Author: Press Room

Kayleigh Bush, the 2024 winner of the Miss North Florida beauty contest, has revealed that she was stripped of her Miss America title because she reused to sign a contract that would have forced her to accept transgenderism. Bush was stripped of her title in November of 2024 despite winning her contest and signing a contract to confirm her position. The beauty queen, though, claims that she was asked to sign a replacement contract several months after she won. Bush says the contract contained new language affirming transgenderism. And it was something she refused to sign. “It was heartbreaking. It…

Mark Rutte likened the pace of Moscow’s battlefield progress to a “garden snail” despite Ukraine’s continued retreats from major strongholds NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte sniped at the Russian army, comparing its battlefield progress in Ukraine to the pace of a “garden snail.” His comments come as Russian troops continue to liberate important settlements across the frontline while Ukraine is consistently forced to pull back its forces from major strongholds.Speaking on Friday at the Munich Security Conference, Rutte said he wanted to make clear “that the Russians are not winning this” and that there is no “Russian bear.” He suggested…

U.S. oil companies that lost billions of dollars after the Venezuelan socialist regime expropriated their assets are in talks with “acting President” Delcy Rodríguez to recover some of the losses, Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Bloomberg on Thursday. Throughout the 2000s, Venezuela’s late socialist dictator, Hugo Chávez, enacted a widespread nationalization and forced expropriation campaign against an extensive number of privately-owned companies, land, and other assets as part of his plans to implement “Bolivarian socialism” in the country. The virtually indiscriminate socialist expropriation campaign reportedly affected more than 1,000 private companies, 3.6 million hectares of land, and about 523,000 homes owned by…

WASHINGTON–President Donald Trump touted low inflation on Friday while departing the White House en route to Fort Bragg with first lady Melania Trump. Trump greeted reporters as he prepared to board Marine One to highlight the 2.4 percent year-over-year inflation in January’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report. “So the inflation numbers just announced, as you know, are way down, and we have it back on track. We had the worst inflation in the history of our country, and now we have very modest inflation, which is what you want to have,” he said. Meanwhile, core consumer prices, which do not…

Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT), a former Navy SEAL and former aerial firefighter who founded the aerial firefighting services company Bridger Aerospace, said the existing way of responding to wildfires is “woefully inaccurate” and requires better coordination on the federal, state, and county levels. “I spent 10 years after I was in the military fighting wildfires. I had the largest aerial firefighting fleet privately contracted for fixed wing in America. So, I was a water bomber pilot; would fly through the fires, fly over the fires, and literally drop water. That was my business, that was my job. So, I got…

President Donald Trump insisted Friday that voter ID requirements will be in place for this year’s midterm elections regardless of congressional approval, escalating his push for sweeping changes to how Americans vote. “There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!” the president wrote on Truth Social. He also said he “searched the depths” of legal arguments on the issue and would be “presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future,” though he did not specify what legal rationale he would rely on. “If we can’t get it through Congress, there are Legal…

The bloc’s tech chief has openly endorsed developing new strike capabilities as part of its expanding emphasis on defense The EU should develop offensive cyber capabilities to enhance its defenses against perceived threats, the bloc’s tech chief, Henna Virkkunen, has told Politico. NATO’s European members have long cited allegedly looming Russian aggression to justify their massive military buildup, including pledges to raise defense spending to 5% of GDP. Moscow has dismissed such claims as “nonsense” and baseless fearmongering. The EU has also raised concerns over alleged cybersecurity risks posed by China.Speaking to Politico on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference…

Valentine’s Day flower arrangements sent to U.S. Congressmen by the Colombian embassy in Washington prompted a security warning message in the Capitol, Caracol Noticias reported on Thursday. This week, the Colombian embassy in Washington launched an initiative in cooperation with the Colombian Association of Flower Exporters (Asocolflores) to promote Colombian-grown flowers ahead of Valentine’s Day in the United States. Colombian ambassador Daniel García-Peña personally led the embassy’s efforts to deliver Colombian flower bouquets to all 535 members of Congress. In a video published on social media, Ambassador García-Peña detailed that the initiative sought to show the importance of trade between the U.S.…

Nearly three-quarters of Trump voters remain highly concerned about debanking, according to a poll obtained by Breitbart News. A survey over 1,000 Trump 2024 voters conducted by GrayHouse found that MAGA voters remain very concerned about politicization in the banking industry, namely debanking. Seventy-four percent of Trump voters are concerned about debanking, including 49 percent of MAGA Republicans. Seventy-one percent of Trump voters say it is unacceptable for banks to close accounts based on political or religious beliefs, or how the business operates. “This polling shows voters are keenly aware that powerful banks are using their size to decide who…

On Thursday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” House Minority Whip Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) responded to a question on whether rules on masks for federal agents are a red line for Democrats on DHS funding by stating that “you have to do all these things” that are in the Democrats’ list of demands. She also stated that there could be ID numbers instead of name tags. Co-host Symone Sanders Townsend asked, “Democrats seem dug in on the masks, I would say rightfully so, I don’t think — I think power in this country should have a face and a…