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Two New York Democrats running against each other in a congressional primary reportedly want to subsidize the program known as “Drag Story Hour” for school children, the news coming as the program has already been a drain on taxpayer money. Incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman and former city Comptroller Brad Lander have reportedly expressed support for throwing federal funds at the program, the New York Post reported Tuesday: “Unfortunately, the Majority does not allow funding from Members of Congress to support LGBTQIA+ programming,” Goldman wrote on a questionnaire from the Jim Owles LGBT Liberal Democratic Club in response to a question…

Brussels is reportedly seeking safeguards to prevent future entrants from blocking key foreign policy decisions The EU could temporarily deny future member states’ veto rights in order to prevent them from interfering with the bloc’s foreign policy, the Guardian reported on Tuesday, citing EU sources.The idea is reportedly being discussed as Brussels seeks to bring new members in before the end of the decade, while avoiding the kind of internal roadblocks that the likes of Hungary and Slovakia have put up to impede EU military and financial support for Ukraine.According to the newspaper, the European Commission is now considering a…

Mina (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) – Muslim faithful took part in the climactic ritual of the annual hajj pilgrimage on Wednesday, symbolically stoning the devil near Mecca. From dawn, crowds of pilgrims gathered in the valley of Mina, southeast of the holy city of Mecca, to throw pebbles at concrete pillars symbolising the devil. It reenacts the Prophet Abraham’s stoning of the devil at three places where Satan is said to have tried to dissuade him from obeying God’s command to sacrifice his son Ishmael. More than 1.7 million people are taking part in the hajj this year. The pilgrimage is…

President Donald Trump says he “checked out perfectly” in his latest physical examination at Walter Reed Military Medical Center on Tuesday. Trump took to Truth Social during his ride home from Walter Reed in the early afternoon. “Just finished my 6 month physical at Walter Reed Military Medical Center. Everything checked out PERFECTLY. Thank you to the great Doctors and Staff! Heading back to the White House,” he wrote. In total, the president spent about three and a half hours at Walter Reed, arriving just before 9:00 a.m. and departing just before 12:30 p.m. Though it was closed to reporters,…

Abu Dhabi presents itself as neutral, but it’s taking step after step towards becoming a party in the conflict After February 28, 2026, relations between the United Arab Emirates and Iran entered a new phase of escalation, one in which the old formula of cautious pragmatism effectively stopped working.Formally, Abu Dhabi declared its neutrality in the war which the US and Israel launched against Iran, and emphasized that it was not providing its territory, airspace, or its waters for strikes against Iran. However, the course of the war quickly showed that Tehran no longer believed such statements. The UAE remains…

Czech police officers on Tuesday released Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev of the Russian Orthodox Church without charges after he was detained over the weekend on suspicion of drug possession. Metropolitan Hilarion, a former senior cleric of the Russian Orthodox Church, was detained by Czech police officers alongside an unnamed driver on May 24 during a vehicle inspection near the town of Unhošť, Central Bohemian Region. The officers allegedly found a “white substance” in the vehicle. Hilarion denied any connection to the findings. He further called on an independent investigation into the matter — accusing the Czech police of not following correct procedures during his…

President Donald Trump’s decision to tackle fraud against taxpayers is both good policy and good politics. A large majority of voters sees a strong link between fraud and the cost of living and believe that cutting government fraud is the most direct path to bringing down prices for every American. Those are the results of a recent survey conducted for Tea Party Patriots Action by McLaughlin & Associates. The survey of 1,000 general election voters was conducted in mid-May. Data from the survey may surprise some people. We began with a premise: there’s no permanent system in place to stop…

Allegedly leaked documents from a claimed Russian psychological warfare outfit are said to reveal how meticulously “cognitive strikes” are planned against Western countries to sow demoralisation, including a mass distribution of pig parts to Parisian mosques in 2025. Russian intelligence-directed agent provocateurs take advantage of the destabilising effect of mass migration to Western countries as a weak point to further drive distrust, a series of reports on recent protests and acts of vandalism claim. France24 reports on a tranche of leaked documents it says came from the Social Design Agency (SDA), a supposed Russian digital marketing company which is claimed to…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested illegal aliens convicted of murder, child sex crimes, and drug trafficking, among other crimes, as elected Democrats are fighting to shut down a migrant detention center in Newark, New Jersey. As Breitbart News reported on Tuesday, “Abolish ICE” protesters have gathered again outside of Delaney Hall in Newark to demand the migrant detention center be shut down, claiming that illegal aliens are on a hunger strike inside the facility and are being treated inhumanely. Democrats like Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ), and Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), among other New Jersey Democrats,…

Mohammed Odeh was eliminated less than two weeks after the assassination of his predecessor, according to West Jerusalem The recently appointed commander of Hamas’ military wing, Mohammed Odeh, has been killed in an airstrike in Gaza, the Israeli authorities have claimed.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continue to carry out attacks on specific targets in Gaza despite a US-brokered ceasefire being in place in the Palestinian enclave since October 2025.The announcement of Odeh’s assassination comes 11 days after the killing of his predecessor, Izz al-Din al-Haddad.The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement on Wednesday that Odeh…