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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday delivered the Trump administration’s most sweeping statement yet of its economic-security doctrine, arguing that decades of bipartisan trade policy left the United States strategically dependent on foreign rivals and that the administration’s tariffs, industrial policies, and supply-chain measures are not a break with American tradition but an attempt to recover it. The address, titled “While America Slept” and timed to the nation’s 250th anniversary, amounted to a comprehensive intellectual accounting of how the post-Cold War consensus on trade, globalization, and industrial policy had, in Bessent’s telling, eroded American sovereignty — and what the administration…

Texas state Rep. James Talarico, the Democrat running against Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate race, has referred to women as “neighbors with a uterus” on more than one occasion. The Democrat used the expression while lamenting Roe v. Wade being overturned, which brought the issue of abortion back to the state level. “Every one of our neighbors with a uterus became property of the state,” he claimed. In another clip, the Democrat talks about how “neighbors with a uterus” should be able to “control their own body” – leftist code for murdering their unborn child without…

By Timofey Bordachev, Program Director of the Valdai ClubThe United States is caught in a trap of its own making. It wants to preserve its unique position in world politics, while at the same time freeing itself from the growing burden that this position imposes. Yet Washington hasn’t found any way to do so except by insisting, ever more loudly, on its own superiority so the result is that America clings more tightly to the very role it should have consciously begun to abandon long ago.There’s an old story from ‘Uncle Remus’s Tales’, the famous collection by the American writer…

An Africa court has put a stop to a United States plan to establish a quarantine facility in Kenya for Americans exposed to a rare type of Ebola virus instead of flying them home where it could increase the risk of a U.S. outbreak. The suspension by the High Court of Kenya follows a backlash by medical workers and activists over the U.S. plan to deal with the rare virus spreading in the northeastern Congo. Kenya shares a border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. On Wednesday an official told the Associated Press that the U.S. was planning to send…

The United States goods trade deficit narrowed more than expected in April, driven by a surge in exports that more than offset a sharp rise in capital-goods imports. The Commerce Department reported Friday that the goods trade deficit fell to $82.4 billion in April from $85.3 billion in March, below the $86.5 billion economists had forecast. Exports of goods rose 4.0 percent for the month to $219.7 billion, outpacing a 1.9 percent rise in imports to $302.1 billion. Capital-goods imports rose 5.6 percent in April and were up 40.1 percent from a year earlier—an increase so large, and so concentrated…

President Trump has come to the defense of New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart after the player came under attack by left-wingers for daring to introduce the president at a rally last week. Dart appeared at a Trump rally on May 22 at Rockland Community College in Suffern, New York, and was immediately lambasted for it by leftists on social media. One of his teammates, Abdul Carter, even went public to express his distaste for the rally appearance, saying he was so shocked by it that he thought it was AI, not real. Now, President Trump is defending the quarterback.…

Sam Altman’s Open AI is building a monopoly on human knowledge, Zach Vorhies has warned AI megacorporations like OpenAI and Anthropic have scraped every word of human knowledge from the internet, and the US government is helping them sell it back to the public, Google whistleblower Zach Vorhies has told RT.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman caused controversy last month during an appearance at BlackRock in Washington DC, when he described his company’s vision of “a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”In Altman’s future, AI companies will essentially charge…

Israeli forces already control more of the Palestinian enclave than allowed under the US-brokered ceasefire Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the military to occupy 70% of Gaza, in violation of the US-brokered ceasefire deal between West Jerusalem and Hamas, which allows Israel to control no more than 53% of the enclave.The 2025 agreement, backed by a UN Security Council resolution, envisioned a phased Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in exchange for Hamas disarming and relinquishing control of the territory. Instead, sporadic fighting has continued, with Israeli forces steadily pushing deeper into the enclave.”We now control 60% of the territory…

LONDON (AP) – A Greek national was set to appear in court Friday on charges that he helped the intelligence service of a foreign country, believed to be Iran, target a journalist working in London. The allegations against Ioannis Aidinidis, 46, relate to attempts to target a journalist for Iran International, a Persian-language media outlet that has traditionally been critical of the country´s Islamic government, London´s Metropolitan Police Service said in a statement. “We know this may cause concern for many people here in the UK, and particularly those working in Persian-language media,´´ Commander Helen Flanagan said. “We continue to…

A widely followed measure of business activity in the Chicago region roared back in May, surging to its highest level in more than four years and delivering one of the strongest monthly gains on record — a clear sign of accelerating momentum in American manufacturing. The Chicago Business Barometer, produced by MNI Indicators and ISM-Chicago, jumped 13.5 points to 62.7 in May, firmly returning to expansionary territory after slipping below the neutral 50 mark in April. Any reading above 50 indicates expansion compared with the prior month. The monthly gain was the joint second-largest since the index was established in…