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The White House announced Friday that senior U.S. envoys will head to Islamabad on Saturday for a fresh round of direct talks with Iran. That comes as the Treasury Department sanctions a major China-based oil refinery and roughly 40 shipping companies and tankers involved in transporting Iranian oil. Treasury Secretary…

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Washington D.C. is the capital of a vast federal bureaucracy, much of it useless, and completely out of touch with the people it rules over. The USDA is one of the best examples. How much non-drug agriculture happens in D.C.? Not a lot. So the Trump admin is proposing to…

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Blumenthal on Jan 11, 2026 in Stamford Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Gettr, Truth Social, Twitter, YouTube Senator Richard “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal, ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a letter to Acting CDC Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya seeking information about a decision by CDC leadership not to publish a study on…

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Newsmax host Greg Kelly criticized Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Friday over the firing of Secretary of the Navy John Phelan. Phelan’s immediate departure from the administration was announced Wednesday, with Undersecretary of the Navy Hung Cao stepping in as acting secretary. Kelly accused Hegseth of having “lied and conned”…

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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Stories of human-like dolls yearning to become real people turn up everywhere. Pinocchio wants to be a real boy. The robot child in Spielberg’s A.I. wants to be loved like a human son. The…

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Diplomatic thaw or temporary truce? Trump brokers extended Israel-Lebanon ceasefire amid Hezbollah defiance President Donald Trump announced a 3-week extension of the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire after April 23, White House talks, building on an initial 10-day truce. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun pushed for Israeli troop withdrawal, end to home demolitions, prisoner…

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Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, on Friday introduced legislation to ban lawmakers from using betting markets.”Any Senator who came to DC to cash in, game prediction markets, or treat public office like a side hustle is betraying the oath they swore to their country,” he posted on X.”I’m introducing legislation to…

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SURPRISE, Ariz. (CN) —  Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes sued the federal government Friday to stop the construction of an ICE detention facility just one mile from two public schools and across the street from a hazardous chemical storage facility.Standing outside the 418,000-square-foot warehouse Friday morning, Mayes said the Department…

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Organizations are discovering that promoting high performers does not automatically create effective leaders. Technical expertise and operational success can only carry executives so far before they encounter the complexities of guiding teams, making high-stakes decisions, and shaping organizational culture. Companies are realizing that leadership requires more than skill and experience.…

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It’s worth noting that the SPLC is getting a full-court defense from Pravda for a reason: the driving narrative about Donald Trump, political violence, and the need for a censorship infrastructure in the United States is largely buttressed by references to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hate Map.” Advertisement All…

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The gold dome of the Georgia Capitol gleams in the sun, in front of the skyline of downtown Atlanta on Aug. 27, 2022. Steve Helber/AP PhotoGeorgia Democrats spent this week making the case to Democratic National Committee (DNC) leadership that the party’s future runs through the South, as Atlanta became…

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As Americans grapple with painful prices at the pump amidst a global oil crisis, some Alaskan lawmakers seem intent on making that pain even worse. The 49th state is debating a tax increase on certain oil and gas companies, a measure that will make energy even more expensive and chill…

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In the early 2000s, no one listened to country music in the Northeast. Among blue-blooded Yankees, country music was looked down upon, and there were serious negative stereotypes about the genre and the South, more generally. Country music was for the backward hicks and yokels who lived in the boonies.…

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