Author: Press Room
Reaping financial rewards from strong-arming fans into paying for streaming services has become one of the NFL’s largest revenue streams, but that may change. Senator Mike Lee (R, UT) is urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate the NFL and other professional sports leagues, as well as the exorbitant costs fans are being forced to pay to watch games on streaming services. Lee, who chairs the Senate’s antitrust subcommittee, made a direct appeal to the DOJ’s Acting Assistant Attorney General Omeed Assefi and the FTC’s Chairman Andrew Ferguson to reexamine whether the country’s laws regarding…
Lindsey Graham’s effort to convince Donald Trump to attack Iran began — to the surprise of no one familiar with the relationship between the South Carolina senator and the president — on the golf course. After the 2024 election, the pair hit the links to discuss a second-term agenda for the resurgent president, and Graham had lots of advice. In an extensive interview Tuesday in his Capitol Hill office, Graham recalled pushing Trump to “blow some shit up” to combat drug trafficking. He talked about taking on Big Tech by challenging the legal underpinnings of their industry dominance. And he…
Hungary has accused Ukraine of stopping the flow of oil via the Soviet-era Druzhba route Ukraine has rejected a proposed EU mission to inspect the Soviet-era pipeline that transports Russian oil through Ukrainian territory to Central Europe, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing diplomats and officials.Hungary and Slovakia have accused Ukraine of deliberately blocking the flow through the Druzhba pipeline, while Ukraine said the infrastructure was damaged by Russian strikes in January.The EU is pressuring Ukraine to restore the operation of the Soviet-era pipeline that transports Russian oil through Ukrainian territory to Central Europe, the Financial Times reported on…
Thousands of cruise line passengers are trapped in ports in the Persian Gulf due to ongoing military strikes in the Middle East. Cruise ships have become stationary hotels as the conflict in Iran has left many stranded. Escalating hostilities have raised fears over safety in the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most vital shipping lanes. The Daily Mail wrote that at least six big ships are said to be stationary and awaiting word regarding when they can leave. These passengers are docked or anchored in port cities such as Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and…
Acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons is criticizing the Boston Police Department for ignoring immigration detainer requests after ICE arrested large numbers of illegal aliens in Massachusetts. Lyons said police ignored nearly 170 of those requests in 2025, not 57 as the city’s police commissioner said, the Boston Herald reported Tuesday. He told the Herald in a statement: ICE lodged 167 immigration detainers against criminal illegal aliens in Boston police custody during 2025 — far more than the Boston Police Department is admitting to. Ironically, Commissioner Michael Cox says the police won’t honor our detainers because…
Friedrich Merz says Iran deserves being the target of war because it hasn’t bent the knee to sanctions Say what you will about Germany’s current ‘elites’, but they are consistent: Once they don’t give a damn about international law, elementary fairness, rudimentary human decency, and, last but not least, basic logic, they really won’t quit before their country’s reputation is ruined as it has not been since 1945. Hyperbole, you think? Can it really be that bad, you wonder?Leave it to Chancellor Friedrich Merz and company to achieve what seems almost impossible. For almost two-and-a-half years, not one but two…
U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to “cut off” all trade with Spain after the socialist-led country refused to allow the American military to use its bases to strike the Islamist regime in Iran during Operation Epic Fury. Speaking from the Oval Office on Tuesday during a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, President Trump vented his frustration with some European allies, including the United Kingdom and Spain. “Spain has been terrible,” Trump said. “In fact, I told [Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent] to cut off all dealings with Spain.” On Saturday, Spain was also the lone country in Israel to…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked California schools from hiding students’ “gender transitions” from parents as litigation continues over the state’s “gender secrecy policy” in lower courts. The conservative-leaning High Court ruled 6-3 in favor of concerned parents and reinstated a December district court ruling permanently halting the state’s school transgender policy — a ruling that was steamrolled by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit the following month. The majority wrote in their opinion that religious parents, as well as parents who object purely because they believe they have the right to direct the upbringing of their…
A US military religious freedom advocacy group has received over 200 complaints about Christian fundamentalist speeches by commanding officers Multiple commanders across all branches of the US military have offered a fundamentalist Christian explanation for the attack on Iran, describing President Donald Trump as the harbinger of the Second Coming and the conflict itself as a “signal fire” for Armageddon, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has reported.The MRFF, a US non-profit promoting the separation of church and state, as well as freedom of conscience within the military, said on Tuesday that it had received more than 200 complaints from…
Spanish actor Aldo Comas criticized celebrities for wearing “Free Palestine” pins while having no opinion about other regimes like Iran. The actor expressed his views when speaking with reporters ahead of the Goaya Awards. “I haven’t heard anyone talk about the 50,000 people who died in the last two months in Iran. No one talks about it. I see lots of pins about everything else, but not about that. I don’t know. Maybe we should also be ending theocratic that murder their own people. I don’t know,” he said. When pressed on whether a film awards ceremony is the “best place”…