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On Friday’s broadcast of “Bloomberg Surveillance,” U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Jamieson Greer stated that there isn’t a specific direction to ensure tariffs going forward don’t impact affordability and “Whenever we’re imposing tariffs or doing deals, the purpose of the trade program is to re-shore American manufacturing and protect American food security. It’s really about jobs and increasing wages” and stating there are other policies on prices, “So, we don’t see the trade policy really as driving prices, we see it as driving jobs.” Greer said that prices for certain staples have fallen over the past month, and “When we saw inflation…

During a Thursday night press conference, Providence police chief Colonel Oscar Perez noted that the deceased Brown University shooting suspect was “a Portuguese national.” Perez credited “ground work, public assistance, and good old-fashioned policing” for law enforcement being able to identify and close in on the shooting suspect. Perez noted that a video provided law enforcement with information that led to a vehicle they traced to the suspect. The pursuit of the vehicle “led to a car rental place,” from which law enforcement gathered footage of the suspect. Breitbart News reported that police descended on a storage facility in Salem,…

The BND will reportedly be allowed to conduct sabotage and breach suspects’ homes to install spyware The Chancellery in Berlin has proposed granting Germany’s currently mostly surveillance-focused foreign intelligence agency powers to carry out sabotage and other offensive operations abroad, Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported on Friday.The Federal Intelligence Service (BND) was created in 1956 in post-war West Germany and, like the armed forces, was initially limited in its powers. Until now, the BND has only been allowed to gather and analyze information.A new draft bill seen by German media would allow the spy agency to act far more aggressively, granting permission to…

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) stated that “the healthcare system is broken and we need to fix it.” But doing so “requires Republicans deciding to abandon their my-way-or-the-highway approach” to that and other issues. Co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin asked, “Leader, let me ask you this, and I recognize the complications and costs to the American public. There is a question, and maybe you’d say it’s a longer-term question that has to be dealt with later, but the true question, ultimately, underneath all of this is how we’re going to actually lower…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A jury found a Wisconsin judge accused of helping a Mexican immigrant dodge federal authorities guilty of obstruction Thursday, marking a victory for President Donald Trump as he continues his sweeping immigration crackdown across the country. Federal prosecutors charged Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan with obstruction, a felony, and concealing an individual to prevent arrest, a misdemeanor, in April. The jury acquitted her on the concealment count, but she still faces up to five years in prison on the obstruction count. The jury returned the verdicts after deliberating for six hours. Dugan faces up to five…

US forces struck more than 70 alleged terrorist targets with over 100 bombs, according to CENTCOM The Pentagon has released combat footage showing US and allied forces carrying out large-scale strikes against alleged Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorist targets in Syria as part of Washington’s retaliation for the recent killing of American personnel.In a post on X late Friday, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said American and Jordanian forces struck more than 70 targets across central Syria using over 100 precision-guided munitions. The Pentagon said the strikes were conducted under Operation Hawkeye Strike and involved US fighter jets, attack helicopters,…

President Donald Trump trashed Obamacare as a means to make insurance companies rich during his remarks in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, on Friday night. Trump’s comments come hours after he said he would be calling a meeting of health insurance companies to see if they can drop their prices and as House Republicans have sent legislation to the Senate to reduce health care costs. “The current Unaffordable Care Act, commonly known as Barack Hussein Obamacare, was created to make insurance companies rich. It was bad health care at much too high a cost, and you see now that the steep…

The Santa Ynez Reservoir in the Pacific Palisades will be going offline again for repairs nearly one year after the devastating fire. Nearly one year ago, on January 7, 2025, the Pacific Palisades fire killed 12 people and destroyed 7,000 structures, causing an estimated $18-20 billion in damages. At its peak, firefighters were infamously unable to adequately contain the blaze due to a lack of water pressure in the hydrants, which critics claimed stemmed from the Santa Ynez Reservoir being inoperable. Though the reservoir went back online six months later in June, the reservoir will be going back offline to repair…

US officials heavily redacted the images and stressed that appearance in the archive does not imply wrongdoing Thousands of records released by the US Justice Department provide a detailed and often unsettling look at materials gathered during federal investigations into late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.The trove includes photographs, call logs, interview transcripts, grand jury material, travel records, and internal investigative documents. Many files are heavily redacted, and some had already been made public through court proceedings, freedom-of-information requests, or earlier congressional disclosures.A significant portion of the release consists of images taken from Epstein’s homes and properties. One…

Chinese state media has been heavily promoting a rumor that the administration of Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae wants to develop nuclear weapons that could potentially be used against China.  The story was first spread by several Japanese media outlets on Thursday, including Kyodo News, Asahi Shimbun, and NHK.  According to the Kyodo News account, an unidentified source who is involved with formulating security policy for the prime minister’s office told reporters, “I think we should possess nuclear weapons.” “In the end, we can only rely on ourselves,” the official reportedly said. The source concluded that acquiring nuclear arms was…