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Fiscal conservatives in Congress threatened for months to block government funding if GOP leaders didn’t shun earmarks. They succeeded in scrapping just one; the rest, almost $16 billion worth, are slated in the package the Senate needs to clear by Friday to avoid a shutdown. Republican hard-liners on both sides of the Capitol have made things difficult this winter for their leadership, which has been scrambling to fund the government before cash runs out Friday for the vast majority of federal agencies. But they failed to significantly curtail the practice of directing federal dollars to specific projects back home. Republicans…

Prime Minister Mark Carney has said Ottawa and Beijing agreed to ease some reciprocal levies last week US President Donald Trump has said he would impose a 100% tariff on all Canadian goods if Ottawa follows through on a trade agreement with China. The warning was issued as Trump accused Beijing of seeking to exploit Canada in order to bypass US trade barriers.Trump has previously used tariffs, or the threat of tariffs, in trade disputes with a number of countries, including Canada. His administration has imposed a range of duties on Canadian exports. Ottawa and Washington were close to a…

“Acting President” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez said she has had “enough” of Washington’s orders during a Sunday state media broadcast. Rodríguez delivered her remarks speaking to oil workers at a state-owned oil company PDVSA refinery in Puerto La Cruz, Anzoátegui, where she reportedly asserted the Venezuelan socialist regime is willing to resolve disputes with the United States through diplomatic channels, but “face to face,” with “dignity and honor.” “And that is why it is important that we open up spaces for democratic divergence, but that it be politics with a capital P and a V for Venezuela. Enough of Washington’s…

NBA analyst Charles Barkley responded to the news of a recent Border Patrol agent-involved shooting in Minneapolis, pointing out that “Two people have died for no reason” and that it was “Just sad.” During a segment of Inside the NBA, Barkley was asked by co-host Ernie Johnson, about his thoughts on NBA’s statement regarding a game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Golden State Warriors being postponed, according to the Daily Mail. The game being postponed came after an armed man was shot and killed on Saturday. “It’s just sad,” Barkley said. “It’s scary. It’s sad…. and I don’t know…

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky must compensate Germany for the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline, which was carried out by Kiev with help of foreign intelligence, the co-leader of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Alice Weidel, has said.The government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz has attributed the 2022 explosions in the Baltic Sea that crippled the key energy conduits built to deliver Russian gas to Germany to a small group of Ukrainian saboteurs. Its alleged leader, identified in the media as former military officer Sergey Kuznetsov, was handed over to Berlin by Italy last fall.In a speech at a campaign…

“Accountability is coming” to Minnesota, Attorney General Pam Bondi declared as Democrats try to shift public attention away from large-scale government fraud and towards the chaos they have created in Minneapolis. The promise comes after an ICE officer shot a person dead during a Saturday street scuffle while Democrat-allied activists were trying to disrupt a federal law enforcement action. The shooting prompted Democrats to escalate their claims of murder by ICE and their demands that ICE leave the city amid the expanding federal investigation into what many Republicans say is statewide, migrant-enabled, Democratic-backed taxpayer fraud. That media-magnified Democrat escalation comes…

Tensions have spilled into the animal world as Tokyo and Beijing continue a deepening row over Taiwan Panda fans flocked to Ueno Zoo in Tokyo on Sunday to bid farewell to its star residents –giant panda twins Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, who are set to return to China this week. The departure of the four-year-olds will leave Japan without pandas for the first time in over forty years.China first sent pandas to Japan in 1972 as a goodwill gesture marking the normalization of relations between the two neighbors. Under Beijing’s so-called “panda diplomacy,” China retains ownership of the animals,…

A video from FreedomNews.TV shows at least two men with rifles standing guard on the spot where an armed man was shot and killed by a federal agent Saturday morning. Breitbart News reported the fatal shooting, which DHS said was the result of “an agent firing defensive shots” after a man with a 9mm handgun approached and then “violently resisted” agents’ attempts to disarm him. DHS noted that the man “also had 2 magazines and no ID—this looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.” That man, now identified as Alex Pretti, succumbed to…

President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov has accused the bloc’s leadership of incompetence Moscow and Washington will not engage in dialogue with Brussels’ foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.Peskov made the remarks after the US, Russia and Ukraine concluded their first round of three-way negotiations in Abu Dhabi on Saturday. EU officials have complained that, despite providing military and financial aid to Kiev, the bloc has been largely excluded from the talks.In an interview with Russia-1 journalist Pavel Zarubin which aired on Sunday, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman described the current EU leadership as “incompetent,” adding that…

Senate Democrats have threatened to oppose funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after a recent Border Patrol agent-involved shooting occurred on Saturday. Democrats such as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), among others, came out against voting in favor of a bill that would fund DHS. Democrats called for “MAJOR reforms” to be made to DHS. The opposition from the Democrats came after a recent shooting, which left a 37-year-old man dead. The Hill reported that the Democrats coming out against funding the DHS comes…