Author: Press Room
On Friday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Ceasefire,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said that he can support funding everything in DHS but ICE, but what would happen next is Republicans will pass a bill through reconciliation to fund ICE without Democratic votes. During a joint appearance with Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT), Kennedy said, “Peter’s raised a really interesting point, and I would agree with him, up to a point. Let’s open up everything but ICE, okay? Let’s open it up.” He added, “But I can tell you what’s going to happen next: The Republicans are going to put a reconciliation bill on…
North Korea’s state propaganda vehicles, including the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and state television, published images on Friday of Kim Ju-ae, the tween daughter of communist dictator Kim Jong-un, appearing to drive a military tank. The images were part of a larger report on Kim Jong-un attending an “offensive tactical drill” to test the ability of an allegedly new line of tanks to resist drone and missile attacks. Military experts told South Korean media that the development of these new models could be the application of experience that the North Korean military is acquiring from its role in aiding the…
During a town hall on CNN on Friday, United States Ambassador to the U.N. Michael Waltz defended the Trump administration lifting sanctions on some Iranian oil by saying that “much of that oil and that illicit oil is already out there. It’s already out there in the system. So, we’re going to allow it to go, [on] a temporary basis, to some of our allies, like India, Japan, and others, so that this strategy from Iran, the Iranian regime doesn’t work. And, by the way, this is a president who put maximum pressure on the Iranian regime in his first…
A North Carolina man has pled guilty to defrauding streaming platforms of more than $8 million in royalties by using AI-generated songs and bots — agreeing to return the money as he awaits sentencing. Mike Smith, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud before U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl. The 54-year-old is expected to be sentenced in July, according to a report by Rolling Stone. The charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. In the meantime, Smith has agreed to pay a staggering $8,091,843.64 in forfeiture. On Thursday, Smith admitted to creating hundreds of thousands of songs…
The home port for Britain’s entire nuclear submarine force was visited by an Iranian male and a female companion, who were both arrested at the scene, on Thursday afternoon amid heightened spying fears over the conflict in the Middle East. A 34-year-0ld Iranian citizen male and a 31-year-old woman of unspecified nationality were arrested after trying to enter the Faslane facility at Naval Base Clyde in Western Scotland on Thursday afternoon. Faslane is the home to Britain’s nuclear submarines, both its nuclear missile-armed ‘bomber’ boats, and torpedo and cruise missile-armed hunter killers, and is one of the most secure British…
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on Friday that its spokesman, Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naini, was killed by U.S. and Israeli air strikes during Operation Epic Fury. The IRGC released an angry statement on Friday saying that Gen. Naini was “martyred in the criminal cowardly terrorist attack by the American-Zionist side at dawn.” Naini was killed just a few hours after his final appearance on Iranian state television, during which he declared Iran’s missile industry “deserves a perfect score” because “even under wartime conditions, we continue missile production.” He was evidently responding to a claim by Israel Prime…
Legislators in at least eight states are pushing to loosen gun restrictions on college campuses so law-abiding citizens have a means of self-defense, according to a FOX News report. Those states are “Florida, Louisiana, New Hampshire, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming.” A bill in Florida would allow “students, faculty and staff to carry guns on public college campuses.” KPLC notes that Louisiana’s HB 99 “would allow anyone 18 years or older and lawfully permitted to possess a firearm to carry one on campuses and inside college buildings.” In South Dakota, Senate Bill 100 is legislation to allow…
Among online activists and in some corners of the Republican Party, Mike Lee is being heralded as a MAGA champion willing to pressure his own party to embrace hardball tactics or risk political suicide. But inside the Senate, the Utahn’s scorched-earth, hyper-online methods are sparking a wave of mostly private animosity from GOP colleagues who believe his plan to push through legislation overhauling how federal elections are conducted is ill-conceived and potentially harmful to the party’s chances in the midterms. They believe he doesn’t have a realistic path to passing the SAVE America Act, and they view him as seeking…
The non-reaction to an RT reporter’s narrow escape from a missile strike underscores the selective outrage of Western media On March 19, RT war correspondent Steve Sweeney and his cameraman Ali Rida Sbeity were injured by an Israeli strike meters from where they stood in southern Lebanon.Sweeney was on camera reporting on recent Israeli attacks on southern Lebanese towns and infrastructure when he heard the sound of an incoming projectile. Ducking and running, he managed to escape the brunt of the impact.According to the journalists, an Israeli aircraft fired a missile at their filming position near Al-Qasmiya Bridge, where Sweeney was…
No matter which way the political pendulum swings, always expect the parasite class to infringe upon your liberties at every available opportunity when they have power. This is no different in the Commonwealth of Virginia, as recently our electorate underwent a political shake up in last years gubernatorial race, with Democrat former CIA analyst Abigail Spanberger seizing the reins of state power and becoming Virginia’s first female governor. Yet beneath the noise of culture war identity politics that accompanied this race, it was obvious that neither candidate would be a win for Virginians. And now the governor’s office is quick…