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(AFP) — Turkey on Tuesday expressed alarm over a weekend gig by Kanye West in Istanbul attended by nearly 120,000 fans, saying it included elements that offended its spiritual sensitivities. The US rapper has had shows banned in several European venues over his antisemitic remarks, but Muslim-majority Turkey’s objections were focused elsewhere. In a post on X, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s chief advisor Oktay Saral said the show featured “rhetoric and symbols that run counter to our faith and civilisational values”. “The fact that tens of thousands of people enthusiastically chanted ‘I am a God’ is a serious matter that demands…

Immigrant entrepreneurs are stealing billions of dollars from American taxpayers, Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) said as he began a Tuesday hearing on welfare fraud for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. “America’s Medicaid system was designed to provide health care for low-income Americans … [yet] fraudsters and cheats are stealing billions in hard-earned American tax dollars,” said Gill, adding: Recent reporting shows that many of the Somalian and Bhutanese communities commit a large portion, if not a majority, of home health Medicaid fraud in Ohio. It may not be the politically ripe thing to say, but we believe that…

President Donald Trump’s Department of Education on Monday announced that it is, for the second time, recognizing June as “Title IX Month” rather than “Pride Month.”  The Department of Education said recognizing June as “Title IX Month” honors the 54th anniversary of the Educational Amendments of 1972 (Title IX), which was signed into law on June 23, 1972, and “commemorates women’s struggle for, and achievement of, equal educational opportunity and, throughout the month.”  The department added that it plans to highlight the Trump administration’s progress in restoring Title IX’s sex-based protections after the Biden administration took a wrecking ball to women’s…

Erstwhile House lawmaker turned political influencer George Santos announced Wednesday that his lawyers are in talks with the Justice Department after learning Tuesday that the agency “might be looking into me” over bets on a prediction market. NPR on Tuesday reported that Santos had been flagged by the prediction market Kalshi for placing several bets on the platform that he would not be attending President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address despite announcing plans to do so on social media. Kalshi, the publication wrote, turned the information over to the DOJ and Commodity Futures Trading Commission. “The bases [sic]…

A friendly soccer match between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Chile in Spain was cancelled by local authorities over concerns regarding the Ebola outbreak sweeping Africa. The DRC and Chile were slated to face off at the Spanish town of La Línea de la Concepción, Andalusia, on June 9. The friendly exhibition match was intended to serve as a preparatory warm-up for the DRC, one of the 48 countries competing in the upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup tournament. The DRC is making its return to the tournament after 52 years, having last qualified for a FIFA World Cup back in…

New factory orders data released Wednesday confirm an extraordinary surge in American defense manufacturing, with orders for defense capital goods running 53 percent above last year’s pace through the first four months of 2026 as the military works to replenish equipment and munitions deployed in the Iran war. The Census Bureau’s full manufacturing orders report for April showed defense capital goods orders at $22.3 billion for the month, up 7.3 percent from March’s revised $20.8 billion. The month-over-month pace is striking enough, but the year-over-year comparison is more revealing: defense capital goods orders in April alone ran 91.6 percent above…

Monday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed candidate Spencer Pratt’s challenges in the Los Angeles mayoral primary. Marlow said, “The mayor’s race with Spencer Pratt, Nithya Raman who’s an actual communist, and Karen Bash, who was in Ghana when the whole city burned down. And does think that this solution to the homeless crisis that we have is to just do more of the same, to give her four years. Keep in mind, we haven’t had a Republican mayor for a couple decades. And so it’s all an extension of the same one party rule. And if you…

Senate Republicans launched debate on their party-line immigration enforcement bill Wednesday — a major step after nearly two weeks of delay — but they are facing lingering internal concerns over a proposed “Anti-Weaponization Fund” that could still scuttle the legislation. Senators voted 53-46 on party lines to advance the bill, which would provide roughly $70 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other Department of Homeland Security agencies. An updated bill released Wednesday omits $1 billion in Secret Service security funding that had been included in an earlier draft and could have been used for President Donald Trump’s White House…

The US president bought shares in Kura Sushi USA in February, according to his latest financial disclosure, despite rumors that he is no fan of sushi US President Donald Trump invested $1-5 million in a conveyor-belt sushi restaurant chain earlier this year, a report detailing his financial transactions has revealed. Though he is known to love fast food, it is rumored that he is not a fan of sushi.According to Trump’s latest financial disclosure, which was made public last Thursday by the US Office of Government Ethics, he purchased a stake in Kura Sushi USA on February 2.The American subsidiary…

An Iranian strike on the American base in Kuwait triggered air defenses which hit the country’s international hub, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp has claimed The missile that smashed into Kuwait International Airport’s Terminal 1 on Wednesday was not fired by Iran, but was a US patriot missile launched to defend Washington’s regional military base from attack, Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) has claimed.The missile exchange followed an American attack on a tanker en route to Kharg Island but which Washington said was violating its unilaterally imposed blockade against the Islamic Republic. “Our investigation and research into the Kuwaiti passenger terminal attack shows…