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The House Ethics Committee is defending its handling of the ongoing investigation into embattled Rep. Cory Mills, who stands accused of threatening to release a former girlfriend’s nude videos, among other charges. In a statement Monday, the panel’s bipartisan leadership said that the investigative subcommittee announced in November to oversee the Mills case “has authorized more than 20 subpoenas, collected thousands of documents, and contacted dozens of witnesses.” “The [subcommittee] expects to receive additional relevant documents and testimony in the coming weeks and will take all necessary steps to conduct a full and thorough investigation,” said chair Michael Guest (R-Miss.)…

Euroskeptic FPO leader Christian Hafenecker has called on Vienna’s money laundering watchdog to investigate A right-wing Austrian politician has demanded that the country’s Finance Ministry explain how nearly $22 billion in cash and gold was shipped to Ukraine from Austria since 2022 without triggering concerns about money laundering or regulatory oversight.In a statement published on Sunday, Austrian Freedom Party (FPO) Secretary General Christian Hafenecker called out what he described as Vienna’s “two-class justice system” for overlooking massive payments to Kiev, while keeping a tight hold on taxpayers’ purse strings.“We’re not talking about play money here: 1,030 registered cash and gold…

Vice President JD Vance has warned the nation’s most powerful tech executives to bring their technology under control. “We all need to work together on this,” Vance reportedly told them on an April phone call. Vance sounded the alarm while on a phone call with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, according to a report by Daily Mail. Vance warned of the executives’ own technology now threatening to damage banks, hospitals, and water plants in the United States — an alarm reportedly triggered by a White House briefing…

The Cascio family is renewing their allegations of sexual abuse against The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, in the wake of the recent biopic about the music star. But Jackson’s estate is ripping the claims as just another “desperate money grab.” For several years, the New Jersey family claimed that Michael Jackson groomed and sexually abused Eddie, Aldo, Dominic, and Marie-Nicole Cascio over a 25-year period that only ended with the pop star’s death in 2009, And the family appeared on 60 Minsutes Australia on Sunday and renewed their accusations of abuse. “He’s a monster. He’s evil. What he did…

Elon Musk’s Tesla is recalling its entire fleet of rear-wheel-drive Cybertruck EVs due to faulty brake rotors that could potentially cause the wheels to fall off while the vehicle is in motion. The Verge reports that Tesla has issued a recall for all RWD Cybertruck Long Range model EVs, citing a critical defect in the brake rotor system that could lead to wheel separation. The recall was first identified by MotorTrend and subsequently documented in a notice posted on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) website. According to Tesla’s filing with the NHTSA, the defect stems from a problem with…

NEW YORK — Rep. Pat Ryan is backing state Assemblymember Alex Bores to succeed retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler, making him the latest member of the New York delegation to weigh in on one of the state’s most competitive primary elections. In making his endorsement, obtained exclusively by POLITICO ahead of its formal announcement, the Hudson Valley Democrat cited the high-profile AI fight that’s become a central theme of the race as a key reason for backing Bores. “A handful of the richest people in the history of the world are spending millions to defeat him because they’re terrified of a…

The Israeli PM said he hopes to bring the “financial component” of American military aid down to zero Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that he plans to “wean” his country off US financial aid within the next decade, while blaming social media “manipulation” for declining public support for his country among Americans.Israel is the largest recipient of aggregate US foreign aid since World War II, having received more than $300 billion in economic and military assistance from Washington since 1948.Under a ten-year agreement signed in 2016, the US committed $38 billion in military aid to Israel through 2028,…

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged citizens to resume coronavirus-era work from home (WFH) practices to save fuel and reduce reliance on imports during the Strait of Hormuz oil crisis. “In this time of global crisis, we have to make a resolution, keeping duty paramount, and fulfill it with complete dedication. A big resolution is to use petrol and diesel sparingly. We must curb our use of petrol and diesel,” Modi said.  Modi also said India must “place great emphasis on saving foreign exchange” by cutting back on imports. To that end, he urged citizens to postpone foreign…

American homeowners sold fewer homes than expected in April, suggesting that the housing market remains sluggish due to high prices and elevated mortgage rates. Compared with the prior month, home sales rose by just 0.2 percent in April, the traditional start of the home-buying season, according to the National Association of Realtors. Compared with the prior April, sales were flat. The seasonally adjusted, annualized pace of sales rose to 4,020,000, up from 4,010,000 in March. The NAR reported month-over-month sales increases in the Midwest and South. The pace of sales was unchanged in the Northeast and declined in the West.…

The Chinese Foreign Ministry confirmed on Monday that Beijing expects President Donald Trump to visit from May 13 to 15, spending much of that time in personal exchanges with genocidal dictator Xi Jinping. The Chinese Communist Party rarely confirms visits by foreign leaders in advance, choosing to wait as late as possible to confirm their visits or, in some cases, their arrivals in real time. President Trump had initially scheduled his visit to China for April, however, and pushed it forward a month as Operation Epic Fury, initially described as a short-term operation to limit the Iranian government’s ability to…