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AP Images F-35 Lightning II A Dutch appeals court on February 12 ordered the government to ban all exports of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel over concerns they were being used to breach international law during Israel’s Gaza offensive.  It said the state had to abide by the order within seven days and rebuffed a request by government lawyers...

EvgeniyShkolenko/iStock/Getty Images Plus Ukraine will produce thousands of long-range drones capable of strikes deep into Russia in 2024 and already has up to 10 firms making drones that can strike Moscow and St. Petersburg, Ukraine’s digital minister said.  Mykhailo Fedorov spoke about the wartime drone industry he has promoted in an interview in Kyiv in which he unveiled new details...

AP Images Barbara Lee When arguing against a given minimum wage (e.g., $15/hour), late radio giant Rush Limbaugh would sometimes rhetorically ask: Why stop there? If that amount is good, wouldn’t a $50 minimum wage be even better? It’s unknown whether Limbaugh would’ve even suspected that a statist would make his “illustrating absurdity by being absurd” example a serious proposal...

AP Images The man who fingered Joe Biden as “Big Guy” in Hunter Biden’s emails with business associates told the U.S. House Oversight Committee today that Biden “enabled” his son’s relationship with the Chinese Communist Party’s CEFC energy company A former Hunter Biden business crony, Tony Bobulinski said America’s enemies “enriched” the Bidens, while Hunter and Joe Biden’s brother, James,...

AP Images Kari Lake Is Kari Lake, the once consummate anti-establishment candidate, turning her back on those whose support has brought her this far? As first reported by Politico, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), the campaign arm of the Senate Republican caucus with a long reputation as an instrument of the GOP’s establishment wing, formally endorsed Kari Lake in...

Ron Paul There has been much written and said about Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week. As of this writing the video on Twitter alone has been viewed nearly 200 million times, making it likely the most-viewed news event in history. Many millions of viewers who may not have had access to the other side of...

AP Images The “woman” who opened fire at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood megachurch in Houston, Texas, on Sunday was a man. He was also a Salvadoran immigrant, legal status unknown. Those facts won’t likely figure in news reports. Escalante Moreno First to identify the dead shooter, killed by two off-duty lawmen, was KHOU in Houston. Based on a search warrant, the...

PeskyMonkey/iStock/Getty Images Plus NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has called on the bloc’s members to step up defense production in the event of “a confrontation” with Russia “that could last decades.” Stoltenberg has repeatedly warned that Western economies are ill-prepared for such a conflict. With Ukraine’s counteroffensive faltering and Russian forces expected to capture the major Donbass stronghold of Avdeevka, media...

AP Images J.D. Vance The Democrats have buried an impeachment booby trap inside the $95 billion supplemental foreign aid bill that will waste another $61 billion on Ukraine’s unwinnable war with Russia. Worse still, Republicans gleefully helped.  GOP Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio says the bill contains a provision that, should Donald Trump unseat President Joe Biden, invites a third...

A few things seem clear, and much else murky, after the seismic shift that occurred on Thursday. Donald Trump, more because of Thursday than by encouraging public polling of recent weeks, runs as the favorite in the 2024 presidential election. A victory by him in November would mark the greatest political comeback in U.S. history. There seems a good chance...

Alex Newman, author of the new book “Indoctrinating Our Children to Death: Government Schools’ War On Faith, Family & Freedom—And How to Stop It,” joins InfoWars’ Harrison Smith to discuss how sex education in government schools is corrupting the souls of children and promotes transgenderism, pedophilia, and transhumanism. Ultimately, Newman argues, parents must pull their children out of public schools...

Russians have had to dumb down their speeches at the UN so other countries can understand them, deputy representative Dmitry Polyansky has said. Russian diplomats perceive their Western counterparts’ approach to international affairs to be “quite primitive,” Moscow’s deputy permanent representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, has said. Moscow’s representatives are not certain what caused this, but have simplified their messaging in response, he...

AP Images Even though special counsel Robert Hur reported that Joe Biden, after his vice presidency, “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials” relating to national security, he declined to charge him with that crime. One reason is that Department of Justice “policy” prohibits bringing criminal charges against a sitting president. The second reason is more telling: Hur could never persuade...

AP Images Matt Rosendale Representative Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) announced today that he is entering the race for Montana’s U.S. Senate seat currently held by Senator Jon Tester. Rosendale looks to flip the seat held by Tester, a Democrat, and stated he would defeat his GOP primary opponent Tim Sheehy, who he says was hand-picked by Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) Mitch...

AP Images Putin and Xi meeting in December 2023 On Thursday Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone with his counterpart, Chinese authoritarian leader Xi Jinping, before the Lunar New Year. Both leaders used the opportunity to evaluate the advantages of comprehensive bilateral cooperation, the Kremlin said in a readout of the conversation. Putin and Xi maintained their commitment...

selensergen/iStock/Getty Images Plus A Washington, D.C., jury has awarded $1 million to the plaintiff in a defamation case that has rocked the climate-change world. Controversial climate scientist Michael Mann sued two conservative writers 12 years ago. They had drawn parallels between his claims of catastrophic global warming and a convicted child molester. At the time, Mann was professor of atmospheric...

AP Images Having lost the Nevada primary on Tuesday to “none of these candidates,” GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley lost again yesterday in the state’s caucuses because she didn’t compete. So former President Donald Trump won all the state’s 26 delegates. Trump also prevailed in the U.S. Virgin Islands, winning its four delegates. Why Haley insists on staying in the...

Greg Meland/iStock/Getty Images Plus On Thursday, U.S. lawmakers inched closer to approving a new round of military aid for Ukraine after 17 Senate Republicans joined with Democrats in pushing the funding legislation closer to a vote, overcoming a potential procedural roadblock.  The 67-32 cloture vote surpassed the 60-vote majority needed to advance the $95 billion spending bill, meaning opponents would...

AP Images Valeriy Zaluzhny The head of the Ukrainian armed forces throughout the conflict with Russia, General Valeriy Zaluzhny, was fired from his post on Thursday. The move comes days after Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky hinted at the dismissal in an interview, giving rise to a public backlash.  Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov announced the firing on Facebook, crediting Zaluzhny...

AP Images Kim Jong-un Pyongyang must be prepared to seize South Korean territory in the event of an “emergency,” North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said.  In a speech marking the 76th anniversary of the founding of the North Korean Army on Friday, Kim lauded the military for “firmly protecting the sovereignty and dignity of the country” from “imperialist military...