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Take a walk down memory lane with me. It’s a midterm election, and things are not looking good for the president’s party. A grassroots revolt has erupted among the opposition party, which has infused it with much-needed energy and citizen activism, but has also produced some questionable, untested candidates running for federal office. I’m speaking about 2010, of course. Barack Obama, elected overwhelmingly in 2008, ran into a near immediate backlash to some of his policy initiatives – particularly a federal takeover of the healthcare system – reinvigorating the Tea Party movement among conservatives. The GOP, whose obituary was repeatedly...

WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene decried the downfall of her onetime colleague Rep. Thomas Massie following his GOP primary defeat Tuesday night. Greene (R-Ga.), who had allied with Massie (R-Ky.) to force the release of Justice Department files on late sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, argued that his defeat by President Trump-supported Ed Gallrein was a death knell to the party. “I am proud and thankful to have served in the US House of Representatives with my friend Thomas Massie, a giant among weak pathetic men. Releasing the Epstein files was our demise,” she moaned on X. “You are...

Hunter Biden and Candace Owens may be the strangest political media pairing of the week. Owens announced that Hunter will appear on her show Thursday, posting a promo image of the two together and setting off immediate reactions across the political world. The preview clip contains the line everyone is already talking about. Hunter looks across at Owens and acknowledges what she has called him for years. Washington Examiner reported on the upcoming interview and the subjects previewed for the episode. Owens is expected to sit down with Hunter Biden for a wide-ranging interview on The Candace Owens Show. The...

Galindo has pushed conspiracy theories involving "billionaire Zionist Jews," human trafficking networks, and claims tying her runoff opponent to them. She's described as a therapist/housing activist with a pattern of inflammatory rhetoric A Democratic candidate in Texas's 35th Congressional District is facing widespread bipartisan condemnation after proposing to convert a federal ICE detention center into an internment camp for "American Zionists" and former ICE officers. Maureen Galindo, who advanced to the May 26 Democratic primary runoff after leading the March primary with about 29% of the vote, made the remarks in a recent Instagram post. She stated she would turn...

Maureen Galindo, who was chosen by Texas Democrats, terrifyingly with about 29% of the vote, to advance to the party's primary runoff for the state's newly redrawn 35th Congressional District, is under fire for inflammatory remarks that include a pledge to send 'American Zionists' to 'internment camps.' In an Instagram post last week, Galindo wrote, "When Maureen gets into Congress, she'll write legislation so that all Zionism and support of Zionism is undoubtedly Anti-Semitic, since it's Zionists harming the Semites." "She'll turn Karnes ICE Detention Center into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officials for human trafficking." "(It...

James Grant @JamesGrantJ6Regarding January 6th from a J6er:You kept us all - from all across the country - in ultra liberal DC… Because you knew we’d get crucified there.. The DC guards spit in our food and didn’t let us outside for recreation, as we watched every other unit go outside. They cooked us in 95° heat when every other floor was comfortable temperature. They left us in jails where sewage flooded the unit and it was so bad, the Marshalls canceled their contracts with themAt the start of it all: 2 feds on either side of me who pushed...

In a Republican-led Congress defined by deference to President Donald Trump, there's a small but steadily growing cohort who have found themselves more willing to break with the White House. Although the president maintains a firm grip on Republican voters, the expanding club could hinder his agenda on everything from the Iran war to immigration funding at a moment when his party holds a tenuous majority on Capitol Hill. Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana is the newest member of the club. Just days after losing his primary to a Trump-backed challenger, Cassidy on Tuesday reversed himself on legislation involving the...

Dirty Brad Raffensperger, the corrupt Georgia Secretary of State, came in a distant third in the Republican Party gubernatorial primary on Tuesday night. Brad the Rat was eliminated from the race on Tuesday night. Raffensperger came in third and will not make the runoff election between the two top Republicans, Burt Jones and Rick Jackson. It was a good ole’ Peach Tree State shellacking! Raffensperger became a hero of the liberal media after he lied to the American public about the contents of a call he had with President Trump before the state certified the Georgia 2020 election. A 2024...

Based on the BullSequana XH300 rack, the supercomputer features a mix of AMD and NVIDIA CPUs and GPUs, with IBM’s Spectrum Scale storage. Representative image of a supercomputer at Airbus. Bull French aircraft giant Airbus recently inaugurated new supercomputing infrastructure spread across two sites, one in France and one in Germany, as it looks to design the future of aerospace. The company has used high-performance computers (HPC) or supercomputers for over two decades and upgraded its infrastructure with a €100 million (US$116 million) investment over five years with advanced computing provider, Bull. Supercomputers are highly specialized computing systems that can...

The first preliminary design layout for a hypersonic ramjet engine is a strong proof point that shows the tech’s potential to revolutionize the design process. A hypersonic dual-mode ramjet from GE Aerospace. Stock image. GE Aerospace US-based GE Aerospace has announced a historical feat, which is producing the preliminary design layout for a hypersonic ramjet engine in mere seconds. The feat was made possible with the help of a generative artificial intelligence-powered app that was demonstrated by a team of AI researchers at the company. According to the team, the hypersonic ramjet engine’s primary design layout met all criteria for...

Ken Paxton is under fire for a plea deal his prosecutors offered last month to a Waco attorney charged with repeatedly sexually abusing a young boy. Paxton, locked in a heated primary to be the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, is facing criticism from political opponents who say his office was too lenient toward the man, who admitted that he molested the victim. “There are times when I have to dismiss the case even when I know they committed this offense, because I can’t prove it and I can’t re-traumatize that child."(victim advocate)

Barney Frank, the former Massachusetts congressman who served for more than three decades and was known for his combative style and historic achievements, died Tuesday night at the age of 86.

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, he ran Europe’s External Action Service, which is the diplomatic body that executes Europe’s foreign policy decisions around the world. He remains a man with a great deal of influence over European perspectives. In 2022, Borrell created a bit of an international incident when he described Europe as a “garden” and the rest of the world as a...

Kurt Busch will compete in the 2026 Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) NASCAR Classic at Circuit de la Sarthe, near Le Mans, France. The event runs from July 2-5, and will celebrate 50 years since NASCAR’s first attempt in the 24-hour race. Busch, who collected 34 victories throughout his NASCAR Cup Series career, including the 2017 Daytona 500 and the series championship in 2004, will drive the No. 1 Monster Energy Chevrolet in his HSR debut. The car, a former Chip Ganassi Racing chassis, was used when Busch won at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in 2020. Ganassi later gifted Busch the...

The era of the “ten blue links” is officially over. At its Google I/O conference on Tuesday, Google unveiled an AI-powered overhaul of Search centered around a reimagined “intelligent search box” — what the company describes as the biggest change to this entry point to the web since the search box debuted more than 25 years ago. Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times. Google is also introducing tools that can dispatch “information agents” to gather information on a user’s behalf, along with tools that let users build...

On Monday, the European Union announced sanctions on Israelis, including Daniella Weiss, the 80-year-old former mayor of a Jewish community in Judea and Samaria, and on Tuesday, it invited the Taliban, an Islamic terrorist group allied with Al Qaeda, to come to Brussels for talks. “Extremisms and violence carry consequences,” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas warned Israel. Obviously. And the consequence of extremism and violence is an invite to Brussels.At least if you’re a Muslim terrorist. Over the last decade, Islamic terrorists associated with ISIS, an Al Qaeda splinter group, have killed over 34 people in two bombing, four...

By the time an American surgeon who contracted Ebola in Congo was flown to Germany for treatment Tuesday, he was barely able to stand on his own, according to two leaders of the Christian missionary group with which he worked. Dr. Scott Myhre, East and Central Africa area director for the group Serge, described the scene as Dr. Peter Stafford departed. “There were people in full — we call it PPE — the personal protective equipment, and they’re completely covered, and he’s hanging on them barely strong enough to walk,” Myhre said. “He looked really tired and really sick.” Stafford,...

Democrats still searching for a way out of the rubble of the 2024 election got a peek in Tuesday’s primaries of what their voters want for the future. The races spanned a mix of competitive and safe-blue seats across six states — including a pair of crucial swing states. The result: A slate of disparate candidates who won’t give them a much clearer sense of their future. State Rep. Chris Rabb, a progressive firebrand and self-styled “rabble-rouser,” won the open primary for the bluest House district in the country in Philadelphia. In a nearby Pennsylvania House battleground, Democrats nominated Bob...

REP. THOMAS MASSIE (R-KY): Listen, I would have come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede, and it took a while to find Ed Gallrein in Tel Aviv. I did get the call through, though. I have called and conceded the race. *** We didn't lose this race because we didn't have enough money. It is the most expensive race ever. But why am I hopeful right now? Because***We have the younger demographic. *** [A]fter 18 months of blacking, of a blackout, of not letting me on Fox, they finally let me on Fox today, four...

Andy Burnham could lead Labour to victory against Reform in a general election, polling reveals. The survey, carried out by More in Common, found that Labour would get an eight-point boost with Mr Burnham at its helm if he succeeded in his attempt to become the next party leader. The “Burnham bounce” would secure Labour 30 per cent of votes, three points ahead of Nigel Farage’s party which has consistently led the opinion polls since the autumn of 2025. This week, Mr Burnham was selected as Labour’s candidate to fight the Makerfield by-election, where he is tipped to beat Robert...