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President Donald Trump met with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday — a rare one-on-one meeting between the two native New Yorkers. The two have shadow-boxed repeatedly over the past year, including on a failed nominations deal and a historic government shutdown, but have had virtually no personal interaction. Trump, according to a statement from Schumer’s office, called the meeting to talk about the Gateway tunnel project, which the administration said late last year would not be funded because of the shutdown. But the Senate leader also used the sit-down to raise two unrelated issues — health care and…
The French president is moving troops there, but would he dare use them against the US? French land, sea, and air forces are heading for Greenland to rebuff threats of annexation by the US. Emmanuel Macron has vowed to ‘stand alongside’ the Danish dependency, but that promise could end in humiliation for the French president. What did Macron say?In an address to the country’s armed forces on Thursday, Macron said that “a first team of French military personnel is already on site” in Greenland, “and will be reinforced in the coming days by land, air and maritime assets.” These reinforcements will…
New powers making it easier to mobilise tens of thousands of former UK armed forces personnel to prepare for war are expected to be announced soon by the Starmer government, reports indicate. The latest move from the Ministry of Defence means ex-service personnel in the strategic reserve can be called into action until they’re 65, rather than 55 as is currently the case. They will also face a lower threshold for being mobilised. Metro reports while the strategic reserve would only be used in moments of “national danger, great emergency or attack in the UK” under current guidelines, this will…
Minnesota residents of Somali descent and Hispanic heritage are suing President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to effectively shut down federal immigration enforcement across the state. On Thursday, the left-wing American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), representing Somali immigrant Mubashir Khalif Hussen, Mahamed Eydarus, who is American and of Somali descent, and Javier Doe, a Hispanic American, filed suit against DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and ICE Director Todd Lyons, among other agency officials. The lawsuit is asking a federal court to issue a statewide injunction to stop what it calls “unlawful policies and practices” being…
The Senate cleared a three-bill spending package Thursday for President Donald Trump’s signature, completing a fraction of government funding measures necessary to avert another shutdown ahead of the month-end deadline. Lawmakers voted 82-15 to approve legislation funding the departments of Justice, Interior, Commerce and Energy, as well as the EPA, water programs and federal science initiatives through the end of the current fiscal year. Another spending package, funding the departments of Treasury and State, will be waiting for senators when they return from their recess next week. The House passed that measure Wednesday. Together, they represent significant progress after last…
British officials have claimed the country could be dragged into a full-scale conflict with Moscow The UK government is preparing to expand the call-up age for reservists to ready the army for a potential war with Russia, The Telegraph reported on Thursday, citing sources.According to the newspaper, the plan would raise the maximum age at which retired soldiers can be recalled from 55 to 65. Veterans would form part of a strategic reserve that could be mobilized to support regular forces.The proposed reform would also change the conditions under which retired personnel can be summoned back to service. Current rules…
European nations are piling troops into Greenland to prove it can be defended against the interest of Russia and China, with a last-minute exercise this week attracting one officer from the United Kingdom and two from Norway. The British government shares U.S. President Donald Trump’s concerns about the threat to Greenland from Russia and China so is backing NATO’s move to enhance security of the world’s largest island by deploying a single military officer this week. Speaking on Wednesday evening, the UK government’s minister of defence John Healey said the Danes have launched a reconnaissance group to prepare for future deployments.…
General Motors (GM) recalled more than 80,000 vehicles due to a defective pedestrian alert sound system, federal regulators said Thursday. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said that some 2025 to 2026 Chevrolet Equinox EV vehicles have failed federal safety standards. GM discovered that the pedestrian alert sound system in these vehicles may have an incorrect software calibration, which means they would not be able to “produce exterior sound at the required relative volume when the vehicle is traveling from stationary to 6.2 miles per hours.” Fox Business wrote: A GM engineer submitted a report to the automaker’s Speak…
There are more than 32 million guns which Democrats label “assault weapons” in Americans’ hands, according to data released Thursday by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF). The firearms in view include AR-15s, AK-47s, and similarly, wildly popular guns. The NSSF refers to such firearms as “Modern Sporting Rifles.” According to the NSSF data, “Data indicates that 32,091,000 Modern Sporting Rifles are in circulation since 1990.” The 32,091,000 million guns which Democrats would label “assault weapons” represent nearly 2,000,000 more such guns than were owned in 2025. In a separate article, Breitbart News pointed to more data released by NSSF, showing the…
Former Rep. Billy Long has reportedly apologized after privately joking to House lawmakers that Iceland would be the “52nd state” and he would be its governor. Long was recently nominated to be ambassador to the island nation by President Donald Trump, who has said he wanted to make Canada the 51st state and is now seeking to take over another Arctic realm, Greenland. “There was nothing serious about that, I was with some people, who I hadn’t met for three years, and they were kidding about Jeff Landry being governor of Greenland and they started joking about me and if…