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Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) is calling on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to block a proposed triumphal arch near the Lincoln Memorial, warning the project poses safety risks in the capital’s highly restricted airspace. In a letter sent Thursday, Duckworth said the proposal is a personal distraction by President Donald Trump that undermines more urgent national priorities. The Illinois lawmaker urged the FAA to protect its personnel and budget by refusing to review the plan. “President Trump choosing to force the FAA to invest limited staff and resources into a distracting review of his gaudy and disgraceful arch is merely…

At least one of the four eavesdropping facilities in Cuba that China may be utilizing to conduct espionage on the United States is presumed to have become operational, a report published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on Thursday revealed. Over the past two years, CSIS has warned that the communist Cuban regime maintains four facilities across Cuba deemed to be the most likely facilities used by the Chinese to collect signals intelligence (SIGINT) on the region in order to spy on the United States. CSIS explained in 2024 that the facility located in Bejucal, Mayabeque, has been “active” for…

Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) claimed President Donald Trump did not have “honesty and integrity,” like former President Barack Obama. Discussing President Obama’s speech at his presidential center opening, Pritzker said, “Sitting in the audience and watching the president speak, listening to Michelle Obama speak, and reviewing the history of his presidency, I must say, I’m reminded that there once was a time indeed, during most of my life, when we had presidents who exhibited character and honesty and integrity and kindness and empathy.  Those are all things that I think all of us longed for…

The Jewish state killed up to 18 people overnight, according to Beirut though no official ceasefire confirmation has been given by either the IDF or Hezbollah Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to a ceasefire starting on Friday, Reuters has claimed, citing an unnamed US official and “two Hezbollah officials.” However, no official confirmation has been made by either the Israel Defense Forces or the militant group.According to the US official who spoke to Reuters, negotiators for the US and Qatar worked out the deal with help from Iran. “We understand that after the exchange of fire earlier today, Israel and…

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) of the United Kingdom announced on Friday that it had decided to temporarily suspend Karim Khan, formerly the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), as the ICC addresses allegations that Khan engaged in “non-consensual” sexual activity with a colleague. The allegations first came to light in late 2024 after Khan had developed a reputation for an aggressive approach that resulted in the international court issuing warrants for Russian strongman Vladimir Putin and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The latter prompted particular global outrage as it was issued in the context of the October…

Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) claimed President Donald Trump was prosecuting his enemies as was done in third-world countries. Pritzker said, “You know, there are young people who really don’t know what it’s like to have a judiciary that’s independent of the presidency or a Congress that will stand up to a president again, independently, because we have neither one of those, at least not at the Supreme Court, not in the United States Congress. And so I think it was very important to hear from the mouth of the last, you know, Democratic president who’s,…

Over 100 Labour MPs have called on Keir Starmer to resign as the embattled prime minister gears up for a challenge to his authority The UK’s ruling Labour Party could plunge itself and the whole country into a “disaster,” MPs and political commentators are warning, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer stubbornly defying calls from within his own party to quit.Labour’s leadership crisis came to a head this week when former Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham won Thursday’s Makerfield by-election, securing 55% of the vote. Now the party’s MPs expect him to challenge Starmer within weeks if not days, with many Labour…

A terrorist group called Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM), al-Qaeda’s franchise in West Africa, claimed responsibility for an attack on the Niamey airport in Niger that killed 11 members of the government’s security force, plus two civilians. The defense ministry of Niger said 22 of the attackers were also killed in the battle, and four were wounded. Security forces seized a large number of weapons from the assailants, including rocket-propelled grenades, AK-47 rifles, hand grenades, explosives, and thousands of rounds of ammunition. The assault on the Diori Hamani International Airport in Niger’s capital city began around 6:00 am local…

Many skilled Americans are being pushed out of high-tech jobs by the ethnic-Chinese Taiwanese managers of a taxpayer-funded computer-chip company in Arizona, says a lawsuit by 13 Americans. The “grossly disproportionate [ethnic Chinese] workforce is the result of [company’s] intentional pattern and practice of employment discrimination… including discrimination in hiring, staffing, promotion, and retention/termination decisions,” says the lawsuit by 13 American plaintiffs, filed by Kotchen & Low LLC. The plaintiffs suing the Taiwan-based Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company [TSMC] — which has gotten $6.6 billion from taxpayers — say in their lawsuit: TSMC’s preference for East Asians and those of Taiwanese or Chinese…

Thursday on Real America’s Voice’s The Charlie Kirk Show, Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow said a Mexican national accused of plotting a terrorist attack at a UFC event was one of former President Barack Obama’s “precious Dreamers.” Marlow said that a Mexican national accused of plotting a terrorist attack at a UFC event exposes failures in U.S. immigration enforcement and highlights what he described as the consequences of policies protecting so-called “Dreamers.” “This guy, overstaying visas because we don’t police our visas — a Mexican national. We first thought — and I know you guys had a great show title on…