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Vance Issues Blunt Warning to Israel
4+ hour, 8+ min ago (187+ words) Vice President JD Vance on Thursday delivered an extraordinarily direct rebuke to Israeli critics of the U. S. -Iran peace agreement, as he sought to defend the preliminary deal with repeated misrepresentations of its terms," the New York Times reports. Said Vance:…...
Trump's Anthropic Restrictions May Be Illegal
4+ hour, 1+ min ago (191+ words) Politico: "The administration is using export controls " rules that restrict the transfer of sensitive technologies to foreign parties " to bar Anthropic from allowing its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models to be used by foreign nationals, including those inside the United States,…...
How significant was Ukraine's drone attack on Moscow?
7+ hour, 7+ min ago (426+ words) Ukraine hit Moscow with nearly 200 drones in its largest-ever attack on the Russian capital on Thursday, striking an oil refinery and sending huge plumes of smoke billowing over the city's south. It offered a stark demonstration of Ukraine's growing ability…...
Israel FM cuts contact with EU top diplomat over 'apartheid' remarks
7+ hour, 19+ min ago (516+ words) Israel's foreign minister said Thursday he was severing all contact with the European Union's top diplomat over reported remarks in which she allegedly compared Israel to apartheid-era South Africa. Diplomatic relations between Israel and the EU have come under heavy…...
Bulgarian PM wants Russian Patriarch Kirill and Lukoil excluded from 21st Russia sanctions package
52+ min ago (207+ words) " " " "! Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev has said that some of the sanctions against Russia in the 21st package are unacceptable, claiming they pose a threat to Bulgaria's economy. Source: Radev on the sidelines of the European Council meeting on 18 June, as…...
Iran's Khamenei says he approved Mo U with US, despite reservations, after assurances on Iran's rights
7+ hour, 4+ min ago (164+ words) June 18 (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said on Thursday he had authorised a memorandum of understanding signed by the Iranian and U. S. presidents, despite holding a different view, June 18 (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said on "Thursday he had…...
Vance, skeptical of foreign wars, becomes the face of Trump's tentative deal to end war with Iran
7+ hour, 24+ min ago (1108+ words) By MICHELLE L. PRICE and SEUNG MIN KIM Instead, the rollout of Vance's second book, "Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith," has been largely crowded out by something else he's put his name on: the tentative deal to end the…...
The World Cup Trophy Ceremony Is Set to Become a Political Spectacle as Trump Gears up to Ignore FIFA Rules for the Spotlight
3+ min ago (310+ words) The FIFA 2026 World Cup final on July 19 is shaping up to be less about the winning team and more about Donald Trump stealing the spotlight. Reports confirm the president plans to break FIFA protocol by not just handing over the…...
Speaking of Winning" " Outside the Beltway
1+ hour, 59+ min ago (380+ words) Steven L. Taylor " Thursday, June 18, 2026 " 2 comments While we are, no doubt, the hottest, most respected country of all time, it would appear that the word is not making it to the great unwashed masses of the heartland. For example, NPR reports,…...
Palantir wants to 'defend the West,' but the West is wary
7+ min ago (627+ words) France's move Tuesday to drop Palantir from its intelligence services is the latest sign of European unease with the American data-mining firm -- a company that has grown from a CIA-backed startup into one of the most powerful technology players of…...