Despite the attempts of some regional outlets to spin a narrative of imminent peace (which we saw yesterday), a senior Iranian source told Reuters on Thursday that “no deal had been reached with the US” – though he did also claim that “gaps had narrowed” – somewhat in line with the optimistic narrative.The Islamic Republic […]
Senate Republicans blasted acting Attorney General Todd Blanche Thursday over the Trump administration’s proposal to set up a $1.8 billion fund to compensate MAGA allies prosecuted by the Justice Department and made it clear that a budget reconciliation bill to fund immigration enforcement won’t move until their concerns are resolved. GOP senators pressed Blanche during… […]
Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker,Europe is the ‘jungle’ now. No garden left to speak of.Josep Borrell is a Spanish socialist who held several high-ranking positions in the European Union. Until 2024, he was a vice-president of the European Commission and the high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy. In that capacity, […]
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Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said if Democrats win control of “one or both Houses of Congress” in the midterm elections, they could bring a lawsuit to stop the Department of Justice’s so-called anti-weaponization fund. Blumenthal said, “I think that Trump may have taken the Republicans in the Senate a ballroom too […]
Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, Vice President JD Vance said during a recent press conference that he was intensifying attempts to counter Medicaid fraud by investigating state-level units responsible for oversight. States such as California and Hawaii seemed to lag behind others in combatting fraud, said Vance, whom the president picked in […]
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 […]
Republicans in both the House and Senate are quickly moving to stop the DOJ/IRS settlement with President Trump that establishes a $1.776 billion victim’s compensation fund for those targeted by corrupt government conduct. The move in the Senate is particularly Machiavellian considering they recently established a $500,000 system of penalties for government conduct after they […]
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard is working diligently to declassify a controversial FISA Court opinion that would detail the court’s concerns with how the federal government conducts searches using Section 702 of FISA. When Congress moved to temporarily reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom […]
