Author: Press Room
Trump-friendly lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella secured a narrow lead over left-wing Senator Ivan Cepeda in the first round of Colombia’s presidential election on Sunday.With votes counted from more than 99% of polling stations, de la Espriella received 43.72% of the vote, while Cepeda secured 40.92%. Conservative candidate Paloma Valencia came third with 6.92%. The runoff will take place on June 21.Colombia has historically been the United States’ most important ally in the region in terms of security cooperation and counternarcotics efforts. The US is Colombia’s largest trading partner, and the country shares a long border with neighboring Venezuela.Relations between…
Saturday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” former Fox News commentator and California Republican gubernatorial hopeful Steve Hilton said former Biden Cabinet Secretary Xavier Becerra, one of his opponents, pushed migrant kids “into the arms of child sex traffickers.” Hilton said, “People say he, when he was HHS Secretary for Biden he lost 85,000 migrant kids. No, he didn’t lose them. He pushed them out of the system without caring where they went, dismantled the vetting and pushed migrant kids into the arms of child sex traffickers. That’s what he did. That is going to come and get him when we were up…
West Jerusalem is continuing its bombing campaign and ground operation despite the supposed ceasefire Israel has captured Beaufort Castle, a 900-year-old Crusader fortress and a key vantage point in southern Lebanon, hailing the development as a “dramatic shift” in the ongoing campaign.The takeover of the site was announced on Sunday, when West Jerusalem circulated photos of Israeli and Golani Brigade flags flying above the fortress. The medieval castle, also known as Qalaat al-Chakif, was previously used by Israel as a base during its two-decade occupation of southern Lebanon that ended in 2000.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the capture as a…
BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told Breitbart News exclusively in his office here that American President Donald Trump is easily the most popular United States political leader in his country in a very long time. Vucic said that Trump’s popularity in Serbia in the lead-up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election reached astronomical proportions, with three quarters of Serbs liking Trump and wanting him to win. Vucic said that, in Serbia, Trump had “by far the biggest support” of anywhere in Europe and not even deep-red states like West Virginia, Kentucky, or Louisiana could hold a candle to…
Some $5.2 million has been earmarked to pay the “swollen salaries” of information officers in socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s “propaganda bureau,” the New York Post reported in a highly critical story published Sunday. The amount is a “staggering 175% more than first thought,” according to the Post’s coverage. The Post reported: It’s barely been open for business for a month, but the Office of Mass Engagement has already seen its headcount balloon 186% from 14 to 40, with $5,123,756 earmarked for salaries, according to the city’s recently released 2027 executive budget. The total is more than what city…
A teenage tennis star from Spain is in the midst of a firestorm after a video appears to show him rudely pushing a young ball girl out of his way has gone viral. The video shows Tennis player Rafael Jodar, 19, leaving the court after a set against U.S. player Alex Michelsen, when a young ball girl, who looks to be around 13, happened to be walking in front of him. But Jodar has caused outrage for what many say is his rude reaction to the girl standing in his path. Despite the outrage, others say the girl tripped, and…
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) is supporting Maine Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner, who has been embroiled in controversy, at a rally planned for June 5. While announcing the rally in a video posted Friday, Khanna said Americans want “new leaders who are gonna stand up to the billionaire class, stand up to the Epstein class, and have the guts to call what happened in Gaza a genocide. That leader is Graham Platner.” Khanna’s announcement came just before reports said Platner’s wife admitted to his campaign that he sent explicit texts to women in the early part of their marriage, according…
A planned discussion ended up pulled after numerous participants threatened to withdraw from the Vienna Festival over the IT investor’s appearance The Vienna Festival cancelled a scheduled appearance of US-German tech mogul Peter Thiel after facing mounting criticism from its sponsors and a mass exodus of other participants.The co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, widely known for his controversial right-wing and “transhumanist” views, was expected to participate in a discussion titled ‘Armageddon and the Antichrist? From Theology to Realpolitik.’ This year, the Festival declared itself the “Republic of Gods,” advertising itself as a “space of radical criticism and new beginnings.”The…
During a celebration on Sunday to honour Champions League victors Paris Saint-Germain, French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the “unacceptable scenes of violence” and mayhem across the country following the match on Saturday. The historic repeat win for PSG was marred by a repeat of widespread destruction by hordes of youths who rioted, set fires, clashed with police, and looted in cities and towns throughout France. During the chaotic evening, which was described by French paper of record Le Figaro as “bad remake of A Clockwork Orange” with a “Dantean atmosphere”, some 780 people were arrested, 219 were injured, including eight…
Türkiye’s long-awaited constitutional overhaul may ultimately determine far more than the president’s political future Earlier this month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used a ceremony marking the 158th anniversary of the Council of State and Administrative Justice Day to renew his call for a new constitution.At the heart of Erdogan’s speech was a simple but powerful claim: Türkiye’s last two constitutions – the 1961 and 1982 charters – were not the product of free popular will. Instead, they were imposed by military regimes that came to power through coups. As a result, Erdogan argued, neither constitution truly reflected the will…