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When a burning cross was found at a Chicago park last week, the media and Democrats already apparently knew who was responsible. “A large burning cross — a historic symbol of hate and intimidation against Black Americans — was discovered in a Chicago park where former President Barack Obama famously delivered his acceptance speech when he was elected the nation’s first Black president,” The Associated Press (AP) reported on June 10.Given the framing, readers may have been under the impression that police were searching for a white supremacist, a racist, and, given how the left has broadly painted Republicans as both of those things, a Republican.

In October 1806, in the small German university town of Jena, the philosopher G.W.F. Hegel witnessed Napoleon Bonaparte on horseback passing in the street. Napoleon’s French armies had just destroyed the Prussian military, and he was on his way to Berlin as conqueror. Hegel said he saw history on horseback. He called Napoleon “the soul of the world,” by which he meant Napoleon was the unconscious embodiment and the manifestation of the “Spirit” of historical progress — the man Fate had chosen to usher in a new age. For Hegel, Napoleon destroyed the old age of the aristocracy and ushered in the new one of nation states.

The shooting portion of the Iran “War” lasted about 40 days—far shorter than Barack Obama’s 2011 congressionally unauthorized seven-month bombing campaign against Libya. Bill Clinton’s unauthorized 78 days of bombing Serbia in 1999 hit bridges, schools, hospitals, monuments, and power plants—far more indiscriminate targeting than anything in the Iran War so far. No one yet knows the ultimate verdict on the war, given all the economic, military, political, and strategic variables still in play. A memorandum of understanding released this week might end the war, or result in further American strikes—depending on the degree of Iranian concessions and compliance. But in this confusing, ongoing drama, many fabrications and distortions still circulate.

President Trump settled a $100 million lawsuit against his niece, Mary Trump, whom he accused of engaging “in an insidious plot” with The New York Times to leak confidential information for its Pulitzer Prize-winning 2018 investigation into his tax and financial records. Both parties announced the settlement in a joint filing Tuesday, according to court documents.The parties are pleased to report that they have reached a settlement and anticipate being able to stipulate to the dismissal of this action with prejudice in the ensuing weeks, following completion of certain conditions precedent,” the letter reads.

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) voted unanimously on Wednesday to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 3.5% to 3.75%, leaving borrowing costs unchanged for a fourth straight meeting. The decision came on the final day of the June 16-17 meeting and marked the first policy vote under new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh, who was appointed earlier this year. Officials also released updated economic projections showing a more hawkish outlook, with the median expectation for the federal funds rate at the end of 2026 now higher than previously forecast.

How many times have you heard that data centers are water hogs and are pushing up electricity costs? What if neither is true? Take the scary claims about water. The World Resources Institute says that “recent estimates project that by 2028, AI-related data centers in the U.S. could require up to 32 billion gallons of water annually. This is enough to support roughly 360,000 households’ indoor water use.” (Emphasis in original.) On its own, that sounds like a scary number. But our friends at Unleash Prosperity did something few reporting on this issue have bothered to do:

The Trump administration is promoting a new agreement with Iran as a diplomatic breakthrough. White House talking points emphasize Iranian commitments to forgo nuclear weapons, international verification, regional stability and economic incentives tied to compliance. Yet many of the details that have emerged so far raise more questions than answers.Administration officials point to Iran's reported commitment, in writing, not to pursue nuclear weapons. But Iran has already made that commitment before. The country has been a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty since 1970. The challenge has never been the language on paper; it has been enforcement.

If you didn't have "Hillary Clinton agrees with anything President Trump has ever done" on your Bingo card for today, then you've got a lot of company. And yet, that sure seems to be what has happened. Mrs. Clinton has offered some words of praise for President Trump's 20-point plan for Gaza, calling it "the only game in town.""Unexpected" is the biggest understatement since Napoleon Bonaparte described his loss at Waterloo as a "bit of a setback." But reality is a harsh mistress, and while there's probably room for criticism in President Trump's 20-point plan, it's still the best option; not the best plan imaginable, but the best plan possible.