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Fairfax County, Virginia, Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano (D) is obstructing a congressional investigation into whether his office gives preferential treatment to illegal alien defendants, members of the House Judiciary Committee allege. At the start of the year, the House Judiciary Committee opened an investigation into Descano’s office and whether prosecutors in Fairfax County are offering deals, requesting less prison time, and dropping charges against illegal alien defendants preferentially to their American counterparts. Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock (R-CA) sent letters to Descano in January and June of this year requesting documents related to his office’s…
CBC has reportedly issued “language guidance” ahead of the 25th anniversary of the attacks The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has instructed its employees not to refer to the 9/11 attacks as “terrorist,” according to several media reports.This year marks the 25th anniversary of the attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people. According to the official account, 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four passenger airliners, crashing two into the World Trade Center towers in New York City and a third into the Pentagon outside Washington, DC. The fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers and crew attempted to wrest control from the hijackers.The…
Air traffic controllers warned of communication issues one week before an air traffic safety incident involving Marine One while Trump was onboard earlier this month. Earlier this month, it was reported that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was investigating an air traffic safety incident involving Marine One while President Trump was on board. The incident happened on August 4th while President Trump was traveling to Joint Base Andrews for a trip to Southern California. “The president’s Marine One helicopter took off from the White House Tuesday afternoon, but air-traffic controllers hadn’t halted commercial flights at nearby Ronald Reagan Washington National…
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – Ratko Mladic, the bullish Bosnian Serb general whose forces rained shells and snipers´ bullets on Sarajevo and carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, has died while serving a life sentence for his crimes, U.N. officials said. He was 84. U.N. court officials said that Mladic died in a U.N. prison hospital in The Hague, Netherlands. A family member of Mladic, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation, confirmed the reports for the AP and said Mladic´s son, Darko Mladic, was on the way to The…
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe gave separate press conferences on Wednesday in which they refused to impose retaliatory tariffs against the United States on natural resources, in defiance of leftist Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trade war agenda. Smith and Moe said they had no problem with matching U.S. tariffs dollar-for-dollar, but they rejected Carney’s urge to escalate the trade war by applying punitive tariffs to vital natural resources in their provinces, such as oil and potash. “What we, as a province, cannot and will not support is any kind of export tariff on our natural resources,”…
WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump’s historic peace breakthrough between Azerbaijan and Armenia has opened a “new era” of opportunity for the United States in the South Caucasus, creating expanding possibilities for American investment, energy cooperation, trade, and regional connectivity, according to a senior Azerbaijani official. Fuad Muradov, chairman of Azerbaijan’s State Committee on Work with Diaspora, made the remarks in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News in Washington as he wrapped up a U.S. visit focused on strengthening ties with Azerbaijani communities and expanding the country’s relationships with American civic, academic, and political institutions. Muradov said the transformation follows…
President Donald Trump’s $400-million super PAC is taking its first steps into the general election: hosting a public event in battleground Michigan, headlined by Vice President JD Vance.Battleground Republicans have been clamoring for Trump’s MAGA Inc. to spend in competitive races. The Michigan event is an early indicator of how the massive group might seek to use its funds to help the party keep control of Washington.Vance will be joined in Sterling, Michigan, on Monday by GOP Senate nominee Mike Rogers, 10th District nominee Mike Bouchard Jr. and gubernatorial nominee John James, along with several other Michigan Republicans, according to…
Fifteen New York sheriffs are suing Gov. Kathy Hochul over a state law that took effect this week banning formal agreements between local governments and federal agencies. The Federation for American Immigration Reform in Washington, D.C., filed the lawsuit on behalf of the sheriffs of St. Lawrence, Wayne, Broome, Madison, Cattaraugus, Orange, Jefferson, Saratoga, Lewis, Franklin, Delaware, Fulton, Oswego, Cayuga and Rensselaer counties, according to the Albany Times-Union. Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin said Hochul had “escalated her administration’s war on the police and she expanded policies to put criminals before the citizens of New York.” “Under the New York…
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa paid for a coffee in Damascus using a Visa card on Wednesday, a common sight in most countries but unprecedented in the modern history of his country as it represented the first such transaction since Syria was removed from the U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism (SST) list. The State Department first announced in July that President Donald Trump had approved beginning the process of removing Syria from the SST, a designation reserved for the world’s most hostile and prolific terrorist powers. Syria was placed on the list in 1979, during the reign of dictator Hafez Assad,…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday, renaming Lake Ontario Lake America amid trade tensions with Canada. The move comes less than a week after prospects of a trade deal with Canada collapsed and days after he announced a 50 percent tariff on Canadian autos and steel set to kick in next year. “We’re going to be changing the name of Lake Ontario effective immediately to Lake America. That’s going to take place right now as I sign the order,” Trump said. The order specifically instructs Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum to update the lake’s name in the…