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A gunman has opened fire at a secondary school in the city of Kahramanmaras in south-eastern Türkiye, a local governor has said. It is the second such incident in the country in as many days. An attack on an educational institution in Siverek on Tuesday left 17 wounded.The second school shooting, which took place in the Onikisubat District of Kahramanmaras, resulted in four people being killed and 20 others being wounded, Governor Mukerrem Unluer said on Wednesday.The fatalities include a teacher and three students, the governor said. At least four of those injured have been hospitalized in serious condition, he…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio called it a “historic opportunity” as Israel and Lebanon launched what officials described as their first direct talks in more than four decades on Tuesday, with envoys signaling they are “on the same side” against Iran-backed Hezbollah and expressing cautious optimism the effort could lay the groundwork for a durable peace. The roughly two-hour session between Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter and Lebanese Ambassador Nada Hamadeh Moawad marked the highest-level engagement between the two sides in decades — and the first direct talks since 1993 — as U.S. officials facilitated discussions aimed…
Vice President JD Vance is urging young Americans to lobby politicians against visa worker programs, including the H-1B program that helps managers trade Americans’ jobs to kickback-paying foreign graduates. “You have a Senate primary going on right now,” he told students at the University of Georgia on Tuesday: Every single one of you should ask those Senate candidates: What do you think about the H-1B visa? Would you co-sponsor the Vice President’s —and former Senator’s — legislation to eliminate that program because it’s basically just something that big tech companies take advantage of? These are the things that you guys have…
WASHINGTON — The Europeans are formally rooting for President Donald Trump when he travels to Beijing for a state visit in mid-May to discuss relations with China, one of the top officials of the European Union told Breitbart News exclusively. Valdis Dombrovskis, the European Commission’s Commissioner for Economy and Productivity and former Prime Minister of Latvia, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Tuesday near the White House “we share many of the concerns” that the United States has with China when asked if Europe is rooting for Trump when he meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping. “Well, as…
House Transportation Chair Sam Graves (R-Mo.) is targeting April 29 as the markup date for the surface transportation reauthorization bill and is negotiating a topline number between $500 and $550 billion, he told POLITICO Wednesday. While a final topline number has yet to be agreed on, Graves said he has a ballpark figure. “I’m gonna say it’s gonna be somewhere in the neighborhood of $550 billion or $500 billion — somewhere in there. That will be our number. We’re still actually — believe it or not — negotiating that,” Graves said. That $550 billion total number being discussed for what…
US President Donald Trump has said he is “permanently opening” the Strait of Hormuz, claiming he is making the move for China “and the world.” Trump also said Beijing has agreed “not to send weapons to Iran.”Trump initially announced the blockade of the vital waterway on Sunday after Pakistani-mediated talks failed to produce a peace deal with Iran. On Tuesday, US Central Command reported that American warships had effectively blocked all Iranian trade through the strait. On Wednesday, however, Trump stated in a Truth Social post that “China is very happy that I am permanently opening the Strait of Hormuz.” He added that “I…
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Michael Waltz said that Iran has “radical actors…who solely exist to export the revolution.” “But we do think we’re dealing with some rational actors. They have to deal with the clerics, and they have to deal with the ayatollahs.” Co-host John Roberts asked, [relevant exchange begins around 4:30] “One of my favorite songs by the rock band The Who includes the line, ‘Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.’ And it seems like that’s where we are with Ghalibaf and Araghchi. It’s…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s tax cuts in the one Big Beautiful Bill have been a “home run” for working-class Americans, with 53 million using at least one of the president’s new deductions. While responding to a question from Breitbart News during a Tax Day White House press briefing, Bessent noted that waiters, waitresses, and doormen regularly thank him across the nation’s capital because of Trump’s no-tips tax policy. “As you both noted, 53 million Americans have used one of these new tax exemptions the president enacted. Can you speak to not only the relief…
Republicans are going to win a Senate seat in Georgia by “blocking and tackling,” Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Joe Gruters said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily. When asked about the GOP’s prospects in the Peach State, Gruters pointed to his background and said they are “building a massive ground army” to help make a Republican victory reality. “We’re going to win Georgia by blocking and tackling. Number one. You know, my background is, I’ve been a chairman for 23 years, working my way up in the minor leagues of party politics. And I tell people the average…
Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.) is officially GOP conference policy chair. He was elected by voice vote at the candidate policy forum on Wednesday, five members told POLITICO as they were leaving the meeting. His only opponent, Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.), withdrew from race on Tuesday. Obernolte secured endorsements from senior Republicans like Republican Study Committee Chair August Pfluger (R-Texas) and the former policy chair Kevin Hern (R-Okla.). Hern left the position to launch a Senate bid. Read the full article here