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Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said he was “absolutely expecting” more Republican opposition to President Donald Trump’s agenda. Partial transcript as follows: JONATHAN KARL: And just before Congress went on the Memorial Day recess, we did see some Republicans standing up on this, particularly those that aren’t coming back largely because they’ve been frozen out, you know, by Trump. Cassidy lost his — his Republican primary in Louisiana. I mean, now Cornyn is going to be coming back. He’s now a lame duck as well. Are you — are you expecting that there’s going to be more…

Washington has reportedly coordinated the passage of 70 cargo vessels despite Trump’s abrupt suspension of Project Freedom The US military has been covertly guiding vessels through the Strait of Hormuz in recent weeks, The New York Times reported on Sunday, citing officials familiar with the matter.Iran closed the vital waterway, which previously handled around 20% of global oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies, to ships from “hostile countries” in response to the US and Israeli airstrikes launched on February 28. Tehran later said that vessels from third countries could pass if they paid a toll and complied with military…

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said controversial Democrat Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner “has questions to answer.” Partial transcript as follows: JONATHAN KARL: One of the marquee Senate races, of course, is in Maine, where the Democratic nominee, presumptive nominee, is Graham Platner. And a lot of allegations against Graham Platner, including the very latest, a controversy that The Wall Street Journal has reported on, alleging that Platner’s wife, Amy, flagged sexually explicit texts between Platner and a half dozen other women to the campaign during the vetting period. And in a video posted on X, his…

Saturday on MS NOW’s “PoliticsNation,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) said the Supreme Court was trying to reinstate Plessy v. Ferguson, the overturned ruling in favor of racial segregation laws. Host Al Sharpton said, “Talking about the attempted gerrymander. You survived this week, one of several, that Southern Republicans have taken up since the Supreme Court’s VRA decision last month. Your seat was saved, thankfully. But the week also ended with Louisiana axing one of its majority black districts and a federal appeals court clearing Alabama to use a previous map that was ruled discriminatory against black voters. All that together, Congressman, how…

The incoming missile was reportedly intercepted, but debris destroyed an MQ-9 Reaper drone and seriously damaged another Around five US servicemen and contractors suffered minor injuries during a recent Iranian ballistic missile strike on a Kuwaiti air base, Bloomberg reports, citing a source. At least one MQ-9 Reaper drone was reportedly destroyed.The incident apparently occurred during the latest limited exchange between the US and Iran on Thursday. The US military said it destroyed five Iranian kamikaze drones “that posed a clear threat in and near the Strait of Hormuz” and struck a military site near the port city of Bandar…

Saturday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” former Fox News commentator and California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton (R) said it would be a “disaster” if he doesn’t make the top two in the California jungle primary. Hilton said, “My team, is still pretty confident that we’re going to make it into the top two, but we can’t take it for granted, because here’s the deal. If we end up as we can in this insane top two system in California with two Democrats in the race for governor, that’s a disaster for California, not just for the chances of achieving change through…

Fresh threats and shaky pretexts may tempt Washington toward force, but any assault on the island risks turning into a costly fiasco With much of the world’s attention on the still unresolved conflict between the US and Iran, the average consumer of news may be forgiven if they had forgotten that the US had, on January 3 of this year, launched a mini-invasion of Venezuela which resulted in the deaths of scores of persons, including a number of Cuban security personnel, and the capture of Venezuela’s President, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife.The US justified this action by noting that Maduro…

Saturday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” former Fox News commentator and California Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton discussed his tax-cutting and deregulation agendas. Marlow asked, “What is the what’s the first thing you’re going to do when you get to Sacramento?” Hilton said, “Well, I mean, it’s it’s going to be a busy first day, but send the budget to the legislature with the tax reductions. Right we get more money in people’s pockets immediately so they can see if you have a new Republican governor, you feel the difference straight away. ” He added, “On the same day we’re going…

Trump-friendly lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella secured a narrow lead over left-wing Senator Ivan Cepeda in the first round of Colombia’s presidential election on Sunday.With votes counted from more than 99% of polling stations, de la Espriella received 43.72% of the vote, while Cepeda secured 40.92%. Conservative candidate Paloma Valencia came third with 6.92%. The runoff will take place on June 21.Colombia has historically been the United States’ most important ally in the region in terms of security cooperation and counternarcotics efforts. The US is Colombia’s largest trading partner, and the country shares a long border with neighboring Venezuela.Relations between…

Saturday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” former Fox News commentator and California Republican gubernatorial hopeful Steve Hilton said former Biden Cabinet Secretary Xavier Becerra, one of his opponents, pushed migrant kids “into the arms of child sex traffickers.” Hilton said, “People say he, when he was HHS  Secretary for Biden he lost 85,000 migrant kids. No, he didn’t lose them. He pushed them out of the system without caring where they went, dismantled the vetting and pushed migrant kids into the arms of child sex traffickers. That’s what he did. That is going to come and get him when we were up…