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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew Ferguson announced a settlement that bars major advertising firms from colluding to boycott platforms based on disfavored political viewpoints. “The ad agencies’ brand-safety conspiracy turned competition in the market for ad-buying services on its head,” Ferguson said in a written statement. “The antitrust laws guarantee participation in a market free from conduct, such as economic boycotts, that distort the fundamental competitive pressures that promote lower prices, higher quality products and increased innovation.” “As we explain in our complaint, the brand-safety agreement limited competition in the market for ad-buying services and deprived advertisers of the…

The Council of Ministers in Spain approved on Tuesday the Royal Decree that allows the mass amnesty programme for illegal migrants, put forward by Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez earlier this year. While Prime Minister Sánchez was busy kowtowing to communist leaders in Beijing, his government in Madrid was busy clearing the way for illegal migrants to be granted amnesty and allowed to remain in the country. After the approval of the Royal Decree on Tuesday by the Council of Ministers, the guidelines will be published on Wednesday, and the process for illegals to start their amnesty applications will begin…

Monday, during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) said her colleague Rep. Eric Swalwell (R-CA), who is set to resign from Congress, had a “reputation.” According to the Florida Republican, Swalwell was facing “serious criminal problem.” “All right, Congresswoman, what was Swalwell like in Congress?” host Jesse Watters said. “Did he have a rep?” Luna replied, “Yes, he did have a reputation. And as you know, Jesse, I was actually the member of Congress that wrote the expulsion resolution for him, and I was ready to call it out and did tell…

The growing power of artificial intelligence is driving new worries among both Republicans and Democrats about government agencies’ warrantless purchases of Americans’ sensitive data. And it’s complicating efforts to renew a federal spying law before it expires — including as House GOP leaders struggle to cobble together support for passage Wednesday a clean, 18-month reauthorization, per President Donald Trump’s wishes. The federal government has long used commercially available information bought from data brokers for national security, military operations and criminal investigations, bypassing constitutional restrictions on what kinds of information agencies can gather on Americans directly. But agencies’ surveillance capabilities were…

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “The Brief,” Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA) said that “the Chinese are watching” the blockade of Iranian ports “and they’re saying, look, if President Trump can do a blockade, what if they were to do a blockade around Taiwan?” Bera said, “I don’t think it’s a good strategy. I don’t think it’s well thought through. If you want to de-escalate this war and the Iranians play a game of chicken with you and move a ship through, are you going to shoot that ship down? Because that is not going to be de-escalatory. That is…

If the morally-confused Pope Leo XIV continues to assume the role of a partisan podcaster, he will very quickly lose his moral authority. And that’s exactly what Leo is doing. We all expect a pope to talk about and pray for peace in times of war, express a desire for unity in times of political divisiveness, and to always appeal to the best in humanity. That’s not what this pope has done. Instead, apparently under the sway of Barry Obama’s hatchet man and former campaign manager, David Axelrod, Leo is recklessly engaging in a left-wing campaign to damage President Trump’s…

Tehran said Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, and Jordan are complicit in “unlawful” US-Israeli attacks Iran has demanded that five Arab states hosting US bases pay reparations for American and Israeli airstrikes on its territory.In a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday, Iranian envoy Amir Saeid Iravani argued that Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, and Jordan had allowed the US to use their territory to attack Iran and, in some cases, were directly involved in “unlawful armed attacks targeting civilian objects.”Iravani added that the Arab states “should make full reparation to the Islamic Republic of Iran,…

On Tuesday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) claimed that “Tehran has been willing to make some concessions with respect to its nuclear program, and has been from the start.” But “It’s Donald Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu that have refused to, essentially, take those proposals, to go back to the JCPOA,” and also stated that the new leadership in Iran is “more extreme, more militant, more radical” than the prior regime was. Van Hollen said, [relevant remarks begin around 3:55] “Well, my understanding is Tehran has been willing to make some concessions with respect to…

The National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) is urging Kentucky lawmakers to override Gov. Andy Beshear’s (D) veto of a bill protecting gun makers from lawsuits centered on the criminal misuse of legally made and legally sold products. The bill, HB 78, was vetoed by Beshear earlier this month. The text of HB 78 makes clear it is designed to serve as the “Protection Lawful Commerce in Arms (PLCAA) Clarification Act of 2026,” bolstering the PLCAA signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2005. It “[establishes state-level] liability protections for manufacturers and sellers of firearms against specified legal actions arising…

You may hear House members calling for his ouster after the resignations of Reps. Tony Gonzales and Eric Swalwell, but Rep. Cory Mills looks to be on solid footing. Despite months of scrutiny over a range of conduct issues — including accusations of illicit involvement in federal contracts and stolen valor — members of both parties say the circumstances are different for the Florida Republican. Republicans and Democrats are leaning on bureaucratic rationalizations before leaping to a fresh wave of expulsions, despite growing alarm around congressional sleaze. They say they’re waiting for the conclusion of an active House Ethics investigation…