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Taiwan labels Chinese Coast Guard patrols ‘provocative act’ as tensions escalate– www.news24.com

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Chinese Coast Guard patrols to the east of Taiwan are a “provocative act” and the military will closely ‌coordinate with the island’s Coast Guard in responding, Defence Minister Wellington Koo said on Monday.

China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, was angered after Japan and the Philippines said in May that they would begin formal talks on delimiting their maritime boundaries, viewing that as involving waters off Taiwan.

Delimitation is the process of legally establishing the outer limits of a state.

Late on Saturday, Chinese state media said ships had been sent to carry out a “special maritime ⁠traffic law-enforcement operation” in the waters east of Taiwan in response to the Japanese and Philippine announcement.

Taiwan’s Coast Guard sent its own ships to warn away the Chinese ones and said on Sunday they had been “expelled” from restricted waters.

UK’s Starmer hosts Zelenskyy, Macron and Merz to discuss support for Ukraine– abcnews.com

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LONDON — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Sunday to discuss ongoing support for Ukraine.

The U.K., France and Germany, the so-called E3 group of European nations, have been prominent backers of Ukraine following Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. The U.K. and France lead the “coalition of the willing” initiative to provide security guarantees for Ukraine as part of a peace process.

The meeting on Sunday evening comes in the wake of a large-scale Ukrainian drone attack that targeted Saint Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, underscoring Kyiv’s growing ability to hit deep inside Russia. Gov. Alexander Beglov said three people sustained minor injuries in Saturday’s attack, during which residents were advised to stay indoors.

At least 12 people shot at Ohio festival; search for suspects ongoing, police say– japantoday.com

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Gunfire erupted Saturday near a busy street festival in Ohio, wounding at least 12 people and sending some eventgoers scrambling for cover while others rushed to help the victims.

No suspects were in custody hours afterward, Toledo Deputy Police Chief Joe Heffernan said, and officials urged people who were at the festival to come forward with any photos or videos on their phones for possible leads.

The shooting happened near the Old West End Festival, an annual gathering of live music and home tours.

Heffernan said it appeared that at least two people fired weapons and they were “probably shooting at each other.”

JD Vance Sends the Minnesota Fraud Case to DOJ for Criminal Investigation– wltreport.com

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The House Oversight report landed Monday. By Monday night, it had teeth.

Vice President JD Vance announced that he referred allegations involving Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to the Justice Department’s Fraud Division for a potential criminal investigation over alleged fraud in federally funded social services programs.

Vance made the announcement on Fox News when asked about the freshly released committee report.

“We’re certainly going to investigate this, Jesse,” Vance said, according to Fox News. “And before I did, we actually referred this particular case to the Department of Justice for a full criminal investigation.”

Trump Now Wants to Buy Out Mauritius Directly – RedState– redstate.com

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The on-again, off-again discussion around the Chagos Islands would appear to be back on. Those islands happen to contain the strategic Indian Ocean base of Diego Garcia. The United Kingdom, which controls the islands, balked at allowing American aircraft to use the base as a launching point for attacks on Iran, but Diego Garcia is well within range of Iran – and China, which the B-52 and B-2 bombers can reach from the Indian Ocean base.

France bans Israel’s finance minister, slams him for promoting ‘recolonisation’ of Gaza– www.france24.com

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France on Tuesday banned Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering the country, the French foreign minister said, slamming him for actively promoting the annexation of the West Bank and the “re-colonisation” of Gaza.

“Four leaders of settler organisations, and twenty-one violent settlers” were also banned from French territory, Jean-Noël Barrot wrote on X, condemning a “policy that the overwhelming majority of the international community, firmly committed to the two-state solution, cannot accept”.

The minister said the announcement “imposing new sanctions on those responsible for the intensification of settlement-building and violence in the West Bank” was in tandem with Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway.

Smotrich, of the far-right Religious Zionist party, is the second Israeli minister France has banned from its territory in recent months.

Last month, France banned National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir for mocking bound activists seized by Israeli soldiers on a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying aid for the besieged Palestinian territory.

Blind to irony, UN holds climate summit in nation crippled by green mandates– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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This week, United Nations climate negotiators will gather in Bonn, Germany, to tell the rest of the world how to save the planet.

The irony is staggering. Germany is the poster child of failed green paternalism. It shut down its nuclear plants, bet everything on renewables, and ended up burning more coal and buying gas from Russia. Germany has no idea how to save the planet — it cannot even save itself.

That’s because Germany and other big-government climate warriors assumed the only force capable of protecting the environment was mandates, all while the market was quietly working.

Two Catholic priests executed by communist regime in Czechoslovakia now beatified– www.lifesitenews.com

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Two Catholic priests who were wrongfully convicted and executed by the communist regime in former Czechoslovakia have been beatified.

On June 6, Fathers Jan Bula (1920-1952) and Vaclav Drbola (1912-1951) were beatified in Brno, Czech Republic, by Cardinal Michael Czerny. According to media reports, 13,000 people attended the ceremony.

Pope Leo XIV had previously recognized the diocesan priests Bula and Drbola as martyrs in October, stating that they had been sentenced to death out of “hatred for the faith.”

Based on fabricated charges, the communist government of Czechoslovakia had accused the priests of involvement in the assassination of communist officials; however, neither of them had anything to do with the attack. In the 1990s, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the Czech judicial system exonerated the priests. They are the first victims of the communist regime to be beatified in the country.

EXCLUSIVE: GOP Rep Wants To Give America’s Power Plants, Data Centers An Anti-Drone Upgrade– dailycaller.com

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One congressman is moving to protect the soft underbelly of America’s critical infrastructure with a new bill.

Republican Tennessee Rep. Matt Van Epps unveiled a House version of Sen. Tom Cotton’s Critical Infrastructure Airspace Defense Act Tuesday, which aims to shield hospitals, power plants, water treatment sites, and dams from potential drone attacks. The bill would make grants available to private companies to purchase government-approved anti-drone technologies, and could even extend to data centers.

“The bill gives the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy and others, the ability to determine which critical infrastructure facilities need these authorities,” Van Epps told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “This could include anything from critical water systems to power plants and potentially even data centers.”

These Republican lawmakers challenged abortion bans. Then they faced backlash.– www.dailykos.com

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At least four of them lost reelection bids after anti-abortion groups and key party allies backed their challengers instead. Two others — a state representative from North Dakota and a state senator from Tennessee — face contested primaries.

If Eric Murphy loses his primary election on June 9, he believes he already knows one reason why.

Last year, the North Dakota state representative, a Republican, tried to expand the window of pregnancy in which women could access abortion. The state legislature had banned it for almost everyone from the moment of conception.

 

Mamdani says ‘soccer would not exist without immigrants’ over ICE concerns in NYC for World Cup– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani blasted the decision to increase the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers headed to his city as the 2026 FIFA World Cup begins this week. He posted a comment on X on Monday afternoon, calling it “an attempt to divide us” before crediting immigrants as the reason soccer exists in the first place.

“Soccer would not exist without immigrants,” Mamdani said on X. “Immigrants play and coach the game, work in the stadiums, fill the stands, and make celebrations like the World Cup possible. Six of the players on the US Men’s National Team are immigrants.”

Republican leading AI effort has ambitious timeline for getting his bill through the House– www.politico.com

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Rep. Jay Obernolte has an aggressive timeline for getting his new bipartisan Artificial Intelligence proposal taken up in the House — and a path for getting a congressional hearing on a major part of the plan.

In an interview Monday night, the California Republican said he hoped to turn the draft framework he unveiled last Thursday into multiple bills, with the first expected to be introduced in the coming weeks. Each bill would be considered by its committee of jurisdiction.

“One of the challenges that we have is that the bill crosses so many different policy committee jurisdictions,” he said. “So I think we’ve got to divide it up into different titles that are in the jurisdiction of various policy committees and hear those individually.”

GOP-Run Indiana City Considers California-Style Homeless Center– thefederalist.com

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The Republican-run council in Indiana’s second-largest city votes Tuesday on its Democrat mayor’s proposal to install a homeless center that would serve drunk, high, and otherwise criminal residents without any expectations or ID checks. Research and experience show similar “low-barrier” centers in Democrat-run states such as Illinois and California increase homelessness and addiction, as well as crime, vagrancy, and public spending.

Fort Wayne has worked for the last 20 years and spent billions in taxpayer dollars and incentives to transform “from a Rust Belt downtown to vibrant and … flourishing,” Councilman Russ Jehl, a Republican, told The Federalist via phone. But he’s heard from his apolitical wife and many constituents they’re avoiding their revitalized downtown because of the increase in addicts and vagrants. That’s a nationwide problem affecting this Midwestern city of 280,000 with small-town vibes and bigger-city amenities.

Earthquake strikes southern Iran in third major quake in just over 24 hours– www.mirror.co.uk

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An earthquake has been recorded in southern Iran, the third major quake in just over a day.

A 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck Sargaz in Iran’s southern Hormozgan province at a depth of 22km in the early hours of Tuesday, June 9.

Local media reported that the quake was also felt in the Kerman province.

There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, according to Mehr news agency.

The earthquake has caused no damage, local media reported the province’s crisis management chief as saying.

Politico Defends LA Mayoral Vote Count Amid Concerns Over Nithya Raman Surge– www.newsbusters.org

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Candidate Nithya Raman in the Los Angeles mayoral race came in third place on election night, June 2, so far behind second place finisher Spencer Platt that she essentially conceded the election in a tearful farewell. And then, miracle of miracle, over the next few days as more and more mail-in ballots kept rolling in, Raman suddenly surged in the votes, often exceeding first place Karen Bass in some counts and doubling the percentage of her election day returns to the extent that by Sunday she surpassed Pratt in the vote, thus apparently landing a spot in the November runoff elections.

Oh, and for those of you who expressed skepticism about this electoral miracle in the midst of a questionable vote count of the mass ballot mailings in which voter identification requirements were at best laughable, Politico has written off your concerns as “baseless.”

MPs Condemn ‘Barbaric’ Belfast Attack, Leftists Warn ‘Far-Right’ Backlash– www.breitbart.com

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British lawmakers have condemned the apparent attempted beheading on the streets of Belfast as “sickening”, “barbaric”, and “medieval” as police announced the arrest of a man thought to be from Sudan. Meanwhile, left-wing politicians have warned of a potential retaliation from the so-called “far-right”.

Footage shared on social media appeared to show a man, seemingly of African descent, repeatedly stabbing at the neck and head area of a man on the ground in an apparent beheading attempt. A police update on Tuesday morning said the suspect, earlier said to be Somalian, is actually of Sudanese origin.

Welker Mocks Americans Who Don’t Share Her Faith In CA Election– thefederalist.com

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Socialist Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nithya Raman appeared to concede defeat Tuesday night after it looked like Spencer Pratt would advance to the November runoff election against incumbent Mayor Karen Bass. But then votes kept pouring in days after the Tuesday election, and by Sunday evening, Raman had taken the lead over Pratt.

The 180-degree-turn has left many scratching their heads: How does a candidate who was down by roughly 40,000 votes suddenly jump to second place after she herself publicly signaled her path to victory had all but disappeared? (Raman currently leads Pratt by more than 20,000 votes, after post-election ballot dumps have gone overwhelmingly in her favor.)

For NBC’s Meet the Press host Kristen Welker, however, questions about such outcomes are apparently evidence of nothing more than public ignorance. During a Sunday interview, President Donald Trump said the 2020 election was “rigged” (and he’s right — but more on that later) and that the same rigging is happening in California.

Supreme Court tosses DC Circuit ruling on Biden’s gas appliance rules – Washington Examiner

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The Supreme Court tossed a lower court’s ruling that had upheld Biden-era regulations on gas furnaces and commercial water heaters, which opponents argued were overreaching and would ban various gas appliances from being sold.

The high court announced its decision in an order list released Monday, sending the case back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit after quickly vacating the appeals court’s November 2025 ruling. The ruling comes as the Trump administration has already repealed several of the Biden administration’s controversial appliance rules and regulations since returning to the White House last year.

Trump said the pace of California ballot counting proves a rigged election. Pants on Fire!– www.politifact.com

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Shortly before abruptly ending his “Meet the Press” interview, President Donald Trump wrongly pointed to California’s ballot counting pace as evidence of “a rigged election.”

When Trump said the state was still counting ballots days after the June 2 election, host Kristen Welker said, “That’s how they count the votes in California.”

Trump said: “Do you know why they’re doing that? Because they’re cheating on the election.”

Welker asked Trump for his evidence that the election was rigged.

NATO shoots down drone over Latvia as concern about Ukraine war’s spread grows– www.washingtonpost.com

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A French fighter jet shot down a drone that entered NATO ally Latvia’s airspace from Russia on Monday, the latest security incident along Europe’s eastern border while Russia wages war on Ukraine.

NATO command ordered the shoot-down after it was determined that Russia had used electromagnetic warfare in the area, Latvian Defense Minister Raivis Melnis told reporters. The drone was brought down Monday morning near the village of Berzgale, roughly 20 miles from the border. No property damage or injuries were reported.

A year after Trump’s gestapo invaded LA, the fear remains– www.dailykos.com

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One year ago, Los Angeles was stormed by federal immigration agents as part of President Donald Trump’s pursuit to meet a lofty deportation goal. And the repercussions of that invasion are still felt.

At the time, despite the city’s protections for undocumented immigrants, videos quickly began dispersing online last year of agents across Los Angeles raiding Home Depot parking lots, food carts, and more. Many Angelenos witnessed federal agents ushering men and women into vans on the side of the street.

In response, locals flooded the streets to protest what was happening to immigrant families in their own backyard.

Iran and Israel say attacks halted after Trump tells both to “stop ‘shooting'” on war’s 101st day– www.cbsnews.com

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A Lebanese culture ministry official told the French news agency AFP on Monday that Israeli bombardment had damaged a UNESCO World Heritage site in the southern city of Tyre, as correspondents there reported damage at the site.

One of the oldest cities on the Mediterranean coast, Tyre, in antiquity, was at various times Phoenician, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine.

The city is around 12 miles from Lebanon’s southern border with Israel, and its UNESCO World Heritage-listed ruins include the remains of Roman baths and a second-century triumphal arch and hippodrome.

The UK Is Betting on a Billion-Dollar AI Supercomputer to Kick Its Addiction to US Tech– www.wired.com

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The UK government has laid out a $1.47 billion plan to shake its dependence on foreign-made artificial intelligence hardware.

Under the measures, announced Monday, the UK will spend more than $1 billion on a national AI supercomputer. It will be stocked with $530 million worth of hardware, including $200 million that will go toward specialist inference chips for processing AI tasks. Priority will be given to up-and-coming British firms in the procurement process; the government pointed to Olix and Fractile, two UK startups developing new styles of inference chip, as potential beneficiaries. British researchers and startups are expected to be able to use the supercomputer starting in 2030.

Pro-Life Republican Sen. Jon Husted is Behind in Ohio Senate Race– www.lifenews.com

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New polling data suggests that a Senate race in a state Trump won by double digits could fall to Democrats in the midterms.

Incumbent Republican Sen. Jon Husted is facing a challenge from former three-term Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, who lost his 2024 bid for reelection. But now just two years after President Donald Trump carried Ohio by 11 percentage points in the 2024 election, Brown is leading Husted by an eight-point margin 53% to 45%, according to a Fox News poll released Wednesday.

Brown has 98% of support among Democrats, whereas Husted only has the support of 86% of support among Republicans, according to the poll.

Fifty-seven percent of Ohio residents view Trump negatively, while 42% still hold a favorable opinion, the poll found. Husted’s ratings are comparable to Trump’s ratings in the state, as 50% view him unfavorably and 41% view him favorably. Brown, on the other hand, holds a 53% favorable rating and 44% unfavorable rating.

Virginia Democrats Air Budget Feud in Public – RedState– redstate.com

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Less than three weeks after Virginia Democrats lost their congressional redistricting fight in court, the party’s top leaders spent the weekend publicly battling over data centers and a state budget that remains unfinished.

Senate Finance Chair Louise Lucas blasted Gov. Abigail Spanberger and House Speaker Don Scott after budget negotiations broke down Friday, accusing fellow Democrats of protecting data center interests while refusing to make the industry pay more for the costs associated with its rapid growth across Virginia.

The disagreement quickly turned personal and public.