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President Donald Trump and Venezuela’s deposed socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro became unwitting stars in several Carnival parade festivities this year. Every year, Hispanic nations mark Carnival, a four-day period of parades and festivities intrinsically tied to the Catholic faith that always begin on the Friday before Ash Wednesday and ends on the Tuesday before the Catholic holiday. Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent, a period of fasting and reflection in anticipation of Holy Week and Easter. Brazil holds the world’s largest and most elaborate Carnival parades in the world. This year’s Carnival parades in Rio de Janeiro began on…

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Florida, the home of the chaotic 2000 presidential recount, may enact tough new proof-of-citizenship requirements for voting currently at the center of an ongoing debate in Congress. As part of the effort, the Sunshine State may also forever banish recounts from its election processes and switch to a new “vote validation” system that would aim to check all ballots after they are cast. The move is a top priority of Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd, who has been pushing for the idea for the past two years. The state House and Senate are divided over whether…

Washington did not agree to adhere to the New START limitations after its expiration, a senior official has confirmed The US and Russia have not agreed to informally adhere to New START nuclear reduction treaty limitations, a senior State Department official has confirmed.The cornerstone strategic arms control agreement officially expired on February 5. Moscow reached out to Washington on renewing the treaty yet received no formal response. US President Donald Trump has since denounced the agreement as a “badly negotiated deal” and said a “new, improved, and modernized” version should be negotiated instead.No “gentlemen’s agreement” is in place between Washington…

Australian authorities were fully aware that inviting Israel’s president for a visit was going to ignite unrest and furious opposition. They invited him anyway, and sent in the police to assault the protesters. Reading by Tim Foley: Australian authorities were fully aware that inviting Israel’s president for a visit was going to ignite unrest and furious opposition. They invited him anyway, and sent in the police to assault the protesters. I saw a video of two cops pinning a kid in a keffiyeh face down on the ground and proceeding to punch him over and over again long after he’d been subdued.…

A spokesman for imprisoned former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday that Khan has been denied hospital care and treatment from his personal doctor, leading to an 85-percent loss of vision in his right eye from a blood clot. Khan spokesman Zulfi Bukhari told Sky News that a “fully equipped ambulance” was sent on Sunday to the Adiala prison where Khan is being held, but Khan should have been taken to “an appropriate hospital with the appropriate equipment.” Bukhari said all information from the prison pertaining to Khan’s health is mere “hearsay,” because the authorities will not allow…

The Manufacturing Boom the Wall Street Journal Missed A Wall Street Journal headline this week declared, “U.S. Manufacturing Is in Retreat and Trump’s Tariffs Aren’t Helping.” But the actual data released this week by the Federal Reserve and the Commerce Department tell a dramatically different story, one of rising output, climbing demand, and surging business investment. Manufacturing is not in retreat. It’s booming. Industrial output hit an all-time high in November and then broke that record in December. The disconnect between the WSJ’s narrative and the Fed’s numbers reveals a fundamental confusion about how to measure manufacturing health in a…

In a field of 12 announced candidates, Republican Steve Hilton leads Democrats and Republicans in the upcoming race for California governor. More importantly, he has some momentum. “The Republican electorate in California is split between Steve Hilton at 38 percent and Chad Bianco at 37 percent, while Hilton also picks up a plurality of independent voters at 22 percent,” said the pollster, Emerson. “Democratic voters have not yet clearly coalesced around one candidate.” Since the previous poll, Hilton has increased his support by five points, as has billionaire Tom Steyer, who currently earns 8.8 percent support. Unsurprisingly, “Undecided” leads the…

The European Commission has announced plans to “strengthen” the borders of nine member states The European Commission unveiled a strategy on Wednesday to reinforce nine EU member states bordering Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, by means of the ‘European Drone Defense Initiative’. Previously dubbed the ‘drone wall’, the plan has faced criticism over its feasibility.Russia has repeatedly dismissed Western claims of being a threat to NATO or EU nations, calling the narrative “nonsense” and “fearmongering” meant to justify inflated military budgets.Announced by the commission’s executive vice president, Raffaele Fitto, the plan includes Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and…

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Wednesday proposed reforms to the agency’s program that helps low-income Americans afford phone and internet services amidst reports of abuse of the program, especially in states such as California. “The government should not be spending your money to provide phone & internet service to dead people,” FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said as the FCC adopted the proposal to reform the Lifeline, the cell phone and internet service subsidy program. The Lifeline program accounts for roughly $1 billion in spending every year; however, one report from the agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that…

Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, and Charlie Kirk are by far among the most popular media figures among Republican voters, according to polling conducting by Rich Barris of Big Data Poll, obtained exclusively by Breitbart News. Among the Republicans surveyed, a whopping 74.7% viewed the late Charlie Kirk either very or somewhat favorably. Similarly, Joe Rogan was viewed favorably by 62.4% of Republicans, while Tucker Carlson received a 52.1% favorability rating. Conversely, rightwing commentators such as Mark Levin, Laura Loomer, and Nick Fuentes scored far lower on this key favorability index, with significantly larger portions not recognizing their names. Mark Levin…