Author: Press Room
The US president has promised “something very tough” unless Tehran accepts his deal US President Donald Trump has said he is weighing the deployment of a second aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East, escalating military pressure on Iran and warning that diplomacy has a narrow window.The remarks come ahead of a likely second round of indirect US-Iran talks next week, following initial negotiations held in Oman on Friday – the first since last year’s Israeli-US strikes.“We have an armada that is heading there and another one might be going,” Trump told Axios on Tuesday.“Either we will make a…
This video is as close to a self-portrait of western civilization as it gets. This is who we are. This is where we’re at. Might as well have giant letters with a big red arrow saying “YOU ARE HERE” overtop it. Reading by Tim Foley: I saw a video of a food delivery robot navigating around the body of a homeless person lying on the sidewalk, and I can’t stop thinking about it. This video is as close to a self-portrait of western civilization as it gets. This is who we are. This is where we’re at. Might as well have giant…
Colombian model Valentina Forero Álvarez this week plead guilty of leading a multi-state criminal organization that used the U.S. financial system to launder more than $31 million in drug trafficking proceeds. In a press release, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia informed that Forero Álvarez, a 33 year-old woman from the Colombian city of Armenia, plead guilty on Tuesday. U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg detailed that the Colombian national directed a network of couriers who traveled to Colombia to launder the illegal drug trafficking money through the U.S. banking system. As part of the laundering scheme, the office detailed, Forero…
On Tuesday on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” political commentator Donny Deutsch said anyone who does not think Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance represented America needs their “head examined.” Deutsch said, “You know, it’s interesting, I when I heard they were booking Bad Bunny, I’m like, okay, I don’t really know his music and whatnot. And he started to sing and didn’t understand word, and I was sucked into it. It was majestic.” He continued, “I don’t care what the words were. If you couldn’t get from that joy. Inclusivity, love over hate, which they literally said, God bless America.…
The House is set to rebuke Donald Trump’s signature economic policy Wednesday following Speaker Mike Johnson’s failure late last night to contain GOP unrest over the administration’s trade war. The chamber will vote on a resolution offered by Democratic Rep. Gregory Meeks (N.Y.) to overturn the president’s Canadian tariffs. It comes after GOP Reps. Kevin Kiley of California, Don Bacon of Nebraska and Thomas Massie of Kentucky sided with Democrats to tank a procedural rule, which contained a provision GOP leaders have relied upon for months to prevent members from voting to undermine Trump’s trade agenda. “I don’t think that…
The Justice Department has been accused of improperly redacting the identities of the sex offender’s potential associates A Democratic lawmaker has publicly identified six men whose names were redacted from government documents related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, adding pressure on the Justice Department regarding transparency in the release of the files.Rep. Ro Khanna (D-California) read the names aloud on the House floor Tuesday after he and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) reviewed unredacted versions of the files at a Justice Department office earlier this week.The six men named by Khanna are billionaire retail magnate Leslie “Les” Wexner; Emirati businessman…
The predominantly Muslim child rape grooming gangs likely trafficked “countless” British women and girls to their native Pakistan to serve as sex slaves, the head of the independent rape gang inquiry has said. MP Rupert Lowe, who launched an independent inquiry into the mass child rape that occurred throughout England at the hands of clans of mostly Pakistani Muslim men, has called on the government to launch an investigation into cases of missing girls in grooming areas to determine whether they may have been trafficked to Pakistan as sex slaves. The inquiry, which began in London last week, heard testimony…
Los Angeles Mayoral candidate and former reality TV star Spencer Pratt says that if he is elected as mayor, his administration would work with the federal government on immigration enforcement, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Pratt appeared at a campaign kick-off party at West L.A.’s Don Antonio’s restaurant where he spoke to many of the issues he would try to tackle were he to become mayor of L.A. At one point in a video of the event posted on X, Pratt spoke to the immigration enforcement debate and insisted that the problem wasn’t really “enforcement” but is really about…
There’s nothing like the ire of constituents to motivate lawmakers to end a government shutdown. But it could take weeks for the public to start noticing the funding lapse set to hit DHS on Saturday if Congress doesn’t act. TSA airport screeners, for instance, wouldn’t miss full paychecks until March, and billions of dollars remain in the FEMA coffers used for immediate response to disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes and floods. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem could find creative ways to lessen the pain of a shutdown. That could include bankrolling paychecks for DHS law enforcement personnel and active-duty members of…
The US lost trust after it bombed Iran in the middle of negotiations, Abbas Araghchi has told RT in an exclusive interview Iran is fully committed to a diplomatic settlement with the US while simultaneously bracing for the possibility of renewed conflict, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told RT’s Rick Sanchez in Tehran on Tuesday.Araghchi argued that “there is no solution but a diplomatic solution,” saying technology and progress cannot be destroyed through bombings and military threats, which have fueled Tehran’s mistrust of Washington.“We still do not have full trust in Americans,” he said. “We were in the middle of negotiations…