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The NBA on Wednesday suspended Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and fined the team $30 million for violating the salary cap rules. Per ESPN: The NBA has ruled on the Los Angeles Clippers in for salary cap circumvention investigations on Kawhi Leonard after yearlong probe — stripping the franchise of 5 first-round picks, issuing a $30 million fine to owner Steve Ballmer and suspensions for Ballmer, Lawrence Frank and Gillian Zucker, sources tell ESPN. Kawhi Leonard will have to pay $700,000 in restitution for improper benefits by the Clippers for his uncle and former business rep, Dennis Robertson. No contract void…
President Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia told Breitbart News exclusively that he and everyone in Serbia and Eastern Europe fears what may happen to Christians and Serbs in Kosovo after the removal of troops guarding a bridge, and that he is calling on Washington and NATO to step in to help fix the situation before things spiral out of control. “I am afraid, and everyone is afraid,” Vucic told Breitbart News on Wednesday. “That is why we will beg and ask. It won’t be hard for me to phone everyone, even if I have to call Washington, to help with this…
Wednesday on CNN’s OutFront,” Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) said President Donald Trump “despises military service.” Host Erin Burnett said, “As I said, you’re a veteran. You’ve endorsed 13 fellow veterans in midterm races. And you said specifically, governor, when we send veterans to Congress, we are sending in dedicated public servants trained to run toward the fight and unafraid to take on the status quo. Do you feel the same way about the White House?” Sherrill said, “I think that we have a president who despises military service. He had his made-up bone spurs that his dad’s doctor wrote a…
The Democratic centrist group Third Way is launching a “new economic bargain” platform as part of its ongoing effort to steer the party toward a more coherent and big-tent vision heading into 2028.The platform consists of what it calls 20 “ambitious and ruthlessly pragmatic” ideas, shared first with POLITICO, targeting working-class voters. The ideas include a health care Bill of Rights, ONE MORE, and government-backed car loans to lower the cost of car ownership and forcing AI companies to pay for their own expansion without passing it on to consumers.“Now that the primaries are over, the big question for Democrats…
FBI and DOJ investigators have met with a whistleblower who claimed he was ordered to “find crimes” committed by President Trump. As previously reported, a federal prosecutor blew the whistle on New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office and said he was ordered to “find crimes” committed by President Trump and people affiliated with Trump – despite zero evidence. According to the Times Union, Assistant Attorney General Daniel Wiesenfeld sent an agency-wide email to thousands of employees in the New York Attorney General’s office claiming his supervisor, Shamiso Maswoswe instructed him to target “Trump himself, Truth Social, Hewlett Packard (DOJ approved merger)…
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) discussed the Trump administration’s Venezuela oil deal and said that it is early, but “it’s smart, in order to have control over it, to make sure that we can produce oil and the necessary energy.” Host Greta Van Susteren asked, “We only have like a minute left, but your thought on President Trump’s Venezuela oil deal, is it too early to tell?” Fetterman answered, “Well, I think — well, yeah, it’s early, but, so far, you have — remember, in early 2025, Joe Biden put a big $25 million…
Wednesday on MS NOW’s “All In,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are intentionally traumatizing children. Murphy said, “There were thousands of people, from all over Connecticut, in Danbury tonight to say that if ICE is going to be in Danbury to purposefully traumatize our children, then they need to get out. What’s happening in Danbury is extraordinary. It’s kind of a new tactic. What we know is that on the first and second day of school, ICE was at the school bus stops. They let the kids board the school busses and then they arrested…
Voters are in an uproar over data centers — and Democrats are trying to direct anger toward Republicans by pointing to a tax provision buried in the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill.”Of the myriad talking points on this issue that Democrats are preparing deploy heading into the midterms, they this week began alluding to “Opportunity Zones” — an initiative designed to boost growth in areas deemed underdeveloped and which, at one point, Republicans had touted as a way to spur the construction of data centers.“Every single House Republican but one or two voted to unleash data centers on the American people…
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Trump’s executive order ending birth tourism.The other order bans birthright tourism, the practice by which people travel to the United States solely for the purpose of giving birth to a child on our soil.President Trump, earlier this month, signed two executive orders on birthright citizenship and birth tourism, following the Supreme Court’s ruling against the Trump Administration’s executive order ending birthright citizenship.During the Oval Office signing, Trump decried the “very, very unfortunate” Supreme Court decision, adding, “So we’re making adjustments because it’s very unfair.”“This was done right after the Civil War. This was for the…
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX) said that he has questions about the security logistics with the Venezuelan oil deal, he doesn’t want to see domestic energy producers undercut by the deal, “and I think we can get there, but there are still a lot of questions out there, and I will be leading the charge on asking those questions.” Pfluger said, “I do have questions about the deal with Venezuela, because I want to know, not only how long is it going to take, but how stable and how easily…