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As part of Breitbart’s America 250 coverage, we proudly present American Tributes. This special section showcases original videos sent to us from members of Congress, the Cabinet, and the Administration… all thematically connected by one simple premise: love of country. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) said freedom, opportunity, and the American dream remain central to America’s strength ahead of the nation’s 250th birthday. Scalise’s message centered on his belief that “America is the greatest country in the world” because it is “the only place” where “anyone can turn their dreams into reality.” Scalise said that American promise is made possible…

Outsider Colombian conservative candidate Abelardo De La Espriella was elected the next president of Colombia, defeating far-left Senator Iván Cepeda in Sunday’s presidential runoff election. De la Espriella, a 47-year-old lawyer and businessman supportive of President Donald Trump and nicknamed “The Tiger,” will take office at the end of outgoing Marxist President Gustavo Petro’s four-year term on August 7. Preliminary results published by Colombia’s National Civil Registry indicate that, with 99.99 percent of all votes counted as of Sunday night, de la Espriella obtained 49.66 percent of the votes cast while Cepeda obtained 48.70. Voter turnout was measured at 63.60 percent,…

In a concurring opinion for Hemani, Justice Clarence Thomas focused on another aspect of the federal statute on which the case centered and suggested Congress lacks the power to regulate gun possession across state lines. Breitbart News reported the Supreme Court of the United States handed down the Hemani decision on Thursday, June 18, 2026. All nine justices stood against federal statute §922(g)(3), the statute under which Ali Hemani was arrested and prosecuted as “unlawful user” of marijuana in possession of a gun. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote SCOTUS’s majority opinion and Thomas wrote a concurring opinion, looking at another aspect of §922(g)(3) wherein…

Markus Soeder also called for deportations to be boosted and the promotion of voluntary departures as part of a cost-cutting plan Unemployed Ukrainians should be stripped of access to Germany’s unemployment and welfare benefits system, the leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU), Markus Soeder, has said. He added that deportations and voluntary departures should be stepped up as part of a cost-cutting scheme.Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, Germany has been the main destination for Ukrainian refugees in the EU, ahead of neighboring Poland. Of the 1.3 million people it has taken in over the…

After reports surfaced that Iran had closed the vital Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump told the Iranians who are meeting in Switzerland with Vice President JD Vance, “You close it, and you won’t have a country.  You won’t even make it back to your fucking country.” On Saturday, Iran announced it was closing the Strait, claiming Israel’s retaliatory attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon violated the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed last week to end the war. Trump also threatened to take full control of the Strait and “blow the shit” out of Iran. From here, things get murky (as…

House Republicans are pressuring the CEO of Democrat fundraising machine ActBlue to comply with subpoenas regarding documents important to the investigation into possible foreign donations. In a press release Monday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil (R-WI), and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) announced they sent a letter to ActBlue’s CEO Regina Wallace-Jones “threatening to hold ActBlue in contempt of Congress for its inadequate compliance with the Committees’ subpoenas.” The committees have been probing the platform’s “fundamentally unserious approach to fraud prevention, which may allow foreign nationals and bad actors to make…

The Iranian team expects football’s governing body to address “unequal treatment” by the host nation, its manager says The Iranian national team has formally complained to FIFA about what its manager has described as systemic discrimination by the US, one of the hosts of the 2026 World Cup. Tehran expects football’s governing body to act and ensure that the host nation honors its obligations to all participating teams, Mahdi Mohammadnabi said.The tournament is being co-hosted by the US, Canada, and Mexico, with most matches taking place in the US. Iran’s head coach, Amir Ghalenoei, has previously called his side “the…

Mourners gathered Sunday in Beirut to pay their respects to a much-loved Lebanese conservationist who died after succumbing to wounds sustained in an Israeli strike on her home on the country’s southern coast near the city of Tyre. Mona Khalil, who spent more than two decades protecting sea turtles along Lebanon’s coastline, was critically injured in the strike on her home in the village of Mansouri earlier this month and died of her wounds Friday. She was 76. The Orange House, which Khalil helped build into a small conservation hub and ecotourism site in Mansouri, became a refuge for endangered…

Recently, during an appearance on Fox Business, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) proposed replacing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with a new immigration agency. On this week’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Khanna’s colleague Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) criticized those overtures. “That’s California Democrat Congressman Ro Khanna with me last week on ‘Mornings With Maria’ on Fox Business, saying Democrats want to replace ICE with a different immigration agency that does not go after illegal immigrants who are employed and who pay taxes,” host Maria Bartiromo said. “Joining me now with reaction to that and the SAVE…

A massage therapist sparked debate online after being filmed arguing about Muslims in a grocery store More than $140,000 has been raised online on behalf of a Texas woman filmed making anti-Islam comments in a grocery store.The 44-second video which surfaced on Sunday shows a woman in blue medical scrubs confronting two other women who remain off camera.The woman, identified by media reports as massage therapist Dasha Kilpatrick, says: “Islam is a terrorist organization, not a religion. I’m very educated on this subject. You need to leave. You’re not welcome here. This is not a Muslim country. This is a…