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Mass anti-immigration protests have been planned in the Northern Irish capital in response Northern Irish police have arrested a Sudanese asylum seeker over a brutal stabbing attack in Belfast on Monday. Graphic video footage showed locals intervening as the attacker plunged a kitchen knife into his victim’s neck.The attacker, who is in his 30s, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said on Tuesday. His victim, who is in his 40s, suffered stab wounds to his back, face, and eyes, and has been hospitalized in serious condition.While the circumstances of the attack are…

Data sharing between the IRS and other government agencies has been a concern since President Trump returned to the White House.gettyThe IRS provided Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with last-known address information for nearly 47,000 people under a controversial data-sharing agreement, according to a new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA). Data sharing between the IRS and other government agencies has been a concern since President Trump returned to the White House.gettyAccording to TIGTA, last year, ICE asked the IRS for address information tied to more than 1.2 million records. The IRS ultimately provided last-known addresses…

Outgoing Marxist President of Colombia Gustavo Petro will travel to New York on Tuesday to preside over a U.N. Security Council debate as part of a broader two-day itinerary at the United Nations. According to Colombian state media, Petro is expected to meet with New York’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani later this week. Petro’s trip marks the second time he visits the United States in 2026 after meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House in February, a meeting preceded by months of active hostilities from Petro against Trump. His latest visit to New York, which will reportedly run through…

Pop star Pink, real name Alecia Moore, delivered a speech at the Tony Awards on Sunday night wherein she said that transgender people lost “more rights” in the past year. The pop star issued her statement while discussing some of the top Broadway productions nominations. “This year the worst parts of history began repeating itself, and we were given ‘Ragtime’ and ‘Liberation.’ This year our country grew more divided than ever, and we were given ‘Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York).’ This year our trans siblings started to lose even more rights, and we were given ‘Cats: The…

Next week the Senate will begin publicly vetting President Donald Trump’s nominee for the No. 2 position at the Office of Management and Budget, known as the “nerve center” of an administration. The Senate Budget Committee is scheduled to hold a confirmation hearing next week on the nomination of Hal Duncan to be deputy director of the OMB, Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) announced Tuesday. Duncan, who currently heads legislative affairs at the White House budget office, was nominated to replace Dan Bishop, who was recently confirmed as a U.S. attorney. The new nominee is expected to field questions about his…

A week before then-candidate Donald Trump descended an escalator at Trump Tower to launch his first Republican presidential campaign, a pharmaceutical company made what at the time was the largest initial public offering ever by a biotech company. The flush of cash highlighted Axovant’s then-29-year-old CEO, Vivek Ramaswamy, whose jump from hedge fund analyst to biotech executive attracted headlines and put his net worth in the hundreds of millions. Since that 2015 offering, Ramaswamy spun out other pharmaceutical companies, founded an “anti-woke” financial firm, wrote two books and became a semi-regular cable news commentator. Ramaswamy has run an unusual campaign…

Bulgaria’s new government has called for negotiations, abandoning its previous policy of arming Kiev Bulgaria’s new government has announced it will halt weapons deliveries to Ukraine, signaling a major policy shift for the NATO and EU member, which has been supplying arms to Kiev since the escalation of the conflict in 2022.The conflict cannot be resolved on the battlefield, Bulgarian Defense Minister Dimitar Stoyanov told reporters on Tuesday, arguing that Ukraine’s primary challenge is a shortage of personnel rather than weapons.“What we are witnessing is a war of attrition, and no matter how much weaponry is amassed, its only result…

Voters in San Francisco, California, leaned away from a ballot measure to hike taxes on some big companies. The latest data on the San Francisco Department of Elections website showed Measure D was sinking, Fox Business reported Tuesday. The results showed 53.64 percent had voted no while 46.36 percent voted yes. The measure’s text read: Shall the City permanently change the top executive pay tax it collects from some large businesses when their highest-paid managerial employee earns more than 100 times the median compensation paid to their San Francisco employees, by changing the tax to be calculated using the compensation of…

Marvel’s She-Hulk star, left-wing actress Tatiana Maslany is demanding people join her boycott of the left-wing New York Times, claiming the paper is harming transgenders, Palestinians, and the black working class. Maslany took to her Instagram account last week to repost a video from Queerart in which Palestinian activist Mohammed El-Kurd, extremist transgender advocate Sabrina Imbler, and others called for readers to stop buying the Times at an event held in New York in April, dubbed the “The People vs. the NYTimes.” The event was organized on the premise that the paper was really some sort of secret right-wing, MAGA-supporting ruse meant…

House Democratic Caucus Vice Chair Ted Lieu hammered a bipartisan AI framework Tuesday, saying the proposal his colleagues introduced last week “cannot meet the enormity of the moment.” Lieu, who is also one of three members on an AI commission convened by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, said at his weekly news conference that the regulatory blueprint championed by his fellow Californian, Republican Rep. Jay Obernolte — and Rep. Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) — “was not something that would work, because there’s a lot of issues it does not cover.” Lieu said he welcomes other House Democrats to engage on the…