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A member of the Sinaloa Cartel died over the weekend in an explosion shortly after flying into Mexico State. The incident has sparked renewed controversies about Mexico’s refusal to label cartels as terrorist organizations despite their terror-style tactics. The incident occurred on Sunday when Francisco Efrain “Layin” Beltran was traveling in a dark SUV with a driver identified as Hector Manuel Avendano Ojeda. The two were traveling along the highway that connects Pachuca with Mexico City when the vehicle exploded, killing both men inside. Beltran is known to Mexican authorities as a member of the Sinaloa Cartel’s Mayos faction. Users…

President Donald Trump imposed pharmaceutical tariffs and strengthened steel, aluminum, and copper tariffs on Thursday, the one-year anniversary of his worldwide “Liberation Day” tariffs. Trump imposed a 100 percent tariff on patented pharmaceutical ingredients and products, as well as a 50 percent tariff on goods that are either fully or close to fully aluminum, steel, or copper. Both sets of duties are imposed through proclamations and are Section 232 tariffs. The pharmaceutical tariffs will take effect for larger companies in 120 days and for smaller companies in 180 days, according to a White House fact sheet. Companies that agree to…

Over the last few months, the Senate has failed to pass the single most important piece of legislation in front of Congress, the SAVE America Act, despite President Trump’s full backing and overwhelming support from Americans on both sides of the aisle. At the same time, they failed to properly fund the Department of Homeland Security, which remains shut down. To enact President Trump’s agenda, the Senate needs serious change; and a great place to start is by electing Ken Paxton. Paxton is a battle-hardened conservative who weathered a politicized impeachment trial and came out stronger than ever. For years…

The administration of Spanish socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is expecting to receive as many as 750,000 applications from illegal migrants seeking to become beneficiaries of Sánchez’s mass amnesty plans, the newspaper El País reported on Thursday. The Spanish government is presently working towards finalizing a decree announced by Sánchez in January that, once implemented will grant legal residence permits to 500,000 illegal migrants in Spain — requesting only that they comply with a list of notably lax requirements. Despite a fierce rejection from Spanish nationals and the nation’s Congress, Sánchez intends to implement the highly controversial plan through a Royal Decree,…

Liberating the Strait of Hormuz is “unrealistic” because it would be time consuming and difficult, French President Emmanuel Macron said as he shrugged off President Donald Trump’s call for allies to take up responsibility for policing the strategic oil corridor. French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in South Korea on Thursday, a stop on his mini-tour of Asian capitals which saw him in Japan yesterday focussing on economic ties and business. Responding to remarks overnight by U.S. President Donald Trump, where he reflected on America’s progress in Iran and called on other countries to put their shoulders to the wheel and…

NASA launched its first crewed lunar flight in more than 50 years on Wednesday, as the Artemis II mission began with liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission comes at the dawning of a new age of competition in space.What is Artemis II?Artemis II is the second mission in NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to land humans on the surface of the Moon in 2028, and establish a permanent base on the lunar surface in the 2030s. Artemis II is the first crewed mission in the program, and takes place four years after Artemis I – an…

A coalition of more than 200 child advocacy organizations and experts has issued an open letter calling on Google’s YouTube to completely prohibit AI-generated slop content from its children’s platform. Fortune reports that the letter, organized by the children’s advocacy group Fairplay and addressed to YouTube CEO Neal Mohan and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, has garnered signatures from over 135 organizations including the American Counseling Association. Prominent researchers such as Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation, have also lent their support to the campaign. The term AI slop refers to mass-produced, algorithmically generated videos that have begun flooding platforms…

An assessment from French intelligence has warned that the upcoming generation of teenagers represents an increased threat of Islamic terrorism compared to their predecessors. A report from the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Intérieure (DGSI), France’s primary domestic intelligence agency, said that there is a growing terror threat from the “new hyperconnected generation” of young people, mostly aged 13 to 17. The assessment, obtained by French daily Le Figaro, described a twin track of a youth group “in search of identity, fascinated by ultra-violence and with a weak ideological imprint” and the increased ability of jihadists to craft messages through…

This year’s Easter egg hunts may be a bit more fun and a lot less pricey. After getting shellacked by last year’s surge in egg prices, families heading into Easter this spring are finding that one of the season’s essential items is no longer quite so punishing at the grocery store. The drop has been sharp enough to be felt not just by economists and retailers, but by parents planning brunch, filling baskets, and deciding how many eggs they can afford to dye, hide, and inevitably discover days later under the couch. The turnaround is striking. In the producer price…

“86 47” means “we’re out of mashed potatoes,” one No Kings protester claimed, refusing to explain what her sign meant during a protest in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, over the weekend. A woman at the protest held up a sign that read, “No Kings, 86 47, No War,” and Breitbart News’s Matthew Perdie asked her if she believed her sign was appropriate. Typically, 86 means to “get rid” of someone by a variety of means, which can include murder. When asked if her sign meant to delete or kill President Trump, the woman appealed to ignorance, stating, “I didn’t say anything…