Uruguay national team blames FIFA for travel chaos ahead of World Cup opener
The team’s plane was scheduled to depart from Cancun, Mexico, where Uruguay’s base camp is located, on Sunday afternoon.
This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," as Qatari mediators travel to Tehran to finalize the truce in the U.S.-Iran war, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth joins. Plus, Democratic Sens. Mark Warner and Mark Kelly join.
The team’s plane was scheduled to depart from Cancun, Mexico, where Uruguay’s base camp is located, on Sunday afternoon.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin was on "Fox News Sunday" with host Shannon Bream to talk about FISA not being renewed. The post DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin Weighs in on FISA Expiring, Blasts Democrats for Lack of Concern for National Security – (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
NBC News chief data analyst Steve Kornacki joins Meet the Press to break down a new NBC News poll ahead of the nation’s 250 birthday next month, with most saying the U.S. has already seen its best days and over one-fifth of respondents saying they are only a little or not at all proud to be Americans.
The following is the transcript of the interview with Sen. Mark Warner, Demcorat of Virginia, that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on June 14, 2026.
President Donald Trump's UFC spectacle on the White House South Lawn may have to contend with one thing his administration can't bully into submission: mosquitos.According to a forecast from The Weather Channel, UFC Freedom 250 is walking into a near-biblical mess on Sunday. Forecasters put the chance of thunderstorms at 60 percent, with heavy downpours and wind gusts reaching up to 34 mph that could delay the outdoor bouts entirely.The storms are only the start. The Weather Channel warned that brutal Washington humidity is shoving the heat index into triple digits, the kind of swampy misery the capital is famous for in mid-June. And then come the bugs. Forecasters said fighters will have to battle "massive swarms of mosquitos and gnats" inside the cage, turning the octagon into an open-air buffet.If the rain, heat and insects sound like a checklist of ancient plagues, the lightning rules supply the final twist. The Weather Channel noted that the event's 92-foot overhang, the towering structure organizers have dubbed "the Claw," should at least keep the octagon dry. But a single lightning strike within eight miles will trigger an automatic 30-minute freeze on the whole event, meaning the fights could stall again and again as storms roll through.The forecast caps a weekend Trump has hyped relentlessly, timed to his 80th birthday and billed as part of the nation's 250th anniversary. The cage match was elevated to the marquee attraction after musical performers bailed on the celebration earlier this month.Whether the heavens cooperate is another question entirely. For a president who loves to control the cameras, the sight of fighters swatting gnats through a rain delay is probably not the spectacle he had in mind.
Political analysts and observers were floored on Sunday after reports indicated that President Donald Trump's signature birthday bash faced a "chaotic" risk that could prevent the event from going forward. The Weather Channel reported on Sunday that Trump's "UFC Freedom 250" event on the South Lawn of the White House could be delayed or canceled because of "chaotic" weather. There is "a 60% chance of thunderstorms, heavy downpours, and wind gusts up to 34 mph threatening to delay the outdoor fights," according to the report. "On top of the storm risk, brutal D.C. humidity is driving a triple-digit heat index alongside massive swarms of mosquitoes and gnats that fighters will have to battle inside the cage," the report added. "While the venue’s massive 92-foot overhang will keep the octagon dry, a single lightning strike within eight miles will trigger an automatic 30-minute freeze on the entire event."The report left analysts and observers floored, and they shared their reactions on social media. "God has a sense of humor," military veteran John Jackson posted on X. "This will suck for the fighters. Humidity, insects, and heat.""This is an insane reaction from the WH, and I can’t help but imagine how they’ll trash that woke whore Mother Nature if the weather really does ruin the event," David Bernstein, a contributing editor to Boston Magazine, posted on Bluesky, referring to an attack from the official White House social media accounts that attacked the Weather Channel's report as the product of a "friendless loser." "Your tax dollars hard at work!" Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) posted on X. "LMAO, what an absolute disaster," Micah Erfan, a political commentator and consultant, posted on X. "What kind of degraded people would exploit their positions at the White House to insult a staff member at The Weather Channel for reporting on weather conditions—and do it with vulgarity and hostility? Clearly, that’s why the Trump regime employs them," Steven Beschloss, a writer and journalist, posted on Bluesky.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified before the Senate Armed Service Committee earlier this year that replenishing the stockpile could take "months and years."
For those who have been paying attention, for the past several days the U.K. political discussion has centered around major political embarrassment for Prime Minister Keir Starmer following the very public resignation of most of the British defense cabinet members, including the Minister of Defense. The cited reason for the chaos is Starmer’s unwillingness to […] The post Facing Domestic Military Embarrassment, British PM Starmer Orders Capture of Russian ‘Shadow Fleet’ Tanker appeared first on The Last Refuge.