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Poland is building a defense system along its northern and eastern borders to protect itself from Russia. Since June, German sappers have been assisting their NATO ally with the construction of the East Shield. Poland started to construct a defensive barrier along its border with Russia and Belarus in 2024. The East Shield defense system will eventually be around 800 kilometers long, and is intended to protect this country on NATO's eastern flank against attack from the east.
When the Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, inspected the first completed section in November 2024, he declared that the project was meant to "deter and discourage a potential aggressor"
Florida’s Democrat Senate candidate Angie Nixon is trying to rewrite history, distancing herself from socialism despite her membership in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
Nixon took a surprise win in Florida’s primary on Tuesday, defeating prolific Trump hater Alex Vindman. The member of the Florida House carries an array of radical leftwing positions aligned with American socialists, including “abolishing” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), funding universal health care, and implementing universal childcare and pre-kindergarten — a socialist policy with high favorability across America.
U.S. military assisted transporting 660
million barrels of oil through Strait
of Hormuz: CENTCOM replies
million barrels of oil through Strait
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The U.S. military's assistance of oil tankers has allowed more than 660 million barrels of crude oil to pass through the Strait of Hormuz since early May.
Approximately 1,300 vessels have sailed through the strait with the U.S. military's assistance in that time, U.S. Navy Captain Tim Hawkins, a Central Command spokesperson, told CNBC.
CENTCOM said at the end of July it had helped 1,000 vessels and 500 million barrels of oil to pass through the strait, which means that 160 million barrels have been transported through the blockaded waterway in the past three weeks.
President Trump on Friday announced that DOJ official Ed Martin will be leaving the Administration to go outside and fight legal battles in this year’s midterm elections.
Ed Martin served as the US Pardon Attorney and Director of Weaponization Working Group for President Trump’s Justice Department.
Full statement from President Trump:
Ed Martin has been with me from the very beginning, and done an incredible job as an Attorney, Director of the Weaponization Working Group, and the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia.
Many may ask why President Donald Trump would give the time to a former lawyer who turned against him into one of the most antagonistic accusers, however, those questions can be reconciled by putting yourself in Trump’s shoes.
No person in U.S. politics has been attacked with as much ferocity as Donald J Trump. Part of that attack included the weaponization of his former lawyer Michael Cohen against him. After more than a few years of dealing with the consequences, President Trump gets to talk again to the man, once a personal friend, who stabbed him in the back.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) has suddenly become worried about exhausted American sailors. He and every Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee are demanding answers over conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, citing food and water shortages, broken plumbing, mental health problems, and an extraordinarily long deployment. Sailors deserve answers when conditions go bad, but they also deserve better than becoming political ammunition.
Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao doesn't pretend the deployment has been easy. The Lincoln spent 266 days deployed, including 200 days in a combat zone, while flying more than 10,000 sorties.
Pentagon dismisses Stars and Stripes leadership
after editor, reporter oppose military interference replies
after editor, reporter oppose military interference replies
The Pentagon on Friday fired the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes and a top reporter for insubordination after they spoke publicly against any interference by the Defense Department in the military news outlet that has a long history of editorial independence. It was the latest move by an administration that has grown increasingly aggressive toward the news media.
The newspaper’s publisher, who announced his impending retirement days ago, was also dismissed.
Erik Slavin, editor-in-chief of the military newspaper that is partly funded by the Pentagon, told The Associated Press he was dismissed for insubordination after an interview he gave that objected to potential censorship by the U.S. military.
Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily blocked a ruling that was set to halt construction on the White House ballroom later Friday, ruling that work can briefly continue as the Supreme Court mulls the Trump administration’s emergency plea to intervene.
It delays, for now, a lower court’s deadline to stop above-ground construction by the end of the day.
Roberts’s order gives the Supreme Court additional time to consider the administration’s emergency appeal but contains no explanation. It does not necessarily reflect the court’s thinking on the underlying legal issues.
Florida’s Democrat Senate candidate Angie Nixon is trying to rewrite history, distancing herself from socialism despite her membership in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).Nixon took a surprise win in Florida’s primary on Tuesday, defeating prolific Trump hater Alex Vindman. The member of the Florida House carries an array of radical leftwing positions aligned with American socialists, including “abolishing” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), funding universal health care, and implementing universal childcare and pre-kindergarten — a socialist policy with high favorability across America.
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Liberation Caucus is rejecting New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a possible 2028 Democratic presidential candidate, citing her lack of support for Palestine.
"Liberation condemns Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's continued retreat from socialist politics and rejects any effort to present her as the future presidential standard-bearer for DSA, or for the broader socialist movement," the group said in a statement.
The group explained that Ocasio-Cortez's record shows that she hosted a panel with leaders from the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, which the Liberation Caucus called "a Zionist organization which conflates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism."
An Afghan American who accused Israel of “genocide” won Thursday night’s special election runoff in California to replace disgraced Rep. Eric Swalwell.
State Sen. Aisha Wahab bested her opponent, Bay Area Rapid Transit Board President Melissa Hernandez, by roughly six percentage points in the race for California’s 14th Congressional District, The Associated Press declared Thursday.
While Wahab will serve for the remainder of this term, the two will face off again in November for the next term beginning January 2027.
Wahab ran a campaign focused on “fighting corporate greed” and supported policies such as universal childcare and “Medicare for All,” as well as abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Exclusive: 25 States Opt in to Program
Allowing Local Schools More Control over
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Allowing Local Schools More Control over
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The U.S. Department of Education (ED) on Friday is announcing its approval of Arizona, Nevada, and South Carolina for the “Ed-Flex” program, bringing the total number of participating states to 25, Breitbart News has exclusively learned. ED said the participation of half the nation is “reshaping how education agencies respond to local needs and drive student academic achievement.”“Reaching 25 Ed-Flex states is a watershed moment that proves the paradigm is shifting in American education,” said Kirsten Baesler, assistant secretary for the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. “Innovation does not flow from top-down mandates,
The plea deal agreed to by former top Dr. Anthony Fauci adviser David Morens, filed in federal court this week, provides a roadmap for further conspiracy charges in the scheme to conceal communications about coronavirus research grants from Freedom of Information Act requests, a review of the court documents shows.
Morens, who served as a senior adviser to Fauci at the National Institutes for Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 16 years, pleaded guilty earlier this week to the conspiracy, admitting to working with two co-conspirators to conceal agency records from public view.
The records dealt with a National Institutes of Health grant to “Company #1,”
El Paso and Harris counties have joined communities in Ohio and Tennessee in suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency over new election-related requirements tied to federal homeland security funding.
The lawsuit, filed Monday, argues that FEMA is improperly threatening to withhold 20% of Homeland Security Grant Program funding from jurisdictions that do not adopt sweeping changes to their election procedures.
The plaintiffs include Harris County and El Paso County in Texas, the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County in Tennessee, and the city of Columbus, Ohio.
The search for a missing US Assistant Attorney ended after he was found dead in a San Diego federal building, marking “one of the darkest days” in the office’s history.
Local police discovered former Acting US Attorney Andrew Haden, 48, dead inside an office at the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building Wednesday, but ruled that no foul play is suspected.
Haden was reported missing earlier in the day Wednesday and his body was found hours laterThe medical examiner will determine the cause and manner of Haden’s death.
Haden joined the US attorney’s office in 2010 and twice stepped in as acting US attorney for the Southern District of California during leadership changes,
The official made the remark in the context of President Trump announcing on Sunday that he had ordered a significant reduction in the time and scale of the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises, which Seoul and Washington hold annually to prepare for any potential resumption of the Korean War. While the war began with the communist north invading the south in 1950, active hostilities ended in 1953 with the signing of an armistice agreement between the warring parties: South Korea and America on one side and North Korea and China on the other.
Donald Trump spent part of Thursday swapping pleasantries with Michael Cohen, his former "fixer" who then became the left’s favorite anti-Trumper and even testified against the president in court and before Congress. It's hard to say which is more bizarre: that this interview happened at all, or how warm it was.
Part of the sit-down aired Thursday evening on Cohen's radio show on 77 WABC-AM in New York, with the full interview set to air Sunday. It was an exceptionally friendly affair. Believe it or not, the whole segment played like a reunion special.
A 21-year-old recent college graduate was behind an anonymous website that put out widely shared fake election polling in Wisconsin, Nevada and California, the Guardian can reveal.
The website, Median Strategies, abruptly shut down and withdrew its polling earlier this week following questions from a reporter from the Los Angeles Times. In an unsigned statement, it described a “short-term social experiment” to examine how fake polling “could enter and spread through the political information ecosystem without independent verification”.
“I wanted to see if fake polls could really penetrate the ecosystem that easily,” Rahil Prakash told the Guardian on Thursday when reached by phone. “And as it turned out, it could.”
Two fishermen who used a cooler to survive at sea for days were found alive and rescued on Wednesday, the Mexican navy said.
The fishermen, 53 and 32, last communicated with their fishing cooperative on Aug.14. At the time, they were aboard a ship called the Camaronera. The staff of the cooperative sent out a distress call when the men were not heard from.
The Mexican navy responded to the distress call by deploying surface and air assets. The wide range of the search allowed rescuers to locate the men floating in the Pacific Ocean about 150 miles off the coast of Chiapas, a southern Mexican state that borders Guatemala.
Once Upon a Time in the WNBA
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Once upon a time, very different from our time, there was a kingdom where women played basketball.
In that kingdom, skill was required to be drafted into the WNBA. Little or nothing was required to determine whether you were, in fact, a woman. Everyone seemed to know. Women played happily, fiercely, and competitively against other women. Some were tall, some were fast, some could shoot from almost anywhere, while others played ferocious defense, blocking shots and stealing the ball with the enthusiasm of a medieval highwayman.
Former first lady Jill Biden is refusing to close the door on one of the wilder theories surrounding her husband’s disastrous 2024 debate performance. That he was drugged.
In a recent interview with podcast host Jamie Kern Lima, the only doctor less qualified than doctors Anthony Fauci and/or Pepper to offer medical assessments was asked if a stroke had been ruled out by actual medical professionals. "Well, they did. They said, I mean, I didn't say to them, when I was writing my book, I was reflecting, but I didn't say, 'God, did Joe have a stroke?' I just said, 'Is he OK? Is he OK?'" Biden replied.
A dark art of the scriveners’ circle is “word variety”: livening up prose by avoiding repeated use of the same word or terminology.
Accordingly, this digital ink-stained wretch has always been grateful for the acronymic alternative for “Republican Party” – “GOP.” And equally frustrated that a counterpart did not exist for its opposite number.
Until now.
The Democrats’ leftward drift – actually, now a full-out sprint – has provided a neat and increasingly useful abbreviation.
DSA. But wait, you protest. Isn’t that the name of a separate, radical party that has infiltrated
It was, what, just two days ago that Americans found out that they owed $40 trillion? Already they’re moving on. But it doesn’t stop there. The debt is adding up at a furious pace. Those who believe it won’t have an equally huge impact as it inevitably metastasizes are only fooling themselves.
Start with this: $40 trillion is a lot of money.
“For perspective,” notes the centrist Committee for a Responsible Budget, “it took nearly 200 years for America’s gross debt to reach $1 trillion for the first time in 1981. At that time, President Reagan told the nation in a televised address, ‘If we as a nation needed
America’s national debt has just blasted past the $40 trillion mark—a staggering milestone forged by decades of bipartisan overspending, tax cuts, and refusal by both Democrats and Republicans to confront the bill.
"Washington has a spending problem, and the only way that we're going to solve it is if we nuke the filibuster and get over the 60 vote threshold, and then pass a budget balance amendment. Many states in our country have to balance their budget. Your family has to balance their budget. Your business has to balance their budget. Why shouldn't Washington? Washington doesn't because it takes 60 votes to get anything done," Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla.,