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Senate Republicans want to fund Secret Service security upgrades related to President Donald Trump’s ballroom project as part of a nearly $72 billion package that would shovel cash to immigration enforcement agencies. The proposal Senate Judiciary Republicans unveiled late Monday night — a piece of the forthcoming party-line bill to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol — would direct $1 billion to the Secret Service for “security adjustments and upgrades,” including at the White House. This is on top of the almost $3.3 billion the agency received already under the fiscal 2026 DHS funding bill signed into law…
The effort is part of a campaign to boost the country’s military ranks due to the ‘Russian threat’ The German Armed Forces have said they sent tens of thousands of young people a questionnaire on joining the military. Every 18-year-old male is obliged to fill it out and register for potential military service under a new law.Around 194,000 young people received a letter from the military with the questionnaire between January 15 and April 24, a spokesperson for the armed forces told KNA news agency following a request. A spokeswoman for the Defense Ministry said it has “no reliable” data…
Danish shipping giant Maersk announced that one of its vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz escorted by U.S. military forces without incident. Maersk Line Limited (MLL) states that the Alliance Fairfax, a U.S.-flagged vessel belonging to its Virginia-based subsidiary Farrel Lines, passed through the Strait and safely exited the Persian Gulf on Sunday under the protection of the U.S. military. The journey was completed “without incident”, and all crew members are safe, the shipping giant said. Maersk told the maritime specialist publication gCaptain that the U.S. military contacted the company, offering protection for the vessel. The firm thanked the U.S. military for its…
The White House went on lockdown on Monday after a shooting occurred nearby, according to multiple reports. Gunshots were reportedly fired “near” the White House “at 15th and Independence,” James Rosen, Chief Washington correspondent for Newsmax, wrote in a post on X. The United States Secret Service was reported to be “locking down press office and other locations.” Rosen later shared in a separate post that the emergency was over. Megan Cassella, a Washington correspondent for CNBC, shared in a post on X that the U.S. Secret Service had evacuated the press from their “camera position at the White House…
When we can no longer tell the truth because the cost is so high that it threatens our reward for compliance, we’re unimaginably impoverished. Truth has an intrinsic, irreplaceable value. There’s the truth, and then there’s everything else. Truth has value, and so it has a cost. Whatever has the highest value has the highest cost, and high cost commands sacrifices. When the cost of truth is high, we lie. And since AI is a distorted reflection of humanity, the same is true of AI: when the cost of telling the truth is too high, AI lies. AI lies to get the reward…
Data released this weekend by America’s National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request suggest that someone on board China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735 chose to cut off its fuel supply shortly before it nosedived and killed everyone onboard in 2022. The MU5735 crash occurred in late March 2022 in Guangxi province, China, after the flight departed Kunming en route to Guangzhou. Chinese authorities reported that all 132 people on board died in the crash and have not, to this day, offered any conclusions regarding what happened for the plane to suddenly fall…
A congressional ethics inquiry is examining allegations involving a North Carolina lawmaker and a former staff member, adding to a series of recent investigations and resignations tied to misconduct claims on Capitol Hill. A May 1 NOTUS report says Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee due to allegations of sexual misconduct involving a former aide. Three sources told the outlet the panel is examining claims that Edwards had an affair with a staffer who left his office earlier this year. The report further describes the alleged relationship as a long-term involvement with his former…
Bratislava earlier opted out of the €90 billion joint debt loan package for Ukraine approved by the bloc last month Slovakia won’t participate in any EU loans for Ukraine, including the €90 billion ($106 billion) joint debt package approved by Brussels last month, Prime Minister Robert Fico has said.Slovakia, Hungary, and the Czech Republic had earlier opted out of servicing the loan, citing financial risks. In a video address on Facebook on Sunday, Fico reiterated that his government would not take part in either the current package or any future ones.“It is well known that I refused to support the…
Monday on MS NOW’s “Deadline,” author Adam Kinzinger predicted that in five to ten years, there won’t be a single person left in this country who will ever admit to supporting President Donald Trump, Host Nicolle Wallace said, “We covered every second, every minute, every development of the January 6 Select Committee, and I wonder if we could just start there. I mean, what is it like to have made the case to the country, but to have had the country take six years to see it, the way you and Congressman Raskin and former Congresswoman Liz Cheney and all…
A senior aide to US President Donald Trump has hailed worsening economic conditions in the Islamic Republic A top White House official has said Iran is on the brink of an “extreme calamity” and hunger as the US is counting on economic pressure to secure its objectives in the conflict.President Donald Trump ordered a naval blockade of Iranian ports and intensified sanctions after a bombing campaign failed to bring down the government in Tehran. Although large-scale military operations largely paused under a fragile ceasefire announced last month, both sides are now seeking to use economic strain to gain leverage.Kevin Hassett,…