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Nike announced it will be enacting roughly 1,400 layoffs globally as it continues to suffer an ongoing downturn in sales. Shared with employees on Thursday, the memo from Chief Operating Officer Venkatesh Alagirisamy said that the company will be laying off employees in North America and Europe, with an emphasis on its technology team. “You never want to have to go through any sort of layoffs, but to re-center the company, we’re doing some of that,” CEO Elliott Hill said in an interview earlier this year. The layoffs represent “less than 2% of Nike’s global workforce,” per the New York Post. Nike shares…

President Donald Trump called for the lawsuit against the White House ballroom to be dropped after the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night. Trump took to Truth Social on Sunday morning to stress that the reported targeting of officials last night is precisely why a secure ballroom on White House grounds is needed. “What happened last night is exactly the reason that our great Military, Secret Service, Law Enforcement and, for different reasons, every President for the last 150 years, have been DEMANDING that a large, safe, and secure Ballroom be built ON THE GROUNDS OF…

The suspected shooter at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner wrote a manifesto and attended a No King’s protest, according to a senior Trump administration official. Cole Tomas Allen, 31, had a manifesto detailing his intention to target officials in the Trump administration, a senior Trump administration official confirmed to Breitbart News. Fox News’s Jacqui Heinrich first reported on the details. Allen allegedly shared a manifesto with family before he allegedly stormed the Washington Hilton — where the dinner was being held in the ballroom—with what NBC News reported was a shotgun, a handgun, and several knives. His brother alerted authorities…

Correspondent Zeinab Faraj was seriously wounded earlier this week in an IDF strike that killed reporter Amal Khalil Wounded Lebanese journalist Zeinab Faraj has described the Israeli strike that killed her colleague Amal Khalil, prompting Beirut to accuse West Jerusalem of war crimes.In an interview filmed from her hospital bed, Faraj broke down in tears as she recounted the ordeal and her final moments with Khalil.On Wednesday, Khalil and Faraj were driving through the southern village of al-Tiri when an Israeli drone struck a car ahead of them.“Completely silently, a missile hit that car. Amal screamed and abruptly turned to…

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A group of nearly 100 protesters gathered outside a warehouse to rage against U.S. Customs and Immigration Service (ICE) plans to convert the property into a processing and detention facility. The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) organized the protest, attended by a crowd of mostly senior citizens, who chanted along with speakers as they held signs critical of ICE. Breitbart Texas observed the protest at the warehouse purchased in early February for more than $66 million. According to documents released by Bexar County officials, the buyer is listed as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in…

Jimmy Kimmel, host of the Disney-owned ABC late-night show Jimmy Kimmel Live!, put on a mock White House Correspondents’ Dinner roast during Thursday night’s broadcast in which he fanaticized about President Donald Trump’s death in a joke aimed at First Lady Melania Trump. Firing off one-liners about President Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Stephen Miller, among other White House officials, Kimmel set his sights on the First Lady. “And of course, our first lady, Melania, is here. Look at So beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow,” Kimmel said to the delight of the studio audience. Kimmel’s ten-minute monologue…

Taking part in pro-Palestinian protests and criticizing Israel online can reportedly be seen as disqualifying factors US green card applicants could be rejected for criticizing Israel and taking part in pro-Palestinian protests, the New York Times reported on Saturday, citing internal Department of Homeland Security training materials. The guidance is reportedly part of the administration’s broader effort to vet applicants for ‘anti-American’ and ‘anti-Semitic’ views.In instructions to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reviewed by the newspaper, the administration treats participation in pro-Palestinian protests and public criticism of Israel as “overwhelmingly negative” factors when deciding on permanent residency applications.According…

Visa has just unveiled a new suite of artificial intelligence tools designed to overhaul how credit card disputes are handled, and once again this is being presented as a simple evolution toward efficiency and improved customer experience, yet when you step back and examine the scale of what is unfolding, this is clearly part of a much broader structural shift within the financial system toward centralization and automation. The numbers alone should make that obvious, with Visa processing over 106 million disputes globally in 2025, representing a 35% increase since 2019, and that type of exponential growth is not something that can…

Mexico’s government seeks to extradite a fugitive vice-admiral who is wanted in connection with a large-scale cartel-connected fuel smuggling conspiracy. The admiral allegedly attempted to flee to Argentina to avoid prosecution in Mexico. This week, law enforcement in Buenos Aires, Argentina, working with Mexican military and police, arrested Fernando Farias Laguna, a top-level vice-admiral with Mexico’s Navy who is listed as a fugitive on organized crime charges in relation to fuel smuggling. At the time of the arrest, authorities in Argentina revealed that Farias Laguna carried a false ID as he tried to hide out in the South American nation.…

The Senate Banking Committee next week will vote to advance Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to become Federal Reserve chairman. The Senate Banking Committee set a committee vote to advance Warsh’s nomination for Federal Reserve chairman of the Fed Board of Governors for next Wednesday. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) had also announced his support to advance Warsh’s confirmation after Jeanine Pirro, the top federal prosecutor for Washington, DC, had said she closed an investigation into cost overruns in the renovation of the Fed’s D.C. headquarters, more formally known as the Eccles Building. He said in a statement on X:…