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On Saturday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Weekend,” Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) criticized the Trump administration for the impact of Operation Epic Fury on energy costs and also declared that their attempts to drill off the coast of California will be fought legally. Padilla said, “They’re drilling off the coast of California? Not without a fight. State law and our control of state waters is very, very clear. And the company that Trump is supposedly ordering to start their drilling off the coast of California again, they’re so out of compliance on other issues. This isn’t going to begin today or…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – A combined missile and drone attack on the Kyiv region killed at least four people and wounded at least 15 overnight into Saturday, according to the head of the regional administration for the Ukrainian capital. Three of the wounded were in critical condition, of whom two were undergoing surgery, Mykola Kalashnyk reported on Saturday. The attack hit four districts, damaging residential buildings, educational institutions, enterprises and critical infrastructure, Kalashnyk added in a social media post. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the main target for the overnight strikes was “the energy infrastructure of the Kyiv region.” He…
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Story Is,” Rep. Laura Friedman (D-CA) defended continuing the shutdown of DHS despite heightened threats to the homeland by saying that “the focus is not on the right place” for ICE and Border Patrol. Host Elex Michaelson asked, “We have seen different instances where the homeland has been targeted since this war in Iran began. Has Congress been briefed at all about the security threats happening in America now?” Friedman answered, “Not that I’m aware of. And several of us in Los Angeles have asked to be briefed because we heard this vague announcement…
In the age of viral geopolitics, wars spread through narratives that demonize the enemy and sanctify violence Before wars are understood, they are narrated. The stories told about them determine who is cast as aggressor, who stands as defender, and which acts of violence are rendered necessary. Long before facts are weighed, the language of conflict surreptitiously arranges the moral stage upon which events will be judged.On the tenth day of the Israeli-American campaign against Iran, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz denounced the civilizational state as a hub of international terrorism that must be dismantled, depicting US and Israeli actions as…
AMSTERDAM (AP) – Dutch authorities were hunting Saturday for a person who was filmed setting off an explosion outside a Jewish school in Amsterdam. The mayor denounced the attack as a cowardly act of aggression against the city’s Jewish community. A City Hall statement said the overnight blast against the outer wall of the school in the Dutch capital’s Buitenveldert district caused only limited damage. The person who detonated the explosion was caught on camera, it said. Mayor Femke Halsema said in the statement that Amsterdam’s Jewish residents feel “fear and anger” and are increasingly being targeted by antisemitism. “That…
Republican strategist Rob Lockwood highlighted how President Donald Trump and his administration have done “so much” regarding energy to make life “more affordable” during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday. While speaking to Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle, Lockwood explained what energy meant “to the broader economic vision” of the Trump administration. “It’s everything. Energy touches everything,” Lockwood explained, adding that the Biden years “were jihad on affordable, reliable energy.” “If you look up intermittent — which is the left’s preferred choice, it means not continuous,” Lockwood added. “Which means, that Biden, and then Harris — when she started running,…
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung delivered a very public character appraisal of The Late Show‘s Stephen Colbert on Thursday in a social media post, summing his subject up as “a sad and pathetic excuse for a human being.” The entire commentary was seen on X – formerly known as Twitter. It spared no expense in its coverage of Colbert, noting a column from Variety about the 61-year-old navigating his final season as a late-night host on CBS full of dewy-eyed reminiscences: The Daily Beast notes the Variety piece, a column by Daniel D’Addario, suggests guests’ emotional responses to Colbert’s upcoming exit are…
President Trump has promised to “coordinate” with foreign states that agree to send their military vessels to the Strait of Hormuz “so that everything goes quickly, smoothly, and well.” “The United States of America has beaten and completely decimated Iran, both militarily, economically, and in every other way, but the countries of the world that receive oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of that passage, and we will help — A LOT!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.In a previous post, the US president said: “Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others that are affected by…
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “The Bottom Line,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Rick Crawford (R-AR) said that “Cuba is done” and “it’s just now a question of when, not if. And what we’re seeing now is even Miguel Díaz-Canel is making overtures that indicate he knows they’re done and he’s trying to strike favorable terms” with the U.S. Crawford said, [relevant remarks begin around 7:40] “Cuba is done, Cuba has been done for a long time, but Venezuela pretty much sealed the deal, it’s just now a question of when, not if. And what we’re seeing…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is smashing Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) directly on Friday with the longtime senator’s own litany of tirades against President Donald Trump. “John Cornyn has spent years trying to destroy President Trump and undermine the America First movement,” Paxton said in a statement provided to Breitbart News. “Time after time, when President Trump was under attack, John Cornyn joined in with the Swamp to try and tear him down. From his support for the lawfare against the President to his relentless attempts to stop both his 2016 and 2024 presidential campaigns, Cornyn has worked tirelessly to…