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House GOP leaders will be divided on a vote Wednesday for a bill allowing year-round sales of an ethanol-heavy fuel blend for the first time. House Republican Whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota will vote for the E15 sales bill, according to a statement shared exclusively with POLITICO. “I’ve always supported year-round E15 and I’m proud to vote YES on the House floor later today to support Minnesota’s farmers and producers,” Emmer said in the statement. House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain of Michigan meanwhile told POLITICO she’d vote yes, adding she is “pro-E15.” “I have a huge farming district,” she…

The call comes ahead of concerts Ye, who has repeatedly made anti-Semitic remarks and publicly praised Hitler, is scheduled to give in Arnhem  A broad majority in the Dutch parliament has backed a motion urging the government to deny entry to American rapper Kanye West ahead of his planned concerts in early June, local broadcaster NOS reported on Tuesday. The step comes as more European countries are turning their backs on the controversial artist over his past anti-Semitic comments.The 24-time Grammy Award winner has a history of anti-Semitic controversies. Last year, he publicly praised Nazism and Adolf Hitler and marketed…

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A body found near a railroad crossing in San Antonio on Monday is believed to be part of an illegal alien smuggling incident that resulted in the deaths of six others over the weekend. Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar announced the discovery and provided details on the possible connection in a Monday press conference. As reported by Breitbart Texas, the remains of six suspected illegal aliens were found on Sunday in a Union Pacific railway car at a railyard in Laredo, Texas, less than a mile from the Mexican border. Due to the state of decomposition…

New York State Assembly candidate Marie Mirville-Shahzada may be at risk of being kicked off the primary ballot after 90 percent of the signatures on her nominating petition were invalidated, including two dead voters’, according to a report. The New York Post wrote that Mirville-Shahzada and her slate of Democrat district leaders may be removed from the primaries on Coney Island because 90 percent of her 5,258 total signatures have been invalidated by the city Board of Elections. Roughly 3,000 people who signed the petitions lived outside of the district or were not registered to vote. The Post found that at least…

Activist Denise Powell won the Democratic primary for one of Democrats’ best pickup opportunities this fall after a prolonged vote count in an Omaha-based congressional district. The Associated Press called the race Wednesday evening. With an estimated just shy of 90 percent of votes counted, Powell led state Sen. John Cavanaugh 38.9 percent to 36.8 percent, with court clerk Crystal Rhoades a distant third. She will face Republican Brinker Harding in November for the chance to replace retiring GOP Rep. Don Bacon in just one of three districts former Vice President Kamala Harris won in 2024 that is currently represented…

A top aide has said Dhaka is reviewing the pact amid mounting protests to scrap it Bangladesh will review a trade deal with the US signed by its interim government in February, a top aide to Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has said.Zahed Ur Rahman, the prime minister’s adviser on information and broadcasting, told the media on Tuesday that scrapping the agreement could have implications for bilateral relations and reciprocal tariff arrangements. However, the government is ready to review and renegotiate certain provisions.“We can revisit the agreement. We can identify the areas that are more problematic and potentially harmful to the…

China’s foreign affairs arms gloated on Monday about Beijing’s successful attempt to block the democratic nation of Taiwan from participating in next week’s World Health Assembly (WHA). The WHA is the World Health Organization’s (W.H.O.) annual meeting of member nations, in which parties discuss issues of global public health concern. The 79th edition of the United Nations agency meetings is scheduled to begin on May 18 and touch on a variety of topics, including ensuring funding for the W.H.O. after America’s withdrawal in 2025, the highly contentious attempt to pass a pandemic treaty that empowers the W.H.O. over participating states,…

A supertanker named Yuan Hua Hu that is registered to China’s state-owned COSCO shipping company appears to have safely transited the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, carrying an estimated two million barrels of Iraqi crude oil. The Yuan Hua Hu is classified as a Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC), which means it could carry at least two million barrels of oil. Some ships in the VLCC class can transport over seven million barrels. They are among the largest ships in the world, typically over 300 meters in length – so large that they cannot berth at conventional docks but instead…

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) under former President Joe Biden (D) buried evidence of possible prostitution crimes linked to the ex-president’s son, Hunter, but those documents have since been released. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Ron Johnson in 2022 asked the DOJ for the documents but were unsuccessful in their query, Just the News reported Monday. However, they have since obtained those documents. “The Republican senators say the records — which include text messages between Hunter Biden and the women — show that the government had significant evidence of potential Mann Act…

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in closed-door testimony to Congress refuted accusations that he maintained a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein years after he claimed he had cut ties. Lutnick, who has faced harsh criticism for his ties with the convicted sex offender as part of a global reckoning sparked by the release of long-sealed documents, told the House Oversight Committee that his conflicting statements weren’t intentional, according to a transcript released Wednesday. The commerce secretary, who previously was CEO of financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, had said in a podcast interview that he cut ties with Epstein in 2005 — a…