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On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) discussed Iran and said that if there can be some deal “around slowing down their effort to get a nuclear weapon, that will be positive, not just for the region, but for global security.” Co-host Joe Mathieu asked, “[T]he president, of course, has kept military options on the table. We have a massive armada — as he likes to call it — off the coast of Iran, prepared to strike. The USS Lincoln Carrier Strike Group is there, and we’ve put a number of other assets in the…

Comedian Ben Bankas called out a Minnesota venue for canceling six of his sold-out shows over backlash in response to a joke he made about 37-year-old ICE agitator Renee Good. “Fuck ’em,” Bankas said. “They were pussying out because they got a weird voicemail from a liberal.” “I just found out that my shows were canceled in Minnesota,” Bankas told his audience while performing in a comedy club last week, adding that the shows had been scheduled to take place this past Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in St. Paul. Watch Below: “We sold out six shows in Minnesota,” the comedian continued. “And they canceled…

Thorbjorn Jagland wrote to the disgraced financier about “extraordinary girls,” newly released files show Norway has launched an investigation into former Prime Minister Thorbjorn Jagland on suspicion of aggravated corruption stemming from his contact with disgraced US financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Jagland served as prime minister from 1996 to 1997. He was secretary-general of the Council of Europe from 2009 to 2019 and chaired the Norwegian Nobel Committee from 2009 to 2015.In a statement on Thursday, Norway’s anti-corruption agency, Okokrim, said it asked the Foreign Ministry to lift the immunity granted to Jagland as a former diplomat. Okokrim chief…

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has reached for his last-ditch defence against a Labour Party coup against his leadership, warning that if he’s brought down, it will mean Britain getting a Nigel Farage government. Starmer is fighting for his political life after it was revealed that the long scandal-struck Labour grandee known as “The Prince of Darkness” he picked to be Britain’s ambassador to the United States was secretly selling government secrets to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. Having already attempted to shift blame onto others, pointing the finger in turn at his chief of staff and Britain’s spies for…

Staff for the Writers Guild of America West have voted to authorize a strike, claiming that union leaders negotiated with studios in bad faith. Union staffers organized in spring 2025 and have since been “been demanding better wages and job protections in their first contract,” per Variety, and negotions for better contracts have been ongoing since September, with the last session on January 17. During a break in talks, the Writers Guild Staff Union staged a picket outside WGA West headquarters, demanding “just cause” employee discipline and a “fair deal.” The staffers — represented by the Pacific Northwest Staff Union — have since voted to…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump celebrated the return of faith in the United States at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday morning. Trump delivered his remarks in the Hilton ballroom, emphasizing that a country needs faith to be a “great nation.” “To be a great nation, however, I think, and I may be wrong, but I don’t think so because I’ve watched a lot and I study a lot, you have to have religion,” he said. “You have to have it. You have to have faith. You have to have God.” “Thankfully, as we gather today, there are many signs that…

Robert Fico has blasted a regional prosecutor for closing investigations into weapons donations under the previous government Slovakia’s previous government left the country “completely naked” by donating fighter jets and anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine, Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Thursday. He accused prosecutors of refusing to acknowledge the damage and covering it up for political reasons. Slovakia handed over Soviet MiG-29 jets and S-300 missile systems to Ukraine in 2022-2023 under then-Prime Minister Eduard Heger to support Kiev’s war effort against Russia. Bratislava Region Prosecutor Rastislav Remet announced this week that three of four investigations into possible criminality of the…

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(AFP) — The United States wants Ukraine and Russia to end their nearly four-year war by June, and has offered to host talks between the two sides in Florida next week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. US-led efforts to end Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II have stepped up a gear in recent weeks, but Moscow and Kyiv remain at odds over the key issue of territory. Russia, which occupies around 20 percent of its neighbour, is pushing for full control of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region as part of any deal and has threatened to take it by force…

Hosting a Super Bowl party this year will cost about $140 for ten hungry and thirsty fans, according to the Wells Fargo Agri-Food Institute. Wells Fargo estimates the tab is up just 1.6 percent from last year’s $138, a rise that comes in below the latest consumer price index reading for food at home, which the bank puts at 2.4 percent. At the same time, average hourly wages have risen 3.8 percent to $31.99, giving households more purchasing power to cover game-day groceries. So Super Bowl hosts are easily beating the spread. Chicken wings are a standout. Wells Fargo says…