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Mediators say US-Iran peace deal ‘expected in the next 24 hours’

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif revealed Saturday that a peace deal between the United States and Iran was imminent, and that mediators were already preparing to electronically certify the agreement between the two nations.

“We are closer to a peace deal than ever before,” Sharif said in a statement published on social media. “With finalisation likely expected in the next 24 hours, Pakistan is preparing for the electronic signing of the peace deal immediately after, followed by technical level talks next week.”

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'Open season': Trump admin's two-pronged attack could devastate Disney's ABC

Donald Trump's top media regulator just declared "open season" on ABC and a former Federal Communications Commission counselor warned the consequences could be devastating.

The FCC's late-April decision forcing ABC to apply early to renew the licenses for its eight owned local TV stations has now opened a public pleading window where anyone in the country can petition to deny those renewals through June 29, The Guardian reported Saturday.

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‘I’m not crying!’ Sparks fly as Sean Spicer told to ‘go serve in Iran’ after defending war

After defending President Donald Trump’s deeply unpopular war against Iran, Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was pressed Friday evening on why he wasn’t “on the front lines in Iran,” a question that sent the ex-Trump official into a rage.

Spicer appeared on “Piers Morgan Uncensored" alongside several guests to discuss the ongoing U.S. war against Iran, which Spicer claimed Trump had launched “because it was the right thing to do.”

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Red state lieutenant governor says Dem Senate candidate will 'go to hell'

HOUSTON — Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Friday said Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Rep. James Talarico will “go to hell” for his interpretations of the Bible, as Talarico has made his Christian faith a cornerstone of his campaign.

Speaking at the Republican Party of Texas’ convention in Houston, Patrick accused Talarico, an Austin state representative, of introducing faith into the contentious Senate race, expected to be expensive and brutal as Democrats seek to capitalize on anti-Trump sentiment to claim the minority party’s first statewide victory in more than three decades.

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Trump lawyers double down on slush fund that his own DOJ vowed to abandon

Trump's lawyers urged a federal judge to reject an effort to reopen the dismissed lawsuit that led to the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund, according to a new court filing.

Attorneys for Trump, his sons, and the Trump Organization argued in the Southern District of Florida filing that a group of 35 former federal judges have "no standing" to challenge the settlement that ended the case and created the anti-weaponization fund.

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GOP group kicked off campus over antisemitism fails to prove free speech violation: NYT

A GOP group failed to prove a university violated its First Amendment rights by banning it for alleged antisemitism, the New York Times reported.

The University of Florida College Republicans were banned by the school from its Gainesville campus in March after a photo circulated showing two people giving a Nazi salute, the Times reported.

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CNN anchor laughs in Scott Jennings' face as his Trump Kennedy Center defense collapses

Conservative CNN pundit Scott Jennings embarrassingly lost his attempt to defend Trump as his name came off the Kennedy Center.

"Are we upset that the president of the United States took an interest in the Kennedy Center?" Jennings asked while on a CNN roundtable.

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'Chilling' detail buried in Trump's lethal strike post flagged by legal expert

Trump's announcement of killing the leader of a Venezuelan gang carries a "chilling" detail, according to a legal expert.

According to Trump, the U.S. military launched a "swift and lethal" strike against the leader of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang that was a hot topic during the 2024 presidential election. Ryan Goodman, a chaired professor at NYU and editor-in-chief of Just Security, called out the details in Trump's Truth Social post announcing the strike.

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'Perfect metaphor': Texas GOP's elephant urine debacle sparks mockery — and anger

The Texas Republican Party created a viral moment in all the wrong ways at their convention when they brought a live elephant out to promote Gov. Greg Abbott's re-election campaign — and it began to urinate loudly and dramatically on the floor.

The incident prompted a predictable round of mockery from commenters on social media.

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Trump says US military killed Tren de Aragua leader in 'swift and lethal' strike

The U.S. launched a military strike against the leader of a Venezuelan prison gang, Trump announced in a Truth Social post.

"At my direction, the United States Southern Command delivered a swift and lethal kinetic strike to successfully execute Niño Guerrero, the infamous leader of Tren de Aragua," Trump wrote.

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World Cup watchers loudly boo US during National Anthem

World Cup audiences showed their anger with the United States by booing renditions of the Star-Spangled Banner.

Canadian spectators at a watch party jeered nonstop during the U.S. National Anthem at the opening of the U.S. versus Paraguay match in Los Angeles, according to a social media video.

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Right-wing editor pinpoints GOP's hidden midterm weakness in NYT interview

Ben Domenech, the husband of Meghan McCain and opinion editor at the right-wing Daily Wire, told The New York Times' John Guida in an interview published Friday that the GOP should be a lot more concerned about losing Senate races, and particularly that they are too quick to take the Maine race for granted.

This comes after progressive oysterman and harbormaster Graham Platner sailed to an easy win for the Democratic nomination to take on longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins, overcoming a long series of stories about drama in his life and his unsavory past relationships with women, which the GOP hopes will damage him in the general election.

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Knives come out as furious GOP insiders go scorched earth on a 'White House gone rogue'

A furious GOP Senate aide fired off at Trump for ignoring the issues that matter ahead of the midterms, the conservative Daily Mail reported Friday.

"People are p— the f— off that prices are too high and things are too expensive," a senior GOP aide told the Mail. "I'm just not sure the president really cares or if he's really in tune with what's going on on Capitol Hill."

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