Author: Press Room

Crowds estimated to be in the tens of thousands flooded the streets of Sofia, Bulgaria, on Tuesday to welcome returning pop singer Dara, who became the country’s first-ever champion at the Eurovision Song Contest this weekend. Dara’s song “Bangaranga,” named after a Jamaican word roughly translating to “riot,” was crowned the winner of the annual competition on Saturday, receiving overwhelming scores from both the professional jury and the public, who vote for their favorites. This weekend marked the 70th anniversary of the continental song contest, which was established in the aftermath of World War II to promote unity and healthy…

The British government’s aversion to domestic energy extraction is so great that it has decided to create an exemption for imports of oil products manufactured from Russian crude rather than drill its own considerable natural resources. Britain’s Labour government announced a tough new sanctions package against Russia on Wednesday, but immediately granted exemptions to allow the import of oil products such as diesel and jet fuel refined in third-party nations from oil originally extracted in Russia. While Britain is suffering from an energy crisis and clearly needs to act before domestic hauliers or airlines in the country enter a full-blown fuel…

War Secretary Pete Hegseth took a break from his official duties to appear alongside Kentucky congressional candidate Ed Gallrein during a Monday campaign appearance ahead of his Tuesday primary challenge against incumbent Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY). Gallrein is the Trump-endorsed candidate against Massie, an ideological libertarian who has garnered ire from the president for breaking with Republicans on multiple issues from conflict with Iran to the handling of the Epstein files. Voting against the One Big Beautiful Bill and other Republican-led spending bills has also placed Massie in Trump’s line of fire.  In an atypical move for the leader of…

An emboldened President Donald Trump is determined to flex his power over the GOP — at seemingly any cost. Republicans are coming to grips with a president who less than six months out from the midterms is focused on racking up a body count of lawmakers who have crossed him, asserting his control over his party and burnishing his legacy — putting the GOP legislative agenda and the survival of its majorities at risk. That reckoning is playing out on Capitol Hill this week as frustrated Republicans — including some lawmakers that Trump has essentially cast out of the party…

The potential encounter may happen at the APEC summit in China, Yury Ushakov has indicated Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump could meet on the sidelines of the APEC summit in China in November, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov has said, while stressing that no talks are currently planned. Putin, who has just concluded his official two-day visit to China, told Chinese President Xi Jinping that he plans to attend the APEC summit in Shenzhen on November 18-19. Trump, who also traveled to China last week, has reportedly signaled that he intends to take part as well. “Our president has…

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) is introducing legislation Wednesday that would require an appropriate national security agency to determine if communications equipment or services tied to several fast-rising Chinese technology companies pose an unacceptable risk to U.S. national security or the security and safety of U.S. persons, with an affirmative finding — or failure to complete the review on time — resulting in placement on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) covered list. The FCC covered list is a published list of high-risk communications equipment and services, which was established under the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 in order to monitor their…

Elon Musk reacted to the uproar out of the United Kingdom involving Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old stabbing victim who died after being handcuffed by police over a racism allegation. Musk vowed to fund a lawsuit against the police, who he described as “disgusting excuses for law enforcement.” “Unconscionable,” Musk wrote in a Wednesday X post, adding, “I am happy to fund a wrongful death lawsuit against these disgusting excuses for law enforcement. They damn well better have been fired.” The SpaceX CEO was responding to an X post from Tommy Robinson, who reacted to a fellow UK-based X user who shared an…

Amazon founder and sole owner of the failing, far-left Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, said he is done subsidizing this failure. During a Wednesday appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box, anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin appeared eager to shame Bezos into subsidizing the Washington Post as-is rather than make the necessary changes to make it a profitable enterprise: Andrew Ross Sorkin: And there’s a lot of people out there who said, ‘Jeff’s super wealthy. He’s talked about this being a public trust. That’s something that he bought early on.’ How much do you care about that piece of it? Why, why lay people off? Why…

The religion that “formed the American consciousness” was “decidedly Christian, founded upon the principles and the divinity of Jesus Christ,” Vice President JD Vance said in a message for the “Rededicate 250” celebration of faith on the National Mall Sunday. During the event – described as a “National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving” to God – Vance offered a message to attendees, reminding them of the importance of the Christian foundation of America and the reality that Jesus is Lord. “In 1783 Washington also proclaimed that imitation of divine charity is necessary for the mutual affection of our citizenry and the…

Senators are signaling an appetite for pursuing legislation that would create federal standards for prediction markets that allow people to place cheap bets on sports — and just about anything else. “There’s interest from members on the panel to move forward and get something on the books,” said Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said Wednesday in an interview after she presided over a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing on the topic. She added she planned to confer with the full Commerce Committee chair, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), about a path forward. The hearing, convened by the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, was billed…