Author: Press Room

Tens of thousands of New York City residents made calls reporting lack of heat and hot water in January, with several private and public housing tenants telling the New York Post they are stuck in unlivable conditions and are blaming Muslim socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani for failing to respond to the crisis.  Approximately 80,000 New Yorkers called 311 last month — the highest monthly total on record — reporting a lack of heat and hot water during frigid temperatures below ten degrees, according to the report. Tenants throughout the city reported days without heat, freezing-cold showers, and overnight shutoffs.  “We’ve…

The US president has called the EU country’s prime minister a “powerful leader” and close ally US President Donald Trump has endorsed Prime Minister Viktor Orban ahead of Hungary’s parliamentary election in April.The election will likely be a tough test for Orban’s longstanding conservative rule, with the pro-EU Tisza Party, led by Peter Magyar, emerging as the main opposition party.In a post on Truth Social on Thursday, Trump called Orban a “truly strong and powerful leader” with a record of “phenomenal results.” He said the prime minister has protected Hungary, grown the economy, created jobs, and promoted trade.Trump went on…

End of an Era Imagine you found a magical bank that lets you borrow money at 0 percent interest. Naturally, you’d take that free money and put it into a high-yield savings account or the stock market to pocket the difference, right? That, in a nutshell, is the Yen Carry Trade. For over a decade, Japan’s interest rates were stuck near zero – or even negative. Investors, from massive hedge funds to Mrs. Watanabe (the stereotypical Japanese retail trader), borrowed trillions of yen for next to nothing, swapped them for U.S. dollars, and bought higher-yield assets like U.S. Treasuries or…

A Western-sanctioned Russian military intelligence chief has been rushed to hospital in critical condition after being repeatedly shot at a residential building in Moscow, the Kremlin says. 64-year-old Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev was hit with “several shots” on the 24th floor of a residential block in north-west Moscow on Friday morning. Russian state media says he was rushed to hospital in critical condition and the national Investigative Committee has launched a case into attempted murder and illegal trafficking of firearms. General Alekseyev is just the latest in a steady stream of senior Russian officers attacked at their homes or out in public…

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested thousands of illegal aliens across Minnesota since the start of Operation Metro Surge, whereby the Trump administration surged law enforcement resources to the North Star State. “Despite coordinated attacks of violence against our law enforcement, our officers have made more than 4,000 arrests of illegal aliens, including murderers, pedophiles, rapists, gang members, and terrorists in Minnesota since Operation Metro Surge began,” the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Tricia McLaughlin said: We need sanctuary politicians to cooperate with us by notifying us before releasing public safety threats back onto the streets to commit…

The CDU wants mandatory age verification barring under-16s from creating accounts on online platforms German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party has proposed banning social media for minors under 16, Bild reported on Thursday.The proposal, which will reportedly be discussed at the party convention on February 20-21, would require mandatory age verification and deny access to users aged 15 and younger to platforms such as TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook, aiming to protect children from online abuse.“Strict rules on age limits for using social media can provide effective protection for children and teenagers from the effects of hate…

Authorities in Mexico arrested the mayor of Tequila, Jalisco, a city famous for the liquor bearing its name, in connection with an investigation into widespread corruption, extortion, and ties to the terrorist organization Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG). The arrest took place this week, when federal forces arrested Tequila Mayor Diego Rivera Navarro and three of his top city officials as part of the Beehive Operation, revealed Mexico’s top security officials Omar Garcia Harfuch in a prepared statement shared on social media. Authorities also arrested three other mayors from smaller cities in the state of Mexico. The investigation against Rivera…

A Trump-supporting reality television personality will join The View‘s lineup as a guest host to replace Alyssa Farah Griffin while she is on maternity leave.  Savannah Chrisley, the daughter of Todd and Julie Chrisley of USA Network’s Chrisley Knows Best, announced on social media that she will co-host the daytime talk show the week of February 16: “I believe in sitting at tables with people who disagree with you and refusing to shrink your values to make others comfortable. I stand on faith, family, and freedom,” Chrisley wrote on X, seeming to acknowledge that the other hosts are not on the…

The former prime minister’s nomination to return to the post has elicited warnings from Washington Nouri al-Maliki, a two-term Iraqi prime minister viewed in Washington as being too close to Iran, has been nominated for a third term, prompting US warnings of diplomatic and economic repercussions and sparking accusations of foreign interference in the Arab nation’s sovereignty.  So, who is Nouri al-Maliki and why has his likely return to power got Washington’s attention?  An early member of Iraq’s Islamic Dawa Party, an opposition group under Saddam Hussein’s regime, al-Maliki spent 25 years in exile in Syria and Iran before returning to…

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a designated terrorist organization, said on Thursday it seized two vessels in the Persian Gulf that were allegedly carrying smuggled fuel. Later that day, a former Iranian official threatened to turn the Strait of Hormuz into a “place of massacre and hell” if there is a conflict with the United States. The Tasnim news agency, a state-run media outlet linked to the IRGC, reported the capture of two tankers near Farsi Island, a small land mass in the Persian Gulf that hosts an IRGC naval base. The report did not specify which national flags…