Author: Press Room
Venezuelan Interior Minister and long-suspected drug lord Diosdado Cabello on Monday celebrated the abduction and rearrest of opposition politician Juan Pablo Guanipa hours after his release, claiming, “They thought they could do whatever they wanted.” Guanipa, a close ally of anti-socialist opposition leader María Corina Machado, spent eight months unjustly detained as a political prisoner. He was released on Sunday and then abducted and rearrested hours later. His whereabouts remained unknown until his family confirmed on Tuesday that he has been placed under house arrest. Cabello, a socialist strongman actively wanted by United States authorities on narco-terrorism charges and the…
Tuesday, on the “After Party” podcast, Breitbart News senior contributor and author of The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon Peter Schweizer talked about Mexican government officials “fanning the flames” of protests in the United States. Host Emily Jashinsky asked, “I was wondering if you could just explain a little bit about how there’s this balance between ideological Americans and maybe even well-intentioned Americans, and are they not aware, perhaps, that some strings are being pulled behind the scenes?” Schweizer said, “Yeah, it’s a great question, Emily, and it’s always hard to get into the…
Jake Paul’s fiancée, Dutch Olympic speed skater Jutta Leerdam, was praised for her heartwarming reaction Monday after setting an Olympic record and winning the gold in the women’s 1,000-meter speed skating final at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games. Leerdam set a new Olympic record of 1:12.31 in her sport. Her beau, Jake Paul, was on hand to see her big win and was overcome with emotion: Leerdam also earned much praise for what she did after setting her Olympic record. Instead of basking in the glow of victory alone, she immediately sought out her teammate, Femke Kok, who won…
President Donald Trump will continue deporting migrants who have not committed violent crimes, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told a disappointed media corps on Tuesday. “The Trump administration will continue our focus on deporting all illegal aliens present in our country, with a focus on the worst of the worst criminals,” Leavitt scolded the reporters. The White House reporters were disappointed because they had learned on Monday from CBS that Trump is following through on his campaign pledge to deport all categories of illegal migrants, not just the foreign murderers and rapists that he spotlights in his speeches. The appalling…
Tuesday on MS NOW’s “Katy Tur Reports,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said unless Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is “reined in,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will shut down on Friday. Jeffries said, “The ball is in the Republican’s court right now. We’ve made clear that taxpayer dollars should be used to make life more affordable for the American people, not brutalize or kill them. That shouldn’t be a controversial proposition. We know that Ice is completely and totally out of control. They’ve gone way too far, and they need to be reined in so that immigration enforcement…
The US agency has reportedly not found sufficient proof to corroborate claims that the disgraced financier ‘lent out’ girls to his friends The FBI has found no evidence indicating that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was running a sex-trafficking ring, the Associated Press has reported.Epstein was found dead in his New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, having been found guilty in 2008 of soliciting a minor for prostitution. His death was ruled a suicide, but sparked speculation that he had been killed to prevent testimony implicating the multiple powerful figures he fraternized and did…
China’s National Development and Reform Commission estimates that 9.5 billion trips will be made during the 40-day Lunar New Year travel rush this year. Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, has long been China’s biggest travel season, and is often described as the world’s largest annual human migration. The actual holiday falls on February 17 this year, beginning the Year of the Horse in the Chinese zodiac, but vacations always begin a few weeks earlier, so the travel season known as chunyun officially began on February 2. State planners anticipated some 540 million train tickets would be…
The House on Monday passed a bipartisan housing bill aimed at lowering costs and increasing homeownership. The House overwhelmingly passed the Housing for the 21st Century Act, 390-9. House Financial Services Chairman French Hill (R-AR) and ranking member Maxine Waters (D-CA) sponsored the legislation and it passed out of committee last December. “Housing costs have soared beyond the reach of millions of American families thanks to Bidenflation, while outdated and burdensome red tape has constrained our nation’s affordable housing supply and limited our ability to expand it,” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said in a statement applauding the bill’s passage. “Today’s…
New satellite imagery shows Iran has buried the entrances to a hardened tunnel complex at its Isfahan nuclear site — a move a U.S.-based watchdog said signals Tehran is “seriously concerned” about a U.S. or Israeli strike or raid. High-resolution imagery taken Monday shows the extent to which Iran has covered the tunnel entrances at the Isfahan nuclear complex with soil, the Institute for Science and International Security reported, saying the middle and southern entrances are now “unrecognizable and fully covered” and the northernmost entrance has also been backfilled. The institute said no vehicle activity is visible around the three…
The Royal Navy is reportedly mulling a drone flotilla to gather intel on Moscow’s alleged “shadow fleet” Britain is planning to launch a seaborne drone fleet to seize oil tankers it claims are linked to what it calls a Russian “shadow fleet,” the Sunday Times has reported.London banned the import of Russian crude and oil products in 2022, along with related maritime transportation, insurance, and financing, imposing sanctions on over 500 vessels.Despite those measures, Moscow has shipped 550 million tonnes of oil legally through the English Channel with an estimated value of $326 billion, according to the outlet, which said…