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During an interview aired on Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) said that states need to pitch in more for highway maintenance and we have to figure out a way for electric vehicles to pay for highways. Malliotakis said that while her legislation on a gas tax suspension would ensure the Highway Trust Fund is still funded, “I would also say, though, [that] we need to look at how the state and federal share is for funding our roads and bridges. New York state’s budget is absolutely exorbitant. They spend twice as much as the state…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested an illegal alien convicted decades ago of attempting to murder a police officer. “As we observe Police Week, the men and women of ICE law enforcement are removing this illegal alien convicted of attempted murder of a police officer from our communities, so he cannot victimize anymore Americans,” the Department of Homeland Security’s Lauren Bis said. According to ICE officials, Dinh Quy Nguyen first entered the United States in Honolulu, Hawaii, in December 1977. By June 1989, Nguyen was convicted of attempted capital murder of a police officer and burglary. A federal immigration judge…

US policies under President Donald Trump are becoming more “confrontational and unpredictable,” Mario Draghi has warned US President Donald Trump’s increasingly “confrontational and unpredictable” policies have left Europe “truly alone together” and unable to rely on Washington as its main security guarantor, former Italian prime minister and ex-ECB chief Mario Draghi has warned.Draghi made the remarks in Aachen, Germany, on Thursday while receiving the Charlemagne Prize for his “historic services” to European integration and competitiveness.Using his speech to outline how Europe can survive the “new realities,” Draghi warned the bloc could no longer depend on the US.“The world that once…

A group of Conservative Party councillors have joined up with left-wing parties in a European-style “cabinet of chaos” grand coalition to keep Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party out of power at all costs in one English county. Reform UK lost the control of Worcestershire County Council on Thursday, despite being the single largest party in chamber, to a European-style rainbow coalition of parties opposed to either other on practically everything except a shared opposition to Nigel Farage. While such a tactic is new to the United Kingdom, where the two-party system has generally produced relatively stable governments from the local to…

Vice President JD Vance holds a press conference to update the public on work by the Trump administration to crack down on fraud on Wednesday, May 13. President Donald Trump announced a “War on Fraud” during his State of the Union address in February and named Vance as the head of a new task force to carry it out. The vice president has led the task force to find and bust fraud across multiple agencies since it was formalized in March, as Breitbart News reported: The anti-fraud task force hit the ground running in its first five weeks after President…

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Fox News Channel on Wednesday that the Cuban communist regime rejected a $100 million American humanitarian assistance package that would have provided significant assistance to the Cuban people. Sec. Rubio held an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity aboard Air Force One on the way to China, during which he discussed subjects including the current precarious state of Cuba under the Castro regime. He detailed that the United States, in partnership with the Catholic Church, offered to distribute the $100 million humanitarian aid package, which the Cuban regime refused. The United States and the…

Actor Pedro Pascal kissed left-wing CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert on the lips and called himself “an actress” while promoting Disney’s The Mandalorian and Grogu on Tuesday. “What a pleasure to have you back,” Colbert told Pascal after the The Last of Us star sat down in a chair beside the TV host’s desk during Tuesday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, to which the actor replied by pressing one finger to his lips, implying he wanted a kiss. Colbert then leaned in, and the two men kissed each other directly on the lips, eliciting applause among members of the live…

President Donald Trump’s pet project is hanging by a thread. The political risk of spending taxpayer dollars on parts of a new White House ballroom has unsettled congressional Republicans, who are questioning whether they can approve $1 billion in Secret Service security funding — even as officials from the agency, the Department of Homeland Security and the White House blanket Capitol Hill to make the case for its necessity amid growing threats. Senate Republicans, including party leaders, are discussing making potential changes to the billion-dollar item as they deal with member concerns and wait for the chamber’s parliamentarian to rule…

The US secretary of state insists that Washington’s policy on the island is “unchanged” after Xi Jinping said mishandling the issue could lead to conflict Washington’s policy on Taiwan remains unchanged and any attempt by China to break the status quo would be a “terrible mistake,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said.Rubio made the remarks in an interview with NBC News on Friday, while traveling with President Donald Trump on the first state visit by a US leader to China in nearly a decade. The agenda for the visit revolves around the Iran war, trade disputes, Taiwan, and…

Nicolás Maduro’s son, Nicolás Maduro Guerra, on Wednesday acknowledged to the German news magazine Der Spiegel that the Venezuelan socialist regime must ask for forgiveness from the country for the “excesses” it has committed against its own people. Maduro Guerra, also known as Nicolasito (“Lil’ Nicolas”) and “The Prince,” is Maduro’s only son and a current lawmaker in the regime-controlled National Assembly. He is also one of the individuals listed as a co-conspirator in Nicolás Maduro’s ongoing drug trafficking trial at a New York court. Der Spiegel reports that Maduro Guerra received a visit from the magazine at an office tower in Caracas under the…