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Senate Majority Leader John Thune offered a lukewarm response Monday to President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the federal gas tax should be suspended — even as several GOP lawmakers embraced the idea amid a global oil supply crunch. “I’ve not in the past obviously been a fan of that idea,” Thune told reporters. “But, you know, I’ve got some colleagues out there who think it’s a good idea, and so we’ll hear them out.” As the war with Iran keeps millions of barrels of oil from transiting the Strait of Hormuz daily, Trump endorsed the idea of a gas-tax holiday…

Monday, May 11, 2026Oceanwide Expeditions says 87 guests and 35 crew members from 22 counties have disembarked the ship and returned home, and the boat is now en route to the Netherlands with 25 crew members and two medical professionals on board. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says, “We have this under control and we’re not worried about it” during an Oval Office event after President Donald Trump downplayed concerns about virus, echoing health officials who’ve said the disease is “not easy to spread” and adding the U.S. is in “very good shape.” Sixteen passengers…

The family of a victim killed in the April 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University has filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming the company’s ChatGPT chatbot enabled the deadly attack. NBC News reports that Vandana Joshi, widow of Tiru Chabba, one of two people killed in the shooting, has filed the lawsuit in Florida against OpenAI. Chabba died alongside Robert Morales, the university’s dining director. The complaint also names Phoenix Ikner, the accused shooter, as a defendant, citing what it describes as his extensive conversations with ChatGPT. Breitbart News previously reported that Ikner was in “constant communication” with…

Iran’s state media outlets reported on Sunday that Mojtaba Khamenei, the alleged “supreme leader” of the country, had “issued new directives” to the armed forces, including the terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The alleged directives followed days of stalled negotiations between America and Iran with the goal of ending active hostilities. The White House has insisted that any peace deal must also require limits on Iran’s nuclear program, which prior to the current war was enriching uranium at levels inconsistent with any known civilian use and blocking the United Nations atomic agency from inspecting key sites. Part of the…

President Donald Trump’s energy strategy is a crucial diplomatic tool used with both friends and foes, Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) explained during an event with Breitbart News on Monday. Host and Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle asked McCormick to discuss President Trump using energy as both a “sword and an olive branch for achieving the American interest on the world stage.” McCormick observed that Trump has “expanded the economic agenda across everything” from foreign direct investment to energy. “The NATO and the economic team is gonna talk about trade relations, and the foreign direct investment [will] be the Treasury,” McCormick…

This should come as no surprise to anyone who clearly sees what’s happened to a Democrat Party that currently backs U.S. Senate candidate Graham “Nazi Tattoo” Platner, that supports permanently mutilating children to appease their trans gods, and many of whom celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Come on, knowing all that, is a scheme to annihilate an entire State Supreme Court all that shocking? Yes, folks, the Party of Muh norms! Muh norms! and Muh democracy! Muh democracy! is at it again. After Virginia’s Democrats won total control of state government with majorities in the House of Delegates and…

The top House Democrat guaranteed a victory for his party in the November midterms in a message to lawmakers Monday, seeking to settle nerves after a pair of redistricting-related court decisions threatened to hand several seats to Republicans. “Democrats will take control of the House of Representatives in November,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wrote in the “Dear Colleague” letter. Jeffries also announced a Thursday House Democratic Caucus meeting to discuss “the steps Democrats are taking to advance the largest voter protection effort in modern American history.” Rep. Joe Morelle of New York, the top Democrat on the House Administration…

The North African nation poses the biggest problem for the bloc in terms of arrivals, Thanos Plevris has said The EU might be on the verge of a new migrant crisis, with more than half a million people waiting in Libya alone to cross into Europe, Greek Migration Minister Thanos Plevris has said.The bloc was first inundated by asylum seekers from the Middle East and Northern Africa during the 2015 refugee crisis, when a million migrants entered Europe, straining welfare systems and prompting tens of millions of European voters to turn to far-right political parties.Greece remains one of the bloc’s…

The AI revolution is the “most consequential moment in our lifetimes,” Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) said during an event with Breitbart News. Speaking about the intersection of AI and energy, McCormick said it is “the most consequential moment in history.” “But just think about it. Has there ever been a moment in human history where the pace of change has been so fast and accelerating?” the Republican senator asked, pointing out that this specific technology is changing at “breakneck speed” and pointing to the way AI has affected several sectors — from defense to everyday life. The senator described it…

A Spanish court has sentenced two parents to prison for keeping their children locked away at their home for years in a case now known in the country as ‘The Oviedo Horror House’. A couple, identified due to Spanish child protection standards only as a 53 year-old German man and a 48 year-old German-American dual national woman, have been sentenced to two years and ten months in prison each for child abuse. The case, which is said to have shocked the nation and residents of the northwest city of Oviedo, Asturias, saw three children — two nine year-old twins and an 11 year-old…