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Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 26 broke his silence for the first time since the Wagner mutiny ended in an uncertain truce on Saturday, with the Russian leader pledging in a televised address that the leaders of the Wagner rebellion would be brought to justice. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told President Joe Biden about Putin’s weakness, in a...

All PwC partners and staff found to have done wrong will be named once an investigation into the tax advice scandal is over, an inquiry has been told. The revelation came as PwC’s acting chief executive Kristin Stubbins said offloading the firm’s government consultancy business and appointing a new CEO showed its commitment to accountability. PwC has been under pressure to...

rawpixel The courts continue to play a pivotal role in shaping immigration policy in America. On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision, ruled that states do not have the authority to challenge the administration’s rules establishing migration deportation priorities.  The case arose from a suit by the states of Texas and Louisiana against the Department of Homeland...

AP Images Emmanuel Macron French President Emmanuel Macron has allegedly urged South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to invite him to the upcoming BRICS summit in Pretoria, scheduled to take place in August. Apparently motivated by a desire to rival the U.S. globally and tackle Russia’s growing influence in the region, Macron was reported to have broached the prospect of his...

Arkadiusz Warguła/iStock/Getty Images Plus Associated Press writer Ali Swenson is described as AP’s specialist on “disinformation,” and this week she dismissed the description by Republicans of some Democrats as Marxists or Communists as an example of said “disinformation.” She cited the remarks of former President Donald Trump, although she opted to just call him “Donald Trump,” without the “former president”...

AP Images Petteri Orpo After weeks of what were, at times, fractious negotiations, Finland’s new leaders have announced that they have come to terms on the formation of a new government. The National Coalition Party (NCP), also known to Finns as Kokoomus, emerged from April’s general election with the most parliamentary seats (48). The National Coalition will lead a government...

Published in Kommersant (Russia) on 16 June 2023 by Anton Grishanov Translated from Russian by Nikita Gubankov. Edited by Wes Vanderburgh. Posted on June 19, 2023. *Editor’s Note: On March 4, 2022, Russia enacted a law that criminalizes public opposition to, or independent news reporting about, the war in Ukraine. The law makes it a crime to call the war...

Vivek Ramaswamy, a 2024 Republican presidential candidate, is warning that corporations that engage in so-called “woke” practices run the risk of alienating their customers and expanding the division among Americans. “When those businesses wade into social disputes, not only is that often bad for business . . . it’s bad for our civic culture in our country,” Ramaswamy said in...

The U.S. electricity grid is critically dependent on extra-high-voltage transformers made in China, says Tommy Waller, President of the Center for Security Policy. An expert on the U.S. grid, Waller also stars in the documentary “Grid Down, Power Up.” What are the greatest problems facing America’s electrical grid? Why is the industry allowing these vulnerabilities to exist? And what happens...

New Zealand’s residential housing price slump may be nearing its end, but experts are warning that there is still a period of uncertainty and volatility ahead. The latest data from Quotable Value’s (QV) House Price Index showed that falling home prices have slowed for the second month in a row. Over the three months to May, they decreased by 3.4...

As it did again this year, Britain hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977. Our competition entry, a song called "Rock Bottom," seemed to capture the moment. The contest itself had been delayed by five weeks because of strike action by BBC technicians. Although the lyrics were supposedly about a low point in a love affair, the fact that the...

First lady Jill Biden is gearing up to raise funds for President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, working toward securing a second term for her husband. This year, following her return from a six-day trip abroad, the first lady is embarking on her first solo trip for the 2024 campaign season. She will make a three-day fundraising tour, with stops in...

GRAPEVINE, Texas—A giant LGBT flag flew over the Gaylord Convention Center, where thousands of young women gathered for a Turning Point USA convention over the weekend in defense of faith and conservatism. The Young Women’s Leadership Summit held in the shadow of the rainbow flag was a reminder to attendees of how far radical left-wing ideologies have spread. Much of...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is shadowboxing while former President Donald Trump is going in for the knock-out punch even before the fight officially begins. The contrasting styles of the leading contenders in the 2024 Republican presidential primary race were evident in speeches on successive nights before the 2023 North Carolina Republican Convention. While DeSantis alluded to Trump without mentioning the...

TULSA, Okla.—Republican governor and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis of Florida brought his campaign to Oklahoma this weekend where he picked up fellow Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt’s endorsement and told voters his plan to turn the country around. Stitt compared DeSantis’s administration to his own work in Oklahoma. He said both states resisted mask mandates, both are pro-life, and both oppose...

Acting Labor Department Secretary Julie Su was grilled by Congress over the trafficking of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) to be used as illegal labor within the United States. Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) was scathing of the Labor Department’s approach to the issue during a House committee hearing on child migrant labor on June 7. Many of the children were released...

The Biden administration’s agents working along the U.S.–Mexico border are primarily providing illegal immigrants with “care and welfare” services, according to a senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official. DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari made the claims during a hearing before a House Oversight subcommittee on June 6 to discuss the ongoing law enforcement staffing challenges relating to the southern...

Some 20 states in the U.S. have approved or are considering approval of legislation that allows work — even dangerous work — for minors, a violation of international conventions and a mockery of America’s vaunted defense of human rights. Child labor was commonplace during the Industrial Revolution; poor families had no other recourse if they hoped to survive. Children worked...

Roughly one-quarter of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who responded to a survey plan to quit their jobs in the coming year, according to Department of Homeland Security Office Inspector General Joseph Cuffari. Cuffari said neither agency has a plan to deal with staffing issues that may arise due to problems cited...

Luis Miguel One of the positive things to come out of the Trump presidency and the associated America First/MAGA movement was that the Overton Window was shifted on the issue of migration. Although voices such as that of the John Birch Society have long been ringing the alarm bell on the disastrous effects that mass migration — both legal and...