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NATO said it was “ready to defend every inch of Allied territory” after a Russian Shahed-type suicide attack drone entered European Union airspace and hit an apartment block in Romania, injuring two people. Romania scrambled two F-16 fighter jets overnight to intercept a Russian drone entering its airspace but had just four minutes between detecting the strike and it crashing into the side of an apartment building in the south-eastern town of Galati, a spokesman said. Situated on the River Danube on the Romanian border where it meets the borders of Moldova and Ukraine in a three-way split, the region…

President Donald Trump’s financial disclosures show that he made up to $750 million on trading in the first three months of 2026 The US Justice Department on Wednesday charged Google employee Michele Spagnuolo with commodities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering after he used confidential corporate information to collect more than $1.2 million from bets on online prediction platform Polymarket.However, US law enforcement appears to apply a blatant double standard when it comes to politicians, RT’s Caleb Maupin reports.“Washington says that insider trading is illegal. You can’t have special information, and then get rich on Wall Street betting on it.…

The victim, a Colombian tourist, was allegedly drugged and abused by a group of men at an abandoned building in Rome Five illegal migrants have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping, drugging, and gang-raping a tourist in Rome, according to a statement released by Italian police on Thursday.Investigators said the 32-year-old Colombian woman was abducted last week after dining alone at a restaurant in the Italian capital. According to police, she was approached by a man after telling him she was looking to buy hashish.According to police, the man lured the woman to a secluded area, where she was allegedly forced…

Kelly Loeffler, U.S. President Donald Trump’s Administrator of the Small Business Administration. The agency this week issued new guidance on its crackdown over SBA loans.(Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)The Small Business Administration has finally made official its crackdown on small business investors, and it’s not as sweeping as some involved with SBA-guaranteed loans had feared.Forbes reported in March that the SBA had quietly begun rejecting loan guarantees for businesses if any of their owners or investors–even a passive investor–had previously backed a business that defaulted on an SBA-guaranteed loan. Then, and subsequently, the SBA didn’t respond to Forbes’ requests that…

A suspected drug trafficker chose the busy Memorial Day weekend to attempt to traffic $1.1 million in cocaine across the Progreso International Bridge. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers working the holiday weekend shattered the suspect’s hopes when they discovered the illicit contraband hidden in the suspected cartel smuggler’s vehicle. According to CBP, officers working the Progreso Port of Entry on Saturday during the holiday weekend became suspicious when a 22-year-old United States citizen attempted to cross into the United States from Nuevo Progreso, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Officers referred the man, who arrived at the port in a 2026 GMC…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday delivered the Trump administration’s most sweeping statement yet of its economic-security doctrine, arguing that decades of bipartisan trade policy left the United States strategically dependent on foreign rivals and that the administration’s tariffs, industrial policies, and supply-chain measures are not a break with American tradition but an attempt to recover it. The address, titled “While America Slept” and timed to the nation’s 250th anniversary, amounted to a comprehensive intellectual accounting of how the post-Cold War consensus on trade, globalization, and industrial policy had, in Bessent’s telling, eroded American sovereignty — and what the administration…

Texas state Rep. James Talarico, the Democrat running against Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate race, has referred to women as “neighbors with a uterus” on more than one occasion. The Democrat used the expression while lamenting Roe v. Wade being overturned, which brought the issue of abortion back to the state level. “Every one of our neighbors with a uterus became property of the state,” he claimed. In another clip, the Democrat talks about how “neighbors with a uterus” should be able to “control their own body” – leftist code for murdering their unborn child without…

By Timofey Bordachev, Program Director of the Valdai ClubThe United States is caught in a trap of its own making. It wants to preserve its unique position in world politics, while at the same time freeing itself from the growing burden that this position imposes. Yet Washington hasn’t found any way to do so except by insisting, ever more loudly, on its own superiority so the result is that America clings more tightly to the very role it should have consciously begun to abandon long ago.There’s an old story from ‘Uncle Remus’s Tales’, the famous collection by the American writer…

An Africa court has put a stop to a United States plan to establish a quarantine facility in Kenya for Americans exposed to a rare type of Ebola virus instead of flying them home where it could increase the risk of a U.S. outbreak. The suspension by the High Court of Kenya follows a backlash by medical workers and activists over the U.S. plan to deal with the rare virus spreading in the northeastern Congo. Kenya shares a border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. On Wednesday an official told the Associated Press that the U.S. was planning to send…

The United States goods trade deficit narrowed more than expected in April, driven by a surge in exports that more than offset a sharp rise in capital-goods imports. The Commerce Department reported Friday that the goods trade deficit fell to $82.4 billion in April from $85.3 billion in March, below the $86.5 billion economists had forecast. Exports of goods rose 4.0 percent for the month to $219.7 billion, outpacing a 1.9 percent rise in imports to $302.1 billion. Capital-goods imports rose 5.6 percent in April and were up 40.1 percent from a year earlier—an increase so large, and so concentrated…