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The sanctions will include a ban on European businesses from any transactions related to the Nord Stream pipeline, blacklisting 77 tankers that transport oilBRUSSELS, June 10. /TASS/. The new EU sanctions package will include a ban on the use of the exploded Nord Stream pipelines, blacklisting banks and tankers, banning the EU countries from buying Russian oil and an attempt to lower the price cap for it, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said at a briefing in Brussels, presenting the draft of the 18th sanctions package. "We will step up pressure on Russia including though further...

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman was spotted Monday night chatting with Steve Bannon, according to Politico Playbook. Fetterman, who has displayed his own dramatic rightward shift, was reportedly dining at a top MAGA hangout near Capitol Hill with Breitbart’s Matthew Boyle, when the conservative news site’s old director wandered up and spoke to the pair for roughly 20 minutes. Bannon took over Breitbart in 2012, and directed the site to publish patently pugnacious rhetoric and conspiracy theories cooked up by far-right activists and white supremacists. In 2016, Bannon stepped down to join Trump’s presidential campaign as its CEO, and went on...

Los Angeles police said Tuesday that a body had been discovered in an area where looting has been reported amid protests against federal immigration enforcement actions in the city. The individual was found near West 3rd Street and Broadway shortly after 1:30 a.m. local time, according to KTLA. The body was reportedly found outside a T-Mobile store looted one night earlier.

CNN data analyst Harry Enten revealed some numbers yesterday that are going to blow the minds of Democrats. Trump’s approval rating on the issue of immigration has ‘gone up like a rocket’ according to Enten, who points out where Trump was on this issue ten years ago as compared to now. It’s like night and day. He also notes that it’s not just Trump. Republicans in general are far more trusted by the public on this issue. What is unfolding in California is just going to drive Democrats further into the gutter. They are playing right into Trump’s hands.

Ten people have been killed in a school shooting in the Austrian city of Graz, police have said. The incident took place at Dreierschützengasse secondary school in the north-west of the city. Six females and three males were killed in the attack, according to Interior Minister Gerhard Karner. Police said the 21-year-old gunman took his own life in a school bathroom shortly after. A further 28 people are being treated for their injuries in hospital, according to local media reports. The gunman was an Austrian man and former Dreierschützengasse student who didn't graduate from the school, Karner told a news...

In a nutshell * Steroid injections were associated with faster arthritis progression compared to no treatment or hyaluronic acid injections * Hyaluronic acid injections showed signs of slowing disease progression while still providing pain relief * Both treatments reduced pain, but only steroid shots were linked to concerning structural changes on MRI scans ============================================================ SAN FRANCISCO — Getting a cortisone shot for knee arthritis might provide quick pain relief, but new research reveals a troubling association: those steroid injections may be linked to faster joint damage over time. A surprising study found that patients who received corticosteroid injections showed more...

Sa’ad bin Atef al-Awlaki, the newly anointed leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), has issued a chilling call to arms targeting the President of the United States, Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and other top administration officials, including Elon Musk and Cabinet members. The Islamic terrorist, already wanted by the U.S. government with a $6 million bounty on his head, released a 34-minute video on Sunday, filled with explicit threats and calls for bloodshed inside the United States, the New York Post reported. Al-Awlaki, speaking in Arabic but quickly translated and circulated on social media, issued a...

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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Monday argued that President Donald Trump is “absolutely panicking” over what she described as the “trenchant and joyful and sustainable opposition” against him. Maddow argued that Trump has “no freaking idea” how to respond to the protests over his administration’s immigration raids — and that his deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles proves it. Trump, in his second term, has “decided to throw out all the rules,” Maddow said. But instead of appearing bold, she claimed, it’s made him “very boring.” “It’s like, it’s all on the table. We know exactly what he’s doing....

California GOP Congressman Darrell Issa is calling for an investigation into allegations that the Los Angeles Police Department did not promptly respond to protect ICE officers being assaulted as violence broke out in the city on Friday night. Issa, who represents California’s 48th Congressional District and is a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, said in a press release Tuesday he is calling for a "full and complete Congressional investigation" into the response time of the LAPD assisting the ICE officers who, according to a press release from DHS, waited for two hours for assistance. "Last night, over 1,000...

The Bread, the Circus, and the Sugar WaterI was watching the Knicks game last night, still processing my conversation with Naomi Wolf about consciousness and mind control earlier yesterday, when I realized I was witnessing the final performance of a civilization that has forgotten what reality is.The game itself—human bodies moving through space, demonstrating skill, strength, and coordination—represents one of the last connections to authentic physical reality in our entirely mediated existence. But even this vestige of the real has been weaponized as a delivery system for the artificial. Between every moment of genuine athletic achievement, we’re subjected to a...

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was undoubtedly trying to “lure NATO” into their war with Russia. “There is no doubt, because he cannot win this war on his own. He knows he’s losing,” Tuberville said during a Sunday appearance on John Catsimatidis’s radio show “Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM.… However, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth previously mentioned that the country would never join NATO, although he later walked back the comments. Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 and has continued to launch deadly drone strikes on the country in an effort to gain more land. The Kremlin...

There are at least a few intelligent subversives leading the charge at the LA riots. The organizers of this chaos appear to have realized that waving Mexican flags as if you're a conquistador claiming Los Angeles as part of Mexico was not a good look. So now they're handing American flags to protesters as a way to rehabilitate their image. This comes after days of footage showing them waving Mexican flags while torching cars, attacking police and burning U.S. flags. It's clear they realized the current optics were a disaster — now they're intentionally using American Flags in an attempt...

A senior Los Angeles official has revealed that his daughters were arrested during the ongoing riots in the city for allegedly assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon. Rick Cole, the chief deputy controller of LA, told a rally that his 26-year-old twin daughters, Lucia Aguilar and Antonia, were taken into custody Sunday night, according to LA Mag. “I’ve just seen pictures of my two daughters on a curb in downtown Los Angeles in handcuffs. So I’m going to be figuring out where they are so I can go bail them out,” Cole, a former mayor of Pasadena, told...

French nationalist politician Marine Le Pen launched a scathing attack on the trajectory of the European Union at the Patriots for Europe rally in France on Monday, declaring, “We don’t want to leave Europe. We want out of this Europe, because it is not Europe.” Addressing a crowd of allies and supporters from across the continent, Le Pen opened her speech with a rejection of the EU’s current direction, accusing it of becoming a “merchant, wokist, ultraliberal empire” that tramples national sovereignty and democratic choice. “Our Europe does not reside in Brussels,” Le Pen said. “What we are seeing today...

The AI saga takes a bizarre turn: don’t make Grok your guru; media melts down over Trump’s ‘insurrectionist’ label; RFK Jr. fires CDC vax panel; Trump unveils baby investment accounts; more. Today we return to our ongoing coverage of the AI revolution — toggling from optimism back to the surreal and spiritually sci-fi. On Sunday, we explored some good news: AI might be hitting a ceiling on reasoning skills, which could cap the AI apocalypse. But now, the weirdest AI wrinkle yet: people losing their loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies. Behold, a bizarre, cautionary story Rolling Stone published last...

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-California, called out President Donald Trump for refusing to send in the National Guard during the Jan. 6 riot, in contrast to his deploying the National Guard and Marines against protesters in Los Angeles. “Something is very wrong with this picture.”

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The lights have finally gone out on this project. In an extraordinary fire sale, the state Power Authority is auctioning off a huge storehouse of unused decorative bridge lights — which were supposed to be part of a $106 million project to brighten up the city’s spans by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but which never got installed. With a minimum bid of just $25, the lights are only expected to fetch pennies on the dollar — and leave the state out a massive amount of cash for the failed lighting project, officials told The Post of the sale, which was...

FBI Director Kash Patel said the Bureau is investigating the source of funding that is fueling the riots in Los Angeles, California. Sections of Los Angeles have seen rioters engaging in property damage, looting stores, clashing with law enforcement authorities, and vandalizing police vehicles. The riots are a response to a series of raids Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) carried out in the area last week. However, many view the unrest as a statement against the Trump administration’s mass deportations of illegal immigrants. In a statement to Just the News, Patel confirmed that the FBI “is investigating any and all...