Author: Press Room
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a key European ally of the Trump administration, faces a tough set of parliamentary elections this weekend but he now has one supporter firmly on his side after U.S. Vice-President JD Vance landed in Budapest on Tuesday to offer his support. The BBC reports Vance is expected to join a press conference before addressing an election rally with Orbán in a football stadium on Tuesday afternoon. The 12 April election is billed as Orbán’s toughest challenge in a political career going back almost 40 years and he sees the Western world’s aspirations being embodied by his…
Multiple news outlets reported on Tuesday morning Washington time that locals spotted explosions at Kharg Island, a Persian Gulf site that Iran uses for the vast majority of its oil exports — a significant percentage of which go to China. The Washington, DC, website Axios reported, citing an anonymous source, that the American military had indeed conducted strikes on Kharg Island, but no on-the-record sources have confirmed the claim at press time. If true, it would not be the first time during the current conflict that the United States struck the island, though the kinetic action in March reportedly hit only…
The Department of Education announced on Monday that it has rescinded Biden-era resolution agreements to several schools that imposed the previous administration’s “radical transgender agenda.” The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) uses resolution agreements to require schools to resolve noncompliance with federal civil rights laws. The Department said previous Democrat administrations “distorted the law contrary to its plain meaning to police discrimination on the basis of ‘gender identity,’ not sex, and imposed resolution agreements with no legal foundation, but rather, based on an ideologically-driven interpretation of Title IX.” The Department said previous administrations admonished school districts with Title IX…
As long as attacks and demands continue unabated, reasonable voices for peace will never be heard More than a month into the war with Iran, Washington is confronting the strategic nightmare it tried to avoid. What began as a campaign that many in the US and Israel appear to have imagined as short, punishing, and politically manageable has instead become prolonged, expensive, globally destabilizing, and increasingly difficult to define as success.The battlefield logic is now inseparable from the political logic, and on both fronts the pressure is mounting on Donald Trump’s administration. Reuters reports that the conflict, launched on February…
Turkish police killed three gunmen in a firefight outside Israel’s consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday morning with two security officers left severely wounded. Multiple reports detail events that took place during the brazen daylight attack with video shared showing a police officer pulling out a gun and taking cover as gunshots rang out. One person was seen covered in blood. The consulate is located in Istanbul’s Besiktas District and has been closed for at least two years and is likely unstaffed, a member of the local community informed the Jerusalem Post. The BBC reports the attackers have been identified, according to…
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is pleading with the sanctuary jurisdiction of Suffolk County, New York, to ensure that an illegal alien, accused of attempted murder on Gilgo Beach, is not released from jail back into the community. Ruben Guanipa Ramirez, a 26-year-old illegal alien from Venezuela, has been indicted in Suffolk County on second-degree attempted murder charges after he allegedly stabbed a man, including trying to slit his throat, on February 28. Police also say they found rope, duct tape, kitchen knives, and a box cutter in Ramirez’s vehicle. Ramirez remains held in jail on bond while awaiting…
Unintended consequences of the Iran campaign have been mounting, the ex‑White House aide has told RT US President Donald Trump’s war with Iran has been driven by a “council of one” style of decision-making and could have serious repercussions for the United States, his former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has warned. The US-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic, now in its sixth week, has already inflicted widespread destruction across the region, with mass displacement and mounting economic strain. Civilian casualties continue to rise both in Iran and across the region as strikes intensify. Trump has claimed Washington is “in…
The latest IRS data makes one thing clear. The United States is undergoing a massive redistribution of wealth between states, and it is being driven almost entirely by tax policy. California lost $11.9 billion and New York lost $9.9 billion in income in a single year, while Florida gained $20.6 billion. This is not random migration. This is capital responding to incentives. States like Florida, Texas, and Tennessee have positioned themselves as low-tax environments, and they are now absorbing wealth at an unprecedented pace. Florida alone has become the primary destination for high-income earners exiting high-tax jurisdictions. What is important here…
The conflict in the Middle East is already starting to bite in Europe, as multiple Italian airports announced jet fuel rationing measures this week. Amid the growing backlog of ships refusing to cross the Strait of Hormuz — over concern that Islamist Iranian terrorists may fire from the coastline on their vessels or potentially run into the sea mines allegedly released by the regime in Tehran into the waterway — an energy crisis looms over import-heavy countries, such as those in much of Europe. Italian daily Corriere Della Sera reported that four airports in the north of the country have…
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” host Larry Kudlow said that a reconciliation bill should “cut the capital gains inflation adjustment,” and also “probably should lower the marginal tax rates, at least for the middle-income brackets” in addition to fully funding DHS, including voter ID legislation, and including the supplemental spending bill and argued that a reconciliation bill is the only way to get all of this done. Kudlow said, [relevant remarks begin around 3:05] “We need to cut the capital gains inflation adjustment, that’s one thing. We probably should lower the marginal tax rates, at least…