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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum pushed back on President-elect Trump’s claim suggesting Mexico agreed to close its border with the U.S. “effectively immediately.” “In our conversation with President Trump, I explained to him the comprehensive strategy that Mexico has followed to address the migration phenomenon, respecting human rights,” Sheinbaum wrote Wednesday evening in a post on social platform X, according to translation from CNN. “Thanks to this, migrants and caravans are assisted before they arrive at the border,” she added. “We reiterate that Mexico’s position is not to close borders but to build bridges between governments and between peoples.”

Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) used his time on the Senate floor to discuss recently released COVID-19 data from Public Health England in the U.K. [DATA pdf Here]Ironically, Senator Johnson is forced to use the Senate floor to share the information in an effort to stop government and Big Tech censorship of the discussion. Unlike the rest of the nation, the House and Senate chamber rules create a free speech zone that prohibits anyone from censoring congressional debate and discussion.Senator Johnson outlines data from the U.K. clearly showing the vaccines offer no protection from the claimed Delta variant. COVID-19 is carried...

In May, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) confronted Dr. Tony Fauci for funding gain of function research in the US and then later at a lab in in Wuhan, China.Dr. Fauci refuted the claims under oath despite the fact that there are documents that prove the US was funding the Wuhan lab under his direction.As The Gateway Pundit has reported since early 2020, the Wuhan lab was likely the source of the coronavirus outbreak and Dr. Fauci was funding the lab for years.On Wednesday Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institute of Health and Dr. Fauci’s boss, admitted to...

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım refuted President Erdoğan’s “We are going to conduct an expedition into Qandil with Iran” comments. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had said, “We are going to conduct an expedition into Qandil with Iran” after Iranian Chief of Staff Major General Muhammed Bakirî’s visit to Turkey, but Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım refuted the claim. YILDIRIM: “WE HAVE NO SUCH DECISION” Yıldırım answered journalists’ questions on the plane back from his Vietnam visit and said the following on the transfrontier operation into Qandil in cooperation with Iran: “Iran made an announcement on this issue, they say they...

WASHINGTON, March 18, 2007 – U.S. military officials refuted a Taliban claim that they shot down a U.S. helicopter in Afghanistan’s Nuristan province on March 16. The claim is being made on an extremist Web site. U.S. forces have no reports of a downed aircraft and all coalition forces aircraft are accounted for, officials said. Also in Afghanistan, a United Nations mine-clearing worker was wounded by extremist small-arms fire during an ambush in Afghanistan’s Kapisa province yesterday, U.S. military officials reported. In the same incident, Afghan and coalition forces were also ambushed with rocket-propelled grenade, machine gun and small-arms...

Marc Rich Holding Refutes UN Oil Scandal Allegations Wednesday December 15, 1:54 PM EST ZUG, Switzerland -(Dow Jones)- Former American fugitive Marc Rich refuted media allegations Wednesday that his holding company was involved in illegal transactions as part of the U.N.'s Oil for Food program. In a brief press statement, Marc Rich Holding said the allegations that Rich made illegal payments to Iraq in order to secure lucrative oil contracts are groundless. A spokesman declined to comment on whether a U.S. criminal investigation has been opened into the matter. The allegations were first reported by ABC News in early December....