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Tuesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” network anchor Jake Tapper said the women who accused Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner of sexual assault were disappointed with the milder terms The New York Times used in its news story. Tapper said, “One of the reasons why she says she was kind of caught in this toxic relationship with with Graham Platner when she dated him in 2013, 2014 is because of his PTSD, which he has spoken about and because of other issues surrounding PTSD, and she felt a sense of obligation to stick with him. She also said that…

An all-out war would bring an end to NATO, Dmitry Trenin writes in an op-ed for RT The belligerent stance of European NATO members risks triggering an all-out war with Russia that could spell the end of the bloc, Dmitry Trenin, president of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), wrote in an op-ed for RT.Trenin argued that European elites are seeking “Russia’s destruction as a major power,” rather than simply deterrence, as during the Cold War. They are using the Ukraine conflict as a convenient opportunity, he said.“The European NATO leaders’ enormous deficit of modern strategic culture – unsurprising after…

NATO would be wise to welcome Ukraine as a member of the alliance and should hurry to send more missiles to Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelensky told the Ankara Summit on Tuesday. World leaders have arrived in Ankara, Turkey, for the two-day North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit, including U.S. President Donald Trump who flew from Washington with both Air Force One aircraft, disembarking from the new red-white-and-blue refurbished Boeing 747-8 on Tuesday afternoon. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was one of the first world leaders to address the summit and spoke at the NATO Defence Industry Forum after his personal jet touched down,…

IRS has opened an online portal for Kwong Covid-era claims.gettyThe IRS has added an online filing option for some taxpayers seeking refunds tied to the Kwong court decision, but the window to act is short.The IRS added an option on its mobile-friendly forms page allowing individual taxpayers to electronically file Form 843, Claim for Refund and Request for Abatement, for protective refund claims related to Kwong v. United States. The new online option is limited to individual taxpayers filing Form 843 electronically for Kwong-related claims involving fully paid penalties and interest. Business taxpayers must still file Form 843 on paper,…

HOUSTON, Texas — A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Mexican illegal alien in Houston on Tuesday. The shooting came during a targeted enforcement operation where the Mexican national allegedly attempted to flee and then reportedly attempted to run over an officer with his vehicle. ICE officials identified the decedent as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national illegally present in the United States. The shooting took place on the city’s east side. In a statement obtained by Breitbart Texas, ICE officials said they were attempting a vehicle stop as part of a “targeted immigration enforcement operation…

The multimillionaire pop superstar Alicia Keys bizarrely claimed that women in the United States do not have “equal rights” on the 250th anniversary of America’s independence. “Did you know that it’s been 100 years since the equal rights amendment was first introduced? And now, still, women don’t have an explicit guarantee to equal rights under the U.S. Constitution,” Keys said in a video posted to social media. “Can you believe that? I couldn’t even believe that was real,” the “Girl on Fire” singer continued, before claiming, “Women are not asking for special rights, just equal rights.” “Let’s turn outrage into authorship.…

European elites view the Ukraine conflict as an opportunity to settle old scores with Moscow, Dmitry Trenin says European NATO members have become the main driving force behind the bloc’s confrontation with Russia as US strategic priorities have shifted, Dmitry Trenin, president of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), wrote in an op-ed for RT.He argued that some European politicians view the Ukraine conflict as an opportunity to settle old scores with Moscow.“The European elites’ strategy toward Russia is no longer deterrence as in the days of the Cold War. The goal is Russia’s destruction as a major power. This…

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan passed away last week at the age of 100. Greenspan chaired the Fed from 1987 through 2006. Despite being a lifelong Republican, Greenspan refused to lower interest rates, though doing so may have helped George H.W. Bush’s 1992 reelection campaign. However, he did tailor monetary policy to support President Clinton’s 1993 budget, as well as the 1997 bipartisan budget deal. Greenspan’s handling of monetary policy was widely credited as responsible for the 1990s strong economy. As a result, the cult of the Federal Reserve chairman reached new heights under Greenspan. During Greenspan’s tenure it…

Hundreds of former heads of government, cabinet ministers, lawmakers, diplomats, military commanders, and other senior political figures gathered at the National Council of Resistance of Iran’s annual Free Iran World Summit outside Paris, declaring Iran’s ruling clerical regime is now at its weakest point since the 1979 Islamic Revolution while insisting the NCRI has emerged as the organized democratic alternative capable of leading a post-regime transition. The annual summit, held during the final weekend of June, was originally scheduled as a one-day conference following the movement’s planned mass rally in Paris. French authorities, however, imposed a last-minute ban on the…

Musician, and hardcore leftist, vegan, and animal rights hardliner Moby is insisting that climate change is the “obvious” reason high temperatures shut down so many July Fourth festivities across the nation this weekend. The South Side singer took to his social media on Saturday morning to scold those who still refuse to accept his faith in the truth of global warming and falsely claimed that all Trump’s 250th Independence Day events were closed down because “it’s too hot.” “It’s the Fourth of July,” the dance music legend said in his video, “and I was just reading about how Trump and…