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Activist Denise Powell won the Democratic primary for one of Democrats’ best pickup opportunities this fall after a prolonged vote count in an Omaha-based congressional district. The Associated Press called the race Wednesday evening. With an estimated just shy of 90 percent of votes counted, Powell led state Sen. John Cavanaugh 38.9 percent to 36.8 percent, with court clerk Crystal Rhoades a distant third. She will face Republican Brinker Harding in November for the chance to replace retiring GOP Rep. Don Bacon in just one of three districts former Vice President Kamala Harris won in 2024 that is currently represented…

A top aide has said Dhaka is reviewing the pact amid mounting protests to scrap it Bangladesh will review a trade deal with the US signed by its interim government in February, a top aide to Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has said.Zahed Ur Rahman, the prime minister’s adviser on information and broadcasting, told the media on Tuesday that scrapping the agreement could have implications for bilateral relations and reciprocal tariff arrangements. However, the government is ready to review and renegotiate certain provisions.“We can revisit the agreement. We can identify the areas that are more problematic and potentially harmful to the…

China’s foreign affairs arms gloated on Monday about Beijing’s successful attempt to block the democratic nation of Taiwan from participating in next week’s World Health Assembly (WHA). The WHA is the World Health Organization’s (W.H.O.) annual meeting of member nations, in which parties discuss issues of global public health concern. The 79th edition of the United Nations agency meetings is scheduled to begin on May 18 and touch on a variety of topics, including ensuring funding for the W.H.O. after America’s withdrawal in 2025, the highly contentious attempt to pass a pandemic treaty that empowers the W.H.O. over participating states,…

A supertanker named Yuan Hua Hu that is registered to China’s state-owned COSCO shipping company appears to have safely transited the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, carrying an estimated two million barrels of Iraqi crude oil. The Yuan Hua Hu is classified as a Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC), which means it could carry at least two million barrels of oil. Some ships in the VLCC class can transport over seven million barrels. They are among the largest ships in the world, typically over 300 meters in length – so large that they cannot berth at conventional docks but instead…

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) under former President Joe Biden (D) buried evidence of possible prostitution crimes linked to the ex-president’s son, Hunter, but those documents have since been released. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Ron Johnson in 2022 asked the DOJ for the documents but were unsuccessful in their query, Just the News reported Monday. However, they have since obtained those documents. “The Republican senators say the records — which include text messages between Hunter Biden and the women — show that the government had significant evidence of potential Mann Act…

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in closed-door testimony to Congress refuted accusations that he maintained a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein years after he claimed he had cut ties. Lutnick, who has faced harsh criticism for his ties with the convicted sex offender as part of a global reckoning sparked by the release of long-sealed documents, told the House Oversight Committee that his conflicting statements weren’t intentional, according to a transcript released Wednesday. The commerce secretary, who previously was CEO of financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, had said in a podcast interview that he cut ties with Epstein in 2005 — a…

The announcement comes as Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces mounting political pressure at home Britain will contribute drones, fighter jets and naval assets to a potential mission in the Strait of Hormuz to “secure freedom of navigation,” Defense Secretary John Healey has announced.The Strait of Hormuz off Iran’s coast – a key route for global oil and LNG supplies – has been central to Middle East tensions since the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran in late February. Maritime traffic through the waterway has been heavily disrupted, with Washington and Tehran accusing each other of violating a fragile ceasefire…

Regular readers of Brownstone Journal have been graced with insight provided by many authors of diverse backgrounds and experiences. As a physician, I have found those authored by Dr. Joseph Varon to be exceptionally helpful in their insight into the state of medicine today. In particular, his essay, “When Physicians are Replaced With a Protocol,” struck a chord with me. Perhaps it was my conscience, as I probably bear some responsibility for furthering this viewpoint, at least on a local level. You see, I once was a True Believer. It was plausible. It seemed so believable, so “scientific,” so simple. But it was…

Elon Musk bashed Oppenheimer Director Christopher Nolan over the casting for his upcoming film, The Odyssey, saying the director tapped Lupita Nyong’o to play Helen of Troy because “he wants the awards.” “Q: Why is Christopher Nolan like many other directors so keen to race swap white characters? A: Quotas and awards,” one X user wrote in a Tuesday post, to which Musk replied by taking to the comment section to assert, “He wants the awards.” The SpaceX CEO also commented on an X post from Daily Wire host Matt Walsh, who wrote, “Not one person on the planet actually thinks that Lupita Nyong’o is ‘the…

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has confirmed to Breitbart Texas that two fugitives from Mexico have been arrested recently as a result of intense international collaboration with authorities in Mexico. In two separate sting operations, Border Patrol agents from the San Diego Sector nabbed the pair of fugitives who were wanted in Mexico for serious criminal offenses, including kidnapping, extortion, and homicide. According to CBP, the arrests are a testament to robust international collaboration between law enforcement agencies in Mexico and the U.S. Border Patrol agents operating in the San Diego area. The pair of arrests of foreign fugitives…