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From Russia, India and China to the wider Global South, BRICS offers a peaceful way to reshape global governance still dominated by the West In a thought-provoking recent column, “The Age of Endarkenment,” the distinguished Brazilian economist Paulo Nogueira Batista examines the relative political decline of the collective West and the inability of its leading powers to respond constructively to the most complex challenges of our time.He raises an important question, asking what can other leading nations, including his native Brazil, do in response to the increasingly destructive behavior of the architects of the modern international order?One answer is greater…

On Monday night, a gunman opened fire in the parking lot of Venture-N, a gay bar in Tucson, Arizona, around 12:30 a.m. Two men were killed in the attack. The two victims, Antifa associate  Cameron Davis Capara, 33, and Vincent Anthony Siqueiros, 42, were pronounced dead at the scene. The suspect was transported to a hospital with life-threatening injuries. He was pronounced dead shortly after. Tucson police have now identified 44-year-old Ousman Ceesay as the shooter, and the incident is being investigated as a possible hate crime. Reports say Ceesay was born in The Gambia, where about 95% of Gambians…

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright travelled to Caracas on Tuesday night to finalize the historic oil deal between the United States and Venezuela announced this weekend. “Just touched down in Venezuela,” Sec. Wright wrote on social media. “President Trump’s energy diplomacy is delivering results — advancing new energy deals, opening the door for American companies, and strengthening energy security across our hemisphere.” “American energy leadership is back thanks to President Donald Trump,” he continued. The one-day trip marks the second time that Sec. Wright has visited Venezuela this year following the arrest of deposed socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro. According to…

Raper Nicki Minaj and Superman actor Dean Cain are joining a White House event for entrepreneurs to compete in a “Shark Tank”-styled contest for one million dollars in prize money. The contestants will pitch their business ideas before a celebrity panel in Washington, D.C., on September 18, the Small Business Administration says. The “Patriot Pitch Competition” event will be televised and will also be available for streaming, but details on where fans can tune in were not ready to be announced. Cain will serve as the emcee and host while Minaj will sit on the panel along with private-equity investor…

Country music megastar Jelly Roll lost “hundreds of thousands” of followers after trashing President Donald Trump and his supporters on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!. “The Jelly Roll backfire is accelerating and getting worse. Jelly Roll lost hundreds of thousands of social media followers,” podcast host and conservative commentator Benny Johnson said on Sunday. Watch Below: “We ran all of his social media through various tracking and found at least 200,000 unsubscribes since he started hosting Jimmy Kimmel,” Johnson explained. “And why is that? Because he told a Trump joke and we can’t take it? We don’t have a sense of humor?…

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is stepping into the growing debate over data centers, saying in a local news interview this week that the facilities should be “self-sufficient.”“They ought to be able to take care of their own utilities, their own power, and that ought to be a given any place they go in the country,” Thune told a South Dakota TV station. “But they shouldn’t be going places where there isn’t support for them at the local level.”The comments, which appear to be the first he’s made on the matter, come as the public pushback against data centers is…

Shonda Lou Barnes (Credit: Johnston County Oklahoma Sheriff’s Office) The city manager of a tiny Oklahoma town has been arrested and charged with 11 felony counts of voter registration fraud after investigators say she submitted applications using other people’s names and forged their signatures. Shonda Lou Barnes, city manager for the Town of Mannsville in Johnston County, was taken into custody at her home Monday afternoon on a warrant charging her with 11 counts of false affidavit in voter registration. She was booked into the Johnston County Jail, KXII reported. The Johnston County Election Board flagged the applications in late…

Thomas Weir Pauken II, an American citizen who worked in China from 2019 to 2026, was sentenced on Tuesday to two years in prison for “acting as an agent of a foreign government within the United States.” “Pauken exploited his U.S. citizenship and corresponding ability to travel to the U.S. without restriction in order to support Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) operations, recruiting, and gathering of sensitive information from potential assets,” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg said.  “Pauken betrayed his country for money. The National Security Division is committed to holding accountable anyone who aids…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – The Dutch central bank announced Wednesday that it has moved billions of dollars worth of its gold reserves out of North America in a move it described as “crisis preparedness” in a time of global political unrest. It said that between March and August, some 86 metric tons (94.8 tons) of gold were transferred to London from the combined total of around 313 metric tons (345 tons) held in New York and Ottawa, Canada. Before the move, New York housed 31.3% of the Dutch gold and Ottawa held 19.7%. After the move, both cities now…

The policies of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) pose a threat to the United States’ energy dominance, warns an expert memo provided to Breitbart News by the Republican lobbying and public affairs firm CGCN Group. The memo details how the policies in the DSA’s platform, which call for “full public control of major industries, punitive taxes on ‘the rich,’ and the abolition of prisons, the Senate, and the Electoral College” are known for “causing economic misery on a vast scale.” In the memo from CGCN Group, it is also noted that America’s “complex, massive network of power plants, transmission…