Author: Press Room
As he reconvened the House this month after a seven-week recess, Speaker Mike Johnson promised to recommit lawmakers to making laws — adding session days and keeping them voting into the night to catch up on lost time. His members instead spent much of their first full week back after the shutdown sniping at each other and using the House floor to carry out attacks on colleagues. Lawmakers voted five times on measures to rebuke other members, eating up hours of floor time. The spasms of personal pique crossed party lines, with Democrats targeting Democrats and Republicans targeting Republicans in…
A church in rural Nigeria was attacked by jihadists Wednesday with at least two people murdered before the pastor and some worshippers were kidnapped, police and witnesses said. The attack comes just days after 25 girls were abducted from a boarding school. Video released by The Times shows the congregation cowering as masked men with rifles and machetes stormed the service in the western state of Kwara. The intruders sprayed the pews with bullets, killing at least two people. Children can be heard screaming as shots ring out at Christ Apostolic Church in the town of Eruku. Reuters reports the assault…
Vice President JD Vance recalled a reporter pressuring President Donald Trump to get cracking on the high price of eggs just a few days into his second term in the White House. While speaking during a policy discussion with Breitbart News on Thursday in Washington, DC, Vance explained how the Trump administration, from the very start, was under pressure to turn the economy around. “Take for example a dozen eggs. I’ll never forget this, it was one of the very first, maybe the single first press conference the president had done since he had started his second term. And some…
The Indiana homeowner accused of killing a cleaning lady who showed up at the wrong house is facing a manslaughter charge. Breitbart News reported that 32-year-old Maria Florinda Rios Perez went to the wrong home in Whitestown, Indiana, and was killed with a headshot as she stood on the porch. The Associated Press noted that Perez and her husband had gone to the home by mistake, and her husband indicated he did not know Perez had been shot until she fell into his arms. The AP added that the homeowner–now identified as 62-year-old Curt Andersen–allegedly fired a round through the door “a minute after hearing…
Britain’s GDP took a hit of up to 8% following the departure from the EU, analysts say Britain’s departure from the European Union reduced the country’s gross domestic product by as much as 8% by 2025, according to a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). The decline was driven by sharp drops in investment, employment, and productivity, and was worse than previously forecast, the report said.The authors of the NBER study ‘The Economic Impact of Brexit’, published this month, include economists from Stanford University, the Bundesbank, the Bank of England, the University of Nottingham, and King’s…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday for in-person meetings with strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who asserted his desire to see Russia and Ukraine return to the “Istanbul process” of negotiations. Erdogan added that he expected “our partners who wish to end the bloodshed” to approach his call for a Turkish-led negotiation with “a constructive attitude” – an apparent message to President Donald Trump, whose multiple interventions to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began in 2014 have not yet yielded a comprehensive peace. Islamist Erdogan has repeatedly sought a major role in negotiating between Kyiv and Moscow,…
A report published on Tuesday by the AidData research lab at William & Mary university in Williamsburg, Virginia, found that the United States is the largest recipient of loans from China. The report, entitled Chasing China: Learning to Play by Beijing’s Global Lending Rules, found that 1,193 Chinese banks, investment companies, and government institutions loaned $2.2 trillion to recipients in 179 countries between 2000 and 2023. AidData researchers drew two surprising conclusions from their research: “China’s overseas lending portfolio is vastly larger than previously understood,” and its loans to the developed world are an order of magnitude larger than widely…
Gracie Hunt, the daughter of Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt, is not very supportive of the NFL’s decision to hire anti-Trump rapper Bad Bunny for next year’s big Super Bowl halftime show. Hunt appeared on Fox News’ The Will Cain Show this week and admitted that she is “most definitely” looking forward to watching the Turning Point USA alternate halftime show next year, the New York Post reports. “I really respect Erika for all that she’s done, especially with creating a halftime show for America. You know, children are young, they’re impressionable. Young women, young men, and everyone, they…
Fabien Mandon has been accused of “warmongering” for promoting the supposed threat from Moscow France’s top general, Fabien Mandon, is facing backlash after saying the country must be ready to “lose children” in a potential conflict with Russia. Moscow has dismissed Western speculation that it has any plans to attack the EU or NATO as “nonsense.”Mandon, who was appointed chief of staff in September, made the remarks at an annual gathering of mayors in Paris this week. He urged officials to prepare citizens “to accept suffering in order to protect who we are.”The general, who previously suggested that France could…
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Instagram, Facebook, and Threads, has started notifying Australian users aged between 13 and 15 that their accounts will be shut down before the country’s upcoming social media ban for teens under the age of 16 takes effect in December. BBC News reports that in a move described by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as “world-leading,” Australia is set to implement a social media ban for users under the age of 16 on December 10. The ban will affect several popular platforms, including Instagram, Facebook, Threads, TikTok, YouTube, X, and Reddit. The aim of the ban,…