President Donald Trump was fired up over a Fox News report about the lack of negotiations with Iran, and he called on Bret Baier to "straighten out his flunkies" over the segment Thursday.
Jonathan Hunt had reported that the president was not negotiating with Iran and noted some of the efforts Iran had taken to strike back against the U.S. economic warfare.
'Fox News did a particularly inaccurate report on the Failing Islamic Republic of Iran.'
The president criticized the journalist later on social media and demanded that Baier, Fox's chief political correspondent, reel Hunt in.
"Jonathan Hunt of Fox News did a particularly inaccurate report on the Failing Islamic Republic of Iran," Trump wrote on social media. "I don’t want to meet, they do. In fact, they are begging to make a deal. Bret Baier should straighten out his flunkies, for a change!"
The Hill noted that the president posted the critique as Hunt's segment on "Special Report" aired.
Baier defended Hunt in comments just before the show ended.
"First of all, Jonathan is not a flunky. He is a great reporter," he responded.
"Second of all, Mr. President, we didn’t say you wanted to meet. In fact, we played a soundbite; you didn’t want to meet, and there are negotiations," Baier added. "We said that Treasury Secretary Bessent is hoping to meet with G20 countries to increase the pressure on Iran, and Gulf State allies, including Qatar, are inside Tehran trying to get Iran to agree to concessions."
He added, "That’s what we said."
A report from Iran appeared to confirm that the regime was drawing up another set of demands in order to seek a peace deal with the administration.
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The U.S. has sought to pressure Iran through economic policies to push the regime into agreeing to a peace deal that would keep it from obtaining nuclear weapons and also relinquish its stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz.
Axios reported that the administration has gained the upper hand on Iran by quietly slipping oil tankers through the strait and continuing to suppress the regime's ability to benefit financially from the oil trade.
The president, meanwhile, has projected strength over the battle to control the strait. Earlier in August he told a rally of supporters that he would make the Strait of Hormuz the 51st state of the U.S.
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Gay British right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials at an airport in Louisiana.
Yiannopoulos, who most recently had worked as the chief of staff for Kanye West, was detained for overstaying a visa, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
'He chose to overstay his welcome in violation of our nation’s laws. ... He will remain in ICE custody pending removal.'
The detention was reported by TMZ, which cited inmate records.
Yiannopoulos had been issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge in July after he failed to appear at an immigration hearing, according to the DHS.
He was detained at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Kenner on Thursday, according to te DHS.
"He chose to overstay his welcome in violation of our nation’s laws," the agency stated. "He will remain in ICE custody pending removal."
Yiannopoulos legally entered through New York City, New York, on May 19, 2019.
The right-wing provocateur gained fame for supporting President Donald Trump and for supporting the theory that homosexuality was not hardwired from birth, but a response to early childhood trauma that can include sexual molestation.
He was canceled by many after numerous comments resurfaced in which he appeared to support men having sex with underage boys.
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Yiannopoulos parted ways with West in 2024 before posting that the rap mogul had been recreationally using nitrous oxide that was supplied to him by his dentist. The dentist has denied the allegation.
He was also banned from Facebook after being listed alongside right-wing conspiracy theorists and white nationalists that the platform described as "dangerous."
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Iran's most powerful piece of leverage against the U.S. is slipping through its hands, according to the latest Axios assessment.
The Iranian regime's stranglehold over the pivotal Strait of Hormuz has allowed it to resist demands from the Trump administration for a peace deal with terms favorable to the U.S.
'They don't want us to go back at them. That's the whole ball game. The rest doesn't matter.'
U.S. officials now tell Axios that they have gained the upper hand in the struggle to control the strait, which may lead to an end to the military operation.
"That sucker is open. The Iranian response is very mild," said Trump in a phone call Thursday to Axios. "They don't want us to go back at them. That's the whole ball game. The rest doesn't matter."
The effort to reopen the strait despite the Iranian threat began after a memorandum of understanding collapsed in the peace negotiations in July.
The U.S. military then reportedly began to quietly help transport about 10 million barrels a day through the strait by a southern channel near Oman. While the amount is about half of what it was before the strait was closed, it's a significant increase and a boon to the U.S. cause.
The U.S. has also been able to cripple Iran's ability to strike at tankers after a two-week bombing campaign, according to Axios. A U.S. military mine-sweeping operation and aid from the United Arab Emirates have also improved Trump's advantage.
CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper announced that they had reached a major milestone in the effort to wrestle control of the strait from Iran.
"Internationally recognized sea routes in the strait are free of Iranian sea mines. Bottom line: Today international shipping lanes are open and momentum is building," he said in a video Thursday.
While some experts remain skeptical of the official tally of oil that can pass already, Axios noted many other signs that the U.S. is gaining ground against Iran.
The president has repeatedly proclaimed that the ultimate goal of the operation is to keep the Iranian regime from obtaining nuclear weapons.
"I don't want to meet, they do. In fact, they are begging to make a deal," Trump claimed on social media Thursday.
Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaee denied the claims and said that they had agreed to allow the southern channel near Oman. He added that the regime was compiling a list of demands to negotiate a peace deal.
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Brent crude oil was trading at about $72 a barrel before the military operation began and surged to over $111 at its worst in April. It opened at just below $90 on Thursday.
About a fifth of the world's oil trade flows through the Strait of Hormuz.
The U.S.-Israeli joint military strikes against Iran began 6 months ago on Feb. 28.
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President Donald Trump immediately took action after a plea from Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck to deregulate farmers and ranchers to fight back against a processor monopoly.
The president posted on Truth Social Friday that he is unleashing farmers and ranchers to allow them to more easily butcher their livestock and help lower beef prices.
'I am authorizing legal documents to be drawn in order to allow Farmers and Ranchers to be given the right to PROCESS THEIR OWN FOOD.'
Beck interviewed the president on his show Wednesday and explained how four large meat-processing companies have a chokehold on the industry that has been driving up beef prices. Beck has particular knowledge about the regulations that hold back ranchers because he runs a working cattle ranch in Southeast Idaho.
"I run a ranch, so I know what it's like, and I'm telling you, it's the processing plants," Beck told the president. "There's four of them, and I think two of them are not even American. It's bad. And I believe they're colluding with each other.
"I'm surprised that the ranchers and the farmers haven't done it, because they're smart as hell. I'm surprised, because that's been going on a long time, Glenn," Trump responded.
"Help us. We can't butcher with all of the federal regulations," Beck said.
On Friday, the president said his administration would move quickly to pass the deregulation of beef processing.
"Ranchers and Farmers have always been a number one priority for me. They work very hard, are smart, efficient, and immaculately CLEAN, but for years I have heard that they have had a tremendous problem with the Big Processors, who many say are a nasty Monopoly," the president wrote.
"There are, essentially, 4 of them, a very non competitive number, and they make life miserable for our wonderful Farmers and Ranchers, and I can’t let that happen, can I?" he added. "So, in order to break this powerful monopoly, with much of its ownership based outside of the U.S., I am authorizing legal documents to be drawn in order to allow Farmers and Ranchers to be given the right to PROCESS THEIR OWN FOOD. This should move quickly."
Beef prices have been rising steadily due to a decrease in U.S. cattle production. Over the last three years, the average U.S. beef price has risen by about 37.8%.
Agriculture Dept. Sec. Brooke Rollins also posted about the deregulation proposal.
"We are on it Mr. President!" she wrote. "Our great AMERICAN ranchers produce the highest-quality, most incredible beef in the world AND it is a matter of national security that we be able to feed and fuel ourselves."
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.@POTUS tells me he will look into SLASHING harmful regulations in the beef industry that lead to high prices. I know firsthand how rigged the system is against independent American farmers. Four massive corporations control almost the entire meat processing industry. If… pic.twitter.com/xxNBrhWUI4
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) August 26, 2026
She said officials would seek to:
"The world is hungry for American beef!" she added.
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Authorities in Hamilton, Ontario, a city on the western tip of what is now being called Lake America, are desperate to prevent Canadian nationalists and international remigration activists from holding a conference.
Despite the ongoing public-private campaign to shut them up and drive them out of town, the Dominion Society of Canada is holding its ground and remains committed to holding its sold-out DomCon 2026 on Saturday.
'They could not stop us.'
The weeks-long "anti-hate" campaign to prevent the conference from happening largely relies on claims from a report issued by the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, a leftist organization chaired by Sue Gardner. Gardner is a liberal who previously served as executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation and as head of Canadian state media's English-language website.
CAHN — which plays the Southern Poverty Law Center's game of painting critics of mass migration, gender ideology, and LGBT extremism with the same brush as bona fide neo-Nazis — characterizes the DSC as a "white nationalist organization that uses propaganda and political campaigning to promote mass deportations on the basis of race, ethnicity, and religion."
The DSC alternatively refers to itself as a "nonpartisan advocacy group dedicated to promoting Canadian identity, heritage, and nationalism."
The organization is critical of multiculturalism and contends that "a Canadian is not anyone who simply arrives, fills out a form, and collects benefits." Instead, the group states that "Canadians are descendants of the brave pioneers who built this country" and that "Canada was uniquely forged through cooperation with our First Nations peoples."
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The group has drawn the ire of leftists for raising concerns about "replacement migration" and advocating for a total moratorium on immigration as well as mass deportations.
Daniel Tyrie, the founder and chairman of the DSC, told Blaze News, "Demographic change is the most pressing issue facing Canada and the Western world and yet our politicians and media refuse to address it. We built the Dominion Society and are hosting DOMCON26 to raise awareness and discuss the most important policy solution of our lifetimes: remigration."
At the beginning of the month, the taxpayer-funded Hamilton Anti-Racism Resource Center issued a guide for local businesses aimed at shutting down events held by so-called extremist groups.
The center, which noted that the DSC was planning to hold its conference in the area, called on "residents, businesses, institutions, and elected leaders to stand together in rejecting hate."
B'nai Brith Canada was among the groups that joined the censorship campaign, calling on federal officials to block "foreign extremists from entering the country to attend" the conference. The conference originally had Martin Sellner, the Austrian founder of the Remigration Institute, and Charlie Downes, a spokesman for Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain, scheduled to speak.
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the freedoms of conscience, religion, thought, expression, various media of communication, peaceful assembly, and association, but police and political officials have proven more than willing to help shut down the DSC and its event.
"There is no place for hate and white supremacy in Hamilton," Pakistani-born Aslam Rana, the member of parliament for Hamilton Center, said in an official release. "This conference, and the organization hosting it, represent a racist and extremist ideology masquerading as a nationalist movement. I unequivocally condemn this event and the hateful ideology behind it."
Hamilton Mayor Andrea Horwath, the socialist who unsuccessfully ran for premier of Ontario four times, said in a statement to Blaze News, "I stand firmly and reject hateful, hurtful rhetoric and racist and discriminatory activities of all kinds. The City of Hamilton will not allow this conference to be held in any of our facilities and will continue to encourage privately owned and operated venues to do the same."
Horwath, who sent concern-mongering letters about the event to local businesses, added that she has shared her concerns about the event with the Hamilton Anti-Racism Resource Center and Hamilton Police Service.
The Hamilton Police Service, which did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment, stated online, "The messaging associated with DomCon is divisive and exclusionary and can negatively impact the sense of safety and belonging within our community. We have heard those concerns from members of the community and take them seriously."
The police made no secret that it has encouraged "venues to consider the impact this event and its messaging may have on the broader community when making decisions about hosting it."
After noting that a previous DSC booking had been canceled on Thursday, police implored residents to call their snitch line with any information regarding a potential alternate venue booking.
When Jason Willett of Wiretap Media called the snitch line and pressed Hamilton police about whether they were infringing upon Charter freedoms, an officer responded, "We're not infringing, we're not telling venues that they're not to book. We're just making venues aware of who they are booking with."
Canadian-based lawyer Eva Chipiuk noted, "If citizens are lawfully gathering, talking to one another, expressing political views, and engaging with their fellow citizens, that is not something for the police to be 'policing.' And when police solicit tips from the public about citizens engaged in otherwise lawful political expression and peaceful gathering, we should be asking some very serious questions."
"A free society requires citizens who are free to speak, gather, disagree, and participate without being treated like suspects for doing so."
Josh Dehaas, interim litigation director with the Canadian Constitution Foundation, noted, "Charter rights belong to all Canadians, not just those whose speech or ideas the police or mayor agree with."
Ontario Premier Doug Ford's office did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment.
Andrew Lawton, a Conservative member of the House of Commons, spoke out, however, stating, "I have significant issues with the Dominion Society but I am unaware of any criminal allegations against them or any credible suspicion their conference would be illegal. It is not for police to target venues who may wish to rent space out to a group who is breaking no laws."
"The establishment is doing everything they can to stop this event, because they know if people learn about our ideas they will catch on like wildfire," DSC Chairman Daniel Tyrie told Blaze News. "Local politicians and government-funded NGOs have smeared us. The mainstream media has published hit piece after hit piece. ... We have committed no crimes but now the police are going door to door pressing venues to cancel on us or refuse our booking in what can only be described as mafia-style intimidation tactics."
"But they failed!" continued Tyrie. "Despite their best efforts, they could not stop us. DOMCON26 will proceed as planned. It will be a pivotal moment in Canada's future."
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