Author: Press Room
British-born actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who starred as “Plumette” in Disney’s 2017 Beauty and the Beast, is calling for reparations for blacks. The Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) awardee appeared on a press tour for the British TV series Possession in which she stars as “Claudia” and for which she is an executive producer, when she veered off into the topic. “There is a huge healing process to go on in the world on, on many levels. And you know, reparations is part of that, but I think that you have to approach the subject on a on a…
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat Senate candidate who won his primary in Michigan, is an “extremist” who wants to empty prisons and embrace the Muslim Brotherhood, Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers said in a statement on Wednesday, the day after the primary. Rogers said in a statement that the choice is between “common sense or complete insanity,” explaining that Democrats have run the state of Michigan “into the ground” over the last two decades plus. “They’ve dropped our schools to 45th in the nation. They’ve saddled families with the highest utility rates in the Midwest. Working people are paying more,…
Rep. John James has won the Republican nomination in the Michigan governor’s race over businessman Perry Johnson. James handily won the race with 49.7 percent of the vote over Johnson’s 35.2 percent by the time analysts declared him the victor. The Army veteran James lost two Senate races in Michigan before securing a U.S. House seat in 2022, which he won again in 2024. “This is an amazing state with all the great ingredients, but for the past seven-and-a-half years, under Gretchen Whitmer, we’ve been led to higher taxes, more crime on the roads — and frankly, the roads we…
President Donald Trump and top White House officials are privately lobbying Republican senators to delay a ban on intoxicating hemp that’s set to kick in this fall. At the Trump administration’s urging, the government funding patch the Senate is working to pass this week would push off the forthcoming ban of some cannabis products derived from hemp. But several Republican senators are demanding a vote to strip the delay out and let that prohibition kick in come November. They’re hearing from the White House about it. Trump called Sen. Ted Budd on Tuesday night, after the North Carolina Republican filed…
American troops – often presented as “English teachers” – are helping to boost the island’s army amid tensions with Beijing, Defense Minister Wellington Koo has revealed The US and Taiwanese militaries are engaged in active but secretive on-site collaboration, according to Taipei’s defense minister, Wellington Koo. The message comes after US President Donald Trump put a hold on arms sales to the self-governed island, which has sparked alarm among pro-US countries in the region.Speaking to a narrow circle of reporters on Friday, Koo stressed, as cited by the Wall Street Journal, that Taiwan’s collaboration with the US “is far closer…
Abdul El-Sayed Michigan’s Democratic Senate Nominee, Socialist Abdul El-Sayed, is going viral over comments he made in a recent interview where he accidentally revealed a possible porn-watching habit. The interview, recorded in June, was aired on The Lever’s YouTube page last Friday, just days before Tuesday’s primary election. While discussing the dangers of social media marketing porn to children, El-Sayed admitted that his Instagram for you page keeps populating with OnlyFans models. OnlyFans is a subscription-based content website where creators charge monthly fees for users to access sexually explicit content. “You think about, if you’re on Instagram, like my team…
German security services are urgently investigating a series of apparently related incidents at Leipzig airport, including an armed explosive drone and a potential second drone striking a cargo jet mid-air, with Russia considered a potential suspect. Leipzig-Halle Airport was closed to air traffic, and incoming flights were diverted overnight into Wednesday after what transpired to be a military-grade explosives-armed drone was found by chance and brought down by hand by a have-a-go hero. The potential for the airport having narrowly avoided a potential multi-vector attack became clear as the drone was found flying low on the airport grounds, a second…
President Donald Trump’s deputies have tripled the monthly number of judicial deportation orders, enabling officials to exceed their recent deportation records during the next few months. “They are plowing through these cases like a freaking snowplow in Utah snow,” said Andrew Arthur, a former immigration-court judge who now works with the Center for Immigration Studies. “They’ve dropped the backlog from nearly 4 million down to less than 3.5 million,” he added. The Justice Department’s immigration-court judges ordered the removal — or deportation — of 79,000 migrants in June, up from roughly 25,000 in December 2024 when President Joe Biden’s deputies were…
Former FBI special agent Mike Rogers has secured the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan after running unopposed in the primary. Rogers secured the election quickly after the polls closed in Michigan on Tuesday due to his having no challenger in what will likely become one of the most competitive U.S. Senate races in the upcoming midterms, per Washington Examiner: The seat is open after Democratic Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) announced he would not seek a third term, creating one of the GOP’s best pickup opportunities as the party looks to expand its Senate majority. Rogers is making his second straight…
The Senate voted to confirm President Donald Trump’s nominee, Erica Schwartz, to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday, ending a nearly yearlong period without a Senate-confirmed director leading the agency. Schwartz was confirmed in a 51-44 vote, with Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) joining Republicans in support. All other Democrats opposed the nomination. Despite a contentious confirmation hearing last month during which Schwartz dodged questions about whether she would stand up to political pressure from her prospective boss, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Schwartz is widely considered a qualified and traditional selection for the role. Kaine…