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Sen. Thom Tillis said Thursday his vote to confirm attorney general nominee Todd Blanche is contingent on Blanche meeting with victims of the late convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein. The North Carolina Republican’s new demand creates yet another hurdle for Blanche’s confirmation, which will fail to advance to the Senate floor if one Republican on the Judiciary Committee defects — assuming all Democrats on the panel oppose him. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is also undecided. “I expect that meeting to occur before I’m willing to vote out of this committee and I’m trying to get to ‘yes,’ but this is…
Kathy Ruemmler of Goldman Sachs appeared before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday Several US lawmakers said they were “disgusted” by testimony from Kathy Ruemmler, a former Goldman Sachs chief legal officer and White House counsel under former President Barack Obama, about her relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Wall Street Journal reports.Ruemmler appeared before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday as part of the congressional investigation into Epstein’s network of influential associates.Documents released by the Justice Department show Ruemmler exchanged extensive communications with Epstein from 2014 to 2019, long after his 2008 guilty plea to soliciting prostitution…
Plumes of smoke from two simultaneous strikes rise over Tehran, Iran, Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohsen Ganji) In February 2026, the United States and Israel conducted military strikes against Iran, which resulted in the death of the Iranian dictator, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and started another major war in the Middle East. Five months later, it has become unclear how long this war will last or what the objective even is. The past few months have seen a nonstop back-and-forth on the status of the war, creating a lot of confusion for the general public. Throughout the war, Iran has…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX stock price has fallen below its IPO price of $135, marking a significant downturn for Elon Musk’s rocket and AI company just over a month after it began trading publicly. CNBC reports that the share price of SpaceX dropped to $132.62 on Wednesday, falling below the $135 per share price at which the company initially listed on the stock market in June. This decline represents a 41 percent drop from the stock’s peak value achieved shortly after its public debut, raising concerns for early investors who purchased shares around the time of the flotation. Shares opened Thursday trading…
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has formally designated two more Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist cartels. The move brings the number to eight separate cartels that are considered to be Foreign Terrorist Organizations by the United States government. This week, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control announced that they were changing the designation of the Juarez Cartel and the Los Viagras Cartel from Drug Trafficking Organizations to Foreign Terrorist Organizations. The move gives authorities new tools to target the groups financially, freeze their assets in the United States, and prohibit any U.S. citizen from doing business with…
U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll highlighted how the army has reached its 2026 recruitment goals roughly “eight and a half months” into the year. During an interview with Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit Wednesday, Driscoll spoke about how the United States Army has reached its recruitment numbers because of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump’s “push on lethality and their push on excellence.” “Sixty-one thousand, five hundred new recruits are joining the United States Army. We hit that about eight and a half months into our year,” Driscoll said. “This…
A bipartisan Senate duo is introducing a new paid leave bill this week — another step in a yearslong effort to draft compromise legislation guaranteeing people won’t lose paychecks if they need to take an extended absence from work. The measure from Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Republican Sen. John Boozman of Arkansas — shared first with POLITICO — would establish a pilot grant program allowing states to provide at least six weeks of leave for family, medical or caregiving reasons. It also would also set up an interstate working group to coordinate and harmonize benefits across…
Stock in Elon Musk’s aerospace giant has erased its post-listing gains as investors question its valuation and China’s advances in reusable rockets SpaceX shares dipped below their initial public offering (IPO) price on Wednesday, little more than a month after the company’s record-breaking market debut briefly made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire.SpaceX raised a record $75 billion by pricing its IPO at $135 a share in June and outlining ambitions that include orbital data centers, lunar infrastructure, asteroid mining, and ultimately cities on Mars as potential drivers of future growth beyond its core businesses.According to trading data, the stock…
Chuck Schumer trolled by the White House after farting during Senate Floor speech The White House has chimed in on Chuck Schumer’s stinker on the Senate Floor on Tuesday, trolling him with a new meme. Schumer couldn’t hold it in while delivering a speech in the Senate earlier this week and appeared to acknowledge the toot with a pause and a chuckle mid-speech. “Now on Iran and the NDAA,” Schumer said as a loud fart was heard. “When all the Trump administration can say about his disastrous war with Iran is that Vietnam was worse,” he tried to continue after…
German Federal Police are investigating after the arrest of an Afghan migrant who is said to have pulled a knife when asked for his ticket on a local train. Several children on their way to school were injured on an early-morning train amid an altercation between the guard checking tickets and a passenger. The man, reported to be a 28-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, pulled a knife on the inspector when asked for a ticket, leading to a confrontation that spilled out from the stationary train and onto the station platform. A “large number” of panicked children and teenagers fled the scene,…