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Tuesday on MS NOW’s “Money Power Politics,” network international affairs analyst Michael McFaul said President Donald Trump’s strategy in Iran was making the United States look “absurd.” Host Stephanie Ruhle said, “We have seen the president order strike after strike on Iranian military targets, yet they still seem to have the capacity to attack ships in the strait. What does that say about how war has changed because of drones and is the U.S. responding properly?” McFaul said, “Well, it says that the war has changed radically, as we’ve seen, and we should have learned from the Russian invasion of…

Todd Blanche fended off questions about his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files at his confirmation hearing Wednesday morning, telling members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that “when it comes to victims of his horrible man, we will never, never not talk to victims.” But pressed by the top Judiciary Committee Democrat, Dick Durbin of Illinois, to meet with 10 victims present in the hearing room, Blanche suggested he is personally prohibited from meeting directly with them and instead offered to have them meet with one of his deputies. “They have lawyers, as you know. I’m prohibited from meeting directly…

Military-age newcomers must prove compliance with Kiev’s mobilization rules under the new scheme The EU has agreed to stop granting temporary protection to newly arriving Ukrainians liable for military service while extending the scheme for others who fled the conflict with Russia, according to the Council of the European Union. The restriction will take effect in March 2027, while the broader protection scheme will remain in place until March 2028.Kiev imposed a general mobilization shortly after the escalation of the conflict in February 2022, preventing nearly all military-age men from leaving the country. Despite the restrictions, many reached the EU,…

Kenneth Kies, Trump’s nominee to be assistant secretary for tax policy at the Treasury Department, during a Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing on Thursday, April 10, 2025. Photographer: Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg© 2025 Bloomberg Finance LPKen Kies, the Treasury Department’s top tax policy official who has also been serving as acting chief counsel of the IRS, is expected to leave the federal government. His departure would open another significant hole in IRS leadership. Neither of the two senior IRS leadership positions that require presidential appointment and Senate confirmation—the commissioner and the chief counsel—is currently held by a confirmed official.Kies was confirmed by…

Nvidia has reportedly created a stricter “whitelist” of verified companies in Asia, cutting its list of authorized customers by more than half in an effort to prevent advanced AI chips from being smuggled into China. Tom’s Hardware reports that Nvidia has taken significant steps to tighten control over the distribution of its AI chips in Asia.. The AI giant has established a new whitelist of verified customers that dramatically reduces the number of authorized clients by over fifty percent. This move comes as part of an intensified effort to prevent sophisticated AI processors from being illegally smuggled into China, where U.S.…

Left-wing British politicians have already begun to seize upon the killing of Brexit hero Ann Widdecombe to push for more censorship on social media to combat “hate”, despite police having made no public indication that the suspected killer was radicalised online. The political, media, and law enforcement establishments were quick to condemn British citizens for “speculation” over the potential motives behind the killing of former Conservative government minister and Brexit Party Member of European Parliament Ann Widdecombe, while accusing her long-time allies, like Nigel Farage, of seeking to exploit her death for political purposes. However, contrary to Widdecombe’s long career…

The Mexican government is using lawyers to block ICE’s repatriation of migrant Mexicans back to Mexico, according to Reuters. The news service reported: Mexico has begun filing criminal complaints with state prosecutors in the United States over the deaths of its citizens in U.S. immigration custody and during enforcement operations, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday. Mexico’s government has also sent cease-and-desist letters to U.S. detention centers where Mexican nationals have died, the ministry added in a statement. “I don’t think this situation appears acceptable to anyone,” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday. “This is an issue for all Mexicans,” she said,…

House Republicans released a fiscal blueprint Wednesday morning for the $95 billion party-line funding package GOP leaders hope to pass later this summer. Budget Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) has scheduled a Thursday morning markup of the measure, which would unlock the reconciliation process to skirt the Senate filibuster and enact a bill that delivers $73 billion for the military and intelligence, $12 billion for farm assistance, plus $10 billion more for election grants to states and other efforts aimed at encouraging strict voter-ID laws. Even clearing the framework through committee — the first step in an arduous legislative process —…

The mass amnesty of over 1.2 million illegal migrants set in motion by Spain’s socialist government will “collapse” the issue of foreign national identity cards, police officers warned on Wednesday. Unnamed police officers that warned of the situation to local outlets reportedly affirmed that the nation is ill-prepared to withstand the sheer workload of issuing that many cards over the next months — with the added problem of “mafias” reselling appointment slots for sums of money. The Spanish government, led by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, is currently in the processing phase of the over 1.2 million applications for mass amnesty…

The Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, PA, continues on Wednesday, July 15. The summit, which brings together “America’s leading defense and technology leaders, including senior military commanders, industry CEOs, investors, innovators, workforce developers, and entrepreneurs, to accelerate innovation and strengthen America’s defense industrial base,” is hosted by Pennsylvania Senator Dave McCormick (R), who spoke with Breitbart News on Tuesday about the event. President Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver a keynote address to close the summit on Wednesday afternoon. Read the full article here