President Trump’s newly announced peace agreement, which he said is “largely negotiated” and awaits final approval from all parties, includes a 60-day ceasefire, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and continued negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program, according to US officials familiar with the discussions. 

The White House hopes that the deal could be finalized and officially announced today.

Trump is reportedly prepared to ease restrictions on Iran’s oil exports and provide some sanctions relief as negotiations progress, Axios reports. If his demands on nuclear weapons are met, Trump is ready to reset relations with Iran.

Per ABC This Week host Jonathan Karl, Trump said this morning, “it’s only going to be good news. I don’t make bad deals.”

As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump had a conference call scheduled with Gulf leaders on Saturday after saying the US and Iran are “getting a lot closer” to a peace agreement.

Trump was reportedly considering launching a fresh round of strikes in Iran this weekend and told reporters he’s at a “solid 50/50” on either striking a deal or sending bombs to “blow them to kingdom come.”

However, after a new proposal from Iran, which sources say included reopening the Strait of Hormuz, as well as talks with Arab leaders, Trump announced that a deal is being finalized, avoiding a continuation of the war —for now.

(VIDEO) Trump Says Iran Ceasefire on “Life Support” After “Garbage” Proposal from Iran

Trump signaled that the Arab mediators and Israel are in favor of the agreement, following discussions "concerning the Islamic Republic of Iran, and all things related to a Memorandum of Understanding pertaining to PEACE."

The deal still awaits agreement and finalization from Iran, which could come as soon as today, and it includes a 60-day memorandum of understanding (MOU), during which the Strait will be open with free passage of ships, without Iranian tolls or America's blockade.

Iran is also expected to make concessions on nuclear enrichment and potentially give up nuclear materiel as the US lifts sanctions and unfreezes Iranian funds while keeping troops in the region until a final agreement to end the war is reached.

Israel is also expected to end its campaign in Lebanon under the terms of the MOU. However, an Israeli official told Axios that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is concerned about that condition and others in the deal. A US official, however, reassured that the ceasefire in Lebanon will not be "one-sided," noting, "If Hezbollah behaves, Israel will behave."

"Bibi has his domestic considerations, but Trump has the interests of the U.S. and the global economy to think about," the US official further stated.

"It will be interesting to see how far Iran will be truly willing to go, but if they are capable of and want to change their trajectory, this next phase will force them to make some critical decisions on what they want to be as a country," the US official told the outlet.

This is a developing story.

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MSNOW had a full meltdown after Kentucky Republican Senate candidate Rep. Andy Barr released a campaign ad attacking DEI and declaring, “It’s not a sin to be white.”

Barr, who recently won the Republican nomination for Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race, is running to replace retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell. He will face Democrat Charles Booker in November, setting up a major general election fight in a state Republicans have dominated in federal races for years.

The controversy began with Barr’s campaign ad, where he blasted diversity, equity, and inclusion programs as “dumb, evil indoctrination.”

“You know what DEI really stands for? Dumb, evil indoctrination. Woke liberals spew it. Corporate losers fall for it. But thanks to Trump, America is rejecting that trash. And I’m leading the fight to end it for good,” Barr said in the ad.

Then came the line that sent the left into hysteria.

“It’s not a sin to be white. It’s not against the law to be male. And it shouldn’t be disqualifying to be a Christian,” Barr said. “I’m Andy Barr, and I approve this message to give woke liberals something else to cry about.”

Apparently, that was enough to leave MSNOW stunned.

During an interview with Booker, the MSNOW host played Barr’s ad and reacted as though Barr had said something morally outrageous rather than stating a basic truth most normal Americans understand.

“That was my first time seeing that ad in full. My breath has been taken away. I am bereft,” the host said before asking Booker for his reaction.

Booker responded by accusing Barr of “weaponizing hate” and racism, saying Barr “knows enough to be ashamed of himself” but “doesn’t care enough to do anything different.”

But what exactly was Barr supposed to be ashamed of?

The ad did not say one race is better than another. It did not argue that Christians, men, or white Americans deserve special treatment. 

Barr’s message was much simpler: Americans should not be treated as guilty because of race, sex, or religion.

That used to be called equality.

The left, however, has spent years pushing an ideology that reduces Americans to identity categories. 

DEI programs have repeatedly treated racial disparities as automatic proof of discrimination, while presenting whiteness, maleness, and Christianity as sources of social guilt. Under that worldview, a Republican saying people should not be condemned for being white, male, or Christian becomes a scandal.

That reaction says far more about the modern left than it says about Barr.

Democrats claim to oppose division, but their entire political strategy depends on racial division. They cannot simply debate crime, inflation, jobs, energy, education, or border security. Instead, they take a statement opposing identity-based guilt and try to repackage it as racism.

Barr’s ad clearly struck a nerve because it challenged one of the central assumptions of the DEI movement: that America must constantly sort people by race and assign political meaning to their identity.

Kentucky voters will now decide between Barr and Booker in a Senate race Democrats insist is competitive. 

But if MSNOW’s reaction is any indication, the left still has no answer to the basic argument at the center of Barr’s ad: Americans are tired of being lectured, divided, and shamed by the same political movement that claims to stand for equality.

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“They don’t just get the story wrong. They become accomplices to the cover-up.” That is how Truth Nigeria journalist Masara Kim described American left-wing media outlets and Democratic politicians who deny that Christians in Nigeria are being killed for their faith. Speaking to The Gateway Pundit, Kim said the refusal to acknowledge the religious nature of the killings enables continued violence while shielding the perpetrators from international scrutiny.

Three weeks ago, Kim was covering a mass burial in Nding, near Jos, when gunfire forced him and his colleagues to flee. The attack the night before had killed seven members of one family. Witnesses, including a local pastor and town leader, told him the attackers bypassed Muslim settlements, marched kilometers to Nding, and killed unarmed people, some holding only cutlery and clothes used to swat mosquitoes, while shouting “Allahu Akbar” and firing 7.62 rounds.

That same day, three miles away, a separate group burned a church, destroyed a church elder’s home, and killed a Christian man running toward a Catholic seminary for refuge. Police inside the compound fought for three hours to prevent the seminary from being razed. It was sheltering 500 seminarians and more than 1,000 displaced women, children, and elderly people.

Witnesses said the attackers came from Lukfai, a former Christian town now occupied by armed groups, where a mosque stands on the site of the original church. Lukfai is one of more than 200 communities Kim says have been seized and converted into staging grounds for further attacks.

Three days later, on May 9 in Barkin Ladi, the county seat, eight Christians were killed. Attackers speaking Fulani and shouting “Allahu Akbar” bypassed Muslim homes to target Christian houses and attempted to burn a church. On May 13, a prayer-group leader and his pregnant wife, who was carrying twins, were killed in front of their home in a majority-Muslim neighborhood. No Muslims in the area were harmed, including those standing nearby.

The pattern holds across Plateau, Benue, Nasarawa, Southern Kaduna, and other parts of the Middle Belt. Survivors consistently describe assailants mocking their faith before killing them. A pastor told Kim that terrorists raped his congregants’ daughters in front of him while he was held at gunpoint, saying: “You claim to serve a living God. Let’s see how your God will save you today.” A widow in Plateau State said her husband and children were killed after attackers told residents they were being punished for refusing to convert.

No single incident answers the denial more completely than what happened on June 23, 2018, when more than 250 Christians were killed in an attack that began with an ambush on a convoy. During the assault, 80-year-old Imam Abubakar Abdullahi opened his mosque to hide fleeing women and children. When the attackers arrived, they told him: “This was not the plan. Release these infidels for us to kill as agreed.”

The imam fell at their feet and pleaded until they withdrew, spared only because desecrating a mosque with the blood of “infidels” was considered taboo. That night, 96 Christians were killed in Lukfai alone and every church in the town was burned. The graves of 250 victims in the Gashish district and the ruins of more than 30 churches remain. Many displaced Christians cannot return because their farms are occupied and only Muslims are permitted near them.

Kim said that he also personally knows Fulani individuals who were killed for converting to Christianity or for informing security forces of planned attacks.

The killings are statistically documented on a scale that leaves no serious ambiguity. Of the at least 4,849 Christians killed for their faith worldwide in 2025, 3,490 were in Nigeria, more than the rest of the world combined. USCIRF’s 2026 annual report puts the total number killed since 2009 at 53,000, with 21,000 killed in the last five years alone and millions displaced.

By any reasonable analysis, the killing of Christians in Nigeria constitutes a genocide. The 1948 Genocide Convention defines genocide as acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.

A coalition of human rights organizations has formally declared that the targeting of Christian communities in Nigeria meets that standard under Article II. Genocide Watch has issued formal genocide warnings, describing Nigeria as facing a “severe genocidal crisis” and stating that “despite overwhelming evidence of genocidal acts, both the Nigerian government and key international actors remain in denial, avoiding the legal and moral responsibilities that acknowledgment would require.”

The mainstream media are fueling genocide denial. The New York Times attributed the killings to “a battle for scarce resources” stirring “long-held tensions over religion and ethnicity,” while declining to identify the perpetrators’ religious identity or stated jihadist motivations. Reporting on the Palm Sunday 2026 massacre in Jos, in which at least 40 Christians were killed, the Times accused Rep. Riley Moore and other Republican lawmakers of “falsely claiming” there is an ongoing genocide, instead citing analysts who said the situation is “much more complex” and that “Nigerians of many faiths have been killed.”

Democracy Now! stated flatly that “Trump has repeatedly falsely claimed a Christian genocide is taking place in Nigeria,” while citing no supporting evidence. NBC News called the genocide framing “misleading and oversimplified.” Al Jazeera published a formal opinion piece calling the genocide framing “propaganda” driven by “foreign actors,” suggesting the narrative was motivated by Nigeria’s support for Palestinian statehood at the UN General Assembly.

International Christian Concern has documented how media outlets systematically deploy “acceptable buzzwords” such as farmer-herder tensions, climate change, and armed banditry to obscure the religious identity of both perpetrators and victims. The “complexity” argument, repeated by sources ranging from The New York Times to the African Union, functions as a device to avoid a legal determination that would obligate action.

This is precisely what Masara Kim witnessed in Barkin Ladi and Nding: attackers who bypassed Muslim homes, traveled kilometers past Muslim settlements, and declared their intentions in explicitly religious terms, only to later be described by Western editors as participants in a resource dispute.

President Trump designated Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern in December 2020. Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken reversed that designation in November 2021, determining that Nigeria did not meet the criteria for “systematic, ongoing, and egregious” violations. “The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom called the reversal ‘unexplainable.’”

At a subsequent meeting with USCIRF members, Blinken attributed the massacres to climate change, suggesting Fulani herders were simply searching for pasture land. USCIRF recommended redesignating Nigeria four consecutive years, from 2021 through 2024, stating there was “no justification” for the State Department’s continued refusal. The Biden administration ignored every recommendation while the killings escalated. In 2025, President Trump redesignated Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern.

The historical record shows how important genocide designations are. From Cambodia to Rwanda, from Bosnia to Darfur, the international community has repeatedly recognized genocide too late or refused to recognize it at all. The Genocide Convention promised prevention, action in the face of risk rather than certainty, but prevention has consistently been its weakest point.

Darfur provides one of the clearest parallels. Africa Action wrote in The Nation: “We should have learned from Rwanda that to stop genocide, Washington must first say the word.” In July 2004, Congress passed a resolution labeling Darfur a genocide, followed by Secretary of State Colin Powell issuing a formal determination.

During the Rwandan genocide, the Clinton administration explicitly instructed officials not to use the word genocide because doing so could obligate action under the Convention. The United States later apologized for failing to intervene. Secretaries of state have formally declared genocide in at least six previous cases: Bosnia (1993), Rwanda (1994), Iraq (1995), Darfur (2004), ISIS-controlled territories (2016–2017), and Xinjiang (2021).

Each determination unlocked diplomatic, legal, and financial mechanisms that denial or refusal forecloses. Nigeria’s annual death toll now exceeds the rates recorded in several of those cases at the time they were designated.

Without formal genocide recognition by major Western governments, the Responsibility to Protect doctrine cannot be invoked, United Nations Security Council action remains foreclosed, sanctions lack legal grounding, and diplomatic pressure remains toothless.

A coalition of Nigerian Christian leaders has called on the Security Council and the International Criminal Court to dispatch investigators immediately, arguing that genocidal crimes cannot be dismissed through political statements and must instead be verified or refuted by investigators with legal authority.

Masara Kim, who stood before the bodies of children in Nding and later ran for his life while churches burned three miles away, put it plainly. The goal of these groups, he said, is not only to eliminate Christians “but to destroy the pluralism and democratic order that protects all faiths, including those who today choose to look away.”

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President Trump very early Sunday morning released a statement on the gunman who opened fire on Secret Service agents near the White House.

Approximately 20-30 gunshots were heard near the White House on Saturday evening shortly after President Trump announced he had “largely negotiated” a deal with Iran.

Pool reporters were told to run inside the press briefing room.

The shots were fired near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW.

ABC News White House Correspondent Selina Wang was in the middle of taping on her iPhone for a social media video when the shots were fired.

Selina Wang ducked down amid the gunfire.

WATCH:

I was in the middle of taping on my iPhone for a social video from the White House North Lawn when we heard the shots. It sounded like dozens of gunshots. We were told to sprint to the press briefing room where we are holding now. pic.twitter.com/iqdQwh4soq

— Selina Wang (@selinawangtv) May 23, 2026

The gunman brandished a pistol and fired shots toward the White House three times. Secret Service returned fire and took down the shooter.

A bystander was also struck by gunfire.

The gunman, identified as 21-year-old Nesire Best, was known to Secret Service and previously tried to access the White House.

Nesire Best died after he was transported to a hospital.

President Trump praised Secret Service and law enforcement in a statement very early Sunday morning.

Trump’s full statement:

Thank you to our great Secret Service and Law Enforcement for the swift and professional action taken this evening against a gunman near the White House, who had a violent history and possible obsession with our Country’s most cherished structure.

The gunman is dead after an exchange of gunfire with Secret Service Agents near the White House gates.

This event is one month removed from the White House Correspondent’Dinner shooting, and goes to show how important it is, for all future Presidents, to get, what will be, the most safe and secure space of its kind ever built in Washington, D.C. The National Security of our Country demands it!

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President Trump on Saturday responded to the Democratic Party’s long-awaited analysis of their failures in the 2024 election, revealing the key detail they missed. 

As The Gateway Pundit reported, the DNC released a nearly 200-page analysis of their historic landslide loss to President Trump in 2024.

In addition to the typos and errors, the autopsy blames various factors for the Democrats’ loss, including bad messaging, failures to effectively combat Trump, to appeal to everyday voters, to invest in state and local parties, and the inability to project strength/unity.

“The Democrats just released an ‘Autopsy’ of their 2024 Presidential Campaign, typos and all,” Trump said, noting that they “refused to discuss two very important words.”

“BAD POLICY,” he said. “The candidates, Sleepy Joe and then, Kamala, weren’t so ‘HOT’ either!”

The Democrats just released an “Autopsy” of their 2024 Presidential Campaign, typos and all, but they refused to discuss two very important words, BAD POLICY. The candidates, Sleepy Joe and then, Kamala, weren’t so “HOT” either! President DJT

Democrats are now outraged by the release of the autopsy, and they’re now calling for DNC Chairman Ken Martin’s ouster over the sloppy autopsy.

MORE:

Dysfunctional Democrats Calling on DNC Chair Ken Martin to Resign Over Lame 2024 Election Autopsy Report

Previously, Martin was reluctant to release the document until pressure mounted from prominent Democrats, including Kamala Harris.

"Martin told CNN that the report wasn’t close to being ready for public consumption, and that its lack of source material meant that recreating it would mean starting over," CNN reported.

"He said he didn’t want to release something like that or create a distraction, but he has now concluded he created a distraction by not releasing it."

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