Q: On Iran, what makes you think this will be different?

Trump: You never know. It may be or may not be.

Fetterman: Does Israel engage in a genocide?

Stewart: In Palestine? Yes.

Fetterman: I strongly disagree. There wasn't a genocide. The Jewish community actually experienced a true genocide.

Stewart: They've killed like 1,200 Palestinians since the ceasefire.

Fetterman: Yeah. That's necessary. It's entirely appropriate to eliminate them.

Tucker Carlson used a livestream Wednesday to outline a 10-point vision for America, defining the worldview of a breakaway MAGA faction increasingly at odds with Trump.

After recently saying he would "help build a third party" and hosting MAGA dissidents who urged him to run in 2028, Carlson stopped short of launching a movement. Instead, he described the manifesto as the foundation for "whatever comes next."

His platform calls for:

Equal application of the law, including to political elites.

Greater U.S. sovereignty and reduced foreign influence.

Reviving manufacturing, farming and craftsmanship.

Restoring beauty and public order in cities.

Health reforms, including support for RFK Jr.'s food agenda.

Punishing government deception and declassifying more records.

Promoting family formation and long-term thinking.

Schools focused on practical knowledge and traditional views of human nature.

Restrained foreign policy, including ending support for allies accused of harming civilians.

Tighter immigration and English-only federal documents and ballots.

Two IDF reservists were killed and four seriously wounded by an IED in a booby-trapped building in Majdal Zoun, southern Lebanon.

They are the first Israeli military fatalities under the shaky June truce with Hezbollah.

The killed soldiers were named as Maj. (res.) Harel Birenstock, 34, a company commander, and Sgt. Maj. (res.) Tamir Vaknin, 33.

Ukraine shows forests in Vovchansk district of Kharkiv region blanketed in fibre-optic cables left behind by Russian FPV drones.

The material doesn't biodegrade, damages forests, and creates deadly traps for wildlife.

Lt. Gen. Igor Yerusalimov, ~53, a senior Russian officer, was buried under heavy security in Moscow with multiple sources linking his death to the Aug 1 bombing at the Balzi Rossi restaurant.

Russian authorities haven't publicly confirmed his cause of death or named him as a victim.

Yerusalimov was a staff officer with operational-planning experience on the Ukrainian direction, promoted to lieutenant general in 2025.

German authorities, acting on a tip from a foreign intelligence partner, disrupted a Russian intelligence plot to assassinate Stefan Thumann, founder and CEO of Bavarian drone manufacturer Donaustahl, which supplies reconnaissance and FPV drones to Ukraine.

Investigators say two suspected Russian-recruited agents surveilled Thumann, his home, and his company before being arrested in Germany and Spain on suspicion of acting for a foreign intelligence service.

Source: Pravda Ukraine

NEW: US-Ukraine intelligence sharing has rebounded to previous high levels after its brief suspension in March 2025, significantly boosting Ukraine's deep-strike drone and missile campaign inside Russia.

Source: Politico

Russia is training newly recruited North Korean troops, likely in preparation for future offensive operations in Ukraine.

Japan says North Korea has launched a suspected ballistic missile.

Iranian pilots attacked US bases without GPS, according to a deputy coordinator of Iranian Army Air Force, who described how the mission relied on old-school navigation to stay undetected:

Our pilots were trained to guide the fighter jets in various missions using only maps and rudimentary systems, without relying on GPS or INS [inertial navigation].

Perhaps our trump card was that there was no outgoing signal—not even a radio signal—from our aircraft, and probably on the first day, the enemy didn't imagine the air force would have the audacity to carry out such a mission.

In a clip from Alex Holder's upcoming documentary Lindsey's Game, Benjamin Netanyahu sings "Happy Birthday" to Sen. Lindsey Graham and hands him a piece of cake.

Graham jokes, "You should have seen the cake the Saudis got me."

The moment was filmed at Blair House in July 2025.

Dasha Burns: You ever say, "Mr. President, that's a crazy idea. Don't do that?"

Mike Johnson: Yes. We have a very close relationship, and I talk him out of it.

US House Speaker Mike Johnson:

We're going to win this election whether we resolve the Iran situation before the election or not.

US House Speaker Mike Johnson:

The first quarter the economy was beginning to take off like a rocket, and then we got into this skirmish with Iran.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo:

There are those within my party, the Republican Party, who think President Trump made a mistake... They would describe this as a war of choice.

That's just a false, straw man argument, right? This was no war of choice.

We've been at war with Iranians for decades.

It was time to make sure that they didn't have the capacity to become like North Korea—impenetrable, unattackable.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo:

At least Chairman Kim—and I spent way too much time with that son of a gun—hasn't conducted massive terror operations and killed thousands of Americans over the last decade.

The Iranians would have behaved very differently had they possessed the kind of nuclear program that Chairman Kim has.

The world would be a fundamentally different place.

Q: Do you still believe that some kind of regime change is possible in Iran?

Mike Pompeo: 100%.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has banned exports of copper and cobalt concentrates to encourage domestic processing and keep more value from its mineral resources.

The government also introduced a new tax on valuable mining by-products as part of its effort to increase mining revenue.

Source: Reuters