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Australian Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke announced on Wednesday that a group of 13 women and children linked to Islamic State fighters have booked flights back to Australia after being released from a prison camp in Syria. Burke said the group would receive no help from the Australian government, and in fact some could expect to be arrested upon arrival. “These are people who have made the horrific choice to join a dangerous terrorist organization and to place their children in an unspeakable situation,” Burke said at a press conference on Wednesday. “As we have said many times: any members…
New York City (NYC) Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) doubled down on his “Tax the Rich” plan as hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin has expressed interest in furthering his Miami investments. During a press conference on Wednesday, a reporter asked Mamdani “what sort of conversations” he had had with Griffin, the CEO and founder of Citadel, since Mamdani’s video in April, announcing a pied-à-terre tax and featuring Griffin’s penthouse in the video. The reporter also noted that Griffin had expressed that Mamdani’s video was “creepy” and “weird.” “Ken Griffin, yesterday, was speaking about, calling your video again — he called it creepy…
A Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, allegedly threatened President Donald Trump and a member of Congress’s family in disturbing voicemails. The suspect was identified as Raymond Eugene Chandler III, who recently launched his campaign to run against Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), was arrested and charged after federal officials investigated, the Daily Voice reported Saturday. The Voice article cited a criminal complaint that was unsealed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania which alleged the suspect left multiple voicemails over the past year, noting authorities explained “the calls were part of a broader pattern of escalating rhetoric.”…
From the Great Game to the Cold War, peripheral conflicts once defined great power rivalry. Today they increasingly signal strategic decline World politics is ceasing to resemble a sporting contest. Instead, it’s becoming something colder and harsher as a kind of race for survival. And in such a contest, it will not be the most brilliant who endure, but those who know how to allocate their resources wisely. The reckless expenditure of military and political capital on peripheral objectives, or worse, for the sake of prestige, is no longer a mark of strength but rather a sign of decline.The modern…
Sources in Pakistan told Western media outlets on Wednesday that Tehran is reviewing a one-page, 14-point proposal that would formally conclude the conflict between the United States and Iran. “The memorandum would be followed by discussions to unblock shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, lift U.S. sanctions on Iran and agree to curbs on Iran’s nuclear program,” Reuters reported. The memo laid out a period of 30 days for those subsequent negotiations. Reuters quoted sources who said the memo seemingly abandoned some demands the Trump administration has made in the past, such as “curbs on Iran’s missile program and an…
President Donald Trump announced Friday evening that he has asked Kentucky businessman Nate Morris to step aside from the state’s U.S. Senate race to serve in his administration, then endorsed Rep. Andy Barr for the seat being vacated by Sen. Mitch McConnell. Trump first posted that he had met with Morris the previous day, calling him “a terrific businessman and strong MAGA Warrior,” and said he had asked Morris “to step aside from that Race to take a role in my Administration as an Ambassador.” “Nate is Oxford educated, tough as nails, LOVES our Great Nation, and will represent the…
The Justice Department can retain 600 boxes of election records that prosecutors seized from Fulton County, a federal judge in Georgia ruled Wednesday, enabling investigators to continue pursuing a probe that dovetails with President Donald Trump’s grievances over his defeat in the 2020 election. U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee ruled Wednesday that despite flaws in the Justice Department’s basis for the search warrants — and its execution of the search itself — Fulton County fell short of a stringent standard to demand the return of the seized materials, which included ballots from the 2020 election. The Democratic-controlled county had sued…
PM Pedro Sanchez has called on Brussels to shield the International Criminal Court from US pressure over its war crimes case against Israel The European Union should shield the International Criminal Court from US sanctions linked to its case against Israel’s alleged war crimes in Gaza, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said.In 2024, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over alleged atrocities against Palestinians in the enclave by the Israel Defense Forces.The ICC’s jurisdiction is currently recognized by 125 countries. However, the US and Israel are not signatories…
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) criticized House Democrat leaders after Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) admitted that she had spoken to ambassadors from Mexico and other countries to get oil to Cuba. During a press briefing on Cuba on Tuesday, Jayapal spoke about how, in January, President Donald Trump had signed an executive order “declaring a national emergency over the threats to America posed by Cuba.” In a post on X, Scott responded to Jayapal’s comments in which she described the sanctions against countries giving oil to Cuba, and firms and banks working with Cuba, as “an economic bombing of the infrastructure of…
The Department of Homeland Security has restarted processing visas for thousands of foreign doctors from 39 high-risk countries who have been hired by U.S. hospitals. Pro-migration advocates are celebrating what they hope will be a greater foreign inflow into American hospitals: It “is a great development for physicians and health care in the U.S.,” lawyer Curtis Morrison, who works for employers, told the New York Times. But the renewed inflow is bad for American patients and bad for the many Americans who want to become doctors, said Kevin Lynn, the director of the Institute for Sound Public Policy. “This year, over…