Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a surprise visit to Saudi Arabia on Thursday amid a wider effort to lend Ukraine’s drone defense expertise to the U.S. and Gulf States. Zelensky had offered his country’s expertise in defense against kamikaze drone attacks, cultivated in its grinding war against Russia, just days after the war began. These […]
The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to look into the use of offshore call centers and ways to require phone operators to be proficient in “American Standard English.” The FCC is seeking comment on proposals aimed at bringing call center jobs back to the United States, including one to require workers to be proficient in […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) called the media speculation that he and former Vice President Kamala Harris do not like each other “preposterous,” but added that she typically steps forward first politically. The two California natives have long fielded theories that, though they run in the same liberal circles, they are not close friends. Axios’s Alex […]
As a teenager, Anna Giaritelli sat in high school gym class as girls were pulled aside and told a chilling statistic: One in three women will experience sexual assault in their lifetime. Giaritelli remembers thinking, That won’t be me. Years later, that belief was shattered. Giaritelli, now the Homeland Security reporter for the Washington Examiner, […]
A federal judge handed the Trump administration a narrow procedural win on Thursday, blocking Fulton County’s attempt to compel testimony from an FBI agent tied to the bureau’s seizure of 2020 election records. U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia J.P. Boulee, an appointee of President Donald Trump, ruled that the Justice Department […]
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte touted the alliance’s across-the-board 20% increase in defense spending in his annual report, announcing all allied countries met their GDP spending requirement in 2025. “In 2025, for the first time, all Allies met the goal agreed in 2014 – to invest at least 2% of their GDP on defense. And […]
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said President Donald Trump told him last year he would back the ex-governor for office if he ever ran again. Trump commuted Blagojevich’s 14-year sentence in February 2020, years after the former governor was convicted on corruption charges in 2011 for attempting to sell former President Barack Obama’s Senate seat. […]
Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner holds a significant lead over Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME) in the state’s Democratic Senate primary, according to a Thursday poll. Platner, who has painted himself as a political newcomer, leads Mills, a longtime staple in Maine politics, 55% to 28%, according to an Emerson College Polling survey. Thirteen percent of […]
Päivi Räsänen, a member of the Finnish Parliament, has been convicted by the nation’s supreme court for a religious pamphlet published in 2004. The court found Räsänen, who has been entangled in legal tumoil for over four years, guilty of “incitement against a minority group.” The Lutheran pamphlet — titled “Male and Female He Created […]
Texas state Sen. James Talarico (D) is sending “love” back to Pastor Brooks Potteiger, after the pastor made controversial comments insinuating Talarico is not a born-again Christian. The Texas Democratic U.S. Senate candidate responded with a post on X: “Jesus loves. Christian Nationalism kills. You may pray for my death, Pastor, but I still love […]
