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Federal regulators have recalled about 55,000 pounds of frozen blueberries over potential contamination of Listeria. Oregon Potato Company, which specializes in frozen potatoes, vegetables, and fruits, has flagged 55,689 pounds of quick-frozen blueberries, according to the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA). Authorities made the notice on February 12; however, the risk was upgraded to a Class 1 recall with officials warning that the exposure risk to Listeria “could cause serious averse health consequences or death.” The product was distributed throughout Michigan, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin, and Canada. The frozen blueberries were moved between businesses within the supply chain and not directly…
The Cuban Communist Party identified seven individuals of the ten that it claims were onboard a Florida-registered speedboat intercepted in a fatal shootout on Wednesday. Among those named are two individuals the Castro regime had previously identified as “terrorists.” Friends and family identified the one man the Castro regime identified as killed by Cuban Coast Guard agents – Michel Ortega Casanova – as a Tampa-based “patriot” who was “obsessed” with ending the 67-year-old communist regime in his home country. The Cuban embassy in Washington published a statement from the Interior Ministry on Wednesday announcing that it had used violence to intercept…
Republican members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee emphasized the bipartisan demand for Hillary Clinton to share what she knows about Jeffrey Epstein and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell, ahead of the former secretary of State’s closed-door deposition Thursday morning. Committee Chair James Comer of Kentucky — flanked by Republican Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Eric Burlison of Missouri, Michael Cloud of Texas, John McGuire of Virginia and Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, alongside South Carolina Reps. Nancy Mace and William Timmons — told reporters in Chappaqua, New York, that they are focused on better understanding Epstein’s accumulation…
Tehran is reportedly weighing oil, gas, and mining incentives as part of nuclear talks to avert escalation Iran is weighing economic incentives to entice US President Donald Trump as nuclear negotiations with Washington continue, the Financial Times has reported.Talks in Geneva on Thursday mark a third round of indirect US-Iran contacts using Omani mediation, at a time when Washington is simultaneously amassing military assets in the Middle East to increase pressure on Tehran.People familiar with the matter told the FT on Thursday that Tehran is considering pitching a potential “commercial bonanza” to Washington – involving oil, gas, and mining projects…
Imagine a world where the US dollar, the bedrock of global finance for nearly a century, is no longer the unchallenged king Imagine a world where the US dollar, the bedrock of global finance for nearly a century, is no longer the unchallenged king. As of January 11, 2026, this once-unthinkable scenario is becoming a tangible possibility, with the BRICS nations—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—orchestrating a bold strategy to dethrone the dollar’s dominance. With Bitcoin trading at a staggering $90,582 amidst geopolitical turbulence, the implications for investors, markets, and the cryptocurrency landscape are profound. What could this mean…
American lawyer Barry Pollack accused the Trump administration of not allowing the Venezuelan government to fund his representation of deposed socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, a report Wednesday indicated. Pollack, known for having represented Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in the past, is presently representing Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores at the ongoing drug trafficking case in New York presided by District Judge Alvin Hellerstein. Politico reported that on Wednesday Pollack filed a letter to Judge Hellerstein dated February 20 alleging that the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) had granted an exception to the U.S. sanctions on…
Vice President JD Vance, who tapped by President Donald Trump to combat fraud nationwide, on Wednesday said that the country’s social safety net would disappear unless we take combatting fraud more seriously. “So tonight, although it started four months ago, I am officially announcing the war on fraud, to be led by our great Vice President, JD Vance. He’ll get it done. We will actually have a balanced budget overnight. It’ll go very quickly. That’s the kind of money you’re talking about,” Trump said during his State of the Union address, tapping the vice president to lead the administration’s effort…
British street organiser and citizen journalist Tommy Robinson decried the legacy media for their negative reportage of his visit to Washington D.C., asserting “their power is gone”. Tommy Robinson, the founder and one-time leader of the now defunct English Defence League, who has spent years creating documentaries about and rallies against the the mass rape of young British children by migrant-heritage gangs, made a visit to Washington D.C.. Robinson, a persistent target for Britain’s police and courts, might have struggled to gain a visa to the U.S. given these brushes with the law. Indeed, he was just months ago acquitted…
House Oversight Chair James Comer is not ruling out slapping Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick with a subpoena to testify as part of the panel’s investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “That’s very possible,” the Kentucky Republican told reporters Thursday morning as members of the committee headed inside a performing arts center in Chappaqua, New York, for daylong grilling of Hillary Clinton. The former secretary of State is testifying about interactions she may have had with Epstein or his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is now serving 20-years in prison for her part in the late financier’s sex trafficking scheme.…
As Kurdish groups consolidate abroad, Washington’s pressure campaign may increasingly rely on domestic fractures Amid escalating tensions surrounding Iran and the ongoing discussions about potential military strikes by the US, the internal political situation in the Islamic Republic is becoming increasingly turbulent. Tehran’s adversaries are considering not only direct military pressure but also a mixed strategy of destabilization involving limited strikes combined with the activation of internal protest movements and ethnic-political factors.This strategy implies minimizing the duration and scale of military operations and instead relying on internal pressure. In other words, external actions could serve as a trigger for internal…