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President of Costa Rica Rodrigo Chaves Robles announced on Wednesday that his country would cut all diplomatic ties to Cuba, shutting down its embassy in Havana and ordering all Cuban diplomats out of the country. Chaves Robles, whose term is slated to end in May, explicitly stated that his opposition to socialism and communism – and an escalation in human rights abuses by the Cuban Communist Party at home – were the reason for his decision. “We do not recognize the legitimacy of this government,” the president asserted on Wednesday. “We have to clean the hemisphere of communists. Simple as…

Nearly all House Democrats voted against a bill to ensure migrants can be deported for harming animals used by law enforcement officials. The bill, known as the Bill to Outlaw Wounding of Official Working Animals Act (BOWOW Act) passed in a 228-190 vote, the Hill reported. While Republicans, along with 15 Democrats, voted in favor of the bill, 190 Democrats opposed the bill. Under the BOWOW Act, a non-citizen of the United States who is “convicted of, or who admits to having committed, an offense related to harming animals used in law enforcement is inadmissible and deportable.” In a post…

The judges ruled in favor of couples whose unions were registered abroad despite conservative opposition Poland’s Supreme Administrative Court has ordered local authorities to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other EU member states, following a ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) last year.Same-sex marriages still cannot be legally concluded in the predominantly Catholic country because Article 18 of the Polish Constitution defines marriage as a “union of a man and a woman.”On Friday, Poland’s top court ordered local authorities to register same-sex marriage certificates issued abroad in the national registry for administrative and residency purposes. In their ruling,…

Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei ostensibly released a defiant written statement on Wednesday, vowing to retaliate for the death of security chief Ali Larijani. The Iranian regime still has offered no proof that Khamenei is alive, conscious, or dictating his own statements. Khamenei is the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the opening moments of the war. Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen since before the war began and there have been reports he was seriously injured by the same Israeli airstrike that killed his father. On Monday, the UK Telegraph reported on leaked…

Banking groups are trying to block a White House plan to exclude millions of illegal migrants from the nation’s banking system, according to the Washington Post. The plan would pressure migrants to self-deport and so help President Donald Trump carry out his 2024 promise and mandate to deport millions of illegal migrants admitted by the Democratic Party and their business allies. “The Trump administration has delayed an executive order that could have required banks to collect and report more information on the immigration status of their customers, after Wall Street and small community lenders pushed back,” the newspaper reported on March…

Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) said President Donald Trump and his team viewed those who serve in the U.S. military as “pawns.” Host Jen Psaki said, “You sit on the Senate Intelligence Committee. I think a lot of people out there, and I’m wondering if you get asked about this, worry about retaliatory attacks, worry about the safety of our homeland for a variety of reasons, because we’ve seen them happen and also because of the unpreparedness of this administration. What do you tell them and what do you think about that concern people have?”…

Israel’s strike on Iran’s South Pars gas field and Tehran’s response signal a shift from bombing bases to targeting the backbone of global gas supply Israel’s recent strike on Iran’s South Pars gas field and Tehran’s retaliation on key energy infrastructure in several Gulf countries is more than just another escalation of the war roiling the Middle East.What began as a campaign of decapitation strikes and base‑to‑base missile exchanges has escalated into dueling attacks on energy infrastructure that risks igniting a major energy crisis globally whose effects could reverberate for years.RT takes a look at what this ominous development means…

War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday that the unfolding U.S. operation against Iran remains “laser-focused” and decisive in achieving its objectives, pushing back on comparisons to past prolonged conflicts while outlining a campaign he said is systematically degrading Tehran’s military capabilities. Speaking at a Pentagon briefing on day 20 of Operation Epic Fury, Hegseth opened by directly challenging portrayals that the operation risks becoming a drawn-out war akin to Iraq or Afghanistan, arguing the mission is tightly defined and purpose-driven. “The media here — not all of it, but much of it — wants you to think, just 19 days…

On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL) discussed a potential budget supplemental due to Iran and said that the money spent on Iran could have funded “a year extension of the ACA tax credits, right? Like, people’s real affordability needs are not being met” while there is a war in Iran. Underwood said that Democrats will likely vote against an Iran supplemental. She added, “I just think that the voters are not supportive of the war, they are not supportive of the rising gas prices, they are not supportive of 13 servicemembers being killed and hundreds…

The White House offered additional immigration enforcement concessions to Democrats Friday evening as border czar Tom Homan met a second time with a bipartisan group of senators seeking to end the Homeland Security shutdown, according to lawmakers who attended. Leaving the private meeting, Republican senators said they hope Democrats respond over the weekend to the Trump administration’s bolstered proposal of immigration enforcement changes meant to address Democratic demands for funding DHS. “We need to get the government back open,” Homan said as he left the meeting. “It was a good discussion. That is all I’m going to say.” Washington Sen.…