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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has contributed $102 million this year to a political group funding ballot measures that could block California’s proposed wealth tax on billionaires. The LA Times reports that Google co-founder Sergey Brin has poured $102 million this year into Building a Better California, a group funding two ballot measures that could block a billionaire tax, according to data from the California Secretary of State. His latest donation totaled $20 million. Brin’s net worth was $284 billion at the start of the week, making him the world’s fourth-richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Building a Better California…

The government of South Korea confirmed that it observed the launch on Wednesday of a ballistic missile from North Korea into the East Sea (Sea of Japan), causing no damage but reinvigorating regional alarm that the communist nuclear state could soon plan an attack on its neighbors. North Korea’s state media arms, which typically rush to boast of such a missile test, have not at press time addressed the incident. The rogue state’s missiles are making headlines in other ways, however, as President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine once again warned on Tuesday that his troops are seeing North Korean equipment,…

Democrat Chris Jones, who is running for Iowa secretary of agriculture, was rebuked by Iowa Republicans after saying farmers are “wealthy,” grain farming is “not that hard,” and farmers are “only working a few weeks out of the year.” The remarks were highlighted Tuesday by Iowa Field Report, which posted video from a 2021 interview Jones gave at the Iowa Ideas Conference, hosted by the Cedar Rapids Gazette. “And a lot of this grain farming now, it’s not that hard. They’re only working a few weeks out of the year,” Jones said. “These farmers might be industrious and they might…

President Donald Trump said that “stranger things have happened” when it was suggested that he could declare a national security emergency for elections on Tuesday. During an interview that aired on Real America Voice’s America Speaks, Wayne Allyn Root posed the idea of declaring a national security emergency for the midterm elections, which Root said would allow for voter identification requirements at the ballot box. Root pointed to the 1983 Supreme Court ruling of Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha as the reason the president would have the right to declare a national emergency: Because it’s so hard to get the Senate to…

National Democrats just got their pick to take on one of their top targets this fall in a western Wisconsin swing district. Rebecca Cooke won the Democratic primary for Wisconsin’s 3rd District on Tuesday, setting up a high-stakes November rematch with GOP Rep. Derrick Van Orden in a crucial pickup opportunity for Democrats. Cooke is hoping the third time is the charm after two unsuccessful runs for Congress. But she came within 3 percentage points of defeating Van Orden in 2024, even as President Donald Trump won the district by more than 7 percentage points. That strong performance helped persuade…

Force is the only language Western colonial powers understand, podcast host and RT contributor Carl Zha believes The only response Western nations will understand for seizing Russian commercial vessels is a forceful one, including retaliation in kind, Carl Zha, the host of the Silk and Steel podcast, told RT.Moscow has repeatedly condemned the seizure of Russia-linked shipping as “piracy” and a gross violation of international maritime laws. Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated the position on Wednesday while attending major drills of the country’s Pacific Fleet, warning that hostile actions will be met with an appropriate response.“If such a policy is…

Senator Ron Johnson on Wednesday said he believes Dr. Fauci deleted his contact list from his iPhone to cover up his text messages. On Monday, Senators Ron Johnson and Rand Paul released the first batch of text messages from Dr. Fauci’s Covid-era iPhone. The text messages revealed that Fauci privately knew that the Covid vaccine caused miscarriages in pregnant women. Fauci covered up the data that revealed an 82% miscarriage rate in women vaccinated during the first trimester. The Gateway Pundit reported in 2022 that VAERS showed a 4070% increase in miscarriages and stillbirths since the mRNA rollout. Last month,…

Nvidia is partnering with six major Wall Street asset managers on a $500 billion financing push meant to turn AI chips into a new class of asset that can be borrowed against, similar to commercial real estate or toll roads. CNBC reports that the chipmaker signed memorandums of understanding with Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs and KKR to set up financing platforms for Nvidia’s customers, the company said Monday in a statement. The effort aims to mobilize more than $500 billion in third-party capital for hyperscalers, frontier AI labs and enterprises to build data centers…

A budding health crisis appears to be fomenting in the Spanish autonomous territory of Ceuta amid reports of groups of illegal migrants creating unsanitary conditions on the city’s beaches and even schools, which are claimed to be littered with garbage and “excrement”. In the wake of upwards of 72,000 illegals flooding across the border from Morocco last month, health officials are warning that the Spanish exclave with a population of just 87,000 is not equipped to handle the needs of the thousands of migrants who have remained in the area. Speaking on the Espejo Público news programme on Spanish broadcaster Antena 3, University Hospital…

Texas Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton announced endorsements from 18 members of Texas’s Republican congressional delegation as he campaigns against Democrat James Talarico. The endorsing members are Reps. Craig Goldman, Monica De La Cruz, Nathaniel Moran, Pat Fallon, Lance Gooden, August Pfluger, Randy Weber, Jodey Arrington, Troy Nehls, Beth Van Duyne, Roger Williams, John Carter, Brandon Gill, Brian Babin, Michael Cloud, Pete Sessions, Wesley Hunt, and Ronny Jackson. “I’m honored to have the support of these outstanding members of Congress, and I look forward to fighting alongside them to deliver results for the people of Texas,” Paxton…