A 17-year-old girl was stabbed in the neck on a public street in Brierfield, near Burnley in England, in the middle of a Friday afternoon. Lancashire Police were called to Wood Street at 3:06 PM on June 12, 2026, after reports that a girl had been assaulted. Armed officers arrived and arrested a 30-year-old man from the town. He is being held on suspicion of attempted murder and remained in custody at the time of reporting. Video of the attack has been circulating online. It is disturbing, and we are flagging that here before you watch. NEW: A man has been arrested after allegedly stabbing a teenage girl in the back of the neck in Burnley pic.twitter.com/LUlngehQd7 — Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) June 12, 2026 The girl was stabbed in the back of the neck and taken to hospital. The good news is that she survived. Sky News reported her injuries were not life-threatening or life-changing, and that she was communicating with officers and medical staff. By the next day, GB News reported she had been discharged from hospital after treatment. Online, the usual rush to assign motive and identity began almost immediately. Police pushed back on it directly. GB News carried the police update and the details on the suspect: The man who was arrested yesterday on suspicion of attempted murder after a 17-year-old girl was stabbed is a British-born man of Pakistani heritage, Lancashire police have confirmed. The 30-year-old man from Brierfield, Lancashire was arrested shortly after the incident and remains in custody. The teenage victim was stabbed in the back of the neck but has subsequently been discharged from hospital, police have confirmed. A spokesman for the police said there is “currently no evidence to suggest this attack was racially motivated”. Police were called to Wood Street at 3.06pm following reports of an incident. Armed officers arrived at the scene, where the 30-year-old man was arrested. A spokesman for the police said a “dedicated team” are now following inquiries as the investigation continues. They confirmed there are no further suspects currently. Brierfield's MP Oliver Ryan has urged people “stick to the facts” and not “exploit” the incident for “clickbait”. “To address speculation, it is my understanding that both the attacker and the victim are Brierfield residents, and British.” So one early online label does not hold up against the current reporting. Police say he is British-born and of Pakistani heritage, and they say there is no evidence so far that the attack was racially motivated. That is the responsible thing to report. Investigators say a dedicated team is now following inquiries and that there are no further suspects at this time. Extra patrols are being deployed in the area while the investigation continues. A Lancashire Police spokesperson said: "We were called at 3.06pm today to Wood Street, Brierfield, to a report of stabbing. "It was reported that a 17-year-old girl had been assaulted and suffered a stab injury to her neck. "Officers, some of them armed, attended and a… — Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) June 12, 2026 Brierfield’s MP Oliver Ryan urged people to stick to the facts and not exploit the incident for clickbait, saying his understanding is that both the attacker and victim are Brierfield residents and British. Police are asking anyone with CCTV, dashcam, or doorbell footage to come forward and quote log 0836 of June 12. Strip away the speculation and the bare facts are bad enough. A teenage girl was knifed in the neck on a public street, in daylight, in a country where ordinary people are exhausted by the steady drumbeat of knife attacks. She lived, and a suspect is in custody. That is the result everyone should want, and the rest is now on the detectives to prove in court rather than online. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.

President Trump may be on the edge of a major Iran breakthrough. Pakistan’s prime minister now says a U.S.-Iran peace deal could be finalized within 24 hours, with an electronic signing followed by technical talks next week. Here is the official post from Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif: We are closer to a peace deal than ever before. With finalisation likely expected in the next 24 hours, Pakistan is preparing for the electronic signing of the peace deal immediately after, followed by technical level talks next week. We would like to thank United States of… — Shehbaz Sharif (@CMShehbaz) June 13, 2026 That is the optimistic side of the story. CBS News captured the mediator’s timetable this way: “We are closer to a peace deal than ever before,” “With finalisation likely expected in the next 24 hours” The caution is just as important. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding has “never been closer,” while telling media outlets to avoid speculation until the final details are public. Here is Araghchi’s statement: The Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding has never been closer. Pending its finalization, the media should refrain from entering speculation about its content. In line with our responsible and transparent approach, all details will be shared with the public in due course. — Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) June 12, 2026 The deal remains unsigned. AP added the part Washington has not publicly locked down: The White House did not answer questions about where things stood Previous declarations of an imminent breakthrough failed to materialize. So the window is real, and the caution is real. What makes this different is the pressure behind it. Even as mediators talk about a signing, U.S. forces are still keeping the Strait of Hormuz open. U.S. Central Command said Iranian attack drones tried to strike commercial ships transiting the strait, and American forces downed them all: Iran launched multiple one-way attack drones in an attempt to strike commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. forces have downed all of them in recent hours as traffic flow through the strait continues unimpeded. The international trade corridor remains open for… — U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) June 13, 2026 The stakes run straight through Hormuz. CBS reported that oil prices fell on optimism about a deal that could reopen the strait to tanker traffic. That is the leverage President Trump has been building toward: no nuclear weapon path for Tehran, open shipping lanes, and terms that can be checked against real-world milestones. The next 24 hours now matter. If the signing happens, it would mark a major turn from strikes and drone intercepts toward an enforceable peace framework. If Tehran stalls, the world will know who walked away from the table. What are your thoughts? TAP HERE TO ADD YOUR VOTE This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.

President Trump’s team just told one of America’s leading AI companies that some of its most powerful models are too sensitive to leave open to foreign access. On June 12, 2026, Anthropic announced that the U.S. government, citing national security authorities, issued an export-control directive suspending foreign-national access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. The directive applied whether the foreign national was inside or outside the United States. It even covered Anthropic’s own foreign-national employees. The practical effect was blunt. Anthropic said it had to shut down both models for every customer to stay in compliance. The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of… — Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) June 13, 2026 This is one of the clearest signals yet that President Trump’s team treats frontier AI as a strategic asset, not a consumer toy. The administration decided the technology was too valuable to leave unguarded, and it acted. Anthropic laid out the directive in its own public statement: The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Anthropic models will not be affected. We received the directive from the government today at 5:21pm (ET). The letter did not provide specific details of its national security concern. Our understanding is that the government believes it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or “jailbreaking” Fable 5. We reviewed a demonstration of this specific technique being used to identify a small number of previously known, minor vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities all appear relatively simple, and we have found that other publicly-available models are able to discover them as well without requiring a bypass. We have instituted strong safeguards that greatly reduce the likelihood that Fable is misused for tasks related to cybersecurity (among others). In the weeks leading up to the launch of Fable, Anthropic worked with the US government, the UK AISI, multiple private third-party organizations and internal teams to red-team Fable’s safeguards for thousands of hours in total. These tests showed that Fable’s safeguards are substantially more effective than those of any previously deployed model. No testers have yet been able to find a universal jailbreak—a jailbreak method that can very broadly bypass the model’s safeguards, unblocking a wide range of cyber capabilities. Anthropic does not think the shutdown was necessary. The company said the jailbreak technique it reviewed surfaced only a few minor, previously known vulnerabilities that other public models can find on their own. Anthropic is challenging the government’s reasoning. The directive still forced an immediate shutdown. Outside the company, tech leaders immediately understood the broader signal: advanced AI is now a sovereignty and national-security issue. This is big: all access to Mythos and Fable AI models disabled for everyone outside America. First thoughts: 1. Technology is the ultimate weapon. National sovereignty, national security, all of it is now about technology. 2. Globalization is dead and Bharat must find her… https://t.co/kCQpq93D3r — Sridhar Vembu (@svembu) June 13, 2026 Axios reported that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sent the letter to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. According to Axios, the letter said Mythos 5 and Fable 5 would be subject to export controls outside the United States and to foreign persons inside the country. Axios also reported that an administration official said the models need to remain locked down until the U.S. government’s national-security apparatus is hardened. Reporter Andrew Curran summarized the Commerce-letter piece this way: The Trump administration has placed Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 under export controls. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sent a letter to Dario Amodei tonight stating that foreign governments, companies, and individuals will no longer have access to either model. https://t.co/WddY8Ourvq — Andrew Curran (@AndrewCurran_) June 13, 2026 This move fits the posture President Trump set down weeks earlier. His June 2, 2026 AI executive order framed advanced models as both a national strength and a national-security problem that demands coordinated action. The White House order stated: Advanced AI capabilities make our Nation stronger, but also introduce new national security considerations that require coordinated action across executive departments and agencies (agencies), and components. As these capabilities evolve, my Administration will continue to work closely with industry to ensure that the best and most secure technology is deployed rapidly to confront any and all threats to our country. We will continue to lead an America First cybersecurity effort that enhances both our national security and our global AI dominance. It is the policy of the United States to promote AI innovation and security by working collaboratively with the private sector to modernize government and private sector information systems and harden them against external threats; to protect American ingenuity and intellectual property from exploitation and theft by adversaries; and to cultivate America’s advanced AI-enabled capabilities. Within 60 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, through the Director of NSA, and the Secretary of Homeland Security, through the Director of CISA, in consultation with the White House Chief of Staff, through the National Cyber Director, the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology (APST), and the Secretary of Commerce, through the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and in coordination with other agencies, as appropriate, shall: (a) develop and maintain a classified benchmarking process to assess the advanced cyber capabilities of AI models and determine the threshold at which an AI model should be designated a “covered frontier model” for the purposes of this order, sharing such assessments with AI developers and researchers as appropriate. Fable 5 and Mythos 5 just became a real-world test case for that policy. America builds the most advanced AI on earth, and the Trump administration is now making clear that foreign access can run into national-security limits. The AI race is no longer only about who builds the smartest tool. It is also about who controls it once the tool becomes powerful enough to matter strategically. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.

President Trump just took the Iran story off the rumor track and put his own name on the timeline. In a statement posted June 13, 2026, Trump said the deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow. The other key line: immediately after it is signed, Trump said the Strait of Hormuz is open to all. That is a major turn from where this stood even a day ago, when the public story was still mediator optimism and cautious reporting. BREAKING: THE IRAN DEAL IS BEING SIGNED TOMORROW — President Trump IMMEDIATE opening of the Strait of Hormuz, and no nukes — then, the US will obtain the nuclear dust LFG, he's really doing it! "The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is… pic.twitter.com/4BkPQeOywd — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 13, 2026 Trump also drew the contrast with Barack Obama’s Iran deal himself. He called Obama’s JCPOA an easy road to a nuclear weapon and said his own agreement is the opposite: a wall against one. President Trump posted the statement through Trump’s Truth: Barack Hussein Obama’s Deal with Iran, the JCPOA, was an easy, beautiful, smooth road to a Nuclear Weapon, which Iran would have had six years ago, and would have used long before now. My Agreement with Iran is the exact opposite, A WALL TO NO NUCLEAR WEAPON! In fact, they no longer want a Nuclear Weapon, nor will they have one, either through purchase, development, or any other form of procurement. The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is signed, the Hormuz Strait is OPEN TO ALL. Our relationship with Iran is a much different and better one than previous Administrations have had. Unlike Obama’s Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in payments to them, including 1.7 Billion Dollars in green, cold cash, no money will exchange hands. At the appropriate time, when all is calm, we will go in and get the Nuclear Dust, buried deep under the powerful sunken granite mountains, thanks to our beautiful B-2 Bombers and their brilliant pilots, and downblend and destroy it, whether in Iran, or the United States. We look forward to working with Iran, and the entire Middle East, long into the future. Hopefully, this process will all work out quickly, easily, and smoothly. If it doesn’t, we have the ultimate alternative, hopefully never to be used again! Thank you for your attention to this matter!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP The no-money line is one of the biggest political pieces of this. No pallets of cash. No Obama-style payments dressed up as diplomacy. Trump also made clear the enriched material buried under the mountains is not being left alone. At the appropriate time, he said, the United States will go in and get the buried “Nuclear Dust,” then downblend and destroy it, whether in Iran or in the United States. The mediator-side timeline lines up with that statement. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Pakistan was preparing for an electronic signing after finalization, with technical talks to follow next week. We are closer to a peace deal than ever before. With finalisation likely expected in the next 24 hours, Pakistan is preparing for the electronic signing of the peace deal immediately after, followed by technical level talks next week. We would like to thank United States of… — Shehbaz Sharif (@CMShehbaz) June 13, 2026 Axios reported that the U.S. and Iran, along with Pakistani and Qatari mediators, are expected to hold a virtual meeting Sunday and electronically sign a memorandum of understanding. According to Axios, the agreement would extend the ceasefire by 60 days, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and launch negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. There had been caution around the talks before Trump’s statement. Reuters reported Friday that Tehran had not reached a final decision at that point, even as Trump said a deal could come as soon as the weekend. President Trump said the United States and Iran could sign a peace deal as soon as this weekend that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz to shipping, but Tehran countered that it had not reached a final decision on an agreement https://t.co/06V8DLGOlG pic.twitter.com/xrE56tPY8V — Reuters (@Reuters) June 12, 2026 That is what makes Trump’s direct statement so important. The story is no longer only that mediators think a deal may be close. The President is now saying the signing is scheduled. If this holds, the next step is immediate movement on Hormuz, a no-cash deal, and a U.S.-led plan to destroy the buried enriched material. If it does not hold, Trump already said there is an ultimate alternative, one he hopes is never used again. That is not begging Tehran for a deal. That is negotiating from leverage. What are your thoughts? TAP HERE TO ADD YOUR VOTE This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.

Since the identity-politics fever dream of the Biden years, President Donald Trump has made great strides toward eliminating many of the leftist programs and policies that have stoked division nationwide. One example involves removing certain displays at America’s national parks that either perpetuate the controversial “diversity, equity, and inclusion” agenda or fuel other left-wing narratives.  But as with so many other initiatives from the Trump administration, a judge has stepped in to gum up the works.  According to The Hill: Judge Angel Kelley sided with the challengers on Friday, finding that the federal government’s action “sets a dangerous precedent of censorship and sanitization” while undermining the “integrity” of the National Parks system. “The Government’s stewardship of these park sites thus carries a responsibility to present history in full rather than in favored fragments. Unfortunately, the Government has disregarded these principles,” Kelley wrote in a 63-page order. “Under the guise of promoting American dignity, this Administration seeks to share a limited history by ordering the removal of all signs, displays, and interpretive exhibits at National Parks that do not align with its preferred narrative, thereby telling half-truths.” An Interior Department spokesperson told The Hill on Friday that it is weighing its legal options.  “This ruling is from a liberal activist judge,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “The Department will look at our appeal options while we celebrate UFC Freedom 250 on the South Lawn of the White House this weekend in honor of our nation’s 250th with the greatest president in the history of our country – President Donald J. Trump.” The judge’s order has fueled some backlash on social media: The judges even telling the president of USA what signs he can change?? WTF is this!? How much time does America has to see judges play god and president pushing the devils dumocrats propaganda and control over America.‍♂️‍♂️‍♂️‍♂️ — Joe Robles (@JoeRobles457856) June 13, 2026 Y'all know the drill, these activist judges will most likely be appealed and the Trump administration can get back to work. We lost some case but won many more. This one is too easy, and this activist judge will get slapped down, just like all the others. — Arnie (@ArnulfoCarden17) June 13, 2026 These judges have destroyed any credibility of our judicial system. No one respects the judiciary any longer. It's proven to be corrupt, controlled, and an event to the people. Well done. You have become the very tyrannical beast our founders warned us about. — Down South Patriot (@kneis816) June 13, 2026 Funny I don’t remember voting for the federal judge in Massachusetts for president. — Patrick (@derechadude) June 13, 2026 CBS News added these details: The Trump administration issued an executive order, entitled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” in March 2025 ordering national parks to not display elements that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.” However, Kelley countered that Trump’s order was just an excuse to erase the true history of the United States. “History cannot be faithfully told while excluding the experiences of communities whose contributions, struggles, and achievements form an important part of our Nation’s story,” Kelley wrote. The Trump administration must also provide a status report every week describing the progress they’ve made with these changes, the judge wrote. The administration has 21 days to “restore and reinstall all interpretive materials at park sites managed by the NPS that, pursuant to the Secretary’s Order, have been altered, removed, or damaged in the process of such removal since May 20, 2025,” according to the order.  Ending on a positive note, however, here’s a recap of a recent court victory for Trump: What are your thoughts? TAP HERE TO ADD YOUR VOTE This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.