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Tulsi Gabbard heads into Senate Intelligence on Wednesday facing one of the most fraught moments of her tenure as director of national intelligence. The longtime anti-interventionist is set to be the main character at Wednesday morning’s worldwide threats hearing when she appears with other administration officials, after former top aide Joe Kent resigned as director of the National Counterterrorism Center over the Iran war. Kent’s resignation has raised the question of how much longer Gabbard will serve in the administration. She’s largely been silent since the U.S. and Israel began striking Iran in late February, and she’s been kept out…

The US president has claimed he may have the “honor” of taking the Caribbean island US President Donald Trump has said he expects to have the “honor” of “taking Cuba in some form,” claiming he could do “anything I want” with the Caribbean nation.Trump made the remarks on Monday in the Oval Office despite ongoing talks between Washington and Havana as the island grapples with a deepening energy crisis and widespread blackouts amid a US oil blockade.“I do believe I’ll be… having the honor of taking Cuba. That’s a big honor,” Trump said, adding: “Taking Cuba in some form.”Pressed by…

Recently-installed Irish President Catherine Connolly has faced a torrent of criticism over her maiden St Patrick’s Day address, during which she was accused of twisting history and insulting Christianity all in one go. President Connolly, a self-described socialist who was elected to the largely ceremonial Irish presidency in October, marked the occasion of the anniversary of the death of Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, with an a-historical attempt to appropriate his life and message to serve her globalist open borders ideology. In her message, appearing in a dark blue suit, without any green about her person, Connolly compared St Patrick…

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) has reacted to shocking revelations by Breitbart News social media director Wynton Hall, the author of the new book Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI, who revealed that Google’s Gemini AI accused her of so-called “hate speech.” In his newly-released book, CODE RED, Hall dives into how some AI programs that are marketed as politically neutral are actually biased against conservatives.  In a test using Google Gemini Pro’s “deep research” setting, Hall asked the following: “Based on your hate speech policies, assess the statements of the current 100 U.S.…

Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin presented President Donald Trump with a shamrock bowl at the White House on Tuesday, St Patrick’s Day, to carry on a long-standing tradition. Martin presented Trump with the bowl of shamrock during an East Room ceremony in the early evening, after the pair spent the day together, beginning with a bilateral meeting in the morning and followed by a Friends of Ireland luncheon at the U.S. Capitol. Martin said: Today, I will present this bowl of shamrock in memory of all the brave Irish men and Irish women who came here and who believed in the…

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is wading into Michigan’s closely contested Democratic Senate primary, backing state Sen. Mallory McMorrow over two rivals. It’s a somewhat counterintuitive endorsement for the progressive U.S. senator who has made her backing of Medicare for All a core part of her political identity. McMorrow opposes Medicare for All, while Abdul El-Sayed, one of McMorrow’s opponents, supports it. But the endorsement is a coup for McMorrow as she seeks to win over the progressive wing of the party in her bid to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters. McMorrow has now secured endorsements from four senators —…

Another person was wounded in the incident at the Holloman facility in New Mexico, military officials have said One person was killed and another injured in a shooting on Tuesday evening at a US Air Force Base in New Mexico, according to military officials cited by AP.The Holloman base near Alamogordo was placed on a temporary lockdown at around 5:30 PM after reports of an active shooter near the facility’s convenience store, authorities said, adding that the injured individual was taken for medical treatment.“Emergency personnel are responding to the situation and there is no threat at this time,” AP cited…

An Iranian missile struck near the Al Minhad airbase in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), damaging a facility that houses Australian military personnel. No injuries were sustained during the attack, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Wednesday morning. Albanese, speaking to reporters in Tasmania, detailed that an Iranian projectile hit near the base, and confirmed that “no Australian personnel was injured and everyone is absolutely safe at this point in time.” “There was minor damage to an accommodation block and a medical facility due to a small fire, that was created as a result of that projectile hitting a road leading…

On Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) said that former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent’s resignation letter “plays into traditional antisemitic tropes of the Jews controlling this or that or controlling the media.” But “I do have to hold him up as a guy who — and this is extremely rare in the Trump administration — as a guy who is willing to resign because of his principles.” After Himes said that he didn’t know if Kent’s claims about Israel getting the U.S. into Operation Epic Fury were…

Direct USAID payments to Kiev lacked proper oversight, the inspector general’s office has told lawmakers The US sent Ukraine $26 billion in aid without adequate oversight of how the funds would be used, a government auditor has told lawmakers.The flaws in a program managed by the now-defunct US Agency for International Development (USAID) were highlighted by the office of the inspector general, which oversees it.Contractors hired by the agency to monitor the assistance “failed to provide required reports on time or at all,” Deputy Inspector General Adam Kaplan told the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Intelligence on Tuesday.…