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A US federal court has sentenced Ryan Wesley Routh to life in prison for attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at his Florida golf resort in 2024. Prosecutors said Routh, who was reportedly obsessed with the Ukraine conflict, had stalked the then-US presidential candidate while armed with a rifle.US District Judge Aileen M. Cannon in Fort Pierce, Florida, imposed a sentence of life plus 84 months following Routh’s conviction by a federal jury on all five counts in the indictment, the Justice Department said on Wednesday. The charges included attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate, assault on a federal officer,…

The majority of the French public is in favour of banning groups linked to the Muslim Brotherhood network, which seeks to advance Islamist principles in the West, such as the adoption of Sharia law. A survey from the Ifop polling agency found that 53 per cent of people in France are in favour of a ban on Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated organisations, Le Figaro reported. This compares to 23 per cent who oppose a ban and 24 per cent who are undecided on the issue. Surprisingly, the survey found support for a ban across the political spectrum. According to Ifop, those who…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent shut down Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) during a House Financial Services Committee hearing this week as she tried to claim that housing inflation has worsened under the Trump administration. During the hearing, Waters repeatedly suggested that home prices and rents are rising under the Trump administration, claiming tariffs are responsible. In response, Bessent cut into Waters claims and called out the immigration policies of the Biden administration that coincided with record housing inflation. He said: Housing, especially for working Americans, a Wharton study has shown that the mass unfettered immigration, adding 10-20 million new people demanding housing,…

Leftist Hollywood comic Kathy Griffin posted a social media video telling fans to make lists of “MAGA neighbors” so others know who to shun and harass, and then she ripped First Lady Melania Trump by smearing her as a Nazi. Reading from a piece of paper in her video, Griffin read out that someone had accused her of urging her fans to make lists of neighbors who are “MAGA” so that liberal neighbors might know which neighbors to shun and harasses. After reading off the accusation, Griffin admitted that the claim is 100 percent true. “Yeah, that’s right,” she exclaimed,…

The leaders of two Republican-led committees are quietly locked in a behind-the-scenes turf battle. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who helms the Senate Banking Committee, sent a letter this week to Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the chair and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary panel, saying he was “surprised” to learn that Judiciary had convened a hearing on the history of Credit Suisse’s servicing of Nazi-linked bank accounts. “While this subject matter is of historic importance, its connection to the Judiciary Committee’s jurisdiction is less clear,” Scott wrote in the letter, a copy of which was obtained…

The cryptocurrency has lost nearly 40% of its value since the US president assumed office last January Bitcoin has plummeted to below $63,000 on Thursday, wiping out all gains that the token made since the self-proclaimed crypto-friendly US President Donald Trump stepped into office last year.The cryptocurrency fell as much as 14% over the course of the day to $62,576, its lowest price since September 2024.The nosedive erased nearly half of the token’s value since its all-time record of more than $120,000 last October, which was widely attributed to Trump’s policy and promises to establish the US as the “crypto-capital…

Finland has warned the US against using the term, arguing it risks diluting the bloc’s core mutual defense clause Finland has privately urged US officials to avoid describing future security commitments to Ukraine as “Article 5-like,” warning the terminology could undermine NATO’s foundational mutual defense clause, according to a leaked diplomatic cable.Under NATO’s Article 5, an attack on one member of the bloc is treated as an attack on all others, warranting a military response. A January 20 US State Department cable, obtained by Politico, has reportedly revealed that Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen cautioned visiting American lawmakers that such language…

A 20-year-old man pleaded for his life during a desperate 911 call as he remained trapped inside his burning Tesla Model Y after a crash, unable to escape due to the vehicle’s electrically powered doors. The transcript of the call is part of a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s EV giant over the man’s death. Bloomberg reports that Samuel Tremblett made a frantic emergency call in October after crashing his Tesla Model Y SUV approximately 30 miles outside of Boston. The transcript of his 911 call, included in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Massachusetts federal court, captures his final desperate moments as…

The success of the United States’s three-phase plan toward stabilizing Venezuela following the capture of Nicolás Maduro depends on neutralizing Iran’s military presence in the country as well as Russia and China’s encroachment, the Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS) warned this week. Venezuela is presently undergoing the first steps of a three-phase stability, recovery, and transition program toward restoring democracy following the January 3 U.S. law enforcement operation in Caracas that led to the arrest of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. Secretary of State Marco Rubio outlined the program to Congress last week. WATCH — Trump: “We’re in Charge” in…

Actress Halle Berry doubled down on her view that California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) “probably should not be the next president.” “It’s disturbing when people say they’re going to do things and then they don’t,” Berry said of Newsom in an interview with The Cut, referring to the governor failing to contact the actress to address her concerns after he suggested he would. In December, the Die Another Day star called Newsom’s credibility as a future presidential candidate into question at the New York Times‘ Dealbook Summit, where she asserted that the governor has “overlooked” and is currently “devaluing” women. “Back in my great state of…