WASHINGTONPOST (Noah Robertson, Tara Copp) - Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferences
The president wants the new fleet of aircraft carriers to more resemble those from World War II. Such a change could cost billions.
THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - Pro-Hamas California Imam Claims Columbus Found Mosques in the Americas.
Imam Amir Abdel Malik Ali's controversial remarks about Islam's historical presence in the Americas and his past radical rhetoric have drawn scrutiny.
Imam Amir Abdel Malik Ali’s controversial remarks about Islam’s historical presence in the Americas and his past radical rhetoric have drawn scrutiny. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: California imam Amir Abdel Malik Ali claimed during a sermon that Islam existed in the Americas before Christianity and asserted that Christopher Columbus saw a mosque when he arrived in the region, remarks that conflict with the historical record. DETAIL: A surviving abstract of Columbus’s October 29 journal entry describes a Cuban mountain as resembling “a graceful mosque,” referring to the landscape rather than an actual mosque. Ali used the abstract to argue that Muslims and Islam would play a major role in America’s future, saying Islam and…Open
NEWSCATS (MeighTimbol) - Russian Ballistic Attacks Intensify as Kyiv Claims Battlefield Gains in Dnipropetrovsk
Ukraine DART Weapon/ Image Credit Ukraine Military Reported by: Cherry Meigh TimbolNews Content Editor Published August 15, 2026 KYIV, Ukraine — Russia has intensified its ballistic missile campaign against Ukraine as Kyiv announces significant battlefield [...]
JUSTTHENEWS (Nicholas Ballasy) - Multiple people shot at Virginia State University, police say
The campus is on lockdown.
AMERICANTHINKER - The decline of higher education continues
By Mike McDaniel College has been, and ever must be, a proving ground, a place where one not only learns a body of useful knowledge but demonstrates the character necessary to apply it.
AMERICANTHINKER - Noose hoaxes: supply and demand
By Mike McDaniel As usual, the demand for racist hatred far exceeds the supply.
AMERICANTHINKER - Democratic candidate for Iowa secretary of agriculture once claimed that farming is not that hard
By Eric Utter
JUSTTHENEWS (Nicholas Ballasy) - Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon kill at least 11
Seven people were killed when an Israeli strike hit a home near the village of Ansar
NEWSNATIONNOW (Josie Fischels) - Multiple hospitalized after shots fired on Virginia State University campus
The Virginia State University Police Department says the campus remains on lockdown.
THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - Trump Admin Intervenes in Surrogate’s Battle for Newborn Parents Wanted to Abort.
The Trump administration has stepped into a contentious surrogacy case, advocating for life-saving medical care for a baby born with a severe heart defect amid legal and ethical disputes.
The Trump administration has stepped into a contentious surrogacy case , advocating for life-saving medical care for a baby born with a severe heart defect amid legal and ethical disputes. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: The Trump administration has warned two Texas hospitals that they must provide life-saving care to a newborn caught in an extraordinary legal dispute between his surrogate and biological parents. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS ) told Children’s Medical Center of Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical Center that federal disability civil rights protections prohibit withholding medical treatment based on a patient’s disability. DETAIL: McKenna West gave birth on Wednesday to Gabriel after refusing the…Open