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The Syrian central government on Monday began evacuating hundreds of Bedouin families from the region around Sweida, the heavily Druze city where deadly violence broke out between the two groups last week. Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa blamed the Druze for inciting the violence, while the Druze say government forces have joined the Bedouin in a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing. According to the Syrian Red Crescent, the government sent a fleet of 120 buses to evacuate roughly 1,500 Bedouin to Deraa, a province under the control of the central government and its jihadi allies. The Druze say those Arab Muslim…

President Donald Trump blasted the Obama-appointed U.S. District Court judge overseeing Harvard’s legal challenge to the administration’s freezing of $2.2 billion in federal grants to the university. Harvard is challenging the Trump administration’s freeze, which stems from the elite university’s refusal to comply with demands, including implementing merit-based hiring practices and reforming screening and admissions practices for international students to prevent admissions of students “hostile to the American values,” including students who support “terrorism or anti-Semitism.” After oral arguments on Monday, Trump ripped U.S. District Judge for the District of Massachusetts Allison Burroughs, who is overseeing the case. “The Harvard…

Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Monday said the Federal Reserve should remain politically independent but called for oversight of the central bank’s expensive headquarter renovations. In comments to reporters, Thune said he didn’t know whether Fed Chair Jerome Powell could be fired over his management of the building upgrades, where costs have ballooned to $2.5 billion, but said when it comes to interest rates, the Fed is historically shielded from politics. “That agency is supposed to be independent and operate sort of outside the whims of the political process,” he said. “So that seems to be kind of where…

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s camp has lost control of both chambers of the country’s parliament The ruling coalition of Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has lost control of the upper house of the National Diet, making it a minority in both chambers of the country’s parliament. It is the first time since 1994 for Japan’s ruling parties to lose majority control of both houses.Ishiba’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its junior coalition partner Komeito lost 19 seats in Sunday’s election, falling short of the threshold needed to control the 248-member House of Councilors. With 122 seats, they are now three…

In an explosive interview with Benny Johnson, former National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn issued a fiery demand for immediate federal action, calling on the FBI to raid Barack Obama’s Washington, D.C., mansion as part of a long-overdue investigation into the criminal conspiracy behind the now-exploded Russia collusion hoax. Flynn, citing the same standard used to justify the unprecedented and disgraceful FBI raid on President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, demanded that Obama and his deep state cabal be treated the same way—raided, investigated, and prosecuted. Flynn says this should be just the first step: revoke passports for all involved in the…

An investigation conducted by the government of Gansu province in China found that hospitals in the city of Tianshui and officials at the Gansu Center for Disease Control and Prevention falsified medical reports to conceal lead poisoning in over 200 kindergarten children. The case of Heshi Peixin Kindergarten in Tianshui has horrified and outraged people across China. When hundreds of students became ill in March, local hospitals claimed they could find no common cause – but when parents took their children to hospitals outside the province, they quickly discovered the children had huge amounts of lead in their systems.  Investigators…

Former CEO of NPR Vivian Schiller is more positive about the future of the outlet without taxpayer dollars, admitting during an interview on Saturday that she has long believed mixing journalism and federal funding was a “recipe for disaster.” “Those of us that care about local journalism are going to help them,” Schiller said during an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Weekend.” She explained, “The fact is this is done. The money is gone. The rescission has happened. So my perspective now is let’s move on.” The Republican-led Congress passed a White House-submitted rescissions package on Thursday, slashing $9 billion in…

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard revealed that the Trump administration had released more than 200,000 files regarding the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In a post on X, Gabbard revealed that included in the 230,000 MLK assassination files were documents that included details regarding the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) “investigation into the assassination of MLK,” as well as “internal FBI memos detailing the progress of the case,” along with other information. “Today, after nearly 60 years of questions surrounding the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we are releasing 230,000 MLK assassination files, available…

House Republicans may choose to scrap several floor votes this week as internal party drama over the release of Jeffrey Epstein files is derailing the work of the Rules Committee. The panel came to a standstill, again, Monday night as GOP leaders struggled to contain rank-and-file Republicans and their Democratic allies clamoring for a floor vote to compel the release of materials related to the late disgraced financier and convicted sex offender. Committee Democrats had planned to force a vote Monday evening on legislation that would compel the release of the materials, as the panel worked to tee up floor…

White House says US president was “caught off guard” by Israeli strikes on Syria The administration of US President Donald Trump increasingly views Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “madman” undermining Washington’s diplomatic efforts in the Middle East, Axios has reported.Israel conducted airstrikes last week on Syrian government forces and military headquarters in Damascus, in response to bloody clashes between the Druze and Bedouin communities in southern Syria. A ceasefire announced on Saturday appears to be holding.“After several bloody days in Suwayda Province, the Internal Security Forces have succeeded in calming the situation following their deployment in the northern…