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Pentagon concealing true casualty numbers in Iran war – NYT — RT World News– www.rt.com

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Pentagon concealing true casualty numbers in Iran war – NYT — RT World News– www.rt.com
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Dozens of soldiers were injured in previously unreported strikes last week, the New York Times says

The Pentagon has withheld information about dozens of service members injured during the war with Iran, The New York Times reported on Monday, citing US officials.

On Friday, Iran struck a US military site in Jordan, killing two soldiers, wounding four, and leaving one missing. According to the Times, however, dozens of service members were injured throughout the week in three other strikes against US forces in the country. Several helicopters were also reportedly damaged in the attacks.

An official told CNN that “it can take several days or even weeks” for an injury to be logged into the Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS), an official database. A total of 427 service members have been injured in the war with Iran, the Times said, citing official figures.

Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell argued that “providing real-time information on non-fatal casualties to the media is the same as providing that information directly to our adversaries.”

Trump says Netanyahu won’t be arrested despite Mamdani threat– www.cnbc.com

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Trump says Netanyahu won’t be arrested despite Mamdani threat– www.cnbc.com
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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a news conference in Jerusalem on June 15, 2026.

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President Donald Trump said Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “will not be arrested” when he visits New York in September, pushing back on a suggestion by Mayor Zohran Mamdani that such an arrest could happen.

Mamdani has said New York City’s legal department is discussing the possibility of arresting Netanyahu when the prime minister is in the city to attend the United Nations General Assembly.

“I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague,” Mamdani told The New York Times’ “The Interview” podcast that published Saturday.

“He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court. And what you will find is that is an opinion that is held by many purely because of what his actions have wrought over these last many years,” the mayor said.

Muslim Dem Candidate Exposes Flaw in Wokeness Allyship, Now Says She’s Getting Silenced Because She Didn’t Embrace LGBT Agenda– www.westernjournal.com

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Muslim Dem Candidate Exposes Flaw in Wokeness Allyship, Now Says She’s Getting Silenced Because She Didn’t Embrace LGBT Agenda– www.westernjournal.com
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The active compromise that has held the American far left together over these past few years is quite simple: No matter how contradictory the identities of the most ardent proponents may be, as long as your animating motive is undermining America and its history, you’re in.

The desperately poor and the obscenely wealthy. Self-flagellating college kids and urban activists. Foaming-at-the-mouth atheists and devout Muslims. The contradictions are clear, but as long as there’s an enemy to focus on, those can be put aside.

However, Melissa Chaudhry could be the point where those weak bonds finally snap in a meaningful way.

Chaudhry is attempting to unseat Rep. Adam Smith in the Democratic primary for Washington’s 9th Congressional District, based in and around Seattle. While Smith is a reliably liberal vote and has been since he entered Congress in 1997, he’s not really a leftist, per se, which makes him fair game in the 2026 cycle.

Many Christian voters in the US see Trump as ‘chosen’ by God to lead | Donald Trump News– www.aljazeera.com

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Many Christian voters in the US see Trump as ‘chosen’ by God to lead | Donald Trump News– www.aljazeera.com
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NewsFeed

Many white evangelical Christians view Donald Trump as chosen by God to lead despite not seeing him as personally devout. A recent study suggests 60 percent of them believe Trump has pushed the US closer to Christian principles, blurring the line between church and state.

For the full segment, watch Al Jazeera’s ‘This is America’.

California Loses National Car Part Control – mindfulintelligence.news

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A new rule change from the EPA effectively ends California’s stranglehold on the car parts industry. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced “Americans should not be forced to solely rely on California to certify aftermarket products. Starting today, Americans can trust that products certified by SEMA meet federal requirements and can be used to repair vehicles.

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Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences to Begin Laying Off Some Staff– legalinsurrection.com

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What about Harvard’s huge financial endowment? Why do they need to lay anyone off?

The Harvard Crimson reports:

Harvard FAS To Begin Layoff Notifications Next Week

Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences will begin notifying some staff of layoffs next week, according to a person familiar with the matter — part of a broader process that could also include direct placements into new positions or opportunities to move into different roles.

The notifications mark the beginning of a long-anticipated staff overhaul that has been in the works since last spring. It is unclear how many employees will be affected, though the FAS could lay off up to one quarter of its staff.

Days before the expected notifications, FAS announced Thursday that it had appointed three senior administrators who will help carry out the school’s new administrative model.

FAS spokesperson James M. Chisholm did not deny the expected timeline in a statement, writing that the school “will continue to communicate transparently about the workforce planning process,” including by proactively alerting staff and providing detailed information about any job action.

Secretary of State Rubio Invites Countries to Summit Addressing Far-Left Terrorism › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio is will meet with delegations from scores of countries this week for a summit focused on the neglected threat posed by “the resurgence of transnational far-left terrorism.”

ABC News reports that a note shared with foreign governments describes the concept of the meeting as addressing a threat that “has remained a blind spot in the international community’s counterterrorism focus, underestimated and under-resourced, despite the danger it poses.”

State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott told Newsmax that the Trump administration is taking seriously the gaps that have persisted for decades in counterterrorism strategy.

 

‘Teen Takeovers’ Are a Growing Problem, and Cities Haven’t a Clue of What to Do About Them – PJ Media– pjmedia.com

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Heather MacDonald, writing in City Journal, tells the story of novelist Scott Johnson having dinner at a restaurant in a mall outside of Richmond, Va., last March, when “hundreds of masked teens in black hoodies rushed past, only abruptly to change direction after receiving phone alerts about a brawl elsewhere in the mall.” Johnson and his wife took shelter in a clothing store until the mall closed after rumors of shots being fired.

Johnson and his wife were terrified. They were victims of the growing urban sport of recreational rioting, or “Teen Takeovers.” These are social media-driven swarms of urban youths who show up without warning and literally lose their minds, committing vandalism, getting into fights, and shooting at each other.

New York’s home-care fraud scandal exposes Medicaid’s rotten incentives– www.theblaze.com

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Medicaid is federally funded and state-run, but the program’s beneficiaries often have the least say in who provides their care and what that care costs.

That’s a built-in flaw. States have every incentive to maximize federal matching funds while federal taxpayers bear much of the cost. The result pits state bureaucrats against Washington’s need to control Medicaid spending — and against taxpayers’ interest in stopping providers, insurers, and contractors from cashing in on weak oversight.

New York’s home-care scandal is not merely a contracting failure. It is a warning about Medicaid’s overall design.

Gaining full control of Strait of Hormuz has proven exceptionally hard for U.S. Here’s why.– www.cbsnews.com

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Washington — President Trump has been trying to force Iran to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz for months, turning to everything from airstrikes and naval blockades to negotiations and threats to destroy a “whole civilization.”

But restoring oil tanker traffic in the vital Middle East shipping corridor to prewar flows likely will require a much bigger armada of U.S. warships if not tens of thousands of American troops on Iranian soil, experts say. Despite on-and-off fighting, Iran can still target vessels in the slim Persian Gulf waterway with drones and missiles that have been hidden in a country a third the size of the continental United States.

“Iran has been preparing for this type of asymmetric conflict for decades now,” said Jason H. Campbell, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and a former Pentagon official. “I think they’re starting to demonstrate why no other U.S. president since Reagan has elected to engage at this level of conflict with Iran, because they have that ability to completely disrupt the Strait of Hormuz.”

The DSA’s tea party strategy– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here.

Michael Harrington called it the left wing of the possible. Beneath the slogan lay a practical reality. American socialists had no viable alternative to the Democratic Party. The two-party system, ballot access laws, fundraising networks, and the institutional gravity of a party that had absorbed much of the Left all pointed in the same direction. Work within the Democrats or remain on the margins.

Harrington chose the Democrats and built the Democratic Socialists of America around that choice. He believed American socialism would accomplish more by influencing one of the nation’s two major parties than by creating a third marginal party. He spent the rest of his life defending that strategy.

For decades, DSA leaders described their approach as political realignment. Following Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) presidential campaigns, many activists embraced what became known as the dirty break: using Democratic ballot lines to build socialist power while envisioning an eventual independent workers’ party. As the organization grew and its elected officials multiplied, however, the promised break receded further into the future.

ABC, NBC SILENT On Dem Suit to Block Paramount-WBD Deal– www.newsbusters.org

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The Elitist Media appear to circle the wagons as the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger approaches, terrified that CNN might face editorial standards approaching fairness. Perhaps this explains why news of the California-led Democrat lawsuit to block the deal was left off of the evening news on ABC and NBC.

The CBS Evening News did cover the lawsuit. Here is that brief in its entirety, as aired on Monday, July 13th, 2026:

TONY DOKOUPIL: Some news tonight concerning Paramount Skydance, the parent company of CBS News. 12 states filed an antitrust suit today aiming to block the roughly $110 billion merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Brothers Discovery. The state attorneys general, all Democrats, said the deal would create a monopoly and undermine competition, violating a century-old law. Paramount Skydance argues the opposite, that the merger would increase jobs and increase consumer choice. Government regulators in several other countries have signed off and so has the U.S. Department of Justice.

There is more to the story than Dokoupil could cram into that brief towards the end of their A-block. Per NPR:

A dozen states, led by California, are suing to block Paramount from buying Warner Bros. Discovery in a Hollywood mega-merger that would unite some of the nation’s largest movie studios, television newsrooms, and other entertainment properties.

“The unlawful merger of these two entertainment behemoths would lead to higher prices, lower quality, and less content for film and television, harming movie theaters, basic cable distributors, and ultimately, audiences on every sofa and movie theater seat in the U.S.,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement announcing the suit, which was filed in federal court in California’s Northern District.

How Radical Islamist Alliances Have Captured the Democratic Base– www.westernjournal.com

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The recent New York Democratic primary results reveal more than typical political turnover. They expose a dangerous realignment within the American Left. What we’re witnessing is the systematic mobilization of Islamist organizations forging strategic alliances with democratic socialists and far-left activists, creating a powerful coalition that threatens the party’s traditional center.

The deliberate targeting and defeat of Assemblymember Jenifer Rajkumar exemplifies this troubling trend. As a moderate Democrat and the first South Asian woman elected to the state legislature, Rajkumar embodied the pragmatic wing of her party.

Her loss wasn’t an isolated upset. It represents part of a coordinated effort to purge moderate voices from Democratic politics. Across New York, we’re seeing well-funded insurgent campaign machines systematically target and eliminate centrist Democrats, replacing them with candidates who embrace increasingly radical positions.

In this highly charged new political landscape, American Jewish and Hindu communities have been uniquely vilified, alienated, and targeted. Longstanding peaceful minority groups who have contributed immensely to the fabric of New York are being pushed to the margins as the radical left consolidates power.

CNBC’s Woke ‘Worst States’ List Accidentally Makes Red America Look Great – PJ Media– pjmedia.com

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Listicles are a dime a dozen. They’re a quick, easy content option that can also provide clickbait headlines, which is why you see them on websites all the time. I remember a time here at PJ Media years ago under different leadership when we wrote an insane amount of listicle content.

One popular form of the listicle is those lists of great or bad places to live. All you have to do is determine your criteria and rank states in a way that proves your point. A search for “best states” or “worst states” will give you plenty of options.

And then there’s CNBC. The network released its list of the “10 worst states to live in for 2026” on Saturday, and you’ll notice a pattern:

Sunny Hostin Wins Worst Media Quote of the Week for American Flag Comment– www.newsbusters.org

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Filling in for Geoffrey Dickens this week, I’m here to reveal the winner of the Worst Media Quote of the Week. As a refresher, this interactive series is where you – our loyal NewsBusters readers and MRC supporters – have a say as to which elite liberal journalist or deranged celebrity had the hottest take – otherwise known as the worst media quote of the week.

Thank you to all who voted last week via NewsBusters and the MRC’s various social media sites (Facebook, Instagram, X, and Truth Social).

Without any further ado, the results have been tabulated and the winner for the Worst Media Quote of Week is…

South Carolina’s Process to Replace Lindsey Graham Is What Democracy Should Look Like– www.thenation.com

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The Palmetto State will let primary voters nominate Graham’s successor. Maine, on the other hand, is letting a party convention pick Graham Platner’s replacement.

South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, right, joined by US Senator Lindsey Graham, speaks to reporters on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, in Columbia, SC.

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The sudden death of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, a onetime Republican “maverick” who abandoned most of his pretenses toward independent political thinking in the service of Donald Trump’s presidency, has upended the politics of the state and nation that he served for 32 years in state and federal office.

The radical left insurgency – American Thinker– www.americanthinker.com

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Pathologic altruism (P.A.) may be defined as an intervention which is intended to allay the plight of others, but which instead enables their harmful or self-destructive behavior.  Providing addicts with opiates.  Its practice may also be detrimental to those perpetuating it.  Open borders.

P.A.is a powerful tool of the radical left insurgency.  Leftist policy enables homelessness, drug legalization, illegal immigration, gender dysphoria, shoplifting, “peaceful protests,” defunding the police, participation prizes, permissive parenting, grade inflation, DEI.  All such measures are of no help or detrimental to the recipient of such largesse, as well as to the society at large.

TERRORIST CAUCUS: Rashida Tlaib Hate-America Profanity-Laced Meltdown, “America Was Built on Slavery, Genocide and Oppression”– gellerreport.com

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Rashida Tlaib Delivers Speech Claiming U.S. Political Structures Built on Slavery, Genocide, and Oppression

Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib: “The political structures that we are surrounded by were built on slavery and genocide and oppression. Look at this room, motherf*kers. We aren’t going anywhere. Now we’re in Congress and every corner of the United States.”

As Leonard Cohen wrote, ‘I’ve seen the future brother, it is murder.’

We warned you this was coming and we were brutally punished for doing so.

How Republicans paved the way for white nationalists to invade DC– www.dailykos.com

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The white supremacist group Patriot Front brazenly marched in Washington, D.C., on Independence Day. Their faces covered in white ski masks and their eyes obscured by sunglasses, the identically dressed group of men celebrated our country’s 250th anniversary by waving the pro-slavery Confederate flag, chanting about wanting to “reclaim America,” and carrying signs and banners promoting their pro-white racist ideology.

Devastating Case Against Tyler Robinson– www.breitbart.com

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Friday, on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow talked about the Tyler Robinson trial.

Marlow said, “Candace, who has spent the last 10 months smearing Erika Kirk trying to destroy Turning Point USA, all — everything that she’s been telling her audience has been incorrect.”

The Alex Marlow Show, hosted by Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow, broadcasts coast to coast on weekdays from noon to 1 p.m. Eastern on the Salem Radio Network stations. You can listen to the radio show online here. The show also airs at 9 p.m. Eastern on the Salem TV news channel. Marlow’s podcast, The Alex Marlow Show Presented by Breitbart News, is released weekdays at 9 p.m. Eastern.

MS NOW Ad Claims They ‘Deliver Journalism’ That ‘Strengthens Our Democracy’– www.newsbusters.org

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On Monday, MS NOW celebrated their 30th anniversary with a new ad that played at the end of Morning Joe. The 15-second advertisement celebrated the network’s so-called “journalism” that supposedly “strengthens our democracy.”

Notably, amid changes to the network programming, the promotion heavily featured the nighttime duo of Lawrence O’Donnell and Rachel Maddow, two hosts who have showcased some unhinged moments in the age of Trump and whose programming was anything but impartial.

Broken up with short soundbites from O’Donnell and Maddow, the advertisement’s narrator read:

Celebrating 30 years… Delivering journalism that informs, empowers, and strengthens our democracy.

Democrat Senator Pushes Digital ID Mandate for Social Media Users– slaynews.com

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Democrat Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) has launched a sweeping new Internet regulation agenda that would push Americans toward mandatory digital ID checks before they can use social media or other online platforms.

Markey rolled out a series of bills as part of what he calls an “AI Accountability Agenda.”

The package includes close to a dozen bills under the slogan “Taking Power Back from Big Tech.”

Markey says the goal is to “take back unchecked power from Big Tech and put it into the hands of the American people.”

Minnesota Officials Cited Immigration Issues in Recommending Pardon for Convicted Child Rapist– legalinsurrection.com

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The four Minnesota officials who voted to pardon Tou Lue Vang, an illegal alien from Laos convicted of child rape, cited “immigration concerns” and rehabilitation as reasons for their decision, according to documents from the Minnesota Clemency Review Commission reviewed by Fox News.

The vote was 4-2 to recommend the pardon. The Minnesota Board of Pardons, made up of Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Natalie Hudson, granted Vang a full pardon, giving him a clean slate.

On Friday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the U.S. deported Vang, despite receiving a pardon from those officials.

Resurfaced Clip Of Rashida Tlaib Proves She Always Wanted To Destroy America– www.louderwithcrowder.com

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Rashida Tlaib took an oath to support and defend the Constitution. It is unclear how she took “I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” to mean “The political structures that I have to work in, that we are surrounded by, were built on slavery and genocide and oppression,” but I digress. The point, however, remains that if she believes this to be true, then she never intended to uphold her oath. That should be a bigger scandal than it is, so much so that she should be barred from ever holding elected office again. Yet, here we are, as she panders to the DSA over how she will, in fact, tear this country down.

How socialists would shape a new Democratic majority– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) almost looks like a centrist now. That would have been a strange thing to say eight years ago, when she knocked off Rep. Joe Crowley, then the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House, and became the face of a new left flank that made party leaders nervous. She and the rest of the “Squad” were supposed to be the ceiling, the outer edge of what the activist base would tolerate, and Democratic leadership spent the next several years assuring anyone who would listen that the fever would break on its own, but it didn’t. If anything, the crop of candidates the party is nominating in 2026 makes Ocasio-Cortez, who still holds the same views that once alarmed her colleagues, look like someone who long ago made her peace with the establishment.

Abdul El-Sayed Pitches Medicare for All with No Premiums, Copays, or Deductibles– www.breitbart.com

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Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is pitching Medicare for All as a universal health insurance guarantee with no premiums, copays, deductibles, networks, or out-of-pocket costs, despite warnings that eliminating virtually all patient costs would leave taxpayers responsible for the bill.

In an exclusive clip from an interview on Intellectually Petty Radio provided to Breitbart News, El-Sayed said:

“I think you need to guarantee health care for everyone, cradle to grave, without premium, copay, deductible. Medicare for all. And I just want you to imagine, right, that that card that you get in your — via your private health insurer — that card sits in your back pocket. You pay a ton of money for it, and it goes away if you lose your job. Now, imagine you had one right there, but you got the day you were born that doesn’t expire until you expire, God willing, after a long, healthy life at 120 years old in your sleep. You don’t lose it if you turn 26. You don’t lose it if you turn 65. You don’t lose it if you get married, get divorced. Doesn’t matter. It’s there for you. There’s no network, and there’s no cost out of pocket. That’s the security people need and deserve.”

The remarks show El-Sayed doubling down on Medicare for All with no premiums, no copays, no deductibles, and no out-of-pocket expenses.

Medicare as it exists today does not operate that way. Seniors commonly pay Part B premiums, face deductibles, and remain responsible for coinsurance and other out-of-pocket expenses. The program is also heavily subsidized by federal taxpayers and contributes substantially to the national debt.

The healthcare systems