Author: Press Room
A spending package that would fund the vast majority of the federal government cleared a key procedural hurdle Tuesday, setting up votes later in the day to send the measure to the White House for President Donald Trump’s signature. Final passage of the measure, which also includes a funding patch for the Department of Homeland Security through Feb. 13, would end the partial government shutdown that began Saturday. Republicans stayed mostly united on the 217-215 test vote to advance the package that would fund the Pentagon and departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, and…
International Man: President Trump justified the operation and capture of Nicolas Maduro by saying it was because of drug trafficking and illegal immigration. What is the real objective of the US involvement in Venezuela? Doug Casey: The lies that the US government has put out regarding Venezuela are shameful. The amount of drug trafficking done in and from Venezuela is trivial. But the killing of at least 80 people on the high seas with no proof of wrongdoing is very serious. We may never know what the real truth is, but drugs have little or nothing to do with it. It…
Ambassador Laura Dogu met with Venezuela’s “acting President” Delcy Rodríguez and her brother Jorge on Monday, hours after arriving in the country amid the ongoing reopening process of the U.S. embassy in Caracas. “Today I met with Delcy Rodríguez and Jorge Rodríguez to reiterate the three phases that Secretary Marco Rubio has proposed for Venezuela: stabilization, economic recovery and reconciliation, and transition,” Dogu wrote on the U.S. embassy’s social media accounts on Monday evening. Dogu referred to the three-phase roadman towards restoring democracy in Venezuela following the downfall of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro on January. Sec. Rubio detailed the proposal last…
Melania documentary director Brett Ratner told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview – hours after the film hit theaters worldwide – that First Lady Melania Trump deserves “all the credit” for the picture’s historic opening weekend success. Melania is set to haul in more than $8 million in its opening weekend, which would be the best at the box office for a documentary in the last decade. A humble Ratner told Breitbart News via a phone interview Saturday that he gives “all the credit” to the first lady, the film’s subject, for its extremely successful box office performance. “I have…
Security forces launched an operation following a coordinated militant attack in Balochistan on Saturday that killed nearly 50 people At least 177 insurgents have been killed in a security crackdown in Pakistan following coordinated attacks that left more than 50 people dead, the country’s Interior Ministry has said.The operation was announced on Sunday after attacks by insurgent group the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) at multiple locations across the southwestern province of Balochistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan.The assaults began early on Saturday and killed at least 31 civilians, including five women, as well as 17 members of the security forces,…
George Zinn, the elderly man who falsely claimed he shot Charlie Kirk in the immediate aftermath of the Turning Point USA founder’s assassination and distracted police from looking for the real killer, has been sentenced to prison for child sex crimes and obstruction of justice. Zinn cried in court after pleading guilty to two counts of second-degree felony charges of sexual exploitation of a minor and no contest to a third-degree felony charge of obstruction of justice, according to a report by the Hill. Fourth District Court Judge Thomas Low reportedly sentenced the 71-year-old to two prison terms of up to 15 years…
The leftist Labour Party government is facing backlash from backbenchers over plans to prioritise migrants over Britons in newly built government housing. Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer may be forced into another politically embarrassing U-turn, as a brewing rebellion from within his own party’s ranks is brewing over the already contentious issue of housing asylum seekers, many of whom entered the country illegally. The government is seeking to move away from the Tory-era scheme of block booking hotels across the country to house migrants, which sparked nationwide protests following a spate of sexual assaults committed by foreign inhabitants against native…
Elon Musk is combining SpaceX with his artificial intelligence startup xAI as the merged entity prepares for a massive IPO that could value the combined company at $1.25 trillion. CNBC reports that Elon Musk has undertaken a significant consolidation of his business empire, revealing that SpaceX is acquiring his artificial intelligence company xAI in a deal that brings together two of his most valuable ventures. The transaction positions the merged entity for an IPO that Bloomberg reports could value the combined company at $1.25 trillion. Musk disclosed the acquisition in a blog post on Monday, describing the creation of what he…
On Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he was “confident” the government would reopen Tuesday. Host Kristen Welker said, “As we sit here today, we are in the midst of a partial government shutdown. So I want to start right there. The latest reports are that you’ve spoken to Leader Hakeem Jeffries, that he has made it clear that you don’t have Democrat support to reopen the government. So let me put this bottom line question to you. Are you confident that the government will reopen on Monday with Republican votes? Do you have…
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said in an interview Tuesday he has made no decisions about bypassing Senate filibuster rules to skirt the normal 60-vote margin required to advance legislation in the chamber. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said Monday she had White House-brokered “assurances” that the Senate would allow for a “standing” or “talking” filibuster that could allow the SAVE Act, a House-passed elections bill pushed by conservative hard-liners, to be enacted into law. Thune was not party to Luna’s conversation with President Donald Trump, which prompted Luna to indicate she would support a massive spending bill moving through…