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Iran has publicly ridiculed Donald Trump after the president shared an AI-generated video purporting to show the destruction of the country’s main oil export hub. Hamid Bovard, chief executive of Iran’s National Iranian Oil Co, dismissed the footage in a…
Donald Trump has urged Canadian companies to relocate to the United States to escape mounting cross-border tariffs. The president, 80, issued the call on Truth Social on August 30 as Ottawa prepared $20 billion in retaliatory measures set to take…
President Donald Trump has vowed to file a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission against NBC News anchor Kristen Welker, demanding she face official reprimand for her on-air characterization of his political endorsement success rate. The “Meet the Press” moderator,…
The US launched strikes on Iran’s Larak Island on Sunday, the first offensive in weeks, as the regime vowed revenge. The attack came after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were allegedly setting up another wave of underwater mines in the…
Donald Trump’s administration has renewed pressure on Britain over defence spending with a pointed warning that U.S. Backing for UK sovereignty of the Falkland Islands could be on the table. A senior U.S. Official said that Prime Minister Andy Burnham,…
Abdul El-Sayed’s attack on Usha Vance is backfiring across Michigan. The Democratic Senate hopeful, who trails Republican Mike Rogers by less than a percentage point in the RealClearPolitics average, faces mounting pressure from state GOP leaders and Indian-American voters after…
Metropolitan Museum of Art executives have called an emergency meeting for Sunday to address mounting backlash over their plan to honor John Galliano at the 2027 Met Gala. The hastily scheduled session follows days of intensifying criticism, most notably from…
Elyse Hoffenberg released surveillance footage of herself kissing a local mayor before political opponents could leak it. The married Illinois township clerk, 51, published the compromising clip on Wednesday after alleging a blackmail plot aimed at forcing her from the…
Two New York City Democratic Socialists of America leaders are defending their real estate holdings after public records revealed both own half-million-dollar Brooklyn apartments. Labor Coordinator Olivia Gonzalez Killingsworth, who was elected to her post in 2025, sold an Upper…
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel skipped her own party’s convention Saturday over fears she would be harassed for her support of Israel. Nessel, who is Jewish, said late last month she worried about being booed, chased and screamed at if…
Bill Maher took aim at progressive academics for denigrating Western civilization while benefiting from its institutions. During Friday night’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” on HBO, the 69-year-old comedian sat down with Wesleyan University President Michael Roth, 68, to discuss…
President Trump announced a major oil agreement with Venezuela on Friday that he claimed would more than double U.S. Oil reserves. The deal, which Trump touted on Truth Social as “THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY!”, would give the…
Mark Carney has publicly rebuked Donald Trump over the president’s executive order renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” The Canadian Prime Minister, 60, fired back on X after Trump signed the directive Thursday, making “Lake America” official U.S. Policy for…
Donald Trump has ranked himself “The Greatest” president in American history in a self-authored list posted to Truth Social. The president, 78, shared the presidential rankings on his Truth Social platform last Friday, sorting former commanders-in-chief into six tiers despite…
Karoline Leavitt may have dropped her biggest hint yet about who could succeed her as White House press secretary. Leavitt, 29, spoke to reporters outside the West Wing on Wednesday during her final day in the role, just hours before…
Donald Trump has floated renaming the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans on U.S. Maps. The former president, 80, made the suggestion on Thursday while speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, expanding a recent pattern of rebranding major North American waterways…