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Screencap of Twitter/X video. It has only been a day since the heartbreaking passing of American icon Dolly Parton and stories about her and from her are still flooding social media. This is a great one. In 2005, Dolly appeared on the Late Night With Conan O’Brien show and explained how she visited New York City years ago, before she was famous and ended up pulling a gun on a man who was harassing her in the street. She and the young woman she was travelling with had been kicked out of their hotel because the management thought they were…

Germany’s legalisation of dual citizenship in 2024 is “becoming a serious security risk”, a German lawmaker told Breitbart as he revealed Federal statistics showing 104 known extremists considered a “threat to public safety” hold two passports. Some 104 individuals who are extremists “considered a threat to public safety” living in Germany are dual citizens, new figures acquired by the migration-critical Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, the official national opposition in the Bundestag, have revealed. Of this group of this most dangerous known religious extremists, who were they simply foreign citizens could be deported as a threat to the public, the…

Way Out West with Kevin Warsh Professional Federal Reserve watchers have already written Kevin Warsh’s assignment for Jackson Hole. They want the new Fed chairman to explain whether inflation reflects temporary shocks or an economy running too hot, and then tell markets whether interest rates are going up. Warsh appears likely to turn in a different assignment. At his July press conference, Warsh said he wanted to use Jackson Hole to “frame the big questions.” He named three: What is happening with productivity? What is happening with demographics? And what is happening to the global economy amid repeated shocks? That sounds…

Accounting and consulting giant Deloitte has agreed to pay the United States $21.5 million to settle allegations it defrauded the federal government by continuing company DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives.  The resolution is the latest settlement to result from the Trump administration’s efforts to rid policies from federally-contracted U.S. companies that prioritize immutable characteristics such as race or sex in hiring and staffing decisions.  “Government contractors cannot reward or penalize employees based on race or sex — and labeling the practice DEI does not make it lawful,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement. “The Justice Department will…

The boy was hit by live ammunition as the IDF seized a UNRWA training facility in East Jerusalem Israeli forces shot and wounded a Palestinian teen during a raid on a UN-run training center in East Jerusalem, local officials have reported.The moment the boy was shot was caught on camera, with footage published by Middle East Eye and other media outlets on Tuesday showing him collapsing as gunfire rings out.The Jerusalem Governorate said the boy sustained a minor gunshot wound to the shoulder from live ammunition as Israeli forces raided and seized the Qalandiya Training Centre, a key UN Relief…

Six migrants deported from the United States refused to leave a plane in Liberia last week and were instead flown to Equatorial Guinea. The group included four Cuban men, one Brazilian man and one Cameroonian woman, according to accounts from a person on the flight and a lawyer in contact with them, as reported by NBC News and The Associated Press. They arrived in Liberia Thursday as part of a third-country deportation arrangement. When the plane landed, the six refused to disembark, saying Liberia was “not their country.” Other passengers got off because they feared officers would force them, a…

Under Secretary of War Emil Michael said during a Breitbart News policy event that the Department of War has dramatically expanded access to artificial intelligence across the department as part of its AI acceleration strategy, with roughly 1.7 million people now using the technology for enterprise, intelligence, and warfighting purposes. Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matt Boyle asked Michael about the AI acceleration strategy rolled out by the Department of War in January and where its implementation currently stands. “AI is changing a lot of things. Most of the people in this room have one of these AI apps on…

Tim Curry, star of cult favorite The Rocky Horror Picture Show, played the evil clown in IT, and star of Home Alone 2 has passed away at the age of 80. Curry passed away at his Los Angeles home over night on Monday evening, according to TMZ. The actor is perhaps best known for portraying Dr Frank-N-Furter in the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the creepy, evil clown in the Stephen King horror flick IT. But he was also featured in a classic performance as the harried and frustrated hotel manager in Home Alone 2. And had…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday that the United States will continue cutting the financial lifelines of violent far-left groups, announcing sanctions against three organizations and two individuals. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Italy-based Autistici Inventati, the United Kingdom’s Palestine Action, and the transnational group Masar Badil under Executive Order 13224, the government’s primary counterterrorism sanctions authority. Germany-based Zaid Abdulnasser and Brazil-based Rawa Alsagheer were designated as Masar Badil leaders. Bessent tied the action to extremists the department said are increasingly embracing organized violence. “Far-left extremists, their fronts, and their enablers should be on notice:…

A number of hawkish lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are urging the Trump administration to focus its effort to cut off Iran’s economic lifeline on one primary target: Chinese banks.Since Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pledged Monday to sanction Tehran’s “enablers,” one big question has been whether the White House is willing to risk taking on Beijing, Iran’s biggest trading partner.On Capitol Hill, at least, the appetite appears to be there — particularly in terms of going after Chinese financial institutions.“Any country complicit in providing an economic lifeline to Iran’s terrorist regime, including China, must be held accountable,” said…