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Is Iran facing a new internal front? Kurdish clashes test regime amid US talks– www.foxnews.com

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is facing a new round of violence in the country’s Kurdish-majority west, raising questions about whether a long-simmering Kurdish insurgency is entering a more active phase as fragile talks between Iran and Washington continue, experts say.

The flare-up matters beyond Iran’s borderlands because Kurdish opposition groups were recently viewed as a potential pressure point against Iran during the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran — and now some Kurdish voices fear they could be left exposed as Washington and Tehran return to fragile diplomacy.

In recent days, Iranian security forces have been killed in several reported attacks and clashes across western and northwestern Iran. Four Iranian security personnel reportedly were killed and several others injured in two separate armed attacks Tuesday, reported The Jerusalem Post, in an analysis by Seth J. Frantzman, citing Iraq’s Shafaq News.

SCOTUS Lets Hold On Trump’s Library Of Congress Firing Continue– thefederalist.com

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The U.S. Supreme Court declined to stop a lower court’s order blocking President Trump from removing a leading Library of Congress official on Tuesday.

The announcement came in the high court’s latest order list, in which the justices denied the Trump administration’s application to stay (“pause”) a September ruling by a three-judge panel on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. That decision sought to block the government from firing Shira Perlmutter, who led the U.S. Copyright Office in the Library of Congress until her termination in May.

As The Federalist previously reported, “Perlmutter’s dismissal came shortly after Trump removed Obama-appointed Carla Hayden as Librarian of Congress. Hayden has been replaced by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who is filling the position on an ‘acting’ basis.”

The justices did not provide a reason for the decision. They did, however, note that the denial of the administration’s request “is not a ruling on the merits of the legal issues presented in the litigation.”

House votes to disclose which members settled sexual misconduct allegations with taxpayer funds– www.politico.com

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The House approved a measure Tuesday compelling the public release of records showing which House members have used taxpayer dollars to settle sexual misconduct charges levied against them and how much money was spent.

The resolution, offered by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), directs the House Ethics Committee and the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights — which also handles claims of misconduct — to produce such information within 60 days. It passed nearly unanimously, 420-0, with only Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) — an outspoken advocate for victims of sexual harassment and assault — voting present.

“We need to know what’s been going on here in the House of Representatives in order to convince the people and assure the people that we are conducting the people’s business with the utmost integrity and treating the officers and employees of this institution with the respect that they deserve,” said Massie, in remarks on the chamber floor imploring his colleagues to support the measure.

Massie’s effort comes after Reps. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) were, earlier this year, forced to resign under the cloud of serious sexual misconduct allegations. The incidents forced a reckoning in the House, where members have historically struggled to show they take sexual assault allegations within their ranks seriously and to show they are prepared to root out bad behavior when necessary.

Colombian election loser threatens ‘civil disobedience’ if winner does not ditch US citizenship– abcnews.com

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BOGOTA, Colombia — A Colombian senator, who recently lost the nation’s presidential election, said Tuesday he will not recognize his opponent, Abelardo de la Espriella, as the nation’s new head of state, if he does not comply with several demands, including renouncing his U.S. citizenship.

In a statement issued Tuesday, progressive senator Iván Cepeda urged de la Espriella, the winner of June’s presidential runoff, to renounce his U.S. citizenship, arguing that holding it while being Colombia’s president could generate conflicts of interest.

The senator also said that de la Espriella should clarify whether he is an “agent” of the United States, because as a criminal defense lawyer he defended a former paramilitary leader who was an informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

US lifts export controls on powerful AI models, Anthropic says– www.euronews.com

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The US government has lifted restrictions on powerful AI models, such as Fable 5 and Mythos 5, according to Anthropic, the AI firm behind

The company will soon begin restoring global access to its most powerful AI models, it said on Tuesday.

Posting on X, Anthropic said: “We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5,” adding, “We’ll begin restoring access tomorrow.”

Earlier this month, US authorities blocked access to the models on national security grounds.

Cuban official says talks with the US are at a standstill, announces UN debate on US oil embargo– abcnews.com

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HAVANA — Talks between Cuba and the U.S. are at a standstill, despite the island recently approving a series of free-market reforms, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez announced Tuesday.

He noted that the newly unveiled reforms were neither mentioned nor discussed in earlier talks between the two nations.

“The recently announced (measures) are a matter of total and absolute sovereignty,” Rodriguez said. “We have neither listened to nor are we interested in the U.S. government’s opinion on them.”

But he said it was striking that they “were met with a new package of unilateral coercive measures … against Cuba.”

Alaska Supreme Court delivers blow to Republicans, rules in favor of ‘sham candidate’– www.theblaze.com

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The Alaska Supreme Court has delivered the final blow to Republicans’ efforts to keep a Senate challenger by the same name as incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R) off the ballot.

In a short order handed down Monday, the court affirmed a ruling from a superior court that Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. must appear on the Aug. 18 primary ballot for U.S. Senate.

‘The only reason he is running is to deceive voters and manipulate Alaska’s election system.’

Putin rejects peace and pledges ‘Novorossiya’ imperium– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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President Vladimir Putin has signaled Russia’s disinterest in new peace negotiations with Ukraine. Instead, he is recharacterizing his war on Ukraine as an imperial restoration project. While he has always viewed Ukraine as a Russian limb, Putin’s rhetoric reflects his need to consolidate Russians amid a failing war effort.

Putin’s latest comments came in an interview with Kremlin propagandist Pavel Zarubin on Sunday. While Putin admitted that escalating Ukrainian strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure were causing fuel shortages, he insisted that these problems were limited. More air defense systems were being rapidly produced to deal with this challenge, Putin said.

US envoys met with mediators in Qatar, talks with Iran up in the air– www.france24.com

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US envoys met with Qatari mediators on Tuesday in Doha to discuss negotiations with Iran, the Gulf state said, after Tehran and Washington agreed a memorandum of understanding this month to halt the Middle East war.

Iran said a team would go to Doha but contradicted US President Donald Trump‘s claim that direct talks would take place.

Qatar also said no high-level meetings or direct talks between the longtime foes were planned.

Here is what we know about the discussions.

Rescue teams in Venezuela race to save security guard trapped under building that collapsed during earthquakes– www.cbsnews.com

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Nearly a week after two back-to-back earthquakes struck northern Venezuela, international rescue teams, including from the U.S., are still working around the clock to save people trapped under the rubble — like 44-year-old security guard Hernan Gil Flores.

Gil Flores has been trapped under a partially collapsed 10-story building in La Guaira for six days.

“It is a very complex rescue,” Manny Sampang, a task force leader from the Los Angeles County Fire Department who is in Venezuela to help with rescue efforts, told CBS News. “I have multiple buildings leaning into that building that we are trying to rescue him from.”

Far-Left Texas Democrat James Talarico Tied with Ken Paxton in Senate Race, Shock Poll Shows– slaynews.com

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Far-left Texas Democrat James Talarico is tied with Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a shocking new Senate poll, raising alarms that Democrats may have a path to threaten a reliable GOP stronghold.

Democrats have not won a U.S. Senate race in Texas in nearly four decades.

However, a New York Times/Siena survey released Tuesday found Talarico and Paxton tied at 47 percent support among likely Texas voters.

The race is one of a handful that could determine whether Republicans keep control of the Senate.

Iran is selling oil at 20% premium as U.S. blockade removal frees up sales– www.cnbc.com

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Oil tankers and cargo vessels are anchored off the coast of Oman after being stranded for days as congestion at Port Sultan Qaboos has prevented them from docking on June 23, 2026 in Muscat, Oman.

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Iran has exported more than 40 million barrels of crude oil since the U.S. removed its naval blockade of Iranian ports, and is now selling oil at prices roughly 20% higher than before the war, parliament speaker and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Tuesday.

The U.S. and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding on June 17 to end nearly four months of war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and set ​up 60 days of negotiations to work out a permanent peace deal. The two sides briefly traded strikes over the weekend after Iran attacked two transiting vessels.

The ceasefire prompted a surge in crude shipments through the vital waterway where traffic had largely ground to a halt during the conflict, sending oil prices sharply lower.

Trump is right to threaten tariffs over European digital tax extortion– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Often untethered to unfair foreign trade practices, President Donald Trump’s fetish for tariffs is foolish. Tariffs reduce prosperity and opportunity for the vast majority of the public in order to benefit far smaller numbers of Americans in specific industries. Still, tariffs have value when it comes to penalizing unfair economic activity by U.S. trade partners. Trump is thus right to now threaten new tariffs on the European Union and European nations over their threat to American technology companies.

In a social media post last Friday, Trump warned that European countries were discussing the “imminent” introduction of digital services taxes on U.S. technology giants. He added that any “country that imposes such a Tax will immediately be met with a 100% TARIFF on any and all Goods sent to the [U.S.].” While Trump’s 100% tariff rate is arbitrary, he is right to warn of robust action. Contrary to their claims of justified regulation, the European digital taxes in question serve a simple and wholly unjustified purpose: extorting American companies.

Montreal shooter’s alleged manifesto calls for far-left communist totalitarianism, ‘revolutionary terror’– www.theblaze.com

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A police officer and a civilian are dead after a long-haired gunman opened fire in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood around 11:30 a.m. ET on Monday.

Some liberal media outfits have narrowly characterized the ideology espoused within the manifesto allegedly left behind by the gunman as “incel” — involuntary celibate — in nature.

‘The essential political conditions of a society in which capitalism/liberalism, and thereby, hypergamy itself, are not part of the established order of things, have mostly already been laid out by Marx, Engels, and others.’

Oil price falls to levels not seen since before Iran war– www.bbc.co.uk

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Representatives from the two sides met in Switzerland last weekend for talks to end the war, which resulted in the US partially lifting sanctions on Iranian oil exports.

The number of vessels crossing the Strait of Hormuz has risen significantly since the MOU was signed, according to maritime intelligence firm Kpler.

Its latest data suggests 284 vessels have made the transit from 18 June, the day after the deal was signed, although that is is still well below the pre-conflict average of some 138 crossings each day.

ICE Warns New York Not to Release Illegal Alien Who Commited Horrible Crime on NYC’s Subway– townhall.com

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Felix Jeronimo-Rojas is a criminal illegal alien from Mexico who entered our nation illegally five times. If that wasn’t bad enough, Jeronimo-Rojas was recently sentenced to five years in prison for a heinous act on New York City’s subway system. He pleaded guilty to all charges.

Jeronimo-Rojas was arrested after he raped and robbed the body of a man who died on the subway system. Now the state of New York is possibly going ot release this monster from jail.

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) blasted New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani over “sanctuary” policies, demanding the two honor an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer for an illegal migrant convicted of raping a corpse.

Felix Jeronimo-Rojas, 44, was sentenced to five years in prison on Wednesday for sexually assaulting and raiding the pockets of 37-year-old Jorge Gonzalez while he sat dead on the R train near Lower Manhattan’s Whitehall Street station, according to the New York Post.

The Mexican national pled guilty to the charges.

“This sicko robbed and raped the corpse of a dead man on a New York City subway,” said Lauren Bis, acting assistant secretary for public affairs at the DHS. “ICE lodged a detainer asking Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York sanctuary politicians to commit to not releasing this criminal illegal alien after his prison sentence. We need cooperation from sanctuary politicians to ensure depraved criminals like this are not released into our communities.”

Britain’s ‘first gay surrogate dad’ hit with new child sex charges amid rape case– www.lifesitenews.com

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A wealthy homosexual couple who have been charged with rape and modern slavery trafficking, one of whom is known as Britain’s “first gay surrogate dad,” face 18 new charges, including sexual activity with a child.

Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, 57, and Scott Drewitt-Barlow, 32, both of Danbury, England, had already had multiple charges lodged against them related to the sexual exploitation of young males. 

Barrie, who is reported to have obtained a total of eight children via surrogacy, had previously been charged with three counts of sexual assault on a male, four counts of rape of a man 16 or over, and two counts of arranging or facilitating travel of another person with a view to exploitation.

Trump Administration’s Suspected Gang Member Arrests Hit 10,000 – PJ Media– pjmedia.com

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has hit an impressive milestone for arrested gang members under the Trump administration.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt highlighted the milestone in a post that included an article with more details from Fox News.

If the feds were able to arrest over 10,000 suspected gang members in just about a year and a half, how many tens of thousands of gang members are operating in the United States altogether? This is the horrible reality of the open borders crisis. Politicians who welcome illegal aliens are deliberately ignoring the fact that an unknown number of violent criminals are always mixed in.

Leftist Senators Fighting Historic Student Loan Reform– www.dailysignal.com

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Last summer, Congress passed the Working Families Tax Cuts Act (WFTCA), which was a massive budget reconciliation package that combined permanent tax relief with much-needed changes to the federal student loan program.

The higher education reforms passed in the WFTCA represent one of the most significant overhauls of federal student lending. These reforms helped to right-size borrowing and repayment options for millions of students, borrowers, and families, shifts that some have described as “some of the most consequential changes to federal higher education policy in years.”

Unfortunately, a group of Senate leftists were seeking to unravel the progress that’s been made.

SCOTUS Says Temporary Status For Migrants Is Temporary– thefederalist.com

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The U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump’s efforts to revoke temporary status for foreign nationals in the United States on Thursday. The decision was 6-3, with Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson in the dissent.

The ruling in the consolidated cases Mullin v. Doe and Trump v. Miot dates back to Trump’s bid to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from large swaths of Syrian and Haitian nationals residing in America under the program. As The Federalist previously reported, the challengers contesting the president’s decision argued that the statutory provisions governing TPS “do not bar courts from reviewing an administration’s actions on the program and that the government is required to undertake certain steps (ex. consultation and assessment of a country’s conditions) before implementing such policies.”

Video. La Guaira, Venezuela’s port city, shows extensive earthquake damage after the quake– www.euronews.com

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Footage filmed from a motorcycle showed residents moving through streets lined with rubble and damaged structures, highlighting the scale of destruction in the port city north of Caracas. La Guaira is home to one of Venezuela’s most important ports and serves as the main gateway between the capital and Simón Bolívar International Airport.

The earthquakes struck on 24 June and caused severe disruption across several regions. Emergency crews continued rescue and recovery operations as authorities assessed the damage.

According to provisional figures reported by authorities and media outlets, at least 32 people were killed and more than 700 injured nationwide. The disaster prompted the government to declare emergency measures while engineers inspected key transport and commercial infrastructure along the Caribbean coast.

Trump Gets Into Intense Shouting Match With GOP Senators During Closed-Door Meeting– trendingpoliticsnews.com

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President Donald Trump was involved in a tense shouting match with Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and other critics in the chamber during a closed-door meeting on Wednesday, according to a report from the New York Post.

The gathering was intended to cover legislative priorities such as the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, which addresses voter identification and citizenship requirements. However, discussion shifted to the ongoing U.S. military involvement in Iran and a Senate vote held the previous day on a war powers resolution.

The conflict with Iran started on February 28, 2026, under Operation Epic Fury, which involved strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities and leadership targets. The operation was initially projected to last approximately four weeks, but more than four months had passed by late June without all original objectives being met.

Senators in attendance noted that lawmakers had not received comprehensive briefings on a memorandum of understanding signed between the Trump administration and Iranian representatives in the week prior to the meeting.

On June 23, the Senate approved a war powers resolution calling for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from unauthorized hostilities in Iran. The measure was largely symbolic and lacked binding legal effect. It passed with support from four Republican senators joining Democrats: Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. Sen. Dave McCormick of Pennsylvania was absent due to a prior commitment with Trump.

Judge Strikes Down Trump-Era Courthouse Arrest Policy › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

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Judge Strikes Down Trump-Era Courthouse Arrest Policy › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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A federal judge has vacated Trump administration policies that allowed immigration agents to arrest noncitizens at immigration courthouses nationwide.

U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts ruled Tuesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents may no longer conduct arrests at immigration courts under policies implemented by the administration last year.

Pitts, a Biden appointee, concluded that the Department of Justice (DOJ) failed to provide adequate justification for the changes and described the policies as “arbitrary and capricious.”

Oregon judge clears way for Antifa to attack Eugene federal building, rules their 1A rights were violated when fence was installed | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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Judge Sparkle Sooknanan Blocks Trump Admin’s Voter-Screening Database › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

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Judge Sparkle Sooknanan Blocks Trump Admin’s Voter-Screening Database › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from implementing a voter-screening database that combined citizenship records with Social Security information. The ruling argued the effort violated federal privacy protections and resulted in inaccurate information being shared with states.

In a 75-page decision, U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan halted the administration’s revised SAVE database, a system developed by the Department of Homeland Security as part of an effort to strengthen election integrity and identify non-citizens on voter rolls.

“The federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote,” Sooknanan wrote. “This Court cannot stand idly by while that happens.”

People On Food Stamps Can Keep Buying Junk With Your Tax Dollars, Obama Judge Rules– dailycaller.com

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People On Food Stamps Can Keep Buying Junk With Your Tax Dollars, Obama Judge Rules– dailycaller.com
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A federal judge on Monday struck down multiple state pilot programs that restricted Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients from using their benefits to buy unhealthy foods.

Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins incorrectly interpreted federal law when approving limits on what SNAP recipients could purchase with their benefits, Politico reported. The ruling impacts such pilot programs in Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Tennessee and West Virginia, according to the outlet.

“With her solicitation and approval of the pilot projects in this case, the Secretary purports to waive not just a mere administrative or technical obstacle, but the very definition of ‘food’ as it was laid down by Congress,” the ruling says, Politico reported. “Neither the [U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)] nor the states can force this square peg into a round hole to avoid the plain language of the statute and the requirements of 2026(k).”

The USDA did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

Judge Rejects DOJ Subpoenas Against Tim Walz, Minnesota Officials– legalinsurrection.com

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U.S. District Chief Judge Patrick J. Schiltz threw out subpoenas against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other officials regarding immigration.

“This course of events- in and of itself-establishes beyond reasonable dispute that the subpoenas were a part of a broader campaign to coerce state and local officials in Minnesota to assist the Trump administration in its enforcement of immigration laws,” wrote Schiltz. “And, of course, this campaign played out against the backdrop of the Trump administration’s well-established history of using criminal investigations to retaliate against and pressure the President’s political and personal adversaries.”