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#1 Cornyn Responds to Dem After Viral Confrontation: ‘They Want to Hold These People Hostage!' - Fox News, Satsuma Zed Texas - Public/Team Cornyn, Charlene Newby, Brenda Barry, The Guy Benson, Heath E. Riggle
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, criticized Democrats Tuesday on Fox News, accusing them of holding Transportation Security Administration agents "hostage" after a confrontation over Department of Homeland Security funding. The Texas Republican called out Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, as the DHS shutdown continues into its second month. "Congressman Casar was the leader of the defund the police crowd when he was on Austin City Council," Cornyn said on "America Reports." "He has no respect for law enforcement, including the Transportation Security Agency that's keeping us safe at our airports."
#2 Israel Claims to Have Killed Another Senior Iranian Official - Alex Croft for Independent, The Little Satoshi News, ILTV Israel News, Never Again, Maccabi Lev-Ari מכבי לב ארי, and Association Femme Azadi on X
Israel's defence minister, Israel Katz, has claimed that Iranian intelligence minister Esmaeil Khatib has been killed. Khatib, appointed in 2021, was reportedly close to the new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, and had abackground in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) intelligence department. Tehran has not yet issued a response to these allegations regarding Khatib's death. This claim follows the recent killing of security chief Ali Larijani in another Israeli airstrike, making him the most senior Iranian official killed by the US and Israel since the assassination of Ali Khamenei. Iran's Revolutionary Guards retaliated by launching missiles at central Israel, citing revenge for Larijani's death...
#3 Trump’s Top Counterterrorism Aide Resigns, Citing Iran War - John Sakellariadis for POLITICO, Joe Kent, The CSPAN Review/Washington Journal, Tony Seruga, Buzz Patterson/Aizer Beza, Lavy, IB Times UK, and Stephanie Lynn on X
Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced Tuesday he was resigning over the war in Iran — a stunning defection that shows how President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Tehran has divided some of the most loyal corners of his administration. “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Joe Kent, the head of the national counterterrorism center, said in a resignation letter posted to X on Tuesday morning. “Until June of 2025, you understood that the wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the precious lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity of our nation.”
#4 Cause of a Meteor in Northeast Ohio Traced to Explosive Atmospheric Breakup - Rihem Akkouche for USA Herald, The Associated Press, ABC News, Freedom Enthusiast, Blondelady2024, and Leah Rain on X
A fiery streak across the morning sky and a thunderous boom have left residents startled—and scientists racing to explain the Cause of a meteor in Northeast Ohio after a space rock exploded above Lake Erie. The meteor burst Tuesday morning north of Cleveland, lighting up skies and rattling communities across multiple states in a dramatic celestial event. Reports flooded in like ripples from a stone dropped in water. The American Meteor Society received hundreds of sightings spanning from Maryland’s Eastern Shore to Kentucky. Observers across Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, and western New York also reported seeing the blazing object. Just before 9 a.m., residents across Northeast Ohio described hearing a powerful boom—like an explosion echoing through neighborhoods. Viewers contacted local media outlets, including FOX 8 News, saying homes and businesses shook for several seconds as the sound rolled through the region...
#5 PFAS in Produce: California Study Exposes the Gap Between MAHA Goals and Reality - Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards for The HighWire, Vitalizate, HealthDay News,
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California, known for its high-tech dominance—and now high-tech exodus—and Hollywood glitz, is also the nation’s agricultural powerhouse. The state supplies nearly half of the vegetables and more than 75 percent of the fruits, nuts, and wine consumed in the United States. It also leads the nation in dairy production, accounting for nearly 20 percent of the nation’s total milk supply. And every year, agricultural fields in 58 California counties are sprayed with an average of 2.5 million pounds of toxic pesticides, including deadly “forever chemicals” known as PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances). A new study reveals that these forever chemicals contaminate nearly 40 percent of all non-organic produce grown in the state, with a total of 17 different PFAS pesticide residues detected on 40 types of produce, including peaches, strawberries, plums, and grapes...#6 Undercover Video Exposes California Elections Fraud Scheme - Los Angeles Today, Marcos Palazzolo, Mianus Gazette, Sassy Latina, and Rick Addante, PhD/Eric Metaxas on X
The O'Keefe Media Group has released undercover footage showing individuals offering cash, cigarettes, and marijuana to homeless people in exchange for signatures on election petitions and voter registration forms in Los Angeles. The investigation uncovered instances of petitioners instructing people to use fake addresses, with one Weingart Center employee telling an undercover journalist, 'You can just put Pinocchio Lane.' The U.S. Attorney's Office and California officials have responded, stating that such activities are federal and state felonies that will be aggressively investigated and prosecuted...#7 GOP Tempers Flare Over How to Pass Save America Act - Alexander Bolton for The Hill, Eric Daugherty (community note), Leader John Thune, OSZ, Blondelady2024, and Polymarket on X
Tempers are starting to boil within the Senate Republican Conference as disagreements arise over how to handle President Trump’s No. 1 legislative priority, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act, which Trump wants to push through the Senate despite staunch Democratic opposition. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), a leading proponent of the bill, angered some colleagues this week by suggesting on social media that Republican senators who don’t want to force Democrats to wage a “talking filibuster” to oppose the legislation should be ousted from the Senate...
#8 US Postal Service Could Run Out of Money Come Oct., Nov. - NEWSMAX, USA TODAY, More Perfect Union, CSPAN, and Andro on X
The head of the U.S. Postal Service told Congress on Tuesday his agency could run out of money in October or November if the agency continues to make required retirement and other payments to the government. Postmaster General David Steiner told a House Oversight subcommittee that USPS needs higher stamp prices, the ability to borrow more money, as well as other reforms from Congress. "We're in a crisis," Steiner said. He said if the service defaults on some payments as it has in recent years, it will be out of money in less than a year. "If we stretch those out, we're looking at more like February," he said... Argentina has finalised its decision to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO), following in the footsteps of the United States and formally severing ties with the global health body. On Tuesday, Minister of Foreign Affairs Pablo Quirno confirmed Argentina’s withdrawal from the international agency, which monitors health trends, tracks disease, promotes healthcare access, and trains medical providers. The move was first announced in February last year, and a month later, Quirno explained that the government of right-wing President Javier Milei had issued a formal notice to the WHO. “Today, Argentina’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) takes effect, marking one year since the formal notification was made by our country,” Quirno wrote in his social media post on Tuesday... “President Trump has great relationships with foreign leaders around the world. At the same time, he has long called attention to the disproportional dynamics that have been enabled by weak Presidents for decades — including the United States’ extensive financial support of NATO and unfair trading practices that hurt our farmers and workers,” White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said in a statement. “The President was resoundingly elected to put America First, and he will continue to bolster US national security through Operation Epic Fury, with or without NATO.”
#9 Argentina Officially Withdraws From World Health Organization, Following US - Al Jazeera, Geraldo Nunez, Milei in English - Official Account, LS/Nick Sortor, FightingFit, Keena, and Makalukhabar English
#10 Rebuffed by Allies, Trump Now Says U.S. Doesn’t Need Help Defending the Strait of Hormuz - NBC News, NEWSMAX, Eric Daugherty, The South Asia Times, and Strolling Charles on X
President Donald Trump dropped his push Tuesday for U.S. allies to join in protecting the Strait of Hormuz from Iranian threats — an about-face that came just one day after he called upon nations to “get involved” so oil tankers can safely navigate the crucial shipping lane. First on social media and later in an Oval Office meeting, Trump said the outside military support he has been working to muster is no longer necessary in the war, which the U.S. and Israel launched against Iran on Feb. 28. “We don’t need any help, actually,” Trump said in an exchange with reporters in the Oval Office as he hosted Ireland’s prime minister, Micheál Martin.
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