Author: Press Room
Nearly 400 illegal boat migrants reached UK shores this week amid reports that trained militants from the Middle East are gathering on the coastline of Belgium in a bid to break into Britain. Some 394 illegals successfully crossed the English Channel from Dunkirk in France on Friday, the Daily Mail reported. This marked the first crossings in nearly two weeks, a lull largely due to inclement weather. While nearly 8,000 boat migrants have made the often perilous journey since the start of the year, there has been a recorded decline of 44 per cent since last year, and 23 per cent over…
Nearly 40 Pizza Hut locations across the country have returned to the restaurant’s iconic vintage vibes and customers are overjoyed. Kansas-based Daland Corporation runs 93 of the locations and has brought back the classic red cups, salad bar, checkered tables, and lamps from the 1980s and 1990s to 38 of its locations, calling those restaurants “Pizza Hut Classic,” Fox News reported Friday. Daland president Tim Sparks said his own family enjoyed sharing a meal at Pizza Hut years ago and he hopes the remodels will encourage other people to eat there again. “It’s a good time to start having dinner…
On Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” House Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) said that he wants to hear from acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on the anti-weaponization fund and there need to be questions asked and answered about the fund. Emmer said, “I would like to hear from Todd Blanche. I understand that they started to hear from him yesterday as to exactly what this is. Great. Let’s find out what it is before everybody crucifies it.” He added, “[W]e’re going to find out what it is. I’m not going to give it a term. I want to…
An Ebola vaccine based on the same technology that delivered the AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab is being urgently developed by British scientists to help contain the deadly sub-strain enveloping the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and its neighbors. The Daily Telegraph reports the new vaccine is being developed by the Oxford Vaccine Group (OVG) using the platform deployed in 2020 as a baseline start. The vax could be ready for clinical trials within two to three months, its makers say, then rushed into action once approved against the outbreak which has resulted in more than 204 suspected deaths and 870 suspected cases. The…
On Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” House Minority Whip Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) responded to arguments that the claimed healthcare cut by Republicans was just a decrease of an increase by saying that “you’ve got to see the complete disconnect from families at home who are struggling to make it, and what they see from this Republican Party is they’re not in the equation at all, you take away healthcare, you take away food programs.” After Clark said that Republicans “cut a trillion dollars” from healthcare, Kernen cut in to say, “But Medicaid’s still — it’s still growing, and…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday Russia used the powerful hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile during a mass drone and missile attack on Kyiv on Sunday that killed at least two people, marking the third time the weapon has been used in the four-year war. The intense aerial assault damaged buildings across the Ukrainian capital, including near government offices, residential buildings, schools, a market and schools, Ukrainian authorities said. At least 83 people were wounded in the attack. The Oreshnik, which is capable of carrying nuclear or conventional warheads, struck the city of Bila Tserkva in the…
On Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” House Minority Whip Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) responded to arguments that Democrats turned down the opportunity to make the Affordable Care Act subsidies run longer so they can’t blame Republicans by saying that “when you come in and you cut a trillion dollars, that is 100% their fault.” Clark said, “We have to see this from the American family’s perspective. This administration comes in, takes away a trillion dollars out of healthcare, takes away ACA tax credits, forces up premiums, whether you get your healthcare from ACA or Medicaid or not.” Co-host Joe…
Kiev’s backers refuse to acknowledge Kiev’s drone raid on Starobelsk that left at least 18 students dead and dozens more injured At least 18 people have been killed and dozens more wounded – most of them students – in a Ukrainian drone raid on a school dormitory in Starobelsk in Russia’s Lugansk People’s Republic on Friday. As of Saturday afternoon, search-and-rescue operations are still underway, with local officials reporting additional Ukrainian drone attacks aimed at derailing the efforts.President Vladimir Putin called the raid a “terrorist attack by the neo-Nazi regime,” adding that he ordered the military to prepare retaliation.Following the…
ABOARD THE RFA LYME BAY (AP) – Aboard the RFA Lyme Bay docked off the coast of Gibraltar, hundreds of British sailors are waiting to be deployed for a mine-clearing mission to the Strait of Hormuz that is still in doubt. U.S. President Donald Trump has lashed out at allies for not doing more to support the United States’ war effort in Iran, whose chokehold on the strait has crippled international shipping and sent energy prices soaring. In March, Trump told NATO allies to “go get your own oil” and secure the strait themselves. On the southern tip of the…
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Faulkner Focus,” Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) stated that the far left and far right are starting to align on policy ideas that, along with “outright bigotry and antisemitism,” “will fundamentally destroy the United States of America.” And argued that hostile nations are using free speech and social media “to destabilize the political foundations of our country.” Donalds said the far left and far right “are starting to share some policy ideas, even when you get past antisemitism. And I think it’s important for the American people to understand that the policy views,…