"Since the Mullahs seized power in Tehran in 1979, the U.S. has been playing for a tie in Iran. Now, it is time for President Trump to play for a win.

"For forty-six years, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his predecessors have been waging a war against the U.S. and our allies in the Middle East. 'Death to America' and 'Death to Israel' have not been just slogans but decades-long causes.

"Iran's war against Washington has at times been overt, as when the regime sanctioned Iranian students storming the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979. For 444 days, fifty-two Americans were held hostage. In the process, Iran also destroyed the second half of President Jimmy Carter's only term in the Oval Office.

"At other times, the war has been indirect. On October 23, 1983, 241 U.S. servicemen were killed and another 100 wounded in the Marine Barracks bombing in Beirut, Lebanon. Although responsibility for the bombing was claimed by the shadowy Islamic Jihad Organization, it is widely understood that Hezbollah was behind the attack, and that it had been planned and funded by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps."

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"The wildest, scariest, indisputable truth about AI's large language models is that the companies building them don't know exactly why or how they work.

"Sit with that for a moment. The most powerful companies, racing to build the most powerful superhuman intelligence capabilities -- ones they readily admit occasionally go rogue to make things up, or even threaten their users -- don't know why their machines do what they do."

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"Democrats are slamming President Donald Trump for sending the National Guard to help quell violent riots in Los Angeles after previously slamming him for allegedly not sending the National Guard to assist during the Capitol riot -- the latter claim complicated by the fact that Trump's offer to have National Guard forces present ahead of January 6 was rejected by leaders on Capitol Hill and thwarted by some in his own Pentagon.

"Protests opposing illegal immigration crackdowns by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have erupted in numerous cities nationwide -- including protests which spiraled into violent riots in Los Angeles, spurring Trump to order the deployment of the U.S. military to help restore order."

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"After a day and a half of rioting in Los Angeles County, President Donald Trump activated the National Guard to protect federal officers and property. The riots were triggered by ICE's attempts on Friday, June 6, to arrest a few dozen illegal aliens.

"The president's mobilization order, signed on Saturday, June 7, was clarifying and precise: 'To the extent that protests or acts of violence directly inhibit the execution of the laws, they constitute a form of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.'

"L.A.'s illegal-alien riots have provided Trump with a picture-perfect opportunity to deliver on his central campaign promises: the era of tolerating arson, looting, destruction of property, and attacks on law enforcement is over; the era of enabling endemic immigration lawlessness is over. And that picture-perfect opportunity has filled the Democratic establishment with impotent rage.

"It is fitting that Los Angeles would be the staging ground for the White House's affirmation of law and order. California leads the country in its contempt for immigration law in particular, and for public order more generally. From October 1, 2022, to February 6, 2025, California's jails and prisons refused to allow ICE agents to take custody of 13,025 illegal-alien criminals -- over half of all such refusals nationwide. By comparison, Illinois was a distant second, with 2,946 refusals, and New York State, with a 'mere' 873 refusals, was sixth. Jails controlled by the Los Angeles Police Department and by the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department released 1,037 illegal-alien criminals over that period, including six homicide suspects or convicts, according to the Center for Immigration Studies."

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"Gov. Gavin Newsom was in his element this week. After scenes of burning cars and attacks on ICE personnel, Newsom declared that this was all 'an illegal act, an immoral act, an unconstitutional act.' No, he was not speaking of the attacks on law enforcement or property. He was referring to President Donald Trump's call to deploy the National Guard to protect federal officers.

"Newsom is planning to challenge the deployment as cities like Glendale are cancelling contracts to house detainees and reaffirming that local police will not assist the federal government.

"Trump has the authority under Section 12406 of Title 10 of the U.S. Code to deploy the National Guard if the president is 'unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.'

"The Administration is saying that that is precisely what is unfolding in California, where mobs attack vehicles and trap federal personnel."

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"An employee at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) who was involved in targeting conservative groups during the Obama administration is now leading the same IRS division, according to a new memo from the American Accountability Foundation (AAF) obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

"Robert Choi served as the director of the IRS's Tax-Exempt Organizations Rulings and Agreements division in 2010, when the agency began applying heightened scrutiny to organizations associated with the Tea Party movement seeking tax-exempt status, the AAF found. Despite this history, Choi was reportedly recently promoted to acting commissioner of the Tax Exempt and Government Entities division, which handles the administration of tax laws that govern tax-exempt organizations.

"Choi led the Tax-Exempt Organizations Rulings and Agreements division between 2007 and 2010, reporting to Lois Lerner, who admitted in 2013 to singling out applications containing the words 'tea party' or 'patriot' for tax-exempt status, resulting in her resignation. Emails showing Lerner describing Republicans as 'crazies' and 'a**holes' also fueled allegations of anti-conservative bias within the agency."

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"Home values have fallen month-over-month in more than 60 percent of U.S. counties in April, according to data from real estate platform Reventure App -- a decline so widespread that it can only be compared to those that followed the 2008 housing market crash and the 2022 mortgage rate spike, the company's CEO Nick Gerli said.

'More than half the country is now officially in month-over-month declines, indicating that the housing downturn is spreading,' the real estate analyst wrote on X.

'We'll have to see if this lasts into the future, and if it turns into a sustained correction like 2008 or is a blip like 2022. But given the trajectory of listings and inventory, it seems like more value declines are coming,' he said.

For years now, home prices have been rising across the U.S, pushed by chronically low levels of inventory and pent-up demand. The homebuying frenzy that characterized the pandemic years, triggered by historically low mortgage rates, accelerated home prices' vertiginous growth, driving the market to new levels of unaffordability for buyers."

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"Two Chinese scientists charged in a shocking plot to smuggle a toxic pathogen into the United States worked at an American laboratory led by more senior Chinese scientists funded by the U.S. government, according to federal spending records and the researchers' own disclosures.

"Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, were charged Tuesday with smuggling a fungus called Fusarium graminearum into the United States in 2024. The fungus is classified in the scientific literature as a 'potential agroterrorism weapon' because it affects wheat, barley, maize, and rice by causing 'head blight,' according to the Justice Department.

"The incident is again raising concerns about the tendrils of Chinese Communist Party influence inside U.S. research institutions and broader society, just five years after the COVID-19 pandemic exposed federal funding to a lab in Wuhan, China where the virus is believed to have escaped and where dangerous gain of function research was being conducted."

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"The FBI's electronic case management system, Sentinel, allows agents to hide the existence of relevant investigative reports from other authorized users of the federal database. And during the Russia collusion hoax, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team used that functionality to keep potentially relevant documents hidden from other FBI agents investigating whether a Fusion GPS contractor lied to Congress.

"The significance of these two facts cannot be overstated: Now in question is whether the federal government complies with the constitutional mandate in criminal cases to provide defendants all material exculpatory and impeachment evidence as well as its discovery obligations in civil litigation; whether Special Counsel Durham's office, the inspector general, and agents investigating the members of the Crossfire Hurricane team had access to all relevant information; whether the DOJ and FBI provided congressional oversight committees with requested (or subpoenaed) documents; and whether FOIA responses included all relevant documents to the press and public.

"Last Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released a recently declassified FBI 'Electronic Communication,' or EC, dating from September 2019, which the Iowa Republican maintains 'Proves Fusion GPS Contractor Nellie Ohr Lied To Congress About Contributions To Crossfire Hurricane.' That 43-page document, drafted by a FBI Washington Field Office agent, detailed extensive evidence indicating Nellie Ohr lied multiple times during her congressional testimony concerning the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into the Trump campaign."

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"For many Americans, summer still conjures images of 'those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer' romanticized by the legendary Nat King Cole: hot dogs, picnics, beer, and girls in bikinis at the beach. But for many media outlets, summer is a time to panic about deadly threats from heat waves that will continue to get worse until the world stops using fossil fuels.

"New research, however, casts doubt on the theory that carbon dioxide levels are the primary driver of rising temperatures. A phenomenon called the 'urban heat island effect,' according to the study, could be contributing much more to global warming than originally thought. As populations in an area begin to rise, so do temperatures, the study found.

"If true, this means efforts to reduce fossil fuel use, which experts warn will mean more frequent blackouts and render industry at scale impossible, may not be entirely effective at lowering temperatures."

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