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The German chancellor has called the conservative right-wing party an enemy of the rule of law while doubling down on unpopular policies German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has blamed his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party’s crushing defeat by the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Saxony-Anhalt on poor communication with voters, while refusing to change course.Merz, who has been described as Germany’s least popular head of government in some 30 years, maintained he would not budge an inch on his “reform” agenda following what he called his party’s “most serious electoral defeat in decades.”The AfD took 43.8% of the vote in…

(Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian) President Trump on Tuesday previewed this week’s RNC convention and confirmed that he will deliver a speech on both nights of the convention alongside Republican candidates in “tight Races.” “The Republican National Convention, tomorrow night in Dallas, is really ‘HOT!’ The American Airlines Center, home to the Dallas Mavericks, is totally sold out!” Trump said. “Everybody wants to be there, but we’re really asking only those Candidates that are in tight Races, a little up, a little down, or even, to speak. We want to save the ‘stage’ for them.” Trump announced…

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday began a new tour of Latin America, starting with an official visit to Colombia where he will meet with conservative President Abelardo de la Espriella. Rubio’s three-day trip will see the Secretary visit key U.S. partners Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru to meet respectively with Presidents de la Espriella, Daniel Noboa, and Keiko Fujimori. The State Department detailed last week that Rubio’s agenda will include discussions on U.S. support for Colombia’s earthquake response, further regional cooperation in the shared fight against narco-terrorism, and deeper commercial relationships between the U.S. and the three Latin…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Americans’ spending behavior shows the consumer economy remains strong despite surveys suggesting otherwise, while pointing to continued wage gains during the Breitbart News “State of the Economy” policy event on Tuesday.  “The American consumer is in very good shape. We’re in touch with the retailers, we’re in touch with credit card companies, and I think to your question, why are people surprised? Because the American consumer just keeps going,” Bessent said. “I always say, surveys say one thing, but then you look at what people are actually doing with their money, and they are voting,…

Republican Mike Rogers leads Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s open U.S. Senate race, according to a new survey that puts the contest in toss-up territory. Rogers pulled 45.8 percent to El-Sayed’s 44.4 percent among 600 likely voters, with nine percent undecided, in the poll conducted for the Detroit News and WDIV-TV. The former congressman’s 1.4-point edge sits inside the survey’s margin of error of plus or minus four points. The result reverses a run of recent surveys that put the Democrat ahead. An EPIC-MRA poll released last week showed El-Sayed leading by four, 47 percent to 43 percent, and a…

The risk now is not one opposition surge, but how Berlin may answer it: with smears, lawfare and deeper contempt for voters Say what you will about ex-BlackRock bigwig German Chancellor and uber-grinch Friedrich Merz, but he has his moments of unexpected alertness.Currently, he is shocked, shocked! He has noticed that his party, the mainstream conservatives of the CDU are “in serious danger” after suffering their worst defeat in decades.Germany’s dark star of unpopularity was, of course, talking about the results of the regional elections in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. They have produced a landslide victory for the new-right Alternative…

A federal judge on Tuesday afternoon ordered Missouri to use its new GOP-favored congressional map just hours after the Supreme Court denied the state’s emergency application. US District Judge Stephen Clark, a Trump appointee, issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) blocking Missouri from using its 2022 congressional map. Chief Judge Clark issued the TRO with just seven minutes before the 5 pm ballot deadline. The TRO is for 14 days. BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Missouri to use the NEW map for November, 7 minutes before the 5pm ballot deadline, hours after Kavanaugh declined to do the same. Hoskins…

The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen launched drone and missile attacks against four cities in southern Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, injuring at least 70 people and inflicting significant damage on Saudi oil facilities. The Houthis claimed successful attacks on an air base in the Saudi city of Khamis Mushait, plus oil facilities in Abha, Najran, and Jazan. Jazan is a Red Sea port located near the Yemeni border that hosts one of the largest refineries in Saudi Arabia. The Jazan refinery was targeted by Houthi attacks several times in August.  Satellite photos showed smoke billowing from the refinery in Jazan…

America has become an “oil-producing superpower” under President Donald Trump’s leadership, and that shift will help lower gas prices in the long term, White House Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Christopher Phelan told Breitbart News on Tuesday. Phelan’s remarks came during the “State of the Economy” policy discussion with Breitbart Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle. “First thing I want to say is the doom and gloomers were wrong. People that were predicting that, not us, the particular Council of Economic Advisors was not predicting that oil would go to $200 a barrel. So they were wrong. I do think that when the…

China will “cheat and steal and lie” in order to beat the United States, Alliance for a Better Future CEO Janet Kelly said during the Breitbart News “State of the Economy” policy event Tuesday. Discussing the AI arms race between the U.S. and China, host and Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle asked about why it is important that America wins. Alliance for a Better Future CEO Janet Kelly speaks during the Breitbart News “State of the Economy” policy event Tuesday, September 8, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Dan Fleuette) “This is a very important question, and it’s not the only reason…