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Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday announced that Cuba’s nonagenarian communist dictator Raúl Castro has been indicted over his role in the killing of four Americans in February 1996. Speaking at the Freedom Tower in Miami, Florida, acting AG Blanche announced that Castro and five co-defendants have been charged with conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, as well as other charges including destruction of aircraft and four individual counts of murder. “My message today is clear, the United States and President Trump does not — and will not — forget its citizens,” acting AG Blanche said. “President Trump is committed…
Lorna Hajdini, a female JPMorgan executive accused of sexually harassing and racially abusing a male subordinate, has filed a countersuit against her #MeToo accuser. Hajdini filed her suit on Tuesday night in a New York state court in Manhattan, claiming that the accusations have destroyed her reputation and “wreaked havoc” on her life, per Reuters: In papers filed on Tuesday night in a New York state court in Manhattan, Lorna Hajdini said her former colleague Chirayu Rana fabricated allegations that she raped and drugged him, in order to attract maximum press coverage, cause her pain and extract millions of dollars…
Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy says he will use part of his remaining time in Congress to lobby for passage of legislation that would put a price on certain polluting imports. “I’d like to try to get it done this Congress,” said Cassidy, who over the weekend lost his chance to compete in a run-off GOP primary after running afoul of President Donald Trump and his supporters. “But if not, I’m comfortable that there will be somebody who would be interested in pushing it. Now that folks understand the concept, they have very much gotten into it.” The bill, would…
Washington should stop all aid to the Jewish state, the conservative commentator has argued The US has no obligation to give Israel anything and should cut off all aid to the Jewish state, conservative American journalist Tucker Carlson has said. Washington’s association with what he described as Israel’s “many crimes” has damaged America’s global reputation, he argued.Speaking to Israeli Channel 13 in an interview aired on Tuesday, Carlson said that he was “disgusted by the way that Israel treats Arabs, like animals or subhumans,” and argued that the Jewish state has “lost its morality.”“I think we should stop all aid…
An AI system malfunctioned while it was being used to read the names of Glendale Community College (GCC) graduates at the school’s commencement ceremony in Glendale, Arizona, on Friday — resulting in the event needing to be paused at least twice to great frustration of graduates and their loved ones. Students and families were left frustrated after the names being read at GCC’s commencement ceremony didn’t match the graduates walking across the stage, according to a report by AZ Family. Grace Reimer told the outlet that the incident “definitely made me feel uneasy,” recalling having crossed the stage to retrieve her degree, only to…
According to a Financial Times (FT) report on Monday, Chinese dictator Xi Jinping told the visiting President Donald Trump that Russian President Vladimir Putin might come to regret invading Ukraine. This seemingly anodyne observation would be significant because China has refused to denounce the Russian attack on Ukraine and, while the Chinese insist they have not supported the invasion directly, they have undeniably protected Russia against the worst effects of international sanctions for its act of blatant aggression. Xi is Putin’s senior partner in the Axis of Tyranny and if he truly thinks Putin made a terrible blunder by attacking…
Actor Sebastian Stan, who previously played a young Donald Trump during his ascendance in the late 70s and 80s in The Apprentice movie, holds the man now in the White House beneath contempt and aired his doom-laden views Tuesday at the Cannes Film Festival. Deadline reports Stan was at the elite movie festival in the south of France to talk about his latest movie Fjord but could not resist embracing the Hollywood habit of airing his political views when fronted by a media audience. The Avengers star was asked how Trump has evolved since the premiere of The Apprentice two…
Key Senate negotiators held a bipartisan meeting Monday night to discuss closing a long-sought deal on overhauling the federal permitting process for energy projects — a sign that talks are progressing despite the difficult odds in a midterm election year. Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), a moderate Energy and Natural Resources Committee member active on permitting issues, organized the dinner meeting with committee leaders to “provide a forum to keep conversations moving,” according to a person granted anonymity to describe the private gathering. Environment Public Works Chair Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Energy and Natural Resources Chair Mike Lee (R-Utah) also…
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has become a lightning rod for international criticism after taunting detained activists Israeli forces intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters as it approached Gaza on May 18, preventing the vessels from reaching the enclave and detaining more than 400 activists from around 40 countries.The mission had set out from Türkiye to challenge Israel’s naval blockade and draw attention to Gaza’s humanitarian crisis. Those detained included citizens of Italy, the UK, Canada, Türkiye, Greece, France, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, South Korea, Ireland, and New Zealand.The controversy escalated after Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir…
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) said on Wednesday that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) began much earlier than previously suspected, and is spreading faster than anticipated, but the wider world still has no reason to fear the disease will spread beyond the DRC and neighboring Uganda. “W.H.O. assesses the risk of the epidemic as high at the national and regional levels, and low at the global level,” said the organization’s director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, at a press conference on Wednesday. Tedros said there were several reasons for “serious concern about the potential for further…