TIPSHEET_ Marco Rubio Just Threw Down the Gauntlet With Iran ( Jeff Charles - TOWNHALL)

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Marco Rubio Just Threw Down the Gauntlet With Iran

Jeff Charles | June 02, 2026 11:15 AM

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio didn’t mince words when responding to Iran’s decision to cut off peace negotiations. 

Rubio testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday morning on the State Department’s budget request amid the ongoing conflict with Iran.

During his testimony, he noted that part of the agreement Washington is pursuing with Iran is that the regime would reopen the Strait of Hormuz. “They did not, at which point the president decided, and I think appropriately, we can’t have a world in which Iran — only Iranian ships get through the Strait,” Rubio said. “And so, if they’re gonna shut down the Strait for everybody, we’re gonna shut down the Strait for them, and we have done that through a very effective blockade.”

He noted that the financial cost for the regime “is in the hundreds of millions of dollars that they are losing in lost revenue that they’re not generating as a result of that.”

The secretary further explained that “talks with Iran are not like talks with Switzerland” and that the regime has “agreed to negotiate aspects of their nuclear program that, just a month ago, just a year ago, they were refusing to even mention, much less enter discussions about.”

But one of the main challenges is the fact that Iran’s “internal regime is somewhat fractured in the sense of it takes days to get responses from their system,” Rubio said.

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TIPSHEET_ Trump Just Blew Up the Media's Narrative on Iran With a Single Post (Jeff Charles - TOWNHALL)

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Trump Just Blew Up the Media's Narrative on Iran With a Single Post

Jeff Charles | June 02, 2026 2:15 PM

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President Donald Trump went scorched earth on reports that the Iranian regime cut off contact with the U.S. over Israel’s recent military action against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

In a post on Truth Social, the president wrote, “Fake News Reports that the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the U.S.A., stopped speaking a few days ago are false and erroneous.”

The conversations between us have been going on continuously, including four days ago, three days ago, two days ago, one day ago, and today. Where they lead, one never knows, but as I told Iran, “It’s time, one way or another, for you to make a Deal. You’ve been doing this for 47 years, and it cannot be allowed to go on any longer!”

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US_ Innovative rare-earth minerals project could reset South Africa’s rocky relationship with Trump (Joseph Hammond - THE WASHINGTON TIMES)

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Innovative rare-earth minerals project could reset South Africa’s rocky relationship with Trump

Rainbow Rare Earths project director Alberto Bruttomesso explains the company’s work in Phalaborwa, South Africa, Monday, Sept. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) ** FILE ** more >

By Joseph Hammond - Special to The Washington Times - Tuesday, May 26, 2026

What to know

* The Phalaborwa Rare Earths Project focuses on recycling mining waste for valuable minerals.
* South Africa has extensive reserves of essential minerals critical to the U.S. economy.
* Political tensions between the U.S. and South Africa remain significant despite economic interests.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A proposed U.S.-backed investment in a South African rare earth minerals project is emerging as an unlikely bright spot in relations strained by disputes over Israel, refugee policy and South Africa’s growing ties to China.

Two giant sand dunes near an abandoned chemical facility in South Africa have given Africa’s largest economy an opening for a reset with President Trump, who last year accused the South African government of standing by idly as a “White genocide” occurs in the country.

Mr. Trump followed up by disinviting South Africa from the Group of 20 summit that the U.S. will host in December.

Still, South Africa’s extensive reserves of platinum group metals and other essential minerals are becoming increasingly important to the U.S.

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US_ Dr. Oz offers advice to sufferers of ‘Trump derangement syndrome’: ‘Treating stupid is really hard’ (Naomi Lim - WASHINGTON EXAMINER)

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Dr. Oz offers advice to sufferers of ‘Trump derangement syndrome’: ‘Treating stupid is really hard’

By Naomi Lim
Published June 2, 2026 2:55pm ET | Updated June 2, 2026 2:55pm ET

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz had some blunt advice for critics of President Donald Trump, whom the commander in chief often says suffer from “Trump derangement syndrome.”

“I am concerned about folks who have focused their entire life energy on dislike of the president,” Oz told reporters on Tuesday. “It’s disheartening to see people lost that way, but treating stupid is really hard.”

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US_ Double duty: Six Trump officials who wear many hats (Rena Rowe - WASHINGTON EXAMINER)

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Double duty: Six Trump officials who wear many hats

By Rena Rowe
Published June 2, 2026 1:24pm ET | Updated June 2, 2026 1:24pm ET

For members of President Donald Trump‘s administration, one government title has become less and less likely. As vacancies emerge and agencies undergo restructuring, Trump has turned to trusted Cabinet officials and senior aides to lead various agencies at the same time.

The latest addition to the multiple-hat-wearing crew was Bill Pulte on Tuesday, when Trump named him to serve as acting director of national intelligence following the June 30 expiration of Tulsi Gabbard’s term, in addition to his current role as the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

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“President Trump has the most talented Cabinet in American history, all of whom are working around the clock to implement the President’s agenda on behalf of the American people,” White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told the Washington Examiner. “The Trump Administration’s mission to put America First and Make America Great Again will never change.”

Here are all the Cabinet members who have more than one title.


1. Marco Rubio

While secretary of state remains Marco Rubio’s primary role, he has accumulated a growing list of additional responsibilities since becoming the first Cabinet nominee confirmed during Trump’s second term. Rubio received unanimous Senate approval in a 99-0 vote.

On Feb. 3, Trump named Rubio acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development as the administration moved to dismantle the agency and transfer many of its remaining functions to the State Department. Later that month, Trump appointed Rubio as acting archivist of the National Archives and Records Administration after firing the previous archivist.

Rubio also serves as interim national security adviser, making him the first official since Henry Kissinger during the Nixon administration to simultaneously hold both the secretary of state and national security adviser positions.

Trump has repeatedly praised Rubio’s performance. Last month, the president even suggested Rubio and Vice President JD Vance would make a strong Republican ticket in the 2028 presidential election.

In addition to his dual-hatted role as chief diplomat and national security adviser, Rubio dominated news cycles in recent weeks for standing in as White House press secretary and his viral wedding DJ appearance.

Rubio has struck a humorous tone when speaking about balancing his wide-ranging responsibilities. Last year on Labor Day, he joked that it was the “most meaningful Labor Day of my life as someone with four jobs.”


2. Jamieson Greer

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CORRESPONDENT_ SAVE Act, Colombian Style (John Gizzi - NEWSMAX)

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SAVE Act, Colombian Style

VIDEO

By John Gizzi
Monday, 01 June 2026 07:07 PM EDT
Current | Bio | Archive

At a time when Senate Democrats have stalled the SAVE America Act (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act) to ensure more honest and accurate voting throughout the U.S., Colombia has for years employed and enforced strict rules for voting that clearly work.

In effect, the Colombians — who began the first step toward choosing a new president in an internationally watched election Sunday — have long had their own version of the SAVE Act. At a briefing in Bogota two days before the voting began, Newsmax asked an expert on election law whether Colombia permitted early voting or absentee ballots as the U.S. does.

"We don't have early voting or remote [absentee] voting," the expert replied without hesitation, adding that "Mexico tried something like that and it's not the best [way to conduct voting]."

Beginning under the Clinton administration in 1993, the U.S. has extended voting to include early voting as well as absentee voting without the traditional reasons such as illness or anticipated out-of-town travel.

In Colombia, however, every eligible voter must show up at polling places in which citizens have been trained to sit at the estimated 122,000 "voting tables" nationwide and place the folded paper ballots in cardboard boxes.

The lone exception to voting in person is Colombian expatriates living in other countries, who cast votes at embassies and consulates. The results are promptly submitted to the national counting authorities in Bogota.

Identification is required, and all voters carry a national ID card with which to prove their identity and thus cast a vote. At the close of the voting period on Sunday — 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. — the votes are tabulated and counted twice before the outcome is announced and sent to a national voting center for an official count.

Any required recount is done manually and in front of witnesses selected by the presidential candidates.

In Sunday's election, voter turnout reached 23.7 million, or about 57.41% of the electorate, higher than in the 2022 election, which drew 54.9%. 

In surprising results, conservative hopeful and first-time candidate Abelardo de la Espriella placed first with 43.7%, roughly a 655,000-vote lead out of 10.3 million votes cast, and leftist Sen. Ivan Cepeda followed with about 40.9%.

Thus, the two will meet in a runoff June 21.

"There was no large-scale electoral fraud, as [lame-duck left-wing President Gustavo] Petro had been anticipating before the election," concluded a study by the nonpartisan Colombia Risk Analysis firm. "The results were announced on time, accepted by the winners, and acknowledged by the losers, and the isolated anomalies recorded were insufficient to alter the overall result or cast doubt on the validity of the vote."

But the report also concluded that Petro "is likely to continue pushing the fraud narrative ahead of the runoff."

However, international observers from the International Republican Institute (IRI), the European Union (EU), and the Organization of American States (OAS) are expected to conclude that the Colombian elections were fair and honest and that their system works.

"Amazing," House Foreign Affairs Committee member Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., told Newsmax. "The Colombian election went well because voting was conducted the way it used to be here."

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US_ NRSC Joins Paxton Fundraising Effort (Sam Barron - NEWSMAX)

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NRSC Joins Paxton Fundraising Effort

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By Sam Barron | Monday, 01 June 2026 07:48 PM EDT


The National Republican Senatorial Committee is backing Ken Paxton, teaming up with the Texas attorney general and GOP Senate nominee on fundraising efforts after backing Sen. John Cornyn in the primary.

Paxton, who defeated Cornyn in a runoff last week, filed paperwork to set up the committee with the NRSC on Monday, Politico reported. The NRSC will work with Paxton on digital fundraising and direct mail, a source told Politico.

Though the NRSC supported Cornyn, the committee will give Paxton "the same treatment we give all of our candidates and incumbents," the source told Politico.

Following Paxton's victory, the NRSC deleted any anti-Paxton material from its social media, including reminders of his various scandals and posts that said Cornyn was the "only one Republican that can beat" a Democrat in Texas, Politico reported.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., will meet with Paxton this week, Paxton said in an interview Sunday.

"Ken Paxton is our nominee heading into November, and we got to pivot and go all in to make sure that we keep Texas red, that he wins, and that we keep a far-left liberal out of the United States Senate," Thune said on Hugh Hewitt's show last week after the runoff.

NRSC Chair Tim Scott, R-S.C., has also thrown his support behind Paxton.

"There's been no better warrior for our party than John Cornyn. I was blessed to have served with him and I look forward to his continued fight for our great country," Scott said on X.

"But now I stand united with President Trump, Ken Paxton, and Texans who want to protect our Republican Majority," Scott added.

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WORLD_ Report: Iranian President Seeks Exit Over Power Clash (Nicole Weatherholtz - NEWSMAX)

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Report: Iranian President Seeks Exit Over Power Clash

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By Nicole Weatherholtz | Monday, 01 June 2026 09:49 AM EDT

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has reportedly moved to resign after concluding that his administration no longer has meaningful influence over key decisions in the Islamic Republic. 

According to Iran International, which cited a source familiar with the matter, Pezeshkian submitted a resignation letter Sunday to the office of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei.

The development comes amid an apparent power struggle between Iran's civilian government and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the military force that has long wielded significant political influence inside the country.

The source told Iran International that Pezeshkian's letter argues "the president and the government have effectively been excluded from major and vital decision-making processes in the country, and that the vacuum created by this situation has enabled hardline factions within the IRGC to take control of affairs."

Pezeshkian also reportedly stated that "under such circumstances he is unable to run the government and carry out his legal responsibilities, and for that reason has requested to step down immediately."

No decision on the resignation has been announced publicly. It remains uncertain whether Khamenei will approve the request. 

If confirmed, the move would mark a dramatic escalation in tensions within Iran's ruling system, highlighting growing divisions between elected officials and the country's security establishment. 

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WORLD_ Japan, South Korea Considering Military-Logistics ‌Agreement, Seoul Says (Victoria Friedman - THE EPOCH TIMES)

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Japan, South Korea Considering Military-Logistics ‌Agreement, Seoul Says

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi rejected accusations that Tokyo was pursuing a ‘new militarism’ and criticized China for expanding its military.

South Korean Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back (L) and Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi shake hands before their meeting at the headquarters of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, in Tokyo on Jan. 30, 2026. Eugene Hoshiko/Pool via Reuters

Victoria Friedman
6/1/2026|Updated: 6/1/2026

Seoul has discussed a possible bilateral military logistics support pact with Tokyo, South Korea’s defense minister has said, although Seoul maintains reservations.

South Korean Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back told reporters at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on May 31 that he had held discussions with Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi the day before regarding a potential acquisition and cross-servicing agreement, according to the Yonhap News Agency.

Ahn declined to give further details.

An acquisition and cross-servicing agreement would allow neighboring U.S. allies Japan and South Korea to ​share and mutually procure military logistics such as ammunition, fuel, and food.

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WORLD_ Trump Says Israel and Hezbollah Will Stop Fighting, Iran Talks Still Ongoing (Jack Phillips - THE EPOCH TIMES)

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Trump Says Israel and Hezbollah Will Stop Fighting, Iran Talks Still Ongoing

The president says that ‘talks are continuing, at a rapid pace,’ with Iran despite a report from an Iranian semi-official news outlet saying talks had halted.

President Donald Trump speaks as U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio (L) and U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (R) listen during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on May 27, 2026. Win McNamee/Getty Images

Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
6/1/2026|Updated: 6/1/2026

U.S.President Donald Trump on Monday said that negotiations between Washington and Tehran are continuing “at a rapid pace” and that Israel and Hezbollah will stop attacking each other following a flare-up of fighting over the past weekend.

“Talks are continuing, at a rapid pace, with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

The president also wrote in another social media post that he spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that no Israeli troops will be sent to Beirut following recent Israeli strikes on the Lebanese capital city.

Additionally, Trump said he spoke with representatives of Hezbollah, a terrorist organization based in Lebanon, who said they “agreed that all shooting will stop” and that “Israel will not attack them, and they will not attack Israel.”

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