Secretary of State Marco Rubio dismantled radical Democrat Sen. Cory Booker’s desperate attempt to paint the Trump administration as weak and “begging” Iran for a deal.

Booker, still clinging to the disastrous Obama-era JCPOA that funded Iranian terrorism and nuclear ambitions, launched into a familiar rant:

“You have made our adversary in a stronger negotiating position. We are the strongest nation on the planet Earth and we’re in a stalemate with Iran. And now we’re begging to get back into a deal that you all trashed in the first place.”

Rubio didn’t flinch.

After Booker’s time expired, Rubio requested an opportunity to directly address the claim, arguing that the facts on the ground tell a far different story than the one Democrats are attempting to sell.

“No one’s begging for anything here,” Rubio said. “The Iranians might be begging because their economy is losing hundreds of millions of dollars a day. Understand, Iran had street protests going on before all of this started.”

The secretary proceeded to deliver a devastating assessment of Iran’s current condition, portraying the regime as economically crippled, militarily weakened, and increasingly vulnerable to internal unrest.

Rubio: “All of those factors—economic factors in Iran—are far worse today than they were six months ago when those protests were happening. They have hyperinflation, their currency is completely devalued, and they’re struggling to make payroll for their government workers.

“Iran is in a very serious situation. And if it was up to the political class there—and I understand everybody there is sort of radical in some way—but if it was up to the people who actually go to elections, wear the suits, and appear on TV, they’d probably make a deal tomorrow.

“The issue they’re facing is that the Supreme Leader and the IRGC are a little more immune from those pressures, until they can be convinced otherwise. And I think that’s the direction they’re moving in, because the reality is—I don’t know where you’re getting this perception that Iran is stronger.”

“Iran has no navy left. They’ve lost a substantial percentage of their defense industrial base. Iran has lost a substantial percentage of its missile launchers. And their economy is far worse today—and I mean far worse today—than it was six to nine months ago.

“And they are looking at hundreds of billions of dollars in reconstruction costs just to get back to where they were six months ago.”

WATCH:

.@SecRubio shuts down @SenBooker: “No one’s ‘begging’ for anything here. The Iranians might be begging — because their economy is losing hundreds of millions of dollars a day.”

“I don’t know where you’re getting this perception that Iran is stronger. Iran has no navy left.… pic.twitter.com/XHVerZeo8D

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 2, 2026

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President Trump on Tuesday reacted to the newly scheduled White House Correspondents’ Dinner and revealed it will be held at The Waldorf Astoria in DC.

Trump built the Waldorf Astoria in DC.

White House Correspondents’ Dinner president Weijia Jang announced the event will be held on July 24.

“I’m proud to share the WHCD will be held on 07/24. Our first dinner is part of history, as will be the WHCA’s response. We will not allow an act of violence to have the last word, especially during a year when we are reflecting on America 250 and everything we stand for,” White House Correspondents’ Dinner president Weijia Jang said.

I’m proud to share the WHCD will be held on 07/24. Our first dinner is part of history, as will be the WHCA’s response. We will not allow an act of violence to have the last word, especially during a year when we are reflecting on America 250 and everything we stand for.

— Weijia Jiang (@weijia) June 2, 2026

President Trump accepted the invitation:

In a sign of Strength and Fortitude, it was just announced that The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which violently ended rather abruptly on April 25th, will be rescheduled to July 24th.

This announcement is a very good thing in that we cannot allow Lunatics to change our way of life, or even its scheduling. I was asked to be there, and speak, by Weijia Jiang, President of The White House Correspondents’ Association, and have accepted.

I don’t know whether or not I will give the same rather nasty statements, at least as it concerns certain people, but we will soon find out. In any event, it will be a “HOT” ticket! Interestingly, the location will be The Waldorf Astoria, on Pennsylvania Avenue, a Building and Ballroom that I built. President DONALD J. TRUMP

Cole Allen, a 31-year-old California man, stormed the lobby of the Washington Hilton in April and opened fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Allen was hit with a total of 3 charges: Attempting to assassinate the president of the United States, transporting a firearm and ammunition with intent to commit a felony and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.

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The University of Washington has confirmed that the portion of its NIH-backed muscular dystrophy experiments on dogs has officially ended, following a major investigation and public pressure campaign by the government watchdog group White Coat Waste (WCW).

The experiments intentionally caused dogs to suffer from muscular dystrophy before killing many of them.

WCW first requested documents on the UW muscular dystrophy dog lab from both the NIH and the university in July and August of last year.

The organization finally received the first tranche of records, including graphic photos and videos, from UW in early April. WCW is still waiting for additional records from the university.

Once those initial documents arrived, WCW immediately released the explosive findings.

WATCH:

White Coat Waste reported:

Videos and records obtained by WCW through state and federal Freedom of Information Act requests in July and August 2025 show that UW’s canine colony recently confined ten dogs for experimentation. It was originally established using animals from a now-defunct Cornell University lab and an NIH-funded University of Missouri-Columbia colony — hosted in the same facility where the agency is still bankrolling Fauci’s maximum pain beagle tests.

UW’s lab preys on senior dogs around six to seven years old by forcing them to endure invasive experiments late in life.

Dogs are subjected to up to 50 injections into muscles or veins, along with muscle biopsies, neurological evaluations, and limb twisting.

The suffering doesn’t end there. They also develop painful, body-wide complications, like heart disease and difficulty standing and walking.

Beyond the main grant, the disabled dogs are also subjected to experiments paid for with other taxpayer funding.

After undergoing this debilitating testing, the dogs are killed.

The investigation and call to action prompted thousands of calls and emails from outraged supporters to UW administrators and RFK Jr.’s office at HHS, demanding that the university not renew the dog experiments when the muscular dystrophy grant expired on April 30.

Now, prompted by WCW’s investigation, UW has confirmed that it has ended those tests.

Sally Thompson-Iritani, DVM/PhD, Assistant Vice Provost for Animal Care, Outreach & 3Rs at UW, told The Gateway Pundit, “The part of the NIH-funded muscular dystrophy research that was using the dog as a model has finished. Dogs that were involved in the study were either adopted or reached their clinical/experimental endpoint.”

In a follow-up phone call, she added, “White Coat Waste was specifically referring to the muscular dystrophy grant initially. That one completed its portion that used the dog model… So for that particular grant, they don’t have any more proposed dog work right now.”

The experiments, which received more than $15 million in NIH funding over the years, deliberately bred dogs to suffer from a fatal form of muscular dystrophy.

The dogs developed severe muscle wasting, heart disease, inability to stand or walk, and enlarged tongues that prevented them from keeping them in their mouths.

They were subjected to up to 50 injections per muscle or vein, repeated muscle biopsies, neurological evaluations, and other invasive procedures before being euthanized.

As of June 1, the university has only one remaining dog on campus, a control animal from a separate prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia study, which is being placed for adoption.

“The other project evaluates a treatment for prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia. The current study has been completed, and the control animal is being placed for adoption. This is the only dog currently at the UW,” Thompson-Iritani told The Gateway Pundit.

However, Thompson-Iritani made clear that other dog research continues at UW.

“I know everyone wants to say ‘they’re never doing dog research again,’ but I can’t say that right now,” Thompson-Iritani said.

Thompson-Iritani said there is no way to know how many dogs will be at the lab being tested six months from now.

“We do currently have work that is funded to be done in dogs,” she stated. “We have worked in the dog model that is funded… they have decided that it is critical work that relies on that model. So, apparently, the prostate in the K9 is really unique in modeling a human prostate, so they have funding to do that work.”

WCW also filed records requests in July and August 2025 about UW’s separate prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia experiments on dogs. Those studies involved injecting healthy dogs with tumor cells directly into their prostates, performing experimental surgeries, and then killing the animals.

UW has still not provided any of those records to WCW, but the NIH finally released some documents last month. Records obtained by WCW show that experimenters implanted tumor cells into dozens of healthy dogs before the invasive procedures.

That project received a fresh $1,288,140 in NIH funding in August 2025 and remains scheduled to run through August 2027.

Thompson-Iritani said that they do try to adopt out the dogs whenever possible.

“We definitely prioritize adoption whenever possible,” she said. “There are certain things where if they need the tissues and stuff, sometimes we’re not able to adopt those dogs out. I know, like with the muscular dystrophy, some of the dogs were treated and lived here with a lot of human and animal interaction. They weren’t in somebody’s house, but they lived here with long-term care here at the university.”

Anthony Bellotti, founder and president of White Coat Waste, praised the end of the muscular dystrophy experiments as a direct result of WCW’s work but criticized the continuation of the prostate cancer dog tests.

In a statement provided to The Gateway Pundit, Bellotti said:

“White Coat Waste is proud that our latest investigation and campaign exposing the University of Washington’s taxpayer-funded canine cruelty has forced the school to confirm it ended the $15 million Fauci-era experiment that deliberately bred dogs to suffer from muscular dystrophy, leaving the animals struggling to stand, walk, and even keep their tongues in their mouths before they were killed.

But we also uncovered that RFK Jr.’s NIH is still bankrolling other experiments at UW that inject healthy dogs with tumor cells to induce prostate cancer, subject them to experimental surgeries, and ultimately kill them. Records obtained by White Coat Waste show RFK Jr.’s NIH voluntarily doled out another $1,288,140 in taxpayer funding to these dog tests last August, and the grant is scheduled to continue through August 2027.

White Coat Waste was the first to expose Dr. Fauci’s beagle tests and has led the fight to defund dog labs ever since. We’ve defunded dog testing at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Pentagon, EPA, and USDA, but since Secretary Kennedy took office, his NIH has wasted nearly $150 million on dog and cat experiments and repeatedly lied to taxpayers about it. WTF, RFK?

Taxpayers are tired of being forced to bankroll barbaric and wasteful Fauci-style experiments on pets. The solution is simple: Stop the money. Stop the madness.”

White Coat Waste has successfully led efforts to defund dog testing at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Navy, the EPA, and the USDA. The group continues to demand full transparency and an end to all taxpayer-funded dog and cat experiments at the NIH.

WCW remains the only animal advocacy organization to shut down any government primate lab in nearly a decade, any government dog testing labs in almost 20 years, and any government cat lab in the last 40 years.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio was forced to repeatedly demand his basic right to speak during Tuesday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing after Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) delivered a partisan attack on the Trump administration’s State Department budget request and then refused to let him respond.

The ugly scene unfolded as Rubio testified on the administration’s FY2027 budget proposal.

It all started when Duckworth launched into a bitter, pre-scripted tirade, baselessly claiming that the State Department’s budget request would “undermine” the agency. Hoping to escape any accountability for her words, Duckworth quickly squeaked, “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I yield back,” explicitly trying to muzzle Secretary Rubio from defending the administration.

But Rubio wasn’t having any of it.

“I didn’t get to answer any of that,” Rubio fired back, immediately calling out the underhanded tactic.

A visibly flustered Duckworth lamely tried to defend her partisan hit-and-run, claiming, “I didn’t ask a question.”

“She doesn’t want me to answer. Can I answer anyway?” Rubio asked the committee Chairman, exposing Duckworth’s blatant attempt to avoid the truth. “She made a bunch of points. I get to answer them, right?”

When the Chairman ruled that Secretary Rubio did, in fact, have the right to respond to the wild accusations, Duckworth completely lost her cool, frantically interrupting and shouting over him about the Trump administration “blowing through money.”

That is when Rubio absolutely SNAPPED, shutting down the rude, interrupting Democrat with a booming dose of reality.

“WHEN do I get to talk? Do I get to talk?!” Rubio demanded.

Once he secured the floor, Secretary Rubio delivered a masterclass in American diplomacy, utterly embarrassing Duckworth by listing off major, historic peace deals brokered by the administration that the mainstream media completely ignores.

Rubio reminded the panel of massive diplomatic victories, including a historic peace deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia signed just days ago, key de-escalation efforts between India and Pakistan, and ongoing, successful brokered talks between Lebanon and Israel happening right now at the State Department.

Rubio then gave the clueless leftists a basic lesson on how government actually works, reminding them that Congress—not the State Department—holds the purse strings. He even looked over at Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI), noting that the administration is ready to work on parameters, but will always deliver massive results.

WATCH:

HOLY CRAP! Sec. Marco Rubio SNAPS at Sen. Duckworth (D) for being insanely rude

“WHEN DO I GET TO TALK HERE?”

DUCKWORTH: *Lobs attacks at Marco Rubio* “I yield back my time.”

MARCO RUBIO: “OK, I didn’t get to answer ANY of that. Can I ANSWER? She made a bunch of POINTS,… pic.twitter.com/sxCAwPgerh

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 2, 2026

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The killing of 18-year-old Henry Nowak has become a national indictment of modern globalist Britain after Restore Britain’s Rupert Lowe and Reform UK’s Nigel Farage accused the country’s police, establishment political class, and justice system of exposing a grim two-tier reality: a dying white teenager was handcuffed after being falsely accused of racism by the man who had stabbed him.

Nowak, a student from Southampton, was stabbed five times last December by 23-year-old Vickrum Digwa, who used a 21cm Sikh ceremonial knife known as a kirpan. Yesterday, Digwa was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 21 years after being convicted of murder and carrying a knife in public.

But the sentence has not ended the outrage. Instead, the case has become a flashpoint over policing, ethnicity, immigration, law and order, and whether Britain’s institutions still have the courage to recognize victims and criminals without first filtering reality through a globalist anti-white ideology.

Nowak’s final moments are now at the center of the national fury. After being stabbed, he told police he had been attacked, yet officers handcuffed him after Digwa falsely claimed the teenager had racially abused him.

Bodycam footage has been released showing Henry Nowak begging for an ambulance before being handcuffed behind his back.

Nowak: “I’ve been stabbed”

Officer: “I don’t think you have mate”

Follow: @europa pic.twitter.com/WqYV760Y14

— Europa.com (@europa) June 1, 2026

The judge rejected Digwa’s racism allegation in the clearest possible terms. “I am sure that Henry said nothing racist,” he said, adding that Digwa was “the only person to make that claim” and that it was “completely at odds with his previous character.”

The judge also said Nowak “dying alone, humiliated and handcuffed” was a direct consequence of Digwa’s lies. He condemned the defense’s effort to smear the victim as “a violent, drunk, racist aggressor,” saying it compounded the suffering of Nowak’s grieving family.

For Farage, the case is no longer merely about one murder. It is about a country where police appear quicker to react to an accusation of racism than to the sight of a bleeding teenager saying he had been stabbed.

In what he called an “emergency address to the nation,” the Reform UK leader said the treatment of Nowak showed Britain had become a “two-tier country.” He argued that the case demonstrated that “the rights of white people mattered less than those of ethnic minorities.”

“The last thing he heard was being read his rights by police,” Farage said. “The accusation of a racial slur is treated more seriously than actual violence.”

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer rejected the accusation through his spokesman, insisting, “There is no such thing as two-tier policing.” But to critics, that denial sounds increasingly detached from the reality ordinary Britons see with their own eyes.

Nowak was stabbed. He said he had been stabbed. He was handcuffed anyway—and he died because of it.

Farage compared Nowak’s final words—“I can’t breathe”—to those of George Floyd, whose death triggered a global political movement, corporate rituals, mass protests, and years of institutional upheaval. The contrast, he argued, is impossible to ignore.

Where was the national reckoning for Henry Nowak? Where were the marches, hashtags, corporate statements, elite outrage, and institutional soul-searching after a young white man died handcuffed in the street?

Farage demanded an end to what he called “anti-white prejudice” and said Britain must be willing to say that “white lives matter too.” He urged the public to respond not with sentimental speeches, but with “pure cold rage.”

The fear of being called racist was greater than dealing with Henry Nowak’s murder.

We should respond to this with pure cold rage.

Britain’s historic way of life is being thrown away. pic.twitter.com/4N6vL76q1F

— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) June 2, 2026

The remarks triggered predictable condemnation from Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, who accused Farage of “whipping up” anger and division. “I don’t want to hear about Black Lives Matter. I don’t want to hear about white lives matter. We all matter,” she said.

But that response did little to answer the central issue. If everyone matters equally, critics ask, why did a dying teenager end up treated like the suspect after the killer invoked racism?

Rupert Lowe, the Restore Britain MP, pushed the argument further, saying the murder must mark a turning point for a country that has tolerated institutional weakness for too long. For Lowe, polite concern is no longer enough.

“Enough is enough—a deep line needs to be drawn in the sand. Talk is weak. Britain needs to say no more, and mean it,” Lowe wrote on X.

Bodycam footage has been released showing Henry Nowak begging for an ambulance before being handcuffed behind his back.

Nowak: “I’ve been stabbed”

Officer: “I don’t think you have mate”

Follow: @europa pic.twitter.com/WqYV760Y14

— Europa.com (@europa) June 1, 2026

Lowe said that under a future Restore Britain government, and with the approval of the British people, the death penalty would be available for the most serious violent crimes. He said Digwa’s case would meet that threshold.

“A Restore Britain Government, with the British people’s approval, would put Vickrum Digwa to death,” Lowe wrote.

He described the killing in brutal detail, noting that Nowak was stabbed five times, including in the back of the legs, the face, and fatally in the chest. Lowe also condemned Digwa for filming the dying teenager rather than calling an ambulance.

That detail has become one of the most chilling elements of the case. A young man lay dying, and his killer recorded him.

Prosecutors said Digwa removed the weapon from the scene with help from his mother, Kirun Kaur, who was convicted of assisting a defendant by removing the knife. Police later found the blade at the family home, along with more than 20 other weapons.

Prosecutor Nicholas Lobbenberg KC told the court that Digwa had a “weapons obsession.” He said the murder was not a chaotic accident, but a sustained attack on an unarmed victim.

“This was a sustained attack on an unarmed man,” Lobbenberg said. “The defendant is skilled with weapons, he trained with weapons, he sleeps in a room with weapons, he searches for weapons on his phone.”

“The Crown says he is a man with a weapons obsession,” the prosecutor added. “He chose to use a weapon on the streets of Southampton.”

A Snapchat video taken by Nowak shortly before the stabbing showed him filming Digwa and saying, “Go on, say you are a badman.” Digwa replied, “I am a bad man,” before approaching Nowak, grabbing his phone, and holding it during the incident.

Another video taken by Digwa showed Nowak trying to flee by climbing over a fence. The teenager could be heard saying, “I have been stabbed” and “I can’t breathe.”
The judge told Digwa that he had brought shame on his family and his religion. He said Digwa’s actions had “stirred up racial tension in Southampton and across the country,” leaving many Sikhs worried about their safety.

“You, Vickrum Digwa, murdered him,” the judge said. “By doing so, you robbed him of all the things he loved.”

The grief of Nowak’s family was devastating. His father, Mark Nowak, broke down in court while describing the unbearable knowledge that his son died frightened, wounded, and alone.

“As a father, it is my job to protect my child and I failed to keep him safe,” he said. “I was not there when he needed me most, the thought of him lying in the road, scared, bleeding to death will haunt me forever.”

Henry Nowak’s father says the ‘contrast’ in the police’s treatment of his son and his murderer is ‘unbearable’ in a statement after Nowak’s killer was sentenced to 21 years in prison.

‘His murderer was afforded decency. He was believed’!
pic.twitter.com/Z3frKYocLD

— Tommy Robinson (@TRobinsonNewEra) June 1, 2026

He said the family had been handed a life sentence of its own. “There is a Henry-shaped hole in our family forever and nothing will heal that,” he said.

Nowak’s sister Olivia addressed Digwa directly, saying, “If you had known him, you would never have hurt him.” She described Henry as “funny, handsome, precious and kind,” adding that he “should not be forever 18.”

For Restore Britain and the wider populist right, the case now stands as a symbol of a broken state. The police did not simply fail to save Henry Nowak; they humiliated him in his final moments after accepting the killer’s false racial claim.

Lowe said the police officers at the scene should face criminal investigation for gross negligence manslaughter if the evidence supports it. Under a Restore Britain government, he wrote, “the police officers on the scene who allowed Henry to die will face criminal charges for gross negligence manslaughter.”

He also tied the case to immigration and deportation policy, writing, “Digwa’s foreign family will be deported. Laws will change, the country will change, everything will change. Order will be restored, the law will be restored. Britain will be restored.”

Farage focused on the ideological capture of British policing. He blamed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies for creating a culture in which officers fear allegations of bias more than they fear failing a dying victim.

“DEI agenda has gone so far through the police that people now get promoted, not on the basis of merit, not on the basis of ability, but on the basis of what their racial or religious origin is,” Farage said.

Starmer’s spokesman said the Prime Minister had watched the footage again and maintained that it was appropriate to wait until sentencing before commenting publicly. He acknowledged that the impact of the killing was “rippling out across the country.”

The Independent Office for Police Conduct is now investigating the police response. But for many Britons, the essential scandal is already visible: a young man was stabbed, falsely accused, handcuffed, and left to die in the street.

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