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During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Katie Pavlich Tonight,” Border Czar Tom Homan responded to arguments that sanctuary city policies are needed so crime victims and witnesses can come forward by saying, “That is a bunch of crap. Because we don’t want to talk to the victim and witness.” While discussing Chicago, Homan said, “[H]e calls it a welcoming ordinance, no, it’s a sanctuary ordinance. It’s a sanctuary for criminals. Sanctuary city policies are a sanctuary for criminals, and the worst of the worst are going to go to these cities because they’re going to be protected.”…

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday that his panel is moving “expeditiously” to unlock Senate Republicans’ ability to fund defense and homeland security priorities without Democrats’ help. “The purpose of the second reconciliation bill is to make sure there is adequate funding to secure our homeland and to support our men and women in the military who are fighting so bravely,” Graham said in a statement. “More funding will mean they can complete the task assigned and keep America safe – which is money well spent.” Graham added that a second reconciliation bill could also be used to “improve voter integrity,”…

Dhaka has cited volatility in the global market linked to the US-Israel war on Iran as the trigger for the move Bangladesh has enacted an 80% hike in jet fuel prices, the second upward revision in March, the national regulator announced on Tuesday.The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) cited volatility in global prices amid the Middle East conflict as the reason for the move.“We had to adjust the jet fuel price for the second time this month, considering the international fuel price rate which has shot up,” BERC Chairman Jalal Ahmed was quoted by AFP as saying.Jet fuel has been…

A New Mexico jury has ruled that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta must pay $375 million in civil damages after finding the social media giant violated state law by failing to protect children from predators on its platforms. CNBC reports that the verdict delivered on Tuesday marks a significant legal defeat for Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, following a civil trial in Santa Fe that began with opening arguments last month. The jury deliberated starting Monday before reaching their decision that Meta willfully violated New Mexico’s unfair practices act. The case was brought by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl…

A video showing seven dogs making their way home after escaping from thieves in northeastern China has accumulated over 230 million views, with many fans expressing admiration for the loyalty and courage displayed by the canines. The viral video was reportedly recorded on March 16 by a local man named Lu who saw the group of dogs making their way along a highway near the town of Changchun in Jilin province. The procession was led by a plucky Corgi who constantly looked back to ensure the rest of the group stayed together. The other dogs clustered protectively around an injured…

Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban terrorist government is struggling with an influx of returning Afghan refugees fleeing the ongoing war in Iran and detentions in critical agricultural and raw material shipments in the Strait of Hormuz, reports this week indicate. Afghanistan shares an extensive border with Iran. While both countries’ ruling governments are authoritarian, terrorist Islamist entities, Kabul and Tehran have struggled to get along since the return of the Taliban to power in 2021, in large part due to significant water shortages along their border. Both countries have regularly accused each other of hoarding water supplies during the dry winter months.…

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “The Brief,” Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) argued that “in areas where our interests are questionable” like Iran, President Donald Trump is getting more invested but in areas like Ukraine where we can “push back against one of our biggest adversaries, in this case, Russia, he’s pulling back.” Crow said, “In the areas where we should be supporting our friends and our partners, which would actually promote world peace and security, promote [the] American economy, peace in Europe, which is always in our interests, and push back against one of our biggest adversaries, in this…

Lawmakers are introducing bipartisan legislation to prohibit members of Congress, the president and others in the executive branch from trading in certain prediction markets, according to bill text shared exclusively with POLITICO. Reps. Nikki Budzinski (D-Ill.) and Adrian Smith (R-Neb.) will introduce the Preventing Real-time Exploitation and Deceptive Insider Congressional Trading Act, or PREDICT Act, Tuesday to ban members of Congress from participating in prediction markets related to political events or policy decisions. The ban would also extend to dependents and spouses of lawmakers, senior congressional staff, political appointees, the president, vice president and all senior executive branch employees, including…

Girlguiding will require non-biological women to leave by September 2026 under new rules following a court ruling Transgender members in one of Britain’s largest organizations for women and girls, Girlguiding, have been told they must leave by September 2026 under new rules introduced after a Supreme Court ruling on biological sex.  Girlguiding, Britain’s equivalent of the Girl Scouts, said on Tuesday that current trans members will no longer be eligible to stay after September 6. The move follows a December announcement that Girlguiding would no longer admit biological boys who identify as girls.  The rule applies to both young members…

The Madrid-based outlet Diario de Cuba published harrowing testimonies Monday from residents of Havana denouncing arrests and beatings by communist thugs intended to keep them from protesting during the routine nighttime blackouts in the country. Cuba’s decades-old inhumane situation has worsened in the past months after the Castro regime, which has brutally repressed Cubans for over 67 years, found itself abruptly deprived of access to Venezuelan oil following the United States’s arrest of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro in Caracas. For over two decades, the rogue communists relied on virtually free shipments of Venezuelan oil to keep their ailing regime afloat while helping…