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“A good outcome for the United States is a good outcome for the civilized world,” Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle said during an interview with Right2theBone and the Greek Conservative Network. Speaking about President Donald Trump’s America First interests, Boyle said that there should be no confusion from the media or political class about Trump implementing his agenda at home and globally, particularly given his landslide victory in the 2024 election. “The question is, are our friends with us or not?” Boyle laid out, speaking of global allies. “We see sometimes that the belly aching there, complaining about…
Members on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are divided over whether President Donald Trump should pardon Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell in exchange for her cooperation in the panel’s Epstein investigation, Chair James Comer said in an interview Wednesday. Maxwell, who was deposed by the Oversight Committee as the sole convicted accomplice in the Epstein sex trafficking scheme, previously invoked her Fifth Amendment right in declining to answer the panel’s questions. Her lawyer has said that she would only speak if granted clemency — a power available solely to Trump, who has not ruled out the prospect…
US president mixes praise with trademark bluntness in recounting the Apple CEO’s calls for help US President Donald Trump has claimed with his usual bluntness that Apple CEO Tim Cook once called him to “kiss his a*s.” The tech giant announced on Monday that Cook will resign as CEO and become executive chairman in September. He will be replaced by hardware chief John Ternus.In a tribute to the man he famously called “Tim Apple,” Trump said they first spoke early in his first term, when Cook called him to present “a fairly large problem” that “only I, as President, could fix.” “When…
The Seoul Central District Court on Wednesday announced that a former researcher for South Korean electronics giant Samsung has been sentenced to seven years in prison for leaking chip technology to China’s ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT). The court found that the leak violated South Korea’s Industrial Technology Protection Act, which sets harsh penalties for offenses that compromise “national core technologies.” The data leaked by the defendant allegedly helped China to develop high-bandwidth memory (HBM), a key technology for artificial intelligence that was created with support from the South Korean state. HBM is a cutting-edge technology that allows computer memory chips…
Republican Congressional candidate Valentina Gomez has been barred from entering the United Kingdom following backlash from Muslim lawmakers and pressure groups. She has in turn vowed to arrive in the country by boat as has become customary for illegal migrants. Gomez, a Colombian-born activist who is currently running as a Republican for Texas’s 31st District in the House of Representatives, was planning on travelling to London next month to attend a rally organised by veteran anti-grooming gang activist Tommy Robinson. However, this week, British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, the cabinet minister tasked with controlling UK immigration, ruled that Gomez should not…
The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, warned over the weekend that the world is at risk of a new nuclear arms race. Grossi is the current head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog and one of the five candidates vying to become the next U.N. Secretary General once António Guterres finishes his term at the end of 2026. Grossi spoke with The Telegraph on Sunday on the current state of nuclear weapons around the world, particularly those of Russia and the United States, as well as the interest in obtaining nuclear weapons expressed by other countries…
The Senate will kick off a marathon amendment voting session Wednesday night as Republicans aim to adopt a budget blueprint for immigration enforcement funding. The chamber is expected to start the vote-a-rama free-for-all around 8 p.m., according to three people granted anonymity to disclose private scheduling. Senate Republicans need to adopt the budget resolution in order to subsequently pass their bill to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol through the party-line budget reconciliation process. Read the full article here
The Russian national water polo team has defeated Argentina at a competition in Malta A Russian national team has appeared at a major team sport event under the national flag and anthem for the first time since 2022. The women’s water polo team became the first Russian squad to participate in a competition in a full-fledged status after the World Aquatics lifted all the restrictions imposed on the country, as well as its ally Belarus, over the Ukraine conflict. The federation, which oversees competitions in swimming, diving, high diving, artistic swimming, water polo, and open-water swimming, has been easing restrictions…
El Salvador held a mass trial on Tuesday for 486 prisoners, alleged to be members of the infamous Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang, who stand accused of 47,000 crimes between them. The trial was held at the Terrorism Confinement Center or CECOT, the tough “mega-prison” for gangsters that began operations in 2022. Photos of the proceedings showed rows of seated prisoners clad in simple white garb and face masks listening to the long list of charges against them. The office of El Salvador’s Attorney General said the allegations covered criminal activity from 2012 to 2022. Some of the latter-day offenses were…
The Warsh Confirmation Remains in Limbo Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) made it clear at the Kevin Warsh confirmation hearing Tuesday that he will not allow the nomination to move forward as long as the Justice Department’s investigation of the Fed’s renovation cost overruns is continuing. And on Wednesday, at a press conference ostensibly about busting an international auto theft ring, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro made it clear that the investigation will continue. “I am in the legal lane, there are others who are in the political lane. I don’t intersect those two lanes,” Pirro said. “I am going forward…and we…