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- UAE Professor Says It’s ‘Time to Think About Closing the American Bases’ A...
X/@Abdulkhaleq_UAE & Staff Sgt. Chris Thornbury/U.S. Air Force via AP United Arab Emirates (UAE) University professor Abdulkhaleq Abdulla declared on Sunday that it was “time to think about closing the American bases” in the country after President Donald Trump pulled the region into a war with Iran. “This is what I told Reuters today: The UAE no longer needs America to defend it, as it has proven during the Iranian aggression that it is capable of defending itself with distinction,” Abdulla, a former adviser to the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, said in a statement. “What the UAE needs is to acquire only the best and latest weapons that America has. Therefore, it is time to think about closing the American bases, as they are a burden and not a strategic asset.” The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that the UAE was in talks with the Trump administration about a potential currency swap, which would protect the nation’s economy should the war against Iran continue to drag on. “The talks highlighted the U.A.E.’s concern that the war could inflict major damage on its economy and its position as a global financial hub, depleting its foreign reserves and scaring away investors who once saw it as a stable and secure place for their money,” the Journal reported, adding that “Emirati officials told the U.S. officials that if the U.A.E. runs short of dollars, it may be forced to use Chinese yuan or other countries’ currencies for oil sales and other transactions.” Since the outbreak of Trump’s war against Iran, many U.S. military bases in the region have been struck by Iranian missiles and drones. UAE oil facilities have also been damaged during the war. Last month, the Trump administration forced through more than $23 billion in weapons sales to Middle Eastern allies currently under attack by Iran, including the UAE. According to the New York Times, the UAE is set to receive Patriot missile systems, drones, Chinook helicopters, air-to-air missiles, and a missile defense radar.The post UAE Professor Says It’s ‘Time to Think About Closing the American Bases’ After Trump’s Iran War: ‘They Are a Burden’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.34 mins ago - WATCH: Astronaut Shares Stunning iPhone Footage of ‘Earthset’ as Artemis Rou...
(Screengrab via X) The senior astronaut who led NASA’s Artemis II went viral Sunday after sharing stunning footage he shot of the once-in-a-generation view of Earth vanishing behind the moon in a video one ex-astronaut called the “coolest video ever taken with an iPhone.” Commander Reid Wiseman filmed the rare “Earthset” on April 6 using his iPhone as the crew’s spacecraft passed along the moon’s far side, roughly 252,000 miles from Earth. The footage shows the planet slowly slipping behind the moon’s edge, known as the lunar limb, with swirling cloud systems visible on its surface before disappearing entirely. The footage captured while the crew moved beyond direct sight of Earth and the first time humans have witnessed an Earthset was more than 50 years ago. “Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset,” Wiseman wrote when sharing the clip. Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those… pic.twitter.com/8aWnaFJ69c — Reid Wiseman (@astro_reid) April 19, 2026 The video, shared on Sunday night, has already pulled 7.6 million views, with former Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield replying: Coolest video ever taken with an iPhone. https://t.co/aDMvswYv8Q — Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) April 20, 2026 As Wiseman used a phone to attempt to record the human-eye perspective of the moment, fellow astronaut Christina Koch photographed the scene using a professional camera, the shutter of which can be heard in the background. The four-person crew, which also included astronauts Victor Glover and Jeremy Hansen, later witnessed an “Earthrise” and a solar eclipse during the same mission. Watch above via X.The post WATCH: Astronaut Shares Stunning iPhone Footage of ‘Earthset’ as Artemis Rounded Moon first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.43 mins ago - IDF Confirms Viral Photo of Soldier Smashing Jesus Statue Is Real After Swift Ba...
(Screengrab via X) The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed the authenticity of a viral image showing one of its soldiers smashing the face of a Jesus statue with a sledgehammer in southern Lebanon, vowing to take “appropriate measures” against the soldier and to help locals repair the damage. The image, which first surfaced on Sunday, appeared to show the uniformed soldier striking the fallen statue’s head in what local reports say is the Maronite Christian village of Debel, near the Israeli border, where Israel is waging a campaign against Hezbollah. It spread rapidly online and prompted backlash from Christian communities in the region as well as prominent conservatives in the U.S., while the IDF said it was investigating. The initial image drew rebuke from prominent conservatives in media and politics, including from Alex Bruesewitz, an adviser to President Donald Trump: The IDF has confirmed that this image is authentic. This is utterly disgraceful. I urge the IDF to take swift and decisive action to hold him fully accountable. The hatred and wickedness being directed at Christians must end now! https://t.co/sniNGkE9UJ — Alex Bruesewitz (@alexbruesewitz) April 20, 2026 Right-wing critics of the Trump administration, recently attacked by the president for speaking against his conflict with Iran, also weighed in to slam the image, including ex-Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and commentator Candace Owens: “Our greatest ally” that takes billions of our tax dollars and weapons every year. https://t.co/N1AoqoahWA — Marjorie Taylor Greene (@mtgreenee) April 19, 2026 The IDF has confirmed this is real. Which commentators will reliably lecture us about Judeo-Christian values on Monday? https://t.co/7yOEFac5gy — Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) April 20, 2026 In a statement issued late Sunday, however, the military confirmed that the picture was authentic and that the incident had taken place. “The IDF views the incident with great severity and emphasizes that the soldier’s conduct is wholly inconsistent with the values expected of its troops,” the military’s official account said. It added: “The incident is being investigated by the Northern Command and is currently being addressed through the chain of command. Appropriate measures will be taken against those involved in accordance with the findings.” Following the completion of an initial examination regarding a photograph published earlier today of an IDF soldier harming a Christian symbol, it was determined that the photograph depicts an IDF soldier operating… [TheTopNews] Read More.59 mins ago - ‘An Excruciating Form of Suffering’: Mom of US Hostage Killed by Hamas Share...
The mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin — an American citizen who was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 in Israel and later murdered — discussed the agony she and her family have been put through during a heartbreaking interview on 60 Minutes on Sunday. Rachel Goldberg-Polin told her story to correspondent Anderson Cooper. “To know that your child is being tortured, tormented, starved, abused… he’s maimed. And that’s an excruciating form of suffering,” Goldberg-Polin said. “And then what’s so fascinating to me is that when they came to tell us that Hersh had been executed, then I realized that those 330 days had been the good part, because he was alive,” she continued.”And now I’m in this place and this is the rest of my life. How do I walk through this place without a piece of me here?” Her son was taken back to Gaza along with hundreds of other hostages on 10/7, following the Hamas terror attack on the Nova Music Festival. Approximately 1,200 people were killed in the larger Hamas attack in Israel. Hersch Goldberg-Polin had his left arm blown off while attempting to hide with others in a bunker, where his friend Aner Elyakim Shapira was killed after heroically throwing 10 grenades back at the terrorists. Hersh Goldberg-Polin was born in the U.S. in 2000 and moved to Israel with his family in 2008. Cooper choked up during the interview while recounting how he had been the one to tell Rachel Goldberg-Polin and her husband Jonathan Polin in 2023 that he had seen footage of their son being forced into a pickup truck and taken back to Gaza; he said he saw video of Hersch Goldberg-Polin — with the bloody bones of his left arm sticking out — about a week after the attack. “To this day, I am sorry that that is how you found out,” Cooper told her. “But we were so thankful,” Goldberg-Polin said. “And it made us know that he was taken alive, that he walked on his own two feet. And we also were really grateful that you did it in such a human way.” She told Cooper about the efforts her family made to bring her son and the other hostages home, including giving hundreds of media interviews and meeting with world leaders. “There were times when I would just get seized with emotional and psychological and… [TheTopNews] Read More.11 hours ago - Expert Tells 60 Minutes That Thousands of U.S. Troops Would Be Needed To Retriev...A nuclear expert told 60 Minutes on Sunday that the U.S. would need to send thousands of troops deep into Iran if it wanted to retrieve that country’s stash of highly enriched uranium (HEU). Andrew Weber, a nuclear expert who helped covertly move more than 1,300 pounds of HEU out of Kazakhstan after the fall of the Soviet Union, said the entire operation took 30 people and about six weeks to complete when it was transferred to Oak Ridge, TN, in the 1990s. Correspondent Cecilia Vega asked, “Would the same mission be possible today in Iran?” “In Iran, we couldn’t send a team in to do this unilaterally without great risk,” Weber said. “You would need to set up in the middle of the country, a secure perimeter. It would probably take thousands of U.S. troops to secure the facility while our experts excavated the HEU that’s located inside deep tunnels at a place called Isfahan.” The Isfahan nuclear facility located in Iran’s desert is where most of Iran’s HEU is believe to be stored in scuba tank-sized containers, according to Vega. “It’s believed those containers are in tunnels so far below ground, America’s bunker-busting bombs may not be able to reach them,” Vega said. She asked former White House nuclear adviser Dr. Matthew Bunn, now with Harvard’s Belfer Center, about President Donald Trump’s repeated claims “that Iran’s nuclear program was completely obliterated after the strikes last June.” “Yeah, that statement is just not true,” Bunn said. “You can’t say that a program that still has enough nuclear material for a bunch of nuclear bombs is ‘obliterated,’ unfortunately. There’s no doubt that the combination of the strikes in June of last year and the ongoing war have seriously set back Iran’s capabilities. But the remaining capabilities are substantial. You can’t bomb away their knowledge.” Vega then asked about the nearly 1,000 pounds of 60% enriched uranium believed to be buried at Isfahan. “What can you do with that?” she asked. “So that is enough material for — if you enrich it just a little bit more — for 10 to 11 nuclear bombs,” Bunn answered. Watch the clip above via CBS News’s 60 Minutes.The post Expert Tells 60 Minutes That Thousands of U.S. Troops Would Be Needed To Retrieve Iran’s Highly-Enriched Uranium first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.12 hours ago
- Army Vet Identified as Suspect in Louisiana Shooting That Killed 8 ChildrenA 31-year-old Army veteran named Shamar Elkins was identified as the gunman who shot and killed eight children in Shreveport, Louisiana on Sunday in what CNN’s Jessica Dean reported was the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. in more than two years. Shreveport Police Department Corporal Christopher Bordelon said Elkins was the father of seven of the eight kids who were murdered. Dean reported all of the kids were 14 years old or younger. Elkins injured three other people in the shooting, with one of the victims in critical condition while the other two suffered non-life threatening injuries. The New York Post reported two of those victims were women who were shot in the head. He was later shot and killed by cops after fleeing the scene, stealing a vehicle at gunpoint, and leading officers on a chase. The Post reported Elkins had posted a picture of himself with one of his daughters on social media just before the attack at around 6:00 a.m. local time. Elkins had posted about mental health issues earlier this month. “Dear God, Today I ask You to help me guard my mind and my emotions, ” he said in one post on April 9. “When depression tries to settle in, when anger rises, when anxiety or panic comes, give me the awareness to recognize what is not from You and the strength to reject it immediately in the name of JESUS,” Elkins said in another post. Authorities said the shooting followed a domestic dispute, but that a motive was still being investigated. Former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis told Dean that the local cops will now investigate how the suspect got his weapon, and whether there are eyewitnesses who can speak to the carnage. Shreveport Mayor Tom Arceneaux said the shooting was “maybe the worst tragic situation we’ve ever had.” Watch CNN’s report above.The post Army Vet Identified as Suspect in Louisiana Shooting That Killed 8 Children first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.12 hours ago
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