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On Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller (R) responded to a question on President Donald Trump taking a softer tone on Chinese farmland by touting work Texas has done on shutting down Chinese farmland purchasing and stating that “Other states need to have a hard-nosed approach just like Texas.” Host Blake Burman asked, “Sid, does the — does sort of the backpedaling [on] the Chinese farmlands, does that concern you at all, that he took a much softer tone?” Miller answered, “I’m concerned about [the] Chinese owning farmland, owning Smithfield Foods, 60% of our pork…

(AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on a two-day trip to Beijing next week, the Kremlin said Saturday. The announcement comes less than 24 hours after U.S. President Donald Trump finished his own state visit to China, where he also met Xi to discuss trade and the U.S. and Israel’s war in Iran. In a statement, the Kremlin said that Putin’s trip, planned for May 19-20, had been scheduled to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the 2001 Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship. It said that the two leaders would discuss bilateral relations as…

On Friday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Ceasefire,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) said that the TikTok deal gives the Chinese Communist Party control over the app, Congress has to do oversight on the TikTok deal, “and push to what the legal objective” of the legislation passed by Congress on TikTok was. Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) said, “TikTok is what Xi Jinping calls the smokeless battlefield. It’s why we passed it, and it’s — but it’s why it’s so regrettable that the deal that the president has pushed does not actually execute the bill that Congress passed. What it does is it moves…

Rights groups and a Biden-era US intelligence report alleged that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was behind the murder France has opened an investigation into the murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi after NGOs accused Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of complicity in the killing.The 59-year-old journalist and Washington Post columnist was killed in 2018 while visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. His body is believed to have been dismembered and was never recovered. Saudi authorities acknowledged that Khashoggi was killed inside the consulate but insisted that rogue officials carried out the operation without authorization from the leadership.In…

The second in command of ISIS globally, Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, was killed by U.S. and Nigerian forces targeting the top terrorist in the northeast region of the African country, President Donald Trump announced. Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinabu has confirmed the terrorist’s death. Trump announced the strike in a Truth Social post late Friday: Tonight, at my direction, brave American forces and the Armed Forces of Nigeria flawlessly executed a meticulously planned and very complex mission to eliminate the most active terrorist in the world from the battlefield. Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, second in command of ISIS globally, thought he could hide in…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) shared that there was a “break the glass scenario” in order to ensure that Democrats running for governor in the state move forward in the race. During a press conference on Thursday regarding the state’s budget, Newsom suggested that there may be a “contingency plan” in order to prevent Democrat candidates running to replace him as governor from being “locked out of the primary,” Politico reported. Per the outlet, “the top-two vote getters regardless of party go on to the general election.” “You’ve spoken about accountability. Do you think Democrats will hold you accountable for…

President Donald Trump’s hopes of using public funding to secure his proposed White House ballroom are under threat after a Senate official said Saturday a $1 billion Secret Service line item could not be included in a GOP immigration enforcement bill as drafted. Elizabeth MacDonough, the chamber’s parliamentarian, ruled that the language aimed at enhancing Secret Service security measures would need to be reworked if Republicans want to pass the larger bill along party lines as planned, according to a statement from Budget Committee Democrats. MacDonough, the Democrats said, struck the entire Secret Service provision because it included funding that…

A top Mexican government official who made headlines last month when he, along with the sitting governor of Sinaloa, was named in a criminal indictment accusing them of working for the Sinaloa Cartel, surrendered this week to U.S. authorities. The official is the former head of the state police in Sinaloa and a retired Mexican Army general. This week, Mexico’s Security Cabinet announced that General Gerardo Merida Sanchez, the former Secretary for Public Safety in Sinaloa, turned himself in to U.S. authorities earlier this week. The accused drug lord and lawman traveled from Hermosillo, Sonora, to Nogales, Arizona, where he…

The Democrats’ strongest ally in the U.S. Senate GOP conference when it comes to their decade-long quest to impeach President Donald Trump faces possible elimination from his seat at the hands of primary voters in Louisiana on Saturday night. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), supposedly a Republican, joined all the Senate Democrats and a handful of “Republicans” five years ago in a whimsical twist of fate when he voted to convict Trump on his second impeachment in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Cassidy is one of just three U.S. Senate Republicans voted to convict…

The acting US Army chief of staff said commanders were instructed to reduce troop levels in Europe The Pentagon has canceled plans to deploy 4,000 troops to Poland amid growing tensions between President Donald Trump and US allies over policy toward Iran.The Associated Press reported on Friday that some soldiers from the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division – along with Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles – had already arrived in Poland or were en route when the Pentagon informed them that the deployment had been canceled.General Christopher LaNeve, the acting Army chief of staff, told Congress that the…