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Reform UK’s finance spokesman Robert Jenrick met with U.S. Vice President JD Vance in Washington on Friday, delivering a message to the United States that Britain would be a positive NATO ally under a Nigel Farage government. The United Kingdom will boost its spending on defence to the equivalent of three per cent of gross domestic product by 2030 and then go further, an emissary of what party supporters will hope will be the next British government told U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Friday. Robert Jenrick, who was one of only a handful of British political figures personally invited…

Three illegal aliens, all released into the United States by the Biden administration, are accused of a set of thefts in small towns in West Virginia. According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, Venezuelan illegal aliens Deivis Willyan Diaz and Daniel Alberto Arias Ramirez are accused of carrying out a theft at a Walmart in West, West Virginia, where some $21,000 worth of jewelry was stolen on July 26. That same day, in Sutton, West Virginia, ICE officials said Venezuelan illegal alien Oscar Jose Hernandez Silva is accused of petit larceny following a theft. ICE officials revealed that Diaz, Ramirez,…

The Senate is aiming to leave Washington for a five-week recess early Saturday after Republicans cut a deal with President Donald Trump to punt some of their priorities, including a framework for a party-line spending plan. The Senate is trying to lock in an agreement that would set up votes on a college sports bill, a stopgap government funding bill, Todd Blanche’s attorney general nomination and GOP voter ID legislation, according to a copy of an internal notice reviewed by POLITICO. The Senate would then leave Washington until mid-September. Any one senator could object to the tentative deal, forcing it…

Researchers produced 16 functional pathogens as experts warn the same technology could eventually pose serious biosecurity risks US scientists have used artificial intelligence (AI) to create functional viruses that do not exist in nature for the first time, demonstrating a capability that researchers say could advance medicine but also pose serious biosecurity risks.Researchers at Stanford University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard used AI to design thousands of complete viral genomes, according to a study published in Science on Thursday.Nearly 300 of the designs were chemically synthesized and tested in laboratories, producing 16 viable viruses.The viruses were bacteriophages…

Screencap of YouTube video. On a recent episode of The Five on FOX News, Greg Gutfeld went off on the DSA and socialism while keeping the topic in historical perspective. Gutfeld made it clear that he is tired of debating an ideology that has not only failed, but has killed millions of people. All of the people who are part of the DSA or support them seem to have skipped history classes for their entire lives. Townhall has details: On Thursday, Gutfeld argued that conservatives debating Democrats, especially members of the Democratic Socialists of America, are often confronting people who…

AP — Ukrainian long-range drones hit a warehouse of Russia´s biggest online retailer in the Ural Mountains, more than 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) from the two countries´ border, local officials and the company said Friday. Ukraine has regularly hit targets in the distant Urals this year and has even struck a Russian oil refinery in western Siberia, nearly 2,500 kilometers (1,550 miles) from the border. The attacks are examples of how Kyiv has used drone innovation as a key part of its response to the invasion by its much bigger enemy more than four years ago. Its successes have drawn international…

President Donald Trump on Friday announced billions of dollars in deals and investments in and around the mining industry, as well as more than $180 million in funding for mining schools. Trump detailed several of the deals and investments at an event on American mining at the State Department on Friday. The full list as provided by the White House is as follows: The Department of War is investing over $85 million into Standard Bauxite to secure the supply chain of refractory-grade bauxite to support manufacturing of high-temperature-resistant materials used to make critical components for our warfighters and essential to…

Leftist soccer star Megan Rapinoe criticized WNBA player Sophie Cunningham for taking a picture with women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines.  “At a Fever vs. Lynx game on Aug. 2, Riley Gaines — the former college swimmer who is now an activist against trans participation in women’s sports — snapped a photo with Cunningham,” the New York Post reported.  Gaines, who has advocated for protecting women’s sports from the incursion of trans-identifying male athletes since she competed against male swimmer Lia Thomas in 2022, brought a sign to the game that read, “Sophie, Thank You — A Girl Mom.”  Rapinoe commented…

Black applicants to Duke Law have significantly higher chances of being admitted, the US government has said Duke University School of Law has largely disregarded the US Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action and continued to discriminate against white and Asian applicants, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has alleged.In 2023, the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in cases brought by Students for Fair Admissions against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, sharply limiting the use of race in determining college admissions under constitutional equal-protection principles.The DOJ said on Thursday that Duke Law had formally acknowledged the…

Trump loyalist Kari Lake’s confirmation as US Ambassador to Jamaica has been delayed due to efforts by outgoing Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) to undermine President Trump, the Gateway Pundit has learned. Tillis was behind the move to pull Lake’s name out of the group that was confirmed on Friday, derailing her confirmation, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. Lake advanced out of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee last month, with all 12 Republicans voting in favor of her nomination. However, when the Senate voted on Friday to confirm 74 nominees, including over a dozen ambassadors, to the…