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The imprisoned leader is innocent, Delcy Rodríguez told NBC as the US energy secretary visits Caracas to overhaul the oil sector Nicolas Maduro remains Venezuela’s legitimate leader despite his capture by US forces a month ago, the country’s acting president, Delcy Rodriguez, told NBC News on Thursday. Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were seized in a US military raid on Caracas on January 3 and flown to New York, where they are being held in federal custody facing drug trafficking charges. Both have pleaded not guilty. Rodriguez, who served as Maduro’s vice president, assumed power following the intervention.Rodriguez insisted that…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky insisted “no one is clinging to power” and he is ready to hold national elections, but insists there will be no vote without a ceasefire and solid security guarantees from the U.S., making a vote any time soon unlikely. The possibility of fresh elections in Ukraine to both get the public’s approval for a peace deal, and renew President Volodymyr Zelensky’s democratic mandate or choose a successor, suddenly burst into the open this week but was quickly tampered down by Kyiv. That his position on holding now very overdue elections in wartime has essentially not changed has…

Washington, DC — Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) highlighted revelations made in Peter Schweizer’s new book, The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Migration as a Weapon, during a Wednesday Breitbart News policy event.  The January-released New York Times bestselling exposé details how the governments of China and Mexico, among others, have been weaponizing weak American immigration policy to infiltrate and undermine the United States for their own interests.  Speaking with Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle this week, the Montana senator explained that he is “pro-legal immigration” while taking a hardline stance against illegal migrants who…

At this year’s conference, the Western establishment is taking on Russia and Donald Trump The most ardent defenders of the Western “rules-based international order” are meeting at the Munich Security Conference on Friday and Saturday. This year the focus isn’t just on Russia; it’s also on US President Donald Trump and the “populist” threat in Europe’s own backyard. Friday’s events kick off with an address by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who’s currently pressing the EU leadership to circumvent their own rules to save his flagging economy and rearmament program. EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas then heads a panel on…

A federal court in Lagos, Nigeria, convicted two Chinese citizens on Wednesday on charges of “cyber-terrorism,” accused and pleading guilty of participating in a massive “cryptocurrency, investment and romance” fraud scheme. The case is the latest of Chinese nationals engaging in illicit business practices in Africa, empowered by the growing presence of the Chinese Communist Party on the continent. Like many of its peer nations, Nigeria is an active participant in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a Chinese government scam in which Beijing offers predatory loans to participating countries meant to be used on infrastructure projects built by Chinese…

Thursday on ABC’s “The View,” Joy Behar told her co-hosts Attorney General Pam Bondi could be “looking at some prison time.” Behar said, “I felt like when I was watching it, I felt a little nauseous from her. I was like, ” Why are you so lacking in empathy? What is wrong with you? What happened to you in your life that you can’t give a moment to these poor girls?” She continued, “By the way, she needs to understand that she is speaking to Trump when she’s up there, she’s not speaking to anyone else. He has a whole…

The US military used a highly classified laser-weapon system to shoot down a party balloon, multiple outlets reported on Thursday, citing sources in the administration of President Donald Trump. The incident triggered an airspace closure over the Texas border city of El Paso.The episode reportedly took place on Monday when Customs and Border Protection (CBP) deployed a Pentagon-loaned counter-drone laser at Fort Bliss, near El Paso International Airport, to target suspected Mexican cartel drones. Reuters reported the system used was the AeroVironment LOCUST, a 20-kilowatt directed-energy weapon the US military has been testing to counter drones and other aerial threats.However,…

Britain’s High Court has used the ECHR to rule against the government’s declaration of a left-wing direct action group that targets defence firms selling equipment to Israel as a terrorist organisation, forcing police to suspend arrests of supporters. Palestine Action, a group connected to factory-smashing raids and other acts of vandalism has committed acts of terrorism and its methods are “inconsistent with the hallmarks of civil disobedience”, but it hasn’t committed enough acts of terrorism or been terroristic persistently enough to make its designation as a terrorist group a proportionate response, Britain’s High Court ruled on Friday. Despite the ruling, supporting Palestine…

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is calling for the indictment of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) over accusations that he accepted campaign contributions from Somali fraudsters for helping them evade investigation by state and federal officials. During a Senate Homeland Security hearing on Thursday, Hawley grilled Ellison about a report from the New York Post published last year that accuses the top Minnesota official of taking campaign contributions from Somalis involved in the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal, where some $9 billion in taxpayer money was stolen under the guise of feeding needy children. According to the report, Ellison accepted…

Scientists say a failed supernova resulted in a quiet transformation of a once-bright massive star A star in the Andromeda galaxy 13 times the mass of the Sun has quietly turned into a black hole after failing to go supernova, according to a new scientific paper.Massive stars can become black holes following a supernova, a spectacular cosmic event. At the end of their life cycle, when nuclear fusion in the core can no longer counteract gravity, it collapses. The resulting shockwave expels the outer layers. The core either turns into a black hole immediately or forms a neutron star that…