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Senator Darline Graham: Critics say I shouldn’t run for the Senate. They say I’m not a politician. You know what I say? Guilty as charged. President Trump had never served in elected office before, and I think he has done a damn good job.

"The implementation of the ambitious Bering Strait tunnel concept will be, without exaggeration, a major technological milestone of the 21st century," Elena Perminova said

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U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack: The Turkish military is super good. They are super strong, and so is intelligence. So when they see these jets coming towards the border and they don’t know what the purpose, direction or intent is, they start to say, "We’re going to have to scramble our own." Thank goodness calmer heads really came to the moment of the day, and we unwrapped it. But it was, you know, one of those moments where I think for many of us our whole life went in front of us,
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U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack: Israel still occupies the Golan against UN resolutions, against the entire international order, which has said the Golan is Syrian.
U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack: There was a time period in the early 2000s, a honeymoon period between Israel and Türkiye. And fast forward, my belief and my hope is there will be again. What you’re hearing in rhetoric amongst the senior leaders of these countries is they have to, during a political campaign — which everybody is in, right? Prime Minister Netanyahu is moving towards October. He knows what his constituency wants. President Erdogan is moving towards a decision as to whe
U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack: You know, every evening, by the way, we have coordination between Türkiye, Israel and Syria, hunting ISIS terrorists, because as this vacuum of power continues, ISIS is pushing hard to re-establish itself.

A punishing drought is draining Europe’s great rivers, pushing the Loire, the Danube and the Rhine towards record lows. At the Kaub gauging station, the reference point for shipping on the Rhine – Germany’s economic artery – the water level fell to 17cm (6.7 inches) this month, a low unseen since measurements began in 1880. Meanwhile, wildfires are burning across southern Europe, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands and producing the defining image of a European summer in which...
U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack on the Middle East: All prophets have been sent to this zip code. Not to the Caribbean, not to South America, not to North America, not to Australia, not to China — to this insolvable place. So if God can’t resolve it, if the prophets can’t resolve it, our idea of resolving it in the next year and a half is probably little.

Russian forces attacked a shopping centre in Kryvyi Rih with a double-tap drone strike on 21 August. The hits have killed 15 people and injured 130 others, including 23 children.
The statistics present a warning as to where humanity is heading, as well as an opportunity for Israel to play the role of a “light among nations” as predicted in the Bible.
U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack: Trump asked President Erdogan, "Why didn’t you just take Syria? If you were instrumental in helping them, why didn’t you just take it?" President Erdogan responded, ‘Because we don’t want it. We want Syria to be a sovereign and independent country as a canvas and a blanket in the middle of this very difficult zip code."
U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack: This idea of a greater Israel, which, you know, sometimes in Istanbul papers you wake up in the morning and there’s a picture of everything from Egypt to the Maldives with some journalist saying, "This is Israel’s focus." You wake up in Tel Aviv and there’s another picture of Ottoman Empire 2.0, the same territory. We don’t think any of those things are true.
💀🇷🇺 Retired Russian FSB Major General Igor Laptev has been found dead in his Moscow apartment, adding another high-ranking former security official to the growing list of unusual deaths among Russia’s military and security establishment. Russian media say Laptev died on August 20, while authorities have yet to publicly provide a detailed account of the circumstances. The 83-year-old Laptev had served for years in the Soviet and Russian security services, including the KGB and FSB, where he
U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack: The Turkish military is strong, they’re courageous, they’re very well equipped, they know what they’re doing. Could this be World War II? I think our opinion is anything could be World War II from an unintended act, if you just looked at World War II. But our belief is there’s no intention at all to do any of those things.
U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack: There’s some intelligence that Israel had — some intelligence that one of three things happened. Either there were Turkish military or military assets on site. We know that was not the case. The issue had arisen probably six days before to us, saying, "We have some intelligence that there might be Turkish movement into this site, which we would be very concerned about." We all did our due diligence. We went back to our respective intelligence agencies.

Prior to 12 August, the Russian Black Sea Fleet had eight warships capable of firing Kalibr cruise missiles. It still has at least five.

Trump says Iran not ready to make the 'right deal' US President Donald Trump said on Friday he did not think that Iran was ready make the "right deal," and that Washington was observing "what happens" in the conflict. "It just means that we're seeing what happens," Trump told reporters when asked if US military options with Iran were limited. "We have total control of that entire region having to do with the Strait of Hormuz, and that means well into it, the land areas. So, they would love to m

Ukraine codified its first jet-powered interceptor drone, the Alexa Spatium, built to destroy Russia's jet Geran drones.
🇺🇦👊🔥 Ukraine’s campaign against Russian Black Sea logistics has claimed another vessel, with the container ship RMS TEAM lost while sailing toward the Russian port of Novorossiysk. The vessel was struck by a drone while heading toward Novorossiysk. According to reports citing shipping company Akkon Lines, the company subsequently declared a “complete constructive loss” of both the vessel and its cargo, meaning the damage was severe enough for the ship to be considered beyond economical reco
NATO countries have sought to ease the Iran conflict indirectly, focusing on plans outside the alliance to reopen the waterway.

The strike hit 80 km behind the front line.

"Ukraine has imposed sanctions against the producers and distributors of the Russian animated series 'Masha and the Bear'," Ukrainian Culture Minister Tetyana Berezhna said on X.

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Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is expected to step down by year-end after months of tension with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. His departure would deepen a leadership gap in the Army, which already lacks a Senate-confirmed chief of staff after Gen. Randy George was fired in April. Driscoll, a JD Vance ally and former Army Ranger, pushed modernization, commercial technology, and lessons from Ukraine during his 18-month tenure. Source: WSJ
Reporter: The national debt has surpassed $40 trillion. Have you been discussing what to do about that? Trump: It's been a problem for 35 years. The way you take care of debt is with growth. And we have tremendous growth. It will take care of that very easily.
Trump: If I ran a community, I would want to have the data centers. They are clean.

Maria Zakharova emphasized that Warsaw is benefiting from re-exporting US liquefied natural gas to Ukraine
"Attacks like these are nothing less than terrorist acts," Zelensky said on Telegram, urging the world to hold Russia to account.
Trump: AI data centers will lower the electric cost because they are building their own electric facility.
Trump: I've raised a lot. Nobody knows what it is, but I will tell you it's about $850 million. I will be spending a lot of that money for candidates that I think are good Republican candidates.

As Kyiv warns of sabotage around its 24 August Independence Day, a daytime strike set the mall ablaze before a follow-up wave targeted the emergency crews sent in.
Reporter: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to him about another type of intervention? Is that something he'll be doing? Trump: The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will. Yeah.
Trump: I only make good deals.
Trump on Iran: They would love to make a deal, but they are not ready to make the right deal, in my opinion.
Trump on Iran: We have total control of that entire region having to do with the Strait of Hormuz. That means well into it, the land areas.