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China and Egypt on Sunday concluded their first joint aerial exercise – a troubling example of cooperation between America’s primary adversary and the recipient of $1.5 billion in annual American assistance. The China-Egypt “Eagles of Civilization 2025” air force exercise, which began on April 19, involved Chinese combat aircraft, early-warning radar planes, helicopter gunships, and airborne tankers. Egyptian officials were coy about whether the American F-16 fighters, AH-64 Apache helicopters, and Patriot missile systems in their inventory were involved in any of the training missions. “The Egyptian Air Force commander, the Chinese Air Force chief of staff, the Chinese ambassador…

The U.S. trade deficit surged to a record high in March as companies rushed to import pharmaceuticals, vehicles, and capital equipment ahead of expected new tariffs from the Trump administration. The goods and services trade gap widened 14 percent to $140.5 billion, according to Commerce Department data released Tuesday. That marked the largest monthly deficit on record, exceeding economists’ expectations for a $137.2 billion shortfall. The February deficit stood at $122.7 billion. Driving the March increase was a 4.4 percent jump in imports to a record $419.0 billion, led by a historic rise in pharmaceutical shipments. Imports of pharmaceutical preparations…

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is trying to return guns to homeowners who may have become separated from them during the Palisades fires in January. FOX News reported that “the LAPD asked individuals who believe they may have lost a firearm in the Palisades Fire to contact the department’s Gun Recovery Unit by email to reconnect with their gun.” NBC Los Angeles noted that the LAPD indicated that “many of the guns, including shotguns, rifles and handguns, were severely damaged by the fire, making it challenging for investigators to find serial numbers.” LAPD chief of detective bureau deputy chief Alan…

Between uncontrolled migration, propagandistic ideology and self-suffocating green agenda, the EU has only itself to blame for its decline The European Union, that grand and failing dream of technocrats, is dying. Its decline is not sudden or dramatic but a slow unraveling, a bureaucratic collapse in which every policy designed to sustain it only hastens its demise.It starves itself on the thin gruel of ideology – open borders dissolving nations into contested spaces, green mandates suffocating industry under the weight of unattainable standards, and a moralizing anti-Russian fervor that has left it isolated and energy-dependent. Once, Europe was the center…

By Amy Kremer and Kylie Kremer Ed Martin earlier moved crooked Biden prosecutors to misdemeanor court. In the 1979 horror classic “When a Stranger Calls” a babysitter keeps getting crank phone calls from a stranger asking her to “check the children.” At first, the babysitter blows off the calls as just a practical joke, but as the calls increase in frequency and the intensity of their threats, she finally calls the police, who ask her to keep the caller on the line long enough to trace the call. The babysitter does just that, and in one of the most famous…

New York, N.Y.: New York Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau in the 2nd quarter in game 7 of an NBA … More playoff Eastern Conference Semi-final round, May 19, 2024, in Manhattan at Madison Square Garden. (Photo by J. Conrad Williams Jr./Newsday RM via Getty Images)Newsday via Getty Images Most organizations have a general philosophy or identity that is as much a part of the teams as the players are. It is sometimes spelled out on the court, or spilled on the front page of a newspaper branding a new era. The New York Knicks have been led over these…

Microsoft has officially closed its Skype service, replacing it with Microsoft Teams, the company’s Slack competitor. The software giant mismanaged the popular communications product for many years through slow innovation and a confusing user experience. Microsoft, which purchased Skype in 2011 for $8.5 billion, formally shuttered the app on Monday after announcing earlier this year that it would swap the video conferencing service for Microsoft Teams, according to a report by Ars Technica. Skype users who open the app or go to the site will now be directed to use Microsoft Teams instead. The final active trace of Skype, however, is the Skype Dial Pad, which…

Israel destroyed the main airport in Sana’a, Yemen, the country’s capital, to prevent the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels from using it to rearm their missiles and resupply their forces, in the latest counterattack. Tuesday’s airstrikes were the second in as many days, after the Israeli Air Force (IAF) attacked the Hodeidah port Monday, following a Houthi missile attack on Sunday that hit Israel’s main airport, Ben Gurion. The Israel Defense Forces issued a statement: A short while ago, IDF fighter jets struck and dismantled Houthi terrorist infrastructure at the main airport in Sana’a, fully disabling the airport. The strike was carried…

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney complimented President Donald Trump as a “transformational president” during his visit to the White House on Tuesday. Fresh off the Liberal Party’s election victory last week, Carney met Trump in front of reporters in the Oval Office where the prime minister applauded Trump’s leadership. “You’re a transformational president, focused on the economy, with a relentless focus on the American worker, securing your borders… ending the scourge of fentanyl and other opioids, and securing the world,” Carney said. Carney added that Canadians were focused on similar issues during their election. “And I’ve been elected… with the…

President Donald Trump revealed that his administration will be imposing a 100 percent tariff “on any and all” movies coming into the United States that are produced in foreign countries, noting that the film industry in the U.S. was “dying.” In a post on Truth Social, Trump pointed out that other countries were “offering all sorts of incentives” in order to draw filmmakers and studios away from the U.S. Trump added that he was authorizing the Department of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative to “begin the process of instituting” a 100 percent tariff on movies produced outside of the…