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Attorneys for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin filed a petition Tuesday seeking a dismissal of the state murder charges against him, arguing that it was unlawful for Gov. Tim Walz to assign Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to prosecute the case In April 2021, Chauvin, 50, was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of George Floyd in police custody in May 2020. Video showed that Chauvin had his knee on Floyd’s neck for over 9 minutes. An autopsy revealed that there was both fentanyl and methamphetamine in the man’s system, which may have been contributing factors to his…
Security Minister of Argentina Alejandra Monteoliva detailed that upwards of 4,000 metric tons of cocaine are being produced in South America per year. Minister Monteoliva spoke on Wednesday with Radio Mitre on the sidelines of the 40th International Drug Enforcement Conference (IDEC), co-hosted by the United States and Argentina in the city of Buenos Aires this week. Speaking on the subject of the fight against drug trafficking, the minister stressed to Radio Mitre that South America is now considered the “epicenter” of cocaine production in the world, with anywhere between 3,800 and 4,000 metric tons of cocaine produced in the region…
Wednesday on CNN’s “OutFront,” political commentator Adam Kinzinger said President Donald Trump is not taking the military conflict in Iran “very seriously.” At the White House, Trump said, “I donated the flagpoles, one on each side, because the White House didn’t really have an appropriate American flag. They had a small one on top. We left that, but it didn’t have an appropriate American flag. And this is a great pole. This is the top of the line. It’s tapered. This isn’t a straight up and down job, which looks terrible, frankly. That’s a tapered pole. I’m very good at flagpoles.”…
Emir Kusturica says the Google-owned platform is seeking to suppress any dissent contradicting the mainstream narrative Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica has accused YouTube of waging a “war” against people who think independently and “tell the truth,” after the Google-owned platform deleted his channel without any warning.YouTube removed Kusturica’s ‘My Life’ channel on Wednesday, without publicly elaborating on the decision, according to several media reports. The project, produced with Sputnik’s Serbian service, contained more than 200 videos and had roughly 30,000 subscribers. Some of the videos are dedicated to the fate of Yugoslavia, the clash of civilizations, and the collision between…
Federal housing regulator Bill Pulte on Thursday responded to reports of Sharia-compliant mortgage loans purchased by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Pulte says Fannie and Freddie don’t give out sharia-compliant-loans. Effective immediately, these programs, along with Kosher and Amish programs, will be open AND marketed to ALL AMERICANS. https://t.co/SzsNzKOKxW — Pulte (@pulte) August 21, 2026 Bill Pulte clarified to The Gateway Pundit that Fannie and Freddie “DON’T GIVE OUT SHARIA MORTGAGES.” Guidance Residential, a private Islamic home-financing company, publicly states that it brings Freddie Mac and, according to another passage on its website, Fannie Mae, into its transactions as investors.…
According to South Korean intelligence, North Korea responded to President Donald Trump’s peace overtures on Thursday by launching about a dozen short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) into the Sea of Japan just hours after Trump scaled back U.S.-South Korean military exercises and offered to talk with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected the North Korean launch at roughly 5:00 p.m. local time. The missiles originated from somewhere near the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, flew for about 185 miles, and landed in the Sea of Japan, which Koreans refer to as the…
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) said that what parts of the Democratic Socialist message he disagrees with depends on “how you define Democratic Socialist. Obviously, the national organization has a platform that I would reject” on “defunding the police or abolishing the Senate. I’ll note a lot of those candidates, including those who are members of local DSA chapters, reject elements of that platform.” And said that “anyone who wants to be part of our coalition to stand up to MAGA, to stand up to Trump, to fight to bring down the cost of…
Locals in the Lebanese capital have labeled a US-brokered framework peace deal with Israel “a disgrace and humiliation” for their country Residents of a Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut have said they will not trade the group’s weapons for reconstruction money, while decrying a US-brokered framework peace agreement between Lebanon and Israel.The Dahiyeh neighborhood in the south-western part of the Lebanese capital has suffered extensive destruction from strikes by West Jerusalem since the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2023 and its subsequent spillover into Lebanon.The deal, signed between the Lebanese and Israeli governments in late June, envisages the Israel Defense…
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) appears on “Meet the Press” to discuss his thoughts on the future Democratic Senate leadership. Credit: NBC News screenshot Have you noticed that everyone on the left is suddenly talking about healthcare reform as if Obamacare never even happened? Do they really think no one remembers it? Opposition to Obamacare was so fierce that it helped to spark the Tea Party movement and changed the makeup of Congress. The truth is that Obamacare was not what the left really wanted. What they really wanted to happen was a complete government takeover of healthcare and now they’re…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia pounded the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and the surrounding region with scores of missiles and drones in a nighttime aerial attack that lasted for hours and killed at least 16 people, officials said Thursday. Moscow’s forces have in recent months intensified their ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv, exploiting Ukraine’s chronic shortage of U.S.-made Patriot air defense interceptors, the sole weapon in its arsenal able to shoot down the missiles. Large-scale Russian missile strikes have become a regular occurrence this summer. Just over two weeks ago, a Russian attack on Kyiv and its surrounding region killed…