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On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Arena,” Sen. Angus King (I-ME) discussed the impasse over DHS funding and said that the solution to the disagreement between Democrats and Republicans over whether agents should be able to wear masks is to eliminate the masks except for “certain, limited circumstances,” and also “make doxxing a serious offense” so agents are protected from that. Host Kasie Hunt said that Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) told her that masking is a red line for Republicans and asked King to respond. King responded, “On the masking question, I’ve never seen a law enforcement agency in my…
Hungary continues to block the €90 billion loan as Italy’s Giorgia Meloni reportedly expressed support for Budapest’s stance The EU will provide a controversial loan to Ukraine “one way or another,” despite it remaining blocked by Hungary, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday.Budapest vetoed the EU’s €90 billion ($105 billion) emergency loan for Ukraine after Kiev halted Russian oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline – a key supply route to Hungary and Slovakia.“We will deliver on the loan one way or the other,” von der Leyen told reporters during a visit to Kiev. The remarks followed…
House Republican leaders will move a planned vote on a controversial surveillance plan to April after many conservatives balked at the idea of extending the surveillance authority without more reform, according to a report. Politico reported that House GOP leaders will move next week’s planned vote to next month as conservatives revolted against the idea of extending the authority without considering proposals to require a warrant before searching Americans’ private communications. Section 702 is a surveillance authority meant to be used to spy on foreign adversaries; however, Americans’ private communications incidentally get surveilled without a warrant, contrary to the Fourth…
The A-10 Thunderbolt is hunting down Iran’s enormous “mosquito fleet” of manned and drone suicide boats in the Gulf, again apparently proving the utility of a venerable airframe that the U.S. Air Force has been trying to retire for years. Iran’s fleet of several hundred — perhaps more than a thousand — speedboat-size paramilitary attack boats are being hunted by the United States Air Force in the Gulf, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine said at a briefing on Thursday. Presenting an update on the status of Operation Epic Fury, General Caine revealed: “the A-10 Warthog is now…
Authorities in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon arrested a man wanted in South Texas in connection with a 2024 murder. Investigators with Nuevo Leon’s Fuerza Civil Intelligence Unit tracked down 39-year-old Hector Oliver Ramirez, who was hiding out in the municipality of Juarez, Nuevo Leon. The municipality of Juarez is part of the Monterrey metropolitan area, which is approximately 120 miles south of the Texas border. The investigators used phone-tracking technology to locate Ramirez. The fugitive is wanted out of Hidalgo County, Texas, on one count of murder and has an outstanding federal warrant for unlawful flight to…
Alice Weidel has urged German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to reestablish relations with Russia Ukraine is one of the most corrupt nations on Earth and Berlin should stop funding its government, Alternative for Germany party co-chair Alice Weidel has told the German parliament.The exposure of a series of graft scandals involving Vladimir Zelensky’s inner circle has severely damaged his regime, which depends on hundreds of billions of euros from its European backers. As a result, several of Zelensky’s closest confidants have fled the country or been forced to resign.Weidel asked German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Bundestag on Wednesday if his…
DEI policies now require that four in ten interview candidates for judgeships or prosecutor positions in Berlin have a migrant background. The justice system in the German capital has been radically transformed by the far-left policies pushed by the Green Party, which imposed a rule mandating that prospective judges and prosecutors in the city reflect the exact ethnic makeup of the city, rather than being determined by merit, Bild reported. The “Law to Promote Participation in a Migration Society” was passed by the Berlin city parliament in July of 2021, when it was under the control of a “red-green-red” majority…
The International Energy Agency (IEA) rolled out a set of proposals on Friday for governments to reduce their oil and gas consumption during the Iran war. Among those proposals was a return to the “work from home” policies of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. “We have recently launched the largest ever release of IEA emergency oil stocks – and I am in close contact with key governments around the world, including major energy producers and consumers, as part of our international energy diplomacy,” IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said. “Today’s report provides a menu of immediate and concrete measures that can be taken…
Many white collar American voters are so enraged by their hate for President Donald Trump they do not recognize the growing economic threat of the H-1B visa program, says pollster Brent Buchanan, founder of Cygnal, a polling firm. “College-educated voters are too blinded by their Trump hate to realize what’s happening to them,” he told Breitbart News. “They’re afraid of AI, but they have no clue that H-1B visas are more damaging to their prospects and their earning potential.” Many of the college graduates are intensely suspicious of companies’ intentions and actions, and Trump could make an outreach to them…
No Muslims will be allowed to enter the holy site for one of the main Islamic holidays for the first time since 1967 The Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of the holiest Muslim sites in Jerusalem, has been kept closed by the Israeli authorities, despite Muslims all over the world marking Eid al-Fitr, the final Friday of Ramadan.The compound was closed over the Iran war, and worshipers have not been allowed to mark the holiday at the site for the first time since 1967.Scores of people gathered in Jerusalem on Friday to pray, but their attempts to approach the gates of the…