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Spain’s National Police Corps on Thursday arrested six members of the dangerous Tren de Aragua terrorist organization involved in a series of violent armed robberies that saw them plunder millions of euros’ worth of assets and cash. The accused Tren de Aragua members face charges of suspicion of membership in a criminal organization, robbery with violence, unlawful detention, fraud, and crimes against public health. In an official statement, the Spanish National Police explained the arrests are the result of an extensive investigation that determined their affiliation to a Tren de Aragua branch dedicated to violent robberies. The investigation started in…

Weekly Wrap: Making It Rain with Trump Bills Welcome back to Friday! This is the Breitbart Business Digest weekly wrap, our septidialogic sweep through the economic and financial news. This week the economy failed to get indigestion from the high price of gas, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told us about getting fed at the Fed, Trump put something new in the app stores, and everyone started dreaming about putting a couple of Donalds in their wallet. It’s All About The Donalds, Baby Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday confirmed media reports that the Treasury Department is working on plans for a…

CLAIM: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has a criminal record, according to his Democrat opponent state Rep. James Talarico (D-TX). VERDICT: False. Paxton, the Republican hopeful who defeated Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in the Texas Senate primary race, has no formal criminal record, and the charges against him were dropped. The Democrat recently attempted to make a distinction between himself and his opponent, stating, “I ran for office not to be served, but to serve. And then there’s Ken Paxton.” He went on, attempting to draw a contrast with his Republican competitor: “I have a legislative record — Ken Paxton…

Thomas Massie’s fall shows what really destroys principled US conservatism: not the left, but obedience to the Israeli lobby As an inveterate leftie with an irrepressible intuitive sympathy for genuine, decent conservatives – that term excludes, obviously, gutless mainstream centrists – I am always looking for exemplars of this old and venerable political species. For one thing, they are much more fun to talk to than woked-out liberals, washed-out social-democrats, or hysterical warmongers of the German variety of (camouflage) Green.Genuine, decent conservatives tend to have much to say – about, for instance, such vital things as religion, culture, and the…

Socialist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced on Wednesday that his government is allocating $75 million for the rehabilitation of BR-319, a highway cutting through a “sensitive” part of the Amazon Rainforest that has not been usable since 1988. Lula, a radical leftist running for a fourth term in office this year, acknowledged widespread opposition to the project from environmentalists and others concerned with the status of the rainforest, but claimed the finished product would be among the world’s greenest infrastructure projects. The Amazon Rainforest, the largest in the world, is often referred to as the “planet’s…

NATO said it was “ready to defend every inch of Allied territory” after a Russian Shahed-type suicide attack drone entered European Union airspace and hit an apartment block in Romania, injuring two people. Romania scrambled two F-16 fighter jets overnight to intercept a Russian drone entering its airspace but had just four minutes between detecting the strike and it crashing into the side of an apartment building in the south-eastern town of Galati, a spokesman said. Situated on the River Danube on the Romanian border where it meets the borders of Moldova and Ukraine in a three-way split, the region…

President Donald Trump’s financial disclosures show that he made up to $750 million on trading in the first three months of 2026 The US Justice Department on Wednesday charged Google employee Michele Spagnuolo with commodities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering after he used confidential corporate information to collect more than $1.2 million from bets on online prediction platform Polymarket.However, US law enforcement appears to apply a blatant double standard when it comes to politicians, RT’s Caleb Maupin reports.“Washington says that insider trading is illegal. You can’t have special information, and then get rich on Wall Street betting on it.…

The victim, a Colombian tourist, was allegedly drugged and abused by a group of men at an abandoned building in Rome Five illegal migrants have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping, drugging, and gang-raping a tourist in Rome, according to a statement released by Italian police on Thursday.Investigators said the 32-year-old Colombian woman was abducted last week after dining alone at a restaurant in the Italian capital. According to police, she was approached by a man after telling him she was looking to buy hashish.According to police, the man lured the woman to a secluded area, where she was allegedly forced…

Kelly Loeffler, U.S. President Donald Trump’s Administrator of the Small Business Administration. The agency this week issued new guidance on its crackdown over SBA loans.(Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)The Small Business Administration has finally made official its crackdown on small business investors, and it’s not as sweeping as some involved with SBA-guaranteed loans had feared.Forbes reported in March that the SBA had quietly begun rejecting loan guarantees for businesses if any of their owners or investors–even a passive investor–had previously backed a business that defaulted on an SBA-guaranteed loan. Then, and subsequently, the SBA didn’t respond to Forbes’ requests that…

A suspected drug trafficker chose the busy Memorial Day weekend to attempt to traffic $1.1 million in cocaine across the Progreso International Bridge. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers working the holiday weekend shattered the suspect’s hopes when they discovered the illicit contraband hidden in the suspected cartel smuggler’s vehicle. According to CBP, officers working the Progreso Port of Entry on Saturday during the holiday weekend became suspicious when a 22-year-old United States citizen attempted to cross into the United States from Nuevo Progreso, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Officers referred the man, who arrived at the port in a 2026 GMC…