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On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) responded to the prospect of suspending the federal gas tax by saying that “I’m not willing to help the president spend billions of dollars of my taxpayers’ money every single day on a war that is empowering Iran and bringing the entire world’s economy to a standstill.” And “I’m not terribly interested in efforts to try to manage the war and help the president continue the war.” He also argued that “we need to keep the pressure on this president to do what the American people want him to…

The next Los Angeles mayoral debate has been canceled after Nithya Raman and Karen Bass pulled out, along with Spencer Pratt. The event had been scheduled for Wednesday, but debate organizers announced on Monday that the event will be canceled due to the absence of all three major candidates, per the New York Post. Reality star Spencer Pratt first pulled out due to a scheduling conflict before Bass announced that she would be traveling to Sacramento to seek funds for combatting the homeless crisis and for the wildfire rebuilding efforts. On Monday, Raman’s campaign revealed she would also not be…

Two Israeli soldiers were sentenced to several weeks in military prison for desecrating a statue of the Virgin Mary in southern Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said.Last week, a photo surfaced showing a service member hugging the statue in the predominantly Christian village of Debel, near the Israeli border, and placing a cigarette in the statue’s mouth. The image sparked outrage on social media and prompted an official investigation.On Monday, IDF spokeswoman Ariella Mazor said the soldier posing with the statue and the soldier filming him were sentenced to 21 and 14 days behind bars, respectively.“The IDF views…

Venezuela’s deposed socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and Sandro Castro, Fidel Castro’s “influencer” grandson, both published messages marking the occasion of Mother’s Day on Sunday. At press time, it remains unclear how Maduro, who is currently imprisoned in New York on narco-terrorism charges, managed to post a Mother’s Day message on his social media accounts. In the message, which Maduro dedicated to “all mothers in Venezuela and the world,” the deposed dictator and his wife, Cilia Flores, sent a “hug filled with love, respect, and gratitude” to all mothers, praising them for their love, creation, loyalty, strength, and other virtues. The message…

President Donald Trump called for the House of Representatives to pass the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, highlighting how it “would ensure that homes are for people, not Corporations.” In a post on Truth Social, Trump noted that during his State of the Union address, he spoke about how “the American Dream of Homeownership is under attack.” Trump shared a story about Rachel Wiggins, a mother from Houston, Texas, who “placed bids on 20 homes, and lost all of those bids to gigantic Investment Firms,” adding that “stories like this” were why he signed an executive order banning “large…

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum argued while speaking at a Breitbart News policy event that the vast majority of the legal hoops the American energy industry has to jump through are setting the U.S. back, while China skips over bureaucracy in the race for AI dominance. Burgum, the chairman of President Donald Trump’s National Energy Dominance Council, told Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle that the “Silicon Valley Titans” who do not necessarily see eye-to-eye with Trump understand the issue, which is why they largely supported his 2024 campaign.  “In November ’24, who was standing on stage at the inauguration? Tim…

Russia’s Victory Day parade was a greatly reduced spectacle in most respects this year, but it did boast one new feature: a unit of North Korean troops marching alongside Russian forces through Red Square, bearing their own national flag.  Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the North Korean commander after the parade to “express his gratitude,” according to North Korea’s state-run KCNA news service. Another North Korean state organ, the Rodong Sinmun newspaper, ran a two-page photo article on the march on Sunday. Meanwhile, Russian state media confirmed it was the first Victory Day parade to include North Korean participation.…

President Trump criticized the rising costs for regular fans to watch NFL games as his Department of Justice investigates potential anti-competitive pricing. The president revealed his thoughts during an interview with Full Measure on Sunday, adding that the package costs of watching a season of NFL could “ruin the game” for regular, working-class fans. “You’ve got people that love football, they’re great people, they don’t make enough money to go and pay this, it’s tough,” the president said. While Trump did not know if the government would put a stop to it, he admitted, “I don’t like it.” “They’re making…

US President Donald Trump is considering resuming the bombing campaign against Iran as peace talks remain stalled, Axios reported on Monday, citing three US officials familiar with the matter.On Sunday, Trump rejected Iran’s latest terms as “totally unacceptable” and said the ceasefire reached around a month ago was “on massive life support.”According to Axios, Trump was set to meet with his national security team on Monday to discuss next steps, including potentially resuming Project Freedom – an operation aimed at guiding ships through the Strait of Hormuz – as well as restarting airstrikes and hitting the remaining 25% of targets…

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) and Spanish health officials on Monday updated their tally of hantavirus cases linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius to seven confirmed cases and two reported infections under investigation. This count did not include an American passenger who tested “mildly positive” after returning to the United States. The MV Hondius had 17 Americans aboard when the hantavirus outbreak was reported. The ship departed from Argentina with 147 people aboard on April 1. The first illness was reported on April 6 and the first of three fatalities occurred on April 11. About two dozen passengers left…