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What's inside the latest UFO file release by the Pentagon?

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The Pentagon released a new batch of UFO files on Friday, including more than 50 previously classified videos and documents related to findings dating from the 1940s to about six months ago.

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Democratic chair faces calls to quit over ‘shambles’ of election autopsy release

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Democratic chair faces calls to quit over ‘shambles’ of election autopsy release

DNC’s Ken Martin condemned for suppressing report for months and then admitting it ‘won’t meet your standards’Democrats belatedly publish 2024 election autopsyKen Martin, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, is facing mounting calls to resign over his shambolic handling of an autopsy report on Kamala Harris’s defeat by Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.Martin suppressed the document for months before finally bowing to internal pressure and releasing it on Thursday. The slapdash nature of the autopsy, omitting Joe Biden’s decision to run for a second term and failing to mention the words “Gaza” or “Israel”, has only deepened a crisis of confidence in his leadership. Continue reading...

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Trump admin tightens on applying for green cards inside the US

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Trump admin tightens on applying for green cards inside the US

The U.S. has long let immigrants apply for green cards without leaving. That's about to change, according to a new memo released by USCIS.

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James Comer starts investigation into Kalshi and Polymarket over insider trading

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James Comer starts investigation into Kalshi and Polymarket over insider trading

The top Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform announced Friday that the panel is launching an investigation into prediction market companies Kalshi and Polymarket over allegations of insider trading and exploiting regulatory loopholes. Rep. James Comer (R-KY) said lawmakers are examining the “adequacy of company safeguards to prevent access to offshore […]

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Trump’s Stock Transactions Probably Aren’t Insider Trading. They’re Still a Scandal.

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Trump’s Stock Transactions Probably Aren’t Insider Trading. They’re Still a Scandal.

The president’s financial arrangements leave the door open to conflicts and illegality.

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911 Call for NASCAR Legend Kyle Busch Released … ‘Coughing Up Blood’ (AUDIO)

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911 Call for NASCAR Legend Kyle Busch Released … ‘Coughing Up Blood’ (AUDIO)

Two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch passed away on Thursday. The post 911 Call for NASCAR Legend Kyle Busch Released … ‘Coughing Up Blood’ (AUDIO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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Trump’s latest loyalty test is a 'risky' strategy': political scientists

U.S. President Donald Trump isn't backing down for his push for a White House ballroom, insisting that it is a matter of national security. And he is turning it into yet another loyalty test or purity test for GOP lawmakers. But according to political scientists interviewed by the UK-based i Paper, this strategy poses significant political risks for Trump.The i Paper's Jonathan Singh stresses that Trump's push for the ballroom is about much more than the ballroom itself — it exemplifies his "demand for loyalty and is a way for the U.S. president to test who is with him and against him." Singh, however, describes this a "risky approach" for the United States' 2026 midterms."Favoring unwavering loyalty over electoral success, this week, Trump helped to end the midterm election hopes of three sitting Republicans: Kentucky's Thomas Massie, a critic of the government's handling of the (Jeffrey) Epstein scandal; Georgia's Brad Raffensperger, who defied Trump's call to 'find' votes to overturn the 2020 election; and Louisiana's Bill Cassidy, a supporter of Trump's 2021 impeachment," Singh explains. "The president also demanded the firing of a non-partisan Senate official who rejected his attempt to include $1bn (£740m) for his vast White House ballroom in an immigration bill, a vote on which was then abandoned by Senate Republicans on Thursday."Singh continues, "The president's strategy appears to center on building a movement of frightened loyalists who will back even his most narcissistic ambitions — a growing concern for Republican lawmakers who might dare to challenge him. But for a president facing tanking poll numbers and crises at home and abroad, taking down those who oppose him is a way of establishing control over a fracturing party and is part of a wider strategy to secure ultra-loyalty to the Trump political brand, according to experts."One of the political experts interviewed by the i Paper is Elisa Wirsching, a professor of government for the London School of Economics.Wirsching told the i Paper, "This is more strategic than personal, even though his rhetoric is very Trump-like and impulsive. The pattern aligns with Trump's more general approach, namely loyalty above policy or even ideology — and loyalty above electability…. What (Cassidy and Massie) had in common was specific acts of defiance against Trump personally."Wirsching noted that "few Republicans" will "push back, even where they privately disagree, because individual defection is punishable and collective resistance has never been organized" against Trump — adding, "Each Republican member's strategy is to keep their head down and hope they are not next."Peter Finn, who teaches international relations at the University of Greenwich, believes that Trump's push for loyalty within the GOP is being encouraged by the political turbulence of 2026.Finn told the i Paper, "Trump has the ability to shape events in the short term. But societies are complicated, and events are hard to predict and control. So this is one area where Trump can still directly impact events and maybe he’s finding some sort of solace in that."

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Insider warns Colbert ouster will hurt CBS in ways executives didn't see coming

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Insider warns Colbert ouster will hurt CBS in ways executives didn't see coming

The end of The Late Show and the ouster of host Stephen Colbert could backfire on CBS, an insider warned. According to reporting by Status, a CBS network insider expects "various hard-to-measure costs baked into the 'Late Show's' absence, including its impact on other CBS programming."The last episode of The Late Show aired on Thursday. CBS blamed financial reasons for the show's end, but Colbert was also a notable critic of Trump, who had financial leverage over the network's parent company. "The show did create a platform for talent associated with series like 'Tracker' as well as former 'CBS Evening News' anchor John Dickerson, whose kinship with Colbert became such he emceed the late night show's Wednesday episode," according to Status.

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‘Now he wants a thank you?’ Trump's latest boast leaves critics dumbstruck

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‘Now he wants a thank you?’ Trump's latest boast leaves critics dumbstruck

Critics were left dumbstruck on Friday after President Donald Trump characterized a taxpayer-funded settlement he reached as an act of selflessness, a remark that some noted had also severely undercut his own past remarks.On his social media platform Truth Social, Trump complained Friday morning that he “gave up a lot of money” after agreeing to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for a nearly $1.8 billion settlement, with the funds earmarked for payouts to those who allege to have been unfairly targeted by the Biden administration’s Justice Department.Trump said that in lieu of a personal payout that could have been an “absolute fortune,” he instead opted to “help others” who were “badly abused by an evil, corrupt and weaponized Biden administration.” His remarks also come after he previously claimed to not be “involved” in the creation of the fund.Trump’s framing of securing a nearly $1.8 billion payout from taxpayers to potentially secure payments for the president’s donors or violent Jan. 6 Capitol rioters, critics argued, was stunning.“Not content to just rip us all off, he expects praise for it,” noted author Jennifer Erin Valent in a social media post on X.Others, like podcast host “Hal for NY,” whose videos on YouTube have amassed more than 71 million views, pointed to what appeared to be a glaring contradiction Trump made in his remarks.“Funny, because he told us he had nothing to do with it. Now he wants a thank you?” they wrote in a social media post on X to their nearly 18,000 followers.And Joanne Carducci, a prominent Democratic political commentator, wrote to her more than 1 million followers on X: “I thought he said he had nothing to do with the slush fund?”I thought he said he had nothing to do with the slush fund? 🧐— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) May 22, 2026

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