The GOP is losing all the special elections, and most are in red districts. Recent state election results are causing concerns about November. Take Louisiana, for example, where Democrat Chasidy Barrett Martinez pulled off a shocking, decisive victory in the state’s House District 60. The election was against Republican Brad Daigle. Donald Trump carried that […] The post Serious Warning Signs About the November Midterms appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to meet with President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to discuss the ongoing negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.  The meeting is expected to focus on Israel’s position that any deal must include limits on Iranian ballistic missiles and an end to support for Iran’s regional proxies. The upcoming meeting will mark their seventh meeting during Trump’s second term, underscoring the continuation of a year of tensions with Iran that have necessitated close coordination between the United States and Israel.  In recent weeks, Trump ordered a significant buildup of American forces in the region, including numerous aircraft, the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group, and additional warships as part of what he described as a powerful “armada” positioned to respond if Tehran refuses to negotiate.  Trump initially threatened military intervention in early January, not over stalled negotiations, but to deter the Iranian regime from harming protesters. Iran ignored the warning and proceeded to kill demonstrators in the streets, with some estimates as high as 36,000 dead. After the massacre, Trump pivoted, claiming the regime had not executed the protesters it detained and now warns that Iran’s Islamic regime will face severe “consequences if they don’t make a deal.” United States-Iran talks concluded on Friday, with additional rounds expected. Trump described the meeting as “very good.” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told journalists that the talks took place in “a calm atmosphere, without tension and without threats.” Araghchi also said the “missile issue,” a key concern for Israel, is “in no way negotiable, neither now nor at any time in the future.” He added that if the United States does attack, the regime will retaliate by striking American bases in the region. While Special Envoy Steve Witkoff has led U.S. delegations throughout the past year, this session included President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, known for brokering deals once thought impossible, including the agreements behind the Abraham Accords. Also attending for the first time — and in his full military dress uniform — was U.S. Navy Adm. Brad Cooper, head of Central Command (CENTCOM) and overseer of the current buildup of American assets in the Middle East, including Trump’s armada. Ahead of the negotiations, the U.S. military said it downed an unmanned Iranian drone as it “aggressively approached” the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea on Tuesday. U.S. Central Command spokesman Capt. Tim Hawkins said the Iranian Shahed-139 drone was shot down by an F-35C fighter jet from the USS Abraham Lincoln “in self-defense and to protect the aircraft carrier and personnel on board.” Hours later, forces with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a U.S.-designated foreign terror organization, harassed a U.S.-flagged and crewed oil tanker, Stena Imperative, that was passing through the Strait of Hormuz. According to Hawkins, two Iranian boats and an Iranian Mohajer drone approached the American vessel “at high speeds and threatened to board the tanker.” Taking questions prior to his sixth meeting in December with Netanyahu this term, a reporter asked Trump if he would support Israel striking Iran if the latter country continues advancing its missile or nuclear programs. “The missiles, yes. The nuclear, fast,” Trump said. “One would be yes, absolutely, the other was, we’ll do it immediately.” 

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News The Talisman The Third Book in Stephen King and Peter Straub’s Talisman Series Has a Name and Release Date Other Worlds Than These arrives in October By Molly Templeton | Published on February 9, 2026 Photo: Scribner Comment 0 Share New Share Photo: Scribner In 1984, Peter Straub and Stephen King published The Talisman, a novel about a 12-year-old boy on a journey to find an object that will save his dying mother. Seventeen years later, in 2001, they published a sequel, Black House, which ended on a cliffhanger. And now, at long last, there’s a third book. Straub died in 2022, but according to Esquire, King “found an old email from his friend that included a tantalizing suggestion for another novel, partly involving the real-life teenage spree killer Charles Starkweather, who terrorized the Midwest in the late 1950s.” When King started working on book three, “So far as it was possible, I wanted to collaborate with Peter. The seed was there, and I channeled Peter throughout like crazy,” he told Esquire. (You can read an excerpt from the novel at that Esquire link.) Other Worlds Than These will arrive October 6th from Scribner. The publisher’s page about this book claims that it works as a standalone read as well as the trilogy’s conclusion. The synopsis says: Other Worlds Than These is the story of Jack Sawyer, whom readers first met when he was twelve, crossing America and “the territories” to save his mother’s life, and met again in Black House, where Jack faces a child killer and the Crimson King (among other evils). In Other Worlds Than These Jack must stop a rampaging gang of infected teenagers from America-side, and the forces of the mysterious Gullet at the edge of Mid-World, before it destroys our world and all worlds. Jack is older now; his Ka-tet (echoing the world of Roland) is fraying; and his task, nearly impossible. The Talisman has never been adapted for TV or feature film; Stranger Things creators the Duffer brothers were attached to a series adaptation for Netflix, but that fell apart last year. Steven Spielberg, whose Amblin Television would have co-produced that series, has had the adaptation rights for decades; according to Entertainment Weekly, “he got Universal Pictures to buy him the rights forever — not just an option to adapt, which would have expired after a few years.” Maybe now’s the time, with the series finally about to wrap up.[end-mark] The post The Third Book in Stephen King and Peter Straub’s Talisman Series Has a Name and Release Date appeared first on Reactor.