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Speaker Mike Johnson spoke to Rep. Chuck Edwards in the hours before the North Carolina Republican ended his reelection campaign in an early-morning X post, a Johnson aide familiar with the conversation said. Johnson declined to say in a Tuesday night interview with POLITICO whether Edwards should continue his campaign after the House Ethics Committee recommended his censure over “inappropriate conduct” with young women on his staff. He said Edwards had “a big decision” to make and that he planned to discuss the matter with him further. That conversation happened overnight, the aide familiar with the conversation said, with Johnson…
The Pentagon’s rush to develop and test GPS jamming technology could have already cost civilian lives The US military’s GPS jamming exercises have been directly implicated in a fatal plane crash for the first time, after an air ambulance flew into a mountain range in New Mexico while its guidance system was scrambled.Details of the crash, which took place in May, were revealed in a recent preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The report explains how the jamming exercises interfered with multiple aircraft, pushing air traffic controllers to the breaking point as they attempted to reroute flights…
Citadel Cadet Dustin Rose, childhood best friend Samson Campbell gunned down by 17-year-old Keyan Rundell in Florida A Citadel cadet and South Carolina Army National Guard member and his childhood best friend were gunned down in a vacant Florida lot by a 17-year-old killer last week. Citadel cadet Dustin Rose and his childhood friend Samson Campbell were fatally shot in DeLand, Florida, last Wednesday night. Samson Campbell came home to DeLand to mourn his family’s dog who recently died. Dustin Rose joined Campbell to spread the dog’s ashes. The two young men were fatally shot at an industrial park and…
British-born actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who starred as “Plumette” in Disney’s 2017 Beauty and the Beast, is calling for reparations for blacks. The Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) awardee appeared on a press tour for the British TV series Possession in which she stars as “Claudia” and for which she is an executive producer, when she veered off into the topic. “There is a huge healing process to go on in the world on, on many levels. And you know, reparations is part of that, but I think that you have to approach the subject on a on a…
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat Senate candidate who won his primary in Michigan, is an “extremist” who wants to empty prisons and embrace the Muslim Brotherhood, Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers said in a statement on Wednesday, the day after the primary. Rogers said in a statement that the choice is between “common sense or complete insanity,” explaining that Democrats have run the state of Michigan “into the ground” over the last two decades plus. “They’ve dropped our schools to 45th in the nation. They’ve saddled families with the highest utility rates in the Midwest. Working people are paying more,…
Rep. John James has won the Republican nomination in the Michigan governor’s race over businessman Perry Johnson. James handily won the race with 49.7 percent of the vote over Johnson’s 35.2 percent by the time analysts declared him the victor. The Army veteran James lost two Senate races in Michigan before securing a U.S. House seat in 2022, which he won again in 2024. “This is an amazing state with all the great ingredients, but for the past seven-and-a-half years, under Gretchen Whitmer, we’ve been led to higher taxes, more crime on the roads — and frankly, the roads we…
President Donald Trump and top White House officials are privately lobbying Republican senators to delay a ban on intoxicating hemp that’s set to kick in this fall. At the Trump administration’s urging, the government funding patch the Senate is working to pass this week would push off the forthcoming ban of some cannabis products derived from hemp. But several Republican senators are demanding a vote to strip the delay out and let that prohibition kick in come November. They’re hearing from the White House about it. Trump called Sen. Ted Budd on Tuesday night, after the North Carolina Republican filed…
American troops – often presented as “English teachers” – are helping to boost the island’s army amid tensions with Beijing, Defense Minister Wellington Koo has revealed The US and Taiwanese militaries are engaged in active but secretive on-site collaboration, according to Taipei’s defense minister, Wellington Koo. The message comes after US President Donald Trump put a hold on arms sales to the self-governed island, which has sparked alarm among pro-US countries in the region.Speaking to a narrow circle of reporters on Friday, Koo stressed, as cited by the Wall Street Journal, that Taiwan’s collaboration with the US “is far closer…
Abdul El-Sayed Michigan’s Democratic Senate Nominee, Socialist Abdul El-Sayed, is going viral over comments he made in a recent interview where he accidentally revealed a possible porn-watching habit. The interview, recorded in June, was aired on The Lever’s YouTube page last Friday, just days before Tuesday’s primary election. While discussing the dangers of social media marketing porn to children, El-Sayed admitted that his Instagram for you page keeps populating with OnlyFans models. OnlyFans is a subscription-based content website where creators charge monthly fees for users to access sexually explicit content. “You think about, if you’re on Instagram, like my team…
German security services are urgently investigating a series of apparently related incidents at Leipzig airport, including an armed explosive drone and a potential second drone striking a cargo jet mid-air, with Russia considered a potential suspect. Leipzig-Halle Airport was closed to air traffic, and incoming flights were diverted overnight into Wednesday after what transpired to be a military-grade explosives-armed drone was found by chance and brought down by hand by a have-a-go hero. The potential for the airport having narrowly avoided a potential multi-vector attack became clear as the drone was found flying low on the airport grounds, a second…