The senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' commander's remarks follow Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's threats to "destroy" Syrian forces if Israel was fired upon.

Speaking in the Iranian city of Mashhad on Friday, IRGC second-in-command Hossein Salami said that when the Israeli Air Force attacked the T4 base in Syria in April, "they imagined that they would not receive any response; they thought that they can intimidate the Resistance Front with US and British support, and that no one would respond to them."

"As you all witnessed, they said if we (the Resistance Front) retaliated, they would put an end to the Syrian government; but they received a response in the Golan, and dozens of missiles flew over the region. A message was sent to them that if they responded, we would raze to the ground the heart of Tel Aviv; they were forced to shut up, and haven't done a damn thing since then," Salami added.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Tuesday that he's canceled the chamber's traditional August recess, citing Democrats' "obstruction" and the need to pass spending bills.

In a brief written statement, he said: "Senators should expect to remain in session in August to pass legislation, including appropriations bills, and to make additional progress on the president's nominees."

McConnell's announcement had been expected, as he's faced pressure for weeks from fellow Republicans to keep members in session over the hot summer stretch.

Their appeal focused on the need to wrap up spending bills and confirm President Trump's nominees to various positions. McConnell cited exactly that in his statement Tuesday.

President Trump called on allies to reinstate Russia as part of the G7 Friday, deepening a rift over trade policy that spilled out on Twitter just days ahead of the summit in Canada.

"Russia should be in this meeting," Trump told reporters at the White House immediately before departing for the summit. "Why are we having a meeting without Russia being in the meeting? And I would recommend - and it's up to them - but Russia should be in the meeting, it should be a part of it. You know, whether you like it or not, and it may not be politically correct, but we have a world to run and the G-7 - which used to be the G-8, they threw Russia out - they should let Russia come back in because we should have Russia at the negotiating table."

In 2015, Snopes attempted to fact-check "rumors" that "began to swirl in April 2015 when several Walmart stores around the U.S. were abruptly closed due what Walmart claimed were "plumbing problems." Walmarts in Pico Rivera, CA, Livingston, TX, Midland, TX, Brandon, FL, and Tulsa, OK, all suddenly closed their doors, with Walmart corporate announcing that some of those outlets would be shuttered for six months or more. We now know, even though Snopes has not updated its web page, that at least one of those Walmarts is a detention center to house children of immigrant families.


U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) attempted to enter the converted Walmart in Brownsville, TX to inspect the living conditions of immigrant children who had reportedly been separated from their parents and were rumored to be kept in cages and concrete floors of the converted Walmart. Merkley streamed live on social media his attempt to enter the facility but was denied entry by Homeland Security.

Discussing the upcoming summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore, US President Donald Trump seemingly strayed off-topic to hold out the prospect of a new nuclear deal with Iran.

"Iran is not the same country that it was a few months ago," Trump told reporters at the White House at a joint press conference on Thursday with Japanese PM Shinzo Abe.

Iran's leaders are "much different" in recent months, Trump said, and they are no longer looking to the Mediterranean or causing trouble in Syria and Yemen. Trump had accused Tehran of having "malign influence" in the Middle East in early May, when he announced the US would be withdrawing from the JCPOA arrangement negotiated by the Obama administration in 2015.

Pointing to the upcoming denuclearization talks with North Korea, Trump said he hoped the Iranian leadership would "come sit down with us and we can make a deal that's good for everybody. We're going to be fine, with respect to Iran," Trump said.

Typically billed as a gathering aimed at fostering international cooperation, this year's G7 meeting is held in the shadow of a looming trade war between old allies, with heated exchanges between leaders of US, France and Canada.

Set to begin on Saturday in picturesque rural Quebec, the 44th meeting of the Group of Seven - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US - is off to a rocky start.

According to media reports, even as late as Thursday afternoon, Trump was rethinking his presence at the G7 meeting, telling advisers that there would be no point in attending the event since the US would be outnumbered on key issues. The summit comes after Trump slapped tariffs on steel and aluminum, and withdrew the US from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal - actions which have enraged Washington's allies.


Combative remarks from French President Emmanuel Macron may have stirred Trump's competitive spirit, and now it appears that the US President will use the meeting as an opportunity to double-down on his uncompromising trade policies.

Donald Trump says Russia should be at the negotiating table in the G7 meeting whether the world powers "like it or not." The US president made the statement as he was preparing to fly to Canada for the summit.

"It used to be [the] G8 because Russia was in it, now Russia isn't in it... But Russia should be in this meeting. Why are we having a meeting while Russia isn't at the meeting," the US leader told reporters, adding that he will recommend Russia's inclusion in the summit. "Whether you like it or not, it may not be politically correct, but we have a world to run. And it's the G7, which used to be the G8, threw Russia out, they should let Russia come back in because we should have Russia at the negotiating table," he stated.

The 44th G7 summit is due to open in La Malbaie, Quebec. The summit has received significant attention due to a major decline in relations between the leaders of the participating states. French President Emmanuel Macron struck a hostile tone against Trump, saying that the US could be kicked out of the G7.

Although the assassination of former US President John F. Kennedy. happened nearly 55 years ago, global interest in the event has only grown stronger with the passage of time.

As recently as 2013, 61 percent of Americans surveyed by CBS News still believed that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in the assassination of President Kennedy, countering the government's official narrative of events.

The public's appetite for books, investigative journalism, and even feature films on this unsolved mystery has been insatiable over the years.

President Trump promised to release all of the documents related to the assassination of President Kennedy. Following the initial document release, Trump gave federal agencies six additional months to review and release the remaining documents.

As TGP previously reported in February, according to Mike Cernovich, McCabe altered far left FBI investigator Peter Strzok's 302 notes on his interview with General Michael Flynn.

And then McCabe destroyed the evidence.

Now Senate investigators suspect McCabe altered his 302 notes on General Flynn and have referred the matter to Inspector General Horowitz.

Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) sent a letter this week to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein who is currently leading the Department of Justice. As we have previously reported numerous times Jeff Sessions is still hiding under his desk.

In the letter Charles Grassley pointed out to Rosenstein that General Mike Flynn was a witness against Andrew McCabe in a sex abuse case when McCabe came to interview him. McCabe later reportedly altered the 302 interview reports and Mike Flynn was forced out of the Trump Campaign.

Additionally, former Director McCabe was fired for lack of candor regarding a leak to the Wall Street Journal, and Lt. General Flynn was an adverse witness in a pending sexual discrimination case against Mr. McCabe at the time Mr. McCabe was supervising a criminal inquiry targeting Lt. General Flynn.

Sarah Carter at Circa News first reported on this HUGE conflict of interest last year at Circa News.

The FBI launched a criminal probe against former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn two years after the retired Army general roiled the bureau's leadership by intervening on behalf of a decorated counterterrorism agent who accused now-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and other top officials of sexual discrimination, according to documents and interviews.

Flynn's intervention on behalf of Supervisory Special Agent Robyn Gritz was highly unusual, and included a letter in 2014 on his official Pentagon stationary, a public interview in 2015 supporting Gritz's case and an offer to testify on her behalf. His offer put him as a hostile witness in a case against McCabe, who was soaring through the bureau's leadership ranks.

The FBI sought to block Flynn's support for the agent, asking a federal administrative law judge in May 2014 to keep Flynn and others from becoming a witness in her Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) case, memos obtained by Circa show. Two years later, the FBI opened its inquiry of Flynn.