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The Netherlands has run out of “opportunities” to provide direct military assistance to Kiev, its defense minister has said The Netherlands has run out of options for continued direct military assistance to Ukraine, Defense Minister Dilan Yesilgoz-Zegerius has said. The EU and NATO member has been an active supporter of Kiev in its conflict with Moscow, including by supplying US-made F-16 fighter jets as part of a scheme with Belgium, Denmark, and Norway.Ukraine has been heavily dependent on weapons supplies from its Western backers throughout most of the conflict, which is now in its fifth year. “We don’t have opportunities…
Paraguayan Senator Celeste Amarilla threatened to file a legal action against French soccer superstar Kylian Mbappé on Tuesday night, accusing him of “gender violence” after the athlete described her on social media as a “despicable woman unworthy of her post.” Mbappé’s comment, published on social media and supported by French President Emmanuel Macron, was a response to several posts on the site published by Sen. Amarilla that she later deleted in which she disparaged Mbappé by claiming he “sucked on coconuts” as a child and referred to him as a “colonized Cameroonian pretending hard to be French.” Amarilla’s comments were made…
Cuba’s derelict power grid completely collapsed again on Monday, causing a nationwide blackout that left millions of Cubans without power. Monday marked the third time Cuba’s worn-out National Electric System (SEN) has completely collapsed in 2026 so far, and the eighth nationwide blackout experienced by Cubans since the grid’s complete collapse in late 2024. According to Cuba-focused outlets, the blackout started around Monday at noon (local time) and remains largely unresolved 24 hours later. At press time, the Electric Union (UNE), the Castro regime’s electric authority, has reportedly not disclosed what caused the blackout, nor has it provided an estimated…
President Donald Trump holds a Rose Garden Club lunch at the White House on Monday, July 6. The president announced earlier Monday morning the official launch of Trump Accounts for the children of Americans. On Saturday, Trump hosted a historic Fourth of July Celebration to mark America’s 250th anniversary. Read the full article here
Maryland will hold a special legislative session in August to begin the process of potentially redrawing its congressional lines ahead of the 2028 election, Senate President Bill Ferguson and House Speaker Joseline Peña-Melnyk announced in a joint statement Tuesday. The move is state Democrats’ answer to Republican redistricting efforts all over the South, which sped up after the Supreme Court rolled back the Voting Rights Act in April. “After recent court decisions weakened the federal Voting Rights Act and created new uncertainty around congressional redistricting, Maryland needs a clear legal path forward,” Ferguson said in a statement. “This special session…
The IDF is occupying Lebanon and Syria, while Israelis build “settlements in all but name” in Cyprus Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has just approved more than a dozen new Jewish settlements in the West Bank. But this latest wave of expansion is just the beginning, as different factions within Israel want to push its borders further into Lebanon, Syria, and beyond.In early July, Netanyahu approved plans to establish 13 new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. The settlements will be constructed along the main north-south road linking the Palestinian cities of Nablus, Ramallah, and Bethlehem, which is already…
Netflix’s biggest hits are reportedly losing more than half of their audiences as viewers abandon shows after just one season. One of the streaming giant’s most-watched shows of 2023, One Piece, lost more than 30 percent of its audience during the second season, while Season two Netflix’s Beef suffered a drop of more than 70 percent, according to a report by Bloomberg. To make things worse, the most recent season of Avatar: The Last Airbender, one of Netflix’s most-watched shows in 2024, saw a loss of more than 60 percent of its viewers in the course of its first week. Moreover, both of…
President Donald Trump was greeted by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan when he arrived in Ankara on Tuesday for the 36th annual NATO Summit of Heads of State and Government. Trump shook hands with Erdogan in a warm greeting that included a band playing the American national anthem, then took a long walk down a blue carpet to Erdogan’s presidential compound. The U.S. ambassadors to Turkey and NATO, Tom Barrack and Matt Whitaker, and Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Dan Caine were also in attendance. The greeting ceremony included cannons, an honor guard of riflemen, and officers on horseback. Trump told…
Joseph Manfredi, the 27-year-old husband and father of two young children, would be alive if the Obama administration had not released his accused illegal alien killers into the United States, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials say. As Breitbart News reported, illegal alien brothers Yovany Lopez Cobo and Armando Lopez Cobo of Guatemala have been arrested and charged in connection with Manfredi’s murder in St. Johns County, Florida, in March. Police allege that on March 5, Yovany and Manfredi got into a physical altercation on a construction site in St. Johns County after the illegal alien insulted Manfredi’s wife. Police say Yovany pulled a…
Spokespeople for Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Majority Whip John Barrasso said the two leaders spoke this week with Sen. Mitch McConnell, who has been hospitalized since June 14. Disclosure of the calls — with Thune on Monday and Barrasso on Tuesday — comes amid rampant speculation from conservative influencers online about McConnell’s health and little detail from the Kentucky Republican’s own office about the reason for his hospitalization or his condition. Thune and McConnell “had a lengthy and substantive conversation that covered a variety of topics, including national security,” a spokesperson for the majority leader said in a…