim Americans have publicly condemned terrorism while backing the rights of Palestinians. But 44% support is significant.
Imagine if a comparable percentage of any other religious or ethnic group expressed favorable views toward a different U.S.-designated terrorist organization, such as ISIS.
Discussion of Hamas is softened by the political context. Excuses include “occupation,” historical disputes, or resentment over the war in Gaza. Those issues may help explain why some people sympathize with Palestinians, but they do not transform Hamas into something other than what it is: a terrorist organization whose charter, actions, and rhetoric have centered on violence and the destruction of Israel.
There is an important distinction between supporting the Palestinian people and viewing Hamas favorably. Millions of Palestinians themselves have suffered under Hamas’ brutal rule. The organization has redirected resources from civilians to military infrastructure, suppressed dissent, and embedded fighters and weapons among civilian populations, increasing the suffering of the very people it claims to defend.
This goes past a poll. When a terrorist organization is viewed through a political lens rather than a moral one, terrorism itself risks becoming normalized. Instead of asking whether deliberately targeting civilians is evil, people begin asking whether the perpetrators were sufficiently aggrieved.
No political grievance justifies the massacre of concertgoers, the murder of children, the rape of women, or the kidnapping of civilians. Those acts should be condemned regardless of who commits them or what cause they claim to represent.
Pew’s survey doesn’t tell us why respondents answered as they did. Some may have interpreted “favorable” differently from others. Some may see Hamas primarily as a resistance movement despite rejecting its methods. Public opinion surveys have limits, but the results cannot simply be dismissed because they are uncomfortable.
Trump drops Strait of Hormuz tolls for Gulf trade deals– www.washingtonexaminer.com News Source EXCERPT:
President Donald Trump on Tuesday abandoned plans to charge fees for American policing of the Strait of Hormuz in lieu of inking new trade and investment deals with Gulf states.
The president, following the breakdown of the memorandum of understanding with Iran, has said that the United States will implement a blockade of Iranian-controlled shipping lanes while maintaining unencumbered commerce for other countries looking to make commercial use of the strait.
Still, despite guarantees from other top administration officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, that the international waterway would not be charged, Trump stated that the U.S. would collect a 20% “reimbursement fee” on cargo moving through the strait.
“Oil is flowing like never before, thanks to the awesome Power of the United States Military,” the president wrote on Truth Social Tuesday morning. “The Strait of Hormuz is open to ALL Ship traffic except for Iran — and that is because of their lying, violent, malicious leadership, which is taking them down the path of TOTAL DESTRUCTION.
“We will therefore have a FULL Blockade, but only on Ships coming to and from Iranian ports, or carrying anything have to do with Iranian cargo. Based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership, I have decided to replace the 20% United States Reimbursement Fee with Trade and Investment Deals that the various Gulf States will be making into the United States,” he continued. “Those Investments will be MASSIVE but, at the same time, extraordinarily good for them, and their future. As everyone is aware, we have the largest Dollar Investment into the United States, of any Country in History, but these new Investments will make that Number even larger, and we will see Factories, Plants, and Equipment pour into the United States at Historic levels, which will create additional millions of High Paying AMERICAN Jobs!
“America is WINNING again, winning like never before,” Trump concluded. “The days of Iran killing hundreds of thousands of people, including 52,000 protestors, are OVER and, most importantly, IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!”
U.S. Central Command announced Monday that the American military will re-implement its blockade of the strait on Thursday at 4 p.m. ET.
“President Trump consistently said that, as traffic in the Strait of Hormuz normalizes, oil prices – and thus overall inflation – would plummet like a rock,” White House spokesman Kush Desai wrote in a statement. “The expectation-smashing June [consumer price index] report proves President Trump was right: driven by lower energy prices, inflation clocked its biggest drop since April 2020.”