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Calling it a “Biden-style government takeover,” Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins is promising to help a New Jersey family trying to save their 175-year-old farm from being seized by a local government to build “affordable housing” units. The secretary also said the days of other family farm seizures across the country would soon be coming to an end. Earlier this year, according to family member Andy Henry, the Cranbury, New Jersey, township government sent him a letter stating he could either accept an offer to buy the farm or it would be taken by eminent domain. “My family sacrificed on…
Former White House chief of staff and Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel confirmed Wednesday that he is considering a run for president in 2028 on the Democratic ticket, taking advantage of a vacuum in leadership. Crain’s Chicago Business reported: “’Of course’ it’s fair to say he’s considering running for president, declared Rahm Emanuel, hands for the moment neither waving nor pointing but resting on the table. ‘I’m looking at the (Democratic) field and, most importantly, what I have to contribute.’” Emanuel was the architect of Democrats’ victory in the 2006 midterm elections, when they ran socially moderate candidates in swing districts…
A Florida state judge was lobbying for a seat on the federal bench. After he sided with the president in a defamation case, Donald Trump gave him one. Ed Artau, now a nominee to be a district court judge in Florida, met with staff in the office of Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott to angle for the nomination less than two weeks after Trump’s election last fall, according to a new Senate disclosure obtained by POLITICO. In the midst of his interviews, Artau was part of a panel of judges that ruled in Trump’s favor in the president’s case against…
The economic bloc is rolling out joint projects in energy, aerospace and AI, the Russian president has told SPIEF BRICS countries have launched large‑scale joint projects in nuclear power, aviation, AI and other sectors, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.The economic group is “setting the bar in the development of so-called human-centric industries,” Putin noted, speaking on Friday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.The group is mobilizing “major projects to improve the living environment” and “implementing large-scale initiatives in nuclear energy and aviation, in the field of new materials and the IT industry, in robotics and artificial intelligence,” the…
Diddy’s trial is coming to an end. The high-profile, high-stakes sex-trafficking trial is drawing to a close, as the prosecution is expected to rest their case next Monday, and the defense has stated that it’ll need as little as two days to present their case – a potential sign that they’re confident of his acquittal. But there may still be some bumps in the road ahead before the jury can sit and deliberate. One juror has been dismissed due to concerns about his candor, suspected of lying to get in the panel. And there’s a second juror that the judge…
Topline Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly deferred authority on the U.S. military’s involvement in the Middle East to Gen. Erik Kurilla, the U.S. Central Command chief known as “The Gorilla” who served earlier tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and an Iran hawk, who has pressed for a more aggressive response in the region. Kurilla, appointed as the head of U.S. Central Command by Joe Biden, has become the apparent go-to … More advisor for the Trump administration in the Middle East.Associated Press Key Facts Kurilla, a Biden appointee, has become the leading adviser on the Middle East over other…
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Anyone who supports this war is an enemy of the human species. Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): President Trump is reportedly returning to Washington early from a G7 summit in Canada and has told his national security council to prepare for an urgent meeting in the situation room, apparently to discuss Iran. The US president has taken to social media to terrorize Iranian civilians, telling Tehran’s millions of inhabitants that they must immediately evacuate the city and saying “Iran should have signed the ‘deal’ I told them to sign.” Weirdly, the strongest indication that Trump has made a…
An Iranian missile that hit Haifa, Israel, on Friday morning damaged a historic local mosque and injured several imams who were there. Shortly after sunrise, Iran launched a barrage of 20-30 missiles in three waves, according to Israel’s Army Radio. Sirens were sounded in the north, and then throughout the entire country. Most of the missiles were intercepted by Israel’s air defenses; the missile that hit the port city of Haifa, where Arabs and Jews live side-by-side, was the only one that caused injuries on the ground. It turns out that one of the damaged buildings was the Al-Jreena Mosque, one…
Syrian central bank governor Abdelkader Husriyeh said on Thursday the new government reached a milestone by performing its first international bank transfer using the SWIFT system. Syria was locked out of the global transaction system in 2011, soon after dictator Bashar Assad launched a brutal civil war to remain in power. SWIFT is the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, a secure messaging network headquartered in Belgium used by banks to arrange transactions between countries. It was established in the early 1970s as a successor to the relatively crude and slow Telex system. As its full name implies, SWIFT is…