Video: Trump, NATO secretary-general meet to discuss US threats to leave alliance
President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte are meeting at the White House to speak on Trump’s renewed threats to leave the alliance.
Trump has been critical of NATO for months after some of its member countries ignored his pleas to help him restart oil trade in the Strait of Hormuz after the conflict with Iran began.
Trump has long been critical of NATO, arguing the U.S. carries more than its fair share of military spending.
The visit, Rutte’s fifth since Trump returned to power last year, comes after U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week lashed out at allies during a meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
Rutte announced a six-month Pentagon review of American forces in Europe.
VIDEO: Antifa ‘Protesters’ Slammed with 450 Years of Prison Time for July 4th Attack on Texas ICE Facility
One of those convicted and sentencesd was the alleged leader of the north Texas cell, Benjamin Hanil Song, a former Marine reservist, who a federal court judge slammed with a whopping 100 years in prison for the attempted murder of an Alvarado police officer at suburban Fort Worth’s Prairieland Detention Center on July 4, 2025.
A news outlet obtained body cam footage of the attack.
Five of the seven other Antifa members received sentences of 50 years each, with one remaining member getting 70 years and another 30 years for their parts in the protest, which featured explosives, vandalism, and rioting.
Five of the defendants were women.
“This is the first sentencing of defendants affiliated with Antifa following President Donald J. Trump’s executive order designating the group as a Domestic Terrorist Organization in September 2025,” the DOJ said in a statement.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche commented on the successful prosecution of the members for what was described as “a far cry from a peaceful protest or First Amendment expression” in a 12-day jury trial in February.
He said:
The sentences handed down today make clear that Antifa terrorists who attack law enforcement and federal facilities will face swift and uncompromising justice.
Their violent extremism has no place in our country, and the Department of Justice will continue to aggressively investigate, disrupt, and prosecute those who threaten law enforcement officers or undermine the rule of law.
Evidence at trial revealed that members of the cell in the Prairieland attack looked to Benjamin Song as a leader.
Song ”acquired firearms that he distributed to co-defendants and recruited members at gun ranges and combat sessions he conducted,” prosecutors said….
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Katz: IDF ready to strike Iran again; Oman, Iran discuss Hormuz transit fees TV7 Israel News 24 June
1) Israeli defense minister Yisrael Katz says the IDF is well prepared for renewed strikes against the Ayatollah regime in Iran at any given moment.
2) Oman and Iran discuss tolling commercial vessels transiting the strait of Hormuz – despite President Donald Trump’s warnings against it.
3) The Ayatollah regime asserts that the IAEA would not get any access to Iran until after a final status agreement is achieved.
Harris Faulkner: This is sending SHOCKWAVES
Fox News’ Harris Faulkner details the ‘socialist sweep’ in New York primaries as far-left candidates win, sending ‘shockwaves’ through the Democratic Party.
These candidates advocate for policies like abolishing ICE, Medicare-for-all and higher taxes. Cassie Smedile and Meghan Hays also provide their analysis during ‘The Faulkner Focus.’
Gates Denies Misconduct, Acknowledges Possible Contact With Victims
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told the House Oversight Committee that he never witnessed or participated in any misconduct involving convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but acknowledged he may have been in the presence of some of Epstein’s victims, according to a transcript released Tuesday and reported by CNN.
However, lawmakers noted that some of Epstein’s employees were later identified as abuse victims, prompting Gates to concede that he could have unknowingly encountered them.
The report said Gates also described how Epstein allegedly attempted to pressure him using information about his personal life, including extramarital affairs.
Gates testified that he cut ties with Epstein in 2014 and refused requests for financial reimbursement.
Gates expressed regret for maintaining contact with Epstein despite knowing of his prior sex-related conviction, saying he underestimated the significance of the financier’s reputation.
Former Eric Adams Adviser Arrested In Corruption Probe
Aformer senior adviser to ex-New York City Mayor Eric Adams was arrested Wednesday as part of a federal corruption investigation, according to CNN, citing law enforcement sources.
According to the report, investigators are examining an alleged bribery scheme involving Carone.
Federal prosecutors have not publicly commented on the case, and Carone’s legal representatives had not responded to requests for comment.
In a separate matter, current and former members of the New York Police Department were also targeted in coordinated raids conducted by the NYPD, FBI, and federal prosecutors.
The report said the investigation centers on alleged bribery and misconduct dating back several years.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed the searches and said the department remains committed to accountability and integrity.
The investigations remain ongoing, and authorities have not yet disclosed whether additional arrests were made.
FBI raid breakdown: NYPD officials homes searched; Mayor Adams staff arrested
A series of federal raids that reach from City Hall to the highest rankings of the NYPD were carried out Wednesday morning.
SafeSport Logs 9,700 Abuse Reports, CEO Calls It Progress
Mosley’s Denver Post opinion piece reads like a PR rollout, not a reckoning.
She launched a “nationwide listening tour” and heard from over 1,000 people. Their demands: “greater communication and transparency,” “fairness and consistency,” “clarity,” and “a better experience for those who participate in our process.”
That is a damning indictment dressed up as feedback. Athletes and parents are telling SafeSport it is opaque, inconsistent, and painful to deal with—and the CEO’s response is a strategic plan promising to “elevate programs” and “coordinate with stakeholders” by LA28.
The Denver Post gave SafeSport’s CEO the op-ed space to frame the narrative herself.
The New York Post, for its part, had nothing to say about SafeSport at all—its coverage was dedicated to the surging cost of homeownership, a real crisis for working Americans but unrelated to this story.
No outlet in this batch pressed SafeSport on why reports keep climbing, why athletes find the process unfair, or whether the organization’s structural ties to the Olympic apparatus compromise its independence.
SafeSport was sold to the public as a safeguard against institutional failure. It has become another institution—with its own bureaucracy, its own messaging, and its own interest in survival. The question isn’t whether SafeSport means well.
It’s whether a watchdog led by former Olympic insiders, drowning in complaints, and criticized by the very people it serves can ever be anything more than a government-sanctioned version of the system that failed those gymnasts in the first place.
CA Water Agency Penalizes Residents Refusing Smart Meters, Installs Anyway
A Santa Clarita Valley homeowner who refused a “smart” water meter was told she’d pay $169 up front and $58 every month to keep her existing one — then a technician installed the new meter on her property anyway, claiming authorization that never existed.
The Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency’s smart meter program offers residents a “choice” that punishes refusal with financial penalties and proceeds with installation regardless of consent.
It’s a case study in how bureaucratic power operates: compliance is free, resistance comes with a price tag, and the final decision was never really yours to begin with.
Glenda Roybal’s house was built in 1975. For more than 50 years, the water meter worked without issue, she wrote in the Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
Through droughts and rate hikes, it measured water usage and required no intervention. Then SCV Water decided it had to go.
Roybal declined the replacement. Customer service told her that keeping her existing meter would trigger a one-time charge of $169, plus $58 every month. “That is not an offer.
That is coercion by cost,” Roybal wrote. Accept the new meter: pay nothing. Refuse: incur ongoing penalties for keeping what already works.
Then a technician arrived at her home and stated a request had been made to remove the existing meter. Believing the work was authorized, Roybal allowed it to proceed.
Only afterward did she learn no such request had been made. The meter she explicitly declined was now installed on her property.
Trump GOES NUCLEAR, CANCELS Housing Bill Until SAVE ACT PAsses | Tim Pool
Tim Pool breaks down Trump’s refusal to sign the housing bill until the SAVE act passes
California stops funding police transparency database
California will stop funding a state-wide database intended to uncover police misconduct and use-of-force records, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s chief fiscal policy advisors confirmed to The Center Square.
UC Berkeley received a $6.87 million appropriation to fund the website in 2023, but the funds will expire at the end of this month.
The Police Records Access Project launched in 2025 with roughly 1.5 million pages of internal law enforcement records from 1965 to 2024.
But a review by The Center Square found the website has not received frequent updates. The database’s most recent case is from September 2024.
It’s the only case uploaded from the past two years. Zero cases have been uploaded from 2025 or 2026.
Journalists running the program said they were working hard to try and get the website up to date, but they would benefit from more funding.
“Whether we receive more funding is up to the Legislature and other funders,” said Lisa Pickoff-White, director of research for the Police Records Access Project at UC Berkeley. “Further funding would allow us to release more records, and to continue to gather the records, and to continue to make improvements and release more information.”
Newsom has repeatedly declined requests to comment on the website.
Advocates for police transparency have criticized Newsom’s approach, instead calling for a statewide mandate requiring law enforcement agencies to publish the data themselves.
“Why have Berkeley be the middle person?” asked Chris Burbank, a former police chief who now consults for law enforcement agencies across the country. “I’m a little dumbfounded. I can’t figure out why they’d want to do it this way… There just seems to be a better way to do it.”
Assemblyman Carl DeMaio, R-San Diego, referred to the police transparency portal as a good idea that should have been run through the government itself.
He criticized Newsom for funding UC Berkeley instead of setting up the transparency portal through the California Attorney General’s Office….
Mamdani hit with ethics complaint over NYPD detail
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been hit with an ethics complaint accusing him of violating the rules by using an NYPD security detail to shuttle a left-wing congressional candidate between campaign stops ahead of Tuesday’s primary.
In a letter to New York City Conflicts of Interest Board Executive Director Carolyn Miller, New York City Councilman Phil Wong calls for an investigation into whether Mamdani violated the ethics rules by allowing Darializa Avila Chevalier to use NYPD officers and other city personnel for political purposes.
Chevalier is one of several Mamdani-endorsed far-left congressional candidates who won contested primaries against more moderate Democrats in Tuesday’s primary elections.
Mamdani made a “get out the vote” campaign appearance with the 23-year-old political newcomer on Tuesday as voters flocked to the polls.
But videos posted by bystanders on X Tuesday showed Chevalier and her staff members getting into an SUV after the rally that appeared to be part of the mayor’s NYPD security detail, Wong said, which is in violation of city rules that public officials can’t use city time, resources or money for political campaign activities.
“The conduct depicted is not simply an accusation; it appears to show the use of city vehicles and city security personnel in direct support of campaign travel,” Wong wrote. “The issue here is not whether a public official may endorse or appear with a candidate, but whether City assets assigned for official public purposes were used to facilitate campaign activity for a federal candidate.”
There was no immediate response from the Mamdani administration to the accusations.
In his complaint, Wong pointed to a similar ethics violation by then-New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, alleging that he misspent public campaign funds during his failed run for president.
An investigation conducted by the Conflict of Interests Board in 2023 concluded that de Blasio had NYPD details accompany him on 31 out-of-state presidential campaign trips, some of which included his family members. ..
Palestinian Activist Aber Kawas Wins NY State Senate Seat: Radical Candidate Justified 9/11, Waved Hamas Headband
“Palestine was on the ballot, and now a Palestinian-American democratic socialist is going to Albany. Kawas is exactly who New Yorkers need fighting for them in the State Senate. Because socialists get it done,” NYC-DSA said upon her winning.
Kawas came into the race with more than just a bit of controversy, having blamed the September 11 terrorist attacks on capitalism, racism, and white supremacy, chalking it up to an attack that “a couple of people did.”
“The system of capitalism and racism and white supremacy… and Islamophobia, have all been used to colonize lands, to take resources from other people and so this is a long trajectory and we’re just seeing the manifestations of that continuation with 9/11,” she said in an unearthed clip.
“The idea we have to apologize for a terror attack that a couple of people did and then there is no apology or reparations for genocides and for slavery… is something I find reprehensible,” she added.
Images shared on social media also showed her brandishing a headband worn by Hamas terrorists.
Headlines from X,
Patti Wilson Stabs Person at Dairy Queen in Grand Junction, Colorado, Flees, Crashes into Vehicles, and Is Shot Dead by Police
Police responded to a stabbing at a Dairy Queen in Grand Junction, Colorado, where Patti Wilson stabbed a person over a soda dispute.
Wilson fled by car, leading to a police chase that ended when Wilson crashed into multiple vehicles, injuring civilians. Officers then shot and killed Wilson.
This story is a summary of posts on X and may evolve over time. Grok can make mistakes, verify its outputs.
Suspect identified in OIS at DQ; witness describes mental health struggles, prior arrest
Investigators say Wilson was initially identified as a male suspect armed with a knife. However, during the course of the investigation, authorities found out Wilson identified as a woman.
According to the Mesa County Coroner’s Office, Wilson died from two gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Police say the incident began when officers responded to reports of a person with a knife inside the Dairy Queen on North Avenue. Investigators say the suspect got into a car in the business’ parking lot, where the officer-involved shooting happened. Wilson fled, striking several cars before her vehicle came to a stop.
“Well, I found out my niece knew the guy,” said witness Otis Taylor “He has mental problems. So, she knew him. I mean I guess she talked to him once in a while.”
Taylor says his niece had previous interactions with Wilson and described hearing about mental health struggles and a prior arrest. Records show Wilson had previously been arrested for assault…
A Communist Takeover In NY (Ep. 2541) – 06/24/2026
In this episode, I’ll discuss the onslaught of radical communist ideas being pushed into New York and the foot soldiers that are doing it. Also, the SAVE Act comes to a climax today and we’ll see what Donald Trump can do about passing it.
