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The BBC and CNN have rejected an invitation to visit the site of the deadly Ukrainian drone attack on a Russian college dorm Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has urged the participants of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) to begin every conversation with Western journalists with the word “Starobelsk.” Starobelsk is a town in Russia’s Lugansk People’s Republic where 21 people, mostly teenage girls, were killed and dozens more injured in a multi-wave Ukrainian drone attack on a college dorm on May 22.Western politicians turned a blind eye to the atrocity, while the BBC and CNN rejected an…

New factory orders data released Wednesday by the Census Bureau show the enormous scale of America’s AI infrastructure buildout, with manufacturing orders for computers, networking equipment, power generation, and cooling systems all surging at double-digit rates compared to a year ago. The Census Bureau’s report on manufacturing orders for April showed headline factory orders up 4.8 percent from March — a figure dominated by a one-month surge in commercial aircraft orders. But running beneath the headline number, the year-over-year trend data reveal a coherent, sustained explosion in demand for precisely the goods needed to build, power, and cool AI data…

Three Royal Navy aviators were killed in a helicopter crash in rural Devon on Wednesday morning, the latest fatal accident for the British Armed Forces in recent weeks. A Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Merlin Mk-IV helicopter crashed in a field on the edge of Dartmoor, Devon, early on Wednesday morning. Images from the scene on Sourton Down near Ocehampton show the remains of the airframe spread over a small area but that much appeared to have been destroyed by fire. On Wednesday afternoon, the Ministry of Defence confirmed that three people had been killed in the crash, which took…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is reportedly breaking with Wall Street convention by establishing a fixed IPO price of $135 per share before its investor roadshow, aiming to raise a record $75 billion on a valuation of $1.75 trillion. Financial services firm Morningstar believes Musk’s company is only worth about half that amount. Reuters reports that Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to sell 555.6 million shares for $135 each targeting a valuation of $1.75 trillion, making it one of the most ambitious public offerings in market history. The company’s roadshow is scheduled to begin Thursday and is expected to generate significant investor interest.…

At least ten Commonwealth’s Attorneys have made clear that they will not enforce the “assault weapons” ban scheduled to take effect in Virginia on July 1, 2026. On May 27, 2026, Breitbart News pointed to a WAVY 10 report showing that three Commonwealth’s Attorneys had made clear they would not be enforcing the ban. Over the weekend, Virginia state Sen. Saddam Azlan Salim (D), the “assault weapons” ban sponsor, told the prosecutors to quit “tough guy posturing.” Salim used an X post to address prosecutors who are standing against his ban, saying, “I know these Republican prosecutors see this as an…

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said most Republican senators “feel pretty satisfied” with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s comments renouncing the Justice Department’s planned “Anti-Weaponization Fund” and that he’s “hopeful” that will allow the Senate to start voting on the GOP’s stalled immigration enforcement bill Wednesday. Thune, however, did not explicitly say that he has secured the votes to defeat amendments related to the fund, which critics fear could be used to reward political allies of President Donald Trump. Two GOP aides, granted anonymity to discuss private conversations about the bill, cautioned that multiple Republican senators are still likely to…

The lifting of reporting restrictions has made public for the first time that 15 members of a grooming gang have been jailed for the rape and sexual abuse of a young girl in Bradford, England, between 2007 and 2011. The West Yorkshire Police disclosed on Wednesday that the 15 men had been sentenced to a combined 188 years in prison over their sexual exploitation of one Bradford girl from when she was 14 to 18 years old. The police force said that the victim had been approached by officers in 2015 after being identified as a possible former victim of…

Comedian and HBO late-night host Bill Maher shared that he felt that reality star and Republican candidate for Los Angeles mayor Spencer Pratt was “authentic,” stating that he had him “at hello.” During an episode of Maher’s podcast, Club Random, Pratt explained that he “never planned” to run for mayor of LA, adding that he “ran to have a bigger platform to expose all the negligence” under current LA Mayor Karen Bass (D) and Democrats such as Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA). Pratt added that the Democrats “failed” him. When asked if he was “strong enough to buck the unions,” Pratt…

Marla-Svenja Liebich was previously convicted of multiple offenses, prompting a debate about professed gender and prison choice A Czech regional court has ordered a transgender neo-Nazi fugitive convicted of multiple offenses to be deported back to Germany, according to Reuters and Agence France-Presse (AFP).Marla-Svenja Liebich, formerly known as Sven Liebich, had previously sparked an uproar over prison placement in Germany after undergoing a legal gender change. Liebich was sentenced to 18 months in prison on multiple counts in 2023, including incitement to hatred, insult, trespass, and defamation. The former member of the banned far-right group Blood and Honor appealed the sentence but lost.In…

As many as 35 percent of enrollments in the Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare,” might “not be legit,” according to the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Dr. Mehmet Oz. Oz laid out the eyebrow-raising projection during Tuesday’s White House press briefing while filling in for press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who is out on maternity leave. When asked about expired Obamacare subsidies and whether there are any policy adjustments he would like to see, Oz emphasized that the number of people on Obamacare has more than doubled over the last decade. “Let’s take a…