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The Ceuta crisis was supposed to serve as “punishment” for Madrid’s stance on the Middle East conflict, Tehran has argued The US and Israel orchestrated the mass migrant crossing from Morocco into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta to punish Madrid for its refusal to bow to pressure on the Middle East conflicts, Iran’s embassy in Kenya has suggested. Spain has been at odds with Washington and West Jerusalem over the Gaza war and strikes on Iran.Over the past several days, roughly 50,000 to 60,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into Ceuta by land and sea in numbers equivalent to some…
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Sunday weighed in on the Maine Senate race on NBC’s Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, where he doubled down on support for ex-Senate nominee Graham Platner and became frustrated when asked if he regrets endorsing him. Sanders was first asked about Platner’s unelected replacement, Troy Jackson, whom the Democratic Party swapped in as the nominee after Platner was pressured by the party to drop out of the race last month. While noting that he was “not involved in that process at all,” he said he’s known Jackson for years and described him as a…
Greek police officers detained a 26 year-old Afghan national after he confessed to dumping the body of a dead British woman at an abandoned building in Athens, outlets reported on Sunday. The suspect is being held on suspicion of manslaughter and robbery. The body of Elisabeth-Jane Ross, a 38 year-old woman from Edinburgh, Scotland, was found by a homeless man in mid-July at a derelict building in Kypseli, a neighborhood in central Athens. Ross traveled to Greece in late June, and was staying with friends in Piraeus. The victim reportedly told her friends on mid-July that she would go to Kypseli, where her…
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that the media has been “lying” about the politics of far-left candidates and criticized California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) for his accommodating stance towards them. During his closing monologue on democratic socialism, Maher said that “this nonsense is not where most Democratic politicians are right now. But it’s also becoming a raging Fyre Festival in the party that neither is anyone putting out.” He continued, “People are actually getting elected now who literally don’t think we should have police or prisons or borders. And, again, they’re not lying about…
Ballot counting at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center in Phoenix A man from California was arrested in Scottsdale, Arizona, on felony charges after US Postal Inspectors caught him stealing mail, including unvoted mail-in ballots, from a USPS collection box. The suspect, 26-year-old Richard Anthony Ramos Jr. of Stockton, California, was arrested on July 21 with several ballots in his car. Notably, the Primary elections in Arizona were also held on July 21. The scheme reportedly involved using a cardboard box into the collection bin to trap outgoing mail, which he would then fish out. It is unclear whether…
During his closing monologue on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that he can’t go a week without seeing a “newly-chosen exciting new face in the Democratic Party” that is a Communist or some other version of crazy and he would back Sarah Palin over the DSA. Maher began by saying, “Donald Trump has told one trillion lies, but when he says the Democratic Socialists of America are actually Communists, that’s not one of them.” He added that his vote would be “in play” if the Democratic Party kept trending in the DSA’s direction, “And here’s…
Chevron Chairman and CEO Mike Wirth was on “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo this weekend to discuss the impact of the war in Iran on global energy markets. “I spoke with the Chairman and CEO of Chevron, Mike Wirth, on Friday,” Bartiromo said. “The story of the quarter is one of consistent execution, strong production, and record US refinery throughput. We had assets around the world that ran at or near full capacity. We set a production record in the US at nearly 2.1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day,” Wirth said. “We had record refinery throughput…
The following content is sponsored by Americans for Limited Government. For years, Washington let a critical federal healthcare program morph into something Congress never intended. What began as a lifeline for vulnerable patients has slowly become a multibillion-dollar windfall for powerful hospitals, with too little transparency, too little accountability, and far too many opportunities for abuse. Politicians ignored the warning signs for far too long. President Donald Trump is finally doing something about it. This week, the Trump administration unveiled a pilot program to modernize the 340B Drug Pricing Program — a commonsense reform that replaces automatic upfront discounts for hospitals with a rebate model…
Former Congresswoman Kay Granger passed away on Sunday after transitioning to an assisted living facility. She was 83 years old. Granger represented Texas’s 12th congressional district for 28 years and served on the House Appropriations Committee. Full statement from Speaker Johnson: Kay Granger devoted her life to serving her Fort Worth, Texas community — as a teacher and businesswoman, on the Fort Worth Zoning Commission and City Council, as Mayor, and in Congress for nearly three decades, where she also served as Chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee. Throughout her career, she broke barriers for women in public service. She…
A poll this week showed Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) leading her state’s Republican Party gubernatorial primary. Blackburn was at 42 percent with U.S. Representative John Rose (R-TN) at 25 percent and State Rep. Monty Fritts at 22 percent, the Tennessee Star reported Friday, citing the Fabrizio, Lee, and Associates survey. Early voting concludes on Saturday and the primary election is on Thursday, the article continued: The survey also found 69 percent of voters approve of Blackburn’s performance in Congress, compared to 27 percent who disapprove, and 5 percent who either did not know their opinion or refused to provide an…