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Democrat congressional candidate Adam Hamawy defended far-left streamer Hasan Piker’s “America deserved 9/11” comments in an interview posted Thursday, insisting the remark should be kept “in perspective.” Hamawy is a retired Army surgeon and the Democrat nominee in New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District. He made the comments in a friendly online interview with Walter Masterson. Piker endorsed him and rallied for him before the June primary. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) backed him as well. Asked about Piker’s 9/11 line, the New Jersey Democrat suggested the streamer deserved slack. “I think we have to put it…

Republicans raised the debt limit by $5 trillion last year. Now they are already thinking about how to head off another dive over the fiscal cliff on President Donald Trump’s watch. Independent forecasters predict the U.S. will reach the “X-date” — the ultimate deadline for preventing a U.S. debt default — sometime between next summer and early 2028, just as presidential primaries start kicking into gear. To head off high-stakes negotiations with Democrats, White House officials have privately floated raising the nation’s $41.1 trillion borrowing limit in the party-line spending package many Republicans want to enact before the November midterm…

Almost as many believe that the Israeli prime minister is “guilty of war crimes in Gaza,” the poll found Some 49% of Americans think that the US should arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes, according to a recent poll. After three years of war in the Middle East, Israel’s once-solid support in the US has cratered.Asked whether the US should enforce an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant for Netanyahu’s arrest, 49% of respondents answered “yes” in an Economist/YouGov poll published on Tuesday, while 27% said “no” and 23% were unsure.The ICC issued the warrant in 2024, accusing…

In a fiery interview during Wednesday’s Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, Sen. Tommy Tuberville unloaded on Dr. Anthony Fauci, demanding the former NIAID director be arrested and imprisoned on the spot for his role in the COVID-19 pandemic response. Sen. Tuberville made the comments during an appearance on Newsmax from Capitol Hill. “He should be locked up before he leaves this building today and put in prison and then put on trial in front of the American people!” Tuberville declared. “We lost 20,000-30,000 people in Alabama alone, and I hope every damn one of them sues this…

Former Iowa State Representative Christina Bohannan (D) voted against legislation giving consumers greater control over their personal information while reportedly holding up to $280,000 of stock in three of the nation’s largest technology companies. The Iowa Legislature approved the consumer data privacy measure by a 91-2 vote, with Bohannan one of only two voting against it. The legislation gave Iowans the right to access and delete certain personal data, allowed consumers to opt out of targeted advertising and the sale of their personal information, and required certain large businesses to comply with consumer-data protection requirements. Bohannan gave no explanation for…

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) said that she wonders if Iran is thinking “let’s see if we can just sort of run out the clock and this limbo might not be such a bad situation for us as we harbor our power.” Smith said that Iran’s attack earlier in the day demonstrate “the incredible risk and chaos of this war with no clear explanation for why it’s happened and no clear rationale or path for getting out of it. And we also saw, today, Ukraine striking a ship, an Iranian ship. And, luckily, that…

Randy Villegas, a socialist professor and California congressional candidate endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), placed high school students with activist organizations that promoted gender-identity programming and intersectionality, including one group whose environmental justice program received federal taxpayer funding. Villegas, who defeated the Democratic establishment’s preferred contender, California Assemblywoman Jasmeet Bains, for the second position in the general election in California’s 22nd Congressional District, used the Central Valley Freedom Summer program, known as CVFS, to place high school students with activist organizations. He specifically frames the project as part of a “History of Resistance,” citing…

Nearly two dozen governors are throwing their support behind President Donald Trump’s push for a new party-line spending bill — the latest effort to build pressure on Senate Majority Leader John Thune and his GOP colleagues to move quickly. The letter, a copy of which was obtained exclusively by POLITICO, comes as White House budget director Russ Vought and James Braid, Trump’s top legislative aide, are set to meet with Senate Republicans during a closed-door lunch Wednesday where they will outline the White House’s vision for the bill. “As Republican Governors, we strongly support your call for the United States…

Houthis have claimed they attacked “sensitive” oil infrastructure in retaliation for Riyadh’s strikes on Yemen Saudi Arabia’s largest crude oil processing facility was damaged in a drone strike on Monday, according to open-source analysts reviewing satellite imagery and a Gulf official cited by the Wall Street Journal.The images circulating online appear to show a large smoke plume rising from the Abqaiq complex, along with burn marks and apparent damage around parts of the facility.Yemen’s Houthis claimed responsibility for what military spokesman Yahya Saree described on X as strikes on “targets and sensitive points in the supply and transport of crude…

 President Donald Trump used the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington to launch a blistering attack on woke Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Speaking at the Waldorf Astoria ballroom, Trump mocked a viral clip in which Omar appeared to refer to World War II as “World War 11” and segued into a series of personal insults. “Ilhan Omar and her brother are thinking about moving together — very much in love,” Trump said, before calling the congresswoman “a low-IQ person” and “very dishonest.” He went on to tell the audience that Omar “oughta get the hell out…