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A group of Senate Republicans believe they’ve found a path to ending the five-week Department of Homeland Security shutdown after meeting Monday with President Donald Trump. Asked after the White House meeting if they had a solution after meeting with Trump, Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama told reporters, “We do.” Britt and Sens. Bernie Moreno of Ohio, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Steve Daines of Montana met with Trump to try to pitch to accept an agreement that would fund most of DHS. Their pitch, according to two people with knowledge of it, was to pass a funding bill…
From drone strikes to economic risks, regional leaders are choosing restraint over retaliation – revealing deeper fears of escalation and unreliable alliances Speaking on Sunday at a site in Arad struck by an Iranian missile, where more than a hundred people were injured, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged more countries to join the war effort.“What more proof do you need that this regime that threatens the entire world has to be stopped? Israel and the United States are working together for the entire world. And it’s time to see the leaders of the rest of the countries join up.”Yet,…
Iran Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is “wounded, isolated, and not responding to messages being relayed to him,” according to anonymous alleged U.S. and Israeli security officials speaking to mainstream media outlets this weekend. The assessment was relayed by the Washington Post in an otherwise dour status report on Sunday, which portrayed Operation Epic Fury as boiling down to a vicious struggle for control over the Strait of Hormuz in which Iran supposedly holds most of the cards. Even the dubious condition of Khamenei, who was hastily appointed two weeks ago to replace his slain father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made the…
David Simon, who died Sunday at 64 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, was the last of a kind: a builder in an age of talkers, a dealmaker who let the deals speak for themselves, a billionaire who never confused running a great company with saving the world. He built the largest retail real estate empire in the history of American commerce, generated returns of more than 4,500 percent for shareholders, and did it all without signing a single open letter, joining a single CEO coalition, or turning his company into a vehicle for his politics. In an era when…
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said TSA wait times were “going to get much worse” as the partial government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues. Partial transcript as follows: KARL: And we’ve seen TSA agents last week had to start working without pay. More than 10 percent. Monday and Wednesday, did not show up. We’ve also — or the very latest we’ve heard is that some 400 TSA officers have quit since the shutdown began. You said, that this — that the lines we’ve been seeing so far will be child’s play if this goes…
Over 30 billion images generated by users over a decade are now being used to power an automated delivery service Millions of players who spent years scanning landmarks while chasing digital creatures in Pokemon Go have unknowingly helped build one of the largest real-world visual datasets in history, which is now being used to fuel an automated delivery service.Released in 2016 by US-based Niantic, Pokemon Go was one of the first widely successful augmented reality games. It used players’ phone cameras and GPS to overlay digital creatures onto real-world locations, sending millions into parks, streets, and landmarks in search of…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday they have instructed the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to destroy all bridges over Lebanon’s Litani River and wipe out structures that could be used to shelter Hezbollah fighters in an effort to apply the “Gaza model” to the Iran-backed terrorists of Lebanon. “In addition, we have ordered an acceleration in the destruction of Lebanese homes in contact-line villages to neutralize threats to Israeli communities, in accordance with the model of Beit Hanun and Rafah in Gaza,” Katz said. The Litani River is the natural boundary of Southern…
Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio Dominguez on Friday sought to convince Canada to prop up the fading Communist regime in Havana, arguing that Canadian companies could lose billions from nullified contracts if the regime falls. De Cossio praised Cuba’s “important trade relations” with Canada and the hefty investments Canadian companies have made in Cuba. “Despite the fact that we do not have a coincidence in all the political and international positions, we have always known how to solve our problems, our differences, and work with them based on dialogue and based on mutual respect,” he said. The…
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration was “jiu-jitsuing the Iranians” by “using their own oil against them.” Partial transcript as follows: KRISTEN WELKER: Let me talk about your announcement this past week. On Friday, the Treasury Department lifted sanctions on Iranian oil stored on tankers, a move that would effectively allow Iran to get more than $14 billion of oil revenue.Why is the U.S. helping to fund a country that it’s currently at war with, Mr. Secretary? BESSENT: Again, Kristen, why don’t we have good facts here? That Iranian oil was always…
Four Senate Republicans are meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House to discuss funding the Department of Homeland Security, which has been shuttered for more than a month amid a standoff with Democrats over the administration’s immigration enforcement agenda. GOP lawmakers attending the Monday night meeting, according to a person granted anonymity to share details of a private confab, are Sens. Katie Britt of Alabama, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Bernie Moreno of Ohio and Steve Daines of Montana. Britt is the chair of the appropriations subcommittee with oversight over DHS and has been helping lead negotiations to…