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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) commuted the sentence of Tina Peters, a former clerk for the state’s Mesa County, after she was sentenced to serve nine years in prison in October 2024 for allowing an outsider to have access to the election system. While Polis explained that he felt Peters had been “given an usually harsh sentence,” he clarified that she had broken the law, the New York Times reported. The governor shared that Peters will be released from prison on parole at the beginning of June. “She committed a crime; she deserves to be a convicted felon,” Polis told…

(AFP) — Around 10 “new” suspected victims have come forward in a French probe into the network of late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a prosecutor said Sunday. France opened a human trafficking investigation after the US Justice Department in January released the latest cache of files from the investigation into the disgraced financier, who died in prison in 2019 while facing charges of trafficking underage girls for sex. French magistrates are seeking to investigate possible offences committed in France or involving French perpetrators who facilitated his crimes. Top Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said around 20 suspected victims had made…

A Mexican national, who is in the United States illegally, was sentenced to one year in prison after allegedly assaulting and biting law enforcement officials, Breitbart News has learned. In a press release provided to Breitbart News from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), it was revealed that on May 7, Francisco Javier Acevedo-Caldera, an illegal alien, was sentenced to serve 12 months in prison. Acevedo-Caldera’s sentencing came after he had pled guilty at the beginning of the year to having assaulted local law enforcement officials and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in Illinois. “This criminal illegal alien,…

The bloc will slash steel imports by half, which is bound to negatively affect Ukraine’s industry An EU proposal to drastically cut its steel import quota in response to global overcapacity and the shrinking of local manufacturing will hurt Kiev, Ukrainian manufacturers and officials have told the Financial Times.The quota is expected to be cut by 47% on July 1, and the bloc will levy an additional 50% tariff on any steel imports above that amount. According to the EU authorities, the new regulation is meant to protect local manufacturers and address the “negative trade-related effects” of global overcapacity on…

As Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and her government continue to claim that the U.S. Government does not have any evidence of wrongdoing against Sinaloa Governor Ruben Rocha Moya and nine of his closest allies, who are accused of working for the Sinaloa Cartel. Three of those officials have now crossed the border into the U.S. and allegedly turned themselves in. The issue comes at a time when tensions between the U.S. and Mexico continue to rise over the southern country protecting drug cartels instead of eradicating them. The most recent development took place this weekend, when Mexican Senator Enrique Inzunza…

Texas and Florida get the most attention from conservative talk show hosts and other observers as the locations where residents are moving to avoid the high costs of blue states, but the latest data shows that South Carolina is actually growing faster than any other state. Texas and Florida still are drawing the largest numbers of new residents. However, South Carolina has a faster growth rate as Americans continue to relocate from states like California and New York, according to recently released IRS data reported by Fox News and analyzed by the nonprofit think tank Tax Foundation. The traditional population…

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) rejected a request from Virginia Democrats for the nation’s high court to intervene after the Virginia Supreme Court ruled to strike down a gerrymander scheme that would have redrawn the state’s congressional map in favor of Democrats. In an order on Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection had “no dissents,” NBC News reported. Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) responded to the rejection by claiming that the Court had “joined the Supreme Court of Virginia in choosing to nullify an election.” “The Supreme Court of the United States has now joined the Supreme…

Friday on MS NOW’s “The Beat,” host Ari Melber said President Donald Trump dropping his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for a $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded payout for investigations under the Biden administration could get him impeached. Former White House special counsel Ty Cobb said, “Clearly, in the case, they point to the fact that Pam Bondi, directed, her Justice Department to be loyal to Trump, not to the Constitution. Trump issued an executive order directing all government lawyers, all government personnel, government wide, you know, preventing them from taking positions that were contrary to his opinion about the…

As ties fray, Berlin and Washington are trading barbs over their decline, using each other’s crises to dodge their own mounting failures German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told an audience of local Catholics in the southwestern city of Wuerzburg that he no longer advises young people to travel to the United States for work and study, citing the rapidly changing “social climate” in the country.Merz, who has served as Chancellor of Germany since May 2025, said “I would not recommend to my children today that they go to the US to get an education and to work” – a comment that attracted…

The leading contenders seeking to topple Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer have both said that they would overturn the Brexit referendum and rejoin the European Union. Formally announcing his intention to wage a leadership campaign against Prime Minister Starmer, former Health Secretary Wes Streeting — who resigned from Starmer’s cabinet this week — said that if given power, he would look to rejoin the EU. Calling Brexit a “catastrophic mistake”, Streeting said per The Times of London: “The Vote Leave campaign deluded itself into thinking that the UK could forge a global free trade nirvana, as though we still had…