President Trump on Tuesday issued a warning to Tehran amid new military strikes near the Strait of Hormuz.

Earlier Tuesday, CENTCOM announced the US Military began striking IRGC targets in Iran.

Full statement from CENTCOM:

Today at 12 p.m. ET, U.S. forces began striking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets in Iran.

The strikes follow recent attempted attacks by the IRGC against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members deployed to the region.

Today at 12 p.m. ET, U.S. forces began striking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets in Iran. The strikes follow recent attempted attacks by the IRGC against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members deployed to the region.

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) September 1, 2026

President Trump warned that if Iran retaliates, the US will hit them again “at a much harder and higher level.”

Full statement from President Trump:

The United States is, as we speak, striking Iranian Targets near the Strait of Hormuz.

The strikes are large and powerful, and in retaliation for the Iranians’ failed attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait, which currently has no mines (They have been completely removed or detonated!), and the Iranians shooting eight missiles, all successfully knocked down, at our Military Base in Jordan.

If the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings and, when it is over, there will be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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The towers are gone in all but memory, but the death brought to New York City 25 years ago on 9/11 continues to impact the city, leaving a trail of victims.

As the nation prepares to mark the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attack, cancer deaths linked to the attack on New York City’s World Trade Center have risen 1,680 percent in a decade.

Cancer certifications among Manhattan workers and residents who were not among the decimated ranks of first responders soared from 3,204 in 2015 to 57,044 this year, the World Trade Center Health Program said, according to the New York Post.

“Sadly, we lose roughly two clients a day and see a new cancer certification every 50 minutes,” lawyer Michael Barasch, whose firm represents thousands of people enrolled in the World Trade Center Health Program, said.

Twenty-four years later, our 9/11 heroes and survivors are still paying the price. Nearly 50,000 are now battling cancer.

Protecting the @WTCHealthPrgm is a moral imperative to honor their sacrifice and ensure they receive the care they earned. https://t.co/rM0ib99ZG4

— Rep. Andrew Garbarino (@RepGarbarino) September 8, 2025

“9/11 did not end on 9/11. The cancer clock is ticking 24/7,” Barasch said.

The toll that rare cancers have taken among first responders has been documented for years, but the new data shows anyone near Ground Zero — whether they worked, lived, or attended school nearby — have now become the majority of cancer victims.

Survivors not working on the Pile at Ground Zero amount to 28,913 of the overall cancer cases. That’s an increase of 4,066 percent from the 694 cases reported 14 years after the attacks in 2015. Responders account for 28,131 of the cancer cases.

Rare cancers have exploded among survivors.

There are a rising number of cases of neuroendocrine cancers, which are rare tumors found in the pancreas, bowel, lungs, or adrenal glands. The number stands at 591 after a 6 percent increase from March through June.

Brain cancer has risen 9 percent in the past quarter.

Recently met a guy who was in the twin towers that day, lost a lot of friends that day, he’s got cancer in three places. It’s crazy to think he survived Korea just to comeback home, survive 9/11 and live to be in his 90’s and get a lot of cancer. https://t.co/CSIYmLrCXo

— The Gunslinger (@PlayerJuan11) August 31, 2026

Although aging among survivors is part of the issue, federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data show that 67 percent of the 145,275 current World Trade Center Health Program members have at least one of 69 cancers linked to toxic substances unleashed when the towers fell.

Leslie Lane, now 76, worked in the World Financial Center Building for Merrill Lynch across from the World Trade Center and was in her office when the planes rammed into the towers.

Lane recalled seeing the “dust cloud” while evacuating.

“You could taste the dust. You could taste the fuel, greasy gas,” she recalled, noting that she returned to the area that November after her office relocated.

She was diagnosed with thymus cancer in 2020.

“Thymus cancer is a very rare form of cancer. I don’t drink. I don’t smoke,” she said.

“For months afterward, you could taste the fuel in the air in the back of your throat and mouth. They kept telling us the air was safe. I don’t think it was.”

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Republican Michigan Senate hopeful Mike Rogers launched a new ad that shows that Democrat conman Abdul El-Sayed is “too extreme” and “too weird” for Michigan voters.

The ad strings together El-Sayed clips to show him as sexually fixated and out of step with Michigan.

Laura Ingraham opens the ad with images of El-Sayed bizarrely dancing in a sitcom living room, parroting the children’s cartoon Blue’s Clues. She notes, ” El-Sayed, the socialist, we’ve decided he’s just weird.”

Next, in a clip from an interview on Fox News with Jesse Watters during a discussion on sex-change surgeries for minors, a serious topic on the safety of children, El-Sayed asks, “Are you circumcised?”

During a podcast clip about Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Second Lady Usha Vance, El-Sayed, fixated on the sex lives of Republicans, asks, “What do you think is going through Usha’s head when he talks? Damn, I have to sleep with him.”

He then jokes that she’s pregnant, so “something’s happening.”

Ingraham adds, “They say sex sells, but this guy seems just obsessed with it.”

El-Sayed, a doctor, discusses circumcision by saying it is “surgery on a kid’s ding a ling.”

El-Sayed then discusses his interesting Instagram feed that seems to have an awful lot of OnlyFans videos hitting his algorithm.

“And like, the things that I actually look at on Instagram, every third video that scrolls on its own is going to be some OnlyFans model.”

The ad closes with two simple observations, “ABDUL IS JUST WEIRD.”

And, “WRONG FOR MICHIGAN.”

Watch:

Conman Abdul El-Sayed — too extreme, and too weird for Michigan. pic.twitter.com/UqFmGXCcUB

— Mike Rogers (@MikeRogersForMI) August 31, 2026

Vice President JD Vance sent a warning to El-Sayed to stop targeting his wife and members of Vance’s family.
While in Michigan campaigning for Rogers, Vance stated, “Now, the last thing I’ll say about Abdul, Mr. El-Sayed, is he has a weird habit of talking about my family. Have you noticed this? Yeah.”

“You know, look, I don’t know who his wife is. I’m sure she’s a lovely person, but I would never come to this state and disrespect you or disrespect somebody’s family by talking about another person’s wife, a person who isn’t on the ballot. And yet, Abdul El-Sayed, every time they put a microphone in front of his face, he wants to talk about my wife or my grandfather.”

“My message to Abdul El-Sayed is you can pal around with terrorist sympathizers and you can say that America deserved 9/11, or you could empathize not with the children who were targeted at Temple Israel, or— but with the attacker. These are all despicable things, but they’re all things that the people of Michigan will judge you on based on your record. But I actually think that the people of Michigan think it’s kind of weird. When you talk about another guy’s wife. I think the people of Michigan would like you to talk about the public policy ideas you have to make their ideas better.”

He continued: “I think the people of Michigan would like you to talk about how you’re going to protect autoworkers when you’re supporting every single policy that has undercut the wages and jobs of Michigan autoworkers your entire life in public service.”

“But whatever you want to talk about, Abdul, keep my wife’s name the hell out of your mouth because she’s way out of your league.”

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In recent days, Vladimir Putin has issued concrete military and diplomatic signals indicating that he intends to escalate the war in Ukraine rather than negotiate a resolution.

According to Pavlo Palisa, Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, the Russian political leadership issued an order on August 29 instructing its forces to reach the administrative borders of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, comprising the entire Donbas region, by December 31, 2026.

The deadline is significant because Russian forces have been fighting for control of the Donbas since 2014, but have failed to secure the entire region, despite nearly five years of full-scale war following the 2022 invasion.

Palisa said Russia’s military leadership considered the timeline unrealistic and requested an extension to March 31, 2027. The Institute for the Study of War assesses that neither deadline is achievable at Russia’s current rate of advance, noting that Putin has set and missed fifteen separate Donbas deadlines since 2022.

However, ISW’s feasibility assessment assumes that Russia maintains its current rate of advance, while Putin’s four-month order explicitly directs his forces to accelerate beyond that baseline.

Putin’s Aug. 22 rejection of proposals to restart negotiations was a clear move toward escalation rather than reaching a peaceful compromise. According to an Aug. 26 Bloomberg report, people close to the Kremlin described peace talks as having reached a dead end. At the time, Ukraine and the United States were pursuing new proposals, including a partial aerial ceasefire and a ceasefire framework based on the current front line.

Putin called those proposals “exotic” and “unacceptable,” while saying Russia remained open to talks only “based on the realities on the ground.” He also told members of his United Russia party that the war would move “only forward.” Separately, he warned that Ukraine had opened a “Pandora’s box” that would bring retaliation against its economy.

Within days of rejecting the talks, Russia’s Defense Ministry announced on Aug. 31 that it was preparing “massive strikes” against Ukraine’s energy grid in retaliation for Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian refineries and logistics hubs. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the planned strikes an appropriate response to what he termed Kyiv’s path of escalation. The announcement came days after a Russian drone strike on an ammunition depot near Myla, in Kyiv’s Bucha district, killed at least 38 people on Aug. 29, according to Zelensky.

There have even been hints of nuclear escalation. Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces test-launched an ICBM from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on Aug. 28. The missile, believed to be either a Topol or Yars, has an estimated range of 10,500 kilometers, enough to reach the continental United States, according to SIPRI estimates. Separately, Duma member Alexei Zhuravlev of the Rodina party publicly called for using tactical nuclear weapons to force Ukraine’s capitulation on Aug. 30. This was an individual lawmaker’s position, not an announced Kremlin policy, and Bloomberg has reported no indication that Russia is currently preparing to use a nuclear weapon.

On the northern front, Ukraine’s Presidential Office said on Aug. 28 that Russia’s General Staff had been tasked with drafting operational scenarios for an offensive toward Kyiv and Chernihiv, potentially staged from Belarusian territory. However, Palisa said no new offensive troop groupings were currently being detected in that direction.

Belarus continues to expand its logistics, personnel, and training infrastructure near the border, but Kyiv has not confirmed a buildup approaching the roughly 70,000-troop threshold that its commanders have established as the marker of a credible threat. Belarusian airspace also continues to serve as a launch corridor for strikes into Ukraine. Belarusian opposition monitors reported that a Russian jet-powered drone crossed from Gomel into Ukraine’s Chernobyl exclusion zone during the night leading into Aug. 31, marking the second such incursion in three days.

European nations have responded with visible concern. Finland requested Swedish aircraft and warships to help monitor its border with Russia. Germany moved to attribute an Aug. 4 drone incident at Leipzig Airport to Moscow, while Romania said it had destroyed a Russian naval drone targeting a Black Sea drilling platform.

Kremlin-linked sources told The Economist that Putin is prepared to commit an additional 300,000 to 400,000 troops without declaring a new nationwide mobilization, relying instead on regional recruitment drives, even as Russian battlefield losses are outpacing recruitment by roughly 6,000 troops a month.

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In the race between Democrat James Talarico and Republican Ken Paxton, Talarico can not seem to hide his radical positions.

During a private Zoom meeting that has resurfaced with Austin Sierra Club activists from 2020, Talarico said the quiet part out loud, again.  He went after capitalism, suggesting it is an ‘oppressive system’ that he wants ‘to dismantle.’

“The multi, you know, multi-faceted threat of a climate crisis, an economic crisis, and a social justice crisis,” Talarico told the group, “I think that kind of New Deal effort would be the only approach to start to address all three in a thoughtful and meaningful way.”

One of the participants then asked him, “Second question….communities of color receive the most harm from the impacts of climate change, yet receive the least government support to deal with it.”

“Tell us about one of the committees you are on, or hope to be on, and the most important actions that committee could take to fight for climate justice and mitigate the impacts of climate change for all Texans.”

Talarico responded, “Yeah, and I am so thankful that you asked this question and also thankful that young activists have really drawn the link between climate change and White supremacy and capitalism in our country,” he told the very White group of activists.

“I think only ending the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together are we going to be able to begin the process of dismantling them.

Watch:

In a private Zoom meeting with Austin Sierra Club activists, James talarico says capitalism is an oppressive system he wants to dismantle:

“I’m … thankful that young activists have really drawn the link between climate change and white supremacy and capitalism in our country.… pic.twitter.com/sPDDXg6l5q

— Lone Star Liberty PAC (@LoneStar_PAC) September 1, 2026

The Gateway Pundit reported on another horrible video of Talarico’s that resurfaced, where he agreed with a podcaster who called Christians America’s ‘villains.’

Talarico has also caused a stir with his perversion of Christianity. During an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, he confirmed his blasphemous belief that “God is both masculine and feminine” and that “God is nonbinary.”

WATCH: “Take it Up With the Apostle Paul” – James Talarico Doubles Down on Calling God “Nonbinary” and Saying There Are Six Genders, Admits Some “Missed the Mark”

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