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Mexican authorities continue pushing a PR campaign on both the state and federal levels aimed at painting an embellished image that Mexico is fighting against organized crime. While government officials are busy announcing large deployments of police and military forces, as well as highlighting the arrests of minor criminals and portraying suspicious seizures as trophies, in reality, cartel bosses continue to operate with relative impunity. As Breitbart Texas extensively reported, the PR campaign is the brainchild of Mexico’s top security official, Omar Garcia Harfuch. The security chief has been constantly embellishing seizures as a way to appease the U.S. government…

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Senators are racing the clock to make a dent in both the government funding process and President Donald Trump’s backlog of nominees before heading home for August recess. Senate Majority Leader John Thune is hoping to get the first appropriations package through the chamber by the end of this week, with lawmakers on the hook for landing a deal to avoid a shutdown come Sept. 30. To that end, GOP leaders are negotiating with members of their conference over a “minibus” of three bills that would, collectively, fund the departments of Commerce, Justice, Agriculture and Veterans Affairs, as well as…

Political opponents have accused the prime minister of failing to push for better terms for the country Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, one of the closest European allies of US President Donald Trump, has welcomed the EU’s trade deal with Washington despite criticism of the terms at home.After months of talks, the EU has reached a trade agreement with the US that sets a baseline 15% tariff on most exports, including cars, while steel and aluminum remain at 50%. The deal was reached at a meeting between Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday. Both called it…

GREATEST PRESIDENT EVER. President Trump shakes hands with EU Leader Ursula von der Leyen after agreeing to their historic trade deal. White House Video screengrab Earlier today, President Trump announced the United States had reached a historic trade deal with the European Union. Under the terms of the deal, the EU has agreed to buy $750 billion worth of energy from the US. Additionally, the EU will make $600 billion in investments in the US and will purchase hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of military equipment. European goods coming into the U.S. will have a 15% tariff, the EU…

Leave politics to the politicians and just get on with being entertaining. That’s the advice iconic late night talk show host Jay Leno gave when he joined David Trulio, the president and CEO of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, to dissect his approach to political humor. The 75-year-old reflected on his time as a successful host of The Tonight Show for over two decades and why his loyal audience always stuck around and came back for more while contemporary hosts just seem keen on alienating half the country. Fox News reports the pair agreed partisan politics simply gets in the…

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has urged Kiev to respect the rights of national minorities Ukraine’s poor treatment of ethnic Hungarians is the root cause of tense relations between Budapest and Kiev, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said.According to various estimates, 100,000 to 150,000 ethnic Hungarians live in Ukraine’s western Zakarpattia Region. Over the past decade, Kiev has adopted laws restricting the use of non-Ukrainian languages in education and public life. These policies have drawn criticism from Budapest and prompted accusations of discrimination.In an interview with RIA Novosti published on Monday, Szijjarto said tensions with Ukraine go beyond the…

Credit: Wikimedia Commons A brutal beating in downtown Cincinnati that left two white individuals injured is now under investigation by police authorities. As WLWT reported, footage of the attack shows the moment a group of individuals start smacking around a bald white guy at the intersection of West Fourth Street and Elm Street. This is near the Cincinnati Music Festival. Videos captured by citizens show what appears to be a young black man suckerpunching the older white gentleman from behind. Others then join in to pound on him and send him straight to the ground while hooting and hollering. The…

The other day, I found my high school yearbook. My kids were flipping through it, laughing at old photos and hairstyles, and one of them paused, surprised. “You and your friends were in all these clubs?” Debate, theater, student council, wrestling—page after page of awkward group photos and teenage optimism. It made me smile. I hadn’t thought about that version of myself in a long time. I told them the truth: I joined everything, not because I had it all figured out, but because I didn’t. When you’re a kid, you need spaces like that—launching pads for connection, experiments in…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Lehrer, the popular song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other universities, has died. He was 97. Longtime friend David Herder said Lehrer died Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He did not specify a cause of death. Lehrer had remained on the math faculty of the University of California at Santa Cruz well into his late 70s. In 2020, he even turned away from his own copyright, granting the public permission to use his lyrics in any…