The traditional form of war between two nations or groups of nations where one or both tries to conquer the other by invasion of troops backed by armored forces and air and missile strikes, has given way to a new long-distance, perpetual form of war. Except for the one-sided Israeli invasion of Gaza, almost everything else in the Middle East war zone has been “tit for tat” retaliation with both sides trading rockets and ballistic missiles or air bombing campaigns from afar without ever breaking open into all-out warfare. Lately, however, each cycle is upping the ante. Hezbollah and the Iranian-backed Houthis have been Iran’s “modest” retaliatory response until now. Israel has traditionally started each cycle trying to provoke a war with Iran with air or missile strikes against Iranian militia targets in Syria to which Iran has rarely responded until recently when it has sent in two barrages of ballistic missiles into Israel—but only after Israel tested Iranian sovereignty by assassinating a Hamas leader in Tehran. The latest Iranian missile blitz on Israel was provoked by Israel killing Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut. But now things are escalating fast as Israel struck Russia’s Syrian coastal airbase with multiple rockets. Israel is rumored to be on the verge of striking Iran’s nuclear facilities, which will be the ultimate red line for Iran and could lead to all out war if it does. To receive a free one-time copy of the Brief, along with options on how to subscribe, click on Request a Sample on the left.
“At this time, it is 6:11, 12 weeks to the minute, that he shooting began, I would like to ask everyone to join me in a moment of silence,” Trump said to tolling bells and Ave Maria. Trump went on:
In March 2021, Governor Greg Abbott announced Operation Lone Star would commence in response to an increase in migrant crossings, human smuggling, and narcotics trafficking. The operation began with deploying more than 1,000 state police and National Guardsmen to the immediate border area.
“Immediately after taking it, I felt regret,” she said of the abortion pill, “and I had a feeling that that was a very bad decision.” Greene said she googled her options and found Chelsea Mynyk, a nurse-midwife and owner of life-affirming clinic Castle Rock Women’s Health. Mynyk prescribes abortion pill reversal medication to women who regret starting a chemical abortion. Greene took progesterone to counteract the effects of the first chemical abortion pill. About a month ago, she gave birth to her daughter.
The Biden-Harris Justice Department is suing Alabama for removing more than 3,000 noncitizens from voter rolls just weeks after a coalition of left-leaning groups—including the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center—filed a similar lawsuit.
“They are systematically moving power away from local election clerks—who are not partisan but are hard workers—and up to the state,” state Sen. Ruth Johnson, a Republican and former Michigan secretary of state, told The Daily Signal.
After bravely raising questions about election irregularities, Peters was relentlessly pursued by local and federal authorities, culminating in charges that were politically motivated from the outset. Peters’ crime? Exposing the truth about what happened in the 2020 election.
“There was a gag order put on us literally within minutes of the Biden administration taking office,” Scott said. “The chief of staff for Customs and Border Protection, when she arrived, one of her first orders was to forbid us from talking to the public, or doing press releases, or doing media without the White House clearing our statements,” Scott said. “Not only were they not cleared, when they finally did give us talking points, they weren’t even accurate. They weren’t truthful.”
Israeli commandos had been infiltrating southern Lebanon on small missions. He explained that soldiers had gathered a trove of intelligence, and declassified some of what they had found, including details of Hezbollah tunnels and attack plans. He said that Israel had been conducting “dozens” of operations inside Lebanon since Hezbollah attacked Israel in October.
But Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, delivered a master class in how to deal with biased moderators in his vice-presidential showdown Tuesday night with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat. Not only did Vance, Donald Trump’s running mate, handle obviously skewed questions. He also refused to allow the moderators—“CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell and “Face the Nation” chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan—to live “fact-check” him without calling them out on it.
Vance, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s running mate, didn’t simply wipe the floor with his overmatched opponent, Minnesota leftist Gov. Tim Walz. He took it to the Dem-friendly CBS News duo moderating the debate, and an accomplice media that has gotten away with nothing less than journalistic murder and election interference this presidential election cycle.
So, the Berlin Appellate Court overturned my acquittal today. I am now, officially, at least according to the New Normal German authorities, a “hate-speech” criminal. I’m officially a “hate-speech” criminal because I compared New Normal Germany to Nazi Germany, and I challenged the official Covid narrative, and I used the cover art of my book to do it.
Video clips posted by social media users on X and Facebook showed people rushing to buy water, toilet paper, paper towels and other items at supermarkets and retailers across the U.S.
The Supreme Court held in July that former presidents are immune from prosecution for official acts taken in office. Smith’s brief denies that the ruling covers the allegations in his superseding indictment against Trump.
He explained that 360 power substations "are out," indicating that "many of these substations were completely flooded, and Duke Energy is unable to assess the damage until the flooding has lowered, the water has been pumped out, and the equipment is thoroughly dried."
USMX—an entity representing the interests of the container carriers, port associations and terminal operators that employ the longshoremen—says it offered to give the union a 50% wage increase, triple employer contributions to retirement plans, improve options for health care coverage, and maintain current protections for workers against automation. However, this offer did not satisfy the union before it launched the strike largely due to concerns about automation.
Common estimates show the attack on Israel involved at least 180 ballistic missiles. The Pentagon says about 200, or about twice the size of the prior April attack. The waves of launches constituted the largest missile strike on Israel by Iran in history. IRGC is claiming that 90% of missiles successfully hit their targets in Israel. There were confirmed strikes on the ground, but no official casualties reported.... At least two guided-missile destroyers in Eastern Mediterranean fired interceptors at inbound Iranian missiles. Pentagon says about a dozen interceptor missiles were fired.
So far there's little that can be confirmed on the ground amid the fog of war. Hezbollah on Tuesday is even denying that Israeli forces have actually crossed into southern Lebanon after the IDF declared "limited" raids were happening. Heavy artillery and Israeli airstrikes are presumably paving the battlespace for a deeper and bigger infantry incursion.
People in parts of the Carolinas, Tennessee, and other storm-stricken states are standing their ground as looting reports flood X. This dire situation highlights the harsh reality that when disaster strikes and the government is nowhere to be found, being prepared and armed will save your life.
US officials told ABC News on Saturday that they believe Israel is preparing for a “limited ground incursion” into southern Lebanon even after it has decimated Hezbollah’s leadership. On Sunday, US officials told ABC that small-scale raids to take out Hezbollah positions right across the border may have already started. The officials said they expect any ground incursion to be limited, but Israeli troops may face face stiff resistance.
The new ground op was first signaled Monbday by Israel's defense minister Yoav Gallant, who said the "next phase of the war against Hezbollah will begin soon." The IDF has been amassing troops near the Lebanese border for several days now.
Also on Sunday, and also largely underreported in Western media, there was another Israeli raid on Syria, which reportedly targeted a base with 'pro-Iranian' assets. It happened on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. "At least seven pro-Iran militants were injured in an Israeli strike in the countryside of Damascus, near the Syria-Lebanon border, a war monitor reported on Monday, amid soaring regional tensions against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war," regional source Rudaw reports.
Austria's right-wing Freedom Party scored a historic victory of its own on Sunday, winning the most votes in the country's national election for the first time after the eurosceptic party campaigned on mass deportation, cracking down on illegal immigration, and halting aid to the giant money laundromat that is Ukraine.
During Brazil’s 2022 presidential campaign, de Moraes imposed censorship orders on Bolsonaro’s campaign, banning it from describing Lula as a “thief” or “criminal” in reference to his multiple convictions on corruption charges. De Moraes has spearheaded a widespread, years-long censorship campaign against conservative Brazilian citizens, politicians, journalists, and comedians supportive of Bolsonaro. He has ordered police raids and arrests of these individuals, as well as the removal of their social media accounts across several platforms such as X, Facebook, YouTube, or Instagram. Some have also had their bank accounts frozen.
“First, Secret Service planning, or perhaps more accurately, their failure to adequately plan, created confusion among the agency’s law enforcement partners,” Kelly said. “Secondly, the Secret Service did not close down public access or manage access to the grounds next to the rally’s site that were less than 150 yards from the stage where former President Trump spoke,” the Pennsylvania Republican said.
She told reporters: We’re going to require responsible behaviors among everybody in the community, and just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you’re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs.
“A lot of times people, Trump included, will say, ‘The solution to our problems is paper ballots,’” D’Souza told The Daily Signal’s president and executive editor, Rob Bluey, in an interview. “But we discovered in the film, and through the film, there’s a vulnerability even with the paper ballots, and the vulnerability is that ballots can in fact be made.”
"Hassan Nasrallah and the terrorist group he led, Hezbollah, were responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade reign of terror. His death from an Israeli airstrike is a measure of justice for his many victims, including thousands of Americans, Israelis, and Lebanese civilians," Biden said. The White House says the Pentagon has been ordered to enhance America's defense posture and readiness in the Middle East.
"We have apprehended over 8 million illegal immigrants over the last 4 years and now you realize we need more help 38 days before the election,"
Over 3 million power outages have been reported across the US South, with most outages in the Carolinas. The storm dumped nearly 30 inches of rain in Busick, North Carolina. Meteorologist Ben Noll wrote on X that 4-5 months of rain fell in less than 72 hours across upstate South Carolina and western North Carolina.
Hezbollah is meanwhile vowing to continue fighting Israel, and Israel is in turn warning that its bombing campaign will not end until the Iran-backed group's military capabilities are fully degraded. More airstrikes on Beirut have been observed on Dahiyeh neighborhood later in the day Saturday.