https://freerepublic.com/tag/news-forum/ en-us Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:24:19 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383492/posts SpaceX (SPCX) made its historic debut on Friday, opening at $150 per share. Investors' expectations for the stock were sky-high going into the start of trading. The company, which aims to put AI data centers in space, priced its shares at $135 each, raising about $75 billion and giving it an anticipated market capitalization of $1.77 trillion. On paper, CEO Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire. Meanwhile, US stocks rose modestly as investors assessed reports that the US and Iran are closing in on an interim peace deal. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) and the S&P 500 (^GSPC)... Yahoo Finance https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383492/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:24:19 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383491/posts Pro-Palestine activists believe there could be a “sea change” in the Labour party’s approach to the crisis in the Middle East which could result in the government taking a tougher stance on Israel. Campaigners have pointed to the threat posed to Labour by the Green surge in the local elections, the likely departure of Keir Starmer from No 10, and new polling which shows an appetite among Labour members for a ban on all arms shipments to Israel. The relative optimism marks a mood swing for a campaign that has been hit hard by losing successive high court cases, the... The Guardian https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383491/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:23:28 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383488/posts Two former Tories who defected to Reform this year are facing questions after it emerged the suspect in the Belfast attack entered the UK while they were in charge of immigration. Hadi Alodid claims to have come into the country via the Common Travel Area between Ireland and Northern Ireland in 2023. According to the Home Office, the 30-year-old Sudanese national was granted refugee status the same year and has leave to remain in the UK until 2028. Braverman and Jenrick both defected to Reform UK in January, and both now sit as MPs for Nigel Farage’s party. Both also... Metro https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383488/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:00:47 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383484/posts NEW YORK (WABC) -- A teenager was beaten so badly during the celebrations outside Madison Square Garden earlier this week that he's in a coma. It happened following the Knicks Game 4 NBA Finals win against the San Antonio Spurs. The 17-year-old victim was approached by a group and then attacked during a verbal dispute outside 235 West 35th Street around 11:45 p.m. Wednesday. The fight apparently began with a content creator allegedly provoking Knicks fans. Detectives have reviewed cellphone video that shows the content creator interviewing a member of the crowd. The content creator asked members of the crowd,... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383484/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:31:34 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383479/posts Reports emerging from the region suggest that Iran’s leadership may be divided over a proposed deal with the United States, raising new doubts about whether an agreement can be finalized. According to the reports, Iranian negotiators had signaled that the deal was ready to move forward. However, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has reportedly refused to approve the proposal. The reported rejection comes after claims that senior Iranian officials, including Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, had presented the agreement as essentially ready without securing final approval from Khamenei. If accurate, the development could point to a... JFeed https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383479/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:02:56 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383478/posts Iran insisted on Friday on its right to enrich uranium and maintain control over the Strait of Hormuz under any deal with the United States, after President Donald Trump said a draft accord was ready. US ally Israel has said that Trump had promised it that any agreement would see Iran stripped of its enriched nuclear material, but Tehran's official IRNA news agency said this was not even on the table. AFP (france) via Yahoo https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383478/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:54:03 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383476/posts US President Donald Trump on Friday claimed that details of the deal leaked by Iran are "fake news." In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote, "The terms that Iran leaked out to the Fake News have NOTHING to do with the terms that were agreed to, in writing." "What they said, including their weak and pathetic statement on having a deal, bears no relation to the truth. Very dishonorable people to deal with. With them, there is no such thing as dealing in good faith. AMAZING!" "Also, their totally rebuffed Drone attack last night against Indian Ships... Arutz Sheva https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383476/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:35:38 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383475/posts Keir Starmer has said he knows he has to “turn things around” after a series of crises culminating in the resignation of John Healey, the defence secretary, but warned that any successor would face the same difficult decisions. In an interview with the BBC after Healey’s departure in a row over defence spending, Starmer promised again to fight any leadership challenge from Andy Burnham or others, saying: “I’m not going to go away.” He also suggested said that if Burnham did replace him in No 10, there would be a near-identical set of pressures and tough decisions for him given... The Guardian https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383475/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:34:49 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383474/posts Unable, at least for now, to slake its bloodthirst by killing Israelis, Hamas is solidifying its brutal control over the hostages it still holds — the people of Gaza. The fundamentalist monsters are reestablishing their reign of terror across the Gaza Strip, setting up a police state with prisons and detention centers in the same schools and hospitals they used to store munitions, manage communications and fire missiles. It was all to be expected: In the first week of the ceasefire with Israel, Hamas dragged local enemies into the streets, labeled them “collaborators,” and shot or hanged them publicly to... NY Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383474/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:21:28 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383473/posts WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Thursday that the Trump administration has found at least 146,000 migrant children that were unaccounted for during the Biden administration. A total of 450,000 went missing under former President Joe Biden — and “nearly 300,000” are still unaccounted for, Mullin said at a news conference. “We’re investigating reports to where some of these kids claim that they were raped 6[00] to 700 times,” he added. “I don’t care who you are. I don’t care if you have kids. You don’t have kids. I don’t care if you’re a liberal, you’re independent, you’re... NY Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383473/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:14:19 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383471/posts OMAHA — Dan Osborn, an Independent candidate for U.S. Senate in Nebraska, at a town hall in Omaha last week, told attendees that he believed there should be mandatory five-year mental health checks for owners of AR-15s and similar “assault-style” rifles. One guest asked Osborn if he could offer anything “other than ‘thoughts and prayers’—which makes us all want to throw up” regarding gun violence. Osborn responded with notable candor. The Plains Sentinel https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383471/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:10:01 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383470/posts The independent challenging Republican Nebraska Sen. Pete Ricketts called for owners of modern semiautomatic firearms to undergo a mental health evaluation every five years as a prerequisite to renew registration of the guns. Dan Osborn, who lost to Republican Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer in the 2024 election, announced his plans to challenge Ricketts in July 2025. Osborn, who has received support from Democrats in his big to topple Ricketts according to Roll Call, suggested the measure during a town hall in June. “I said, ‘Do you own an assault-style rifle, an AR-15, an M16, an AK-47, or anything like that?’... The Daily Caller https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383470/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:09:09 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383469/posts Outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard rescinded two controversial Biden-era assessments Thursday that concluded the condition known as Havana Syndrome was unlikely to be the result of foreign adversaries attacking US personnel. The retracted Intelligence Community Assessments selectively excluded evidence and intelligence, mischaracterized sources “to suppress alternative analyses,” omitted key information related to source quality and relied on an “ethically flawed medical study,” Gabbard’s office said in a memo to congressional leaders. The two assessments – declassified versions of which were released in March 2023 and January 2025 – both concluded that a foreign adversary was “very unlikely” to... NY Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383469/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:04:46 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383468/posts New documents released Thursday by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) reveal that Dr. Anthony Fauci used deep connections to the intelligence community to influence key national security agencies in the debate over the origins of COVID-19. Paul, chairman of the Senate homeland security committee, published nearly 90 pages of emails and other documents on Thursday detailing how Fauci steered the National Security Council and other bodies in the intelligence apparatus to downplay the theory that the virus came from a biomedical research lab incident in China. The multidecade document dump demonstrates the degree to which the national security community depended upon... washingtonexaminer https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383468/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:01:59 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383465/posts One sailor is dead and a second sailor is in pre-trial confinement after an early morning Saturday shooting aboard carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), USNI News has learned. Boatswain’s Mate Seaman Jesse Braswell of Colorado was killed in the shooting, which happened around 5:15 a.m. on Saturday, a Navy spokesperson told USNI News. USNI News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383465/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:37:19 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383462/posts A senior official in Hamas' internal security apparatus announced that the terror organization will "soon" carry out public executions of Gazans whom it claims acted as Israeli agents and were involved in the killings of Al-Qassam Brigades terrorists. The announcement, released via Palestinian Arab channels, stated that the decision to carry out executions was made in response to calls voiced within the Gazan public. Hamas did not provide a specific date for the executions. The terror group also claimed that its members captured an individual allegedly involved in the killing of Ezz al-Din al-Haddad, a commander of the Al-Qassam Brigades.... Arutz Sheva https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383462/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:24:36 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383461/posts The U.S. and Iran could reportedly sign a peace deal as soon as Sunday, after Iranian state media said the draft deal included a commitment from the U.S. to lift oil sanctions and a pledge from Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 30 days. The 14-point document dictates that final negotiations will not begin until the release of half of Iran’s frozen funds, the suspension of Iran’s oil sanctions and the lifting of the naval blockade, the Mehr News Agency reported. All American forces would need to withdraw from Iran, and the U.S. and its allies would need... CNBC.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383461/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:18:35 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383457/posts Iran’s semi-official IRNA news agency says that Tehran will not give up its right to enrich uranium under any deal it makes with the United States. Negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program are expected to begin after the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, which US President Donald Trump has claimed could be signed as early as this weekend. IRNA reports that Iran will “negotiate only the nuclear program solely within the framework of the Islamic Republic’s fundamental principles.” “Issues such as Iran’s right to enrich uranium and the retention of enriched material by the Islamic Republic of Iran will be... Times of Israel https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383457/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:56:19 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383453/posts A Rikers Island Correction captain has been arrested for forcing her subordinates to pay her, buy her gifts and drive her to restaurants and a casino while on duty, according to federal prosecutors. Latanya Brown, 51 — who was known as the “Terror of the Tombs” back when she worked at the Manhattan Detention Complex — sunk to criminal lows when she was transferred to Rikers Island in early 2024, according to a federal extortion and wage theft indictment unsealed in Brooklyn Thursday. Brown was assigned to the jail complex’s Facility Operations Department as a supervisor from July 2024 to... NY Daily News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383453/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:26:39 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383451/posts Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said that 81 percent of claims in a $4 billion settlement for sex abuse victims — the largest in US history – may be fraudulent. Nathan Hochman urged a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge to stop payments until Dec. 31 amid an ongoing criminal investigation, which was launched in November last year, according to a motion filed on Thursday “The District Attorney’s Office believes the percentage of fraudulent claims in the related lawsuits seeking funds from this settlement may be as high as 81 percent,” Hochman’s office wrote in the court papers,... NY Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383451/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:52:22 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383450/posts An Iranian state news outlet said Friday that an agreement with the U.S., which President Trump touted the previous day as a "great settlement of the war," includes the U.S. releasing $24 billion of frozen Iranian financial assets. Iran's semi-official Mehr News agency published what it said was a draft of the 14-point agreement Friday. It includes a stipulation that Iran's assets will be released during a 60-day extension of the current ceasefire, which would begin as soon as the deal comes into effect. Iran's Foreign Ministry cautioned earlier that the regime had yet to fully commit to the agreement.... CBS News.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383450/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:51:42 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383448/posts A Toronto police officer has been shot to death during a raid tied to a March shooting outside the US consulate. The officer was shot during a gunfire exchange at a high-rise building in the early hours of Thursday, the Toronto Police Service said. He was later pronounced dead in hospital. Police had been investigating suspects who allegedly fired shots at the US consulate building in Toronto earlier this year, in what US and Canadian authorities described at the time as a "national security incident". (excerpt) US officials have linked the March shooting to a dual Iranian-Iraqi national accused of... BBC https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383448/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:28:43 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383447/posts THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Two children and an adult were killed Thursday in the rural southern Netherlands when a car struck a group of cyclists who were on a school camping trip, local emergency services said. Four more children were seriously injured in the incident. They were taken to hospitals in the Netherlands and nearby Belgium for treatment. The dead and injured were part of a group of 14 schoolchildren and two chaperones, the Zeeland Security Region organization said in a statement. Police are investigating the cause of the incident on a provincial road that runs between farmers' fields near... ABC News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383447/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:05:38 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383446/posts Iran hasn't reached a final decision on a peace deal with the U.S., an Iranian official said Thursday. "So far, Iran has not reached a final conclusion on the agreement," foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said in a statement provided to Agence France-Presse. The statement comes after President Trump said earlier in the day that the U.S. had reached a "great settlement" regarding the Iran war. A letter of intent or memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran was likely to be signed early next week, two sources familiar with the diplomatic efforts told CBS News. Following Mr. Trump's... CBS News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383446/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:37:02 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383441/posts Four U.S. Air Force C-17 transport aircraft departed for Europe on Thursday, carrying equipment for a possible signing ceremony in Geneva. U.S. President Donald Trump claimed earlier that the United States had reached a "great settlement" with Iran to end the war, while Tehran said it had "not yet reached a final decision," as Iran's hardline faction warned that Trump may be bluffing. If signed, the "Islamabad Agreement" would immediately reopen the Strait of Hormuz without transit fees, extend the ceasefire for 60 days, including in Lebanon, and open nuclear negotiations, representing the most significant diplomatic breakthrough in the war.What's... https://www.turkiyetoday.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4383441/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:58:32 GMT