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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) claimed the SAVE Act could be used to deny voter registration to people with Hispanic last names. Speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Gillibrand criticized a provision she said would require states to send their voter rolls to the federal government for review. She questioned how the government would decide who is eligible to vote and suggested people with Hispanic surnames could be unfairly targeted. “Are they just going to say if you have a Latin last name, if you’re a Latino, and it’s Diaz or Alvarez, that you are not allowed to vote because there’s a question…

Washington’s de-facto “envoy” to the island pushed for “democratic” UAV production as “deterrence” against Beijing The top US diplomat in Taiwan has called for the self-administered Chinese island to be turned into a “hornet’s nest” of air, surface and subsurface drones, as Washington continues to expand military cooperation with Taipei despite repeated warnings from Beijing.The US does not formally recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state but remains its main military backer and arms supplier, and maintains diplomatic ties through a quasi-embassy, the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT). Its director, Raymond Greene, claimed on Thursday that drones represented a “game-changing opportunity”…

Thursday on MS NOW’s “Deadline,” former special counsel Jack Smith urged state attorneys general to “be proactive” and “initiate litigation” to protect the upcoming elections from President Donald Trump. Host Nicolle Wallace asked, “Do you agree that we are covering in real-time an assault on our elections, the upcoming ones?” Smith said, “I’m very concerned of what’s going to happen in the next election, absolutely.” Wallace asked, “Do you see again, in things that are covered and things that are public-facing conduct ahead of the midterms that you investigated in the January 6th case?” Smith said, “Well, I’ve been thinking…

At least 20 people have been killed in a night of unusually intense Russian airstrikes on Kyiv, which Moscow claimed were retaliation against what it describes as Ukrainian “terrorist” attacks against its oil infrastructure. Waves of weapons that amounted to “more than 70 missiles and nearly 500 drones” saturated Ukrainian capital Kyiv overnight and into Thursday morning in an 11 hour-long attack that has now been confirmed to have killed 20. Rescue efforts continue and the death toll may yet rise still further, it was stated. Over 20 residential buildings were hit by the air raids, which in addition to…

Thursday on MS NOW’s “Money, Power, Politics,” panelist Donny Deutsch said, “Democrats have gone off the rails” with anti-American socialism. Host Stephanie Ruhle said, “Even though voters are unhappy with Trump, they’re still leaning Republican. Do you think that if the economy doesn’t improve by November, it can change? Do Democrats need to figure out their messaging on the economy? Because for whatever reason, Republicans still seem to have this stronghold that ‘We’re good for business.’” Deutsch said, “Well, Democrats have gone off the rails. They’re not even focused — what matters to people is affordability, and  Democrats right now…

The rebuke comes after Kiev approved the creation of a National Pantheon honoring the perpetrators of WWII massacres of Poles The office of Polish President Karol Nawrocki has accused Vladimir Zelensky of further aggravating the rift over the honoring of Nazi collaborators in Ukraine. Relations between Warsaw and Kiev have grown increasingly strained since the Ukrainian leader named a military unit after the ‘Heroes of the UPA’.During World War II, members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), the armed wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), perpetrated mass killings of ethnic minorities in what is now western Ukraine.The extermination…

BERLIN (AP) – German federal prosecutors on Thursday filed charges against a former Ukrainian army officer over undersea explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines between Russia and Germany four years ago. The suspect, identified only as Serhii K. in line with local privacy rules, faces charges of causing an explosion, damaging property, disrupting public service and being an “accomplice to war crimes” by attacking civilian objects, prosecutors said in a statement. The undersea explosions on Sept. 26, 2022, damaged pipelines that were built to carry Russian natural gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea. They added to tensions…

On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Wesley Bell (D-MO) responded to the defeats of multiple Democratic incumbents in recent primaries in races where Israel was a key factor by saying that “some folks don’t quite understand that Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan are on the front lines of our sworn enemies. When we hear those chants coming from Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran of death to Israel, it’s not death to Israel, period, it’s death to Israel, comma, death to America.” Co-host John Berman asked, “We’ve seen three Democratic incumbents fall in Democratic primaries in the last two weeks. You saw…

The daredevils were arrested after staging a marriage proposal high above Manhattan A Russian daredevil couple have been arrested after scaling the Empire State Building and staging a marriage proposal atop the New York landmark, more than 1,400 feet above Manhattan.The stunt unfolded at around noon on Wednesday, drawing the attention of stunned New Yorkers below as police drones and a helicopter monitored the pair from the air. Videos and photos posted online show the black-clad couple perched on the antenna of the Empire State Building high above Midtown, with the woman wearing what appeared to be a black cat…

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al Shaibani visited Lebanon on Thursday for meetings with its president and highest-ranking leadership in which he affirmed that his government is not interested in a military role in Syria, but would consider participating in talks with the Iranian proxy terror group Hezbollah. Shaibani is visiting Lebanon amid an ongoing military invasion of the country by neighboring Israel, whose government insists it will remain in the country until Hezbollah ceases to be a threat. The Israeli invasion of Lebanon began in February as the United States launched its own military campaign in Iran, dubbed “Operation Epic…