The foreign ministries of Iran and Oman issued a joint statement on Tuesday announcing the formation of a “Strait of Hormuz Committee."
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Democrats are grasping at straws after the president gave Congress an ultimatum on the housing affordability bill passed overwhelmingly on Tuesday.
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act is intended to increase access to financing and grants in order to provide more housing units in hopes of lowering housing costs.
'He probably spent hours laughing to himself thinking that peddling this lie would be funny.'
Just hours before President Donald Trump was scheduled to sign the bill into law, he canceled the event and told Congress he would hold the bill hostage until lawmakers passed the SAVE Act.
"Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" the president wrote on social media.
Republicans have been pushing the SAVE Act to require proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections, but Democrats have vehemently opposed the legislation on the basis that it might disenfranchise some legal voters.
The development appeared to catch everyone off guard as they scrambled to respond, but Democrat Rep. Ted Lieu of California stole the top prize for most bizarre reply.
"We have a bipartisan housing bill that both the Congress and Senate passed. There was supposed to be a big signing ceremony today in the Capitol, and then all of a sudden Donald Trump decides he's not coming to sign the bill," said Lieu to reporters at a media briefing.
"Well, why is that? Did he wake up on the wrong side of the bed? Is he unable to stay awake today? What's causing him to chicken out again? Is it taco Wednesday? Or is it side effects from a drug? We don't know," he continued.
"This erratic behavior of the president is very concerning. He's having trouble staying awake at many White House events and Cabinet meetings. He has clearly some weakness in one of his arms. He's got swelling in his hands, and the White House needs to come clean," Lieu said.
He cited a report that a high-profile 79-year-old person in the U.S. was able to obtain a special drug under the compassionate use provision usually reserved for terminal cases.
"We need to know: Did Donald Trump get this special drug from Eli Lilly?" he added. "And if he did, why is that the case?"
Assistant to the president and White House Director of Communications Steven Cheung fired off an insulting response to Lieu.
"Ted Lewd is a dumbass," he wrote on social media. "He probably spent hours laughing to himself thinking that peddling this lie would be funny. Sadly for Ted, there’s no special new drug to cure being a b***h."
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Lieu fired back at Cheung on social media, where he thanked him for "amplifying" the Democrat's remarks.
"I see you didn’t answer the question I asked," said Lieu. "Was trump [sic] the mystery patient who received the special experimental drug by Eli Lilly under the law designed for people with terminal illnesses?"
The White House has denied the allegation that the president received the weight-loss drug under the special accommodation.
The fate of the housing bill remains uncertain.
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In a congressional district that encompasses upper Manhattan and a portion of the Bronx, Darializa Avila Chevalier, a democratic socialist, has emerged victorious in the contentious Democratic primary against five-term incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat.
With 88% of the votes counted, the New York Times has called the race in Avila Chevalier’s favor. She currently leads Espaillat 49.4% to 45.9%.
'Zohran endorsed her, so I voted for her.'
"I am so thrilled to have the support of my community, and I am so proud that they have put their trust in me to send me to Congress on their behalf," Avila Chevalier told Norwood News.
But let’s break down the results further.
The 13th Congressional District of New York contains a population of roughly 750,000 people in an area of 11 square miles, which equates to about 68,000 people per square mile. In the recent election, the Manhattan portion of the district accounted for a significantly larger share of the vote than the Bronx portion.
The median age in the district is 39 years old, with 50% of the residents identifying as Hispanic, 24% as black, and 17% as white.
The district is also one of the poorest congressional districts in the country, with a quarter of its residents living below the poverty line and a median household income of just above $52,400.
According to the Times, Espaillat outperformed Avila Chevalier by a sizeable margin of 28 points in the Bronx, while in Manhattan, Avila Chevalier led by a margin of eight points.
Espaillat was able to secure the black (+2.2) and Hispanic (+15.3) vote, as well as the vote of lower-income areas (+10.2). Avila Chevalier, on the other hand, dominated among younger voters (+24.5) and majority college-educated areas (+19.2), reflecting a broader trend of democratic socialists such as NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani performing well among these groups.
Avila Chevalier also led by 5.1 points in higher-income areas, the Times reported.
“I’m an immigrant myself, and she has strong positions on immigration. It’s the first time I felt like I had a real choice with the Democratic primary. Zohran endorsed her, so I voted for her,” Juan Alvarez told the New York Post after casting his vote.
The politics of NY-13 have been consistently Democratic for decades, with voters backing Democrat candidates on the national, state, and local levels.
In last year’s New York City mayoral race, Mamdani performed strongly across the district. Both Espaillat and Avila Chevalier endorsed Mamdani for mayor, yet Mamdani later threw his support behind Avila Chevalier in the primary contest.
In her victory speech, Avila Chevalier declared to her crowd of supporters that "the politics of the past ends today."
"The era of taking a check and cashing a check and calling it representation is over."
"To every little black and brown girl, mujer dominicana, my Muslim sisters, and every working-class person here — our time has come.”
Avila Chevalier will face off against Republican nominee Manual Williams in the November general election, where she is expected to win comfortably.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio, whose profile has been lower than usual throughout the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) drama between the United States and Iran, met with Persian Gulf leaders on Tuesday and Wednesday to answer their questions about the peace deal.
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The conviction and sentencing of a group of Antifa-linked terrorists is making Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan implode on social media.
The leader of the violent 2025 attack on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement center in Texas was sentenced to 100 years in prison while seven others were given sentences between 30 and 70 years. Several others have pleaded guilty and await sentencing.
'Americans hate the fascist Trump regime, so the only way they can try to cling to power is brute force.'
Tlaib objected to the sentencing based on her opposition to President Donald Trump declaring Antifa a terrorist group back in September. Trump made the declaration in NSPM-7, a national security presidential memorandum that established a federal strategy to charge violent groups and networks with terrorism.
"These sentences are a travesty and totally unjustified, but that's the point," wrote the congresswoman on a social media post Tuesday.
"Americans hate the fascist Trump regime, so the only way they can try to cling to power is brute force. NSPM-7 is a grave threat to all of us and more bulls**t 'terrorism' charges like these are coming."
The attackers used fireworks to distract ICE officers before firing gunshots that injured one officer. They also vandalized the facility before fleeing from the scene.
An attorney for the leader of the group objected to the government labeling the attackers as "terrorists" and claimed they did not intend to fire gunshots.
"This is a bunch of kids and young adults who really have a really big heart and really wanted their voice to be heard," the attorney said. "It was never intended that anybody get hurt. It was never intended that any shots would be fired."
Tlaib, who is a member of "the Squad" of progressive congresswomen, denied during a congressional hearing in 2021 that there's any formal evidence that Antifa is an organization.
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Critics like the American Civil Liberties Union claim that the NSPM-7 lays the groundwork for the administration to punish and prosecute enemies and political opponents based on speech protected under the First Amendment.
"No matter what the president says or tries to do through NSPM-7, the First Amendment constrains what federal agencies can do when it comes to punishing groups and people for exercising their rights to free speech, peaceful protest, and supporting causes by making donations," said the ACLU in a statement about the edict. "It also safeguards against viewpoint-based government discrimination, coercion, and retaliation."
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Minor league baseball team the York Revolution forfeited their Pride Night game on June 18 after fewer than nine players on the 28-man roster were willing to wear Pride uniforms — which featured jerseys with rainbow sleeves.
General manager Ben Shipley said that he was “disappointed” the team “was at this point.”
“I recognize the players' plight and their unwillingness to cross their line. I also think tolerance is not acceptance. I was just asking for tolerance from the team, and they were unwilling to navigate that with me,” Shipley explained.
“No,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray comments. “You were asking for them to participate. That is not tolerance. That’s promoting something that they have religious convictions against.”
“They’re not paid to wear rainbow colors,” he adds.
“That was a political statement they were asked to endorse, and they refused to,” executive producer Keith Malinak says.
“And this is how you change the culture. And this is what we’ve been begging young girls, young women to do when faced with dudes that want to compete against them,” he continues.
“And if they have to cancel the event, they have to cancel it. That’s how you change this mindset,” he adds.
“But that’s how committed the officials on the team were to this,” Gray says, “that they’d rather not even play baseball.”
“They still donated 10 grand to some gay charity, too,” Malinak adds.
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Milly Alcock, the star of Warner Bros' upcoming Supergirl summer blockbuster, is now claiming that the character is a queer role model in her latest unfortunate comments ahead of the film's opening.
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