Author: Press Room
The vibes are bad. An overwhelming sense of frustration and despair is taking hold on Capitol Hill as lawmakers struggle to reach a deal on DHS funding before a two-week recess begins Friday. The funding framework Republican senators sketched out with President Donald Trump on Monday appears to be on life support and there’s no backup agreement. Democrats say Republicans suddenly gave up this week on negotiating new rules for immigration enforcement agents. Trump is showing little interest in driving a deal, blaming Democrats for backing out of agreements with Republicans. “Because they don’t want to settle,” Trump said at…
A Turkish oil tanker has reportedly been struck by drones near the Bosphorus after taking on around 140,000 tons of oil at a Russian port, local media reported on Thursday. The ship is blacklisted by the Ukrainian government for transporting Russian goods.The vessel, identified as the Altura, is owned by Turkish shipping company Pergamon and operated by a crew of 27 Turkish nationals. According to reports, it was targeted by air and surface drones around 22 km from the strategic waterway. While no casualties were reported, the ship is said to have sustained damage to its bridge and upper deck,…
Colleges across Cuba announced on Tuesday that they would organize a “University Student Bastion Exercise” forcing students to engage in military training and “revolutionary, patriotic, and anti-imperialist activities.” Statements from the universities, according to the independent outlet Cubanet, explained that the event, scheduled for March 27, would honor the upcoming 100th anniversary of the birth of mass murderer Fidel Castro and serve to prepare the nation’s most elite youth to engage in an “all people’s war” in the context of the economic collapse of the country. Cuba is currently facing nearly unprecedented levels of dysfunction and acute poverty following the…
Many travelers are grateful for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers assisting the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) as Congress fails to reach an agreement to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Videos across social media show ICE agents assisting with crowd control and in other ways, such as handing out bottles of water to weary travelers amid the ongoing partial government shutdown. Many videos show travelers expressing gratitude for ICE’s assistance. “They’re here doing a job just like TSA is, and bless their hearts,” one traveler in Atlanta said. Several other videos show “almost no lines” at a checkpoint…
Europe’s own regulatory architecture turned off Europe’s own energy supply. And America. . . on the other side of the Atlantic with a full tank of gas, watched it happen.” —Jeff Childers Let’s pause for a moment amid all the excitement to address an abiding mystery of these times: why does the news media seem to be rooting for American failure in the Iran operation? Or more generally, how did the media become handmaiden to the Lefty-left and all its ancillaries? How were they lured into their Cloward-Piven bunker of crypto-Marxian “resistance”? It’s unlikely that the network executives, news producers,…
The Taliban junta in Afghanistan on Tuesday released U.S. citizen Dennis Coyle after 14 months in captivity. He arrived in San Antonio, Texas, on Wednesday morning. Coyle, 64, is an academic from Colorado who had been working on linguistic research in Afghanistan for more than 20 years. He left Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover in August 2021, but returned about 18 months later after receiving assurances from the Taliban that it supported his work. Coyle was forcibly arrested at his apartment in Kabul and detained without charges by the Taliban General Directorate of Intelligence in January 2025, six days after…
Markwayne Mullin officially assumed the post of Department of Homeland Security secretary on Tuesday afternoon. Attorney General Pam Bondi swore Mullin in during an Oval Office ceremony as President Donald Trump looked on. “It’s a great day for me, because I have a lot of confidence in this gentleman,” Trump said ahead of the swearing-in. “We’re thrilled to swear in our new secretary of Homeland Security, great American patriot, to put it mildly, Markwayne Mullin.” Trump lauded Mullin’s work at the Capitol, where he served as a congressman before becoming a United States senator, a post he held before becoming…
Finger-pointing, profanity, even “poppycock.” An overwhelming sense of frustration and despair has overtaken Congress as lawmakers try to clinch a deal to end a nearly six-week shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security as a previously scheduled holiday recess looms. The funding framework Republican senators sketched out with President Donald Trump Monday now seems to be on life support, and the Senate has yet to circle a backup agreement that would end the impasse over immigration enforcement tactics responsible for the ongoing DHS shutdown that’s spurring air travel disruptions as unpaid TSA screeners stop showing up for work. Trump has…
The announcement comes just six months after OpenAI launched the standalone Sora app, and ahead of a potential IPO ChatGPT maker OpenAI has announced it is shutting down its Sora app, which went viral last fall as a platform for sharing AI-generated short videos but also raised concerns over realistic deepfakes.In a brief statement on X on Wednesday, OpenAI said it is “saying goodbye to the Sora app,” without giving a reason.“To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you,” the company wrote. “What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news…
Speaking at an event on slavery reparations at the United Nations in New York on Tuesday, Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama accused President Donald Trump of “slowly normalizing the erasure” of black history in America and inspiring other governments to do the same around the world. Mahama was in New York to introduce a U.N. resolution that would recognize the trans-Atlantic slave trade as “the gravest crime in the history of humankind,” for which modern nations should pay reparations. The Ghanaian president used his speech on Tuesday to accuse Trump of wiping out black history by cutting funds to cultural…