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Three lawmakers accused of serious ethical lapses have been forced to resign in just over a week, prompting even members of the House Ethics Committee to question whether the panel is up to the task of policing its own. The committee is at a moment of reckoning as it seeks to prove itself ready, willing and able to root out bad behavior in its ranks. It’s spent the past year and a half rebuilding its reputation after internal disagreements about how to handle an ethics report over ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz spilled into the public and threatened the bipartisan panel’s credibility.…

Faced with a shortage of young recruits, the Bundeswehr should look to the “other end of the age pyramid,” Bastian Ernst has said The upper age limit for military reservists in Germany should be raised to 70 given that people stay fit longer, Bastian Ernst, the newly elected president of the country’s Reservists’ Association, has said. Following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, Germany has pursued a major recruitment drive, aiming to increase Bundeswehr personnel from the current 186,000 to 260,000 active soldiers and another 200,000 reservists by the mid-2030s. While Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government has cited a…

Gene Hamilton, the President and co-founder of America First Legal, warned on The Alex Marlow Show that conservatives need to prepare for “lawfare that is enabled by woke AI” in the future. “One of the things that we have to prepare ourselves for in the future is lawfare that is enabled by woke AI,” Hamilton said during Monday’s episode of The Alex Marlow Show. Watch Below: Hamilton warned this technology could eventually produce an environment “that creates rights of action or creates liabilities or does other things that will be used against the president and the president’s supporters — moms and dads who…

Spanish conservative group Hazte Oír on Monday filed a popular prosecution request against Begoña Gómez, wife of socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, seeking a 24 year-prisons sentence in the ongoing corruption trial process against her. Last week, Spanish Judge Juan Carlos Peinado charged Gómez with embezzlement, influence peddling, business corruption, and misappropriation. Peinado issued the ruling at a time when she was accompanying Sánchez during his official visit to China and comes after a two years-long probe into Gómez’s activities at the Complutense University of Madrid. In addition to Gómez, Judge Peinado also agreed to prosecute Gómez’s advisor Cristina Álvarez and businessman Juan Carlos…

CNN anchor Jake Tapper joined CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert for a segment Monday that started with some flirting — “Nice to see you again. You know I enjoy your work, but what I forget when I haven’t seen you in a while is how damn handsome you are… and dapper,” Colbert said — and segued quickly to bashing President Donald Trump. “I like the pocket square,” Colbert said to Tapper, who then pulled out the political pocket square in what looked like a completely organic bit that wasn’t staged in the slightest. “This is a special freedom of the press…

Senate Republicans opened debate Tuesday on a fiscal blueprint meant to pave the way for passage of a party-line immigration enforcement funding bill later this year. The Senate voted 52-46 to advance the budget resolution, which Budget Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) unveiled earlier Tuesday. It instructs House and Senate committees to write legislation expected to deliver about $70 billion to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies. The Senate is expected to give the measure final approval this week before leaving town. The chamber could move to a marathon voting session, known as a vote-a-rama, as soon as Wednesday, though…

The judiciary has found the law in breach of the bloc’s values just a week after Viktor Orban’s decisive electoral defeat Hungary has violated EU principles when it adopted a law to ban children from accessing LGBTQ content, the bloc’s top court has ruled, ordering Budapest to revoke the legislation.  The EU Court of Justice announced the ruling on Tuesday, less than ten days after Viktor Orban suffered a decisive defeat during the general election to his longtime rival Peter Magyar.  The legislation in question, Hungary’s 2021 law restricting or banning the “promotion” of homosexuality and gender change in media accessible to…

Hungarian legislation shielding minors from exposure to LGBTQI+ dogma violates European Union (E.U.) law and hurts respect for human rights and equality, the bloc’s court ruled Tuesday. The European Court of Justice said Hungary’s legislation, first proposed in 2021 by the government of outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, “stigmatizes and marginalizes” LGBTQI+ persons and their feelings, and fails to uphold the E.U.’s prohibition of discrimination based on sex or sexual orientation, AP reports. Hungary’s law specifically prohibited the display of content to minors that depicts homosexuality or gender change, while also providing harsher penalties for crimes of pedophilia, and had…

MAGA’s View of the Economy Bounces Back President Trump has won back the confidence of his supporters on the economy, a public opinion survey released Tuesday showed. A month ago, we pointed out that the outbreak of the military conflict with Iran had dimmed views of the economy on the American right. Republicans, Trump voters, conservatives, and even self-identified MAGA supporters grew markedly less optimistic about the economy in the weeks following the U.S. attack on the Persian Gulf nation’s military capacity and government leadership. A new survey by YouGov for the Economist shows a significant recovery in economic sentiment with…

Two public school teachers in Fairfax, Virginia, abused their position by telling their students to pressure their parents to vote “yes” on that state’s gerrymandering scheme. “On Friday, I picked up my 14-year-old twin boys from school, and both jumped into the car and asked whether I was voting yes on Virginia’s redistricting measure Tuesday,” writes Kelly Sadler in the Washington Times. “That’s a no,” she told them. She then wondered why they asked, as her “boys know exactly how I feel about this shameless power play by the liberals in Richmond[.]” “Turns out,” she writes, that “in both of their civics…