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Orban’s defeat will saddle EU taxpayers with over €100 billion in short order – yet this is but the tip of the iceberg. The speechwriter of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen must have fancied himself (genderspeak: themselves) deserving of a handsome bonus when he placed the following words into his principal’s mouth: “Europe’s heart is beating stronger in Hungary tonight.”Yet his euphoria – and the delirious jubilation of the liberal European elite at the defeat of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban by his rival Peter Magyar in the 2026 parliamentary elections – will prove short-lived.If anything, Europe’s “heart”…
During Saturday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Smerconish,” New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman expressed his concerns about a successful military campaign against Iran by the U.S. and Israeli governments. According to Friedman, a victory would confer political benefits on President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “The problem is, I really don’t want to see Bibi Netanyahu or Donald Trump politically strengthened by this war, because they are two awful human beings,” Friedman declared. “They are terrible, terrible people doing terrible things to America, standing in the world, and Israel standing in the world. And so I really find myself torn.…
Monday on CNN’s “News Central,” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) said Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) should resign if the allegations against him were found to be true. Host Kate Bolduan said, “A fellow Democrat, he’s in the House, Eric Swalwell, he’s facing allegations right now of sexual misconduct and assault. Allegations he denies. He just dropped his bid for governor of California overnight over this. He’s now facing calls to resign his House seat. You are a leader in your party, and you’ve seen quite a lot from your colleagues in the many years that you’ve served. Do you think that he…
Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzalez will step down after allegations of misconduct involving staffers Democrat Eric Swalwell and Republican Tony Gonzalez have said they will resign from the US House of Representatives following accusations of sexual misconduct.Swalwell, first elected to Congress in 2013, denied the allegations, claiming they were part of an effort to derail his campaign for governor of his home state of California, where he had been one of the top contenders. He suspended his campaign on Sunday and announced plans to leave Congress the following day.“I am deeply sorry to my family, staff, and constituents for mistakes…
A federal judge dismissed on Monday Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal for an article last summer claiming he sent Jeffrey Epstein a lewd birthday letter in 2003, but the President’s legal team is set to refile it. As Reuters reported, Darrin Gayles, a U.S. district judge for Florida’s Southern District, dismissed the suit, saying it did not rise to “actual malice” standards for public figures alleging defamation: The judge wrote that the Journal’s reporters reached out to Trump for comment beforehand, and printed his denial. That allowed readers to decide for themselves what to conclude, cutting…
The global shock from energy, food, and trade disruption threatens the well-being of people in 162 countries, according to a UN report The US-Israeli war against Iran could push up to 32 million people into poverty worldwide, despite the current tentative ceasefire, as global economic shocks ripple far beyond the conflict zone, according to a new UN report.In a report released on Monday, the UN Development Program said the impact could span 162 countries, with the heaviest burden falling on low-income and import-dependent economies. It also warned of “significant longer-term harm to poorer countries far removed from the fighting.”UN Under-Secretary-General…
ATHENS, Greece — The Strait of Hormuz in the Middle East is hardly the only waterway on President Donald Trump’s mind at the moment. While Trump and the international media may be talking about the Strait of Hormuz nonstop, the broader questions about other sea lanes and shipping waterways have very much dominated the geopolitical discussion worldwide upon Trump’s return to the White House and have been at the center of tensions between the U.S. and China, set for a worldwide primetime showdown when Trump visits Beijing in May. A top Greek government official is dishing on how Trump and…
The husband of a woman who accused Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) of sexual misconduct has given the congressman a warning. Adam Parkhomenko is married to Ally Sammarco, one of the four women who recently accused Swalwell, the New York Post reported Sunday. In a social media post, Parkhomenko said: I wish the best for his family, and I hope he gets the help he needs. But if Eric Swalwell or his attorney makes a single statement that disparages my wife, I will be filing a lawsuit against him. I’ve already made clear that if he believes anything I’ve said is…
The defeat of Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party in Hungary’s parliamentary election shouldn’t be seen as a shock. Opinion polls had long pointed in this direction. Nor should the outcome be divorced from a simple political reality: sixteen consecutive years in power, twenty in total, is an exceptionally long tenure by the standards of Central and Eastern Europe. Fatigue with familiar faces is inevitable, and psychologically understandable.Yet the result contains a paradox. Orban’s defeat appears, in some ways, to confirm the very trend he has come to embody: the primacy of the national agenda, “my country first.” In recent…
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Vice President JD Vance said that there is “no flexibility” on the need to remove Iran’s enriched uranium, and “That doesn’t matter, of course, because they have access to that material now. That material was actually buried underground by Operation Midnight Hammer. But if you think about this over the long haul, the president doesn’t want to leave the next president or the president after that to be worrying about this program, and so, we would like to get that material out of the country completely so that the United…