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Keir Starmer last night promised this country would continue to put Ukraine ‘in the strongest position’ to protect itself. But the Prime Minister and Defence Secretary John Healey face huge decisions over military spending following a monumental shift in US policy away from Europe. As part of a ‘new world order’, the US will no longer prioritise British and European security, meaning the UK and its continental allies will have to step up. But at the same time, Chancellor Rachel Reeves appears determined to cap defence spending at 2.3 per cent of GDP. The Mail has repeatedly called for the...

The former speaker, who held unchallenged power in the state for more than three decades, was indicted back in 2022 on federal racketeering charges, alleging that he participated in a string of bribery and influence peddling schemes. Madigan represented the southwest side of Chicago for half a century and held a grip on power since the 1990s, using that influence to stymie governors of both parties, and he essentially dictated policies for the entire state. He controlled the access to campaign funds and endorsements for the state’s Democrat Party and acted like a mafia boss with an absolute control of...

John Solomon @jsolomonReports Trump fires USAID Inspector General after he blasted administration over its foreign aid freeze From justthenews.com 4:56 PM · Feb 12, 2025

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), who was blackballed during the COVID pandemic for bucking scientific consensus, is “one the most exciting picks of all the Trump picks,” Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) told Breitbart News.In an exclusive interview Tuesday, Banks said Trump’s nominee to lead the NIH is the perfect man to turn the embattled agency around.“President Trump has picked a game changer to lead the NIH, to clean it up,” he told Breitbart News. “I mean, talk about draining the swamp and disrupting Washington. Dr Bhattacharya is the type of...

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said on Wednesday that she “clawed back” the full payment made by FEMA for hotels to house migrants in New York City, days after the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced the discovery of a $59 million payment made last week.“I have clawed back the full payment that FEMA deep state activists unilaterally gave to NYC migrant hotels,” Noem announced on Wednesday, noting that FEMA was actively funding the Roosevelt Hotel “that serves as a Tren de Aragua base of operations and was used to house Laken Riley’s killer.”An immigrant family show their paperwork...

Russian missiles struck Kyiv in the early hours of Wednesday, killing at least one civilian, Ukrainian officials said. The barrage of ballistic missiles hit hours before Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent visited the Ukrainian capital, the first Cabinet-level Trump official to do so, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy aide Andriy Yermak wrote on Telegram. Bessent is visiting the city to meet with Zelenskyy and discuss President Donald Trump's demand for access to $500 billion worth of rare Earth minerals as payment for U.S. military aid to Ukraine. He is also expected to talk about energy, having promised to ramp up sanctions on...

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The Justice Department announced Wednesday it was suing New York state over its policy of limiting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, with Gov. Kathy Hochul, state AG Letitia James and DMV chief Mark Schroeder in AG Pam Bondi’s crosshairs. “This is a new DOJ,” Bondi announced. “New York has chosen to prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens. It stops. It stops today.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump upended three years of U.S. policy toward Ukraine on Wednesday, saying that he and Russian leader Vladimir Putin had agreed to begin negotiations on ending the war following a sudden prisoner swap.Trump said in a social media post that he and Putin held a lengthy phone call and committed to “work together, very closely” to bring the conflict to an end and would meet in person, including perhaps in each other’s countries.Trump subsequently announced that he'd also spoken with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but only after his talk with Putin. After the calls, White...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, speaking at a Florida college on Tuesday, made pointed remarks about the limits of presidential power and her fear that government officials might flout court decisions. “Our founders were hellbent on ensuring that we didn’t have a monarchy,” she said, “and the first way they thought of that was to give Congress the power of the purse.”

A seven-year-old boy was part of a group of activists who dressed in drag to lobby a Massachusetts city to become a sanctuary city' for transgender people. The Worcester City Council on Tuesday voted to become a safe heaven for trans people as well as those who are 'gender diverse.' The motion, which passed 9-2, was filed by resident Allie Cislo on behalf of the 'Queer residents of Worcester,' as reported by WCVB. Dozens of people who appeared to be in drag passionately told the council they were concerned about their safety under the Trump administration. They were joined by...

President Trump said Wednesday he expects to meet in person with Russian President Vladimir Putin multiple times, suggesting they are likely to meet first in Saudi Arabia. “We ultimately expect to meet,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “In fact, we expect that he’ll come here, and I’ll go there, and we’re going to meet also, probably in Saudi Arabia. The first time we’ll meet in Saudi Arabia.” The timing of when the meetings would happen were not yet clear, but Trump said it would be “not in the too distant future.” Trump’s comments came hours after he spoke...

El Salvador President Nayyib Bukele has urged the U.S. to impeach activist judges holding back the progress of the Trump agenda. Obama judges across the country are stepping in to try and block the Trump administration from enacting his elected agenda, issuing rulings on everything from who they can deport all the way through to exposing government waste. The satirical Babylon Bee website made light of this fact with the headline “Sauron-Appointed Judge Rules Frodo Must Return Ring To Sauron,” a reference to the iconic Lord of the Rings trilogy. “That’s exactly what judges were doing in El Salvador in...

Yesterday the circus came to DC, complete with an abundant assortment of clowns. There was frivolity and there was adolescent sophomoric language. There was a lot of shouting. Emanuel "Beaver" Cleaver shouted at Trump. CRINGE: Boomer Democrat Screams Playground Insults at Elon Musk pic.twitter.com/xWZRu5SK2x — Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) February 12, 2025They sang songs “He wants us to bow to him, but we want him in jail!” Democrats are now writing & performing songs to protest DOGE, Elon Musk, & Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/qVjcRKXqBJ— Timcast News (@TimcastNews) February 11, 2025Someone blew the dog whistle, and the dogs came running They have received...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨Democrat Rep. Summer Lee labels President Trump as a “white supremacist” and calls for “reparations”. From RNC Research 1:58 PM · Feb 12, 2025

22-year-old Hazel has lived in the US her whole life, but since Trump’s election she’s been considering leaving her native Texas. “I don’t feel safe being myself in the United States,” she says. Hazel, who is trans, has witnessed transphobia permeate mainstream US politics for years. But with Trump back in the White House, it seems unlikely that the situation will improve. “I can’t get my gender marker changed to reflect my true self,” she says, referring to the State Department’s refusal to issue new US passports with “X” gender markers and the ongoing suspension of processing all applications...

The teacher says the reports calling Khelif a man are "disinformation."

Politico may be trying to re-ingratiate itself with the American public after its government funding scandal by finally admitting what voters already knew about the Biden economy: It sucked. “Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong,” read the eye-popping Politico magazine headline from Tuesday by author Eugene Ludwig, chairman of the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity. Ludwig recalled how “[m]any in Washington bristled at the public’s failure to register how strong the economy really was. They charged that right-wing echo chambers were conning voters into believing entirely preposterous narratives about America’s decline.” But as Ludwig conceded,...