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Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) described Abelardo de la Espriella, a conservative candidate running for president in Colombia, as being “about law and order.” Host Matthew Boyle on Breitbart News Saturday mentioned Espriella is nicknamed “El Tigre” because he wants to “throw all the drug traffickers in prison,” while the left in Colombia wants to be “lenient on drug traffickers and criminals.” “He is absolutely about law and order. It’s very simple. You’re going to create a country where there’s safety, security, so there can be prosperity for their people, so they don’t come to the U.S. So, they don’t ship us…

Aaron Schock could not stop talking about the gold. He returned from a trip to Caracas in early 2025 telling a confidant that Venezuela’s vice president had promised him a gold mine — an honest-to-god gold mine — if he could get U.S. sanctions lifted on the country. No one around Schock could know whether the agreement was real. Like many things in Schock’s life, it could have been a gilded mirage distracting from a more complicated truth. But for much of the year, those who interacted with him saw a man animated by the promise of gold, part of…

The US president earlier called the UK’s plan to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius “an act of great stupidity” The US is weighing a plan to purchase the Chagos Islands directly from Mauritius in a bid to sideline the UK over the future of a crucial military base in the Indian Ocean, The Telegraph reported on Sunday.The Chagos Islands are home to Diego Garcia, a joint UK-US military base regarded as one of the most important American installations outside the continental US. The facility hosts roughly 2,500 US military personnel and supports B-2 bomber deployments, operations against Houthi…

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) challenged Maine Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner to prove that he didn’t send “dick pics” to minors, stating that he would “wear a suit every day in the Senate” if Platner did so. While speaking to Fox News’s Kayleigh McEnany on Saturday in America, Fetterman was asked about “an interesting deal” he had made, the New York Post reported. Fetterman suggested that Platner could “set the record clear” regarding messages he sent to women early on his in marriage. “You proposed an interesting deal. You said, ‘Let’s make a deal,’ these are your words, ‘I’ll…

Congress appeared to be on track to reauthorize a national spy program that’s due to expire in the coming days. Then Donald Trump stepped in. The president’s decision to name Bill Pulte — a MAGA ally with no national security experience — acting director of national intelligence has upended bipartisan plans to pass a long-term extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which has been floating along on a stopgap patch since April amid broader political disagreements about the fate of the spy law. Members on both sides of the aisle are concerned that U.S. citizens are…

Israel struck military and petrochemical targets inside Iran for the first time since an early-April ceasefire on Monday after Tehran launched ballistic missile barrages at the Jewish state. The actions launched a new round of direct exchanges that saw Iran fire additional missiles at Israel and the Iranian-backed Houthis resume attacks from Yemen as President Donald Trump pressed to keep negotiations alive. The Israeli Air Force carried out strikes across western and central Iran, with Iranian and Israeli reports indicating targets included sites near Tehran, Isfahan, Tabriz, Karaj, and the petrochemical complex in Mahshahr, while Iranian missile attacks triggered sirens…

At least 12 people were wounded by gunfire Saturday as multiple shots rang out near a busy street festival in Ohio, leaving eventgoers scrambling for cover while others rushed to help the victims. The victims’ ages ranged from 16 to 61. AP reports no suspects were in custody in the hours that followed the 5:30PM exchange of fire, Toledo Deputy Police Chief Joe Heffernan said. Officials urged anyone at the festival to step forward with any photos or videos on their phones for possible leads as the hunt for the perpetrators goes on. The shooting happened near the Old West…

A “Block the Merger” protest came together in Los Angeles on Saturday as opponents to the proposed Paramount Skydance takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery took their grievances to the public domain. Writers, actors,  crew members, and small business owners were in Beverly Hills alongside leaders from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)and the Writers Guild of America West amongst them. They added their voices to others already moving against the merger. Reuters reports stand-up comedian Adam Conover framed the ‌ongoing media consolidation as an existential threat to an industry that made the United States a cultural power.“It’s…

The plan reportedly calls for the military’s four death-row inmates to be executed within 150 days of presidential approval The US Army is preparing to carry out its first executions of death-row service members since 1961 if President Donald Trump orders them, ABC News reports, citing an internal planning document.Trump has advocated wider application of the death penalty as a deterrent against violent crime.ABC News reported on Saturday that the plan – known as Operation Resolute Justice – was circulated internally in February and requires the military to be ready to carry out executions “no later than 150 days from…

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said incoming acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte was a “national security threat.” Warner said, “I didn‘t think Trump could still surprise me, but he literally shocked me. And I think all of my Republican colleagues on the intel committee by picking somebody with literally no security background. As you pointed out, he didn‘t even have a security clearance. As a matter of fact, the job description, because this position was created after 9/11 to coordinate all our 18 intelligence agencies, was supposed to be somebody with national…