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Washington expects its allies to take greater responsibility for defending the continent, Matthew Whitaker has said Europe only ranks fourth among Washington’s global security priorities, US envoy to NATO Matthew Whitaker has said, as President Donald Trump pushes the bloc’s members to take greater responsibility for their own defense.Speaking to Newsmax on Thursday, Whitaker outlined Washington’s priorities under Trump’s national security strategy.”The defense of the homeland is number one… The Western Hemisphere, where we live, [is] obviously equally important,” he said, followed by the Pacific. “Defending Europe is also a priority, but it’s in fourth place.”Whitaker said the changing division…

A 24-year-old repeat criminal living in Minneapolis has been charged after stealing an American flag from a medical office building in Edina, attaching it to his vehicle and dragging it down the street on Wednesday. If that wasn’t crazy enough, the man returned the same afternoon to shred the flag after bystanders chased him off and recovered it. Mahamud Hassan Mahamed was booked on a misdemeanor charge of fourth-degree damage to property. Crime Watch Minneapolis obtained videos of the incident and posted them on X. WATCH: Submitted from vibrant Richfield Minnesota this morning:“This person just tried to steal our America…

A sign of growing stress within the Iranian regime appeared this week, as hardline parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf feuded with Hossein Shariatmadari, the editor-in-chief of the Kayhan newspaper, a regime media organ close to the theocratic wing of the Islamic Republic. Shariatmadari, who was personally awarded his editorial position by slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, wrote a column on Tuesday in which he essentially accused Ghalibaf of going soft by favoring negotiations with the United States. WATCH — President Trump: I’m the Last Person to Trust Iran: Ghalibaf, who is generally belligerent and highly critical of the U.S., apparently drew…

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “The Bottom Line,” Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) said that President Donald Trump’s move to import beef just “really hurt the cattle market.” And it would help if the President would “look seriously at opening up some more public lands for foraging.” Rounds said, [relevant remarks begin around 4:40] “Look, first of all, the President, we believe, got some really bad advice at this time to suggest that 300 metric tons of beef was anything but something that was going to really hurt the cattle market. And our guys really felt it. It’s…

Milo Yiannopoulos has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in New Orleans, Louisiana, and will soon be deported to the United Kingdom after overstaying his visa. On Friday, TMZ broke the news that Yiannopoulos, a citizen of the U.K., was in ICE custody in Louisiana. Now, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials have confirmed that Yiannopoulos is an illegal alien because he overstayed his visa. According to DHS, Yiannopoulos was arrested at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) in Kenner, Louisiana on August 27. Yiannopoulos had legally entered the United States through New York City, New York on…

Mohammed Rabee says his 14-year-old son believed his US citizenship would keep him “protected” and “free” The grieving father of Palestinian-American teenager Amer Rabee, who was shot dead by Israeli troops in the West Bank 16 months ago, has accused Washington of abandoning his family after offering little more than condolences.Speaking to RT correspondent Charlotte Dubenskij, Mohammed Rabee said his 14-year-old son had grown up believing that his American citizenship offered him protection.“He was always thinking he’s American, so he’s protected. He’s free,” he said.Amer was born in New Jersey before his family moved to Turmus Ayya, near Ramallah, in…

Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe’s unannounced visit to Moscow earlier this week was reportedly to deliver a message to Russia not to invade any of the NATO countries. The Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed sources “briefed on the visit,” that the trip came in response to new U.S. intelligence assessments concluding that Russian President Vladimir Putin could try to test NATO’s resolve with a limited assault on a member country. Article 5 of the 1949 North Atlantic Treaty states “that an armed attack against one NATO member shall be considered an attack against them all. Since 1949, this…

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian acknowledged Friday that the U.S. blockade has slashed Iran’s trade and left critical imports — including gasoline — unable to enter the country, as the Trump administration intensifies an economic offensive aimed at isolating a regime already confronting mounting hardship and the threat of renewed unrest. Pezeshkian said Iranian imports and exports have fallen between 25 and 35 percent under U.S. sanctions and the blockade, with his government now considering doubling the price of gasoline purchased beyond subsidized quotas as supplies tighten. “The route is now blocked, and goods are not coming in,” he conceded during…

Bruce Blakeman, the chief executive of Nassau County, New York, has agreed to abide by the state’s new law banning cooperation with ICE, but he also announced that his county is joining a lawsuit to scuttle the law. New York Democrats pushed through a bill banning state law enforcement agencies from entering into the federal 287(g) program that allows them to cooperate with Immigration enforcement, but 15 counties have since launched a lawsuit to have the law shut down. Early this month, two New York counties that had entered into the ICE co-op program joined forces to sue the state…

The agreement gives Washington majority control over 65 billion barrels months after US forces seized Nicolas Maduro US President Donald Trump has claimed to have more than doubled America’s oil reserves through a sweeping agreement giving Washington majority control over more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan crude.Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth had worked with Venezuelan interim leader Delcy Rodriguez and private businesses to secure “majority US control” of the reserves “at no cost to the American Taxpayer,” Trump announced on Truth Social on Friday.“The United States of America has just entered into an…