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In a post-Biden era, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has worked hard to build back the trust between the country’s unsung heroes — farmers and ranchers — and Washington, DC, emerging as a strong advocate for rural America and its key industries while collaborating with fellow cabinet members. Breitbart News spent a day with Rollins as she conducted U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) business at the agency’s headquarters, the White House, in meetings with members of the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), and while riding through the middle of D.C. on a tractor. On the last Friday of March, the secretary…
A pair of Italian tourists travelling across Venezuela published a video on social media Monday claiming they experienced several instances of alleged extortion while passing through various police and military checkpoints in the country. The Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional reports that the two Italian tourists operate an online YouTube channel known as Come Due Vagabondi (“Like Two Tramps,”) and dedicate themselves to travel around on a van while documenting their journey. According to El Nacional, the two tourists travelled through several Venezuelan states, such as Zulia, Falcón, Carabobo, and Bolívar. On Monday, they published a video denouncing that they were stopped at numerous checkpoints along various…
NY Post Cast host Caitlyn Becker says that Wynton Hall, Breitbart News social media director and author of the instant bestseller Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI, has laid out how conservatives can prepare for the AI revolution in his book. Becker said of CODE RED, “As you laid out there, we haven’t even scratched the surface of what AI is going to do in our lives, and as you just listed there, we’re talking work, we’re talking school, we’re talking romance, education, health care, it’s everywhere. You write about the need to prepare ourselves for…
Steve Kroft worked as a correspondent on 60 Minutes with CBS for 30 years from 1989 until he retired in 2019, and he apparently “hated it.” Kroft revealed his thoughts on working for the famed television show in an interview on Bill O’Reilly’s We’ll Do It Live!, and while he called the job “exhilarating,” he also apparently “hated it,” candidly admitting he “probably wouldn’t do it again.” “I probably wouldn’t do it again,” said Kroft. “I hated it. Look, the best job I ever had at CBS was when I was correspondent at the London bureau and got to see the…
Two police officers have been injured and three suspects were “neutralized,” according to local media reports A firefight broke out between police and several gunmen near the Israeli consulate in Istanbul, Türkiye on Tuesday, local media have reported. The building has been closed for months and is said to be unstaffed. It is unclear if it was the target of the attack. According to reports, numerous police teams were dispatched to the consulate at around 12:15 PM local time. One of the attackers, who was armed with long-barreled weapons, was killed and two others were captured after being wounded, CNN’s Turkish-language…
LONDON (AP) — A senior member of the British government said Tuesday that Ye should “absolutely not” play the Wireless Festival, as the rapper formerly known as Kanye West offered to meet members of the U.K.’s Jewish community and show he has changed since provoking outrage with antisemitic statements. Ye, who changed his name in 2021, is booked to perform in front of around 150,000 revelers over three nights, July 10-12, at the open-air festival in London’s Finsbury Park. Organizers are under mounting pressure from sponsors and politicians to cancel the gigs by the rapper, who has drawn widespread condemnation…
As sponsors pull out from London’s Wireless Festival over headliner Ye, its organizer is standing by the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. Melvin Benn, the managing director at Festival Republic, shared a statement on Monday backing his company’s decision to book Ye. “Forgiveness and giving people a second chance are becoming a lost virtue in this ever-increasing divisive world,” he wrote. “I would ask people to reflect on their instant comments of disgust at the likelihood of him performing (as was mine) and offer some forgiveness and hope to him as I have decided to do.” Ye, who changed…
Bill Gates is scheduled to appear before the House Oversight Committee in the coming weeks, as the committee continues its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Gates will sit for a transcribed interview June 10, according to a person familiar with the matter granted anonymity to discuss the committee’s deliberations. His interview comes after the committee issued a March 3 letter requesting his testimony. A spokesperson for Gates said the Microsoft founder “welcomes” the chance to appear before the committee. “While he never witnessed or participated in any of Epstein’s illegal conduct, he is looking forward to answering all…
The Department for Work and Pensions wasted millions of pounds due to delayed death notifications and administrative errors, according to an investigation Britain’s welfare department has paid out £850 million (over $1.1 billion) in benefits to dead people over the past four years in a massive government blunder, The Telegraph has reported.Since 2021, the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) made approximately 2.6 million erroneous payments to deceased claimants, the newspaper found. The errors reportedly stemmed from death notifications arriving too late to stop automated payouts, or being processed just as a payment was about to be sent.Official figures show…
Journalists Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz have published an investigation into Sam Altman, the AI kingpin behind OpenAI, revealing a troubling history of deception and sociopathic tendencies. One former OpenAI board member explains, “He has two traits that are almost never seen in the same person. The first is a strong desire to please people, to be liked in any given interaction. The second is almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences that may come from deceiving someone.” The New Yorker has published a major investigation of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman written by Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz. The article provides…