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CINCINNATI—President Donald Trump said Operation Epic Fury in Iran is “way ahead of schedule” while visiting a pharmaceutical development and manufacturing site in Ohio on Wednesday.

Wednesday on CNN’s “Inside Politics,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said it is “time to stop the war” because President Donald Trump’s objectives are going in the wrong direction.

A nationwide presidential election poll released in Brazil this week found that conservative candidate Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro (Liberal Party – Rio de Janeiro) has narrowed the lead of his primary opponent, socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to bring it nearly to the margin of error.

Bluesky announced Monday that CEO Jay Graber is stepping down from her leadership position at the leftist echo chamber which has been losing users over the last year. Graber will transition to a new role as chief innovation officer at the social media company.

During Tuesday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Rep. James Comer (R-KY) said that he believed the Department of Justice told New Mexico authorities to back off their investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s so-called Zorro Ranch.

Law professor Jonathan Turley suggests Democrats’ state-level AR-15 bans have become so egregious the Supreme Court of the United States may finally step in.

Tuesday, during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) praised the U.S. effort against Iran.

Amazon’s ecommerce division has called together a large contingent of engineers for an urgent meeting to examine multiple recent outages, some of which have been linked to AI coding tools.

Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-TX) abrupt conversion to support eliminating the filibuster if necessary to pass President Donald Trump’s agenda lasted for about a cup of coffee.

The mother of a critically injured survivor from the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, the AI giant behind ChatGPT, alleging the company failed to notify law enforcement about threats identified in the shooter’s discussions with its chatbot.

On Tuesday, the Democrat-run State of Washington passed a massive wealth tax. Hours later, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced his move to Republican-run Florida.

Approximately 1,700 Kansans who claim to be another sex than they actually are have had their driver’s licenses revoked after a state law banning ID changes based on “gender identity” went into effect last month. 

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said at a Breitbart News policy event on Tuesday that the agency is working to “reinvigorate and empower” local broadcast television stations, noting that how little trust there is in national media.

A complaint filed with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General against CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott alleges the agency head utilized the agency’s internal affairs office to “consolidate power and attack colleagues he mistakenly perceives as his political enemies.” The complaint was addressed to DHS Inspector General Dr. Joseph Cuffari.

New York-based rapper Bentley Bugz, real name Jimmy Francois, has been charged with trafficking a 16-year-old girl. 

Popular podcaster and comedian Joe Rogan criticized hard progressives demanding that billionaires pay higher taxes while demanding no accountability for government fraud and waste.

Iran ⁠cannot ⁠- and will not – participate in the FIFA World ⁠Cup after the ⁠U.S. eliminated its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ‌the country’s sports minister Ahmad Donyamali vowed Wednesday.

Late-night television hosts told hundreds of jokes in the first week of U.S.-led airstrikes against Iran’s top-level officials and 94 percent of them were not aimed at Iran’s oppressive regime but were about the United States and its allies. 

A school in South Texas is accused by a local attorney of trying to cover up a series of death threats made against a student. The attorney says officials went as far as calling law enforcement on the parent of the victim, who had gone to complain, and had the suspect students erase a video that they had allegedly recorded with the death threats. If proven true, the actions by school officials could be in violation of Texas law.

The International Energy Agency has proposed the largest release of oil reserves in its history to bring down crude prices that have soared during the U.S.-Israel war with Iran, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

ICE agents in Houston arrested 414 criminal illegal aliens accused or convicted of child sex crimes during President Donald Trump’s first year back in office, almost twice the number taken off the streets during President Joe Biden’s last year. The group accounted for 761 child sex offenses and 525 other crimes, from homicide to robbery, according to ICE.

Adam Smith, often considered the patron saint of free markets, argued that a 50% tariff would improve domestic production and make British goods more competitive on international markets.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived in Turkey on Wednesday as part of what his office calls an “annual Ramadan solidarity visit,” where he is joining fasting Muslims while calling for the world to “eradicate the scourge of Islamophobia from every country and community.”

El Salvador’s ambassador to the United States, Milena Mayorga, announced Tuesday her country signed an agreement to build its first nuclear power plant.

A Somerset Township, Pennsylvania, homeowner awoke to noises Monday morning and confronted then shot and killed an alleged intruder.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of “CBS Evening News,” CBS National Correspondent Adam Yamaguchi reported on hospice fraud and said there is “an industry ripe for fraud, especially in California” that is “costing hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.” He also stated

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) stated that he was incorrect in his characterization of the Iranian nuclear program in the wake of strikes on it last year, and “I believe that we obliterated those

During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of “Amanpour,” Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) said, “How can we criticize Putin going into Ukraine? How can we criticize Xi if he were to push Chinese forces into Taiwan or elsewhere,” after the

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “The Bottom Line,” former Trump Economic Adviser Stephen Moore said he would favor “a temporary, maybe four-week reduction in the gas tax. There are other things, by the way, that could be done.

Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday accepted the resignation of bishop Emanuel Hana Shaleta, who faces charges of laundering more than $270,000 from a small California parish and was recently arrested after he allegedly tried to leave the U.S..

The left-wing government’s plans to scrap jury trials for most cases in Britain cleared a major hurdle on Tuesday as Members of Parliament backed legislation to advance it to the next stage of the lawmaking process.

Europe’s mad dash to decommission its nuclear power plants was a “strategic mistake”, Commission boss Ursula von der Leyen has admitted.

Federal deportation policy is undergoing a “course correction” amid pushback from swing-voting Latinos, according to House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Tuesday on MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) claimed President Donald Trump didn’t “think strategically and he doesn’t seem to know all that much.”