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On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” ABC News Contributor and former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile said that she pays a ton of taxes but people who are wealthy are able to hire accountants to find loopholes in the tax code and “understand how to get tax breaks when they want to move their companies into a state” and get tax breaks for doing so. While discussing Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) claims that rich people don’t pay taxes, host Bill Maher said, “I pay a shitton of taxes.” Brazile responded, “Me too.” Brazile added that Sanders’ point is…

Kiev should keep its UAVs away from Estonian territory, the country’s defense minister has said Ukraine should not be using Estonian airspace for drone attacks on Russia, the Baltic nation’s defense minister, Hanno Pevkur, has said.Over the past few weeks, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland have reported several cases of Ukrainian UAVs crashing in their territory. Moscow previously accused NATO members of quietly permitting Ukraine to target Russian territory, particularly energy facilities in northwestern Leningrad Region.Earlier this week, Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said that he told Vladimir Zelensky that Helsinki deems Ukrainian aircraft entering its airspace “unacceptable.”Speaking about incursions…

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that Democrats have “kind of made making money evil” though he does believe there should be an upper wealth limit. While discussing the Met Gala, Maher said that there was an attempt to get people to boycott the event by people he calls “liberals in theory” that wasn’t successful. He added, “I guess the question I’m asking is, for the party that’s always talking about money and [has] kind of made making money evil — now, I do believe that there should be an upper number that we tax on,…

Here is a salient place to start regarding the economic impact of the Donald’s misbegotten war on Iran: To wit, approximately 7 billion ton-miles of freight moves by truck each and every day in the USA, which heavy truck fleet consumes upwards of 2.9 million barrels per day (mb/d) of diesel fuel. Alas, the price of diesel fuel was about $3.55/gallon both a year ago and as of early January 2026, but has since soared by more than+$2.00 per gallon to $5.60. That’s a 56% rise in the cost of pumping goods and commodities through the arteries of the US economy. On an annualized basis, the diesel…

TENERIFE, Canary Islands (AP) – Passengers started disembarking on Sunday from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship anchored off Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands, hours after arriving there as evacuation plans got underway. An Associated Press journalist at the scene said that some people were seen reaching land after leaving the ship. Nobody among the more than 140 people on the MV Hondius is showing symptoms of the virus, Spanish authorities, the World Health Organization and cruise company Oceanwide Expeditions said. Spain’s health ministry said that Spanish nationals would be the first to leave the ship, and would be ferried off in…

Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump and Senior Director for Counterterrorism Dr. Sebastian Gorka shared that “America is back in the business of counterterrorism,” days after President Donald Trump signed a new counterterrorism strategy document. While speaking to host Matthew Boyle on Breitbart News Saturday, Gorka spoke about the White House Counterterrorism (CT) Strategy document, and how the Trump administration was conducting “threat-based counterterrorism.” Gorka added that the Trump administration was “not using the government as a tool of politics” like former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden did. “America is back in the business of counterterrorism. Since the President…

Incidents during commemorative events were reported in Spain, Poland, Germany and other countries Scuffles broke out in several European cities as Ukrainian nationals and pro-Kiev activists tried to disrupt Victory Day celebrations across the continent on May 9.Russian expats in Europe and members of local civic organizations marked the 81st anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany by laying flowers at memorials to Soviet troops and participating in ‘Immortal Regiment’ marches, carrying portraits of their relatives who fought in the Great Patriotic War. The commemorative events went on despite provocations by supporters of Ukraine.The ‘Immortal Regiment’ march in the Spanish…

More than a hundred Labour Party politicians have called on Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer to set out plans to resign from his post following this week’s disastrous defeat in the local elections to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party. The knives are out for Prime Minister Starmer, who is now embroiled in a desperate fight to extend his political life after a historically poor performance in the rough British equivalent of a midterm election this week. Starmer’s Labour suffered heavy losses in councils across England, losing control of traditional “red wall” seats to Farage’s Reform party, while losing power in…

STERLING—President Donald Trump attended LIV Golf Virginia on Saturday at Trump National Golf Club, Washington, DC. The president took in the action alongside his son Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization, from a suite on the 18th hole. At one point, the president waved to LIV fans, who burst out into chants of “USA,” which he acknowledged with a signature first pump. Toward the end of his attendance at the tournament, the president shared a moment with both Tom Detry and Bryson DeChambeau as they made their way to the green on 18. Jon Rahm rounded out…

Disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz are pushing global inventories toward operational ‘stress’ and ‘floor’ levels, the outlet has reported Global oil inventories are shrinking at the fastest pace on record amid continuing disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, Bloomberg has reported. The outlet cited data from Morgan Stanley on Saturday showing that global oil stockpiles fell by about 4.8 million barrels per day between March 1 and April 25. The figure surpasses previous inventory drawdown records tracked by the International Energy Agency, it added. The Strait of Hormuz off Iran’s coast normally carries about one-fifth of the global oil…