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The White House shared that President Donald Trump was nominating Pennsylvania state Senator and former Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to Slovakia, and Kari Lake as U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica. In a press release from the White House on Monday, it was revealed several nominations were being sent to the Senate. Among the nominations, included one for Mastriano “to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Slovak Republic.” Lake was also revealed to be nominated “to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to…
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and White House legislative affairs director James Braid will meet Wednesday with a key group of House Republicans as GOP concerns rise about a $1 billion administration request for Secret Service security funding that could help fund President Donald Trump’s ballroom project. Mullin and Braid will attend a lunch of the centrist Republican Governance Group, two people granted anonymity to discuss the plans said, and the Secret Service funding is expected to come up. The visit is raising some eyebrows among some Republicans, with some having recent trouble getting Mullin on the phone, according to…
The streaming giant exploited users and their kids to make billions of dollars selling their data, a legal complaint alleges Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued Netflix, accusing the streaming company of illegally spying and collecting data from users and their children without their knowledge or consent.In a statement published on Monday, Paxton characterized Netflix as “a logging company” that records and monetizes customers’ behavioral data “and occasionally streams movies.”The lawsuit, filed in Collin County, Texas on Monday, cited past promises by Netflix executives not to exploit users’ personal data for advertising purposes.However, despite promising privacy, the company allegedly…
How a World of Abundance Quietly Slid Into Access Failure There was no official beginning to what analysts in early 2026 would later describe as one of the most structurally predictable yet psychologically shocking disruptions of the modern era. No coordinated warning was issued, no synchronized communication prepared populations for what was about to unfold, and no visible trigger seemed large enough, at first glance, to justify the scale of the consequences that followed. Instead, the process began in silence, through small, almost irrelevant interruptions—delayed shipments, rising insurance costs, energy fluctuations—until those minor disruptions aligned and exposed a systemic vulnerability…
Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings has backed California Gov. Gavin Newsom for president as he mulls a potential run. Hastings revealed his support for Newsom in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. “Gavin is the candidate who can motivate both the left and the center,” Hastings said. Hastings previously supported former Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential election with a $1 million donation to Future Forward, a pro-Harris PAC. He also donated $2 million to Newsom’s Prop. 50 redistricting campaign last year, calling himself a “big fan” of the governor while hailing him as a “gifted political strategist and a futurist,” per…
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Cain testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, May 12. Hegseth and Caine are there to discuss the proposed budget for the Department of War but will undoubtedly face questions over the conflict in Iran. President Donald Trump on Monday called Iran’s latest proposal in negotiations “garbage” and “totally unacceptable” while warning the existing ceasefire was on “life support.” Read the full article here
Consumer prices rose sharply in April, driven by rising energy prices and increases in prices for housing, furniture, airfare, and clothing. The consumer price index rose 0.6 percent in April, the Department of Labor said Tuesday. Compared with a year ago, prices are up 3.8 percent. This matched expectations. Core prices, a measure that excludes volatile food and energy prices, rose 0.4 percent compared with the previous month. For the year, core prices are up 2.8 percent. That compares with expectations of 0.3 percent for the month and 2.7 percent for the year. The month-to-month increase showed inflation slowing from…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday hosted the Indiana University Hoosiers football team at the White House to celebrate their College Football Playoff championship from January. Head Coach Curt Cignetti and dozens of players joined Trump for the South Lawn celebration. About 15 players from the 2026 team, including star quarterback Fernando Mendoza, were absent because they were attending training camp after being drafted by National Football League (NFL) teams, Cignetti noted. Trump said Mendoza called him. “He was so nice. He called… Actually, JD, he’s a big fan of ours,” Trump told Vice President JD Vance, who sat in…
Democrats are hammering Rep. Jen Kiggans after the vulnerable Virginia Republican concurred with a Richmond radio host saying Hakeem Jeffries should get his “cotton-picking hands” off Virginia politics. “Ditto, yes, yes to that,” Kiggans responded. Christie Stephenson, a spokesperson for Jeffries, called the moment a “stunning failure of judgement for a so-called moderate Member of Congress representing a large, vibrant African American community in Virginia.” “Extremists who endorse disgusting, vile and racist language are pathetic,” she said in a Tuesday statement. “Jen Kiggans has no interest in our nation’s progress toward a multi-racial democracy and apparently craves a return to…
Moscow has slammed Ukraine’s use of long-range unmanned aerial vehicles to target civilians Germany and Ukraine will jointly develop long-range drones, German Defense Minister Boris Pistiorius has said during an unannounced visit to Kiev. The Ukrainian military has routinely used unmanned aerial vehicles for attacks deep inside Russia that target civilians and critical infrastructure.Moscow has accused Kiev of “terrorism” over the strikes. Last week, one attack killed five civilians in Crimea.Berlin has emerged as Kiev’s largest single military donor after the US switched from donating weapons directly to Ukraine to selling it to Kiev’s other NATO backers which hand them…