Author: Press Room

In a field of 12 announced candidates, Republican Steve Hilton leads Democrats and Republicans in the upcoming race for California governor. More importantly, he has some momentum. “The Republican electorate in California is split between Steve Hilton at 38 percent and Chad Bianco at 37 percent, while Hilton also picks up a plurality of independent voters at 22 percent,” said the pollster, Emerson. “Democratic voters have not yet clearly coalesced around one candidate.” Since the previous poll, Hilton has increased his support by five points, as has billionaire Tom Steyer, who currently earns 8.8 percent support. Unsurprisingly, “Undecided” leads the…

The European Commission has announced plans to “strengthen” the borders of nine member states The European Commission unveiled a strategy on Wednesday to reinforce nine EU member states bordering Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, by means of the ‘European Drone Defense Initiative’. Previously dubbed the ‘drone wall’, the plan has faced criticism over its feasibility.Russia has repeatedly dismissed Western claims of being a threat to NATO or EU nations, calling the narrative “nonsense” and “fearmongering” meant to justify inflated military budgets.Announced by the commission’s executive vice president, Raffaele Fitto, the plan includes Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and…

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Wednesday proposed reforms to the agency’s program that helps low-income Americans afford phone and internet services amidst reports of abuse of the program, especially in states such as California. “The government should not be spending your money to provide phone & internet service to dead people,” FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said as the FCC adopted the proposal to reform the Lifeline, the cell phone and internet service subsidy program. The Lifeline program accounts for roughly $1 billion in spending every year; however, one report from the agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that…

Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, and Charlie Kirk are by far among the most popular media figures among Republican voters, according to polling conducting by Rich Barris of Big Data Poll, obtained exclusively by Breitbart News. Among the Republicans surveyed, a whopping 74.7% viewed the late Charlie Kirk either very or somewhat favorably. Similarly, Joe Rogan was viewed favorably by 62.4% of Republicans, while Tucker Carlson received a 52.1% favorability rating. Conversely, rightwing commentators such as Mark Levin, Laura Loomer, and Nick Fuentes scored far lower on this key favorability index, with significantly larger portions not recognizing their names. Mark Levin…

Business inflation expectations fell to 1.93 percent in February, matching the average level from 2015 to 2019 and marking the lowest reading since November 2020, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s Business Inflation Expectations survey released Wednesday. The February figure represents a sharp decline from 2.27 percent a year earlier and continues a downward trend that has seen expectations fall in nine of the past ten months. The reading is now at precisely the median level that prevailed during the 2015-2019 expansion, when inflation consistently undershot the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent target despite years of monetary stimulus and…

On Monday in Budapest, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio made an unusually pointed observation. “Usually when you’re trying to end wars, the international community applauds you,” he said. “This is one of the few wars I’ve ever seen where some people in the international community condemn you for trying to help end a war.”The remark was widely read as a response to the atmosphere that followed the Munich Security Conference, where efforts to halt the war in Ukraine had unexpectedly become a source of political friction among Western elites.At Munich itself, the European Union, ironically still heavily shaped and…

Animal rights groups have expressed outrage over Morocco’s alleged killing of millions of stray dogs ahead of the 2030 FIFA World Cup, according to a recent report. Organizations such as the International Animal Welfare and Protection Coalition (IAWPC) and PETA have criticized Moroccan officials for culling the population of roughly three million stray dogs, according to the Daily Mail. The animal rights organizations have reportedly “released images and testimony” claiming that Moroccan officials are resorting to “using harsh methods” such as “clamping dogs by the neck, loading them into trucks and poisoning or shooting them before disposing of their bodies,”…

White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett sharply criticized a recent Federal Reserve Bank of New York study on who pays for tariffs, calling its methodology fundamentally flawed and its conclusions unsupported by the data. The New York Fed study, published February 12, concluded that nearly 90 percent of the economic burden from 2025 tariffs fell on U.S. companies and consumers. But Hassett argued in a CNBC interview Wednesday that the research ignored crucial economic factors while drawing sweeping conclusions from incomplete analysis. “The paper is an embarrassment,” Hassett said. “What they’ve done is they put out a conclusion…

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed that she met Jeffrey Epstein-associate Ghislaine Maxwell “on a few occasions” despite widespread reporting that Maxwell attended Chelsea Clinton’s wedding and played a substantial role in the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), one of President Bill Clinton’s signature post-White House endeavors. The Justice Department released its latest tranche of documents relating to the late Epstein which revealed that Ghislaine Maxwell played a significant role in the Clinton orbit of politics. Hillary Clinton recently said she had met Maxwell “on a few occasions,” attempting to distance herself from Maxwell and Epstein. Bill Clinton was featured…

The main reason for the current crisis is the West’s desire to force Tehran into a neocolonial framework With the US and Israel both openly contemplating attacks on Iran, the entire Middle East feels like a powder keg one spark away from catastrophic escalation.As Russia marked Diplomatic Workers’ Day last week, RT spoke to Alexey Dedov, the Russian ambassador in Iran, to get an on-the-ground perspective of how the situation might developed and whether conflict is inevitable.RT: In an interview with RT ahead of Diplomat’s Day, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov noted that today there are many “time bombs” present…