Author: Press Room

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukraine on Sunday launched a wave of strikes against Russia’s oil export infrastructure, hitting a key loading port on the Baltic Sea and two tankers that Ukraine alleges were illegally used to transport Russian crude. A nighttime drone strike sparked a blaze at Russia’s largest oil exporting port on the Baltic Sea, according to Russian regional Gov. Alexander Drozdenko. The port of Primorsk, operated by Russia’s state oil firm Transneft, is capable of handling hundreds of thousands of barrels per day. The port, which was targeted multiple times in March, lies over 1,000 kilometers (620 miles)…

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On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said that “there is kind of a small Communist takeover in Maine” with Graham Platner on track to win the party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate, and the “worst impulses” of the Democratic Party seem to be hard for the party to resist. Host Jesse Watters asked, “How big of a threat do you think this Communist movement is?” Fetterman answered, “[A] lot of these terrible groups like Code Pink and a lot of the other ones that are strongly aligned to the CCP, without…

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The halt is due to a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the country’s only export route, with crude accounting for roughly 50% of GDP Kuwait exported zero barrels of crude oil last month, according to data from a shipping monitor, marking the first such halt since the 1991 Gulf War.  A major US ally hosting around 13,500 American troops and serving as a key regional logistics hub, Kuwait previously produced about 2.7 million barrels per day (bpd) and exported roughly 1.85 million bpd, with most shipments going to Asian markets including China, India, and South Korea.On April 17, Kuwait Petroleum…

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Friday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” longshot Alabama gubernatorial hopeful former Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) predicted voters would come out in “record numbers” to rebuff “a Supreme Court that continues to take away rights.” Host Jen Psaki said, “We’ve talked a bit on the show about how in Florida, even the Republicans are worried that the redistricting there could backfire. In Texas we’re seeing they may not win all the seats they’ve redrawn to be Republican seats. Explain to people how you think it could backfire from the voters you’ve been talking to this week. How are people feeling about…

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Two leftist groups that have directly or indirectly received funding from a pro-Chinese Communist Party tech-billionaire reportedly helped organize protesters in New York City’s Union Square for communist and socialist May Day events on Friday. The groups called The People’s Forum (TPF) and the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) have in some form received money from Neville Roy Singham, according to Fox News. “A self-identified speaker from PSL announced a People’s Forum spokesperson who was the second to speak into a microphone. The speaker rallied the crowd of demonstrators, asking them to repeat chants and later bashed capitalism. Shortly…

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The rebuke came after Lai Ching-te made a secret visit to Eswatini, the only African state which still recognizes the island as sovereign China has compared Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te to a “rat crossing the street” after he secretly boarded an Eswatini government aircraft and flew to the small southern African kingdom on an unannounced state visit.The rebuke was issued by China’s Taiwan Affairs Office on Saturday, which lashed out at Lai over the visit, which Beijing views as a direct challenge to the one-China principle. Lai’s visit had originally been scheduled for late April, but was called off at…

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PALM BEACH—President Donald Trump said there “could be” a future where American energy companies are operating inside of Iran in response to a question from Breitbart News on Saturday. Trump spoke to reporters for just over three minutes on the tarmac of Palm Beach International Airport before boarding Air Force One and departing for Miami. When Breitbart News asked if he envisions a future where American energy companies are operating inside of Iran, much like Venezuela, he said, “Could be.” “Could be. It could be. I’ll tell you what, we have a lot of ships coming up to Texas and…

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A former Democrat mayoral candidate in Plainfield, New Jersey, has admitted forging a huge amount of voter registration applications. Seventy-one-year-old Henrilyn Ibezim pleaded guilty in the case surrounding the 2021 Democratic primary, Fox News reported Friday, noting he was running on the Unity Party ticket. In a press release Thursday, New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport said Ibezim pleaded guilty Monday and was charged with one count of third-degree forgery. “Under the terms of his plea agreement with the Attorney General’s Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA), the State agreed to dismiss the remaining counts in the indictment and…

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President Donald Trump confirmed that he would look at a recent peace proposal from Iran, adding that Iran had told him “about the concept of the deal.” While taking questions from reporters, Trump was asked about Iran’s latest peace proposal. Trump explained that he would look at it on the plane. “I’ll let you know about it later,” Trump said. Another reporter asked about Trump saying the United States “might be better off not making a deal with Iran.” “Well, I wouldn’t have to, I didn’t say that, I said that if we left right now, it would take them…

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The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is unconstitutional and a private army for President Donald Trump, Abdul El-Sayed, an Egyptian-American Muslim running strongly for the open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, says. Trump “recognized that ICE and the pretext of immigration was the best way for him to create a paramilitary force of thugs who he could put on your street corner to be accountable only to him, and that is what he’s doing,” El-Sayed said, adding: I went to Minneapolis to check it out for myself. And guess what? I know maps. I went to public school. Public schools…

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