The United States is increasing its force in strikes against Iran, deploying B-1 bombers for the first time since fighting resumed earlier this month.

US Central Command deployed the B-1 during its mission on Tuesday, signaling a significant escalation in US attacks, Axios notes.

The B-1B Lancer can fly at supersonic speeds while carrying a 75,000-pound payload, according to the Air Force.

It is not currently clear what the B-1 was used to attack.

The US launched an 11th consecutive night of strikes against Iran last night, US Central Command announced, sharing video from the attacks. In a statement, US Central Command said the strikes “targeted Iranian military operations centers, maritime capabilities, aircraft hangars, drone storage facilities, and military logistics infrastructure to further degrade Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.”

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Explosions were seen in the Strait of Hormuz port city of Bandar Abbas as the US continued the 13th night of strikes yesterday.

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This comes as Trump has said he is considering launching a “massive attack,” which will be “bigger than ever before,” he said.

Trump has also recently doubled down on threats to escalate the conflict by hitting Iranian power plants and bridges.

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WATCH: Mamdani’s Viral Video Collapses Under Basic Fact-Checking (VIDEO)

On July 21, 2026, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a video in which he claims, among other things, that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. But to what extent, if any, are his arguments substantiated by available evidence?

The video can be broken down into three central claims: 1). Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal; 2). The United States should join the ICC and execute the arrest warrant issued against him; 3). Justice requires that the warrant be enforced regardless of politics. 

Let us address each. 

To begin with, Mamdani follows his initial claim by describing Netanyahu as the “architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people.” His framing ignores the fact that “genocide” is a legal term, explicitly defined under the UN’s Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in 1948. 

In Article II of the Convention, “genocide” is described as “acts committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group,” and sets one of the highest thresholds of proof in the legal world. This special intent is referred to as dolus specialis, and Israel’s stated campaign goals — those being the elimination of Hamas, the return of hostages, and long-term security — do not by themselves establish it. 

Unfortunately, civilian casualties are often a natural consequence of war. The simple fact that they are occurring, even on a large scale, does not immediately imply genocidal intent according to the Conventions. 

The fundamental question, as it stands under the Convention, is not whether there has been immense civilian suffering or whether Israel has violated international and humanitarian law, but whether Israel has a particular intent to destroy Palestinians as a group, either wholly or partially. As it stands, that is a high bar, and the International Court of Justice has not reached a final verdict issued on the question. 

The second claim should first be addressed by stating that the United States has declined to ratify the Rome Statute since the Clinton administration in 1998. Mamdani frames our membership as a moral given, despite the historical fact that presidents of both parties have treated the surrender of jurisdiction of U.S. nationals with suspicion. This, most recently, includes a letter written on July 2 by Todd Blanche to the President of the ICC. 

It is, ultimately, a question of national sovereignty, with the United States maintaining that its own domestic judicial systems are sufficient to prosecute allegations charged against Americans. 

Additionally, critics have pointed to flaws in the ICC’s practices that conflict with the American governmental structure. This includes a lack of checks and balances, an absence of jury trials, and excessive discretionary power exercised by judges. 

The United States continues to assert that a treaty cannot bind a country that has not agreed to it. If one were to follow that logic, whether or not Israel — a country that has also never agreed to join the ICC — is under the legitimate authority of the Court is contested as well. 

With regard to Netanyahu, this indicates that there is no existing legal mechanism that allows the United States to enforce ICC warrants on a local, state, or federal level, as The Gateway Pundit previously reported. 

Mamdani was right to concede this point, but any expectation that America will join the ICC is highly unsupported by historical precedent. 

Lastly, Mamdani assumes that an issued warrant settles the matter of justice. The response is simple: an arrest warrant is not a conviction. 

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Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has issued a temporary stay blocking the Trump administration’s State Department policy that restricted visas for foreign nationals involved in efforts to censor Americans online.

Boasberg issued the sweeping 58-page memorandum opinion on July 14, siding with the Coalition for Independent Technology Research, or CITR, which represents researchers, fact-checkers, nonprofit activists, and so-called “trust and safety” professionals.

The rogue judge concluded that CITR was likely to prove that the State Department’s policy discriminates against one side of the debate over online content moderation and therefore violates the First Amendment.

The policy, announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio in May 2025, authorized visa restrictions against foreign nationals deemed responsible for—or complicit in—the censorship of protected American expression.

Rubio made the purpose of the policy perfectly clear: Foreign bureaucrats, activists, and censorship organizations would no longer be permitted to interfere with Americans’ constitutional rights and then expect unrestricted access to the United States.

The State Department said foreign officials had used arrests, fines, threats, and regulatory pressure to force American technology companies to silence lawful speech.

According to the court record, the State Department had expanded the policy to include noncitizens engaged in “combatting misinformation, disinformation or false narratives, fact-checking, content moderation, compliance, and trust and safety.”

Consular officers were directed to scrutinize applicants’ work histories, LinkedIn profiles, and media appearances for such activity and pursue visa ineligibility findings. The Department also used the same foreign-policy grounds to deem certain lawful permanent residents deportable.

Boasberg argued the expanded policy went beyond foreign officials wielding government power and threatened private researchers and nonprofit activists.

“The policy, at its core, does not burden all speech about platforms, all research into content moderation, or all advocacy about online harms,” Boasberg wrote.

Instead, the activist judge claimed, the Trump administration had placed its “enforcement thumb against one side of the scale” by targeting foreign nationals who advocate for more content moderation, more “disinformation” labels, more restrictions, and greater pressure on advertisers and technology companies.

Boasberg acknowledged that the federal government has a “legitimate interest” in responding when foreign officials use sovereign power to suppress protected American expression.

But he ruled that the policy had allegedly crossed a constitutional line by reaching private activists whose work consisted of research, reporting, petitions, advertiser campaigns, and advocacy for stricter content moderation.

Among those previously “targeted” were Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate; Global Disinformation Index co-founder Clare Melford; HateAid leaders Josephine Ballon and Anna-Lena von Hodenberg; and former European Commissioner Thierry Breton.

The Gateway Pundit reported in December that the Trump administration barred the foreign operatives after accusing them of organizing efforts to pressure American platforms into punishing viewpoints they opposed.

This was not an abstract debate for The Gateway Pundit.

In 2023, we detailed how the Global Disinformation Index censored conservatives and their advertisers in an effort to “starve them to death.”

GDI put outlets like The Gateway Pundit on exclusion lists that advertising companies and Google used to withhold monetization. The group received hundreds of thousands in U.S. taxpayer funds through the State Department’s National Endowment for Democracy and related channels during the prior administration, money used to blacklist American conservative websites.

We reported how the radicals at the State Department funneled over $300,000 to this radical leftist group set up to blacklist conservative media outlets. GDI’s rankings consistently flagged right-leaning sites as high-risk while giving left-leaning outlets a free pass.

In April 2025, The Gateway Pundit reported on audio of GDI co-founder Clare Melford discussing an ecosystem of organizations whose campaigns resulted in advertising technology companies withdrawing their services from The Gateway Pundit and Breitbart.

Melford specifically acknowledged that publicity attacking The Gateway Pundit led companies, including Google, to stop providing monetization services to the publication.

This is what the censorship cartel calls “research.”

They could not defeat conservative media through honest debate, so they went after the money.

They created blacklists, pressured advertisers, smeared independent journalists, and attempted to starve conservative publications out of existence, all while hiding behind benign-sounding labels such as “content moderation,” “trust and safety,” and “disinformation research.”

Yet Boasberg’s ruling portrays these operatives as the victims.

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President Trump is scheduled to make an announcement on “American Nuclear Innovation” from the White House this afternoon. 

This comes as the Trump Administration eyes the prospects of advanced nuclear energy reactors offshore in US waters.

Three new experimental nuclear reactors, built after a May 2025 executive order, have reached “criticality,” meaning they can produce a steady release of energy.

“President Trump has done more than any other president in history to advance civilian nuclear energy development, innovation, and technology,” White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told News Nation.

“In this Golden Age of America, President Trump has unleashed a nuclear energy renaissance to meet the nation’s growing energy needs while keeping prices low.”

This also comes as the US establishes a new “Civil Nuclear Deal” with Saudi Arabia for the Saudis to build a non-military nuclear program.

Trump said on Truth Social yesterday that the deal will be conditional upon Saudi Arabia signing onto the Abraham Accords.

”The Civil Nuclear Deal (There will be no enrichment of material!) being made between the United States Department of Energy and Saudi Arabia, which pertains only to non-military use such as the ones that Iran and UAE (and others) already have, will be approved, but is totally subject to Saudi Arabia joining the very respected and successful Abraham Accords,” the President wrote.

The Civil Nuclear Deal (There will be no enrichment of material!) being made between the United States Department of Energy and Saudi Arabia, which pertains only to non-military use such as the ones that Iran and UAE (and others) already have, will be approved, but is totally subject to Saudi Arabia joining the very respected and successful Abraham Accords. The United States is not opposed to Civil (Non-Enriched) Nuclear Facilities. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

President Trump will likely field questions on the Saudi nuclear deal as well as the Iran war during his announcement at 3:00 pm ET.

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