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  • US says ceasefire call shows Hezbollah 'getting battered'

    Hezbollah's call for a ceasefire on Tuesday shows the militant group is on the back foot and "getting battered," U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told a regular briefing on Tuesday. Hezbollah's deputy leader Naim Qassem said in a televised address on Tuesday the Iran-backed group's capabilities were intact and its fighters were pushing back Israeli ground incursions, despite the "painful blows" inflicted by Israel in recent weeks. Qassem said the group supported the efforts of Lebanon's Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, a Hezbollah ally, to secure a ceasefire, without providing further details on any conditions demanded by Hezbollah.

  • Melania Sheds a Little Light on Trump’s Bedroom Habits

    Melania Trump has been married to her husband for 19 years, during which time she had a front-row seat to the former president’s bedtime routine. She spilled on one detail of that regimen in a Tuesday appearance on Fox News Tuesday, suggesting that Donald Trump sleeps in something other than pajamas. She joined The Five to promote her new memoir, aptly titled Melania, which hit shelves earlier in the day.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get the Daily Beast's biggest scoops and scandals delivered rig

  • Kevin O'Leary says the US needs to go 'DEFCON 19 against China' and break the country with heavy tariffs

    "You squeeze them because the Chinese only understand the stick," Kevin O'Leary told Fox News presenter Trey Gowdy.

  • Turkish lawmakers discuss Mideast in closed session after Erdogan's Israel claim

    ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey's lawmakers held a closed-door session on Tuesday to discuss the spread of war in the Middle East, a week after President Tayyip Erdogan made an unsubstantiated claim that Israel eventually aimed to encroach on Turkish territory. Israel has not publicly responded to Erdogan's claim, which analysts and opposition lawmakers say is far-fetched and is intended primarily to deflect public attention away from Turkey's economic woes. Israel has also not commented publicly on Tuesday's closed-door parliamentary session in Ankara, which is titled "Israel's occupation of Lebanon and developments in the region".

  • Kamala Harris Did 1 Thing On TV That The Last 2 Presidents Never Did

    Stephen Colbert noted to the audience that production had "asked Harris ahead of time" if she was OK with the activity.

  • Chinese stocks suffer worst fall in 27 years over growth concerns

    Investors disappointed after hoped-for policy plans by Beijing to stimulate economy failed to materialise

  • N. Korean soldiers 'highly likely' killed in Ukraine: Seoul

    North Korean soldiers are likely fighting in Ukraine alongside Russian troops, with some believed already killed and more expected to be deployed, Seoul's defence minister said Tuesday.Seoul's defence minister, Kim Yong-hyun, told lawmakers Tuesday that it was "highly likely" that the report was true.

  • Melania Trump reveals how Barron has settled into life at NYU after professors sign critical letter against Donald

    Professors signed onto 2020 letter that claimed Donald Trump ‘peddles in lies’ and ‘incites violence’

  • Netanyahu says Israel has 'taken out' Nasrallah's successors

    JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli forces have killed the would-be successors of late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday, without naming them. Netanyahu did not identify by name Nasrallah's replacement that he claimed Israel had killed.

  • Donald Trump: 'Wait Until You See What I’m Going To Do' To The New York Times

    The former president issued an ominous threat to the venerable newspaper.

  • The EU has lost its patience with Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán. So, now what? | Radio Schuman

    After three months of a European Council's presidency that has turned into a debacle, what can the EU do now with Orbán? Radio Schuman asks Daniel Hegedüs, Regional Director for Central Europe at the German Marshall Fund.View on euronews

  • Trump stuns social media as he dances along to YMCA at the end of speech about October 7 attacks

    The event was billed by the Trump campaign as an October 7 ‘remembrance event’

  • Dem Report Finds FBI Probe Into Brett Kavanaugh's Past Left 'Disturbing Gaps'

    Senate Democrats' inquiry, six years in the making, claims that witnesses were silenced and lawmakers misled about the now-Supreme Court justice..

  • Trump’s 7 Secret Calls and Personal Gifts to Putin Revealed

    Vladimir Putin urged Donald Trump not to tell anyone after the then-U.S. president secretly sent COVID-19 test machines for the Russian leader’s private use during the pandemic, according to a bombshell new book by Bob Woodward.Woodward also claims the two men continued their relationship after Trump left the White House with “maybe as many as seven” secret calls since 2021.The Watergate journalist writes that Trump sent a “bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines” to Putin in 2020.Read

  • Saudi Arabia executes Filipino convicted of murder despite Philippine presidential appeal

    Saudi Arabia has put to death a Filipino citizen convicted of murder despite years of efforts by the Philippines to prevent the execution, including a presidential appeal, officials said Monday. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and other officials did not provide details, including the identity of the Filipino and the nature of the case, citing a family request for privacy. A Philippine official with knowledge of the case, however, said the Filipino was arrested by Saudi Arabian authorities in 2020 after being accused of the killing.

  • Jimmy Kimmel Spots Moment Even Laura Ingraham Wasn’t Buying Trump’s ‘Load Of Crap’

    The Fox News personality “is in trouble,” joked the late night host.

  • At least seven dead in Israeli strike on residential building in Damascus

    Seven civilians were killed in an Israeli air strike in Damascus on Tuesday, the Syrian government said, with a UK-based war monitor saying the strike had targeted a building used by Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Lebanon's Hezbollah. Syria's defence ministry said women and children were among the dead in the strike on a residential and commercial building in the Mazzeh neighbourhood of the capital, which is home to embassies and security headquarters. Read our liveblog to see how the day's eve

  • Ursula von der Leyen attacks Viktor Orbán over pro-Russia stance

    Pointed speech by EC president in Strasbourg rebukes Hungarian leader for economic and political policies

  • Kamala Harris Dishes About Her Gun in ‘60 Minutes’ Sit-Down

    Vice President Kamala Harris surprised some viewers when she mentioned during last month’s presidential debate that she has long been a gun owner. But, frankly, she was surprised by people’s surprise.“That’s not the first time I’ve talked about it,” she told Bill Whitaker during a 60 Minutes primetime election special that aired Monday.Asked by the correspondent what kind of gun she owned, and when and why she’d acquired it, the Democratic presidential nominee said hers was a Glock pistol.Read m

  • EU Commission chief: Hungary's Russia, China policies pose security risk

    Hungary is putting European security at risk, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday in an unusually blunt speech blasting Budapest’s relationship with Russia and China. Speaking at a debate with nationalist Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, von der Leyen took aim at Budapest's reluctance to join EU partners in helping Ukraine against Russia's invasion, and its decisions strengthening ties with Moscow and Beijing.