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South Korean President Lee Jae-myung and Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae decided to relax after their summit meeting in Nara, Japan, on Tuesday by picking up drumsticks and playing K-pop tunes, including a song from the Netflix animated hit “K-Pop Demon Hunters.” Takaichi is not only Japan’s first female prime minister, but most likely the first to have played in a heavy metal band. She took up the drums in her school days, driven by her love of bands like Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and Deep Purple, and remains prone to rocking out at the slightest provocation. During her time…

Bye, Bye Tariff-Inflation Fears The December Consumer Price Index (CPI), released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, delivers a verdict on the great tariff inflation panic of 2025: the predicted price surge mostly didn’t happen, and it is already over. Commodities less food and energy—the category most directly exposed to tariffs on imported manufactured goods—were flat in December. Zero percent. New vehicles, flat. Used cars, down 1.1 percent. Appliances, down 4.3 percent for the month. These are precisely the categories where tariff critics predicted we’d see surging prices as importers passed costs through to American consumers. (Photo: Daniel Torok/Official…

On Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA) said that the United States should “support the Iranian people in their struggle for freedom and independence.” And the Iranian people are “protesting, largely peacefully, on the streets, and they’re being attacked and murdered. And I think there’s an irony, obviously, in what we see with ICE on America’s streets.” Vindman said, “Well, first of all, I think we all recognize that the Iranian regime is an authoritarian regime that is suppressing its people. And I recognize that in my own family experience, we fled from a Communist authoritarian…

Frustrations are growing among House Republicans as their majority dwindles and agenda sputters — and it’s not just Speaker Mike Johnson who is feeling the heat. Members were aghast after a stunning Tuesday night meltdown on the House floor, where opposition from a handful of GOP members led to the defeat of one labor bill and the postponement of three others. Some questioned why the Republican floor and whip teams — under the direction of Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Majority Whip Tom Emmer, respectively — had allowed the votes to be scheduled. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) was among the…

President Donald Trump is weighing imminent military action against Iran that could come “in the next 24 hours,” according to a Reuters report citing European officials, as the Pentagon begins pulling personnel from key U.S. bases across the Middle East and Tehran warns it would retaliate if Washington strikes. The Reuters report, published Wednesday, said two European officials assessed U.S. military intervention now appeared likely, with one saying it could come within the next 24 hours, while an Israeli official similarly said it appeared Trump had made a decision to intervene — though the scope and timing remained unclear. The…

Verizon customers across the United States experienced widespread service disruptions on Wednesday, with voice calling and mobile data access failing for several hours. The company has not disclosed what caused the outage, but law enforcement sources do not suspect a cyberattack. ABC reports that a significant network outage struck Verizon on Wednesday,  leaving many customers without access to voice and wireless data services for multiple hours. The disruption began around noon Eastern Time and persisted well into the afternoon, affecting customers primarily in major metropolitan areas along the eastern seaboard. The outage seems to be hitting customers in major cities across the…

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has officially endorsed U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds in Florida’s 2026 gubernatorial race, becoming the first sitting governor to back the Naples Republican. “Byron Donalds is tough, tested, and unafraid to take on the Radical Left,” Sanders remarked exclusively to Breitbart News. “He fights for families, stands up for law enforcement, and will never cave to the woke mob. He’s committed to making Florida safer, stronger, and more affordable for families and seniors. I am in full agreement with President Trump: Byron Donalds is the proven America First conservative fighter and clear choice to lead Florida…

House Republicans used the first hearing of the new committee to investigate the Capitol attacks on Jan 6, 2021, to explore the Biden-era investigation into the pipe bombs left at the Democratic and Republican National Committee headquarters the day before riots — and relitigate conspiracy theories and grievances. It illustrated how Republicans plan to use their new select subcommittee and how far apart the two parties remain five years later in their accounts of the day a violent mob stormed the Capitol to contest the results of the 2020 presidential election. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), the chair of the new…

“It is still unclear” what President Donald Trump thinks of the plan, a source told the paper Britain and France are likely to drop their plan to deploy troops to Ukraine after a potential ceasefire unless they have US backing, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing sources. Russia has warned that any Western forces in Ukraine would be treated as “legitimate targets.”Three FT sources claimed that the leaders of Italy, Germany, France, Canada, and the UK, as well as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, are set to meet US President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky at…

As he placed his hand on the Koran, Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as the new mayor of New York City on a cold New Year’s Day, promising that “I was elected as a Democratic socialist and I will govern as a Democratic socialist. I will not abandon my principles for fear of being deemed radical.”Indeed, his inaugural speech was full of the radical proposals that marked his campaign, as he promised. His administration, he declared, would make life better for New Yorkers: And if for too long these communities have existed as distinct from one another, we will draw this city closer…