JD Vance Expects Iran, Israel to ‘Keep Shooting at Each Other’ Until Cease-Fire Goes Into Effect

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President Trump does not plan to take further action against Iran following its “failed retaliation” strike on a US base in Qatar Monday night, a military official told The Post.

“As long as it stands, Trump has no intention of retaliating for the ‘failed retaliation,'” the source said, suggesting that tensions in the Middle East will soon de-escalate following Saturday’s US strike on three Iranian nuclear facilities. . .

President Trump announced a cease-fire between Iran and Israel just seconds before Vice President JD Vance’s live interview with Fox News “Special Report” host Bret Baier on Monday.

This was the veep’s reaction.

“Well, we were actually working on that just as I left the White House to come over here. So that’s good news, that the president was able to get that across the finish line,” Vance told Baier when informed about Trump’s Truth Social post.

“What that means, I think, is we have to talk to Iran and, of course, to Israel, about what the future holds,” the vice president said, noting that Trump “is really trying to figure out” how to “build a long term settlement here to where we can have peace in the region. (Read more from “JD Vance Expects Iran, Israel to ‘Keep Shooting at Each Other’ Until Cease-Fire Goes Into Effect” HERE)

Are Popular Abortion Pills Poisoning Americans’ Tap Water?

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It is well established that the abortion drug regimen is harmful for women and fatal for unborn babies. A new letter to the Environmental Protection Agency, however, asks it to probe whether mifepristone pills and their “endocrine-disrupting effects” pose a danger to all Americans and even animals due to their potential contamination of U.S. drinking water.

In their request to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, Sen. James Lankford and Rep. Josh Brecheen ask the regulatory agency to consider “evaluating the potential contaminant effects of this drug as the agency develops the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule 6 (UCMR 6).”

“The American people deserve to know what contaminants might be present in their drinking water and their potential impacts on public health,” the letter states.

Mifepristone is the most popular abortifacient on the market. As the letter notes, its proliferation, which can be attributed to abortion giants such as Planned Parenthood and the elimination of safeguards that opened the door for mail-order abortifacients, is often understated due to the “unrecorded number” of DIY drug-induced abortions “performed without the oversight of a clinician.”

Despite rapidly increasing use of the abortion drug, the letter acknowledges that the “EPA has yet to review its potential contaminant effects.” (Read more from “Are Popular Abortion Pills Poisoning Americans’ Tap Water?” HERE)

Revealed: TSA Used Loophole to Spy on Conservatives

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has announced the end of an Obama-era program that involved spying on U.S. citizens — and cost those citizens hundreds of millions in tax dollars a year.

“Today I’m announcing that TSA is ending the Quiet Skies program, which involved having a federal agent follow U.S. citizens as they traveled by air. It was created by Obama in 2012 to supposedly track dangerous individuals, but instead it was weaponized against political enemies such as Tulsi Gabbard,” Noem said in a video posted to social media.

“Since its existence, it has failed to stop a single terrorist attack, while it cost U.S. taxpayers roughly about $200 million a year,” she added.

Independent journalist Breanna Morello has been on the frontlines of breaking this story and has uncovered just how American citizens would end up on these lists.

“What they used is a program called Evade, which was another Obama program that was started. And what they did is they used Evade to add people to the TSA terror watch list,” Morello tells BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.” (Read more from “Revealed: TSA Used Loophole to Spy on Conservatives” HERE)

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Whatever Happens Next, Iran Doesn’t Need To Be Made Safe For Democracy

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Now that President Donald Trump has decided to bring the United State into the Iran-Israel war by striking Tehran’s major nuclear facilities, our goal should be to ensure Iran remains a non-nuclear power that’s unable to threaten the United States or its allies anywhere in the world.

What that goal doesn’t require, however, is a regime-change war with the aim of toppling the ayatollahs and imposing democracy in Iran. The American interest is not served by toppling regimes and nation-building — especially not in the Middle East. Whatever the wisdom of striking Iran’s nuclear facilities at this particular time, on the heels of Israeli strikes on Iran, President Trump’s aim now should be to limit escalation and avoid plunging the U.S. into a years-long quagmire in Iran.

Unfortunately, many people in Washington were hoping that Trump would strike Iran precisely because it might make room for the kind of escalation that would lead to a regime-change war. We still don’t know what Iran’s response will be to these strikes, and it might well lead to unavoidable escalation on our part. But that escalation should serve the purpose of rendering Iran harmless — not free, or democratic, or even stable. The internal politics of Iran are of no concern to us.

One hopes the president understands that, even as he acts to ensure that Iran cannot acquire nuclear weapons or carry out a major retaliatory attack on the U.S. Initially, there was reason to think he did understand. “Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s No. 1 state sponsor of terror,” Trump said Saturday night from the White House.

But on Sunday, Trump posted a disturbing comment about how it’s not politically correct to use the term “regime change,” “but if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!!” (Read more from “Whatever Happens Next, Iran Doesn’t Need To Be Made Safe For Democracy” HERE)

Grocery Giant Announces It Will Close Dozens of Locations Across the US

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U.S. grocer Kroger is planning to close dozens of stores by the end of next year.

The massive Cincinnati-based grocery store chain made the announcement on Friday. It operates thousands of supermarkets and pharmacies across the nation and is planning to close 60 stores in the next 18 months, a first-quarter 2025 earnings report said.

While the report said the company’s profits “exceeded our expectations,” Director Ron Sargent said in an earnings call that the company reviewed areas not meaningful to its future growth and determined that closing the stores “will make the company more efficient.”

“Unfortunately, today, not all of our stores are delivering the sustainable results we need,” Sargent said on Friday. “To position our company for future success, this morning, we announce plans to close approximately 60 stores over the next 18 months.”

The report said the closures cost Kroger a $100 million impairment charge. (Read more from “Grocery Giant Announces It Will Close Dozens of Locations Across the US” HERE)

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Trump Announces Ceasefire in Iran-Israel ’12 Day War’

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President Donald Trump announced on Monday that Israel and Iran had agreed to a “complete and total ceasefire,” after 12 days of ongoing war between the two countries.

“CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE! It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a Complete and Total CEASEFIRE (in approximately 6 hours from now, when Israel and Iran have wound down and completed their in progress, final mission!), for 12 hours, at which point the War will be considered, ENDED!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

“Officially, Iran will start the CEASEFIRE and, upon the 12th Hour, Israel will start the CEASEFIRE and, upon the 24th Hour, an Official END to THE 12 DAY WAR will be saluted by the World. During each CEASEFIRE, the other side will remain PEACEFUL and RESPECTFUL,” Trump added.

Trump continued to offer his congratulations to Israel and Iran for having agreed to a ceasefire “on the assumption that everything works as it should.”

(Read more from “Trump Announces Ceasefire in Iran-Israel ’12 Day War’” HERE)

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Dozens of Missing Kids Rescued as Officials Dismantle Sex Trafficking Ring

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Dozens of children were rescued in a blow to child sex trafficking operations in Florida, officials announced Monday.

Dubbed Operation Dragon Eye, the initiative was spearheaded by the U.S. Marshals Office for the Central District of Florida and supported by the state Attorney General James Uthmeier’s Office of Statewide Prosecution (OSP).

The effort involved 20 agencies working in tandem to locate 60 critically missing children and apprehend suspects tied to trafficking, drugs and child endangerment.

“The real heroes behind this operation are the law enforcement who built and executed this mission,” Uthmeier said in a release. “As your Attorney General and a father of three young kids, protecting children is my top priority. If you victimize children, you’re going to prison, end of story.”

Authorities said the recovered children ranged in age from 9 to 17, and many of them were missing and at risk of being exploited. The U.S. Marshals Service defines “critically missing” children as “those at risk of crimes of violence or those with other elevated risk factors such as substance abuse, sexual exploitation, crime exposure or domestic violence.” (Read more from “Dozens of Missing Kids Rescued as Officials Dismantle Sex Trafficking Ring” HERE)

Poll: Majority Say Democrats Should Take ‘Wait and See Attitude’ Toward Trump’s Actions

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A majority say Democrats should take a “wait and see attitude” toward President Donald Trump’s actions rather than immediately opposing everything he does, a June Harvard-Harris survey found.

The survey asked respondents, “Do you think Democrats should oppose everything that Trump is doing or should they take more of a wait and see attitude towards his actions?”

Across the board, a majority, 58 percent, said they want Democrats to take more of a wait and see attitude toward Trump’s actions. Another 42 percent said they want Democrats to oppose everything Trump does.

Predictably, options vary across party lines. Most Republicans and independents — 82 percent and 61 percent, respectively — believe Democrats should take a wait and see approach to Trump’s actions. However, most Democrats, 71 percent, said they want their fellow Democrats to oppose everything Trump is doing. Only 18 percent of Republicans agree with them, as do 39 percent of independents.

Similarly, the survey asked respondents if they believe Democrats should “oppose Trump on tariffs and trade policy or see how his initiative plays out over the next few weeks.” (Read more from “Poll: Majority Say Democrats Should Take ‘Wait and See Attitude’ Toward Trump’s Actions” HERE)

Health Insurers Pledge to Reform Major Process That Stood in Way of Patient Care

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Roughly three-quarters of the nation’s health insurance providers signed a series of commitments this week in an effort to improve patient care by reducing bureaucratic hurdles caused by insurance companies’ prior-authorization requirements.

Director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Dr. Mehmet Oz, alongside Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., announced the new voluntary pledge from a cadre of insurance providers, who cover roughly 75% of the population, during a press conference Monday. The new commitments are aimed at speeding up and reducing prior-authorization processes used by insurers, a process that has been long-maligned for unnecessarily delaying patient care and other bureaucratic hurdles negatively impacting patients.

“The pledge is not a mandate. It’s not a bill, a rule. This is not legislated. This is a opportunity for industry to show itself,” Oz said Monday. “But by the fact that three-quarters of the patients in the country are already covered by participants in this pledge, it’s a good start and the response has been overwhelming.”

Prior-authorization is a process that requires providers to obtain approval from a patient’s insurance provider before that provider can offer certain treatments or services. Essentially, the process seeks to ensure patients are getting the right solution for a particular problem.

However, according to Oz, the process has led to doctors being forced to spend enormous amounts of man-power to satisfy prior-authorization requirements from insurers. He noted during Monday’s press conference that, on average, physicians have to spend 12 hours a week dealing with these requirements, which they see about 40 of per week. (Read more from “Health Insurers Pledge to Reform Major Process That Stood in Way of Patient Care” HERE)

Lockheed Martin Awarded Bonuses Based on Race, According to Report

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If the U.S. is going to maintain its military edge in the 21st century it can’t rely on defense contractors that prioritize DEI over building the best warfighting tools.

A report recently released by conservative journalist Christopher Rufo and co-author Ryan Thorpe alleges that defense contractor Lockheed Martin’s executives “were so committed to DEI policies that they awarded some year-end bonuses based on employees’ skin color, rather than performance—in open violation of civil rights law.”

“As we have previously reported, after the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, Lockheed adopted radical DEI policies and, in one instance, required white men in leadership positions to attend a racial reeducation program and atone for their ‘white male privilege,’” Rufo and Thorpe wrote.

This is in reference to Rufo’s reporting from 2021 where he highlighted how Lockheed Martin was hosting conferences for executives to deconstruct their “white male privilege” and generally doing all in their power not to miss out on all the absurdities of the Great Awokening.

It wasn’t just conferences and internal corporate indoctrination according to Rufo and Thorpe’s reporting. They wrote that in December 2022 a person who worked for Lockheed Martin was preparing the “aeronautics division’s year-end bonuses.” (Read more from “Lockheed Martin Awarded Bonuses Based on Race, According to Report” HERE)