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National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has become a lightning rod for international criticism after taunting detained activists Israeli forces intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters as it approached Gaza on May 18, preventing the vessels from reaching the enclave and detaining more than 400 activists from around 40 countries.The mission had set out from Türkiye to challenge Israel’s naval blockade and draw attention to Gaza’s humanitarian crisis. Those detained included citizens of Italy, the UK, Canada, Türkiye, Greece, France, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, South Korea, Ireland, and New Zealand.The controversy escalated after Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir…

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) said on Wednesday that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) began much earlier than previously suspected, and is spreading faster than anticipated, but the wider world still has no reason to fear the disease will spread beyond the DRC and neighboring Uganda. “W.H.O. assesses the risk of the epidemic as high at the national and regional levels, and low at the global level,” said the organization’s director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, at a press conference on Wednesday. Tedros said there were several reasons for “serious concern about the potential for further…

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) is introducing legislation that will prohibit the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from issuing certain grants to cities and states that provide housing assistance to illegal aliens or those with sanctuary policies on the books. Roy’s “No Housing Welfare for Illegal Aliens Act,” shared exclusively with Breitbart News, would ban HUD from giving grants under the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program and the Home Program to jurisdictions that use taxpayer dollars to provide housing assistance to illegal aliens. “For too long, hardworking Americans have been forced to watch their tax dollars bankroll…

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, May 19. Blanche took over the Department of Justice (DOJ) as acting attorney general when President Donald Trump announced former AG Pam Bondi was leaving the role in April. Blanche has announced a number of major investigations since taking on the role, from charging the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), going after fraud rings, and prosecuting former FBI Director James Comey. Read the full article here

One of the nation’s leading gun safety groups has a message for Republicans: Tuesday’s results show you don’t have to be scared of the pro-firearm lobby anymore. Giffords, an advocacy group cofounded by former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.), is sending a memo to all Republican members of Congress today —first shared with POLITICO — noting that pro-firearm groups largely sat out both Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-Ky.) and Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) primaries, even as the two represent opposite wings of the GOP spectrum on gun control. The ambivalence toward both one of the gun lobby’s strongest allies and one of…

Google announced a comprehensive transformation of its Search platform at the Google I/O conference on Tuesday, marking what the company calls the biggest change to the search box since its debut over 25 years ago. TechCrunch reports that the traditional “ten blue links” format that has defined Google Search for decades is being replaced with an AI-powered system that fundamentally changes how users interact with the world’s most popular search engine. The overhaul centers around what Google describes as an “intelligent search box” that delivers interactive experiences rather than simple lists of website links. The redesigned search box expands to…

Crowds estimated to be in the tens of thousands flooded the streets of Sofia, Bulgaria, on Tuesday to welcome returning pop singer Dara, who became the country’s first-ever champion at the Eurovision Song Contest this weekend. Dara’s song “Bangaranga,” named after a Jamaican word roughly translating to “riot,” was crowned the winner of the annual competition on Saturday, receiving overwhelming scores from both the professional jury and the public, who vote for their favorites. This weekend marked the 70th anniversary of the continental song contest, which was established in the aftermath of World War II to promote unity and healthy…

The British government’s aversion to domestic energy extraction is so great that it has decided to create an exemption for imports of oil products manufactured from Russian crude rather than drill its own considerable natural resources. Britain’s Labour government announced a tough new sanctions package against Russia on Wednesday, but immediately granted exemptions to allow the import of oil products such as diesel and jet fuel refined in third-party nations from oil originally extracted in Russia. While Britain is suffering from an energy crisis and clearly needs to act before domestic hauliers or airlines in the country enter a full-blown fuel…

War Secretary Pete Hegseth took a break from his official duties to appear alongside Kentucky congressional candidate Ed Gallrein during a Monday campaign appearance ahead of his Tuesday primary challenge against incumbent Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY). Gallrein is the Trump-endorsed candidate against Massie, an ideological libertarian who has garnered ire from the president for breaking with Republicans on multiple issues from conflict with Iran to the handling of the Epstein files. Voting against the One Big Beautiful Bill and other Republican-led spending bills has also placed Massie in Trump’s line of fire.  In an atypical move for the leader of…

An emboldened President Donald Trump is determined to flex his power over the GOP — at seemingly any cost. Republicans are coming to grips with a president who less than six months out from the midterms is focused on racking up a body count of lawmakers who have crossed him, asserting his control over his party and burnishing his legacy — putting the GOP legislative agenda and the survival of its majorities at risk. That reckoning is playing out on Capitol Hill this week as frustrated Republicans — including some lawmakers that Trump has essentially cast out of the party…