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Despite consistently being the state with the highest approval rating of President Donald Trump, one of Wyoming’s leading Republican candidates for governor, Eric Barlow, has repeatedly voted against bills in line with the MAGA movement’s crackdown on illegal immigration. Barlow, a state senator who formerly served as Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives, has sided with Democrats when it comes to sanctuary cities and blocking illegal aliens from public benefits. The other Republicans in the race ahead of August’s Republican primary election include the Trump-endorsed Megan Degenfelder, who has been the state’s Superintendent of Public Instruction since 2023. Brent…
The Senate has kicked off another marathon session of amendment votes on Republicans’ massive $70 billion immigration enforcement bill. It is the sixth “vote-a-rama” of the 119th Congress, an unusually high number prompted by Republicans’ interest in moving multiple party-line bills under budget reconciliation rules that set up the exhausting voting rounds. “I suspect there will be a lot of amendments today on a lot of topics,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune warned in a floor speech, but one topic will have an outsized focus. A flurry of amendments from both parties are expected to attempt to put into law…
The international vaccine development and distribution organization Gavi announced this week that it had committed $50 million to responding to the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), $40 million of which would go to building up supply chains in preparation of mass production of an Ebola Bundibugyo vaccine. Gavi, formerly known as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, is a coalition that raises funds from public and private actors and serves as a platform for the development of new vaccines and the expansion of access to established vaccines all around the world, with a…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testifies before the House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday, June 4. Bessent will testify following a report Wednesday that private-sector payrolls rose by 122,000 in May, more jobs added than expected. Consumer data released Wednesday was also positive, “with orders for consumer durable goods running 8.5 percent above last year’s pace and motor vehicle demand surging.” Read the full article here
Trump may reside in the White House and his home may reside in Florida, but once a New Yorker, always a New Yorker, and come June 8, the president will return to his old stomping grounds to watch the New York Knicks go head-to-head with the San Antonio Spurs for game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden. Though the president’s plans could change, sources told the New York Post that Trump will be at Madison Square Garden on June 8, adding that a security walkthrough has already been conducted in preparation for his visit. Also in attendance…
President Donald Trump lashed out at the four Republicans who lent their votes to a war powers resolution against the Iran war this week, calling them grandstanders and questioning their patriotism. Wednesday’s vote represents the latest blow for a president increasingly at odds with his own party in Congress. “Yesterday, in a meaningless vote, the House voted, 4 bad Republicans and all of the Dumocrats, to limit my War Powers, right in the middle of my final negotiations to end the War with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Thursday morning. “Who would do such an…
The broadcaster falsely claimed the Reform UK leader called for “white cold rage” over the student’s killing The BBC has been forced to issue an apology after one of its presenters sparked an uproar by misquoting Reform UK leader Nigel Farage as calling for “white cold rage” in response to the murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak.Nowak was stabbed to death in Southampton in December by Vickrum Singh Digwa, a 23-year-old Sikh man. When police arrived at the scene, Digwa falsely claimed that he had been the victim of a racist attack.Bodycam footage from the incident showed that officers believed…
President Donald Trump confirmed reporting that he had strong words for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, after Israel’s actions in Lebanon reportedly prompted Iran to threaten to end negotiations with the United States. On Monday, Axios, citing two U.S. officials and a third source, reported that Trump was critical of Netanyahu during a phone call between the two. “You’re fucking crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this,” Axios quoted one U.S. official as saying. “A second source briefed on the call…
Wednesday on MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) made the jaw-dropping statement that if President Donald Trump nominates Todd Blanche as Attorney General, it will be “so disgusting” that it will put Republican Senators “over a barrel.” Whitehouse said, “Blanche has done some really, bigly embarrassing stuff. The 1.8 billion slush fund and the Trump tax amnesty, Pam Bondi hung around his neck the catastrophic mismanagement of the Epstein files. There is presently a really unique investigation in Florida into whether Blanche committed fraud on the court. As the acting attorney general, that is an allegation we’ve never heard…
The fatal stabbing of the 18-year-old student has sparked outrage over race, policing, and knife crime in Britain The murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak has sparked national outrage in the UK after police bodycam footage submitted to court showed officers arresting and handcuffing him as he lay dying, while his killer remained uncuffed after falsely claiming to be the victim of a racist attack.The case has triggered protests, renewed accusations of two-tier policing, and an investigation into how British authorities handled the incident.Who was Henry Nowak?Nowak was an 18-year-old University of Southampton student from Chafford Hundred, east of London…