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U.S. — In an explosive new interview, Tucker Carlson laid into Senator Ted Cruz for not knowing the name of the Iranian Ayatollah's favorite starter Pokémon. The interview ranged in topics from Iran to Ukraine, but the most damning moment was when Carlson stumped Cruz with a simple question about Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's favorite starter. "What's the favorite starter Pokémon of the ayatollah, by the way?" Tucker asked 90 minutes into their 2-hour interview. Cruz, visibly caught off guard, was forced to admit he didn't know. "At all?" Tucker pressed, incredulous. "You don't know the favorite starter...

2500 Years ago, a dynasty of Celtic Princes founded the first towns in Northern Europe. They constructed harbours along rivers and traded goods with people from all over Europe. This film presents new insights into Celtic history and culture thanks to exclusive access to the Celtic Tomb in Lavau (France) and the exceptionally rich and well-preserved collection of objects found on the gravesite. The Enigma of the Celtic Tomb | 51:20 Best Documentary | 7.24M subscribers | 2,956,005 views | August 8, 2024 IMDb: The Enigma of the Celtic Tomb Original title: L'énigme de la tombe celte Episode aired June...

SUNRISE, FL — Residents of The Great White North exploded into celebration once again last night, as Canada continued its time-honored tradition of being worse than the United States at everything. The latest installment of the 158-year tradition came Tuesday night, as the Edmonton Oilers once again lost in the NHL Stanley Cup Finals to the Florida Panthers, once again solidifying Canada's status as being inferior to the U.S. in every way. "We weren't sure if we could get crushed by a team whose state doesn't even have ice, but we did it!" said Edmonton center Connor McDavid. "It looked...

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The carving on this gemstone depicts the mythological carpenter Taitle, whose name is inscribed at the bottom. Taitle is the Etruscan equivalent of Daedalus, the Greek inventor who fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus, whose Etruscan counterpart is named Vikare. Together, father and son used the wings to escape the island of Crete, where the pair were imprisoned lest they expose the secrets of the labyrinth that Daedalus had designed."Taitle is an important figure for craftspeople, especially for the Etruscans," says archaeologist Holly Piper of the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas. Artisans frequently depicted Taitle wearing or constructing...

This image shows a detailed, thousand-color image of the Sculptor Galaxy captured with the MUSE instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). Regions of pink light are spread throughout this whole galactic snapshot, which come from ionised hydrogen in star-forming regions. These areas have been overlaid on a map of already formed stars in Sculptor to create the mix of pinks and blues seen here. (Credit: ESO/E. Congiu et al.) ================================================================ In a nutshell * Scientists identified over 500 planetary nebulae in the Sculptor galaxy, 20 times more than previous surveys, using the MUSE instrument, but the distance estimate they...

BERLIN, June 18 (Reuters) - The foreign ministers of Germany, France and Britain plan to hold nuclear talks with their Iranian counterpart on Friday in Geneva, a German diplomatic source told Reuters. The ministers will first meet with the European Union's top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, at Germany's permanent mission in Geneva before holding a joint meeting with the Iranian foreign minister, the source said. The European initiative comes amid fears of a spiralling conflict in the Middle East after Israel launched wide-ranging military strikes on its arch-enemy Iran last week and Iran sent waves of missiles at Israeli targets in...

The founding fathers aimed to ensure our liberty under law, in conformity with the “laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” Natural law refers to the moral law the Creator has impressed upon the world. For example, Samuel Adams once wrote: “Thou shall do no injury to thy neighbor, is the voice of nature and reason, and it is confirmed by written revelation.” But today, we see a lot of anarchy in the streets.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei 'can no longer be allowed to exist', an Israeli minister declared today. Israel Katz, the country's defence minister, accused Khamenei of personally ordering an Iranian attack on a hospital in southern Israel this morning in a salvo targeting several Israeli cities. 'He considers the destruction of the state of Israel to be a goal. Such a man can no longer be allowed to exist.,' said Katz. Meanwhile Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have made fresh calls for a 'diplomatic solution' to resolve the conflict between Israel and Iran in...

Putin said that Israel had given Moscow assurances that Russian specialists helping to build two more reactors at the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran would not be hurt in air strikes... Asked if Russia was ready to provide Iran with modern weapons to defend itself against Israeli strikes, Putin said a strategic partnership treaty signed with Tehran in January did not envisage military cooperation and that Iran had not made any formal request for assistance.

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(6/19/25)[Prayer]Water, Rivers, and Streams in the BibleDeuteronomy 11:16-2116 Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them. 17 Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and he will shut up the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the Lord is giving you. 18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads....

The fire aid concert raised over a $100 Million, but where did all the money go? Jimmy Dore went to the the Annenberg Foundation who are in charge of the funds, to find out more. After repeated emails, phone calls, etc with no replies, they eventually heard from Barbara Chen of Annenberg. Turns out most of the money went into the pockets of NGO’s, etc with just 30% going to the actual victims of the fire. Anyone surprised? Nope. This is LA after all.

.....Before I became a parent, I thought I’d raise my children with the same firmness that my West Indian teachers used at the small Episcopalian elementary school I attended in Brooklyn, N.Y. They were quick to discipline and had high expectations for us. I figured being strict would help prepare Black children for a world that rarely sees them as innocent — but that was before I became a mother, feeling the heavy responsibility of raising Black boys. The effects of racism aren’t just for the history books. Black Americans carry the weight of discrimination and injustice from those before...

Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” that top prosecutors should be charging “rogue agents” who arrested Democratic lawmakers. Co-host Symone Sanders-Townsend said, “My concern is, and I want to juxtapose with what happened to Senator Padilla, the handcuffing of him being thrown to the ground at a DHS presser by FBI agents after he was escorted into the room by FBI officials and the National Guard. LaMonica McIver has now been indicted. She was charged and indicted on federal charges.” She asked, “I don’t feel like House leadership and Senate leadership on the Democratic side has...

A secret FBI document cache—“Prohibited Access”—may hold explosive evidence of political cover-ups, misconduct, and a decade of justice corrupted from within. We recently learned of a previously concealed tranche of documents likely to shed new light on the past decade of American political controversies. This potentially earth-shaking information is known as “Prohibited Access.” It was only recently discovered that the FBI’s information system, called Sentinel, had a level of access previously unknown to anyone outside the Bureau and known only to a select few inside. In essence, this was a concealed cache used to hide documents the FBI wanted hidden...

“‘Then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye’” (Matthew 7:5). Here is Jesus’ corrective to erroneous judgment: first of all we confess our own sin, which is often the sin of self-righteousness and of a condemning spirit toward others, and ask for God’s cleansing. When our sin is cleansed, when the log is removed from our eye, then we can see our brother’s sin clearly and be able to help him. We will also see everything more clearly—God, others, and ourselves. We will see God as the only Judge, others as needy sinners who...

In a new report released by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, commonly known as CSIS, Project Director Heather Williams explains that the much-discussed GBU-57 might not be able to destroy the Iranian nuclear facility at Fordow. Williams explains that the “GBU-57 has never been used in combat, but has been put through extensive testing; it is believed the United States has approximately 20 of the bombs available.”

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned the United States on Thursday against interfering in the military actions between Israel and Iran. "We would like to especially warn Washington against military intervention in the situation, which would be an extremely dangerous step, with truly unpredictable negative consequences," Zakharova said during a press briefing. The spokeswoman claimed that the attempts to justify Israel's "unprovoked aggression" against Iran are "cynical," and noted that it the most important thing to do is to "prevent the further spiral of violence, to achieve a ceasefire, to restore peace, which in turn will create the preconditions...

Rep. Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ) sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday, asking the DOJ to investigate “credible claims” of election security violations involving the Arizona-based ballot printing firm, Runbeck Election Services. Runbeck provides ballot printing and mail-in ballot services in 31 states and 54% of the nation’s voters, according to its website. The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on this shady private entity, which was founded by leftists and transports and scans Maricopa County mail-in ballots with no oversight or chain of custody before they are processed and counted by the County. As revealed in Trump-Endorsed former...

Even by Jim Acosta standards, the former CNN correspondent’s tirade on The Contrarian podcast Monday was pretty terrible. Following the weekend’s No Kings protests, it should come as no surprise that Acosta had a lot of smoke to blow on the immigration issues in contention. Chatting with hosts Jen Rubin and April Ryan, Acosta was full of praise for the “peaceful, nonviolent protests” against President Trump’s “regime.”