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Thursday on CNN’s “The Source,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) claimed the Department of Justice (DOJ) was spying on lawmakers reviewing the unredacted Epstein files. Raskin said, “They were spying on us. They were clearly monitoring and surveilling the computer searches that we were conducting. And it was set up for that, for them to have very close control and surveillance over us. It’s completely obvious to anybody, who went over there. And so they were able to give Pam Bondi briefing materials based on what we had been looking at.” He added, “I mean, we would have loved to have…
The US Department of War has reportedly instructed a second aircraft carrier strike group to prepare for possible deployment to the Middle East, as Washington intensifies military pressure on Tehran amid negotiations over its nuclear program, according to the Wall Street Journal.Three US officials told the news outlet on Wednesday that the preparations are part of contingency plan for a potential strike on Iran if diplomatic efforts fail. US President Donald Trump has not yet issued a formal order, and officials have cautioned that plans could still change.One official said the deployment order could come “in a matter of hours.”…
Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) said at a Breitbart News policy discussion event on Wednesday that while Republicans and Democrats do not agree on much, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle support reforming defense acquisition as the threat of communist China grows. “We are now aligned that we need to rebuild our Navy. We need to modernize and grow our Air Force, and we need to get our recruiting numbers back up. One of the issues though, with — as we hear about our industrial base — where it’s most acute is our aerospace and defense capabilities. We have the…
Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has made his state less safe. Ellison said, “They told us they came here to get rid of the worst of the worst and yet they have increased crime. Two out of the three homicides this year have been by federal ICE agents. Our local assistant U.S. attorneys have fired in waves of people, eliminating large and many years of anti-fraud investigation and prosecution expertise. They have made our state less safe, from financial exploitation and from basic safety, because of the behavior of…
China has rejected US allegations that it conducted a secret nuclear test, suggesting that the “baseless” claim was aimed at providing cover for Washington to resume its own testing program.The dispute erupted last week, when US Under Secretary of State for Arms Control Thomas DiNanno claimed that Washington is aware that Beijing had “conducted nuclear explosive tests, including preparing for tests with designated yields in the hundreds of tons.”DiNanno claimed China conducted one such “yield-producing test” on June 22, 2020, and intentionally obfuscated the explosions – which would violate the country’s nuclear commitments – by using “decoupling” — a method…
President Donald Trump warned Thursday that the Iranian regime faces a “very traumatic” outcome if a “good and fair” deal with the United States is not reached “over the next month,” signaling that failure would trigger a punishing “phase two.” Speaking at a White House press conference one day after meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump was asked if his thinking had changed on the negotiations and timeline. “We have to make a deal, otherwise it’s going to be very traumatic — very traumatic,” Trump said. “I don’t want that to happen, but we have to make a deal.”…
Inflation cooled by more than expected to start the year, providing relief to American households still feeling the burden of high prices after the Biden administration ushered in the worst increase in four decades. The consumer price index climbed 0.2 percent in January compared with the final month of last year. Compared with the start of 2025, prices are up 2.4 percent. Economists had forecast a rise of 0.3 percent for the month and 2.5 percent over the past year. Core consumer prices, a measure that excludes food and energy, rose 0.3 percent in January. Over the past 12 months,…
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Rep. Lou Correa (D-CA) responded to a question on TSA and FEMA being harmed by a DHS shutdown by stating, “$170 billion to Department of Homeland, 70 to ICE. They have more money than they know what to do with. We’ve got to look at fraud, waste, and abuse.” Co-host Pamela Brown asked, [relevant exchange begins around 25:20] “If your party does not fund DHS, the TSA and FEMA will be impacted in the event of a shutdown far more than ICE and Customs and Border Protection. Are you comfortable with that?” Correa…
The right-wing party behind the initiative says the rising number of citizens is causing a decline in living standards The Swiss public will head to the polls in the summer to decide if the country needs a 10 million population cap, the government has said.Switzerland’s population has grown around five times faster than in neighboring EU countries over the past decade, as the wealthy state has attracted large numbers of both highly-qualified and low-skilled workers. The Alpine nation’s population reached more than 9.1 million in early February, according to official data.The anti-immigrant Swiss People’s Party (SVP), which remains the most…
The Foreign Ministers of Germany, Austria, and Italy on Thursday joined their French counterpart in condemning U.N. “Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories” Francesca Albanese after she accused Israel of being a “common enemy” of humanity. Pressure builds on the controversial U.N. rapporteur after she delivered her latest anti-Israel remarks during a forum hosted on Saturday by the Al Jazeera network in Doha, Qatar. Speaking to the event’s attendees via online video, Albanese as a “common enemy” of humanity that enabled the “genocide” in Gaza. “Instead of stopping Israel, most of the world has armed, given it political excuses, political sheltering,…