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On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “The Bottom Line,” former Deputy Treasury Secretary Michael Faulkender said that restrictions on companies buying homes make him “pretty nervous.” And said that the key is to increase supply. He also argued that restrictions would be a problem because they would hamstring people looking to sell when there is a downturn. Co-host Brian Brenberg asked, “As an economist, do you like the idea of limiting who can buy homes in the market, or does that make you a little nervous from kind of that old free market perspective?” Faulkender answered, “It makes me…

A registered child sex offender will be running for city council in California, prompting outrage from local residents. Rene Campos was arrested and charged with possession of child sex abuse material in 2018. According to the California Post, he “pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge.” Since California law removes a resident’s right to vote only if they are currently in prison for a felony conviction, Campos is able to run for public office. “Rene Campos announced this week he will run for the District 7 seat on Fresno City Council. He pleaded with voters to overlook his twisted past,…

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “The Bottom Line,” co-host Brian Brenberg said that if Democrats believe ICE agents don’t have enough training, they should let them into places like jails where apprehending people is far easier. While speaking with Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Brenberg said, “Democrats, they always complain about chaos on the street from ICE, or these guys don’t have enough training. Well, you could solve all of those problems if you let these agents go to the places where you can easily apprehend criminal illegal migrants. The solution lies in the hands of the…

More often than not, top people in Seoul get themselves into all sorts of trouble “Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived,” goes the rhyme that the English use to memorize the mostly woeful fates of King Henry VIII’s six wives. South Koreans could use one for their leaders.Last week, former President Yoon Suk-yeol, impeached for staging a failed coup in 2024, was sentenced to a symbolically harsh life term in prison. Historic precedent and political reasoning suggest Yoon is likely to be released in a year or two, but his fate fits a pattern.Among nations with stable political systems, South…

The United States has positioned its first dedicated “one-way” kamikaze drone unit for potential use against Iran, as the latest round of nuclear negotiations in Geneva wrapped without a deal and Tehran reportedly rejected Washington’s core demands. Talks concluded Thursday with American and Iranian negotiators still far apart on key issues, according to reporting by the Wall Street Journal. U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner pressed Tehran to dismantle its primary nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, transfer all enriched uranium stockpiles out of the country, and permanently end uranium enrichment on Iranian soil without sunset provisions similar…

The 10 passengers on a U.S.-registered speedboat fired on by a Cuban Coast Guard vessel were armed exiles trying to infiltrate the island and unleash terrorism, Havana alleged Thursday. The claim was made public in the hours after Cuba’s soldiers said they killed four people and wounded six others aboard a Florida-registered speedboat that had entered Cuban waters and allegedly opened fire on the soldiers first, injuring one Cuban officer, as Breitbart News reported. No evidence was offered to support the claim the victims were exiled Cubans tasked by the U.S. to infiltrate the island nation. Cuba’s government said the majority…

The temporary injunction shields the top opposition party from a potential ban ahead of key regional elections The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party secured a legal victory on Thursday after a court ruled the domestic security agency BfV cannot label it a “confirmed right-wing extremist” organization.The top opposition party was slapped with the classification in May 2025, having earlier been branded a “suspected extremist group” by the BfV. An administrative court in Cologne granted a temporary injunction at the party’s request, pending a final ruling. The court said radical statements on migration and religion by some AfD members were insufficient to…

The legitimacy of the hotly contested by-election in Gorton and Denton was thrown into doubt on Thursday as independent election observers claimed to have witnessed illegal “family voting” practices in which multiple people enter the voting booth, which some have tied to the constituency’s large Muslim population. UPDATE 445: Far-left Green Party candidate Hannah Spencer has been announced as the winner of the Gorton and Denton by-election, with 14,980 votes, followed by Matt Goodwin of Reform UK with 10,578 votes, and Angeliki Stogia of the Labour Party with 9,364 votes. The original story continues as follows… The special election, which was sparked…

U.S. women’s hockey star Kelly Pannek happily affirmed Tuesday her team missed President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address due to logistical challenges and a joke he made while on a video call with the U.S. men’s team had nothing to do with the absence. The Olympic gold medal-winning team member said a full invitation has been issued for a future date while acknowledging the challenges the team faced: “I know, like, later on, there’ll be a full invite for all Team USA athletes to go to the White House like there has been in the past,”  hockey veteran Pannek told…

Loads of human remains were found buried in Mexico City near where the World Cup games will take place later this year. The discovery of the makeshift graves comes amid an upsurge in cartel violence, with over 20 grave sites being discovered around Guadalajara since last year, per the New York Post. So far, more than 500 bags of remains have been found in just four of the 22 grave sites — some just miles from Akron Stadium, one of Mexico’s three World Cup locations. Between February and September 2025, 270 bags filled with human remains were found at Las Agujas, a…