The far-right Daily Wire faced mass layoffs this week " gutting the team of the long-prominent outlet initially founded by conservative activist Ben Shapiro. According to The Wrap, "Ben Shapiro's right-wing media company confirmed the layoffs in a statement to media on Friday afternoon, saying that impacted staffers are 'a number of teams' and layoffs were largely concentrated to its Nashville headquarters. 'Today, The Daily Wire made a difficult decision to restructure the organization, which included layoffs to a number of teams,' a spokesperson said." The Daily Wire has been the focus of drama in previous years, one of the biggest incidents being the firing of right-wing star Candace Owens for pushing antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Florida's Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd took aim at MAGA influencer and Jan. 6 riot participant Craig Long on Friday after the pro-Trump figure was caught in a human trafficking sting operation. The sheriff laughed at a press conference that the arrest would provide the influencer with "some content for his social media." "Then there's Craig Long we arrested " some of you may recognize him," Judd said, speaking during a press conference announcing that the sting operation had yielded 266 arrests. "He's an influencer, he also owns Craig Long Fitness in Tampa, [Florida] " he was [soliciting]. Did I tell you that he's married? That he's got 125k followers on Instagram, 560k followers on TikTok? Well, I'm gonna give him some content for his social media today." According to CBS-affiliate 10 Tampa Bay, Long, 41, was a participant in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and is an influential MAGA influencer and strong supporter of President Donald Trump.
This January, in a drab committee room of the New Hampshire state legislature, a Republican state lawmaker teamed up with a German Holocaust denier to propose that the state's public schools incorporate a conspiracy theory when developing their lesson plans: namely, that the Nazis' murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust was a hoax. Though their effort failed, the incident was just the latest example of antisemitic extremism creeping further into the American political mainstream, to the point that prominent conservative voices have warned of a "cancer" destroying the pro-Trump MAGA movement from within. And in a sign of just how normalized these incidents of anti-Jewish bigotry have become, the state lawmaker responsible for the effort, Rep. Matt Sabourin dit Choinire, appears to have faced no consequences and minimal backlash from Republican leadership in New Hampshire.
Donald Trump has said the US navy acted "like pirates" as he described an operation seizing a ship amid the tit-for-tat American blockade of Iranian ports. "We ... land on top of it and we took over the ship. We took over the cargo, took over the oil. It's a very profitable business," said Trump at a rally in Florida on Friday. "We're like pirates," he added to cheers from the crowd. "We're sort of like pirates. But we're not playing games." Trump's comparison of US naval activity to piracy comes as legal experts raise alarms about Iran's blockade of the vital strait of Hormuz and its plans to charge a fee for ships passing through it. Tehran effectively closed the waterway " a key route for oil and gas shipments " after the start of the US-Israeli air campaign against Iran on 28 February.
Donald Trump told a Florida crowd that it is "treasonous" to say the US is not winning the war in Iran. The US president was speaking at The Villages in Florida, the world's largest retirement community, when he made the remarks. Read more
Technical wizardry used to combat illegal immigration also funnels the personal data and whereabouts of US citizens to federal agents. This newly expanded domestic surveillance system, a high-tech dragnet using Israeli software, was built to locate, track, and deport people residing illegally in the US, but it also allows thousands of federal agents nationwide to peruse a trove of data belonging to more than 300 million people, including citizens, and all without a warrant.
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Found guilty: "David Rivera (60) and Esther Nuhfer (51) obtained a $50 million contract with a subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned and state-controlled oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA), to advance the interests of the Venezuelan regime in the US. Without registering as foreign agents as required by law, Rivera and Nuhfer lobbied US officials -- including then-US Senator Marco Rubio and US Representative Pete Sessions -- and arranged meetings between US policymakers and high-ranking Venezuelan officials, including then-President Nicolas Maduro and then-Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez. In text message exchanges, Rivera and Nuhfer used coded language to describe their activities."
USSECSTATE Marco Rubio Testified in Court on Behalf of his Former Roommate and Self-Described "Anti-Communist"
mported from the European Union to 25% in a sharp escalation of trade tensions with Brussels. The US president accused the EU of "not complying with our fully agreed to trade deal" in a post on Truth Social, but did not explain how. "I am pleased to announce that ... next week I will be increasing Tariffs charged to the European Union for Cars and Trucks," Trump said on Friday.
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In testimony Wednesday on Capitol Hill, a Pentagon official placed the cost of the Defense Department's Operation Epic Fury at about $25 billion, a figure that did not fully account for damaged or destroyed equipment or U.S. military installations damaged. As Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appeared before lawmakers this week to defend the Pentagon's sprawling $1.5 trillion budget request, U.S. officials familiar with internal assessments suggested the war's price tag is closer to $50 billion so far.
A bipartisan effort to expand what Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients can buy has sparked an unexpected rift among Democrats, after Minnesota's lieutenant governor publicly criticized members of her own party over a narrowly focused food policy change.
Elon Musk seems tired and cranky. On Thursday, he took the stand for the third day in a four-week trial stemming from his lawsuit alleging that OpenAI abandoned its mission and should be blocked from taking the company public later this year. If Musk plays his cards right, Sam Altman could be ousted and OpenAI would remain a nonprofit forever. But Musk stumbled at least seven times in ways that possibly put his chances at winning in jeopardy.
Watch the video closely. At the top of the frame, a dog handler goes into the door and backs up, then seems to be talking to someone - who is actually the so-called "assassin". Damning evidence of a complete set-up.
The Justice Department's second attempt to indict former FBI Director James Comey is the latest salvo in what critics call a campaign of retribution on the part of the Trump administration since Donald Trump returned to the presidency in 2025. Administration officials have insisted that any such actions are, as Vice President JD Vance said, "driven by law and not by politics." But they come after Trump vowed during his presidential campaign that he would seek retribution if reelected.
A shell company backed by Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump has reportedly merged with a critical minerals group that last year was lined up for $1.6bn in US government support to mine critical mineral tungsten in Kazakhstan.Trumpf Crime Family (TCF) Will Make Billions of Dollars for Themselves Without Real Estate
Your favorite gadgets just got more expensive to make"and that might be a good thing. Chinese courts delivered a surprising blow to tech companies betting on AI-powered cost-cutting, ruling that artificial intelligence adoption doesn't justify terminating employees under the country's Labor Contract Law. The Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court made headlines in April when it sided with a senior tech worker named Zhou, whose company tried to demote him with a massive pay cut after implementing AI systems. The court's message was crystal clear: AI efficiency gains don't constitute a "major change in objective circumstances" that would legally permit firing workers.
