https://freerepublic.com/tag/news-forum/ en-us Sun, 3 May 2026 11:14:39 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377462/posts Democrat billionaire Tom Steyer is drawing fire after appearing at a May Day rally in East San Jose alongside a well-known labor leader, where he was labeled a “class traitor,” and embraced for it. Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, president of the California Federation of Labor, highlighted the moment on X, writing: “When @TomSteyer shows up to your ‘Workers Over Billionaires’ May Day Rally in East San Jose, you ask him to wear the shirt. And he does! #ClassTraitor.” The optics of a billionaire donning anti-billionaire messaging quickly ignited criticism online, with detractors blasting both Steyer and organized labor for what they... NY Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377462/posts#comment Sun, 3 May 2026 11:14:39 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377461/posts The advisor to the Supreme Leader of Iran on military affairs, Mohsen Rezaei, accuses the United States of being the only pirate force in the world that owns aircraft carriers. Rezaei added that Iran's ability to confront pirates is no less than our ability to sink warships. Rezaei addressed the Americans and said: "Prepare to face a graveyard for your aircraft carriers and troops, just as the wreckage of your planes remained..." Arutz Sheva https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377461/posts#comment Sun, 3 May 2026 11:07:03 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377460/posts Emissions from aviation and shipping will be formally included in the UK’s carbon budgets from the Sixth Carbon Budget period, covering 2033 to 2037, under new legislation laid by the Government. Minister for Climate Katie White confirmed the move in a letter to Transport Select Committee chair Ruth Cadbury. The statutory instrument brings international aviation and shipping emissions into line with existing planning assumptions and ensures they are counted alongside other sectors in the UK’s net-zero framework through to 2050 A separate instrument sets the use of international credits towards the Fifth Carbon Budget, covering 2028 to 2032, at zero.... Edie.net https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377460/posts#comment Sun, 3 May 2026 11:02:55 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377459/posts The security cabinet is reportedly scheduled to discuss renewing the war in Gaza on Sunday, as negotiations to disarm Hamas and demilitarize the Strip stall. “Hamas is not standing by the agreement on disarmament. We are holding discussions with mediators,” an Israeli official told the Kan public broadcaster on Saturday evening. The disarmament of Hamas has been a key sticking point in talks to implement the plan and cement the ceasefire reached in October, which halted two years of full-blown war triggered by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel. Violence has continued in Gaza, much of which remains... Times of Israel https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377459/posts#comment Sun, 3 May 2026 10:55:08 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377458/posts The establishment consensus is hardening. President Trump’s war with Iran is the culminating disaster of the most damaging and misguided American foreign policy in history. Iranian leaders are humiliating the U.S., German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned. “Superpower suicide” is how Wendy Sherman, a top Iran negotiator under President Obama and Joe Biden’s deputy secretary of state, described Mr. Trump’s Iran policy to ABC News. As Ms. Sherman sees it, the Iran war has alienated allies, assisted Russia financially, and weakened America’s position vis-à-vis China. For Fareed Zakaria, the question is no longer whether the administration’s policies will backfire but whether... Wall Street Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377458/posts#comment Sun, 3 May 2026 10:52:46 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377455/posts In rural Maryland, USA, Travis Reyes savours the simple things. A cup of coffee on the deck with his wife. A walk in the nearby woods. All of it sweeter because, against all odds, somehow, he is still alive."I think most of it is stubbornness. A little too stubborn to die," Travis told 7.30.In August 2023, Travis was a 20-year-old US Marine Corporal stationed in Darwin. He was part of the crew of a tilt-rotor MV-22 Osprey taking part in an Australian Defence Force-run exercise, Predators Run.On the morning of August 27, Travis's Osprey left Darwin but didn't make it... ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377455/posts#comment Sun, 3 May 2026 08:13:05 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377452/posts MANILA – The Philippines said on May 3 that thousands of people have evacuated the area south of Manila after Mayon Volcano erupted, and the authorities advised the public to stay out of the 6km radius danger zone. The volcanology institute issued Alert Level 3 in its five-step scale as it reported “strombolian activity and short-lived lava fountaining” from one of the South-east Asian nation’s most active volcanoes. It warned of landslides and lava flows. Nearly 1,500 families are now staying in evacuation centres, according to the Department of Social Welfare and Development. Heavy ashfall blanketed several towns in Albay... The Straits Times https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377452/posts#comment Sun, 3 May 2026 04:28:32 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377449/posts Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada will not use energy or critical minerals as “leverage” in upcoming trade talks with U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration. Carney said on Friday that Canada is not talking about halting any such trade with the U.S. and ruled out the notion entirely, adding Canadians honour their contracts and agreements. But the prime minister also suggested further integration with the United States in those sectors — highly coveted by the Trump administration — remains in question. The Globe and Mail https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377449/posts#comment Sun, 3 May 2026 03:41:38 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377445/posts A man suspected of killing an alleged drug dealer and his wife in front of their child in New York City has been arrested after decades on the run, federal authorities have announced.Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) revealed details about the case in a statement provided to Border Hawk.William Antonio Solis and two accomplices conspired to rob and kill Luis Guerrero and his wife, Danis Sime, on June 21, 1993, according to an indictment brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.The co-conspirators met Guerrero at an apartment in the Bronx where they restrained him and... AlexJonesLive.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377445/posts#comment Sun, 3 May 2026 02:57:43 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377442/posts On Saturday, President Donald Trump told reporters he would be looking at a new offer from Iran to end the conflict. "I'm looking at it [on the plane]. I'll let you know about it later,' he said. "They told me about the concept of the deal. They're going to give me the exact wording now." He said that they didn't necessarily have to make a deal with Iran. But if the U.S. would leave right now, it would take Iran 20 years to rebuild. However, he said something very important, "We're going to do it so no one has to... Red State https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377442/posts#comment Sun, 3 May 2026 02:30:00 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377437/posts A quiet legal ruling in Texas has opened the door to a much louder national conversation. When Amy Meachum ordered the state to allow construction of a 400-acre Muslim community—complete with homes, a mosque, schools, and businesses—it wasn’t just a zoning decision. It was a window into a deeper reality: Islam is growing in the United States, and with that growth comes both opportunity and tension that Americans can no longer ignore. The development, formerly known as Epic City and now called “The Meadow,” represents a vision of communal life shaped around Islamic faith and culture. Backed by developers and... PNW https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377437/posts#comment Sun, 3 May 2026 01:38:01 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377436/posts Last month, the Arab-American Business and Professional Association (ABPA) unveiled the first of its "Welcome to Little Palestine" signs in Bridgeview, a suburb 15 miles southwest of Chicago. The sign was erected at 83rd Street and Harlem Avenue, welcoming visitors to an area stretching from 79th Street to 113th Street that ABPA calls one of the largest Palestinian-American communities in the United States. A second sign followed at Westfield Plaza on 87th Street. ABPA president Rush Darwish declared at that unveiling: "This unveiling is more than a sign -- it is a declaration of who we are."The designation came after... PNW https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377436/posts#comment Sun, 3 May 2026 01:34:07 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377434/posts Sen. John Fetterman sounded the alarm Friday about the leftward drift of his own party, warning that a “small Communist takeover” is underway in Maine as Graham Platner closes in on the Democratic Senate nomination. Appearing on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime,” the Pennsylvania Democrat said the rise of Mr. Platner — an oyster farmer and Marine Corps veteran who wrote in a 2021 Reddit post, “I got older and became a communist” — exemplified the Democratic Party’s inability to resist its worst impulses. “There is kind of a small Communist takeover in Maine,” Mr. Fetterman said. “Platner, he’s already... The Washington Times https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377434/posts#comment Sun, 3 May 2026 01:04:13 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377433/posts ON A GOOD DAY Our worth is tested every day. We are given the choice of being nice to people or uncharitable. We are given the choice of doing our work as well as we can or of goofing off. Some days it seems the tests are harder than on others, but every day brings with it some kind of test. Even the really good days! To have everything go wonderfully for us, to feel like a million dollars, to have one of those days when nothing and nobody can upset us, they are days when we might think... Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377433/posts#comment Sun, 3 May 2026 01:00:45 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377423/posts NASSAU COUNTY, Long Island (WABC) -- Police have charged a man with murder after he allegedly stabbed two women to death in Nassau County. Rony Yahir Alvarenga Rivera, 22, turned himself in to police and was taken into custody. The two women were stabbed to death at different locations. Early Friday morning, police responded to a 911 call from a Wendy's at 33 Austin Boulevard in North Long Beach. A 42-year-old woman had been stabbed outside the restaurant and was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators believe the deceased woman and their suspect were coworkers at that Wendy's. Police received... WABC https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377423/posts#comment Sat, 2 May 2026 22:39:54 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377413/posts A violent assault on a French Catholic nun in East Jerusalem has drawn international condemnation after footage of the incident circulated widely online. The attack took place on Mount Zion and was captured on video, which shows a man approaching the nun from behind before shoving her forcefully to the ground. Her head struck the pavement, narrowly missing a large stone nearby. Moments later, the attacker returned and kicked the nun while she was still lying on the ground. A passerby eventually intervened and confronted the suspect, who reportedly attempted to attack him as well. The victim, a French nun... Arutz Sheva https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377413/posts#comment Sat, 2 May 2026 20:27:49 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377412/posts At least 16 US military bases damaged, some rendered unusable, across Persian Gulf during war with Iran, CNN report says. Iran caused extensive damage to a large portion of US bases in the Persian Gulf using missiles and drones, according to a CNN investigation. The report states that Iran struck at least 16 US military bases across eight Gulf countries, representing the majority of US bases in the area. Several of the bases were reportedly hit so severely that they were rendered inoperable. A US source familiar with the matter told CNN, "I have never seen anything like this at... Arutz Sheva https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377412/posts#comment Sat, 2 May 2026 20:07:17 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377410/posts A Southwest Airlines flight attendant prayed for President Trump’s assassination on social media after a gunman breached security at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Michele Carpino made the perverse plea on her Facebook page just minutes after news broke that would-be assassin Cole Allen stormed the annual black-tie Washington press bash last Saturday. “Oh please sweet baby Jesus,” Carpino wrote in a since-deleted Facebook post, Libs of TikTok reported. “WE NEED BETTER ASSASSIN’S! [sic],” she commented after Allen was thwarted by Secret Service agents. Carpino has a history of posting disturbing anti-Trump screeds on social media. “One day we will... NY Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377410/posts#comment Sat, 2 May 2026 19:57:44 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377407/posts On October 6, 1980 Donald Trump was interviewed by Rona Barrett, one of America’s most famous gossip columnists, on NBC. It was several weeks before Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter in the presidential election and near the end of the Iran hostage crisis in which the Iranian regime took 52 American diplomats and citizens prisoner after the embassy was stormed and then held them for 444 days. It was a long and meandering interview about Trump’s story to date (he was then 34). About half way though, Barrett asked Trump if he could make America perfect how would he do... Brookings https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377407/posts#comment Sat, 2 May 2026 19:22:40 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377406/posts Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass sparked outrage after accusing Palisades Fire victim Spencer Pratt of “exploiting the grief” of wildfire victims in his campaign to unseat her. Bass, who has been losing ground to Pratt in the lead-up to the mayoral election, made the extraordinary claim during an interview with MeidasTouch. “Well, honestly, before this, I had never heard of Spencer Pratt,” she said of the former reality TV star. “But the thing I am concerned about is that I feel like he’s exploiting the grief of people in the Palisades. And I think that’s reprehensible. He is about his... NY Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377406/posts#comment Sat, 2 May 2026 19:20:09 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377405/posts The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais, barring racial gerrymandering, has many on the left feigning vapors, despite the predictions of many of us that this result was likely.While figures such as Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) declared that the court itself has been “gerrymandered” to rig the upcoming elections, this decision is actually the culmination of decades of jurisprudence by various justices — particularly Chief Justice John Roberts.Indeed, the decision will cement the legacy of the Roberts Court in moving the country toward a colorblind system of laws.Like most Americans, Roberts abhors racial discrimination in any form. He holds... The Hill via Yahoo! News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377405/posts#comment Sat, 2 May 2026 19:16:05 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377403/posts Louisiana Rep. Troy Carter calls Supreme Court map decision a "gut punch" to democracy 06:41The Republican governors of Tennessee and Alabama called state lawmakers into special sessions on Friday, initial steps in what could be a scramble across multiple southern states to redraw congressional maps after the Supreme Court narrowed the Voting Rights Act.Depending on how state officials proceed and whether courts intervene, legislators may try to split up Tennessee's sole Democratic district and eliminate one of Alabama's two blue seats.Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee convened a special session that will start Tuesday, writing in a statement Friday that lawmakers "owe... Yahoo! News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377403/posts#comment Sat, 2 May 2026 19:12:12 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377401/posts Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) said on Friday he will not require Georgia to redraw its congressional map before the midterm elections, taking the opposite stance of his Republican counterparts in other states. The governor’s rationale is that because the state’s elections are already underway, he won’t cancel the May 19 primary. His decision comes after Gov. Jeff Landry (R-LA) suspended six House primaries in Louisiana following a landmark Supreme Court decision that struck down race-based redistricting enabled by a section of the Voting Rights Act. Washington Examiner https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377401/posts#comment Sat, 2 May 2026 19:04:50 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377399/posts Investigative journalist Katie Daviscourt was violently mobbed and had a rock thrown at her face by masked Antifa militants while attempting to report on their May Day riot outside the federal ICE facility on Friday night. Despite having security present, Daviscourt, a reporter for The Post Millennial and Human Events, was forced to abandon her work as black-bloc extremists swarmed her in what she described as a coordinated “direct action” organized by the domestic terrorist group Antifa. Daviscourt livestreamed the attack and posted a clip to X shortly after it happened. In the post with the video, Daviscourt wrote, “It’s... Gateway Pundit https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377399/posts#comment Sat, 2 May 2026 18:36:26 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377396/posts Graham Linehan has demanded that the police stop acting as a “goon squad” for trans activists. The Father Ted co-creator, 57, claimed police were being used as “useful idiots” after accusing them of failing to “properly and fairly investigate” allegations made against him by trans activist Sophia Brooks. Mr Linehan was cleared of harassing Ms Brooks on social media but convicted of criminal damage after snatching the complainant’s mobile phone and throwing it to the ground outside the Battle of Ideas conference on Oct 19, 2024. The Irish comedy writer has now had his criminal damage conviction overturned after Mrs... The Telegraph https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377396/posts#comment Sat, 2 May 2026 18:25:20 GMT