Preemptive War, Permanent Emergency: The Real Cost of Trump’s Iran Strike

Bass Advances To Runoff In LA Mayor's Race; Pratt Leads Contenders Authored by Jackson Richman and Beige Luciano-Adams via The Epoch Times, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass advanced to the November runoff election for Los Angeles mayor. The Associated Press called Bass’s advancement after 1:30 a.m. ET on June 3. Reality TV star Spencer Pratt and Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman lead 11 other candidates in the race for runner-up. The runner-up will face Bass in the runoff election on Nov. 3. Bass campaigned on issues including affordability, public safety, and homelessness. Pratt...

The short answer is “no.” Trump was confabulating when he said that he was already in negotiations with “important” Iranians. There is a back history to the US’ “negotiations narrative.” In earlier rounds of “negotiations” centred on the Ukraine conflict, Trump regularly would suggest that political negotiations with Russia were ongoing, when in practice, Witkoff […]

CBP Chief Says Border Wall Should Be Finished By Late 2027 Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The U.S. southern border wall will be completed by the end of next year, said U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Rodney Scott at an event on Tuesday. Scott told an audience in Washington that the “primary border wall ... will be done by the end of 2027,” adding that there are a “couple of gaps.” The wall will stretch from San Diego to Texas near the Gulf of Mexico. “The only places...