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U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will speak at the Republican Study Committee’s weekly lunch Wednesday, according to two people familiar with the plans. The visit to Capitol Hill comes as more lawmakers express concerns about the burgeoning trade war President Donald Trump is escalating with Canada just months before the midterm elections.House Foreign Affairs Chair Brian Mast (R-Fla.) will also be speaking to the group of House conservatives. Read the full article here

Mikhail Fedorov is trading Ukrainian politics for an Italian mission to remake a slow-moving military establishment Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov has suddenly – and rather unexpectedly – become an adviser to Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto. The news caught many conservative military analysts off guard. Why would Italy want him, and what does Rome hope to gain? Let’s try to make sense of the move without getting carried away.A manager in khaki, not a marshalIt should be obvious that Fedorov is no military genius, nor does he possess any particular talent as a battlefield commander. That is simply…

Game streamer Asmongold, whose real name is Zack Hoyt, took about 30 seconds to make it clear that the anti-Zionism promoted by leftist influencer Hasan Piker and others is in reality anti-Semitism. Piker recently argued that Americans don’t care about Israel, and the way people try to make them care is by saying, “It’s the only thing standing in the way of the next Holocaust happening. That’s how you do it.” Hoyt responded, “To be fair, the stated goal of multiple Islamic terrorist groups is to kill all of the Jews.” “I mean, I think that there’s some validity in…

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Thursday appointed Mazloum Abdi, former chief of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), as one of his presidential advisers. Abdi was leader of the SDF for over a decade as the group fought against the Islamic State, joined the uprising against Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, and administered a semi-autonomous government in northeastern Syria. On Tuesday, Abdi presided over the formal dissolution of the SDF. The group was very reluctant to surrender either its weapons, or its autonomy, after the alliance of insurgents and jihadis led by former al-Qaeda lieutenant Sharaa captured Damascus and drove Assad…

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters the G20 was getting back to basics ahead of a full day of meetings at the G20 Finance Minsters meeting in Asheville, NC taking place Monday and Tuesday. Bessent told reporters he was grateful for a statement in support from the European Union, which said the economic block “has adopted extensive sanctions to prevent Iran from exploiting the global economy and financial system to sustain its hostile actions and undermine international security. It remains ready to take further measures, where necessary, to safeguard its security and interests, including freedom of navigation through the…

Sunday, during an appearance on CNN’s “Inside Politics,” Rep. Chris Pappas (D-NH), a candidate for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire, would not commit to backing the reelection of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) as leader of the Senate Democrats if elected. Partial transcript as follows: MANU RAJU, CNN HOST: Let’s talk a little bit more about your party, because when you look at the polling, Congressional Democrats really are incredibly unpopular with the American public. Just 23 percent in a Quinnipiac poll of voters nationally, they have approved of your party in Congress. So I’m wondering if you win…

Greenlandic citizens protest forced sterilization Denmark is under pressure for its decades-long ‘IUD’ campaign. Against the background of Donald J. Trump’s vows to control the Danish autonomous territory of Greenland, the relationship between Greenland and Denmark is under tremendous stress. After the publication of two contradictory expert reports, heated debates continue on the nature of the campaign of forced contraception of almost half of Inuit women. 🧵Major developments re: Donald Trump’s designs on Greenland: Greenland’s official genocide report finds a reasonable basis to believe Denmark violated the Genocide Convention by implanting Greenlandic girls with birth-control devices without consent. — Paul…

More than 2,900 people have died as a result of the Ebola outbreak in the Congo, authorities announced Monday. The outbreak is considered the fastest-growing in history and officials said there are currently 6,000 cases and 2,911 people have died while over 1,360 patients have recovered, the Associated Press (AP) reported. “The World Health Organization has said that it remains out of control and is on track to surpass the 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak, the deadliest on record, which killed more than 11,000 people, primarily in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone,” the outlet continued. The U.S. Centers for Disease…

“Acting President” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez on Sunday thanked President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio for facilitating a new historic oil deal between the countries. Rodríguez emphasized that the deal will give “endless” benefits to Venezuela such as jobs, production, and infrastructure investment while turning Venezuela into an oil and energy “powerhouse.” President Trump announced in a Friday evening post on his website Truth Social that the United States and Venezuela reached an agreement that grants the U.S. control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s vast proven oil reserves. The agreement, which President Trump…

During this week’s broadcast of FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) urged his Capitol Hill colleagues in the U.S. Senate to move on legislation already passed by the House. According to Emmer, the Senate needed to “perform” on the CLARITY Act and the SAVE America Act. “Let’s first talk about the agenda,” host Cheryl Casone said. “What is at the top of the agenda? Obviously, short-term government funding. You want to avert any kind of pre-election shutdown. But what else are you watching? You have only got 16 legislative days before you leave again on October…