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Actress Jessie Buckley praised marriage and motherhood during her Oscar-winning speech on Sunday night. The “journey to understand the capacity of a mother’s love is the greatest collision of my life,” the Wild Rose star proclaimed. “Fred, I love you, man. You’re the most incredible dad, you’re my best friend, and I want to have 20,000 more babies with you,” Buckley told her husband, Freddie Sorensen, during her acceptance speech for Best Actress for her leading role as Agnes in the 2025 film, Hamnet. “And I love my little girl, who is eight months, who has absolutely no idea what’s going on,…

By cutting off Russian oil supplies to Hungary and Slovakia, Kiev has triggered a row that delays a vital loan Ukraine has agreed to an EU inspection of the Druzhba oil pipeline on its territory, in a last‑minute attempt to ease a dispute with Hungary that has blocked a €90 billion ($105 billion) EU loan package.The move comes after weeks of acrimony, threats and mutual accusations involving Budapest, Kiev and Brussels over the future of Russian oil flows to Central Europe. Vladimir Zelensky had earlier denounced the same inspection plan as “blackmail” by his European backers, while Budapest accused Kiev…

President Donald Trump’s opposition in the media and political class are celebrating Joe Kent’s resignation as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center over the war in Iran. Kent announced his resignation in a post on X on Tuesday morning, saying he “cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran” and claiming that pressure from Israel started the war. Never Trumper Tim Miller, who was Jeb Bush’s communications director in 2016 and hosts the Bulwark Podcast, praised Kent for resigning in the middle of the war. “Have talked a lot of shit about Joe Kent over the years…

President Donald Trump has decided to delay his trip to China by “a month or so,” reportedly due to the Iran war. The Chinese government indignantly insisted that Trump’s delay had nothing to do with China’s refusal to protect global shipping through the Strait of Hormuz against Iranian attacks. “We noted that the U.S. has publicly made clarifications on the misguided media reports, calling them completely ‘false.’ The U.S. side stressed that the visit is not linked to the issue over the Strait of Hormuz,” sniffed Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian on Tuesday when a reporter asked if Trump’s…

Left-wing late-night host Jimmy Kimmel claimed “we live in a ridiculous country” during a red carpet interview at the 2026 Oscars, before insisting that he is “not scared,” but “always hopeful.” After being asked if he is “exhausted by the state of the world” at the Oscars, Kimmel replied, “Yes, I’m exhausted, of course. It’s ridiculous. We live in a ridiculous country.” “We always lived in a ridiculous country, but it was always ridiculous in a fun, Mr. T kind of way. Now we’ve got a different Mr. T,” the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host added. After being asked if he is “scared,” the Kimmel responded,…

Ali Larijani, the influential head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, has been killed in US-Israeli strikes, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has announced.Larijani’s office said he was killed alongside his son, Mortaza, and his deputy for security, Alireza Bayat. His death was later confirmed on his official X account.The IRGC media arm, Sepah, described Larijani as “one of the most well-known and skilled politicians in Iran.”A former parliamentary speaker, Ali Larijani was a senior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, who was killed during the first wave of US-Israeli strikes on February 28. Western media described Larijani…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky offered a flurry of interviews to international media on Monday in which he emphasized his country’s willingness to help fight the Iranian terrorist regime and in particular defend Americans in the line of fire. His remarks stand as a stark contrast to the apathy President Donald Trump has elicited from European and other world allies after requesting that other nations contribute to maintaining free travel for commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, a pivotal trade route especially for oil shipments from the Middle East to Asia. Following America’s launch of “Operation Epic Fury,” a military…

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) reacted to disturbing discoveries made by Breitbart News social media director Wynton Hall, the author of the new book CODE RED, of leftist bias built into Google’s Gemini AI chatbot, which accused him of so-called “hate speech.” In his new book, Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI, Hall argues that AI programs that claim to be politically neutral are actually biased heavily against conservatives..  In a test using Google Gemini Pro’s “deep research” setting, the author asked the following: “Based on your hate speech policies, assess the statements of…

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer and will stay on nearly full-time in her official role during treatment, President Donald Trump shared on Monday. Trump publicly announced Wiles’s diagnosis in a post on Truth Social. “Susie Wiles is an incredible Chief of Staff, a great person, and one of the strongest people I know but, unfortunately, she has been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer, and has decided to take on this challenge, IMMEDIATELY, as opposed to waiting,” he wrote. “She has a fantastic medical team, and her prognosis is excellent! During…

Republicans lawmakers are hoping that Sen. Markwayne Mullin will rescue the Department of Homeland Security from tumult they felt under outgoing Secretary Kristi Noem — and looking for assurances of that at his confirmation hearing Wednesday. While Mullin is widely expected to be confirmed, the hearing will be an opportunity for Republicans to hammer home the need to fund DHS as a partial government shutdown enters its fifth week. It will also be a chance for Democrats to press the Oklahoma Republican on any changes he may push to make with the Trump administration’s sweeping crackdown on unauthorized immigration —…