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During Wednesday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) explained his support for the U.S. strikes against Iran, and why his Democrat colleagues were against it. Fetterman said many Democrats were “afraid” to agree with President Donald Trump on anything, which is why some Democrats were so outspoken against the strikes. “All right, Senator, you go to these classified briefings with your colleagues,” host Jesse Watters said. “Why are Democrats running out of the briefing and screaming that this is a Forever War, and it’s only Wednesday.” Fetterman replied, “Yes, well, I mean, I just…
The U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs in February and the unemployment rate rose to 4.4 percent, the Labor Department said Friday. Economists had forecast the economy would add 50,000 jobs and a steady unemployment rate at 4.3 percent. The prior month’s employment gain was adjusted down to 126,000 from 130,000. The labor market in the U.S. has experienced a significant shift away from dependence on an immigration-driven workforce. Jobs numbers that may seem anemic compared with recent years may actually indicate healthy—even robust—growth under current conditions, according to economists. Many economists now estimate the so-called “break-even” rate of job growth—the…
Outgoing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem says Virginians “should be alarmed” over Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s seemingly refusing to honor an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer against a repeat criminal illegal alien now accused of murdering 41-year-old Stephanie Minter, a mother, in a random attack in Fairfax County. As Breitbart News reported, 32-year-old illegal alien Abdul Jalloh of Sierra Leone was arrested by the Fairfax County Police Department and charged with stabbing Stephanie Minter, a mother, to death at a Fredericksburg, Virginia, bus stop in a random attack. Jalloh had more than 30 prior arrests before Minter’s murder, but…
The Ukrainian leader recently took aim at the Hungarian PM over his refusal to unblock a €90 billion EU loan for Kiev Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said “threats to his life” made by Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky will not deter him from breaking Kiev’s “oil blockade” of his country.Zelensky issued a thinly veiled warning to Orban on Thursday over Budapest’s ongoing refusal to lift its veto on billions in EU-backed loans for Kiev, and amid a row over Ukraine’s blocking of oil supplies to Hungary via a pipeline from Russia. The Ukrainian leader suggested that Orban should not impede the…
Prediction market Kalshi has drawn outrage for refusing to pay out winnings on a $54 million trade related to the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The New York Post reports that many bettors on Kalshi assumed they had won big on wagers that Ayatollah Khamenei would be out as Supreme Leader of Iran by Saturday after he was killed in joint US-Israeli air strikes over the weekend. However, Kalshi, an American prediction market that allows users to bet on politics, sports, foreign affairs and pop culture, announced it would not be paying out any winnings on those…
The government of Ecuador on Wednesday declared Cuban ambassador to Quito Basilio Antonio Gutiérrez García and the embassy’s entire diplomatic mission personas non grata, giving them all 48 hours to leave the South American country. At press time, the Ecuadorian government has not provided specific details on its decision to expel the communist regime’s diplomats from the country. In a brief statement, Ecuador’s Foreign Ministry said that the decision was made in accordance with Article 9 of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which allows states to declare diplomats of other countries as personas non grata any time and without having to…
The Department of Education (ED) announced an investigation into a Wisconsin school district on Thursday for allegedly allowing boys to use girls’ restrooms in accordance with the pseudo-religion of gender ideology. The department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) initiated a directed investigation into the New Richmond School District in New Richmond, Wisconsin. ED said the investigation is based on reports the district allows boys to use girls’ restroom and cited a January school board meeting where “multiple parents expressed concern that males were being permitted to use the girls’ restroom, but parents’ questions about their daughters’ safety were reportedly deflected by…
Baghdad has reported a disruption of Iranian gas supply to its power plants, while Havana blames a US blockade for outages on the island Both Iraq and Cuba have been plunged into nationwide blackouts, with the Middle Eastern country’s grid collapsing after a sudden drop in gas supplies to a major power plant in Basra, while the Caribbean island’s outage is being blamed on chronic fuel shortages worsened by the US blockade on Venezuelan oil.The day before the Iraqi blackout, an Electricity Ministry spokesperson was quoted as saying that “incomplete supplies” of gas from neighboring Iran were already affecting power…
A laser is reportedly being deployed against Iran’s Islamic regime as the United States continues Operation Epic Fury. The High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system appears to be fixed on a U.S. Navy destroyer near the Iranian coast, the New York Post reported Wednesday. It is capable of destroying drones, and the Post said videos showing rockets exploding over the Israel-Lebanon border have been unofficially credited to the Israeli military’s Iron Beam weapon, which is also a laser. However, officials have not confirmed or denied using lasers during the operation. The Post article also highlighted the U.S.…
Aaron Rodgers doesn’t yet know whether he will play next year or retire. But he knows this: He’s no fan of Kash Patel’s locker-room demeanor. During an appearance on the Pat McAfee Show on Wednesday, Rodgers fielded a variety of questions about the recent Winter Olympics and, for the most part, his takes were relatively benign. That is, until the subject turned to the US men’s hockey team’s gold medal win against Canada. Rodgers took exception to FBI Director Kash Patel’s viral locker-room celebration with the team after the game. In the video, Patel could be seen drinking beer and…