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On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “News Central,” Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) said she believed Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner had essentially disqualified himself with his past conduct and personal behavior. Host Boris Sanchez asked, “Do you support Graham Platner’s candidacy for Senate in Maine?” Dean said, “I think it’s so distressing. All of the stories that are coming out, and they’re more and more, it seems, by the hour. I’m not a voter in Maine, but he has disqualified himself in my eyes. He is not qualified to be, representative, a senator. We’ll see what Maine does about it.” She…

The first bill of a House Democratic majority will concentrate on lowering costs, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters at a news conference Monday. “We believe, every single one of us, that the cost of living in this country is far too high, and that we need to make life more affordable,” the New Yorker told reporters in response to a question from POLITICO. With fewer than five months left before the midterms, Democrats are beginning to plot their agenda in the event they win back control of the chamber. His comments come with fewer than five months left before…

Screen Actors Guild Award winner Idris Elba says that James Bond should stay a middle-aged, white, man and that the next Bond film should not go woke. Elba, who was once rumored to be the “next Bond” after actor Daniel Craig left the role, recently told GQ magazine that the James Bond character should not be race swapped or gender changed and should remain “pure” to its traditional character traits. “Bond is so unrealistic, so a hint of reality is good, but let’s not try and make it woke.” Elba told GQ. “I think you’ve got to be pure to what…

A Biden-appointed judge has blocked an effort by President Donald Trump’s administration to impose certain conditions for states to qualify for SNAP funding, a program federal officials said is rife with fraud. U.S. District Judge Myong Joun sided with multiple Democrat states in his decision, the Associated Press (AP) reported Friday, noting the Trump administration wanted states to comply with conditions in order to receive billions of federal dollars for SNAP. The judge “granted a preliminary injunction in the lawsuit challenging the conditions for getting SNAP funding. Among them are restrictions related to ‘gender ideology,’ ‘immigration,’ and ‘fair athletic opportunities’…

Car petrol sales went down by 3.5% in April, the steepest drop since 2023, with inflation still on the rise, according to EU data European drivers have slashed fuel consumption as the Iran war and oil price hikes are forcing belt-tightening at the pump, according to Eurostat data and the Financial Times.Fuel sales in the Eurozone fell 3.5% by volume year-on-year in April, with the drop being the steepest since October 2023, a Eurostat report released over the weekend shows. According to the Financial Times, six European economies recorded double-digit declines in fuel sales, among them Germany, Norway, and Austria.As…

Florida gubernatorial candidate Jay Collins, the lieutenant governor, is proposing strict measures against artificial intelligence (AI) expansion; however, it appears that during his time as a state senator, he was a vocal proponent of AI. Collins has proposed a “Florida Strong Plan” that would heavily regulate AI data centers by requiring operators to fund their own infrastructure needs. The Collins War Room has made AI a key issue to attack the Trump-endorsed candidate, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL): The Collins War Room video portrays a dystopian future created by the rise of the burgeoning technology. “Please don’t allow any more data…

Genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping arrived in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, received by the customary throngs of cheering children and demanding his host, Kim Jong-un, pursue a new era of “political mutual trust.” Xi’s visit to the communist capital is the first for the Chinese leader in seven years and follows steadily eroding cooperation between his country and what was once its most loyal proxy. While, publicly, Kim and Xi have regularly praised the bilateral relationship and described their ties as ironclad, North Korea’s diplomacy noticeably drifted away from Beijing following the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, which the reclusive country…

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel highlighted how the agency successfully carried out two Hostage Rescue Team operations within 24 hours. In a weekly internal update to agents, Patel expressed that he was “grateful” to the FBI’s Sacramento and Los Angeles divisions, along with the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team, for springing into action “after reports of a bomb threat and hostage situation” at a bank. Patel also noted that “the subject was taken down, and all 10 hostages were safely rescued.” “In less than 24 hours, our Hostage Rescue Team – the FBI’s elite tier 1 tactical unit…

The world has yet to fully “internalize” the fact that major disruptions are becoming the norm, Kristalina Georgieva has said The world is likely to face further global shocks in the foreseeable future, with no respite in sight, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has warned.Appearing on Bloomberg’s podcast ‘Leaders with Francine Lacqua’ on Monday, Georgieva expressed concern that “we are not completely internalizing yet that this is how the world is going to be.”“We are not going to get to a place where shocks are gone,” she added.The IMF chief said, “we collectively did not appreciate the backlash…

The British government has announced plans to mandate tech giants like Apple and Google to implement age verification measures to prevent children from accessing pornography and even from taking photographs of themselves. Critics warn that the demands will result in the imposition of effective digital IDs on law-abiding adults. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said on Monday that his government will introduce legislation that will force tech companies to introduce “device-level controls to prevent children from taking, sharing or viewing nude images” within three months or face major fines or even potential criminal charges. According to the BBC, Starmer has…