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The Federal Reserve left its short-term interest rate target unchanged on Wednesday.The decision to hold the benchmark federal-funds rate steady in a range between 3.5 percent and 3.75 percent was approved on an 11 to 1 vote. Fed governor Stephen Miran, appointed to fill an unexpected vacancy last year, dissented. The Fed is grappling with an unusual level of economic uncertainty. The Iran war has sent oil prices shooting upward, recently surpassing $105 a barrel, creating both worries about inflation and an economic slowdown. The Supreme Court recently overturned the Trump administration’s Liberation Day tariffs, which the Fed had viewed…

Ahead of the airing of this year’s Academy Awards show, the entertainment industry was rocked by a poll showing that only 29 percent of Californians view Hollywood favorably. As the year’s top films, such as One Battle After Another and Sinners, took aim at attacking America, and as a long list of activist actors continue to use their platforms to deride President Donald Trump and call for the support of Islamist terrorists in Palestine, Americans are increasingly tiring of Hollywood’s self-absorption and arrogance. After decades of loud activism in Hollywood, audiences at home have clearly become less interested in the…

Alexander Stubb apparently thinks that EU involvement is key to dragging Donald Trump’s attention back to Ukraine Despite generic calls for dialogue and restraint, some EU leaders are looking for opportunities to involve themselves in the US-Israeli war on Iran. Finland’s Alexander Stubb has emerged as the leader of a small, pro-war bloc in Europe. The EU’s position on the war thus far has been one of detachment. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz all noted that the US and Israel attacked Iran in violation of international law, but refused to outright…

Three teenage girls have filed a class-action lawsuit against Elon Musk’s AI company xAI, alleging that its Grok image generator was used to create and distribute child sexual abuse material featuring their likenesses. The Guardian reports that the lawsuit, filed Monday in California where xAI is headquartered, represents the first legal action brought by minors in response to widespread concerns about Grok’s generation of nonconsensual nude images earlier this year. The three plaintiffs, two of whom are minors, are from Tennessee and claim that photographs of them were used without their knowledge or consent to produce sexualized AI-generated content. According…

The Chinese government is scrambling to end hostilities between Pakistan and Afghanistan, two countries where Beijing has made enormous financial and political investments — including the crown jewel of China’s Belt and Road infrastructure project, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday reported on Beijing’s frantic efforts at shuttle diplomacy, naturally framing them as a noble and selfless quest for world peace rather than China trying to keep Afghanistan’s valuable mineral resources from slipping out of its grasp: On Monday local time, the United Nation Security Council adopted a China-penned resolution extending the mandate of United Nations…

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is urging Virginia officials, including Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D), to ensure that an illegal alien, accused of child sex crimes, is not released into the community. This week, ICE agents lodged a detainer against 20-year-old illegal alien Angel David Rubio Marin after he was arrested in Culpeper, Virginia, and charged with soliciting sexual content from children under 10 years old. Police allege that Rubio Marin solicited photos and videos from at least three children under the age of 10 years old by offering to pay them “Robux,” the digital currency used in the game video…

Rep. Kevin Kiley, the former Republican who recently registered as an Independent, said in an interview Wednesday he plans to caucus with the House GOP and will seek to regain his committee assignments. The California lawmaker was formally removed from his panels Wednesday after giving official notice he was switching parties to serve as an Independent and run in a new district after his state redrew congressional maps. The House GOP Steering Committee will need to approve Kiley’s effort to take back his seats on Education and the Workforce, Transportation and Infrastructure and Judiciary. Kiley told reporters this was “completely…

Breitbart News social media director and author Wynton Hall argues in his book Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI that leftist bias is being baked into the AI tools now entering children’s classrooms, and conservatives who respond with outrage alone will lose this fight the same way they’ve lost other disputes over education. “Conservative parents must confront the perennial problem of leftist bias in education,” Hall writes in CODE RED. “Textbook wars, woke curricula, and radical instructors seeking to indoctrinate students are not new phenomena. Conservative parents have been fighting these influences for…

Joe Kent’s resignation from his national security post over opposition to military action against Iran follows earlier public statements in which he warned about threats posed by the country and supported striking its ballistic missile and nuclear capabilities. Kent stepped down March 17, 2026, as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, saying he “cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran.” In announcing his resignation, Kent added that Iran “posed no imminent threat to our nation” and said the war was started “due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.” In his resignation letter to President…

The Communist Party of Cuba announced on Monday a plan to “facilitate the participation of Cubans abroad in the national economy” — a move that the Cuban exile community responded to with disgust, highlighting the billions of dollars stolen from them when mass murderer Fidel Castro took power. The Castro dynasty ruling Cuba has found itself at a critical juncture after the arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro on January 3 by American forces exercising a warrant on a variety of narco-terrorism charges. Maduro’s regime had, for decades, sustained its patrons in Cuba through nearly free shipments of oil which…