JUST IN: The judge presiding over the high-profile Lindsey Clancy murder trial has rejected the defense's request for a mistrial.
@Donnarotunno says while the motion was shut down, Clancy's defense needed to raise the issue now to preserve her rights on appeal, arguing prosecutors crossed the line with potentially prejudicial questioning after already being warned by the judge.
IRAN'S BANKS, MEET THE EXIT. Treasury just told every enabler of Tehran's regime they've got a defined timeline to get out of the money-laundering business or get thrown off the US dollar system entirely. Bank Melli specifically gets the "shuttered and dark" treatment.
The U.S. is turning up the economic pressure on Iran while keeping the threat of military force on the table.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced “Operation Economic Outcast,” a sweeping new sanctions push aimed at isolating the Iranian regime and squeezing key sources of revenue.
The sanctions target everything from gold and technology to aviation and shipping, also hitting nearly 60 entities, individuals, and vessels across multiple jurisdictions as Iran threatens retaliation.
@TreyYingst reports.
President Trump just scored a major Supreme Court victory on mail-in voting ahead of the midterms.
In a 6-3 decision, the justices are allowing the administration to move forward, at least for now, with key parts of Trump’s March executive order after they were blocked by a lower court.
The order calls for the federal government to create lists of voters eligible to receive federal ballots and requires states to provide information allowing the Postal Service to verify their eligibility.
@AlexHoganTV explains.
"God forbid" the U.S. and China end up in conflict.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio called any potential economic or military conflict between the two nations "catastrophic" and said the challenge is managing the relationship without giving up U.S. national interests.
"This is the hard work of foreign policy."
Watch the full exclusive interview on @MyViewFNC with @LaraLeaTrump tomorrow at 9p ET.
Zohran Mamdani's call to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has congressional Democrats in the hot seat.
Some lawmakers echoed Mamdani's claim that Netanyahu is a "war criminal," while others pointed to diplomatic immunity and questioned whether such a move would even be legal.
Mamdani has faced mounting backlash after saying he would explore executing an International Criminal Court arrest warrant during Netanyahu's visit to New York for the U.N. General Assembly.
Mamdani ultimately admitted that he has no authority to arrest Netanyahu.
An emotional airport tribute unfolds as travelers pause to honor a fallen service member.
Powerful video shared by the White House shows passengers stopped in their tracks at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, many with their hands over their hearts, as "Amazing Grace" played during a dignified transfer.
Sorry that it’s come to this normal Americans. But your president leaves us no choice! No trips to the USA. No purchasing American products. Canadians need to stick together and unite against trumps version of America
BREAKING: The Department of War has released the identity of a third U.S. service member believed to have been killed in the Iranian attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan.
Officials identified the soldier as Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28, who had previously been listed as missing following the July 17 attack.
She was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 52d Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command in Ansbach, Germany, and served as a 25U Signal Operations Support Specialist.
"We extend our deepest, most heartfelt condolences to her family and all those who are navigating this unimaginable loss."
The Black Sea is turning into a Ukrainian hunting ground, and the Kremlin's shadow fleet is learning the hard way what happens when you ignore a nation that refuses to die. We have now hit 159 vessels in just twelve days of this expanded campaign. That is not a lucky streak. That is systematic degradation of Moscow's maritime logistics, moving from the Azov Sea where 116 targets were struck, forcing survivors to crawl up the Don River like rats, and now shifting south of the Kerch Strait to the heavier tankers that matter more.
Satellite imagery from early July already showed the choke point clogged with roughly 100 ships north and 100 south. After the Azov phase, traffic there collapsed. By the 15th we pivoted to the real prizes. Another 42 vessels damaged in the Black Sea proper. The latest FPV footage reveals terminal guidance improvements that make these strikes even more precise. Moscow's own border patrol ship Izumrud, veteran of the 2018 Kerch ram job against our sailors, now sits with a fatal hole in its hull near Novorossiysk. Twenty to zero in this naval exchange so far, and the ratio is not flipping anytime soon.
The downstream effects are brutal for them. Up to 30 percent of Russian grain moved by water through Rostov oblast. That route is functionally dead, forcing rerouting onto rail and roads that already scream for scarce diesel. Novorossiysk handled around 20 percent of crude oil exports. We are not necessarily sinking every tanker outright, but months-long repairs on 159 hulls create the same outcome: paralyzed throughput. Kremlin propagandists are already howling about piracy while their tankers burn. Same script as always. They violate international waters, steal Ukrainian grain, ferry fuel to occupied Crimea, and then cry when the bill arrives in the form of Ukrainian sea drones.
This is exactly why control of the Black Sea is not some abstract naval fetish. It directly starves the Crimean garrison of fuel, slices Moscow's export revenues, and forces them to burn more resources on overland logistics they cannot sustain at scale. Expect them to lash out at our vessels near Odesa. That reaction was predictable because their doctrine has always been to punish civilians when their military fails. It will not reverse the trend. Every additional stricken tanker tightens the noose.
The deeper strategic point is that hybrid war cuts both ways. For years the Kremlin used energy blackmail, shadow fleets, and information operations to keep Europe complacent. Now a country they claimed would fall in three days is dictating sea lanes in their own backyard. This is what happens when you treat an imperial project as a legitimate state instead of the existential threat it has always been. Sanctions alone never achieved this. Persistent, innovative Ukrainian strikes do.
The situation for them will only worsen. Their "partners" in Tehran, Pyongyang, and Beijing are watching how quickly a determined defender with cheap drones can dismantle expensive logistical arteries. Moscow's information war machine will scream louder, their useful idiots in the West will call for another fake ceasefire, but the math is relentless. You cannot occupy another country, run a shadow fleet, and expect the victim to simply absorb it.
This campaign is restoring deterrence the only way that works against empires: by raising their costs until the policy becomes unsustainable. Ukraine is not asking permission. We are taking back control, one burning tanker at a time.
Just imagine this: in 12 days, Ukraine, primarily its Unmanned Systems Forces, has struck 159 (!) Russian shadow fleet vessels.
‼️159 vessels in just 12 days.
Of those:
-117 were hit in the Sea of Azov
-42 in the Black Sea
Ukraine achieved this drones.
The video below shows one of today’s strikes on a Russian oil tanker.
I just arrived in Kramatorsk and the car sent to collect me was hit by an FPV minutes before pulling up. The driver is an energy worker taking me to the power station. russias “human safari” is spreading way beyond Kherson. This is deliberate terror.
Look who @pdoocy and @SundayBriefFNC found strolling around the Great American State Fair.
Peter and crew ran into @PressSec Karoline Leavitt as she was enjoying the fair with her family.
Karoline says she thinks it’ll be worth keeping her two young kids up to witness the once-in-a-lifetime July 4th fireworks to ring in America's 250th — which she’s told will be the largest fireworks show in the history of the world. | @Freedom250
"It feels so good to be American."
Visitors from across the country are coming together at the Great American State Fair to celebrate what makes every state unique.
Whether they're learning something new, representing their hometown, or simply soaking in the patriotic atmosphere, many say the event is a reminder of why they're proud to call America home. 🇺🇸 | @Freedom250