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Democrat Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) raged over White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt pointing to the radical left’s violent rhetoric following yet another failed assassination attempt on President Donald Trump. Speaking after the failed attempt on Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner over the weekend, Leavitt told reporters on Monday that we “should not live in a country where such constant fear of political violence permeates our society.” Disagreements, she said, should remain peaceful, and can be resolved through debate, voting, or protests rather than violence. However, some Democrats have only continued to up their rhetoric against…

Speaker Mike Johnson may have squeezed out a pair of legislative wins Wednesday, but his headaches are far from over as the legislative deals made now face snarls in the Senate. After a chaotic, all-day vote series on the House floor, lawmakers approved a budget framework setting up a path to fund immigration enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security, which has been shut down for more than two months. They also passed a three-year extension of government spy powers known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Here’s where those measures now stand, as well as the…

The loosely defined initiative will reportedly be pitched to foreign governments by the State Department The US is set to pitch foreign governments on a new initiative for controlling the Strait of Hormuz, with participation explicitly excluding “adversaries” Russia and China, according to media reports.The proposal was outlined in a cable sent on Tuesday by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to US embassies, which were instructed to present the plan to host governments. The Wall Street Journal first reported on the cable, with Reuters later confirming its contents.The initiative, known as the Maritime Freedom Construct (MFC), would be jointly managed…

The suspect in the stabbing of two Jewish men in Golders Green, London, on Wednesday has been identified as a 45-year-old migrant from Somalia. In what is being treated as a terrorist incident, two men, identified as Shilome Rand, 34, and Moshe Shine, 76, were stabbed in the Golders Green area of North London. Both suffered injuries, forcing them to be hospitalised; however, both are now said to be in stable condition. In dramatic scenes plastered across social media, police were filmed using tasers and kicks to incapacitate the suspected knifeman after he apparently attempted to stab officers as well and was…

Tuesday on CNN’s “News Central,” network chief media analyst Brian Stelter claimed comedian Jimmy Kimmel had “all the power” in the current fight over his White House Correspondents’ dinner monologue in which he said Melania Trump had the “glow like an expectant widow.” Both the first lady and the president have called on ABC to fire Kimmel. Stelter said, “My indication, you know, Disney is being tight-lipped about this, so on the record, nobody there is saying anything about Kimmel. But my sense talking with sources, making calls overnight, is that Disney is absolutely standing by Kimmel, and you can see that because he was…

Top Republicans are growing increasingly anxious that the Senate, once seen as a lock for the party to hold in the midterms, is at risk of flipping as Democrats continue to hammer President Donald Trump for the cost of living and foreign intervention in Iran. That fear is laid out in a new memo, shared exclusively with POLITICO, from the powerful GOP and Koch-aligned super PAC Americans for Prosperity Action, whose leaders are calling on the GOP to lock in on the cost of living or risk losing power in Washington. “As it stands today, our view is that the…

The move is expected to affect some 16,000 Ukrainian migrants housed in accommodation provided by the government The Irish government has agreed to put in motion a plan to terminate government-provided accommodation for Ukrainian migrants, as well as cut benefits for those living in rentals.An estimated 125,000 Ukrainians have received temporary protection in Ireland since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022. According to local media reports, Dublin has spent more than €438 million ($516 million) on housing support for roughly half of them.The government sealed the scheme to cut housing benefits for Ukrainians who arrived in Ireland…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that a global recession is coming, thanks to the war with Iran. Any further escalation would trigger a global recession that would harm the United Kingdom far more than any other G7 country. In its half-yearly update, the IMF said the UK would suffer the sharpest growth downgrade and the joint highest inflation rate in the G7 this year, even if the fallout from soaring energy costs can be contained by the middle of 2026, according to a report by The Guardian.  The IMF added that if a worst-case “severe scenario” unfolds, involving a drawn-out…

The Spanish government’s ongoing mass amnesty for illegal migrants has already caused a functional collapse of social services across Madrid, a report states. The administration of socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is presently on the first weeks of its highly-controversial plan to grant as many as half a million illegal migrants with legal residence status and work permits, provided they comply with a list of — extremely lax and questionably enforced — requirements. The amnesty plan officially went into action in mid-April and will run through the end of June. Unnamed Madrid municipal sources told Spanish publication Okdiario that the sheer…

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “All In,” Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) responded to criticism of gas prices in California by the Trump administration by arguing that “they have full ownership of this energy crisis, full ownership of the high gas prices, full ownership of the increase in utility bills.” Host Chris Hayes asked, “Finally, every time that we show this national U.S. average gas prices graphic, which we’ve been showing a lot, I hear from viewers in California who say, buddy, you don’t know the half of it, I wish we were paying those national averages. It was very…