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Breitbart News hosted a policy event Thursday examining threats posed by China and the Chinese Communist Party, including discussion of intellectual property theft and cases involving U.S. universities and research institutions. During the event, titled China: The Threats You Know About and the Ones You Don’t, on March 26, Washington Bureau Chief Matt Boyle asked about the Chinese Communist Party’s use of intellectual property theft to expand its influence and target the United States, including incidents involving American companies, researchers, and universities. Cotton responded, “It’s pervasive. The FBI said over multiple directors, they have many open cases in every single…

Multiple reports in the past week have indicated that the U.S. military has deployed surveillance drones to operate in Nigeria, in conjunction with the nation’s government, to gather intelligence on the various jihadist terrorist groups in the country. The Associated Press (AP) reported on Monday that the drones are MQ-9, or Reaper, drones that “can fly at altitudes over 40,000 feet and can loiter for more than 30 hours.” A Nigerian military official suggested that Reaper drones were flying in the country in a report published by the Agence France-Presse (AFP) on March 21. The AP cited an alleged American official…

After two months of unyielding negotiations, both parties gave up early Friday on reaching a grand accord to reform and fund the Department of Homeland Security. Instead, Senate Republicans accepted what Democrats have been offering for weeks — cash for all of DHS except for ICE and part of Customs and Border Protection. The Senate approved the funding package by a voice vote and is now expected to begin a scheduled two-week recess. The House could vote as soon as Friday, before the shutdown would break the record Saturday night for the longest funding lapse of any federal agency in…

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) compared President Ronald Reagan’s characterization of the Soviet Union to the reality of modern-day China, telling Breitbart News that the country is an “evil empire” and calling President Xi Jinping a “Marxist.” Speaking to Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle at a Thursday policy event on the current and emerging threats presented by China and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the senator referred to his book, Seven Things You Can’t Say About China. Bringing up the first chapter of his book, called “China is an Evil Empire,” Cotton said he wrote that as an “obvious…

Actress Elizabeth Banks posted a video to her Instagram account claiming that the SAVE Act makes it hard for women to vote. And she is hoping her fans call their representatives to vote “no.” “I have voted since I was 18. The SAVE Act would make that much HARDER for me to do. Stop it. Tell your reps it’s no good,” the Hunger Games actress wrote to her 4.2 million followers in her March 25 instagram post. In her video she made the claim that women who have changed their name are somehow unable to get ID that rectifies their birth…

High demand on some routes is the main driver, Deputy PM Aleksandr Novak has said Russia has been trading oil without a discount and even at a premium on some routes, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak said on Thursday, as cited by Vedomosti.Global energy markets are under strain due to the fallout from the US-Israeli campaign against Iran, which has disrupted transit through the Strait of Hormuz and caused a sharp rise in oil prices, while boosting Russia’s pricing power. The country’s supply has not been affected.Western sanctions had previously forced Russia to sell crude at a discount to global…

President Trump announced on Thursday that he will sign an executive order to pay Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers during the partial shutdown affecting the functionality of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The president issued his announcement via Truth Social, accusing Democrats of siding with “criminal illegal aliens” over the American people by not enforcing immigration law. “They almost destroyed our Country, allowing 25 Million People to enter from Prisons, Mental Institutions, and Insane Asylums, those that are Drug Dealers, and thousands of Murderers, many of whom killed more than one person,” the president alleged. “I am going to sign an…

News outlets in Mexico are claiming that a group of soldiers from the U.S. Army crossed into Mexico while they were reinforcing the border fence. The issue sparked some tensions when Mexican military forces asked them to leave, but the troops stayed in their spot until they finished their task. The confrontation reportedly took place on Wednesday afternoon in the Mexican border city of Nogales, Sonora, where a group of U.S. soldiers was reinforcing parts of the border fence. Nogales is immediately south of the border of Nogales, Arizona. As Breitbart Texas reported, that region was known for having areas…

Ordinary citizens want peace, but bureaucrats are driven by military lobbies, Rudi Kennes has told RT The EU is divided over the US war against Iran, with public opinion strongly opposing it, while unelected officials in Brussels back Washington, Belgian MEP Rudi Kennes has told RT’s Rick Sanchez.European countries have failed to present a unified front on the war, with Spain and Italy voicing criticism, while others, including France, are avoiding outright condemnation and have increased their military footprint in the Middle East. Bureaucrats in Brussels, meanwhile, have focused largely on the lack of prior US consultation, while failing to…

Spanish prosecutors on Wednesday ratified their request of a 22-year prison sentence for Jon Perurena, a high school teacher on trial for allegedly offering money to three minor students in exchange for sexual favors. The Spanish news agency EuropaPress reports that Perurena works as a teacher at a school in Irun, a town in the Bidasoaldea region in the province of Gipuzkoa of the Basque Autonomous Community. He stands accused in an ongoing trial of offering money to three students in exchange for sexual favors between 2023 and 2024. The outlet Crónica Vasca detailed that Perurena faces two counts of sexual solicitation via internet, one count…