June 24, 2026

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Excerpt from redstate.com

 

I always try to preface any poll story with “It’s a poll, things can change, etc.”

But these latest numbers in the New York Times/Siena Research poll for the battleground states are — as even CNN’s Harry Enten admits — an “absolute disaster” for Joe Biden.

Why? Look at how far Trump is up in Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia, as Enten explains, in the head-to-head numbers.

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Excerpt from www.washingtonexaminer.com

For all of Alvin Bragg‘s attempts to hijack the news cycle with a cavalcade of scorned friends and flings of Donald Trump, the former president has proven stubbornly resilient in his swing-state leads over President Joe Biden.

According to the latest slate of head-to-head polling from the New York Times and Siena College, the Republican is up by 14 percentage points over the Democratic incumbent among registered voters in Nevada, 10 points in Georgia, 7 points in Michigan, 7 points in Arizona, and 3 points in Pennsylvania. Only in Wisconsin does Trump trail Biden by 2 points, but among likely voters, Trump actually leads by 1 in Wisconsin, yet he trails by 1 point among likely voters in Michigan. His lead persists or grows in every other state.

A separate poll from the Financial Times explains why the sexcapades of Stormy Daniels haven’t cut through Trump’s lead: the continuous catastrophe that is Bidenomics.

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Excerpt from slaynews.com

President Donald Trump drew a massive crowd for his rally in deep-blue New Jersey over the weekend.

It’s estimated that Trump’s rally at Wildwood Beach drew over 100,000 attendees.

In a post on X, Trump’s press secretary Karline Leavitt said there was “a crowd of more than 100,000” for the rally.

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Excerpt from www.thegatewaypundit.com

Joe Biden made a stop in Racine, Wisconsin last week to promote his ‘investing in America’ agenda.

Everyone is worse off because of Joe Biden. No matter how Biden spins it, crippling inflation is destroying the working class.

Black voters in Wisconsin are not happy with Joe Biden.

“A key piece of [Biden’s] coalition is Black voters — some of whom don’t see how they benefit from his economic plan,” KWWL reported.

“As they see the prices rise with Biden, they think Trump made the economy BETTER and Biden is making it WORSE,” a black voter told KWWL.

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Excerpt from redstate.com

 

Kristi Noem isn’t the only one whose book is causing controversy. Jen Psaki, the former White House press secretary turned MSNBC mouthpiece, found herself in hot water on Monday after it was reported that she lied about Joe Biden in her new book. For once, the heat isn’t coming from the right, either. Left-wing Axios reported the falsehood and pressed for an explanation.

The setup is a passage in Psaki’s book claiming that Biden never looked at his watch at Dover AFB during the ceremony for servicemembers killed during the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. She went so far as to call the claims “misinformation” in her writings.

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Excerpt from www.politico.com

One Nation, a top conservative group, is plowing $70 million more into hitting vulnerable Democrats in key Senate races nationwide according to details first shared with POLITICO, an extraordinary sum that’s roughly double the group’s Senate investment last cycle.

The nonprofit advocacy outfit, which is closely aligned with GOP leaders and the top GOP super PAC, is dropping tens of millions into five key battleground states to join a campaign already up in Montana.

The group is diving into Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada in a sweeping ad buy focused on the southern border and inflation, an effort branded as the “Stop the Insanity” campaign. The push includes spending on radio, mail, TV and digital.

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Kari Lakes explains how Democrats are going to steal illegal alien votes in the 2024 election.

Popular Arizona Senate Candidate Kari Lake joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures this morning.

During their discussion, Kari described how Joe Biden’s open border crisis is endangering every American. Kari pointed out that border ranchers are seeing 8-9 illegal alien “gotaways” every day on their land. These same ranchers saw 8-9 “gotaways” a year when Trump was in office!

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Sens. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) appeared behind former President Donald Trump at his New York hush money trial.

The two appeared behind the president while he gave a press conference outside the New York courthouse, alongside Eric Trump and Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY). They stood in silence as Donald Trump spoke about his favorable poll numbers and denounced his prosecution.

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) rear center, listens as former President Donald Trump speaks to the media at his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on Monday, May 13, 2024. (Spencer Platt/Pool Photo via AP)

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Excerpt from www.thenation.com

Mike Johnson, the most conservative speaker in the history of the US House of Representatives, faced down a challenge to his leadership role last week from members of his own caucus who don’t think the Louisiana Republican is sufficiently extreme.

Johnson got on the wrong side of Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene and a handful of GOP dissidents when he decided it might be a good idea to maintain the US commitment to support Ukraine in its fight against the invading forces of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

So the Greene team made a ham-handed move to “vacate” the speaker’s position.

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Chinese students in Britain live in fear from the ‘long arm of Chinese government’, a report warns today.

Students are being intimidated, harassed and silenced by Chinese authorities as part of a sinister pattern of ‘transnational repression’, according to Amnesty International.

Interviews with 32 students in eight countries, including the UK, reveal that many are being photographed and followed at university protests, leading to their families being threatened by police in China.

Almost a third of students said officials had harassed their families to prevent them from criticising the Chinese government or its policies while overseas.

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The United States has not ruled out withholding more military support to Israel’s campaign against Hamas if Israel undertakes a major attack on Rafah, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said on Sunday.

“If Israel launches this major military operation into Rafah, then there are certain systems that we are not going to be supporting and supplying for that operation,” Mr. Blinken told CBS’s “Face the Nation.” He did not elaborate.

Last week, the White House imposed a delay on the delivery of 3,500 bombs out of concern over the potential harm to civilians in Rafah, where many Gazans have sought shelter since the start of the fighting seven months ago. Mr. Blinken said those are the only weapons that the United States has held back “at present.”

Two days after the State Department sent a report to Congress raising “substantial questions” regarding Israel’s efforts to protect civilians in Gaza, Mr. Blinken was circumspect in his criticism of Israel’s response to the Hamas-led attacks of Oct. 7.

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Excerpt from www.texarkanagazette.com

HONG KONG — An appeals court on Wednesday granted the Hong Kong government’s request to ban a popular protest song, overturning an earlier ruling and deepening concerns over the erosion of freedoms in the once-freewheeling global financial hub.

“Glory to Hong Kong” was often sung by demonstrators during huge anti-government protests in 2019. The song was later mistakenly played as the city’s anthem at international sporting events, instead of China’s “March of the Volunteers,” in mix-ups that upset city officials.

It was the first time a song has been banned in the city since Britain handed the territory back to Chinese rule in 1997.

Critics have said prohibiting broadcast or distribution of the song further reduces freedom of expression since Beijing launched a crackdown in Hong Kong following the 2019 protests. They have also warned the ban might disrupt the operation of tech giants and hurt the city’s appeal as a business center.

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Aliança Catalana, the far-right pro-independence party, has entered the Catalan parliament for the first time, winning two seats in Sunday’s election.

Party leader Sílvia Orriols will represent the interests of residents in the Girona province, after gaining a seat in the chamber, after coming to prominence as the Ripoll mayor ever since last year’s municipal election.

The party also won representation in the Lleida constituency, but none in Barcelona, the most populated area of Catalonia.

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Excerpt from kyivindependent.com

Poland has suspended talks with Ukraine regarding the Polish farmer protests at the countries’ shared border over corruption suspicions involving former Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Mykola Solskyi, Polish Deputy Agriculture Minister  Michal Kolodziejczak told the media outlet Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.

Solskyi is suspected of illegally appropriating Ukrainian state-owned land worth Hr 291 million ($7.3 million) and attempting to seize another plot worth an additional Hr 190 million ($4.8 million), according to Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU).

Ukraine’s High Anti-Corruption Court ordered Solskyi’s arrest on April 26. He was ordered to be held in custody until June 24, but he posted a Hr 75.7 million ($1.9 million) bail on the same day and was released.

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Excerpt from www.telesurenglish.net

On Monday, Nuria Parlon, the spokesperson for the Catalan Socialist Party (PSC), stated that her party’s priority is to lead a tripartite regional government by joining forces with the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and the leftist formation Comuns Sumar.

Previously, the PSC achieved a historic victory in the Catalan elections, securing 42 seats on Sunday. Together for Catalonia (Junts) increased its number of seats from 32 to 35, while the ERC’s seats dropped from 33 to 20 and Comuns Sumar obtained six legislators.

Parlon stated that her political organization would talk to all parties, except for the far-right Vox and Catalan Alliance, an Islamophobic party that entered parliament for the first time.

On Monday morning, former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont asserted that he would present his candidacy to be invested as president and emphasized that his party could achieve a broader majority than the Socialist candidate Salvador Illa could form.

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Excerpt from www.manilatimes.net

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OF the six recognized strategies for statecraft in conflict in international relations (negotiation, deterrence, coercive diplomacy, crisis management, war termination and détente), I have discussed so far coercive diplomacy and crisis management as strategic tools for statecraft that our government can employ in the present state of relations in the West Philippine Sea.

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Excerpt from www.express.co.uk

Continued aid to Ukraine from the West could secure them a victory over Russia. (Image: Getty)

Ukraine is still in “desperate need” of aid from the West in order to “thwart Russian state attacks” and regain lost territory in the ongoing war, an expert has said.

Pushan Dutt, professor of economics at INSEAD, said that the continuation of aid to Ukraine could significantly diminish the likelihood of a Russian summer offensive and potentially bring an end to the drawn out war.

Dutt expressed skepticism towards Russian officials’ assertions of a potential nuclear war and wider conflict with NATO.

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Excerpt from www.aljazeera.com

General Syrskii says situation in northeastern oblast ‘significantly worsened’ this week as Russian forces continue to advance.

Ukraine’s military chief has admitted his forces are facing a “difficult situation” in the northeastern region of Kharkiv, where thousands more people have fled their homes as Russian forces continue to advance.

“This week, the situation in the Kharkiv region has significantly worsened,” Oleksandr Syrskii wrote on Telegram on Sunday. “There are ongoing battles in the border areas along the state border with the Russian Federation.”

While admitting that the situation is “difficult” and Russian attackers had achieved “partial successes” in some areas, he said, “Ukrainian defence forces are doing everything they can to hold defensive lines and positions.”

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Excerpt from www.news24.com

The border between Rwanda and Burundi at Akanyaru, seen in August 2016, shortly after cross-border travel and trade became more difficult. (Photo by STEPHANIE AGLIETTI / AFP)

  • Rwanda says it has nothing to do with the RED-Tabara rebel group, which Burundi says it arms.
  • Burundi blames RED-Tabara for a grenade attack in Bujumbura on Friday.
  • The group denies responsibility.

Rwanda on Sunday dismissed a Burundi assertion that it armed a rebel group accused of grenade explosions that wounded dozens, heightening strained relations between the East African neighbours.

At least 38 people were injured in the attack on Friday in Bujumbura, Burundi’s interior ministry said, laying the blame on the RED-Tabara rebels.

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Excerpt from www.nytimes.com

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia replaced his minister of defense on Sunday with an economist, shaking up his national security team for the first time since his invasion of Ukraine and signaling his determination to put Russia’s war effort on an economically sustainable footing.

Mr. Putin kept the minister, Sergei K. Shoigu, in his inner circle, tapping him to run the country’s security council — a position giving Mr. Shoigu close access to the president but little direct authority. Mr. Shoigu will replace Nikolai P. Patrushev, a former K.G.B. colleague of Mr. Putin, who the Kremlin said would be moved to another position to be announced in the coming days.

Andrei R. Belousov, an economist who had served as first deputy prime minister since 2020 and long been seen as one of Mr. Putin’s most trusted economic advisers, was nominated to become the new defense chief.

The Kremlin said Russia’s ballooning defense budget warranted putting an economist in charge, and that Mr. Belousov would help make the Russian military “more open to innovation.”

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Excerpt from www.breitbart.com

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin (top, right) sacked his defence minister, Sergei Shoigu (top, left), on Sunday. Shoigu had just last year been the subject of an attempted Russian coup by quickly slain warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin (bottom, right).

General Sergei Shoigu was reviewing troops in Red Square, Moscow, alongside his long-time ally Putin last week. The announcement of his removal was made on Sunday night and he is being shuffled to the Russian Security Council, where he will join former Russian President and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, also a Putin ally who apparently outlived his own usefulness.

The impression this soft-landing new job is just for the sake of appearances remains, however, given that the removal of Shoigu comes just weeks after one of his closest associates, Deputy Defence Minister Timur Ivanov, was arrested and then jailed on bribery charges. As noted, observers interpreted the arrest as a move against Shoigu himself, who was the target of the Prigozhin coup last year on claims of corruption and military failure.