https://freerepublic.com/tag/news-forum/ en-us Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:57:15 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389445/posts Iran summoned a Ukrainian diplomat in Tehran on Sunday to protest an attack on an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea, as the war in the Middle East threatened to overlap with the Ukraine conflict. Iran said the attack left one sailor dead and injured several others. The country’s foreign ministry complained to Ukraine’s chargé d’affaires in Tehran early on Sunday and “conveyed Iran’s strong protest over the ‘hostile and criminal act.’” Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency reported. In a post on X highlighting Ukraine’s attacks on distant Russian targets, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that his country’s... CNBC https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389445/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:57:15 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389443/posts Authorities say the 21-year-old suspect was fatally shot after allegedly charging at officers with a knife, a day after an attack left one dead and 29 injured. Berlin police shot and killed the suspect in this weekend’s deadly attack in the city’s Pride festival after he allegedly charged at officers with a knife while they tried to arrest him Sunday, authorities said. https://www.nbcnews.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389443/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:33:04 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389442/posts An oil tanker blew up in the Strait of Hormuz after hitting a mine on Sunday, according to Iran’s military-linked state media, which also claimed that the Islamic Republic had intercepted at least six ships in the past 24 hours.The tanker, which was not immediately identified, allegedly strayed from Iran’s designated route in the strait before hitting a sea mine, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-linked Tasnim news agency reported.Iran has repeatedly warned ships from using non-approved routes to sail through the Strait of Hormuz or risk coming under attack as tensions continue to flare with the US. The New York Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389442/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:28:14 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389440/posts It sounds as if it is hot off the pages of the Babylon Bee yet, amazingly, it is a dead serious Associated Press story. The reason one might think it a Bee satire is the subject matter the AP decided to stress which you can read in the title of their Thursday story by Kristen Gelineau, "Sex work or starve: Aid workers in Nepal left jobless by USAID cuts turn to sex work to survive."The premise of the AP story is that because USAID funds were drastically cut last year, the result is that transgender people in Nepal that were... Newsbusters https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389440/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:52:51 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389437/posts German media are reporting that a suspect wanted after a vehicle was driven into a crowd gathered at a Pride event in Berlin has been shot and killed. One person has been confirmed dead in the incident and at least 29 injured. sky news https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389437/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:30:30 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389436/posts U.S. President Donald Trump will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, a White House official confirmed, as diplomatic efforts to end the war with Russia pick up speed. “President Zelensky is slated to meet with President Trump at the White House on Tuesday,” the official told AFP on condition of anonymity on Friday as reported by Euronews. Zelensky said this week he had spoken with Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and the U.S. president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as part of efforts to revive stalled talks aimed at ending the four-year war, the report notes. U.S.-led efforts to... Breitbart https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389436/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:18:40 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389432/posts The disgraced Cornell University student who went viral for declining an interview with an NYC startup because he said he didn’t want to be “working for a Jew,” claims he’s returning the upstate Ivy league campus in the fall. Austin Franco, 19, the rising junior who delivered the message to VrfID’s Jewish co-founders Gabe and Aiden Einhorn via job board site Handshake in June, told conservative nonprofit Accuracy in Media that he hardly got a slap on the wrist from Cornell. NY Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389432/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:59:09 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389429/posts Suspect Abdul Ballout has alleged ties to Germany's Islamist scene, officials sayA suspect with alleged ties to Germany's "Islamist scene" is on the run after allegedly plowing a van into a crowd near Berlin's Pride festival and attacking others with a machete in what officials believe was an Islamic terror attack that left one person dead and at least 29 others injured.German authorities on Sunday launched an intensive manhunt for Abdul Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese roots whom officials say may be armed and dangerous."Everything we see here points to us dealing with an Islamic terror attack," German Interior... foxnews.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389429/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:39:01 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389427/posts The innocent 12-year-old son of a cop who was shot dead in the Bronx was identified early Sunday as Jacob Freytas — as heartbreaking video shows him collapsing in a bodega after running back in while clutching his chest. Freytas, of Mount Eden, was an innocent bystander when a stray bullet hit him in the chest during a fight outside a store on Elliott Place near the Grand Concourse, shortly before 5 p.m. Saturday, cops said. Security video obtained by The Post shows Jacob leaving his bike outside the bodega to go in and buy a ball, before coming out... NY Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389427/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:27:30 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389423/posts Security video shows a gunman firing shots down East Congress Street in the early morning hours of Sunday, July 19. David Leroy French was accused of firing the shots, which injured nine people. After firing the shots, the gunman ran down Congress toward Tucson police officers who were on the street, one of whom fired a shot that struck and wounded the gunman. Rumble https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389423/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:00:33 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389422/posts U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has made plans to ramp up operations to arrest and deport Haitian migrants, as hundreds of thousands of Haitians brace for the termination of their legal status, according to two agency sources and federal documents obtained by CBS News. ***During the 2024 presidential campaign, Mr. Trump amplified baseless claims that Haitians in Springfield were eating cats and dogs. The internal plans for a potential arrest and deportation blitz have been made as more than 300,000 Haitians prepare to lose deportation protections and work permits under the Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, program. The Supreme Court... CBS News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389422/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:53:58 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389421/posts A prominent Supreme Court litigator was sentenced on Friday to six years in prison for evading a multimillion-dollar IRS tax debt and engaging in mortgage fraud, a case that cast a spotlight on his secretive lifestyle as a high-stakes poker player and featured trial testimony from a Hollywood movie star. Thomas Goldstein, who also published a popular blog about the nation’s highest court, had asked U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby to spare him from a prison sentence. Instead, the judge sentenced Goldstein to five years of supervised release after his prison term and ordered him to pay over $3.1... AP https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389421/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:42:24 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389416/posts This is another example, in a series of examples, of the FBI’s resolve to bring financial fraudsters to justice. Elaine Angene Escoe was wanted for her alleged involvement in a conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain over $32 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds. A federal arrest warrant was issued for Escoe on May 22, 2025, in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida. Escoe failed to appear to her court appearance on June 5, 2025. The FBI had information indicating that Escoe had fled to Jamaica and she... FBI Miami via X https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389416/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:51:21 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389413/posts The root of the " affordability crisis" is that social norms that were formerly universal and free are now commoditized and sold, beginning with a baseline level of education. (my summation). The American Mind https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389413/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:41:38 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389412/posts Nearly 100 illegal migrans landed on the shores of the Balearics in Spain in just 24 hours. This comes after the news that over 3,200 migrants arrived in around 170 small boats since the start of the year. The Guardia Civil, the Formentera Fire Brigade and the Red Cross intercepted 32 subn-Saharans at 9.10am on July 17, off the coast of Cabrera, according to the Government Delegation in the Balearic Islands. At 1.40pm, six north Africans were assisted to shore. At 5.10pm, a further 30 sub-Saharans were rescued by the Maritime Rescue Service. And just after midnight on July 18,... Express https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389412/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:41:28 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389404/posts Former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson officially secured the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate on Sunday, capping off a fast-moving replacement process that began after Democratic nominee Graham Platner withdrew from the race earlier this month. Meeting at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor, Democratic delegates overwhelmingly selected Jackson as their nominee, giving him 566 votes to 5 votes for fellow candidate Saundra Pelletier. The decisive margin ended weeks of speculation over who would replace Platner on the November ballot and sets up a high-profile general election against six-term U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine). Jackson accepted the nomination before... The Maine Wire https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389404/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:11:23 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389398/posts The Talk Shows July 26th, 2026 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.); Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.); U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz; former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb; CBS News Executive Director of Elections and Surveys Anthony Salvanto.FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz; Member of the Red Star caucus within the DSA Megan Romer; Sen. Tim CoKaine (D-Va.). Panel: Dasha Burns, Mollie Hemingway, Josh Kraushaar and that old, unhappy whiner Juan Williams.MEET THE dePRESS (NBC): Hosted by Kristen Welker: U.S.... Various driveby media television networks https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389398/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:57:54 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389396/posts At the end of January 2026, a colleague’s piece about a couple that was down on its luck was published in the Finger Lakes Times. They were apparently homeless, living out of an abandoned camper and their car for the previous 11 months. A short time later a connection was facilitated with the couple and Doris Wolf, 84. The longtime Junius resident offered a downstairs apartment in her home. The rent was made affordable since the couple lived on Social Security disability benefits with a combined income of $1,800 per month. Doris waived the first or last month’s deposit. For... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389396/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:15:07 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389392/posts The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has fired a staff attorney after an internal investigation into an anti-ICE social media tirade that prompted widespread criticism, the agency confirmed to Fox News Digital Friday. "Once we were made aware of her social media post, we opened an internal investigation," a spokesperson for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation told Fox News Digital in a statement Friday. "Upon completion of the internal investigation, she was terminated. Since this is a personnel matter, we are unable to further comment at this time." The termination follows Fox News Digital's earlier reporting that the fired... Fox News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389392/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:51:11 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389390/posts Anthony S. Fauci, the former government official who helped lead the nation’s coronavirus response, is set to again face Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), who has spent years accusing Fauci of playing a role in the virus’s creation. Paul, the chairman of the Senate’s government oversight committee, announced Thursday morning that Fauci will testify on Wednesday after being subpoenaed. Paul has been investigating the potential origins of the outbreak. Fauci, who last testified in front of Congress in June 2024, has repeatedly denied accusations from Paul and other Republicans as “preposterous.” The 85-year-old former National Institutes of Health (NIH) official left... The Washington Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389390/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:04:01 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389387/posts Vice President JD Vance and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine both raised concerns about escalating the war in Iran as President Donald Trump weighed the possibility during a White House meeting on Friday, a source familiar with the matter and a US official told CNN. On Friday night, the US appeared to pause its bombing campaign on Iran after nearly two weeks of consecutive nights of strikes. Operations are “on a hold,” a Department of Defense source told CNN on Saturday. On Friday, Caine specifically raised concerns about the US munitions stockpile and other potential... CNN https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389387/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 06:44:01 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389386/posts New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani admits he lacks the legal authority to arrest the Israeli prime minister. But what does the episode say about the Democratic socialist's worldview? Plus, what can the GOP still accomplish this year in Congress? New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been running a campaign to demonize Israel and its supporters for committing “genocide[sic].” He should reconsider after Thursday’s double-stabbing in New York, which included a kippah-wearing Jew attacked after exiting a synagogue. Police arrested Raul Morales in connection with the stabbings. The mayor said victim and witness statements allege that Mr. Morales yelled “Allahu... WSJ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389386/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 06:00:47 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389385/posts The president came, he saw, he joked, he insulted and talked too long. And yet, Donald Trump’s presence was the major reason why the White House Correspondents’ dinner was such a smashing success. NYP https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389385/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 05:44:22 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389381/posts A major police operation is under way in Berlin after a vehicle was driven into a crowd. One person is dead and at least 17 injured. The nearby Pride parade was cancelled hours after it began. Follow the latest on this story below. .... At least one person has died, with more than a dozen injured, several seriously, after a transporter reportedly drove into a crowd. A manhunt is under way, and police say a suspect was known to police as a member of the "Islamist scene." The suspect is said to have fled after crashing into a tree. Helicopters... Sky News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389381/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:28:14 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389380/posts President Trump halted new US strikes on Iran as he weighs whether Tehran is ready to cut a deal — while a wider regional war appears to be spreading into another critical shipping corridor. After 13 consecutive days of attacks, Trump instructed the US military to pause any additional strikes against Iran Friday, Axios reported Saturday, which cited two people familiar with the decision. But the president has made clear that the temporary halt does not mean Washington is backing down. In a brief phone interview with France’s LCI news, Trump said he was still prepared to restart a major... The New York Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389380/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:28:03 GMT