Paramount has agreed to a $16 million settlement in response to a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump concerning the editing of a CBS “60 Minutes” interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris, who was running as the 2024 Democrat presidential nominee at the time.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe reported that several high-level Obama administration officials manipulated intelligence during the Russiagate hoax. The purpose was to smear President Donald Trump. A new bombshell CIA review  found that Obama’s spy agencies investigation of alleged Russia interference in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win was deliberately manipulated by three top […] The post Russiagate: Obama Officials Corrupted Intel to Smear Trump appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Regular MSNBC guest Elie Mystal called on other countries to sanction the United States, claiming that especially after the American military carried out strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, “we are the bad guys on the world stage.” Mystal, who also serves as justice correspondent for The Nation, joined ex-MSNBC host Joy Reid on her new eponymous show to discuss the targeted strikes against Iran, and they both appeared to take the side of the world’s most prolific and eager state sponsor of terror. WATCH: Elie Mystal: “Our country is THE bad guy on the world stage. The world needs to stand against America. Sanction us.” pic.twitter.com/3OjPx52Ryn — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 2, 2025 “Joy, I’ve argued — and I don’t say this lightly — but our country needs to be sanctioned,” Mystal declared. “We are the bad guys on the world stage. We are a menace to not only free people everywhere, but we are a menace to peaceful people everywhere at this point.” JULY 4 SALE: Get Six Months Of DW+ Free “And I’m not even gonna say that we’ve only been a menace for the past three or four months, right? Like when does the international community decide that enough is enough?” Mystal continued. “I know we’re rich. I know we’ve got a lot of money. I know that people want to buy things from our country because we’re rich, or want to sell things to our country because we are rich. But at some point the international community has to stand up to us because we are a bad guy on the world stage, right? And so we should be sanctioned. We should be sanctioned and rebuked.” Mystal has also claimed in the past that all laws passed prior to 1965 — specifically, before the passage of the Voting Rights Act — should be considered “presumptively unconstitutional.” “Before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, we were functionally an apartheid country. Not everybody who lived her could vote here,” Mystal told the hosts of ABC’s “The View.” “So why should I give a **** about some law that some old white man passed in the 1920s?” Just two months before President Donald Trump won his second term in the White House, Mystal argued on Reid’s now defunct MSNBC show that Trump only had a following because he’d rallied around supporters “just as despicable.” “The reason why it doesn’t end his career is because his supporters are just as despicable, all right?” Mystal said. “Like Trump’s whole thing, he’s a narcissist, right? And so his whole thing is to have a complete lack of compassion and empathy for everybody else. It’s all about him. It’s all about him, him, him, me, me, me. He’s probably the least compassionate president we’ve had in 200 years since Andrew Jackson. And it works for him because his supporters are just as ungenerous, and have just as little compassion and empathy for others.”

Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, an intern for GOP Rep. Ron Estes of Kansas, was shot and killed in Northwest Washington, D.C., on Monday night. Estes and the D.C. Metropolitan Police confirmed the 21-year-old Tarpinian-Jachym’s death in separate statements. “I will remember his kind heart and how he always greeted anyone who entered our office with a cheerful smile,” said Estes. “We are grateful to Eric for his service to Kansas’ 4th District and the country. Please join Susan and me in praying for his family and respecting their privacy during this heartbreaking time.” Tarpinian-Jachym of Granby, Massachusetts, was a rising senior at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He was majoring in finance with a minor in political science, according to Estes’ office. On Monday night around 10:30 p.m., officers responded to a report of gunshots in the 1200 block of 7th Street, Northwest. Officers found Tarpinian-Jachym unconscious with gunshot wounds. Officers also found “an adult female and a 16-year-old male.” Both were conscious and had gunshot wounds, as well, according to police. All three victims were taken to area hospitals where Tarpinian-Jachym eventually died. “The preliminary investigation indicates that multiple suspects exited a vehicle at the intersection of 7th and M Street, Northwest and began firing at a group. The suspect vehicle has been recovered. Detectives believe the decedent was not the intended target of the shooting,” D.C. Metropolitan Police said. The nation’s capital has ranked as one of the most dangerous cities in recent years. A crime spike that had progressed for years spiked in 2023 at 40.9 homicides per 100,000 residents, making Washington the fourth most dangerous city in the United States behind New Orleans, St. Louis, and Detroit, respectively. A report from Republicans on the House Budget Committee said the crime wave was the worst the city had faced in over two decades, tallying in 2023 “over 270 murders, 950 carjackings, and 106 children shot — reminiscent of the 1990s crack epidemic.” Victims of the crime wave included some of the nation’s most powerful people. Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas was carjacked at gunpoint in October 2023. Former Trump official Mike Gill was shot and killed several months later in February 2024. In 2024, Washington’s homicide rate dropped to 27.3, which D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser touted as a result her administration’s focus on crime. The city’s rank as the fourth most dangerous city in the United States remained unchanged, however.

Former American Idol contestant Triston Harper is officially a father. His mom, Hattie Mae Sullivan, shared the big news on Facebook on June 23. “Everybody my Grand Baby has made her Grand Entrance …. weighing a solid 6lbs and 6 ounces,” Triston Harper’s mom wrote. “Brenley Lichelle Harper Has now arrived on the scene and she ain’t here to play. She’s already in boss mode!!!!! Feed me, Change me, Cut that bright light out. Yes ma’am whatever you want G MA is gonna make it happen!!!!!” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Triston Harper (@tristonharpermusic) Triston Harper Welcomed His Baby Girl With His Wife Paris Reed Triston Harper and Paris Reed are proud parents on the brand-new baby girl. Fans shared well wishes with the new little family. “Congratulations on the new bundle of joy,” a fan shared. “Congratulations Grandma sending lots of love to Triston and Paris and Brenley,” another person shared. “Grandchildren are such a blessing, I’m blessed with 4.” Less than a week before she made her debut, Hattie shared a birthday wish for Triston Harper. “17 years ago today…. I gave birth to a star. Triston Has been as close to perfect as perfect could be. Any parent would be proud to have this young man as their own but God chose to give him to me. I am thankful, grateful, and honored to be his mother. Happy birthday to my thumper… Before you won over the hearts of America you had my heart in the psalm of your hand,” she wrote. “I love you Triston so much and I pray that you get everything you have worked so hard for and all your dreams come true. Everybody help me wish my baby a Happy 17th Birthday. If you want to bless him with something you can cash app me because he cant access any of his apps and neither can Paris at this time.” Triston Harper hasn’t posted about his new daughter on social media just yet, but he did share a shoutout to his mom and the mommy-to-be for Mother’s Day on Instagram. “I want to wish a happy Mother’s Day to these two beautiful women. Hattie M Sullivan,” he wrote on Instagram. This story’s featured image is by Eric McCandless/Disney via Getty Images. The post Former “American Idol” Contestant And His Wife Welcome First Child appeared first on InspireMore.

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