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The US president has promised “a lot more” secondary sanctions on Russian trade partners US President Donald Trump has said he could impose new sanctions on China as part of a broader effort to pressure countries that trade with Russia.On Wednesday, Trump said he will double the tariffs on India to 50% by late August, accusing the South Asian nation of aiding Moscow in the Ukraine conflict by buying Russian oil.Later that day at a press briefing at the White House, the president was asked whether he plans to extend additional tariffs to China.“Could happen. Depends on how we do,”…
Screencap from YouTube video. On Monday of this week, the only night that Rachel Maddow hosts her MSNBC show, she looked depressed and dejected as she delivered her opening monologue. In her screed, Maddow spent the better part of ten-plus minutes describing the Trump presidency as a dictatorship and saying that the country “has an authoritarian leader.” What is Maddow doing here? There have already been two attempts on Trump’s life. Is Maddow pushing for a third? It sure looks that way. Transcript via NewsBusters: RACHEL MADDOW: Life has not stopped and none of our personal lives have stopped. But…
Nearly half of British voters would support a complete shutdown of migration and for the government to embark upon a campaign of mass deportations, a survey from YouGov found. According to the pollster, 45 per cent of people, a plurality of respondents, expressed support for the idea of “admitting no more new migrants, and requiring large numbers of migrants who came to the UK in recent years to leave.” The sentiment was most commonly held among supporters of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party, which has advocated for a complete freeze on all legal immigration and has vowed to deport all…
Bessent Will Be Ready for His Next Mission: Make the Fed Great Again Scott Bessent says he’s happy at Treasury. He has every reason to be. The tax cuts are in place, the trade deals are restructuring the global economy, and the deregulatory machinery is humming. But by next summer, the center of gravity in economic policymaking will shift—from the fiscal and administrative levers of Treasury to the monetary mechanics of the Federal Reserve. That will be the moment when Bessent becomes indispensable in a new capacity. He has already delivered results. Treasury under Bessent has reshaped incentives, redirected global…
President Donald Trump threatened to take “federal control” of Washington, D.C., unless the crime in the city was addressed and called for a change in D.C.’s law regarding prosecuting minors as adults. In a post on Truth Social, Trump stated that crime in the nation’s capital was “totally out of control” and noted that “youths” and gang members, some of which he said, are 14, 15, and 16-years-old have been “randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens.” Trump added that the minors have been involved in attacking and shooting innocent people while “knowing that they will be almost immediately…
Screencap from Twitter/X video. During a conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson, CBS Mornings host Vladimir Duthiers expressed worry about America ‘colonizing’ the moon and had to be reminded that there is no indigenous population there. It’s just the latest reminder of how insane our media has become. Duthiers is basically parroting the type of language you hear on far left college campuses about colonization. It’s one of the many ways the left uses language and ideas to bash our country and its history. FOX News reported: CBS host frets Trump admin plans for moon base could usher in new ‘age…
Protests continued this week throughout India in response to the prosecution of two Catholic nuns and a third Christian on charges of “conversion” and “human trafficking” for helping accompany a young Christian woman to a job opportunity. The nuns, Sisters Preeti Mary and Vandana Francis, were released on bail this weekend following ten days behind bars as the local law enforcement authorities in Chhattisgarh delayed their criminal process for unspecified reasons. The women — along with a third identified as Sukaman Mandavi — are still facing the criminal charges after a radical Hindu nationalist organization apprehended and assaulted them for helping a…
President Donald Trump outlined his support for a low-migration/high-productivity economy in an interview with Breitbart News. “We’re going to need robots … to make our economy run because we do not have enough people,” he told Breitbart News, adding: We don’t enough people to do it. So we have to get efficient … we’ll probably add to [the existing workforce] through robotically—it’s going to be robotically … It’s going to be big. Then, somebody is going to have to make the robots. The whole thing, it feeds on itself … we’re going to streamline things. We need efficiency. July data…
The Trump administration is tightening rules to prevent migrants from bribing citizens to gain legal status via fake marriages. With the new policies, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is putting increased scrutiny on U.S. green card marriage rules. The policies will apply to all new applications as well as pending ones. “Fraudulent, frivolous, or otherwise non-meritorious family-based immigrant visa petitions erode confidence in family-based pathways to lawful permanent resident (LPR) status and undermine family unity in the United State,” the ISCIS said in a statement announcing the rules changes. The agency added that the new rules, which…
Restrictions on Moscow’s partners could raise oil prices, inflation, and costs for US consumers, analysts have told the network Potential new US sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine conflict could backfire, hitting American consumers and businesses with higher costs, inflation, and energy prices, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing analysts.US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose sanctions on Russia that could include 100% tariffs and secondary sanctions targeting the country’s trade partners, particularly in the oil sector, unless it makes progress towards a peace deal with Ukraine.To discuss a potential settlement, Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff traveled to Moscow on…