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Breitbart News on Monday hosted Interior Secretary and National Energy Dominance Council Chairman Doug Burgum for a policy discussion titled “Harnessing American Power,” during which Burgum said he is confident in America’s technological leadership but concerned about barriers to building AI data centers. “I don’t worry about us not having technological leadership. I worry about us on the ‘build, baby, build,’ because there are some states that literally are passing bans on AI data centers, and it’s not organic and local,” Burgum said. “Some of this is foreign source dark money coming in, and the people that used to fight…

Mining and energy jobs offer a “sure-fire, long-term career,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said during an event with Breitbart News on Monday. Burgum spoke about the mantra “drill, baby, drill” as well as “map, baby, map,” explaining that lands across the country managed by the Department of the Interior were “put away for the benefit the use of the American people.” WATCH — Bureau-CRAP! Secretary Burgum Details Insane Bureaucratic Overreach: “And there are things that we protect exclusively – wilderness areas, national parks, wildlife refuges – those are completely off limits. But the other piece, which is like 90 percent of it…

U.S. Department of War (DOW) Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) may be in deep trouble for comments he made over a classified Pentagon brief. In a social media post on Sunday, Hegseth shared a post from Face the Nation’s Margaret Brennan in which she detailed Kelly’s comments regarding U.S. weapons stockpiles. “After hearing the Pentagon classified brief on Iran war impact on U.S. weapons stockpiles, Senator Mark Kelly says it is ‘shocking how deep we have gone into these magazines.’ He said the Tomahawks, ATACMS, SM-3, THAAD rounds, Patriot rounds, so those interceptor rounds to defend ourselves…

Denmark’s government has collapsed after a record poor election showing for Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. King Frederik X has now asked Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen to form a right-wing government, but little will change: every major Danish party is preparing for war with Russia.In a statement on Friday night, Denmark’s monarch announced that he had tasked Poulsen with forming a government “that does not involve the participation” of Frederiksen’s center-left Social Democrats or Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen’s Moderates. The announcement came after Frederiksen tried and failed to build a government after winning a plurality – but not a…

ToplineA range of tech products—like the Nintendo Switch 2 to Samsung Galaxy phones—suddenly cost a lot more money, and the booming AI industry is largely to blame, as the surge in demand for memory chips for AI data centers has put a serious strain on the supply left for consumer products.Nintendo hiked the price of its flagship Switch 2 console last week. (Photo by DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty ImagesKey FactsNintendo is the latest gaming company to hike the price of its flagship console, warning frustrated consumers the price of the Switch 2 will rise $50 in the…

Israeli singer Noam Bettan and his entourage received a warm welcome in Vienna, Austria, during the opening event for this week’s Eurovision Song Contest on Sunday — a radical departure from the throngs of pro-Hamas protesters wearing keffiyehs and threatening Israeli contestants that had become the norm in the past two years. The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual continental event — also including some non-European countries such as Georgia and Australia — in which countries send an original song performed by an artist of their choice. This year will mark the 70th anniversary of the competition, which was conceived…

Far-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon has vowed to withdraw France from the NATO military alliance, while blasting both U.S. President Donald Trump and Israel over the conflict in Iran. Appearing on public broadcaster TF1 on Sunday, the leader of the leftist La France Insoumise (France in Rebellion/LFI) party seemingly sought to stake out the most radical foreign policy positions in the race to replace President Emmanuel Macron just days after throwing his hat in the ring. Mélenchon, a three-time failed candidate for the Élysée Palace, accused the United States and Israel of acting “without any international mandate” by striking the…

Senate Majority Leader John Thune offered a lukewarm response Monday to President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the federal gas tax should be suspended — even as several GOP lawmakers embraced the idea amid a global oil supply crunch. “I’ve not in the past obviously been a fan of that idea,” Thune told reporters. “But, you know, I’ve got some colleagues out there who think it’s a good idea, and so we’ll hear them out.” As the war with Iran keeps millions of barrels of oil from transiting the Strait of Hormuz daily, Trump endorsed the idea of a gas-tax holiday…

Monday, May 11, 2026Oceanwide Expeditions says 87 guests and 35 crew members from 22 counties have disembarked the ship and returned home, and the boat is now en route to the Netherlands with 25 crew members and two medical professionals on board. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says, “We have this under control and we’re not worried about it” during an Oval Office event after President Donald Trump downplayed concerns about virus, echoing health officials who’ve said the disease is “not easy to spread” and adding the U.S. is in “very good shape.” Sixteen passengers…

The family of a victim killed in the April 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University has filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming the company’s ChatGPT chatbot enabled the deadly attack. NBC News reports that Vandana Joshi, widow of Tiru Chabba, one of two people killed in the shooting, has filed the lawsuit in Florida against OpenAI. Chabba died alongside Robert Morales, the university’s dining director. The complaint also names Phoenix Ikner, the accused shooter, as a defendant, citing what it describes as his extensive conversations with ChatGPT. Breitbart News previously reported that Ikner was in “constant communication” with…