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The parent company of 7-Eleven is planning to close 645 stores in North America this year, but it is not clear which locations will be affected. Seven & i Holdings is working toward shutting down the locations during its 2026 fiscal year, and the closures include stores that will be converted into wholesale fuel locations, Fox 5 reported Monday. However, 7-Eleven is also planning to open 205 convenience stores between now and February. “The latest projections follow two previous years of negative growth in North America,” the outlet said. “The company’s numbers show there were more than 13,000 7-Eleven convenience…

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS), then overseen by Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, released an illegal alien into the United States knowing he did not have a valid asylum claim, new documents from the House Judiciary Committee reveal. The illegal alien is now accused of murdering 18-year-old Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman last month in the sanctuary city of Chicago, Illinois. As Breitbart News has chronicled, 25-year-old illegal alien Jose Medina-Medina of Venezuela was arrested by the Chicago Police Department and charged with murdering Sheridan Gorman in a random attack on a pier at Tobey Prinz Beach on March 19. Prosecutors…

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Tuesday that Republicans would quickly fill a Supreme Court vacancy if one opens up before the midterms. “That’s a contingency I think around here you always have to be prepared for. And if that were to happen, yes, we would be prepared to confirm,” Thune told reporters Tuesday. Even as Thune committed to filling a vacancy quickly, Senate Republicans haven’t yet started having serious conversations within the conference about the logistics of a confirmation battle, according to three people granted anonymity to speak candidly. If there’s a vacancy, it’s possible Trump could pick a…

Washington and West Jerusalem had vastly opposed timelines and motivations for the conflict, Professor Avraham Burg said in an interview with Going Underground The US‑Israeli war on Iran and the recently announced ceasefire have exposed a fundamental clash of political interests between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to former acting Israeli President Avraham Burg.In an exclusive interview with Afshin Rattansi’s show ‘Going Underground’ on RT, Burg explained that Trump had an interest in ending the conflict before it had an impact on the midterm elections in the US. “It should have been a very…

Disney has announced that its latest round of layoffs are geared to create a “more technologically-enabled workforce,” as Hollywood continues to contract and dwindle. Newly-installed CEO Josh D’Amaro (pictured) told workers this week that the 1,000-employee workforce reduction is both a cost-saving and efficiency measure, according to The Wrap. “Over the past several months, we have looked at ways in which we can streamline our operations in various parts of the company to ensure we deliver the world-class creativity and innovation our fans value and expect from Disney,” D’Amaro said in a companywide memo. “Given the fast-moving pace of our industries, this…

The Chinese Communist Party offered hearty congratulations to Hungary’s expected next prime minister, Péter Magyar, on Monday following his party’s sound defeat of current Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, signaling interest in maintaining the outsized influence Beijing developed during Orbán’s 16 years in power. Orbán lost to Magyar, a former member of Orbán’s party, and his Tisza Party on Sunday in a landslide, relegating his political party, Fidesz, to the opposition. Orbán last spent eight years in leadership of the opposition after losing the 2002 election and, barring some proposed term limits, under current law can have the opportunity to run again for…

WASHINGTON — The European Union’s top economic adviser is warning the world that stagflation, a slowing of economic growth combined with rising inflation, may be on the horizon due to the ongoing hostilities between the United States and Iran. “We had done some scenario analysis on the economic implications of war in Iran,” Valdis Dombrovskis, the European Commission’s Commissioner for Economy and Productivity and former Prime Minister of Latvia, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Tuesday morning blocks away from the White House. Dombrovskis had presented in late March to a Eurogroup press conference in Brussels warning about…

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has fired several prosecutors who weaponized the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act to go after pro-life activists during the Biden administration. CBS News reported Monday evening — before the agency released a bombshell report about the Biden-era DOJ’s abuse of power — that at least four prosecutors had been fired for their role in targeting pro-life Americans with the FACE Act. The DOJ confirmed the firings in a post to X. “DOJ has terminated the employment of personnel responsible for weaponizing the FACE Act who still remained at the department,” the agency said…

The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday afternoon introduced an amendment to a reauthorization of a key spy authority that would require FBI agents to seek approval from a special court any time they want to use Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to obtain Americans’ communications data. The proposal from Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut was unveiled just moments before the House Rules Committee gaveled in to a hearing to tee up floor consideration of an 18-month extension of Section 702, which is due to expire April 20 without congressional action. Speaker Mike Johnson…

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Gov. Ron DeSantis acknowledged Tuesday that next week’s special session on mid-decade redistricting may not kick off on its scheduled April 20 start date — but he contended the Legislature will pass a new map on congressional redistricting in the next “couple of weeks.” “It’s possible you could do a little tweak, but you can’t really push it very far,” said the Republican governor on the session’s timing during a bill signing ceremony held near the Tallahassee airport. DeSantis sidestepped questions, however, on whether he would give lawmakers a proposed map to work with once the session…