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On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright responded to a question on electricity prices rising despite him saying he hoped to see a stop in the rise of electricity prices in the first half of this year and it would take place “soon” by saying that “electricity is a battleship. All of the new capacity that’s coming online right now was permitted during the Biden administration,” which “essentially, only permitted wind and solar, that are mostly forces to drive up electricity prices.” And argued that things are trending in the right direction while…

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Way Too Early,” Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) discussed his push to get cities to end their agreements with ICE and said that cities are “trying to close their budget deficits by partnering with ICE, because ICE is throwing a lot of money at them to go enforce immigration law, to become federal agents, basically.” Castro said, “[I]n Texas, especially, and I would say it’s true for Florida as well, but city governments and local law enforcement are facing two big problems right now: Number one, Gov. Abbott (R) has put pressure on local law…

A judge in Nevada has thrown out criminal charges against six Republicans who falsely claimed to be presidential electors for Donald Trump in 2020, concluding that state prosecutors failed to show the six false electors acted with the intent to defraud election officials. “The State failed to present sufficient evidence from which a reasonable grand jury could infer the requisite intent to defraud,” Clark County Judge Mary Kay Holthus wrote, calling the evidence presented by prosecutors “at best, minimal.” Holthus sharply rebuked the case brought by Attorney General Aaron Ford, and it is the latest setback for the prosecutions aimed…

Mike Huckabee has condemned a days-long blockade of several homes in the West Bank, including one owned by a dual US citizen US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has branded Israeli settlers besieging three Palestinian families in their West Bank homes “terrorists.” The days-long siege has targeted several properties, including one owned by a dual US citizen.According to the UN, the blockade in the village of Qusra began last Sunday, leaving approximately 15 Palestinians, including at least two children, trapped in their homes without access to electricity or water supplies. The Palestinians are also believed to be running out of…

Screencap of Twitter/X video. Margaret Cho is one of those stand-up comedians who has become less funny as she has gotten older and more woke, which is a shame because she wasn’t too bad back in the 1990s. Today, she comes off as a humorless scold, and a far left one, naturally. During a recent appearance on a podcast, she talked about how if you make jokes about trans people, trans people die. The host doesn’t challenge her on this at all, he just nods along, as if what she is saying is completely normal. It isn’t. Breitbart News has…

Conservative President of Colombia Abelardo de la Espriella declared a state of economic emergency on Wednesday to expedite the country’s recovery in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that struck the South American nation this week. The declaration, a faculty granted by the Colombian constitution, grants special provisions to de la Espriella that allow him to issue specific decrees to address the ongoing emergency caused by the earthquake. Colombia is still recovering from a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck the country on Monday morning. Speaking on Wednesday night alongside First Lady Ana Lucía Pineda, de la Espriella detailed that, as of…

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accused his predecessor Xavier Becerra of gutting a team responsible for policing fraud across trillions of dollars. “My predecessor, Xavier Becerra, when he came into my agency, there were only 80 people in program integrity, 80 people,” Kennedy said. “This is for 50 states and five territories.” Becerra allegedly stripped nearly the entire team tasked with guarding $2.2 trillion in annual HHS payments against fraud, said Kennedy during a White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud press conference. Kennedy said those employees were responsible for monitoring roughly four million transactions each…

Valery Melnikov says his Mariupol series was pulled after complaints over his past work for RIA Novosti German camera maker Leica has excluded a Russian photographer from its prestigious Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA) following Ukrainian criticism over his links to the Russian RIA Novosti news agency.Valery Melnikov, a three-time World Press Photo winner, said in a social media post this week that his long-term series, ‘Mariupol. Open Wounds,’ had initially been selected by the Leica jury for the 2026 shortlist before being dropped.The project, which Melnikov has worked on since 2022, documents civilians living in the Black Sea port city of…

Rabbis on Monday urged New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to stop painting Israel as the Evil Empire because of the toll his remarks are taking on innocent New York City Jews. The meeting between 10 Jewish leaders and the Muslim pro-Palestinian mayor came against a backdrop of rising anti-Semitism in New York City. Anti-Jewish hate crimes rose 8.5 percent through the first seven months of the year, New York Police Department officials said last week, according to The Wall Street Journal. The rabbis collectively sought to have Mamdani tone down his rhetoric on Israel. “There were rabbis from across…

Authorities in Colombia continue to struggle to meet the needs of the tens of thousands estimated to have been injured, displaced, or otherwise affected by the devastating 7.4-magnitude earthquake this week, telling local media on Thursday that hospitals near the epicenter are totally overwhelmed and city streets are in a state of “total chaos.” Complicating matters, reports from Colombia detail ongoing aftershocks that interrupt search and rescue operations and threaten to send buildings that remain precariously standing crumbling down, trapping even more people. Many residents in the western Colombian department, or state, of Chocó where the earthquake hit are wandering…