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UPDATE: President Trump confirmed Mike Waltz will not serve as National Security Advisor and is instead nominated as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio appointed as interim NSA. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy Alex Wong will be ousted Thursday from their roles at the National Security Council, according to reports. Reports from CBS News, Fox News, and Politico state that Waltz and Wong will be leaving their posts, and that President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, is having conversations with National Security Council staff. Waltz came under scrutiny after he put…

The bloc plans to maintain sanctions pressure on Moscow even if the US shifts policy, Kaja Kallas has said The EU has reaffirmed its refusal to recognize Russia’s sovereignty over Crimea, the bloc’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, has said.Officials in Brussels are reportedly concerned that a possible peace deal negotiated by Washington and Moscow to end the Ukraine conflict would entail the US recognizing Crimea as part of Russia.The peninsula voted to secede from Ukraine and join Russia shortly after the 2014 Western-backed coup in Kiev.Speaking to the Financial Times on Thursday, Kallas, the EU high representative for foreign…

Fomer CNN star Brian Stelter announced Thursday on X that “60 Minutes” picked up 13 Emmy nominations this year for their junk reporting. The Emmy’s even nominated the infamous Kamala Harris interview they selectively edited and spliced sentences together to make her sound like a normal human. It as quite a piece of work. It was completely fake. But that didn’t stop the Emmy’s from nominating their fake news segment in the television news and documentary category. In the runup to the 2024 election, Fake news 60 Minutes was caught editing Kamala’s answers to make her sound coherent and normal.…

Upbeat: Ray Hernan, ARI’s CEO, is seeking new growth opportunities.ARI Aer Rianta International (ARI), the travel retail arm of Ireland’s state-owned airport operator DAA, delivered year-over-year revenue growth of 13% last year boosting its worldwide managed turnover to €1.4billion ($1.6 billion). An improved balance sheet also means global expansion is on the cards. The retailer—which has substantial airport retail operations in Ireland, Canada, the Middle East and Portugal—made the results announcement on Thursday morning saying that it had achieved “record profitability across multiple business units.” Though ARI’s growth is similar to 2023, the company lagged its rivals then. This time,…

The GOP’s student loan plan would eliminate the SAVE program and overhaul student loan forgiveness, … MoreGetty Images How The GOP Student Loan Plan Would Reshape Student Loan Forgiveness And Kill The SAVE Plan Student loan borrowers counting on student loan forgiveness via former President Joe Biden’s Saving on a Valuable Education plan (more commonly known as the SAVE plan) will likely see it effectively vanish, not by a court order, but by an act of Congress. House Republicans have unveiled a sweeping proposal, the Student Success and Taxpayer Savings Plan, which includes an end to the SAVE plan. The…

The DOJ sent a demand letter to the University of Virginia (UVA) requiring the school to confirm no later than Friday that it has eliminated every aspect of DEI across its campuses. The UVA governing board voted in early March to shut down all DEI offices and end all related programs on its campuses across the state. University President James Ryan was then asked to report back to the board within 30 days and provide an update on UVA’s progress in implementing the decision. After failing to meet the deadline, the DOJ sent a demand letter on Monday telling Ryan to submit…

VATICAN CITY (AP) – Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope accelerated Friday with the installation of the chimney out of the Sistine Chapel that will signal the election of a successor to Pope Francis. Vatican firefighters were seen on the roof of the Sistine Chapel installing the chimney, a key moment in the preparation for the May 7 conclave. After every two rounds of voting in the Sistine Chapel, the ballots of the cardinals are burned in a special furnace to indicate the outcome to the outside world. If no pope is chosen, the ballots are mixed…

April was not the cruelest month for investors—although the tariffmageddon-obsessed naysayers may be smarting. Despite a month of wild swings and gloomy forecasts, U.S. stock markets ended April nearly flat, brushing off predictions that Trump’s trade policies would trigger a historic collapse. The S&P 500 finished the month down just 0.8 percent. The Dow dropped 2.1 percent, and the Nasdaq edged lower by 0.3 percent. That mild performance stood in stark contrast to a mid-April Wall Street Journal article that warned of a “Trump rout” and suggested the Dow was on track for its worst April since 1932. It wasn’t.…

Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) predicted Thursday on “MSNBC Reports” that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth would be the next cabinet member ousted by President Donald Trump. Bennet said, “I think there’s more to it. I think it is an. extraordinary moment that even Donald Trump is admitting that he can’t sustain a national security advisers who had the wisdom of sharing Signal chain with Jeffrey Goldberg. I think it’s probably the case that what President Trump is maddest about is the fact that he shared it with the reporter from the Atlantic. The real problem is that Secretary Hegseth, the secretary of…

The House side of the Capitol complex is getting a major overhaul of its restaurants, with vendor Sodexo out after a 10-year run. Beginning in August, Metz Culinary Management will take over, bringing a slew of new eateries with it, according to an email sent to staffers — with online ordering available at each location. Construction will start that month, but “rest assured that Members and staff will still have options for grabbing breakfast, lunch and coffee throughout the construction process,” the memo continues. There has been a long push for expanded brand-name food options as Sodexo’s generic cafeteria options,…