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Trump-inspired ‘Japanese first’ politician shakes up nation’s establishment
Japanese populist Sohei Kamiya stunned many in the country when his Sanseitō party won 14 seats in Japan’s Upper House elections last week. ‘From supermarket manager to bright political star … populism has hit the shores of Japan like a tsunami,’ Gatestone Institute senior fellow Gordon Chang told Fox News…
Read More »White House orders Hegseth to stop polygraphs on Pentagon staff suspected of leaking: report
The White House pulled the plug on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of polygraph tests to root out leakers, according to a report. Patrick Weaver, a current adviser to Hegseth, alerted high-ranking administration officials that he could soon have to submit a polygraph test, the Washington Post reported. That prompted…
Read More »Rubio rips Venezuela’s Maduro as ‘narco-terrorist’ leader threatening US one year after disputed election
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is hammering Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro on Sunday as the South American country holds municipal elections to fill hundreds of mayoral positions and thousands of council seats. The municipal contests are happening one day before the one-year anniversary of Venezuela’s presidential election, which was widely…
Read More »Democrats are hammering Republicans on Epstein, but one senator brushed off the issue years ago
Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., believes it’s ‘weird’ that the Trump administration has not released documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, but at one point, it was the last thing on her mind. Democrats have searched for an opening to sharpen their messaging against Republicans, and have pounced on the administration and…
Read More »From talk to tactics: Trump pivots on Russia strategy to end war
President Donald Trump’s approach with Russian President Vladimir Putin pivoted drastically this month when, for the first time since returning to the White House, he not only confirmed his support for Ukraine in a NATO arms agreement but issued an ultimatum to the Kremlin chief. The warning came in a…
Read More »DNI Tulsi Gabbard declassified Trump-Russia docs: Here’s what they say
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified a slew of documents this month, revealing that Obama administration officials ‘manufactured’ intelligence to push the Trump-Russia collusion narrative. Here’s a look at the newly declassified records: Declassified Presidential Daily Brief Documents revealed that in the months leading up to the November 2016…
Read More »FTC firings take spotlight in Trump’s fight to erase independence of agencies
The Supreme Court has temporarily allowed President Donald Trump to fire numerous Democrat-appointed members of independent agencies, but one case still moving through the legal system carries the greatest implications yet for a president’s authority to do that. In Slaughter v. Trump, a Biden-appointed member of the Federal Trade Commission…
Read More »DAVID MARCUS: Zany Zohran endorsement is existential choice for Hakeem Jeffries
To endorse, or not to endorse, that is the question for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) as New York City and the nation wait to see if this top Democrat will throw his backing behind socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. According to Zany Zohran’s backers, this should be a…
Read More »Trump signs rescissions package, closes out week with trip to Scotland
President Donald Trump arrived in Scotland late Friday for a working trip where he is expected to meet with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer amid ongoing trade negotiations between the U.S. and the U.K., as well as visit several of his properties there. ‘We’re meeting with the prime minister tonight,’…
Read More »CHARLIE KIRK: Republicans must seize Gen Z moment or risk losing an entire generation
Donald Trump did better with American young people last fall than any Republican candidate in decades. He won men under 30, won men of college age, and even won the youth vote in the swing state of Michigan. American young people were widely assumed to be uniformly liberal, and expected…
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