Author: Press Room

“I had received some questions about President Donald J. Trump’s recent posts, and here are my thoughts,” he began. “I do not believe President Trump would knowingly depict himself as Jesus Christ — that would certainly be inappropriate. I’m thankful the President has made it very clear that this was not at all what he thought the AI-generated image was representing — he thought it was a doctor helping someone, and when he learned of the concerns, he immediately removed the post,” Graham said, explaining that he did not jump to the same conclusions as others when he saw the…

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that GOP leaders want to make sure Republicans in both chambers are aligned as they move ahead with a party-line plan for immigration enforcement funding. The South Dakota Republican told reporters he hopes the Senate will adopt a budget framework “by middle-to-the-end of next week,” the first step to unlocking the filibuster-skirting power to clear a package of up to $75 billion for ICE and Border Patrol. Then ideally the House would adopt the Senate budget measure without changes, Thune said, allowing Republicans to move on to passage votes on a final bill…

Brussels fears Spain’s mass amnesty for illegal migrants may prompt an E.U. member state to shutter its borders, European Commissioner for Asylum and Migration Magnus Brunner declared Wednesday. Brunner delivered the his remarks at “Wake Up, Spain! Wake Up, Europe! ‘Growth, Cohesion, and Uncertainty,’” an ongoing symposium hosted by the digital newspaper El Español and others in Madrid between April 13 – 17. The commissioner addressed the fragility of the Schengen free movement zone and pointed out that ineffective management of irregular migration erodes trust among Member States, which could trigger the reintroduction of internal border controls and “jeopardize the very essence of European freedom…

A Texas college student accused of attacking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home and the company’s headquarters had previously discussed “Luigi’ing some tech CEOs” in online conversations, according to newly revealed messages. The Wall Street Journal reports that Daniel Moreno-Gama, a 20-year-old college student from the Houston area, made casual references to Luigi Mangione, the accused UnitedHealthcare CEO killer, during an online conversation with producers of The Last Invention podcast, according to screenshots shared with the Wall Street Journal. The producers had reached out to interview him for a series focused on AI. In January, Moreno-Gama participated in the podcast interview, describing…

A bill that would direct the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ensure that companies that produce drugs for Americans do not have ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been introduced by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR). Cotton made the case for such a bill at a March Breitbart News policy event in Washington, DC, telling Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle China has used “illegitimate means” to corner the U.S. pharmaceutical market.  “Many of our — not super high-end, cutting-edge drugs, but just very basic medicines like ibuprofen and acetaminophen, penicillin,…

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sounded less enthusiastic about cutting his department’s budget during the first of several hearings Thursday than he did a year ago. Then, Kennedy told lawmakers a proposed 25 percent cut to the Department of Health and Human Services was needed to rein in a bloated bureaucracy plagued with reckless spending, telling House appropriators a year ago: “We intend to do more, a lot more with less.” Congress rejected the cuts and increased the HHS budget in a February spending bill. In front of the Ways and Means Committee on Thursday, Kennedy struck a different…

US-Israel strikes and Tehran’s retaliation are pushing oil and gas facility damage costs toward $50 billion, Rystad Energy projects The US-Israel war on Iran could push regional repair costs in the Middle East to as much as $58 billion, with oil and gas facilities alone accounting for up to $50 billion, according to an analysis released by energy research firm Rystad.However, the report stresses that the main constraint is not funding but limited global capacity to supply key equipment and engineering services, which could delay repairs for years.Rystad’s estimate marks a sharp increase from the initial $25 billion projection the…

The long-forecasted crisis has been worsened by a recent lawsuit from Donald Trump claiming editorial bias in the organisation British state broadcaster the BBC is set to cut between 1,800 and 2,000 jobs – about 10% of its 21,500 workforce. Interim Director General Rhodri Talfan Davies informed employees of the planned downsizing on Wednesday, citing “significant financial pressures… production inflation remains very high; our licence fee and commercial income is under pressure; and the global economy remains turbulent.”A staffer reportedly told the Independent that the announcement was like “Hunger Games” where employees will have to compete with each other to keep their jobs.The…

European Union globalists were quick to seize on the defeat of Viktor Orbán in Hungary to further undermine principles of national sovereignty and further empower Brussels. In the aftermath of pro-EU Péter Magyar handily beating populist stalwart Orbán in Hungary’s elections on Sunday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen revealed that she intends to take advantage of the moment to push for the elimination of member states’ ability to veto the bloc’s foreign policy decisions. “Moving to qualified majority voting in foreign policy is an important way to avoid systemic blockages, as we have seen in the past,” the…

A sheriff in Wisconsin is taking legal action against a U.S. citizen who is accused of lying about being in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention for 40 hours. Following a lengthy investigation, Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt said officials were suing Sundas Naqvi of Skokie, Illinois, who claimed she was held by federal authorities in Illinois and Wisconsin, Fox News reported Wednesday. In a social media post on Friday, the sheriff’s office said it was refuting the false detention claims and presented a timeline and evidence. “After a thorough review of all available records, evidence, and timelines, the…