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If you’re a Cabinet official thinking of pursuing a new professional opportunity, Senate Republicans have a request: Now’s the time to call it quits. The departure this week of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who is following former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi out the door, has some GOP lawmakers pondering a larger Cabinet shakeup and what that could mean to an unsettled Senate floor schedule. Senate Republicans are already trying to juggle a shrinking window for lawmaking before the November midterms — including at least one potential party-line budget reconciliation bill, a litany of measures…

Four trips, dozens of deals, and one message: Madrid is moving closer to Beijing – on its own terms When Spain’s Pedro Sánchez arrived in Beijing in April for his fourth visit in four years, he did so for a tightly choreographed round of high-level meetings with Xi Jinping and senior Chinese officials, alongside business and academic engagements.Officially, the visit revolved around cooperation: trade, green energy, technology, and multilateral governance. Spain, Sánchez reiterated, rejects the fashionable rhetoric of “decoupling” and instead champions interconnected supply chains. He urged China to take on a greater role in global governance, from climate change…

European Union ambassadors in Brussels agreed on Wednesday to approve a 90 billion-euro loan to Ukraine and a further round of sanctions against Russia, after outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán lifted his threat of a veto. The funding, which was initially approved in December, had been held up from reaching Kyiv over objections from Budapest, which argued under Prime Minsiter Orbán that the EU should focus their efforts on achieving a peace settlement between Russia and Ukraine rather than plunging the bloc deeper into the conflict in his country’s Eastern neighbour. The final formal approval of the money will…

Abortion giant Planned Parenthood honored pop star Pink at a gala in New York last week, after the organization released its annual report bragging about performing a record number of abortions.  Pink, a Grammy-winning artist whose real name is Alecia Beth Moore-Hart, received the “Catalyst of Change Award” at the Planned Parenthood of Greater New York’s “Spring Into Action Gala.” The event’s “honorary committee” included a long list of other Hollywood celebrities, including Meryl Streep, Amy Poehler, Molly Ringwald, Patricia Arquette, and Christiana Hendricks.  In a comment to Vogue backstage at the event, Moore-Hart called Planned Parenthood staff “warriors.” “I…

While most reports of drone sightings have been proven false, some appeared “plausible” even despite lack of any evidence, Theo Francken insists Belgian Defense Minister Theo Francken has defended the costly drone scare, which cost some €50 million (some $ 58.5 million) in emergency spending, and offered a lackluster apology for personally disseminating images purporting to picture the UAVs, which turned out to be false.The drone craze gripped the country, as well as several other EU nations, late last year with numerous sightings of mysterious UAVs reported from military and critical infrastructure sites. The Belgian government declared an emergency situation…

Hasan Piker sparked backlash on Wednesday when he argued that Luigi Mangione allegedly killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson because he committed “social murder.” Piker, a Twitch streamer, said Americans “understand” why Luigi Mangione allegedly killed Thompson due to the CEO’s alleged role in “social murder.” “Friedrich Engels wrote about the concept of social murder. And Brian Thompson, as the UnitedHealthcare CEO, was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder,” Piker claimed in an interview with the New York Times podcast The Opinions. “And that was a fascinating story for me, because Americans are very Draconian about crime and punishment.…

The New York Mets made history on Tuesday when the team lost its 12th game in its worst losing streak since 2002. The Mets suffered a 5-3 loss to the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday, raising their ongoing losing streak to 12 games, tying their last streak in 2002. No MLB team has made it to the postseason after suffering a 12-game losing streak, which statistically puts the Mets outside of the playoffs. “They held their first three-run lead in just over two weeks after Francisco Lindor hit a three-run home run in the third inning,” reported The Athletic. “Their starting…

Senate Republicans green-lit their party-line plan early Thursday morning to send tens of billions of dollars to immigration enforcement agencies in the coming years. Senators voted 50-48 to adopt a budget blueprint for legislation that could fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Border Patrol and other agencies for the remainder of President Donald Trump’s term. The vote was almost entirely on party lines, with GOP Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska the only lawmakers to break ranks. The vote just after 3:30 a.m. completed the first step in the GOP’s plan to approve roughly $70 billion in…

John C. Phelan is leaving the administration, “effective immediately,” the Pentagon has announced US Navy Secretary John C. Phelan has stepped down in an abrupt move announced by the Pentagon without any public explanation or indication that his exit was linked to the naval blockade of Iran.Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement that Phelan was “departing the administration” at once and that Undersecretary Hung Cao would become acting secretary of the Navy.“On behalf of the Secretary of War and Deputy Secretary of War, we are grateful to Secretary Phelan for his service to the Department and the United…

Authorities are labelling Monday’s mass shooting near Mexico City as a lone wolf attack that killed one Canadian woman and injured over a dozen other victims, including six U.S. citizens. New information from the crime scene also points to the shooter attempting to pay homage to the 1999 Columbine mass shooting which took place in the United States. As Breitbart Texas reported, the shooting took place on Monday morning, when Julio Cesar Jasso Ramirez arrived at the Sun Pyramid in the Teotihuacan archeological site and began shooting into the crowd using a 38 caliber revolver. The gunmen also carried a…