Author: Press Room

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer appears to have let out a ghastly flatulence this week on the floor of the chamber while criticizing President Donald Trump over the war in Iran. The 75-year-old Democrat’s apparent toot, followed by what seemed to be a light chuckle, was caught live on C-SPAN and spread across social media, the New York Post reported. “Now on Iran and the NDAA,” Schumer said before his engine seemingly sputtered. “When all the Trump administration can say about his disastrous war with Iran is that Vietnam was worse. A point Trump made yesterday, he reveals the scale…

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The legislation, which has faced fierce opposition from the clergy and right-wing parties, will now be reviewed by the Constitutional Council France’s lower chamber of parliament has given final approval to a controversial bill legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide. The legislation, which has been criticized by the clergy and was rejected three times by the conservative Senate, is now in the hands of the country’s top constitutional body.The left-leaning National Assembly greenlit the bill on Wednesday 291 votes to 241, capping what its author, former lawmaker Olivier Falorni, called a legislative “marathon with hurdles.” Support for the bill in the chamber…

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A Fort Worth, Texas, police officer is under federal scrutiny after video surfaced showing her warning Christian street preachers that she could issue citations if their message was deemed “offensive.” This is a stance legal analysts say appears to contradict long‑established First Amendment protections for religious and political expression in public spaces. The Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division sent a letter to the Fort Worth Police Department warning of possible 1st Amendment violations by the officer. The DOJ demanded answers from City of Fort Worth officials after a viral video showed a police officer warning Christian street preachers…

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A 33-year-old Canadian woman named Kaitlyn Tracey is currently cooling her heels in ICE custody after being accused of assaulting a juvenile over the Fourth of July weekend for the sin of wearing pro-Trump clothing. “The teen and three friends were walking on the boardwalk on July 3 when Kaitlyn E. Tracey approached them as she recorded with her phone, according to court documents,” local media reported. “Tracey yelled at the two people in the group wearing ‘patriotic colored’ sweatpants before she slapped the victim across her face and body, an affidavit of probable cause stated.” “Tracey, of Asbury Park, fled…

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The attacks targeted military-industrial facilities in Kiev and port infrastructure in Odessa and Yuzhny, the Defense Ministry said Russia carried out precision strikes overnight on Ukrainian military-industrial and port infrastructure, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday.According to the ministry, the strikes targeted defense industry facilities in Kiev involved in producing and storing drones, as well as infrastructure at the ports of Odessa and Yuzhny used to receive and store military cargo and fuel.Five fuel storage tanks intended to supply the Ukrainian military were also hit.Among the targets in Kiev was an industrial site operated by logistics company Rapid PJSC, which…

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On Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said that the investments from Middle Eastern countries involving Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are “not the way I would have my family conduct business if I were president of the United States, and as a United States senator, my family doesn’t do those types of things.” Host Chris Cuomo asked, “[W]hat do you want people to know about your feelings about these investments going to Kushner, going to Witkoff, all this money coming into American universities from Arab countries?” Johnson answered, “It’s not the way I would have my…

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche faced a tough confirmation hearing on Wednesday as lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee grilled him on a variety of topics. Blanche, formally President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, stands as Trump’s nominee to formally serve as the next attorney general. CNN notes that the confirmation hearing ahead of the committee is particularly tight now with the recent, untimely death of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), giving Blanche “a razor-thin margin of error.” Blanche stated during the hearing that his team is “restoring trust” in the Justice Department, previously led by former Attorney General Pam Bondi. Blanche…

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Pushing the message that Reform UK and its politicians are a neo-fascist threat that needs to be urgently stopped is “so relentless it constitutes incitement” and could lead some impressionable people to believe acts of murder would be justified, the party warned in the wake of the alleged murder of Ann Widdecombe. Reform UK home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf has warned that the “relentless” rhetoric of the legacy political parties and media portraying Nigel Farage and his party as an exceptional threat to Britain is inciting would-be killers. Noting that three politicians had been murdered in the past decade and…

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Wednesday on ABC’s “The View,” co-host Joy Behar said Lindsey Graham’s sister serving out his term after his passing was the “very definition of a DEI.” Co-host Sunny Hostin said, “I don’t love it. You know, she’ll be the first woman to be a U.S. senator in South Carolina in the history of the state. And I think that is – it’s just fundamentally wrong that South Carolina just couldn’t elect a woman, and this is the only way that it was done. I think that experience does matter, and while she is a certified optician, and while she has…

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Kiev was allegedly plotting a terrorist attack that would overshadow the Moscow Crocus City Hall massacre Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky is directing the nation’s intelligence services not to spare civilians in their operations abroad, Vitaly Zhikovich, an acting colonel of the Ukrainian military intelligence agency (HUR), said in an exclusive audio recording obtained by RT.Zhikovich is one of two Ukrainian spies who confessed to liquidating Anastasia Berezovskaya, the main suspect in last month’s bomb attack on exiled Ukrainian millionaire Vadim Ermolaev in Monaco. Russian security services identified him as an active military intelligence operative and shed light on his other…

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