In weaponizing its dominance over the crucial minerals, Beijing is using tactics that it once denounced, potentially alienating nations it wants to court. Continue reading With Power Move on Rare Earths, China Plays Both Victim and Bully
The Mises Institute 2025 Supporters Summit in Delray Beach, Florida. This event explores the theme of economic freedom and makes the case for the system of private property. Continue reading 2025 Supporters Summit
President Donald Trump recently denied reports that he deployed B-1 bombers to Venezuela amid escalating tensions with the South American country. But journalists are now proving him wrong in real time. During a Thursday press gaggle, Trump was asked directly about the deployment of two B-1 Lancer jets, which the Wall Street Journal reported earlier in the day flew from Dyess Air Force Base in Texas toward the Venezuelan coast (though they remained in international airspace). The Journal cited both an unnamed U. S. official and flight tracking data to confirm the deployment.”No, it’s not accurate,” Trump told CBS reporter Kathryn Watson when asked about the jets. However, CNN reporter Natasha Bertrand fact-checked Trump’s denial, writing: “They were easily viewable on flight radar and have been tracked by open source analysts for most of the day. At its closest point a B1 bomber was a little more than 50 miles from the Venezuelan mainland.”Bertrand also tagged fellow CNN reporter Avery Schmitz, who regularly tracks flight radar. Last week, Schmitz posted radar images of B-52 bombers flying near the Venezuelan coast, just 48 miles from a Venezuelan archipelago with several thousand residents. On Thursday, Reuters reporter Idrees Ali reported that Trump suggested there could be “land action” in Venezuela soon, suggesting potential airstrikes on Venezuelan soil. However, as of Thursday there have been no formal plans announced to ramp up military operations in South America. Trump has been vocal in his opposition to Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, particularly as his administration is carrying out bombings of boats the president alleges are carrying drugs. To date, no details have yet been shared with Congress or the public beyond what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has relayed. In response to a reporter’s question about Maduro’s offer to have mediation sessions with the Trump administration, Trump has said that Maduro “doesn’t want to f– around with the United States.”. Continue reading Trump hit with brutal real-time fact check after insisting report was ‘not accurate’
Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon made a stunning prediction about President Donald Trump’s chances of running again in 2028 during an interview with The Economist on Thursday. Bannon, who hosts the MAGA podcast “The War Room,” said during the interview that Trump is an “instrument of divine will” and that the country needs him to be president for “at least one more term.” Trump has made passing remarks about running again in 2028, but some have speculated that he won’t run because of his old age. “Well, he’s going to get a third term, so Trump ’28. Trump is going to be president in 2028,” Bannon said. “But what about the 22nd Amendment?” Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor-in-chief of The Economist, asked, referring to the amendment that limits presidential terms to two. ‘There are many different alternatives for 2028, but people haven’t accommodated them yet,” Bannon said. “There are many different alternatives. At the appropriate time, we will lay out the plan, but there’s a plan, and President Trump will be president in 2028. The country needs him to be president of the United States, and we need him to finish what we’ve started,” he continued. “And the way we finish it is through Trump. He’s a vehicle of divine providence.”. Continue reading Steve Bannon drops stunning prediction about 2028: ‘There’s a plan’
The cost of President Donald Trump’s ballroom addition to the White House has gone up, from its original stated price of $200 million to nearly double that, the president admitted while speaking to reporters on Thursday.”Have you raised the full $300 million needed to fund your ballroom, and how much specifically are you donating to this construction?” asked a reporter.”Actually, we raised, I think, $350 million, all donor money, and money that we put up, uh, we’ve raised, it’s going to be, it’s going to cost right in the neighborhood of $300 million,” said Trump. “It’s been expanded and made, absolutely, it’ll be the most beautiful ballroom anywhere in the world, I think. And how much specifically are you donating to it personally?” reporters followed up.”How much am I donating? I won’t be able to tell you until I finish, but I’ll donate whatever is needed. I’ll tell you that,” said Trump. The ballroom project, which has already resulted in demolition work on parts of the East Wing despite previous promises it would not alter any existing structure, has triggered outrage from observers who fear Trump is reshaping the White House too aggressively in his own image, as well as those angry he is focusing on a vanity project for his own residence at a moment when the federal government is shut down over a standoff about extending health care funding for millions of people. YouTube www. youtube. com. Continue reading ‘Most beautiful ballroom anywhere!’ Trump’s project just got an eye-popping new price tag
The Indiana-Illinois Boundary Adjustment Commission held its first meeting Wednesday though without any members from Illinois and heard testimony from four people in favor of downstate Illinois counties splitting away from their home state in some form. Continue reading Indiana-Illinois boundary commission holds first meeting without any Illinois members
A Cuban deported by the U. S. to the tiny African nation of Eswatini is on hunger strike and his “life is on the line,” his lawyer says. Continue reading Lawyer says man deported to Africa on hunger strike, life “on the line”
Shas quits its coalition positions, demands regulation around haredi draft law Continue reading Shas quits its coalition positions, demands regulation around haredi draft law
Demetre Daskalakis, the former director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, argues the public health agency has been weaponized into a political tool. Continue reading ‘Irreparably Damaged’: Former Senior Official Details the Darkest Days of the CDC Under RFK Jr.
Three Democrats wrote to President Trump to express concern that decisions about the ballroom addition have been made without public disclosure. Continue reading House Democrats request details on White House ballroom from President Trump