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Major airlines said Monday they oppose a new effort to advance legislation that would reduce fees charged by Visa and Mastercard on transactions, saying the bill could force them to stop offering rewards credit cards that give consumers frequent flyer miles for making transactions. American Airlines, United Airlines, Southwest Airlines and others including Boeing, Airbus and GE Aerospace, said in a letter to senators the legislation sponsored by Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) could sharply reduce air travel and harm overall tourism. Airlines generate billions of dollars annually in fees for branded credit cards. Durbin has called...

Representative Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said Monday on CNN’s “News Central” that officers with the Department of Homeland Security had no right to enter his congressional office and briefly detained a staff member. Co-host Kate Bolduan said, “Last week, federal officers with DHS were seen going into your district office in New York. They handcuffed and detained one of your aides for a period of time.” She asked, “What is your view of what happened?” Nadler said, “Well, my view is what happened is outrageous. My first concern was for the safety of of my staff member, and I didn’t say...

If you come at a career business savant like Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, you better not miss. CBS Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan hilariously had to learn that the hard way on Sunday. Brennan tried to corner the Treasury Department head from a number of fronts on the economy, such as tariffs and inflation. In response, Bessent repeatedly made Brennan look completely foolish. Regarding inflation in particular, Brennan whipped out a piece by anti-Trumper strategist Karl Rove (whom she dubbed a “conservative”), arguing that Walmart wouldn’t be able to break even if it just ate the tariffs President Donald...

https://t.me/beholdisraelchannel/55733 So what exactly are the Americans proposing to Iran regarding uranium enrichment, and why is it not working so far? According to foreign reports, the US is proposing to establish a kind of multinational corporation that will enrich uranium for several countries in the Middle East that are interested in a civilian nuclear program (for example, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and perhaps Turkey and Egypt). The member states will be the joint owners of the corporation, and thus Iran will be able to exercise the right it strongly demands - to enrich uranium itself and not...

A Trump Administration official was put into harm’s way today, just one day after an anti-semitic illegal alien terrorist burned several Jews alive in Colorado. Navy Secretary John Phelan spoke today at the Special Competitive Studies Project Conference (SCSPAIExpo25) at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in DC to discuss various topics, including maritime dominance and artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, a few unwelcome guests made life miserable for the rest of the attendees. While Phelan is speaking, he notices a major commotion behind him. A few seconds later, the camera cuts to a handful of pro-Hamas losers holding a large sign...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up a case involving questions surrounding federal candidate litigation of state election regulations. Known as Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections, the case offers the nation’s highest court with the opportunity to provide a definitive ruling on the issue of whether a federal candidate who has demonstrated substantiated factual allegations has standing to challenge state-enacted election laws and rules. As The Federalist previously reported, “Standing has been a contentious issue in election litigation” and was at the “forefront of several prominent lawsuits filed contesting the 2020 presidential election cycle, as...

They’ll have fries with that. An Uber Eats driver is spilling the beans on a host of unsavory behind-the-scenes behavior committed by the culinary couriers — from purposefully slowing down when customers are rude, to swiping your precious food. “I don’t make a habit of it, but yeah, I’ve taken fries,” Tom, 33, who asked to keep his surname anonymous to avoid losing his job, told UK license plate firm Plates Express, The Sun reported. The deliveryman admitted that while he tries to remain “professional,” sometimes he just can’t resist the urge to pilfer from a customer’s order, especially when...

"I am horrified by last night's horrific attack in Boulder. My heart is with the victims and our Jewish communities across the country. Antisemitism is on the rise here at home, and we have a moral responsibility to confront and stop it everywhere it exists," she posted. Other members of the "Squad," a coalition of progressive House Democrats, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, had not issued a statement about the attack in Boulder as of 11:30 a.m. Newsweek reached out to spokespersons for Ocasio-Cortez, Omar and Tlaib for comment via email.

The Washington Post has said that a massive drop in fentanyl seizures at the southern border is "mysterious" and that it is a "more complex" story than one would think after President Donald Trump has made it a point to crack down on border security as well as fentanyl trafficking into the US. The outlet suggested that the Trump administration's policies, such as threatening tariffs on China as well as Mexico to curb fentanyl, could have little to do with the drop in fentanyl, and claimed, "New data suggest a more complex story." This year, there has been a marked...

Étienne-Émile Baulieu, the French scientist who developed the abortion pill RU-486, also known as mifepristone, died Friday at his home in Paris at the age of 98. Pro-life advocates worldwide mourned the millions and millions of babies the abortion drug has killed. Baulieu, born Étienne Blum on Dec. 12, 1926, in Strasbourg, developed RU-486 in 1982, a dangerous drug that blocks progesterone, a hormone essential for pregnancy, leading to the starvation of an unborn baby and his or her eventual death. The drug, which pro-life groups note has facilitated the loss of countless unborn children, not accounts for approximately 63%...

German police will undertake a new search in Portugal this week as part of ongoing investigations into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. The search will reportedly take place in Praia da Luz, the town in the Algarve where she went missing nearly two decades ago. Madeleine was three years old when she vanished from a holiday apartment complex on 3 May 2007. Her disappearance sparked a Europe-wide police investigation, and has become one of the highest-profile unsolved missing person cases in the world. The Metropolitan Police said it was not involved in the new search, but was aware of the...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) praised Ukraine’s weekend drone attack on Russia, calling its government and armed forces “ever-resourceful” while warning that Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing for more war. “The ever-resourceful Ukraine used creative drone warfare tactics to successfully attack Russian bombers and military assets used to kill Ukrainian citizens and destroy their country,” Graham said on the social platform X on Sunday reacting to the Ukraine attack. Ukraine hit Russian bases across the vast country in the recent attack, including in the regions of Irkutsk and Amur, which are thousands of miles from the Russian-Ukraine border. The attack...

The New York Times recently published a puff piece highlighting the life and work of “the Father of the Abortion Pill,” Dr. Étienne-Émile Baulieu. It appears that no hard questions were asked by the article’s author, Pam Belluck, although several were suggested by Baulieu’s remarks and certainly should have been posed. A DUBIOUS MENTOR For example, Belluck describes Gregory Pincus, co-inventor of the birth control pill, as one of Baulieu’s mentors. But Pincus is hardly worthy of imitation. He was known for experimenting on the mentally ill; it is questionable whether these women could even give consent. Of these experiments,...

Reckless and irresponsible reporting by major U.S. news outlets are contributing to the antisemitic climate that has resulted in the murder of two young people at an Israeli Embassy event in Washington last month and the attempted murder and terror attack on a group of pro-Israel demonstrators in Colorado on Sunday. Without verification of any source other than Hamas and its collaborators, the New York Times, CNN, and Associated Press reported that a number of people seeking to receive humanitarian food boxes from the Gaza Humanitarian Fund were shot or killed by the Israeli Defense Forces. These reports were FALSE....

Polish voters elected a conservative nationalist aligned with the Trump administration to the presidency Monday, dealing a blow to the European Union (EU), according to CNN. Karol Nawrocki, a member of the right-wing populist Law and Justice Party (PiS), won a narrow victory with 50.89% of the vote over Rafał Trzaskowsk, the liberal mayor of Warsaw, according to CNN. Nawrocki is expected to have good relations with the Trump administration once he takes office, and the election results are likely to stymie Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s vision to more closely align Poland with the EU. Nawrocki now holds the...

Lynn Segal, a 72-year-old woman who participated in Sunday's vigil, noted in an interview with the AP that the attack came despite the fact that participants such as herself support the Palestinian cause. In Israel, family members of hostages are largely critical of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war effort, which has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians

Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett said on Sunday that she has no intention of running for president of the United States. Crockett has risen to prominence with her racially-charged rants and incendiary anti-Republican attacks, including calling wheelchair-bound Texas Gov. Greg Abbott “Governor Hot Wheels.” On “Inside Texas Politics,” host Jason Whitely asserted Crockett’s name has appeared in 2028 polls and asked whether she has presidential aspirations, prompting Crockett to definitively answer, “No.” (RELATED: Dem Rep Thinks Potential Gov’t Shutdown Could Save Bureaucrats From Getting Booted By Trump Admin) “What do you make of that then, your name showing up on...

Poland elected a conservative nationalist, Karol Nawrocki, to lead the country as its next president, in an election that could have broad implications for the future of Europe Nawrocki is set to take office Aug. 6. Here’s what to know about the election: Visit with Donald Trump last month President Trump hosted Nawrocki at the White House last month, in a sign of support shortly before the election. The two men posed for photos, shaking hands and giving a thumbs-up gesture in the Oval Office. Nawrocki told the Polish TV station TV Republika that Trump told him, “you will win,”...

A groundbreaking study reveals that mRNA vaccines trigger irreversible destruction of women’s primordial follicles — the finite ‘egg reserve’ that dictates fertility and menopause timing. Karaman et al. (2024) found that rats injected with human-equivalent mRNA COVID-19 doses suffered: more than 60% loss of primordial follicles (*p* < 0.001) — the non-renewable foundation of female fertility plummeting Anti-Müllerian Hormone (AMH) — a key marker of ovarian reserve a surge in follicle apoptosis (cell death) via elevated TGF-β1, VEGF, and caspase-3. If this translates to humans, the implications are dire. Think early menopause, infertility, and a generational fertility crash. There are...

Have you considered that you simply don't hate the press enough? If you think you do, you might find yourself reconsidering after reading this latest story. As RedState reported, a pro-Palestinian terrorist in Colorado threw Molotov cocktails at peaceful marchers as they silently remembered the hostages being held by Hamas. The attack took place in Boulder, injuring at least five people. Police arrested Mohamad Soliman at the scene, with videos showing him shouting "Palestine is free" and "end Zionists" as he attempted to burn innocent people alive. In the aftermath of such an attack, you'd hope that press outlets would...