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Germany and France have pulled the plug on a joint jet project that never got off the ground The long-delayed €100 billion ($116 billion) project to develop a fully European next-generation fighter jet for NATO members has been formally abandoned.Despite citing the need to counter a perceived threat from Russia and strengthen Europe’s military, France and Germany have failed to overcome years of industrial and political disagreements over a project intended to reduce Europe’s reliance on US-made military hardware.Was the cancellation of the project a surprise?Not really. The fate of the Future Combat Air System, or FCAS, had been uncertain…

The Pentagon has added Chinese tech giant Alibaba, electric vehicle (EV) titan BYD, and search engine Baidu to its list of companies that cannot secure U.S. defense contracts because they are linked to the Chinese military. The Department of War began maintaining a list of “Chinese military companies” in 2021 known as the 1260H list, named after the section of the defense authorization act that created it. Companies on the list are known to provide services to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), although they are not explicitly state-owned firms. The list is supposed to map out the extensive coordination between…

Veep and Silicon Valley star Zach Woods is apparently not a big fan of Democrat Senate leader Chuck Schumer, who the actor is calling a “rat fuck.” Woods ripped into the New York Democrat in no uncertain terms with a stream of consciousness rant tearing Schumer apart in a dozen different — and hilarious — ways. “During these divisive times it’s more important than ever to hold fast to those universal truths that we can still all agree on, such as, Chuck Schumer is literally ass,” the actor said as he kicked off his Instagram video on Monday. “One time I went…

Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime assistant Lesley Groff said in a closed-door interview Tuesday that she arranged phone calls between the late, disgraced financier and President Donald Trump, two Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee told reporters. “I believe she referred to a time before, before Mr. Trump was president, that she did arrange for multiple phone calls between the two,” Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) said of Groff, who worked for Epstein for around 18 years beginning in 2001. Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) also said that Groff told the panel that “she arranged calls for them to connect,” referring…

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Republicans’ best option for unseating Sen. Joe Manchin: Pray that he retires first. The longtime West Virginia Democrat might be the most endangered member of his party heading into 2024. But Republicans still see the contest against him as treacherous. Manchin is a West Virginia institution who has repeatedly defied the odds in a deep-red state. A GOP group tied to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell launched a $2 million ad campaign bashing Manchin a year and a half before the election. National Republican leaders, who have no interest in leaving any room for error…

Alice Weidel has also opposed the idea of giving Kiev associate membership in the EU and called for the resumption of dialogue with Russia Ukraine should compensate Germany for the 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, the co-leader of the right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD), Alice Weidel, has said.German investigators have attributed the explosions, which crippled the pipelines built to transport Russian gas to Germany, to a small group of Ukrainian operatives. The alleged ringleader was extradited to Germany from Italy last autumn.Moscow has repeatedly questioned Berlin’s account of the attack, arguing that such a sophisticated operation…

A dog slaughterhouse in Yulin, China, shut its doors for good this week, the first beneficiary of a program led by the animal rights groups Vshine Animal Protection Association and Humane World for Animals to help often impoverished dog butchers find new jobs and escape their gruesome livelihoods. Animal rights workers tossed away the chopping blocks used to kill dogs and rescued the remaining victims of the slaughterhouse on June 7 – nine dogs trapped in cramped quarters previously awaiting their purchase, killing, and eating. The shutdown of the site is part of what the groups described as a legally…

Former Trump administration officials told Breitbart News how President Donald Trump can further his affordability platform by ending a Biden-era loophole and lowering health insurance premiums. “By acting to fix the issues with the No Surprises Act that Democrats created, President Trump would be ending the kind of waste, fraud, and abuse that this administration is working every day to root out and address. And this will lower healthcare costs. This should be a top priority,” a former Trump White House official told Breitbart News. In his first term in office, President Donald Trump signed the landmark No Surprises Act…

The House passed a nearly $70 billion package Tuesday to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol for three years, capping off a four-month partisan standoff. That bill is now on its way to President Donald Trump’s desk following a 214-212 vote, proving Republicans can ignore Democratic demands to crack down on the administration’s immigration policies and still pump unprecedented funding to the agencies carrying them out. Following the collapse of negotiations to restrict the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement tactics, Republicans harnessed the party-line budget reconciliation process to pass legislation funding ICE and Border Patrol without any Democratic votes.…

NEW YORK — President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign has dropped New York City Mayor Eric Adams as a national surrogate following his public criticism of the White House’s approach to the migrant crisis. Adams is among several lawmakers who were initially named to the president’s National Advisory Board in March but no longer appear on a roster of 50 prominent Democrats released by the campaign Wednesday. But his case stands out. The outspoken mayor of the nation’s largest city has in recent weeks pointedly criticized Biden over the White House’s response to the asylum-seeker crisis. New York City has projected…