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A closely-divided U.S. Supreme Court has handed down a critical decision on election integrity, jeopardizing the security of American elections and the sovereignty of the nation. In an opinion released Monday morning in Watson v. Republican National Committee (RNC), the court’s narrow majority ruled that mail-in ballots postmarked by election day may still be counted even if received after election day.
“Three federal statutes set the day for the election of Representatives, Senators, and the President,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for the majority. At issue is a Mississippi state law allowing ballots received by mail and postmarked by election day to be counted for up to five days after election day. The RNC argued that federal statutes preempt Mississippi’s law and require ballots to be received by election day in order to be counted. Barrett and the majority concluded that the federal statutes “do not” preempt Mississippi’s law.
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During oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara, the birthplace citizenship case handed down from the Supreme Court on Tuesday, Solicitor General John Sauer observed that “we’re in a new world now … where 8 billion people are one plane ride away from having a child who’s a U.S. citizen.”
Four justices would go on to agree with this originalist argument, that the framers of the 14th Amendment did not understand their words to confer citizenship on the offspring of illegal aliens and birth tourists. But Chief Justice John Roberts dismissed Sauer’s point, retorting that while it may be “a new world, it’s the same Constitution.” He clearly thought it was a clever turn of phrase, an impression no doubt bolstered by the fawning media coverage of his remark. Released on Tuesday, his majority opinion takes the same approach to a foundational constitutional question as his cheap potshot at Sauer: he shows little interest in compelling originalist arguments, instead issuing shallow and misapplied but noble-sounding platitudes.
Joined by Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, Roberts declared that, if a pregnant foreigner travels to the United States — legally or illegally, for 20 years or 20 minutes — to give birth, the 14th Amendment demands that act be rewarded by granting the child the full privileges of American citizenship. At the center of his argument is an aspirational concept of “allegiance” he grounds in the practices of feudal Europe. Because British subjects “born within the dominions and under the protection of a particular sovereign” owed a “tie or duty” to that sovereign, Roberts reasons, the children of foreigners born on American soil must be bound by the same allegiance and thus demanded citizenship.
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It’s Ground Hog day again but this movie isn’t funny.
Oil prices edged higher in early trading Wednesday as investors reacted to Iran’s decision not to hold direct talks with U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on Tuesday in Qatar. Brent crude futures rose 50 cents, or 0.69%, to $73.45 a barrel by 12:08 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude gained 63 cents, or 0.91%, to $70.13 a barrel, Reuters reported. Iranian officials and Qatari mediators said the U.S. delegation would meet with intermediaries rather than hold direct talks with Iranian officials, the outlet said (Fox News).
Iranian clerics call for Trump’s assassination: ‘Religious duty’ to kill US president and Israeli PM ‘must not be neglected’, says Tehran’s Assembly of Experts
What is the Iranian plan or strategy?
Institute for the Study of War: Iranian officials are simultaneously employing diplomatic outreach and military coercion to pressure regional states to support a new “regional security mechanism,” likely to advance Iran’s long-standing objective of expelling the United States from the Middle East (ISW).
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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.
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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.”
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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.’
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.’
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The U.S. has issued a sweeping rollback of sanctions on Iranian oil, allowing dollar-denominated trade for the first time in more than four decades, as Washington and Tehran press on with fragile talks toward a permanent peace deal.
The U.S. Treasury on Monday issued a wide-ranging 60-day exemption allowing Iran to produce and sell crude oil, petrochemical and petroleum products in U.S. dollars through Aug. 21.
Under the so-called General License X, vessels and entities previously subject to U.S. sanctions are also cleared for transactions. The waiver also theoretically reopens the door to U.S. imports of Iranian crude, a trade which has effectively collapsed since the 1990s under the weight of heavy sanctions, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Child under 12 years old is euthanised in the Netherlands for the first time after law change– www.thesun.co.uk
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A CHILD under the age of 12 has been euthanised in the Netherlands for the first time.
The child’s death was disclosed in a letter to parliament by Dutch Health Minister Sophie Hermans.
The euthanasia was carried out at the end of last year, although no further details have been released.
Euthanasia for terminally ill children aged between one and 12 has been legal in the Netherlands for the past two years.
Before the change, the procedure was only permitted for newborn babies in exceptional circumstances and for children aged 12 and over.
Former Health Minister Hugo de Jonge said the law would help “a small group of terminally ill children in agony with no hope of recovery and unbearable suffering”.
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But we have a very recent example of authoritarianism descending on America, controlling our private lives. It was the Covid pandemic. At its outbreak, the coronavirus seemed especially deadly, and the vast majority of Americans consented to all of the mandates, the closing of our schools and our churches, the shaming of anyone gathering in a private home for a birthday or for Christmas. When the vaccines became available, many of us took them when we could.
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When Jen was 17, she was introduced to a gang of Iraqi Kurdish Muslim men who called her and other girls “white trash” and “English pig‑dogs” while they raped and trafficked them across the U.K. to rape gang ”parties.”
Jen decided to speak up in the Rape Gang Inquiry Report “so that religiously-motivated coercive abuse is properly recognized and confronted, even when doing so is politically, culturally, or socially controversial.”
In response, Rape Crisis England and Wales, a U.K. “feminist” social services organization “working to end sexual violence and abuse,” released a statement calling the report racist for pointing out that 95% of the gang members are Muslim and exploited girls because they were white.
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The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday announced the arrests of two more men in connection with an alleged plot to attack government officials and attendees at the UFC Freedom 250 event held at the White House on June 14.
The arrests of William Lee Spartacus Falkner in Washington state and Jordan W. Rincker, 28, of St. Joseph, Missouri, bring the total number of individuals charged in the case to seven. Both men face charges of conspiracy to commit murder.
According to the DOJ, Falkner allegedly conspired with others to procure and fly explosive-laden drones as part of the plot. Communications indicated he had experience manufacturing and piloting drones and discussed loading explosives onto them while configuring and flying them for maximum destructive impact.
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Congress has passed “the largest housing bill in decades” on Tuesday. Today’s show breaks down how this might help Americans.
“This is a step in the right direction. Now and then, you have people who listen,” Crowder said.
One of the most important points in this bill is that it bans investors from buying up single-family homes.
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Passed by the Senate a day earlier, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act brings together a wide range of provisions aimed at making housing more affordable and encouraging housing construction.
The final version of the bill contains key priorities for the affordable housing industry, including raising the public welfare investment (PWI) cap from 15% to 20%. This opens the door to banks increasing their investments in affordable housing.
One of the most debated points was around banning institutional investors from buying single-family homes. While the final version includes restrictions on institutional investor buyers, it removes some of the language that would have limited the development of build-to-rent properties, according to housing advocates.
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The AI industry’s most fascinating stories often come from unlikely alliances, and this is certainly one of them. Getty Images, a company that has spent years raising concerns about how AI models are trained and how creative work is used, is now officially partnering with OpenAI.
The new agreement will allow Getty Images’ licensed content to appear across ChatGPT’s search and discovery experiences. That means users may begin seeing Getty’s professionally licensed photos and visual assets integrated into ChatGPT responses, adding more visual context to searches and AI-generated answers. Getty says the goal is to make AI-powered search more useful and trustworthy by relying on high-quality, licensed content rather than the murky sourcing practices that have sparked countless debates across the AI industry.
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Thune’s Senate won’t pass or even vote on the SAVE AMERICA but this they pass in a heartbeat. They passed a resolution calling on the president to end the Iran conflict.
Thune won’t allow a vote on the SAVE AMERICA Act, but this gets fast-tracked through the Senate without hesitation.
🇺🇸 BREAKING!!! SENATE PASSES WAR POWERS RESOLUTION
The U.S. Senate has passed a War Powers Resolution 50-48, directing President Trump to remove military forces from hostilities with Iran unless Congress declares war or authorizes military force.
Four Republicans, Sens. Susan… pic.twitter.com/OULFjKbDNU
— Commentary Donald J. Trump Truth Social Posts On X (@TrumpTruthOnX) June 23, 2026
So, I have Iran on the “ropes,” ready to go down for the fall, willing to give us practically anything, and for the first time in decades, respecting the hell out of the United States and its President, ME, and the U.S. Senate decides to have a poorly timed and meaningless War… pic.twitter.com/IaA64LSZGN
— Commentary Donald J. Trump Truth Social Posts On X (@TrumpTruthOnX) June 24, 2026
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani has legitimized Jew-hatred in NYC. This is the result. This coffee shop should be shut down.
A coffee shop in New York City that attacked Rep. Dan Goldman, whose primary against fellow Democrat Brad Lander ended yesterday, took to Instagram to express its revulsion at having inadvertently sold him coffee. The Justice Department noticed, and is investigating.
NBC New York: A social media tête-a-tête between a New York City coffee shop and a Democrat in Congress has caught the attention of the federal government. Poetica Coffee, a chain of half a dozen locations throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn, told Rep. Dan Goldman he was no longer welcome in their stores for his support of Israel. The store made the declaration in a since-deleted Instagram post accompanying what appeared to be a surveillance image of the lawmaker standing by the register.
Russia targets academics in U.S. as ‘foreign agents’ in intimidation campaign– www.thecollegefix.com
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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime is intimidating Russian organizations and scientists on American soil, according to a prominent professor speaking out about the situation.
The incoming president of the Russian-American Science Association, University of Southern California chemistry Professor Anna Krylov, told The College Fix she fears for her safety and the safety of academics caught in the Kremlin’s scope — but refuses to stand down.
“I definitely am not going to quit RASA, because that’s not the proper response to bullies, and so I will continue with operations as usual,” she said. “I will be organizing our next conference, and I will be participating and doing my job as president-elect and then as president of RASA.”
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday called for a major expansion of the country’s naval forces, suggesting the regime should build two large warships each year for the next five years.
Speaking at a commissioning ceremony for a new destroyer, Kim suggested North Korea should build two warships comparable in size to its 5,000-ton Choe Hyon-class vessel each year over the next five years, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
Kim was celebrating the deployment of the new multipurpose destroyer at the port of Nampho. In April, he observed launches of two cruise missiles and three anti-ship missiles from the vessel.
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In an interview with The New York Times (repackaged this week for The Daily podcast), D’Andrea said something that’s a dead giveaway when someone wants to thwart elections and impose their own agendas— that certain government institutions and agencies need independence from the president, or separation from the political process.
“We’re getting to a point now where it’s just getting more and more necessary to have that full separation of power and have the immigration courts separate from the Department of Justice,” D’Andrea said. “Take the policy influence away from the courts, so the courts can just enforce the law. That’s all any of the immigration judges want. We want to be able to enforce the law and not be subject to just the policies.”
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London — Labour Party lawmaker Andy Burnham, who looks increasingly likely to be Britain’s next prime minister, has previously criticized President Trump, accusing the American leader of bringing “instability” to the world.
Current Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Monday that he would resign in the wake of disastrous local elections in May, and 20 resignations from his government.
As his Labour Party still has a large majority of seats in the U.K. parliament — won in the last national elections in 2024 — it gets to pick Starmer’s replacement, and Burnham is widely expected to get the job.
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Jeff Metcalf, father of murdered 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, shares his perspective on the newly released evidence and the trial’s outcome. Metcalf criticizes the media for politicizing his son’s murder and turning it into a racial narrative, emphasizing the importance of character over race. He also discusses his family’s ongoing healing process and the profound impact on Austin’s twin brother.
“I had never seen those pictures, and I never want to see those pictures. I saw one, and it was, that was enough,” said Jeff Metcalf.
His son, Austin Metcalf, was 17 years old when he was murdered by Karmelo Anthony, who was convicted earlier this month of killing Metcalf.