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Officials in Nepal said on Wednesday that several tourists missing since devastating floods struck the Tibetan border region last week have made contact with rescue workers. Meanwhile, local families held symbolic funerals for missing loved ones, as their hopes for survival dimmed. The Nepalese Foreign Ministry said 590 foreign nationals from 39 countries remain unaccounted for after the August 26 floods. Authorities have identified 324 foreigners rescued and a handful of the missing managed to send messages by phone or email over the past few days to signal they are still alive. Residents carry their belongings salvaged from their damaged…

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Troy Jackson said that attacks on his support of allowing biological men in women’s prisons are a distraction from economic issues like “reproductive rights.” But “I’m not going to demonize my neighbors in Maine. I’m not going to do that. And so, yeah, however I voted or whatever, but this is not something that I’m going to be willing to use as a distraction.” Host Jen Psaki asked, “A super PAC backing Collins launched a different attack on you this week, pouring over $1 million into an ad…

The NBA on Wednesday suspended Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and fined the team $30 million for violating the salary cap rules. Per ESPN: The NBA has ruled on the Los Angeles Clippers in for salary cap circumvention investigations on Kawhi Leonard after yearlong probe — stripping the franchise of 5 first-round picks, issuing a $30 million fine to owner Steve Ballmer and suspensions for Ballmer, Lawrence Frank and Gillian Zucker, sources tell ESPN. Kawhi Leonard will have to pay $700,000 in restitution for improper benefits by the Clippers for his uncle and former business rep, Dennis Robertson. No contract void…

President Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia told Breitbart News exclusively that he and everyone in Serbia and Eastern Europe fears what may happen to Christians and Serbs in Kosovo after the removal of troops guarding a bridge, and that he is calling on Washington and NATO to step in to help fix the situation before things spiral out of control. “I am afraid, and everyone is afraid,” Vucic told Breitbart News on Wednesday. “That is why we will beg and ask. It won’t be hard for me to phone everyone, even if I have to call Washington, to help with this…

Wednesday on CNN’s OutFront,” Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) said President Donald Trump “despises military service.” Host Erin Burnett said, “As I said, you’re a veteran. You’ve endorsed 13 fellow veterans in midterm races. And you said specifically, governor, when we send veterans to Congress, we are sending in dedicated public servants trained to run toward the fight and unafraid to take on the status quo. Do you feel the same way about the White House?” Sherrill said, “I think that we have a president who despises military service. He had his made-up bone spurs that his dad’s doctor wrote a…

The Democratic centrist group Third Way is launching a “new economic bargain” platform as part of its ongoing effort to steer the party toward a more coherent and big-tent vision heading into 2028.The platform consists of what it calls 20 “ambitious and ruthlessly pragmatic” ideas, shared first with POLITICO, targeting working-class voters. The ideas include a health care Bill of Rights, ONE MORE, and government-backed car loans to lower the cost of car ownership and forcing AI companies to pay for their own expansion without passing it on to consumers.“Now that the primaries are over, the big question for Democrats…

FBI and DOJ investigators have met with a whistleblower who claimed he was ordered to “find crimes” committed by President Trump. As previously reported, a federal prosecutor blew the whistle on New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office and said he was ordered to “find crimes” committed by President Trump and people affiliated with Trump – despite zero evidence. According to the Times Union, Assistant Attorney General Daniel Wiesenfeld sent an agency-wide email to thousands of employees in the New York Attorney General’s office claiming his supervisor, Shamiso Maswoswe instructed him to target “Trump himself, Truth Social, Hewlett Packard (DOJ approved merger)…

On Wednesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) discussed the Trump administration’s Venezuela oil deal and said that it is early, but “it’s smart, in order to have control over it, to make sure that we can produce oil and the necessary energy.” Host Greta Van Susteren asked, “We only have like a minute left, but your thought on President Trump’s Venezuela oil deal, is it too early to tell?” Fetterman answered, “Well, I think — well, yeah, it’s early, but, so far, you have — remember, in early 2025, Joe Biden put a big $25 million…

Wednesday on MS NOW’s “All In,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are intentionally traumatizing children. Murphy said, “There were thousands of people, from all over Connecticut, in Danbury tonight to say that if ICE is going to be in Danbury to purposefully traumatize our children, then they need to get out. What’s happening in Danbury is extraordinary. It’s kind of a new tactic. What we know is that on the first and second day of school, ICE was at the school bus stops. They let the kids board the school busses and then they arrested…

Voters are in an uproar over data centers — and Democrats are trying to direct anger toward Republicans by pointing to a tax provision buried in the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill.”Of the myriad talking points on this issue that Democrats are preparing deploy heading into the midterms, they this week began alluding to “Opportunity Zones” — an initiative designed to boost growth in areas deemed underdeveloped and which, at one point, Republicans had touted as a way to spur the construction of data centers.“Every single House Republican but one or two voted to unleash data centers on the American people…