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Australian National Party Senator Matt Canavan on Tuesday demanded stricter immigration requirements for his country after several mosques held memorials and prayer sessions mourning the death of Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. As Breitbart News reported, a group of mosques and Islamic institutions in Sydney and Melbourne held events and prayer sessions commemorating the “martyrdom” of Khamenei and paying tribute to the late “Supreme Leader.” Khamenei died during “Operation Epic Fury,” a military campaign against the Iranian regime alongside the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). President Donald Trump confirmed Khamenei’s death personally on Saturday. The events commemorating the “martyrdom” of Khamenei, announced through now-deleted social…

The American services sector roared ahead in February at its fastest pace in more than three years, blowing past every Wall Street forecast while inflationary pressures eased to their lowest level in nearly a year. The Institute for Supply Management’s Services PMI surged to 56.1 in February, a 2.3-point jump from January’s 53.8 and the highest reading since July 2022. The figure topped every single projection in a Bloomberg survey of economists — not just the consensus, but all of them. “The services sector is heating up,” said Steve Miller, Chair of the ISM Services Business Survey Committee, noting that…

An elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, has cleared the record of a Christian teacher who was punished for refusing to read a book about same-sex marriage to his first grade students.  Teacher Eric Rivera declined to read the LGBTQ+ propaganda book to his young students, citing his Christian beliefs, and instead asked a colleague to read the book, Fox News reported. In response, KIPP Antioch College Prep Elementary issued a “final warning letter” in January to Rivera for declining to read the book, according to legal group First Liberty Institute.  The following day, Rivera was asked to the principal’s office…

Senate Majority Leader John Thune urged President Donald Trump on Wednesday to deliver a swift endorsement of Texas Sen. John Cornyn to potentially forestall what is widely expected to be an expensive and nasty primary runoff against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Thune told reporters he hasn’t yet spoken to Trump since the election returns from Tuesday’s primary came in but indicated he intends to personally redouble his efforts, saying Wednesday that “hopefully” the president will give Cornyn his influential nod. “[If] Trump endorses early, it saves everybody a lot of money, and … 10 weeks of a spirited campaign…

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he will be endorsing a candidate in the Texas GOP Senate primary in the near future, adding that he will ask the other candidate to step aside. Texas Sen. John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton advanced to a runoff on Tuesday, after Cornyn pulled ahead with a narrow lead following a monthslong, bruising battle between the two Republicans. Trump’s impending endorsement looms over the upcoming runoff — which could prolong an already expensive and bitter primary fight for 12 more weeks, unless somebody steps aside. Trump wrote in a Wednesday afternoon social media post…

Tampons in the company’s men’s washroom led Republican congressmen to think Netflix was far more left-wing than they tried to portray themselves during the streamer’s congressional evaluation for its bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, reports now say. Netflix invited a contingent of GOP congressmen to its headquarters to woo them into signing onto its now aborted plans to buy Warners. The goal was to convince the Republicans that Netflix wasn’t a bastion of left-wing, hardcore, woke ideology. But the tampons in the men’s room didn’t seem to help a bit. There were plenty of other factors that ultimately led…

Two young Argentine Jewish tourists in Milan were violently assaulted by a group of about 10-12 North African migrants for wearing a Kippah, Italian outlets reported on Wednesday. The Italian newspaper La Stampa reports that the incident occurred on late Sunday night outside a 24-hour supermarket in Milan’s Piazzale Siena. Upon leaving the supermarket, the two Jewish men were approached by a group of about of “apparent North African origin,” who hurled antisemitic slurs at the pair in response to their kippahs. The men then surrounded, mocked, and insulted the Jewish men before the verbal aggression escalated into a physical one.…

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz told lawmakers Wednesday that his state has been terrorized by the Trump administration over mass welfare fraud allegations, pointing to the killing of U.S. citizens in the midst of an immigration enforcement surge around Minneapolis. “Let me be clear: In Minnesota, if you defraud public programs, if you steal taxpayer money, we’ll find you, we’ll prosecute you, we’ll convict you, and we’ll throw you in jail,” the Democrat said in his opening remarks at a hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. But, he added, “the people of Minnesota have been singled out and…

In a strange way, markets could come to be a surrogate institutional check on a country that otherwise doesn’t know restraint The missiles are again flying and a thick fog of war has descended over the Middle East. US President Donald Trump has said it might take four to five weeks or longer to achieve America’s objectives, whatever those are. During a hot war, that’s an eternity in the world of mercurial financial markets. So far, however, markets have been remarkably sanguine, perhaps, as the excellent Yves Smith posits, because “bigotry and Western narrative control were able to shore up the…

A funeral was held in Minab for the 168 children killed when their elementary school was attacked on the first day of the bombing campaign Thousands of mourners have filled the streets of the southern Iranian city of Minab for the funeral of 168 schoolgirls and staff killed in an attack on an elementary school on the opening day of the US-Israeli strikes.Images from the funeral show row upon row of small, shallow graves – the final resting places of children aged mostly between seven and 12.Participants dressed in mourning black and carried photographs of the deceased as the funeral…