House Republicans are seething at the Senate’s decision to push back a vote on an immigration funding package until next month, steamrolling over President Trump’s self-imposed June 1 deadline to get the bill to his desk. The decision to punt action on the package, which Republicans are hoping to pass without Democratic votes through a… […]
A long-tenured sheriff in Lee County, Alabama lost his primary re-election bid last night after notably opposing the Trump Administration on immigration policy. Jay Jones, a 30-year incumbent, lost re-election to Cameron “Cam” Hunt, a former deputy who narrowly defeated his former boss with roughly 51 percent of the vote. The outcome marked the first […]
Iran has been seeking to significantly expand the area around the Strait of Hormuz over which it claims military control by this week advancing the newly-created government agency of the “Persian Gulf Strait Authority”.The agency quickly published a map proclaiming “Iranian armed forces oversight” across more than 22,000 sq km (8,800 sq miles) of the […]
USAO Colin McDonald, assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, announced the initial fraud indictments for the first set of fraudsters operating in Minneapolis, Minnesota. McDonald emphasized this is only the beginning of the arrests in Minnesota as the fraud is beyond a scale that can be appropriately explained. Together with HHS […]
The top NATO general who is now the President of the Czech Republic has warned Europe that peace “can no longer be treated as the default state of affairs”, but also warned against fantasists trying to build a European Union army to rival America. Czechia President Petr Pavel, a former intelligence officer who rose to […]
The Trump administration this week onboarded more than 80 new federal immigration judges, in its latest push to expedite deportation cases and further its government-wide crackdown on illegal immigration, Justice Department officials said Thursday.The Justice Department, which oversees the U.S. immigration court system, swore in 77 permanent immigration judges and 5 temporary immigration judges, a […]
President Trump’s success in knocking off GOP lawmakers who have defied or criticized him is striking fear among Republicans on Capitol Hill, but some say the retribution tour could backfire on the president by making it tougher to pass his agenda. Trump successfully urged his supporters to defeat Sen. Bill Cassidy in the Senate Republican… […]
Authored by Andrew Korybko,It can simultaneously threaten Russia along the increasingly interconnected Arctic and Baltic fronts.Russian Ambassador to Norway Nikolai Korchunov gave a brief interview to TASS about bilateral relations. He warned that Norway is integrating new NATO members Sweden and Finland into the bloc’s regional plans. More American military bases and NATO facilities are opening up there too. To make […]
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said that he doesn’t think military action in Cuba will be needed to remove the Castro regime from power because the Cuban people will rise up, but we will need to use military force with Iran. While discussing Raul Castro, Scott said, “I think […]
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