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President Donald Trump has announced secondary tariffs on foreign countries that purchase oil and gas from Venezuela. The tariffs are in response to Venezuela “purposefully and deceitfully” sending illegal alien gang members, including those with Tren de Aragua, to the United States via the southern border, Trump said. The tariffs announced by Trump on Monday via Truth Social, indicate that any country purchasing oil or gas from Venezuela “will be forced to pay a tariff of 25 percent to the United States on any trade they do with our country.” “All documentation will be signed and registered, and the Tariff…

A man has been jailed for eight years after deliberately starting a fire in the stairwell of a residential tower block.Israel Baber set a sofa on fire at Eccleston House in Barton Hill, Bristol, shortly after 06:00 BST on 20 October 2022.The 37-year-old, who lived in the block, denied the offence, claiming he was in his flat at the time. However, he was captured on CCTV moving around the building.Det Ch Insp Laura Miller, from Avon and Somerset Police, said: “Baber’s actions were hugely dangerous, and make no mistake they could have led to a much worse outcome on another…

The top two Republicans in Congress aren’t rushing to embrace calls from the MAGA right to impeach lower-court judges who have ruled against President Donald Trump. Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, in separate comments to reporters Monday, didn’t entirely reject the impeachment push but discussed other ways the conflict between the president and the courts might ultimately be resolved. Johnson confirmed POLITICO’s reporting that he’s looking for alternatives to pursuing judicial impeachments, which would ultimately fail in the Senate, including legislation aimed at reining in the ability of individual judges to order nationwide injunctions. “Look, everything…

The Kremlin confirmed Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has gifted to Donald Trump a portrait he commissioned of the U.S. president.Putin gave the painting to Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, in Moscow earlier this month, the Russian president’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said in a response to a journalist’s question, declining further comment.The gift was first mentioned last week by Witkoff in an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Witkoff told Carlson that Trump “was clearly touched” by the portrait, which he described as “beautiful.”Witkoff met Putin after talks with Russian officials about trying to end the war…

Police in Texas said they found “incendiary devices” at a Tesla dealership in Austin on Monday morning, as the Trump administration has pledged to crack down on vandalism and protests against Elon Musk’s car company.“On Monday, March 24, 2025, at approximately 8.04am, Austin police department (APD) officers responded to a found/abandoned hazardous call at the Tesla dealership located at 12845 N US 183 Hwy SVRD NB,” Austin police department said in a statement shared with CBS Austin.“When officers arrived on scene, they located suspicious devices and called the APD bomb squad to investigate. The devices, which were determined to be…

The American spy agency’s operation aimed to ruin the taste of food for consumers and inflict financial losses on the Soviet Union American spies contaminated 800 bags of sugar sent on a cargo ship from Cuba to the USSR in the 1960s, the newly released files on the assassination of John F. Kennedy have revealed.One of the files analyzed by journalist and blogger Ben Norton and the Washington Post documents a “clandestine operation” by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) just months before the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.In August of that year, the CIA learned about a cargo vessel transporting…

Michigan data analyst expert Tim Vetter of DEEP (Data Evaluation of Election Processes) has been uncovering the unlawful manipulation of Michigan’s voter rolls since the 2020 election. Vetter, a highly regarded data analyst and Manufacturing Equipment Engineer, has dedicated hundreds if not thousands of hours to scouring Michigan’s voter rolls, looking for clues to help better understand why they are such a disaster. On Friday, Mr. Vetter called to inform me that he had discovered that Michigan SOS Jocelyn Benson’s BOE (Board of Elections)has failed to report 35,002 voter history records from two separate 2024 special elections in Michigan. MI…

PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND – MARCH 20: Head coach Will Wade of the McNeese State Cowboys celebrates … More after defeating the Clemson Tigers with a score of 69 to 67 in the first round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at Amica Mutual Pavillion on March 20, 2025 in Providence, Rhode Island. (Photo by Emilee Chinn/Getty Images)Getty Images Will Wade has officially been named the new men’s basketball coach at N.C. State, one day after his McNeese State team lost to Purdue in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The deal is reportedly for six years. He replaces Kevin…

Turkey’s Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Sunday officially nominated Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu as their candidate for the next presidential election. Imamoglu polls very well against incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but his big weakness as a candidate is that he is currently in jail pending charges of corruption and aiding a terrorist organization. “Today, 1,653 million members [1,653,000] of our party voted for the future president of our country, Ekrem Imamoglu. This is the strongest response to the current coup attempt,” declared CHP Chairman Ozgur Ozel on Sunday. CHP supporters have taken to describing Imamoglu’s arrest as a coup…

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters alongside Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry on Monday, March 24. Landry is visiting the White House to be with the president as he is expected to announce a $5 billion dollar investment in the state by Korean auto company Hyundai. Since returning to the White House, President Trump has secured trillions of dollars of business investment deals into America, including from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Apple, Nvidia, Johnson & Johnson, and General Electric.   Read the full article here