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The top NATO general who is now the President of the Czech Republic has warned Europe that peace “can no longer be treated as the default state of affairs”, but also warned against fantasists trying to build a European Union army to rival America. Czechia President Petr Pavel, a former intelligence officer who rose to the rank of General and went on to chair NATO’s military committee, the most senior military post in the transatlantic alliance, before then entering politics, addressed the Globsec conference in Prague on Thursday. An annual meeting of political leaders and defence professionals, President Pavel made…

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) is introducing legislation to tax illegal aliens at 25 percent on remittances they send back to their native countries, Breitbart News has exclusively learned. Roy’s Reducing External Monetary International Transfers To Advance National Capital Efficiency (REMITTANCE) Act would double down on President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, passed last year, by massively increasing the remittance tax on illegal aliens from the current one percent to 25 percent. “The United States economy has dealt with the inextricably linked harmful effects of unchecked legal and illegal immigration and the drain of American dollars leaving the economy through remittances…

Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) formally threw his support behind Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Senate race in Texas, urging Republican voters to rally together. Wesley, who was in the race but came in third place and did not advance to the May 26 runoff after the initial March 3 primary, offered his full endorsement on Tuesday after President Donald Trump backed Paxton over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). “Today, President Donald Trump has made his position unmistakably clear in the Texas Senate race, he is fully backing Attorney General Ken Paxton, and SO AM I,” Hunt announced. “I could…

A bipartisan House effort is afoot to kill the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund created by the Justice Department that could pay allies of President Donald Trump, according to three people granted anonymity to discuss the effort ahead of a formal announcement. Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) and Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) have drafted text and are taking steps to unveil the legislation soon, the people said. Speaker Mike Johnson raised the level of urgency to block the fund among some congressional skeptics when he refused to say Wednesday whether violent Jan. 6 convicts should have access to the taxpayer money. Fitzpatrick said…

The largest rise in STIs was recorded among homosexual men, according to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control Bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) have reached record levels across Europe, with gonorrhoea and syphilis cases surging, particularly among homosexual men, according to new data released Thursday by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).The report for 2024 found that gonorrhoea reached its highest level since EU monitoring began in 2009, with 28 EU and EEA countries reporting 106,331 confirmed cases. Cases among men increased 7.9% in 2024, while infections among women fell 8.6%.Syphilis infections more than doubled…

The SBA 7(a) loan guarantee limit remains $5 million, but small businesses can borrow another $5 million through a second program.GettyThe first year and a half of the second Trump Administration has been a mixed bag for small business owners. Tax cuts and an assault on federal regulation have pleased many, even as tariffs, immigration restrictions and now spiking fuel prices and rising interest rates have kept the small business optimism index below historic averages.This week they had a clear win, as the Small Business Administration announced a new rule that will roughly double the combined guaranteed loan limit for…

A team of Finnish expert divers may have unraveled the mystery as to how five Italian divers lost their lives inside a cave complex in the Maldives. The company that recovered the bodies of the group on Thursday said its divers found them in a corridor with a dead end where they were believed to have been trapped, CBS News reported Thursday. DAN Europe CEO Laura Marroni said, “There was no way out from there,” the outlet noted. The expert divers located four of the bodies earlier this week while the body of a diving instructor was previously found outside…

JPMorgan Chase’s leader this week issued a warning to New York City’s democratic socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, over his leftist policies. During a Thursday interview with Bloomberg TV, CEO Jamie Dimon spoke about how mayors can make statements, but their city’s situation continues going downhill, the New York Post reported Thursday. “I don’t care what he says. What does he do? I will judge that … because you can talk about morality and ideology all you want, but if things don’t get better you didn’t do a good job,” Dimon stated. “And my view, and I’m talking about him now,…

Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) and former football coach Derek Dooley are set to compete in the Georgia Senate Republican primary runoff on June 16 after no candidate received more than 50 percent of votes during Tuesday’s primary election.  Collins, who represents Georgia’s 10th congressional district and owns a trucking company, was the first winner of the night, with AP and NBC News calling first place for him just a few hours after polls closed with 41.6 percent of the votes. Before midnight, the outlets called second place for Dooley over Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA). With most of the votes tallied by…

House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington said Thursday he wants the House to move a budget blueprint for a narrow, party-line policy package in June as House GOP leaders weigh whether they can advance the long-shot legislation by the end of July. “We can do a resolution and put flexibilities in the budget resolution,” the Texas Republican said, noting Republicans can add spending caps and other targets in the blueprint required to kickstart the filibuster-skirting budget reconciliation process. Speaker Mike Johnson hosted a meeting Thursday morning with Arrington, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, several GOP caucus heads and some key rank and…