Category: News Breaking

The Associated Press: Trump says Iran failed a test

Earlier Monday, Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that the agreement reached last month was “built to test” Iran, adding that “when you’re dealing with sleazebags (agreements) don’t mean much.”

“They didn’t honor the test,” the president said.

Iran asserts it has the right to manage traffic through the strait and potentially charge fees in accordance with the interim peace deal. The U.S. has disputed that.

The American military and the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization have tried to establish a route through the strait along the coast of Oman that would be outside of Iranian control. Iran has attacked ships using that route, saying the U.S. is violating the interim peace deal. The U.S. has attacked Iran in response, drawing Iranian attacks on U.S.-allied Arab states.

Exchanges of fire in recent days had already cast further doubt on the interim peace deal. Washington had lifted a blockade it imposed in mid-April as part of that deal, which also called for the strait to be fully reopened.

“We are reinstating the THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE,” Trump said on social media. “All other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait.”

The president said the U.S. would be “reimbursed” by 20% of the value of cargo to help cover “any and all costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security.”

The U.S. military said it will resume its blockade of Iranian ports at midnight local Wednesday in Dubai.

The Associated Press: Attacks resume across the Mideast

The United Arab Emirates’ Defense Ministry said early Tuesday that Iran attacked two tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, killing one mariner and wounding eight others.

The Emirati Defense Ministry said Iran launched two cruise missiles at the tankers Mombasa and Al Bahiyah.

The attacks set both tankers ablaze, though the fires were extinguished.

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard claimed the attack on the tankers, saying the vessels “ignored repeated warnings.”

“They chose to pass through a minefield and were subsequently targeted and disabled,” the Guard said.

Bahrain also came under renewed attack early Tuesday morning as Iran retaliated over the latest round of U.S. airstrikes. Bahrain sounded its missile alert sirens twice, urging the public to seek shelter. There was no word on any damage or casualties from the attack.

The Emirati Defense Ministry said the attack on the tankers killed one Indian national and wounded six Indians and two Ukrainians.

“The UAE reserves its full right to respond to this escalation and to take all necessary measures to protect its territory, its citizens and residents,” the Defense Ministry added.

The Emirates used similar language before launching attacks against Iran during the war. Fighter jets could be heard overheard Tuesday morning in Dubai.

The U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi and the U.S. Consulate in Dubai alerted Americans early Tuesday that consular appointments had been canceled through Wednesday “due to the regional security situation.”

Jordan’s military said it intercepted four missiles from Iran, according to a statement carried by the kingdom’s state-run Petra news agency. Jordan hosts U.S. forces and has come under attack by Tehran in recent days.
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The Associated Press: Trump insists strait will be open

The U.S. military’s Central Command said it struck areas around Abu Musa, Bandar Abbas, Bushehr, Chahbahar, Jask and Konarak, targeting Iranian “coastal defense systems, missile and drone sites and maritime capabilities.” Iran acknowledged strikes around those areas, but provided no immediate casualty or damage assessments.

“These strikes will continue imposing a heavy cost on Iranian forces and degrade their ability to attack innocent civilians and commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz,” the U.S. military said.

Moments after the military announced the new strikes, Trump called it “another major attack.”

“We’re hitting them very hard. And it’ll continue, and we’ll see what happens,” he told reporters in the Oval Office. “We’re knocking out all of their offensive capability and we’re controlling the straits. We’re putting the blockade back.”

Trump also provided new details on his administration doing an about-face and suggesting it will charge tolls for ships going through the strait, after previously suggesting that it wouldn’t.

“We’re protecting a very rich portion of the world,” he said. “We’re spending money. And so, what we’ve done is, we are going to be reimbursed for protection.”

It’s a change in U.S. policy that, until now, said the strait should remain open to all without tolls — as it was before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28. Any attempt by the U.S. or Iran to charge fees would violate global norms on freedom of navigation and raise tensions, likely causing further economic disruption far beyond the region.

The U.S. Navy has fought for freedom of navigation on the seas since the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812.

The Associated Press: US attacks Iran and Tehran retaliates across the Middle East as both vie for control of strait

The U.S. launched strikes on Iran early Tuesday morning, hours after President Donald Trump said Washington is “reinstating” a blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz. Trump separately suggested the United States will charge other ships for safe passage, upending hundreds of years of American policy supporting freedom of navigation across the globe.

Iran responded with attacks targeting Bahrain, Jordan and two tankers associated with the United Arab Emirates traveling through the strait, killing one mariner and wounding eight others. The Emirates threatened to retaliate against Iran, potentially drawing the nation home to Abu Dhabi and Dubai back into fighting with Tehran.

The attacks come as Iran and the U.S. both vie for control of the strait through which a fifth of all traded crude oil and natural gas once passed in peacetime. The price of benchmark Brent crude oil rose to a one-month high of over $84 in trading early Tuesday, still well below the nearly $120 reached at the height of the war but threatening to make costs everywhere higher.

CBS News: U.S. citizen working for humanitarian organization in Congo tests positive for Ebola, CDC says.

Updated on: July 11, 2026
/ 5:26 PM EDT / CBS/AP

A U.S. citizen working for a humanitarian organization in Congo has tested positive for the Ebola virus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday, as the Central African country struggles to contain the swelling outbreak.

The CDC said it was working with the person’s employer, U.S. agencies, the public health authorities and Congolese partners to prevent further transmission and identify close contacts. It did not provide any further details.

A State Department spokesperson told CBS News that it was “aware of this case” and was “actively facilitating support for the American citizen affected.”

Earlier this week, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said that the outbreak is the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded on the continent, with 1,830 confirmed cases in Congo, including 648 deaths. Cases have also been confirmed in neighboring Uganda.

In the first week of the outbreak, an American doctor working in Congo tested positive for the virus and was transferred to Germany for treatment. After weeks of care at a hospital in Germany, he recovered. He and his family, who were quarantined separately, returned to the United States in June.

Initially, Trump administration officials had said that the United States was planning to send Americans who are exposed to Ebola while abroad to a new facility in Kenya instead of flying them home. But the project has been suspended after an order from a Kenyan court.

In a recent request to Congress, the Trump administration asked for $1.4 billion in supplemental funding to respond to the outbreak in the Congo, Uganda and elsewhere.

The Congolese authorities declared a fresh Ebola outbreak on May 15, after the disease had been transmitting for weeks without official detection, according to the World Health Organization

The outbreak is caused by the rare Bundibugyo virus, which has no approved vaccine or treatment. It often causes deadly symptoms. Last week, clinical trials for treatment began after researchers launched a highly anticipated study in the hope of fighting the virus.

Meanwhile, an ongoing conflict in eastern Congo has led thousands of people to flee the violence, spreading the virus further. Mistrust and attacks on health centers have also hampered the response. Doctors and other healthcare workers often do not have adequate protective gear, which can leave them vulnerable to the virus.

Fetterman: Dems Who Endorsed Swalwell, Platner Should Stop Allying with ‘Dirtbags’

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) stated that there are Democrats who have endorsed both Eric Swalwell and Graham Platner in their Senate races and remarked, “maybe stop getting [in] bed with absolute dirtbags, someone like Platner.”

Fetterman said, [relevant remarks begin around 2:30] “He was already a dead man walking politically, so, regardless. Now, when the entire Democratic Party in Maine has called him to leave, and now, also, as far as I know, whether it’s Schumer, Gillibrand and other leadership in the D.S. and other people have all called [for him to] go, he’s a dead man walking. I don’t know why he’s trying to pretend that he’s not done, too. Even those Pod Save America people that pushed that dirtbag, and they dismissed those things in The New York Times article, maybe they ought to apologize to the women that clearly they didn’t believe or they dismissed that.”

He added, “I know Democrats that have back-to-back endorsed and got all in on Swalwell and were on the Platner train as well, too. So, maybe stop getting [in] bed with absolute dirtbags, someone like Platner.”

(U Wouldn’t Believe It!!) Police: Woman, 32, Charged With Felony Pickle Assault. From The Smoking Gun

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(U Wouldn’t Believe It!!) Police: Woman, 32, Charged With Felony Pickle Assault. From The Smoking Gun

(U Wouldn’t Believe It!!) Police: Woman, 32, Charged With Felony Pickle Assault. From The Smoking Gun

⚠️North America Union: Theoretical Economic & Political Continental Union ⚡Nations: Destroy By UN 😅The Smoking Gun 🟡Law Enforcement Departments 🟡Police Departments 🟡U Wouldn’t Believe It!! When officers arrived on the scene, “there were pickles and pickle juice scattered across the apartment.” And Kaylyn Blain’s “boyfriend and co-habitant” had a knot on the top of his […]

(U Wouldn’t Believe It!!) Police: Woman, 32, Charged With Felony Pickle Assault. From The Smoking Gun

An Urgent Prophetic Warning: Marriage of Taylor Swift

An Urgent Prophetic Warning; Marriage of Taylor Swift in Madison Square Gardens
I know I have inundated you all with Prophetic Words in the last two days, however, please bear with me as I endeavour to share the following Word.

So, an hour ago, as I finishing the writing out the Dream I had early hours, a News headline popped up on my screen, ”Taylor Swift Marries in Madison Square Garden!”

Now as soon as I saw the headline I heard The Holy Spirit say these Words: “Covenant vs Covenant”!

I stopped and I waited before The LORD, and suddenly I saw an Altar rising over Madison Square Garden, and almost immediately, as I saw the Altar rising, my attention was drawn to the Word: ”Garden”!

And “The Garden of Eden” was quickened to me by The Spirit, the place of the First Marriage Covenant.

It was the Place where the Serpent deceived Eve, where Adam abdicated his Throne of Power, Authority and Dominion; where Two Trees stood as Two Altars; where Sin Entered; and where Defilement and Deception gave way to the Law of Sin and Death.

Yet, it was also in that same Garden wherein God unveiled His Great Plan of Redemption and Salvation!

It was there that God Declared that the Heel of the Bride would crush the Serpent’s Head. (Genesis 3:15)

The very Place where mankind fell, became the Birthing Place where Heaven announced the Power of Redemption, Restoration and Ultimate Victory over the Powers of Darkness!

As these things unfolded before me as I Prayed, I was then immediately reminded of the Powerful Prophetic Word The LORD gave me concerning the Election of Mayor and how he stood within the Underground Systems of New York City and publicly declared his Islamic Faith in his Mayoral Speech.