Author: Press Room

Lawmakers are quickly coming to a realization: Odds are, Congress is going to have to do something about booming prediction markets. The online platforms where people can bet on the outcomes of future events like elections, sports and the Oscars had already attracted attention in Washington as the industry garnered backing from Wall Street giants, Silicon Valley investors and even Donald Trump Jr. That scrutiny has exploded in recent weeks, however, after unusual trading patterns around markets related to the U.S.-Israel war with Iran suggested possible insider profiteering. The result has been an uptick in legislation targeting the industry amid…

TOKYO (AP) – Japan’s first long-range missile was deployed at a southwestern army camp, officials said Tuesday, as the country pushes to bolster its offensive capabilities. The upgraded Type-12 land-to-ship missiles, developed and produced by Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, became operational at Camp Kengun in Kumamoto prefecture. “As Japan faces the most severe and complex security environment in the postwar era … it is an extremely important capability to strengthen Japan´s deterrence and responsiveness,” Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi told reporters. “It demonstrates Japan’s firm determination and capability to defend itself.” The upgraded Type-12 missile has a range of about 1,000…

Majorities of Republicans, Democrats, and swing-voters agree the Democratic Party wants open borders, according to a poll of 2,009 registered voters by Harvard Harris. Fifty-one percent of Democrats, 63 percent of Republicans, and 52 percent of independents and “others” agree that the Democratic Party wants open borders with the rest of the world, the poll says. The overall result is 57 percent agree, 44 percent disagree. The numbers are poison for the Democratic Party because the same poll also showed 77 percent support for deporting criminal migrants and 54 percent support for deporting all migrants. That high support for deportations…

Hundreds gathered in Yorktown, New York over the weekend to honor Sheridan Gorman, the 18-year-old girl who was murdered in the sanctuary city of Chicago, allegedly by an illegal alien. Gorman, a student at Loyola University Chicago, was murdered while away at school in Chicago on March 19. The suspect has been identified as 25-year-old Jose Medina — a Venezuelan national who should have been turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Police say he opened fire on a group of students hanging out at Tobey Prinz Beach. According to reports, Gorman noticed that someone was hiding near the pier…

The outcome of the war with Iran will determine America’s capabilities on the world stage for years to come. That is what makes the current conflict in West Asia so consequential, far beyond the region itself.US policy toward Iran has become increasingly erratic. Rather than focus on the president’s shifting rhetoric, it is more useful to examine the logic underpinning the confrontation. Washington appears to have convinced itself that the moment is right to act decisively against Tehran, exploiting what it perceives as a window of vulnerability.The objective, viewed in isolation, has a certain cold rationality. A single, well-executed strike…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — It’s humanity’s first flight to the moon since 1972. In a throwback to Apollo, NASA’s Artemis II mission will send four astronauts on a lunar fly-around. They’ll hurtle several thousand miles beyond the moon, hang a U-turn and then come straight back. No circling around the moon, no stopping for a moonwalk — just a quick out-and-back lasting less than 10 days. NASA promises more boot prints in the gray lunar dust, but not before a couple practice missions. The upcoming test flight by Artemis astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen is the first step in settling the…

President Donald Trump shared a video Sunday of what was reportedly the U.S. blowing up an ammunition depot in Isfahan, Iran. A U.S. official told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) the military hit the site with 2,000-pound bunker buster bombs, the newspaper reported Monday. President Trump’s post on Truth Social featured the clip that showed the reported strike with smoke and fire rising into the dark sky. He did not caption the video: “The video captured the strike, the official said,” per the WSJ. The newspaper added, “U.S. forces have struck more than 11,000 targets throughout the monthlong war on…

An illegal alien, released into the United States by former President Joe Biden’s administration, is accused of two murders in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, a sanctuary jurisdiction. On Monday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials issued a statement, pleading with Mecklenburg County officials not to release 22-year-old illegal alien Jesus Quintero Fernandez of Venezuela from jail without first notifying Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents of his release. “Because of the Biden administration’s disastrous CBP One app, this illegal alien was allowed to come into the country and commit these murders,” DHS’s Lauren Bis said in a statement: We are calling…

Hollywood dealmaking heavyweights are becoming increasingly worried that President Donald Trump’s actions against the terrorism regime in Iran and the unrest it is causing in the Middle East will impact Arab investment in U.S. entertainment projects. The Gulf states have directed billions of dollars into the entertainment sector in the USA. Qatar, for instance, has pumped $150 million into one Hollywood production company, and Saudi Arabia threw in one billion into one company and another $29 billion into another. In addition, a conglomerate of three Mid East wealth funds invested $24 billion in Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. And…

Monday on MS NOW’s “Chris Jansing Reports,” Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said President Donald Trump and Republicans had “no commitment to the rule of law.” Reporter Ali Vitali said, “You talk about the fact that you are confident that Democrats will retake the House, but I wonder if you have concerns about the midterm elections themselves, be it the way that the administration is talking about potentially putting ICE at the polls or the Supreme Court limiting mail in voting or even redistricting, that could confuse people about where they can vote. Do you have any concerns about the midterms?”…