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New York Democrats are trying to save face by condemning the latest assassination attempt on President Donald Trump, yet they continue ignore the reality of their past words, inciting such violent behavior while spreading their smears. All eyes were on the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Saturday as an armed man charged through a magnetometer with the apparent intent to assassinate the president and administration officials. The suspect, Cole Tomas Allen, scheduled his manifesto, which detailed his intentions, to be sent to several individuals during the time of the attack. He wrote in the manifesto that he would go…

Abu Dhabi’s break with the oil cartel is less about barrels than power – testing Riyadh, helping Trump, and redrawing Gulf alliances Although the United Arab Emirates has tried to present its upcoming exit from OPEC and the wider OPEC+ framework as part of its sovereign energy strategy and long-term economic planning, its timing and regional context suggest that this is a political act.With its exit, the UAE is challenging the authority of Riyadh, strengthening its own strategic autonomy, offering Washington a useful instrument for influencing energy prices, and moving closer to a regional make-up where the US and Israel…

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is openly challenging the U.S. Justice Department and is apparently using her political power to prevent the arrest and extradition of a sitting state governor, a senator, and a mayor, all from her political party, MORENA. Those three men and seven other top law enforcement officials from the state of Sinaloa are wanted in a U.S. federal court on drug trafficking charges. In response to the scandal, Sheinbaum claimed that the U.S. Department of Justice is playing a political game trying to target her party and her government will not take part in it. “It must…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed this week it was possible the United States of America has already had a gay president in the White House. Ocasio-Cortez made her comments while speaking with a TMZ reporter Wednesday on Capitol Hill, per the outlet. He asked her if the country would have a female or gay president first. “Well, we don’t know if we’ve already had a gay president to be honest with you. I think there are chances that maybe we have but I don’t know,” she stated. Ocasio-Cortez shared the clip and wrote in the caption, “This was fun”: In…

EU lawmakers have accused the Commission president of inconsistency in foreign policy and failing to curb soaring energy costs European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has come under fire again in the European Parliament, as lawmakers are accusing her of double standards in foreign policy and failing to shield EU citizens from soaring energy costs.MEPs from multiple factions voiced their frustration during Wednesday’s debate on EU strategy for the Middle East and energy security, pointing to what they described as a lack of clear direction and coherence in the bloc’s response.Belgian lawmaker Kathleen Van Brempt questioned the bloc’s credibility,…

SOUTH HOUSTON, Texas — An industrial worker died on Wednesday afternoon when an asphalt storage tank collapsed, burying him in three feet of the tar-like substance. Fox 26 Houston reported that an employee at Martin Asphalt was burned alive in the city of South Houston, Texas, when the storage tank, containing 50,000 gallons of asphalt, ruptured and collapsed. Officials say the worker became trapped under three feet of 210-degree asphalt. Houston Fire Department HAZMAT crews arrived and carried out recovery operations. The remains of the as-yet-unidentified worker were recovered from the spill. The Pasadena Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating the…

The 2027 funding bill released by the GOP-led House Appropriations Committee ends NFA registration requirements for suppressors and short barrel rifles (SBRs). You may recall that language in the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) removed registration for suppressors and SBRs early on, but that language was later removed, resulting only in the removal of the $200 tax stamp fee. House Appropriations Committee member Rep. Andrew Clyde (R) responded by showing that the tax was the basis for registration and that now, with the tax gone, the registration should be gone as well. But the registration of suppressors and SBRs has continued…

On Thursday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Sen. Angus King (I-ME) said that “if there are people in Iran, they’re scientists and engineers that have been working on this problem for years, the question is, how do you, ultimately, prevent them from racing toward a bomb, which this whole war that we’ve been in may provoke them to do?” King said, [relevant remarks begin around 4:10] “Well, the question is, how are they going to ensure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon? The nuclear material that’s there — there are two pieces of this: The nuclear material that’s there,…

A bill aimed at safeguarding the United States’ sensitive military assets from adversarial nations has been introduced by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who is arguing that foreigners from countries of concern who are caught photographing or tracking such assets should be held accountable for intending to harm the U.S. Cotton, who also recently introduced a piece of legislation to stamp out the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) influence on the transportation of U.S. Department of War (DOW) equipment, announced his latest bill, the Visual Protection of Strategic Assets Act, on Thursday.  Nationals from countries of concern, defined in the bill as…

Aramco has reportedly halted liquefied petroleum gas shipments next month over damage to a key facility Saudi Arabia’s petroleum and natural gas giant Aramco is suspending liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) through May due to damage at its main export facility, Bloomberg has reported, citing people familiar with the matter.The company’s key LPG export hub, the Juaymah terminal located in the Persian Gulf, suffered structural damage in February, shortly before the US-Israeli attack on Iran. At the time, the company said a support structure collapsed at the site, cutting off fuel supply and prompting a halt in overseas shipments. The facility…