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Moment U.S. forces seized massive oil tanker off Venezuela “As you probably know, we’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela,” Trump said. “Large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized actually.”

Donald Trump has replaced the chief architect in charge of designing his grandiose $300 million White House ballroom. The president replaced James McCrery II and his architecture firm back in late October, according to the Washington Post. Behind the scenes, Trump and McCrery battled over the commander-in-chief’s desire to keep increasing the size of the new building. One source said Trump decided to replace the esteemed designer after McCrery’s firm repeatedly missed deadlines and its small workforce made progress difficult. Trump's ballroom, paid for by big tech donors including Amazon and Google, is described as 90,000 square feet in official...

President Trump has officially pardoned former Honduran President, Juan Orlando Hernández, who US officials said was at the center of one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world. A White House official not authorized to speak on the record confirmed the pardon was granted and the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed his release on Monday.

The United States is preparing to establish a military presence at an airbase in Damascus to help enable a security pact that Washington is brokering between Syria and Israel, six sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The US plans for the presence in the Syrian capital, which have not previously been reported, would be a sign of Syria's strategic realignment with the US following the fall last year of longtime leader Bashar al-Assad, an ally of Iran. The base sits at the gateway to parts of southern Syria that are expected to make up a demilitarized zone as part...

Desiree @DesireeAmerica4 🚨UPDATE: Brandon Keith Mitchell, a registered Tier 1 sex offender in Pennsylvania faced massive public backlash after a viral surrogacy video showed him raising a baby through crowdfunding, protected by silence and loopholes. Now: ▪️ GoFundMe pulled the fundraiser after outrage erupted ▪️ Lawmakers are demanding new legislation to block sex offenders from using surrogacy to obtain children ▪️ Prosecutors admit no law currently exists to stop it, calling it a “devastating loophole” The people spoke. Now the system scrambles. We will not stop until every loophole is closed. and a broken system.

They went there--(Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen) German Public TV, subsidized by government-mandated license fees, is arguing that Charlie Kirk enraged people because he was a racist misogynist who hit people's rage buttons. Advertisement Of course, they say it is unacceptable to celebrate Kirk's murder, but, well, you know he deserved it... These people are scum. Similarly, The New York Times spread a hoax about Kirk--that he held certain views that he quoted and then criticized. They, of course, released a correction well after the fact, and one that almost nobody will see.

WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump is planning an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) cage match that will reportedly take plan on the White House lawn.

US President Donald Trump again displayed anger with Russia following its latest deadly attack on Kyiv -- a strike that killed 16 people and injured dozens -- calling the action “disgusting” and vowing to slap new sanctions on Moscow. “Russia, I think it’s disgusting what they’re doing,” Trump told reporters at the White House on July 31. “I think what Russia’s doing is very sad. A lot of Russians are dying.”

US President Donald Trump said on July 31 that Russia’s actions in Ukraine were “disgusting” and indicated that new sanctions against Moscow were coming over its invasion of its neighbour. “Russia – I think it’s disgusting what they’re doing. I think it’s disgusting,” Mr Trump told journalists. He also said he would send his special envoy Steve Witkoff, currently in Israel, to visit Russia next. Russian President Vladimir Putin has already met Mr Witkoff multiple times in Moscow, before Mr Trump’s efforts to mend ties with the Kremlin came to a grinding halt. Washington has given Moscow until the end...

The way suspended FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle sees it, he has lived through 1,004 betrayals — and counting. O’Boyle was rewarded for his whistleblower disclosures to Congress with a loss of pay and benefits, attempted character assassination, and what he said is a malicious FBI effort to destroy him and his family. ‘I thought he was going to do the right thing.’ “If the FBI is trying to make you do something that is wrong or illegal or against policy or against rule, you’re supposed to be able to push back and be protected for doing so,” O’Boyle told...

It was supposed to be a routine appearance, a visit from the commander in chief to rally the troops, boost morale and celebrate the Army's 250th-birthday week, which culminates with a Washington, D.C., parade slated for Saturday. Instead, what unfolded Tuesday at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, bore little resemblance to the customary visit from a president and defense secretary. There, President Donald Trump unleashed a speech laced with partisan invective, goading jeers from a crowd of soldiers positioned behind his podium -- blurring the long-standing and sacrosanct line between the military and partisan politics. As Trump viciously attacked his perceived...

Tech mogul Elon Musk went on a tirade Tuesday against President Trump’s marquee One Big Beautiful Bill Act days after leaving the administration — ripping the legislation as an “abomination” and condemning lawmakers who supported it. “I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” the Tesla and SpaceX CEO wrote on his X platform. “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. “Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.” Musk had previously dropped hints of his disdain for the megabill, politely telling “CBS Sunday Morning” in an interview...

@elonmusk I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it

New York City was the world’s epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, but five years and 46,000 deaths later a memorial to the victims and their caregivers is nowhere close to being realized. A City Council bill to study building a memorial on Hart Island — the Potter’s Field where thousands were buried during the peak of the pandemic – remains stalled a year after being introduced, and state legislation to fund memorials going up throughout the Empire State sits dormant in Senate and Assembly committees.

Senator Lindsey Graham is working incredibly hard for the Great People of South Carolina, a State I love and WON BIG in 2016, 2020, and 2024! Lindsey has been a wonderful friend to me, and has always been there when I needed him. As the Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Lindsey is fighting tirelessly to Grow the Economy, Lower Taxes, and Eliminate Government Waste. Lindsey is also relentlessly focused on helping us Secure the Border, Stop Migrant Crime, Strongly Support our Great Military/Vets, Promote American Energy DOMINANCE, Defend our always under siege Second Amendment, and ensure PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH....

Let's open with a "China War Update" this famous theme song of the Cultural Revolution revering Chairman Mao "The East Is Red"... Well to the music three 1973 hit songs Helen Reddy with this Number 3 song related to my experience this week I went into tears... A lot of change in government people losing their jobs that's for sure. Is the spending really being cut?... Your host the winner of the Daughters of the American Revolution American History Award considering the files of recent history the JFK, MLK assassinations not to mention Jeffrey Epstein... As far as the Kennedy...

Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) claimed Tuesday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” that it is “disgusting” that President Donald Trump is not standing with democracies like Ukraine. Co-host Pamela Brown asked, “Is the United States on team Russia now?” Warner said, “This has been a, you know, a two week streak. Remember a week ago last Monday, for the first time ever, America in the United Nations voted with with Russia, Iran, North Korea, Nicaragua denying who started the war in Ukraine. The whole world knows Russia started it. Now you’ve got these this effort after the breakout in the White...

EXCLUSIVE: @GrossmanHannah and I [e.g., Christopher Rufo] have obtained logs from the NSA’s secret transgender sex chatroom, in which NSA, CIA, and DIA employees discuss genital castration, artificial vaginas, piss fetishes, sex polycules, and gangbangs—all on government time. This is insane. 🧵 The NSA maintains a chat system for the "intelligence community" called Intelink. The servers are supposed to be used for government work, but gender activists have hijacked at least two channels—LBTQA and IC_Pride_TWG—to discuss fetishes, kink, and sex, all legitimized as "DEI." One popular chat topic was male-to-female transgender surgery, which involves surgically removing the penis and turning...

The abortion industry’s extremism rarely shocks me, or anyone else entrenched in the pro-life movement, anymore. After all, it’s the business of killing innocent human beings in the womb for profit. Thankfully, the 2024 election between former Vice President Kamala Harris and President Donald Trump brought abortion extremism, preborn death up to nine months gestation, to the forefront of Americans’ minds, but also the unethical business practice of in vitro fertilization (IVF). And, it seems the public is starting to catch on to the ethical issues of the IVF industry and how it’s not as “pro-life” as some have been...

Tyler Adkins, 27, made the allegations in a suit filed Wednesday, in LA County Superior Court. Defendants include Senior Vice President of Universal Theatrical Group (UTG) Chris Herzberger, and then-executive producer Marco Pennette. Also named was Vice President of Creative Development and Production at Universal Theatrical Group Lowe Cunningham, as well as NBCUniversal. Universal Theatrical Group is the live theater division of the famed motion picture studio. Adkins has appeared on shows like American Horror Stories, and claims he was in a romantic relationship with Herzberger that started in 2021. It began with a meeting at an intimate LA restaurant,...