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Trump cannot let Iran make him ‘look like a loser,’ says former Fox News personalityTehran has said it will grant a number of Iraqi tankers permission to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, following Donald Trump’s claims the waterway is “US territory”.
The agreement comes after repeated requests from Baghdad, Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday.
It comes as US president Donald Trump said he views the Strait of Hormuz as “American territory” and claimed Tehran was not ready to make the “right deal”.
The president has promised to wage “Economic Warfare and Isolation on an unprecedented scale” on Iran in what he called the “toughest sanctions in history”. In response, Tehran accused Trump of threatening “economic terrorism”.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei on Saturday said that the imminent US announcement of new economic sanctions on Iran was an “assertion of extraterritorial sovereignty over every independent member state of the United Nations”.
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Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to retaliate after a double-tap drone strike on his home town killed 16 people.
Rescuers are still searching for survivors in the wreckage of a shopping mall in Kryvyi Rih, that was hit twice by Russia on Friday.
More than 130 people were wounded in a daytime attack carried out in two waves, with the second strike targeting emergency workers at the scene of the first.
Zelensky called the attacks an “act of barbarism”, claiming the “absolutely cynical and despicable” second strike was a deliberate attempt to target emergency services.
open image in galleryFirefighters work on a fire at a shopping mall following a Russian drone attack in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine (AP)“Attacks like these are nothing less than ⁠terrorist acts,” Zelensky said on Telegram, urging the world to hold Russia to account. “We will definitely respond.”
Regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha said that 22 children were among the wounded and nine people including two children wer..

A five-year-old boy was on his way to a soccer game when federal immigration agents detained him and his father, who are now being held in a notorious Texas detention center that local officials and members of Congress are demanding be shut down.
Liam Tadeo was due to start kindergarten this week when his father was put in handcuffs after a traffic stop in Austin, Texas, on August 16, according to video of the arrest and statements from family members. Footage shows federal agents walking his father in handcuffs while Liam, in tears, holds his father’s hand.
Democratic Rep. Greg Casar compared the scene to a similar incident in Minneapolis earlier this year, where another five-year-old boy named Liam was pictured crying while wearing a blue bunny-ear hat and a Spider-Man backpack as his father was hauled away by federal agents.
“Liam should be starting kindergarten this week, but instead he’s sitting in a trailer prison right now in Dilley, Texas,” Casar said in a video message Thursda..

There is a move that daytime television producers make when a show has run out of plot. A character who died — buried, mourned, whose death powered two seasons of grief — walks back through the door. There was a secret hospital. There was an identical twin. The coma was faked.
Ratings spike for a week while the audience waits to find out what it meant, and then the writers discover they have nothing for the character to do, because the return was never a story. It was a substitute for one.
That is what aired on WABC radio on Thursday night, and it is worth being clear about who it was for.
Michael Cohen spent a decade as Donald Trump's fixer, went to federal prison, testified against him in a Manhattan courtroom and helped produce 34 felony convictions. Trump called him a rat. Cohen built a second career calling Trump a criminal.
Eight years of that, and the reckoning Thursday lasted under a minute.
“A good advocate, and then they weaponized you like nobody's ever been wea..

President Donald Trump’s main liaison to Congress will leave the White House a week after White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced her exit.
The president announced on Thursday that James Braid would exit the White House in September. Braid is a close ally of Vice President JD Vance, working in Vance’s Senate office.
Specifically, the president highlighted how Braid navigated working with a tight majority in the House of Representatives to pass the One Big, Beautiful Bill that extended the tax cuts from Trump’s first term and beefed up funding for immigration enforcement as well as GENIUS Act, Trump’s major cryptocurrency legislation.
“James has played a critical role in our many accomplishments with Congress, including THE ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL, beating the Democrats in two shutdown showdowns, passing the GENIUS Act, defeating a record number of War Powers resolutions, and the confirmation of my Cabinet at the fastest rate in decades,” Trump said. “This has been, and..

Seasonal allergy sufferers beware: This fall is looking like a pollen bomb in many parts of the United States, due to increasingly warm and wet weather.
More than two dozen eastern and midwestern states are projected to feel the worst effects, according to forecaster AccuWeather’s latest report.
These regions will see the highest amount of weed and grass pollen, typically dominant in late summer and early fall.
“For grass pollen, we start to lose the worst of it in August and early September, but things can still be high in parts of the East due to ample moisture and warm overnight temperatures,” AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Alan Reppert said in a statement.
The highest grass pollen levels are predicted in major cities, including Detroit, Michigan, Chicago, Illinois, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and New York City.
open image in galleryThis AccuWeather graphic shows where grass pollen levels will be the highest this fall. The highest levels are seen in red, moderate levels in orange ..