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More than a dozen AI data centers near O’Hare International Airport in suburban Chicago are receiving at least $100 million in local property tax breaks this year, pushing more of the tax burden onto Cook County homeowners. The Chicago Tribune reports that an analysis by the Illinois Answers Project and the Tribune found that at least 18 northwest suburban data centers won multimillion-dollar reductions in their taxable value from Cook County officials this year, in one case landing on a valuation lower than what the business paid to buy the site. Of those 18, 11 already had special local tax…
“The single greatest financial offensive ever” awaits Iran as the U.S.-Israel war with the totalitarian Islamic regime enters its “endgame,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned Monday. Bessent further cautioned the U.S. would sever all economic ties with the country in “an economic D-Day” and any nation partnering with Iran financially would also be isolated, he so described in an opinion piece for the Financial Times newspaper published out of London. “The world should understand that our objective is to sever every economic lifeline that sustains the tyrannical regime until Tehran stands alone,” Bessent wrote in the piece. Exactly what the economic pressure…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that the U.S. is launching an “economic onslaught” to isolate Iran from the global economy, warning that countries and businesses that do any business with Tehran will risk provoking U.S. sanctions. “Let there be no ambiguity as to the position of the United States: An economic engagement of any kind with this murderous regime will expose those responsible to the full reach of American power,” Bessent told reporters at a press conference held at the Treasury Department Bessent said the U.S. was sanctioning more than 60 individuals, vessels, and entities worldwide that the U.S.…
Saturday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Saturday in America,” Attorney General Todd Blanche reacted to the Supreme Court’s stay allowing construction on the White House ballroom to proceed. Blanche said the Trump administration believed early on that President Donald Trump had the authority to construct the ballroom. “Attorney General Blanche, you had a big win yesterday on the ballroom,” host Kayleigh McEnany said. “Chief Justice John Roberts issued a temporary stay to allow this work to proceed. Your thoughts?” Blanche replied, “We are extraordinarily appreciative of the chief justice. And we have been saying all along, since day one, that…
Ukraine could have bridged East and West. Instead, corruption, nationalism, and Western meddling left it broken There is one feeling I often recall from having lived and worked in Ukraine – to be precise, in its most nationalist, full-of-itself city, Lviv – for a total of five years in the 2000s: Thank God, at least there’s no violence!That is what I, some other foreigners, and quite a few Ukrainians, too, were thinking and even saying then. The country was politically and even culturally polarized, extremely corrupt, and a sham ‘democracy’ even more fake than most of the rest.It was dominated…
A 15-year-old boy brutally murdered a woman and wounded her child in a random shooting. Credit: Detroit Police and FOX 2 Detroit A shocking video has emerged showing the moment a shirtless youth executed an innocent woman in a supposedly random attack just outside a Detroit liquor store last week. As The Metro News Detroit reported, 57-year-old Faith Williams was with her niece near a liquor store when a 15-year-old boy ambushed them. The incident occurred around 11:15 p.m. Friday in the 15500 block of East Warren Avenue near Chalmers. The youth shot both Williams and her niece. While the…
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley pushed back against critics of his company’s AI-powered surveillance cameras in a recent interview with Fox News, arguing that privacy and safety concerns must be weighed together rather than against each other. Fox News reports that Flock, which makes automated license plate readers, surveillance cameras and drones used by police departments across the country, has drawn criticism from multiple directions in recent months. Breitbart News recently reported that the “Have I Been Flocked” website has been launched to allow citizens to check if they’ve been targeted by police searches due to concerns about inappropriate usage of the…
New British Prime Minister Andy Burnham made his first foreign visit as leader on Monday, visiting Ukraine where he spoke of a “100 year partnership” with Kyiv and handed over blueprints to an advanced Anglo-French missile, so Ukraine can build their own. British Prime Minister Andy Burnham laid flowers, gave speeches, and handed over the blueprints to a long-range bunker buster missile on Monday as he visited Kyiv to help mark Ukraine’s 35th annual independence day, marking the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. The news Britain’s Labour leader was handing over potent missile technology to Ukraine so Kyiv…
Race cars roared across Washington city streets in the shadow of iconic landmarks on Saturday as the Freedom 250 Grand Prix, created by President Donald Trump, began with practice and qualifying for Sunday’s first-of-its-kind event. IndyCar drivers tested open-wheel vehicles at speeds up to 185 mph (298 km/h) over the bumps and curves of a seven-turn, 1.7-mile course winding around the Washington Monument, US Capitol, National Gallery of Art and Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum — all along the National Mall. “This is surreal for all of us drivers,” said American Kyle Kirkwood, second in practice with a lap at…
Romanian Foreign Minister Oana-Silvia Țoiu via Wikimedia Commons Romania’s globalist, Brussels-backed government has escalated its language of military confrontation, declaring itself ready to respond with force to security threats from the war in Ukraine—rhetoric that veteran journalist Ion Cristoiu warns is nothing less than an attempt to condition the Romanian public for a war with Russia that the population never sought and does not want. Foreign Minister Oana Țoiu announced that Bucharest already has “a set of measures prepared” after consulting the increasingly unpopular President Nicușor Dan, who is widely viewed is lack popular legitimacy. She explicitly linked these preparations…