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BERLIN (AP) – A man arrested last year has been charged with espionage and attempted participation in murder after an Iranian intelligence agency tasked him with gathering information on the head of Germany’s main Jewish group and three others with a view to carrying out attacks, German prosecutors said Thursday. The suspect, a Danish national identified only as Ali S. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested last June in Denmark. An alleged accomplice, an Afghan national identified as Tawab M., also was arrested there in November. Federal prosecutors said they filed an indictment against the pair at the…
Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) is urging United States Trade Representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer to block China from infiltrating the U.S. auto industry by using Mexico and Canada to ship to the U.S. tariff-free, Breitbart News exclusively learned. In a letter to Greer ahead of next week’s U.S.-Mexico bilateral United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) meetings, Banks asked Greer to “prioritize strengthened guardrails that protect American automakers from China’s efforts to gain market share within the North American auto industry.” “The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has Canadian markets with subsidized autos, and displace American workers in the process. A strong auto manufacturing sector…
President Donald Trump delivers a commencement address to the graduating class of the Coast Guard Academy on Wednesday, May 20. The president’s remarks come after he and First Lady Melania Trump addressed the Congressional Picnic on Tuesday. Trump also took reporters on a tour of the construction site of the future White House ballroom on Tuesday. Read the full article here
The German chancellor has repeatedly called fast-tracked full membership for Kiev “unrealistic” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has proposed granting Ukraine a limited “interim” status within the EU as a way to deal with its accession ambitions, according to media reports on Thursday that cited a letter by Merz to bloc leaders. Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has repeatedly demanded full membership by the end of 2027.Kiev was granted EU candidate status in June 2022, following the escalation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Since then, it has pushed for fast-tracked membership while some bloc leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron and Merz, have described…
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard is working diligently to declassify a controversial FISA Court opinion that would detail the court’s concerns with how the federal government conducts searches using Section 702 of FISA. When Congress moved to temporarily reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton (R-AR) struck a deal with Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), also a member of the committee, to send a letter to Gabbard and the Justice Department to declassify a 702 court opinion. The Brennan Center for Justice wrote that the Justice Department learned in August…
Anti-communist dissidents throughout Cuba organized a campaign on Wednesday, the anniversary of the nation’s independence from Spain, praying for divine intervention to free the island and calling for President Donald Trump to aid their cause. The campaign consisted of Cubans on the island holding up signs in public reading “God Save Cuba, SOS Trump.” Such public displays of support for the American president and opposition to the Communist Party are highly dangerous under the Castro regime, which violently punishes any perceived defense. The Party regularly engages in public beatings of dissidents and mass arrests of individuals suspected to oppose the…
AI Capex Is Already Bigger Than the Dot-Com Boom The AI investment boom is now large enough to show up across the economy. Business investment tied to information processing equipment, software, data centers, manufacturing, and power facilities now amounts to nearly six percent of GDP, according to a recent analysis from Renaissance Macro’s Neil Dutta. That is already beyond the dot-com-era share. Dutta points out that the boom has spread well beyond the companies usually identified with artificial intelligence. Caterpillar, Vertiv, Eaton, Cummins, GE Vernova, and other industrial firms now move closely with semiconductor stocks because, as Dutta put it,…
Trump’s Acting U.S. Attorney General, Todd Blanche, told senators Tuesday that he has asked for $37 million to help eliminate the Biden-era backlog of deportation-related courtroom cases. Blanche told the senators that he has asked for the $37 million to put into an effort to modernize the DOJ’s outdated legal IT network to ramp up its ability to hear more immigration cases. The AG appeared before the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee to report on how the administration is addressing the dearth of judges, clerks, and infrastructure to hear the millions of immigration cases still left over from Joe Biden’s wide…
The House rejected legislation Thursday to advance construction of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum after a partisan battle broke out in recent days over the long-sought building. Lawmakers voted 216-204 to reject the legislation led by Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.). Six Republican hard-liners joined all Democrats in opposition. While 127 Democrats cosponsored an earlier version of the bill, most of them bailed after Republicans altered it ahead of the floor vote. New language added in the House Administration Committee last month dedicated the museum to “preserving, researching, and presenting the history, achievements, and lived experiences of biological women in…
Rep. Tom Kean Jr., whose two-and-a-half month disappearance has stoked speculation about his health and political future, has begun more actively communicating over the phone. On Thursday, Kean began calling Republican county chairs in his 7th Congressional District, one of the most competitive in the country in this year’s midterms. The two-term Republican also gave a “lengthy” interview to New Jersey Globe on Thursday afternoon, the first he has granted since he last voted on March 5. Kean did not respond to a text message from POLITICO and his voicemail was full Thursday night. But Kean, 57, gave no details…