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Citizens can win curbs on the H-1B visa worker program if they swamp legislators with visits, calls, and statements, Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ) told Breitbart News. “The federal government doesn’t move quickly, but it does make a difference when enough Americans start speaking up,” Crane said. “Most of these people up here [in Congress], though they might not care what the American people think, but they care about getting reelected, and so if they get enough pressure, it does affect them,” he said, adding: I can tell you, as somebody who’s been behind the scenes on some of the things that…

Ralph Alvarado, a former state senator who earned support from President Donald Trump and House GOP leadership, won the Republican primary to replace outgoing Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) Tuesday. Alvarado, a physician and a longtime Trump supporter, resigned as commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Health to run for Kentucky’s 6th District. The seat became open when Barr announced he would not run for reelection to instead run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Alvarado was the first Hispanic state lawmaker elected in Kentucky, serving eight years as a state senator. He spoke at…

Moscow and Beijing are expected to sign dozens of agreements during President Vladimir Putin’s two-day visit Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Wednesday for talks expected to focus on expanding economic and strategic cooperation, as the two countries mark the 25th anniversary of a landmark friendship treaty.Moscow and Beijing are expected to sign dozens of agreements during the two-day visit, highlighting the increasingly close alignment between the two powers on foreign policy, trade, and opposition to what they describe as Western unilateralism.RT looks at where Russia and China align on global politics. Multipolar worldMoscow…

An Iranian state television presenter used a rifle to fire shots at a flag of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during a segment this week on weapons training, in a sign of Iran’s intensifying effort to inspire a sense of militant nationalism among its people. The segment, part of a program called War Headquarters aired on state-run Ofogh TV on Saturday. It showed a member of Iran’s terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) teaching host Hossein Hosseini how to handle an AK-47 rifle. Hosseini proceeded to demonstrate his newfound rifle skills by popping off a few shots at a screen displaying…

Fears of inflation and forecasts of Fed hikes have sent bonds plunging, lifting yields on Treasuries to multi-year highs. The yield on the 30-year Treasury touched 5.197 percent, the highest since 2007, before retreating slightly to 5.18 percent. Bond yields move up as prices fall. The yield on 10-year Treasuries rose as high as 4.687 percent and then slipped to 4.667 percent. Two-year yields rose to 4.12 percent. The fed funds swaps market, which allows investors to bet on Fed policy rate moves, now shows a better-than-even chance that the Fed will hike by the end of this year. The…

The Colorado Supreme Court ordered Children’s Hospital Colorado on Monday to resume offering sex change drugs to minors who identify as transgender. The state’s high court issued a 5-2 decision ruling that the hospital’s decision to stop offering sex change drugs after pressure from the Trump administration discriminates against patients based on their “gender identity” in violation of state law, Bloomberg Law reported. Children’s Hospital Colorado (CHC) stopped offering sex change drugs to confused youth after Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. issued a declaration in December warning that it would exclude entities from…

No political or public pressure will change the decision, the Croatian president’s office has stressed Croatian President Zoran Milanovic has refused to approve Israel’s new ambassador to Zagreb, citing disagreements with the Israeli government’s actions.The presidential office announced the decision on Monday.“The proposed Ambassador of the State of Israel has not received, nor will he receive, the consent of the President of the Republic Zoran Milanovic due to the policies pursued by the current Israeli authorities,” it said in a statement.Israel deviated from established diplomatic norms by announcing their proposed ambassador before he was approved by the Croatian president, it…

President Donald Trump warned Tuesday that Iran could soon face “another big hit,” revealing he was only “an hour away” from approving renewed military strikes before pulling back to allow several more days for negotiations that Gulf allies argued could still produce a deal. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said the administration had moved to the brink of renewed military action before regional allies urged him to pause. “We were all set to go,” Trump told reporters Tuesday. “We were ready to go tomorrow — very big — and not something I wanted to do, but we…

Economic Confidence on the Right Gets Wobbly Again With only five and a half months to go before the midterm elections, Republican optimism about the economy is struggling against the tides of high gasoline prices, the renewed rise in inflation, and a market increasingly convinced that interest rates are not coming down soon. Republicans have not suddenly turned gloomy. They are still relatively optimistic about the economy. But the latest Economist/YouGov polling suggests that the economic optimism on the right has become less steady, less overwhelming, and less able to offset the deep pessimism among Democrats, liberals, and Harris voters.…

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) was among the four Republican Senators who voted in favor of moving forward with a resolution that would direct President Donald Trump to pull the U.S. military out of the conflict with Iran. Cassidy’s vote in favor of moving forward with the Iran War Powers Resolution comes days after he lost his reelection bid to Trump-endorsed Rep. Julia Letlow (R-LA), and Louisiana Treasurer John Fleming. The Senate voted 50-47 to move the War Powers Resolution out from the Senate’s Foreign Relation Committee, with Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Susan Collins (R-ME), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Cassidy voting…