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Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico was caught on video describing a “Christofascism movement” as he criticized legislation restricting gender-affirming care for transgender minors and the state’s abortion law. During an appearance on Texas Impact’s Weekly Witness, Talarico argued that legislation restricting gender-affirming care for transgender minors and Texas’s abortion ban stemmed from what he called a “Christofascism movement.” [Watch Video Here:] “You saw it in the anti-LGBTQ legislation, including the bill that would have denied gender-affirming health care to trans children,” Talarico said. “And then, of course, famously, infamously, we saw it last session with the most extreme abortion…

The newspaper’s analysis found they account for less than half of enrollment at 27 of 147 institutions White students have become a minority at nearly one in five universities across the UK, according to official higher education data analyzed by The Telegraph.The newspaper’s analysis, published on Wednesday, found that white British students accounted for less than half of enrollment at 27 of the country’s 147 universities in the 2024-25 academic year, up from 13 institutions a decade earlier.At some universities, white students made up fewer than one in four enrolled. Aston University recorded the lowest share at 23%, followed by…

U.S. officials feared Israel might target two of Iran’s top negotiators during sensitive peace talks this spring, concerned such a strike could derail the diplomatic effort and reignite the war, according to a report published Thursday. The New York Times, citing current and former U.S. officials, reported Washington grew increasingly concerned after negotiations began in earnest in April that Israel could target Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, two of Tehran’s principal negotiators in the talks. According to the report, U.S. officials believed any attempt to kill the two Iranian officials would likely collapse the negotiations…

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) claimed the SAVE Act could be used to deny voter registration to people with Hispanic last names. Speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Gillibrand criticized a provision she said would require states to send their voter rolls to the federal government for review. She questioned how the government would decide who is eligible to vote and suggested people with Hispanic surnames could be unfairly targeted. “Are they just going to say if you have a Latin last name, if you’re a Latino, and it’s Diaz or Alvarez, that you are not allowed to vote because there’s a question…

Washington’s de-facto “envoy” to the island pushed for “democratic” UAV production as “deterrence” against Beijing The top US diplomat in Taiwan has called for the self-administered Chinese island to be turned into a “hornet’s nest” of air, surface and subsurface drones, as Washington continues to expand military cooperation with Taipei despite repeated warnings from Beijing.The US does not formally recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state but remains its main military backer and arms supplier, and maintains diplomatic ties through a quasi-embassy, the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT). Its director, Raymond Greene, claimed on Thursday that drones represented a “game-changing opportunity”…

Thursday on MS NOW’s “Deadline,” former special counsel Jack Smith urged state attorneys general to “be proactive” and “initiate litigation” to protect the upcoming elections from President Donald Trump. Host Nicolle Wallace asked, “Do you agree that we are covering in real-time an assault on our elections, the upcoming ones?” Smith said, “I’m very concerned of what’s going to happen in the next election, absolutely.” Wallace asked, “Do you see again, in things that are covered and things that are public-facing conduct ahead of the midterms that you investigated in the January 6th case?” Smith said, “Well, I’ve been thinking…

At least 20 people have been killed in a night of unusually intense Russian airstrikes on Kyiv, which Moscow claimed were retaliation against what it describes as Ukrainian “terrorist” attacks against its oil infrastructure. Waves of weapons that amounted to “more than 70 missiles and nearly 500 drones” saturated Ukrainian capital Kyiv overnight and into Thursday morning in an 11 hour-long attack that has now been confirmed to have killed 20. Rescue efforts continue and the death toll may yet rise still further, it was stated. Over 20 residential buildings were hit by the air raids, which in addition to…

Thursday on MS NOW’s “Money, Power, Politics,” panelist Donny Deutsch said, “Democrats have gone off the rails” with anti-American socialism. Host Stephanie Ruhle said, “Even though voters are unhappy with Trump, they’re still leaning Republican. Do you think that if the economy doesn’t improve by November, it can change? Do Democrats need to figure out their messaging on the economy? Because for whatever reason, Republicans still seem to have this stronghold that ‘We’re good for business.’” Deutsch said, “Well, Democrats have gone off the rails. They’re not even focused — what matters to people is affordability, and  Democrats right now…

The rebuke comes after Kiev approved the creation of a National Pantheon honoring the perpetrators of WWII massacres of Poles The office of Polish President Karol Nawrocki has accused Vladimir Zelensky of further aggravating the rift over the honoring of Nazi collaborators in Ukraine. Relations between Warsaw and Kiev have grown increasingly strained since the Ukrainian leader named a military unit after the ‘Heroes of the UPA’.During World War II, members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), the armed wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), perpetrated mass killings of ethnic minorities in what is now western Ukraine.The extermination…

BERLIN (AP) – German federal prosecutors on Thursday filed charges against a former Ukrainian army officer over undersea explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines between Russia and Germany four years ago. The suspect, identified only as Serhii K. in line with local privacy rules, faces charges of causing an explosion, damaging property, disrupting public service and being an “accomplice to war crimes” by attacking civilian objects, prosecutors said in a statement. The undersea explosions on Sept. 26, 2022, damaged pipelines that were built to carry Russian natural gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea. They added to tensions…