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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky once again sounds the warning of a Russian invasion of Europe beyond his own borders as NATO nations meet in The Hague for a major summit on the future of the alliance. The NATO Defence Industry Forum was addressed by President Zelensky on Tuesday afternoon, the Ukrainian leader claiming “Russia is even planning new military operations on NATO territory, meaning your countries” and that “his objectives reach beyond Ukraine”. The claims build on earlier statements by Zelensky, including one before he left Kyiv where he related his director of military intelligence had said he had evidence of a…

President Donald Trump’s first term was marked by a contentious and ultimately wildly successful campaign to overhaul the federal judiciary — one that dominated the Senate floor calendar for nearly four years straight and occasionally exploded in partisan fury. Now, with Trump dealing with unpredictable foreign crises and a sprawling domestic policy megabill, judge nominations have been almost an afterthought in the White House and on Capitol Hill. That changed Wednesday, when Emil Bove — Trump’s former personal lawyer, now a top Justice Department official — appeared for the Senate Judiciary Committee for a fiery hearing on his nomination to…

The main danger for the bloc is losing economic competitiveness, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has warned Russia does not pose a primary threat to the EU, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has stated, warning that the bloc’s shrinking role in the global economy is its main concern.Speaking to reporters ahead of the NATO summit in The Hague on Wednesday, Orban remarked that “the real threat is not security wise.”When asked a follow-up question whether he considers Russia a threat to NATO, Orban responded: “I don’t think that Russia is strong enough to pose a real threat to us. We…

Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver was arraigned on Wednesday and pleaded not guilty. Earlier this month a federal grand jury returned a 3-count indictment charging Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver with forcibly impeding and interfering with federal law enforcement officers at the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark last month. McIver is facing a maximum of 17 years in prison for all three counts. The New Jersey Democrat remained defiant after her arraignment and told reporters, “They will not intimidate me.” CBS News reported: New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver pleaded not guilty Wednesday on charges of assaulting, impeding and interfering with law…

Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images I’m dedicating the newsletter this week to one of the best stories I’ve read in a long time. Check out the Washington Post investigations team’s deep dive on “The Great Egg Heist”—or what happened when 280,000 brown eggs from America’s top producer Cal-Maine were stolen off a freight truck. A ransom note followed. I won’t spoil this twisting tale for you, but I’ll point out that the story also explains how Cal-Maine became a target while profiting from the sudden spike in the price of eggs that turned the refrigerator staple into one of the…

CW’s Supergirl star Jon Cryer reacted to the United States bombing Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend, bizarrely declaring that Iran is “likely to see a bomb as their only route to real safety.” “Trump has given Iran every reason to build a nuclear bomb. He broke the deal, so they have no reason to trust diplomacy. And then he bombed them,” Cryer wrote in a Wednesday post on Bluesky, the social media platform currently serving as a leftist echo chamber. “They are likely to see a bomb as their only route to real safety,” the Two and a Half Men…

There is certainly a push to make the big, beautiful bill better in the Senate, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily. When asked by host Mike Slater if the bill is Paul-approved yet, the senator said “there’s a push to make it better, to add more cuts to it.” “But then there’s a tug from the other side to say, ‘Well, let’s not cut anything,’” he said, explaining that they have taken “most of the entitlements off the table, Social Security, Medicare and most of Medicaid is taken off the table.” “There are some…

Prime Minister François Bayrou’s government is facing the prospect of being toppled like its predecessor, with the Socialist Party vowing to launch a motion of no confidence after negotiations broke down over President Macron’s controversial pension reforms. Paris looks set to be embroiled in political chaos once again after a brief reprieve since the start of the year, as the consequences of Macron’s cynical political manoeuvres come to the fore. Three governments prior, in March 2023, then-Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne invoked Article 49.3 of the French Constitution to steamroll President Macron’s contentious plan to raise the retirement age from 62…

Sen. Thom Tillis warned his colleagues during a closed-door meeting Wednesday that he would not vote to take up the party’s sweeping domestic policy bill without further clarity on Medicaid changes, a person granted anonymity to disclose private discussions said. “He said he wouldn’t vote for a motion to proceed until he got some clarity on what’s going to happen with the provider tax,” the person said, referring to a funding mechanism Senate GOP leaders are hoping to curtail. Tillis has been trying to get details on how the Senate language will impact North Carolina, the person added. Tillis wasn’t…

The EU has become a militarized Russophobic organization, the former Russian president has said The European Union has emerged as a hostile force to Moscow, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has claimed, accusing the bloc of arming the “neo-Nazi Kiev regime” to attack Russia.In a Telegram post on Wednesday, Medvedev stated that the old EU as an economic union has “essentially ceased to exist,” and in its current “perverted form is no less of a threat” to Russia than NATO.“Brussels today is Russia’s true enemy,” he wrote. “Slowly but surely, the EU is transforming into a self-sustaining military bloc that…