Iran Admits to Major Infrastructure Damage from U.S. Strikes– www.breitbart.com News Source
EXCERPT:
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian toured transportation and logistics sites damaged by U.S. airstrikes over the weekend, as state media reports implicitly conceded the impact of those strikes was much greater than the regime had previously admitted.
Iran’s state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) published a dour account of Pezeshkian’s infrastructure tour on Sunday:
Officials briefed the president on the condition of border terminals, ports, road, rail, maritime and air transport networks, as well as the supply and distribution of essential goods.
Roads and Urban Development Minister Farzaneh Sadegh also presented a detailed report on damage inflicted on ports, border terminals, bridges, roads, railways, logistics facilities and other strategic infrastructure following US attacks.
Pezeshkian ordered faster reconstruction of damaged infrastructure, activation of alternative routes, and measures to strengthen the resilience of the transport network and ensure uninterrupted services.
Zelensky’s Political Storm Starts to Clear– warontherocks.com News Source
EXCERPT:
Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how Ukrainians themselves debate the issues shaping their country.American coverage often narrows the view to the battlefield — these pieces widen it, revealing the texture of daily life, politics, and public argument in a nation at war.
Anti-Catholic Vandal Strikes Catholic Holy Site of Medjugorje– townhall.com News Source
EXCERPT:
A man is in custody following an anti-Catholic act of vandalism at Medjugorje, a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It has been a place of Catholic pilgrimage since the Virgin Mary allegedly appeared on Apparition Hill in 1981. Video shows the man setting fire around the altar.
MEDJUGORJE
Footage of last night’s anti Catholic terrorist attack in Medjugorje
In this clip you can see the altar being SET ON FIRE by the terrorist who also covered the area in black paint on statues and anti Catholic graffiti pic.twitter.com/P5ogY8ORbo
The suspect also sprayed black spray paint on several statues, including one of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The graffiti read “Devil in a skirt” and “1242.”
The terrorist in Medjugorje wrote ‘1242’ along with some anti Marian slogans on the statue
HAWAII INVALIDATES AMERICA’S SCOTUS – The Hawaiian Supreme Court has issued a recent ruling that spent tens of pages excoriating the Supreme Court of the United States. The majority held the Supreme Court was no longer valid because it overturned Roe, the 1973 ruling that decriminalized murdering unborn children.
The majority also held that due to the white supremacist nature of SCOTUS, Hawaii is no longer bound by its rulings. There have been no arrested issued by the Department of Justice.
XI’S PURGES CONTINUE – Another heavyweight CCP member found himself purged from power by Chairman Xi. Former Politburo member Ma Xingrui was the latest high-profile leader removed under Xi’s anti-corruption operation. The move shows Xi has still not consolidated power after last year’s attempted coup from within.
GOP MAKES LAST EFFORT TO PASS SAVE ACT BEFORE MIDTERMS – With the help of four Democrats, against the effort of four Republicans, the U.S. House passed a continuing resolution for funding the government through September 30. That resolution also includes the SAVE Act. The final vote was 214-208.
With the House expected to recess soon until September, this is the last chance for the Republicans to neutralize the vulnerabilities in our election system that make it easy for America’s enemies, which includes the Democratic Party and its GOP operatives, to deliver the result they wanted as opposed to what American voters want.
Read more about the vulnerabilities of our election system in our Deep Dive, Smoking Vulnerabilities, on page 1.
TRUMP SEALS NUKE DEAL WITH SAUDIS – President Donald Trump has announced an historic multi-billion-dollar deal with Saudi Arabia. The deal will result in U.S. firms being contracted to help the Saudis build a nuclear power plant. Critics warn the Saudis will develop a nuclear arms program through the civil program the U.S. will help it build.
BURNHAM TAKES THE HELM – Andy Burnham took the helm of the United Kingdom on Monday, July 20. Burnham was coronated by his party to replace the outgoing leader of the party, Keir Starmer. So far, Burnham has hinted he will mostly be advancing the pro-immigrant, anti-nativist censorship policies of the previous regime.
HOUTHIS ANNOUNCE PLANS TO SHUT DOWN RED SEA – Following Iran’s provocation, the Houthis of Yemen have pledged they will shut the Red Sea down. The hope is that shutting down two major shipping lanes, the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz, will cripple the global economy. They have followed up with attacks that Trump warns will result in further attacks on an already beleaguered Iran.
PROTESTS GROW IN UKRAINE OVER ZELENSKY’S MILITARY FIRINGS – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has chosen Major General Ihor Skybyuk to become the new chief of the General Staff of the Armed Force. The move follows numerous shake-ups in military leadership that are leading to street protests from Ukrainians.
Zelensky said of the appointment, “We determined the order of further steps. Today, decisions regarding the replacement of the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be formalized — the relevant decrees are being prepared. Together with Mykhailo Drapatyi and Yevhenii Khmara, we determined that the new chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be Major General Ihor Skybyuk — a very experienced military officer, with whom the new commander-in-chief defended Ukraine side by side.”
GOP DEFENDS TRANSGENDERS IN MILITARY – Four members of the Republican Party voted with Democrats to strike down an amendment in the defense authorization act. This amendment would permanently ban transgenders in the military. This would also have prevented biological males from using biological females’ private spaces. Right now, it is only Trump’s executive orders that sustain this standard in the U.S. military today.
TRUMP REDEPLOYS TARIFF GEOPOLITICS – President Donald Trump appears prepared to utilize tariffs as a geopolitical tool once again. He announced a 50% tariff on Canada that came without warning. He followed up this announcement with more tariffs targeting multiple nations he accuses of practicing “forced labor.” This could indicate the administration believes it has a legal path to apply tariffs that doesn’t conflict with SCOTUS’ recent ruling on tariffs.
JUDGE PAUSES PARAMOUNT-WARNER DEAL FOR TWO WEEKS – U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín of the Northern District of California has put a two-week hold on the DOJ-approved Paramount-Warner merger. The deal is being held up by a California lawsuit seeking to prevent it from happening. The judge was nominated by former President Joe Biden.
U.S. HOUSE PASSES SYMBOLIC WAR POWERS RESOLUTION – Four Republicans crossed the aisles to help Democrats pass a non-binding War Powers Resolution aimed at signaling lack of support for the War in Iran. The four Republicans are the usual suspects that traditionally support Democrats during most critical votes. They are Tom Barrett of Michigan, Warren Davidson of Ohio, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, and lame-duck representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky.
B. HEADLINES MISSED
CANADA’S NEW HATE SPEECH LAW IS ALREADY TRIGGERING POLICE VISITS – The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is reporting numerous Canadians have already been contacted by police about their social media posts in response to the new “Combatting Hate Act” becoming law. Currently, the UK is number one in social media arrests worldwide, which is worth noting because Canada’s anti-speech laws are similar to the UK’s anti-speech laws.
AI IS GOING INTO TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT – A surge in hidden debt among AI giants like Oracle and Meta is setting off alarms in the industry. The hidden debt comes from future payment operations for expenses not yet online to make money. For instance, leases and property taxes must be paid on sites that are earmarked for databases that haven’t been built or completely built yet. The hidden debt amounts to more than $1.65 trillion.
VIRGINIA LOOKS TO LEGALIZE STATUTORY RAPE – Virginia’s “Reproductive Freedom Act” would decriminalize statutory rape by giving girls under 18 the legal “right” to consent. Josh Hetzler, one of the challenging attorneys to the bill, said “Among other wild consequences, it will eliminate statutory rape laws for consenting minors, since the amendment provides an unqualified ‘fundamental right to reproductive freedom’ to every ‘individual,’ without any limitation on age. This is wrong and extremely dangerous for Virginia.”
NICARAGUA ENDS ELECTIONS – The far-left government o0f Nicaragua has announced to the country that elections are now over. The Co-President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, declared, “there will be no elections.” Ortega and his wife have ruled Nicaragua through the Sandinista Party for nearly 20 years, though not with the total rule they now possess, at all levels of government, including local government.
300K NORTH CAROLINA STUDENT LOANS IN DEFAULT – North Carolina has released a report that reveals over 300,000 people in the state have defaulted on their student loans. This amounts to billions of dollars owed. Nationally, one in five student loan borrowers are in default.
C. PEOPLE ADVANCE
UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS FALL TO HISTORIC LOWS – The U.S. Labor Department’s jobs report reveals an historic low in unemployment applications. Last month, 187,000 people filed for unemployment, a number not seen since September 6, 1969. The figure also beat the expert’s predicted number for unemployment filings at 222,000 people.
NEW JERSEY ASSAULT RIFLE BAN ASSAULTED BY COURT – The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down New Jersey’s recent ban on “assault weapons.” This is the first time a Federal Appeals Court has directly ruled against any state’s “assault weapons” ban.
GOP TARGETS “WOKE” ABA – The House Oversight Committee has announced plans to investigate the accusations that the American Bar Association has become a progressive weapon of political war.
Representative Brandon Gill (R-TX) said a task force investigating them will “analyze how the American Bar Association (ABA) has weaponized its accreditation authority to promote DEI policies that are contrary to federal civil rights law and the negative consequences in the legal profession that result from these harmful policies. Members will also explore how Congress can help permanently eliminate DEI policies within American institutions, including the legal profession and academy.”
TRUMP ADMIN LOOKING TO DENATURALIZE FRAUD – The Trump administration announced efforts to root out U.S. citizenship naturalization fraud. The White House intends on conducting the “largest denaturalization effort ever.” The White House posted on X, “When you commit fraud during the naturalization process, you forfeit the right to keep your U.S. citizenship…”
WNBA STAR STANDS TALL FOR WOMEN – Sophie Cunningham is going viral for her multiple acts of defiance against wokeness in a women’s basketball league that embraces it, the WNBA. She plays for the Indiana Fever, which is also home of the league’s superstar, Caitlin Clark. When asked by reporters about her stance against men presenting as women playing in women’s sports, she unapologetically doubled down on her stance.
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit ruled 2-1 that a Christian teacher in a public school cannot show students any material that contradicts the school’s supremacist LGBTQ plus ideology. This ideology compels forced acceptance of belief, including gender fluidity and transitioning children, which is an existential challenge to American Rule of Law, where no entity, government or private, can compel belief or speech.
The dissenting Judge, Lawrence VanDyke, wrote, “Could public school administrators establish a policy allowing office decoration with partisan political messages deemed sufficiently ‘compassionate’ but prohibit—as inherently ‘hostile’—any political speech that did not align with the Democratic Socialists of America platform?…
If your instinctual answer to each of these questions is ‘No!’… you might be an everyday American. But according to the majority today, you vastly overestimate the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech in our nation’s schools. In a decision that is irreconcilable with Supreme Court precedent, the majority announces an expansive new rule that all expression by public-school employees that might be observed by students is necessarily government speech, and not the personal speech of an American citizen—even when any reasonable observer would perceive the speech as the employee’s own personal expression.”
Ninth Circuit Upholds Ban on Christian Employee’s Books– www.standingforfreedom.com News Source
EXCERPT:
In completely ignoring the Supreme Court’s landmark free speech ruling in Kennedy v. Bremerton, the federal appellate court insists that staff who express beliefs that don’t align with a school’s established orthodoxy can be fired.
[UPDATE] On Tuesday, a panel of judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that Oregon social worker Rod Theis has no free speech right to display books in his public school office that disagree with radical gender ideology — and that his firing was justified.
Theis, a devout Christian, used to work as an education specialist for InterMountain Education Service District, which required him to travel to different district schools to administer standardized tests to students. He was not a teacher and rarely had contact with most students but did have office space in two of the districts’ schools.
Many InterMountain district staff, including teachers, are allowed to decorate their classrooms and offices with various posters, flags, and books that promote Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ messages, pride flags, political candidates, views on political and social topics, and more. While still employed there, Theis followed their lead by displaying three children’s books — Johnny the Walrus, He is He, and She is She — in his offices. The three books teach the biblical view that sex is unchanging and that children should accept themselves as the sex they were born.
Though no student or parent ever complained about the books, one teacher in 2024 researched the books online, determined that they promote a “binary view of gender,” and filed a complaint, claiming that the three books are “transphobic” and therefore offensive. In response, InterMountain officials ordered Theis to remove the books. He filed a lawsuit and received an injunction from a district court that allowed him to display the books when students were not present. Soon thereafter, the same hostile teacher sent several students to Theis’s office, asking to see the books, to which he eventually agreed; the staff member caught Theis on video showing the books to the students, and the school district fired him.
ICC Prosecutor Whose Netanyahu Warrant Fueled Mamdani Arrest Threat is Fired Over Sexual Abuse– gellerreport.com News Source
EXCERPT:
A female ICC legal assistant has accused the disgusting ICC prosecutor Karim Khan of sexual misconduct. Khan issued an arrest warrant against Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, so that he could divert attention from these sexual misconduct allegations. This is the latest example of why the ICC is an illegitimate and corrupt court that should be dismantled.
The scumbag mayor of NYC (and many other lowlife political leaders) vowed to arrest the Israeli PM based on the arrest warrant issued by Khan.
I welcome the decision, supported by an overwhelming majority of countries, to remove Karim Khan, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
This decision exposes the truth.
Karim Khan was accused of sexually harassing women who worked under him.
Two killed as Ukrainian troops launch 30 attacks against settlements in DPR over past day – Military & Defense– tass.com News Source EXCERPT:
DONETSK, July 27. /TASS/. Over the past day, Ukraine’s armed forces delivered 30 attacks on settlements in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), killing two people and injuring 14 others, the DPR government’s department for documenting Ukrainian war crimes said.
“Thirty armed attacks by Ukrainian military formations were registered, with two civilians reported killed and 14 injured. Overall, 30 various munitions were fired,” the department said in a statement.
According to it, 24 attacks targeted the Gorlovka area, two more the Volnovakha direction, and one each four other areas. A shuttle bus, a passenger car, trucks, special vehicles, and three civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged in the attacks.
Trump Dismisses Claims U.S. Is Short on Munitions in Iran Fight– www.breitbart.com News Source
EXCERPT:
President Donald Trump dismissed reports that the United States is running short on munitions for the conflict with Iran, telling the Wall Street Journal on Sunday that the U.S. military has “far more munitions than anyone in the world, and far more than we need” as his administration continued weighing diplomacy alongside the possibility of renewed military escalation.
Trump’s comments pushed back against reports from the New York Times and other outlets that concerns over declining stocks of Patriot and other air defense interceptors factored into internal deliberations over whether to expand the U.S. military campaign against Iran, even as the administration has emphasized that diplomatic efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz remain underway.
Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press and Fox News Sunday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz reinforced Trump’s message, declaring that “the U.S. military, and I’ve verified this every which way, has everything that it needs to conduct this campaign as effectively as it needs to be,” while insisting Trump is “keeping all options on the table” as he gives negotiations “some space” to continue.
“I have to tell you, the people that are leaking this nonsense deserve to be in jail,” Waltz said on Meet the Press, while acknowledging that years of military support for Ukraine and operations against the Houthis had strained some inventories before President Donald Trump took office. Waltz argued the administration is rebuilding stockpiles while shifting toward newer, less expensive munitions and other emerging technologies.
Speaking on Fox News, Waltz said the administration’s military campaign had focused on degrading Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping and regional stability, arguing that “the Iranian regime is isolated, economically devastated, militarily devastated,” and adding that Tehran was beginning to struggle financially, including paying government workers and members of its military.
The administration’s public defense of its military readiness follows reports that Trump postponed a planned expansion of the U.S. air campaign after meeting Friday with senior advisers, amid a broader debate over the costs and risks of escalating the conflict while diplomatic efforts continued.
According to the Wall Street Journal on Sunday, U.S. military planners had prepared an expanded campaign that could have lasted up to two weeks before Trump opted to allow diplomacy additional time. The newspaper reported that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine informed senior officials about declining inventories of Patriot and other air defense interceptors, while assessing that lower stockpiles would increase operational risk but would not prevent renewed military operations if Trump ordered them.
Russia and Ukraine trade attacks, killing 10, including child in Chernihiv | Russia-Ukraine war News– www.aljazeera.com News Source
EXCERPT:
Russian forces have killed at least six people in Ukraine, according to officials, after launching ballistic missile attacks on the capital, Kyiv, and strikes on other regions, including a supermarket in the northern city of Chernihiv.
The attacks on Sunday came as Russian officials said that Moscow-occupied areas of Ukraine had also come under fire, with four people killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on the occupied city of Horlivka.
Ukraine’s air force said Russia had launched seven ballistic missiles and 136 drones at Ukraine overnight. Kyiv, Chernihiv, Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv cities were all hit.
In northern Chernihiv, officials said a Russian drone hit a supermarket, killing two people, including a nine-year-old girl, and wounding 25 others.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the attack as a “deeply cynical drone strike on an ordinary supermarket”.
In the eastern city of Kharkiv, one person was killed and 16 others required medical attention after a daytime drone attack, the local mayor said.
“This is deliberate Russian terror with absolutely no military justification,” Zelenskyy said.
Christian school chaplain wins settlement after firing over LGBTQ sermon – Fox News News Source
EXCERPT:
A school chaplain in the United Kingdom who was fired and blacklisted after preaching a sermon on LGBTQ issues has reached a confidential settlement with his former employer, ending a seven-year legal battle.
The Rev. Bernard Randall, an ordained Church of England minister, worked for five years as chaplain at Trent College, an independent school for K-12 students in Derbyshire, England. In 2018, Randall grew concerned when the school partnered with Educate and Celebrate, an outside group whose stated goal was to “smash heteronormativity” and embed queer theory in school culture. The group has since dissolved.
“I objected to [it] at the time it started, and tried to discuss it with the senior leadership, [but] they weren’t interested,” Randall told Fox News Digital.
The following year, a student asked Randall why pupils were required to accept LGBTQ ideology at a Christian school. Randall said that question, along with similar concerns raised by other students and staff, prompted him to deliver a sermon on freedom of belief and conscience.
US and Iran hold fire for third night as talks given ‘space’– www.euronews.com News Source
EXCERPT:
The United States and Iran paused strikes for a third night on Sunday as Washington and Tehran look to give peace talks another chance.
Speaking to US media, US ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz said President Donald Trump was “giving diplomacy some space” and “time.”
“He is giving diplomacy a chance,” Waltz told CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
“We’ll see over the next coming days. But make no mistake, additional military assets are moving into the region,” he said, adding: “The regime should believe the president when he says they’re locked and loaded, and where all options are on the table.”
On Sunday, a spokesperson for the Iranian army announced that Tehran had also halted “retaliatory operations” in the region.
It follows 13 consecutive nights of US strikes on Iran, which the US military said aimed to “degrade Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.”
The Strait has been at the centre of tensions between Washington and Tehran and formed a key part of the “memorandum of understanding” that the two sides agreed to in June.
Iran’s new supreme leader ‘more driven than ever’ to create nuclear bomb after Trump’s strikes, US intelligence fears– www.thesun.co.uk News Source
EXCERPT:
IRAN’S new Ayatollah is even more determined to develop a nuclear bomb than his late father, Washington fears.
Fresh US intelligence suggests the killing of the former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in February has led to the intensification of Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
Mojtaba Khamenei (C), son of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran Credit: AFPAn Iranian nuclear programme could bolster the case for further US strikes Credit: AFP
The Iranian program could bolster President Donald Trump’s case for actioning further strikes in the region.
For years, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s 2003 religious ban on weapons of mass destruction tempered global concern regarding Iran’s nuclear programme.
Zelensky says Russia seeks 30,000 extra North Korean troops for Ukraine war– www.channelnewsasia.com News Source
EXCERPT:
KYIV: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Russia has sought an extra 30,000 troops and missile launchers from North Korea to fight his country.
Preparations for the extra troops are being made in Russia’s Voronezh region near the frontier with Ukraine, Zelensky said in a social media post late Saturday (Jul 25).
North Korea sent thousands of troops to help Russia fight off a Ukrainian counter-offensive in the Kursk region in 2024. It has also provided arms to help Russia’s invasion since 2022.
According to South Korea, some 2,000 North Korean troops have been killed in the war.
“Russia wants to receive another 30,000 troops from North Korea. Since June, preparations have been underway in Russia’s Voronezh region to receive them,” Zelensky said on X.
“North Korea is also preparing to transfer additional launchers for ballistic missiles to Russia. This is a threat not only to Ukraine. Russia is helping North Korea learn how to wage war, improve its weapons, and gain real combat experience in using them,” he added.
Berlin Pride suspect shot dead by police after man ‘rams van into crowd with 1 killed and 16 injured’– www.mirror.co.uk News Source
EXCERPT:
German police have shot dead the man suspected of driving a van into a crowd near Berlin’s Pride festival, killing a woman and injuring at least 29 people.
Alleged terrorist Abdul Ballout, 21, rushed at police with a weapon before being shot by cops, officials said. The suspect was tracked down to an allotment garden in Spandau, West Berlin.
Authorities had previously issued a wanted notice and warned people against approaching Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese roots, saying he may be armed and dangerous.
Polizei Berlin said last night: “At around 6pm, the suspect in yesterday’s attack in the Grosser Tiergarten was located in an allotment garden in Spandau.
“He is said to have rushed toward our emergency forces with a stabbing weapon, after which police firearms were used.
Burnham to Host Zelenskyy in Signal of Continued UK Support– financialpost.com News Source
EXCERPT:
In his first week in office, Burnham has focused on domestic issues, announcing a raft of cost-of-living measures, from capping bus fares to helping households with energy bills. His relationship with Zelenskyy will be a test of how decisively he is prepared to step onto the international stage.
Israeli settlers set fire to West Bank mosques after deadly clash– www.channelnewsasia.com News Source
EXCERPT:
The Palestinian Authority, which has responsibility for the section of the West Bank where Friday’s shootings took place, said the incident was part of a broader assault on Palestinians.
“Israeli state-backed settler terrorism is intensifying into systematic pogroms across the occupied West Bank,” the Palestinian prime minister’s office said in a statement on X.
The Israeli military said troops sent to Qusra, which sits near several large Israeli settlements, had found graffiti and signs of arson and were searching for suspects. Police officers would be sent to collect evidence, it said.
“The security forces strongly condemn incidents of this kind, including harm to religious sites, and will continue to act decisively to maintain security and public order in the area,” the military said.
An Israeli military official said such violence by Israelis diverted the defence force’s attention from its primary mission of defence and counter-terrorism in a complex environment. The official said, however, that over the weekend troops arrested more than 130 individuals, including weapons traffickers, Hamas operatives, individuals involved in incitement and people planning imminent attacks.
In separate incidents, Palestinian officials said settlers had also tried to burn a mosque near Kour, southeast of Tulkarm, and attacked Palestinian workers at a stone-cutting facility in the town of Kafr Malik, near Ramallah.
Farid Jiyousi, a member of the Kour village council, said three settlers had tried to set the mosque ablaze at dawn but worshippers had put out the fire before it reached the mosque’s main area. “This is the first attack our village has experienced,” he said, adding that the attackers had also sprayed Hebrew graffiti on the mosque walls.
Pentagon lists 4 killed in Iran war under “Overseas Operations Casualties” on website– www.cbsnews.com News Source
EXCERPT:
The Pentagon website that informs the public about the dead and wounded in military conflicts now lists four service members killed in Jordan and Iraq in July under “Overseas Operations Casualties” — separate from 14 other service members who have been killed during the war with Iran.
Romania summons Russian envoy as it shoots down third intruding drone | Russia-Ukraine war News– www.aljazeera.com News Source
EXCERPT:
Romania has summoned Russia’s ambassador as it has reported that it shot down three drones in as many days.
A Romanian plane shot down a drone after an incursion into the country’s airspace on Sunday morning, the Ministry of Defence reported. The incident followed similar interceptions on Friday and Saturday.
Following Sunday’s incident, Bucharest summoned Russia’s ambassador to complain about the “repeated violations”, Foreign Minister Oana Toiu wrote on social media.
Romania intercepted a Russian drone for the first time on Friday. That followed a similar incident on Saturday. An F-16 fighter jet then shot down an unmanned aircraft over the Black Sea on Sunday.
President Nicusor Dan reported that an investigation had found that Friday’s drone was a “Shahed model, used by the Russian Federation in its war of aggression against Ukraine”.
The Mayor of Toronto refused to join tens of thousands of Canadian Jews in a Walk for Israel event but she will vibe with 5 Anti Israel activists. pic.twitter.com/mBWGOmxDxW
Toronto police are investigating after two locations of Jewish-owned Kiva’s bagel bar were targeted in separate incidents Sunday morning, including one where a window was struck by gunfire.
In multiple posts to social media, police say officers were first called to the Yonge Street and St. Clair Avenue West area at around 8 a.m. after reports that a window at a Jewish-owned bakery had been struck by gunfire.
Investigators located evidence of a firearm discharge at the scene. However, no injuries were reported.
Roughly 20 minutes later, officers responded to another location of the “same Jewish owned bakery chain” near Bathurst Street and Steeles Avenue West after receiving reports of a broken window.
“We don’t know when the shooting occurred. Both incidents occurred sometime overnight,” police told CP24 in an email.
At this time, no suspect descriptions have been provided.
Four Republicans crossed the aisles to help Democrats pass a non-binding War Powers Resolution aimed at signaling lack of support for the War in Iran. The four Republicans are the usual suspects that traditionally support Democrats during most critical votes. They are Tom Barrett of Michigan, Warren Davidson of Ohio, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, and lame-duck representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky.
House Passes Iran War Powers Resolution After 4 Republicans Vote with Democrats– www.westernjournal.com News Source
EXCERPT:
On Thursday, House Democrats succeeded in adopting an entirely symbolic resolution designed to curtail President Donald Trump’s Iran war powers.
According to The Hill, four Republicans joined their Democratic colleagues in passing the resolution by a margin of 214-208.
Republican Reps. Tom Barrett of Michigan, Warren Davidson of Ohio, and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania joined a perennial Trump nemesis, Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, in siding with the Democrats.
Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington sponsored the resolution. In pre-vote remarks on the House floor Wednesday, the congresswoman called it a “vote of conscience.”
“This is a vote that requires us to find the strength to do what is right for the American people, and to send the clearest, even stronger message to this president of the United States that the United States Congress, the House of Representatives, is reasserting our authority over war. This war must end,” she added.
A similar resolution in the Senate failed on Thursday, 47-49, according to the Associated Press.
On the other side of the debate, Republican Rep. Brian Mast of Florida chastised his House colleagues.
