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President Donald Trump announced on Sunday night that he had ordered Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to “substantially reduce” the scale of “Ulchi Freedom Shield,” joint military exercises with South Korea that take place annually and are expected to begin on Monday. The exercises typically take place to maintain combat readiness given the context of South Korea still being in a state of war with neighboring North Korea. The Korean War that began in 1950 was temporarily halted in 1953 with an armistice agreement, but no peace treaty or surrender has taken place. The United States is an active party…

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party has vowed to implement the largest welfare reforms in a generation, which it says will save the British taxpayer an estimated £50 billion a year by ensuring that only UK citizens receive benefits and ending the culture of “something for nothing”. In his first major policy pronouncement since joining the party in January, Shadow Chancellor Robert Jenrick said that a Reform government would always protect people in genuine need, such as pensioners, children, the vulnerable, and armed forces veterans; it would also seek to “restore fairness” by reserving benefits for Britons only and cutting off…

Florida’s Democrat gubernatorial hopeful David Jolly fled Florida in fear during the coronavirus pandemic as the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) stuck to actual science and reopened the state and championed individual choice. And Jolly made sure to disparage his state as he hid in restriction-heavy Pennsylvania, asserting that rules were “greater than the calling of personal freedom.” Jolly, a Republican turned Democrat, wants millions of Floridians to elect him to lead the state that he spent so much time bashing over the years, once telling a group of people that he and his wife ask themselves every single…

RT’s Charlotte Dubenskij reports from Taybeh, where residents face near-daily assaults, property damage, and incursions onto their land A historic Palestinian village widely described as the last entirely Christian community in the occupied West Bank is facing near-daily Israeli settler attacks and growing restrictions, residents and activists have told RT.RT’s Charlotte Dubenskij visited the Kaa’bneh family, part of a Palestinian Bedouin community living in Taybeh, east of Ramallah, where she witnessed settlers approaching with sheep and goats at sunset, hurling rocks, and trying to breach the fences. The family says such incursions can happen several times a day.“They come and…

Screenshot New York City’s radical socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani just dropped a full video address… in Chinese. Not English. Chinese. The democratic socialist (or straight-up communist, as President Trump and countless others have rightly labeled him) stared into the camera and delivered an entire promotional spiel in Mandarin, promoting free Broadway tickets for high school students. He opens by admitting, “Hello, my name is Mamdani. I don’t know Chinese, but I want to try.” Then he proceeds to push the government giveaway program in the language of the Chinese Communist Party’s homeland. In a press release, Mamdani said in a…

First Lady Melania Trump has reunited yet another child with their family after being displaced during the Russia-Ukraine war, marking the sixth such round of reunifications she has facilitated, Breitbart News has exclusively learned. The reunification took place Monday. The first lady has helped reunite 34 children and their families since she authored her Peace Letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin a year ago. “There is nothing more powerful than reuniting a mother with her child after an extended period of time,” the first lady told Breitbart News in a statement. “My representative and I are focused on helping facilitate…

Tankers sailing with transponders off are reportedly helping prevent a sharper oil-price surge by moving crude through the disrupted strait Gulf states are covertly shipping oil through the Strait of Hormuz on tankers with their transponders switched off despite severe disruptions to normal traffic and intermittent attacks, Bloomberg reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the shipments.The de facto closure to normal traffic through the strait due to the US-Iran conflict has affected a strategic waterway that has historically been the route for around a quarter of the world’s seaborne oil trade. The conflict initially sent global oil prices soaring…

“ERO Cross Check 2017” by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Public Domain Mark The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has formally backed a resolution calling for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Newsweek reports that DNC members approved the measure Saturday during the party’s summer meeting in Austin, Texas, calling on congressional Democrats to pass legislation eliminating ICE and winding down the federal immigration detention system. The resolution also calls for withholding Department of Homeland Security funding unless the administration ends a series of enforcement practices, including workplace raids, large-scale roundups and arrests at courthouses and ICE check-ins. It…

Hundreds of illegal migrants that stormed Ceuta staged a protest Sunday demanding the Spanish government grant them immediate asylum benefits including – but not limited to – food, shelter, medical treatment, and freedom of movement to mainland Spain and beyond to the rest of Europe. Per Spanish outlets, the protest was staged by about 200 migrants from the broader group encamped at El Trampolín beach — now marred with over 80 makeshift hubs made of garbage. The migrants, mostly composed of Moroccan and Subsaharan nationals, affirmed that they do not want to return to their respective countries of origin and thus demand…

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi may be leaving Congress, but dozens of her longtime staffers are sticking around in the House’s top jobs. The aides who worked for the California Democrat throughout her 39-year congressional career are now running leadership offices, directing committees and helming new teams as chiefs of staff. Their continued presence of about 50 former staffers on Capitol Hill is a sign that Pelosi’s signature brand of hard-nosed, strategic leadership will outlive her tenure. “I do think that there is a particular ethos of a Pelosi staffer,” Pelosi’s former chief of staff Terri McCullough, who remains an adviser,…