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Mayor Pete’s ideal for presidential work ethic is the geezer who has napped his way through office? Exhausting. Oh, say it isn’t so, Pete. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, arguably the laziest man in Sleepy Joe Biden’s cabinet (and among the most incompetent), seems to be thinking hard about leaving the rough-and-tumble world of politics behind. It’s just too much work. The once-rising star in leftist political circles, who ran for president on the winning platform of being gay and being mayor of a small Midwest city, told “Face the Nation” that politics is hard. Buttigieg came to that conclusion by...

When a train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, last year, Pete Buttigieg drew criticism for not showing up right away. In responding to the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge — a far different crisis, this time at the center of his portfolio — he’s not making that mistake again. On the day the bridge collapsed, Buttigieg had planned a trip to Wyoming and Montana — what would have amounted to his 47th and 48th states visited as Transportation secretary — to tour infrastructure projects. But before leaving from Dulles International Airport on Tuesday, his work cell phone buzzed...

A 2021 clip of U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg discussing “racist” highway designs is being shared online as if it shows his response to the March 2024 bridge collapse in Baltimore. On March 26, a container ship collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, causing the bridge to collapse. Afterward, a 28-second video, opens new tab surfaced on social media showing Buttigieg standing before a podium in the White House discussing the architecture of highway bridges, saying: “If an underpass was constructed such that a bus carrying mostly Black and Puerto Rican kids to a beach, or...

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg vowed the federal government would rebuild the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland on Tuesday, calling it a 'cathedral' of American infrastructure. 'This is no ordinary bridge, this is one of the cathedrals of American infrastructure,' he said. 'It has been part of the skyline of this region longer than many of us has been alive.' He cautioned that the 'path to normalcy' for the Baltimore community after the tragedy 'will not be easy, will not be quick, and will not be inexpensive Buttigieg spoke at a press conference in Baltimore Tuesday afternoon, several...

US base in Syria at Conoco oil field attacked... Sometimes violent protests in Buenos Aires this evening following...passage of Argentine President Javier Milei's "Omnibus Bill"... A shakeup at the Turkish central bank. Central Bank Chief Hafize Gaye Erkan...abruptly resigning tonight... Russia's RIA Novosti News Agency reporting...British government...asking other NATO countries about participating in a military force in Ukraine... The trial of President Donald Trump on charges...January 6th postponed indefinitely... US airstrikes launched against Middle East targets tonight following the deadly attack on a US base... Wisconsin's Supreme Court ruling unanimously to put Minnesota Congressman Dean Phillips on the April 2nd...

A three-year-old Palestinian child in a car killed by Israeli security forces in what is being called an accident... Explosions reported in the Odessa Region of Ukraine... The British newspaper "The Telegraph" describes Hamas 'using massive stockpile of Chinese weaponry'... Libya reports production at its largest oil field suspended... In Washington DC the Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson and Democrat Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in agreement on a 'top line' for federal government spending...The 'deal' opens up more support for Ukraine... Farmers set to protest in Germany... Inside Israel's cabinet meeting today debate over fewer firearms being available for...

Iran's foreign ministry on Monday rejected Washington's claims that a drone attack targeting a tanker off the coast of India over the weekend was "fired from Iran", AFP reports. The Pentagon said on Saturday that the Japanese-owned Chem Pluto chemical tanker was targeted "by a one-way attack drone fired from Iran." "We declare these claims as completely rejected and worthless," foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said on Monday when asked about the US accusations. "Such claims are aimed at projecting, distracting public attention, and covering up for the full support of the American government for the crimes of the Zionist...

New report from industry researchers finds that 95 percent of the once-hyped crypto assets have hit rock-bottom valuation NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, once vaunted as a revolution in crypto and digital art, are largely worthless. Upon analysis of 73,257 NFT collections, the authors found that 69,795 have a market cap of zero Ether (ETH) The study estimates that some 23 million investors own these tokens of no practical use or value. What’s more, supply vastly outstripped demand for NFTs. Just 21 percent of the collections included in the study can claim full ownership, meaning around four out of every five...

House Democrats this week dismissed allegations President Biden improperly accepted money from a Ukrainian company during the Obama administration, but defended his administration for charging his likely 2024 rival, former President Donald Trump, with crimes. "I've seen a lot of allegations against President Biden by MAGA Republicans, but the truth is they've amounted to nothing. … I don't think they have a lot of credibility. But, look, they can knock themselves out," Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., said when asked about whether there should be an investigation into the Biden allegations. "All I want them to do is pay America's bills,...

Air raid alerts in Kiev and other regions of Ukraine early Friday morning... In Sydney, Australia two teenagers now cooperating with authorities following a massive blaze... In Texas articles of impeachment against Republican State Attorney General Ken Paxton advanced by a Republican controlled State House committee... 65 percent of those polled including 57 percent of Democrats say Joe Biden is too old to effectively serve a second term... Several polls out for the Democrat presidential nomination... Iran testing a ballistic missile today. The "Kheibar" missile described as Iran's most advanced yet... The founder of the Oath Keepers group, Stewart Rhodes,...

Pete Buttigieg admits he got it wrong on the Ohio train derailment response. But while the criticism is fair, he says, the critics are mostly not. “It’s really rich to see some of these folks – the former president, these Fox hosts – who are literally lifelong card-carrying members of the East Coast elite, whose top economic policy priority has always been tax cuts for the wealthy, and who wouldn’t know their way around a T.J. Maxx if their life depended on it, to be presenting themselves as if they genuinely care about the forgotten middle of the country,” the...

Canadian warships will be sent to the coast of Haiti. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the move at a meeting of Carribean leaders... Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro changing his position on the death penalty. Shapiro now opposing capital punishment... Pennsylvania US Senator Democrat John Fetterman hospitalized at the Walter Reed Military Hospital for 'clinical depression'... Wholesale inflation in the US rising .7 percent in January... Markets in the US today down... Unemployment rising in Australia... Politics in the USA today some of the report from a Democrat Atlanta prosecutor's grand jury probe of President Trump and his supporters released... Joe...

Russia’s planned big-ticket arms sales in Africa are expected to take a hit as a result of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, U.S. defense and intelligence officials told Foreign Policy, depriving the Kremlin of a major revenue source as the five-month war continues to devolve into a bitter stalemate. The Defense Department and U.S. intelligence officials believe that Russia’s severe losses of high-end equipment in Ukraine, including hundreds of tanks and helicopters disabled by American- and European-provided shoulder-fired rockets, will begin to cause significant slowdowns in the Kremlin’s arms deliveries into Africa, which could give inroads to Russia’s competitors, such...

Old Joe Biden has been a liar his entire public life, from his plagiarism in law school and on the presidential campaign trail to his lies about the accident that killed his first wife and the innumerable lies he has told while pretending to be president. It is no exaggeration to say that Joe Biden is one of the most untrustworthy men on the planet. On Friday he reinforced that reputation with a major speech on the May jobs report, in which he had the breathtaking audacity to say that the smoking ruin of an economy over which he is...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s isolation during the pandemic could be affecting his decision-making as he pushes on with his deadly invasion of Ukraine.

resident Joe Biden is absolutely committed to punishing Russian President Vladimir Putin for his aggression in Ukraine. You can’t turn on the TV without some clip of the silver haired, senile embodiment of Jeff Dunham’s puppet Walter insisting he’s willing to do whatever it takes to make the butcher of Moscow pay for his evil actions. In spirit, I agree with him. In spirit, Biden actually imposed sanctions that matter, that hurt. In reality, he didn’t do a damn thing. Putin’s power comes from money, most of Putin’s money comes from oil and gas. It stands to reason that if...

Former Attorney General William Barr bluntly dismissed some of former President Donald Trump's election fraud allegations as "bulls***" in new interviews published Sunday in the Atlantic. “My attitude was: It was put-up or shut-up time,” Barr recalled at one point. “If there was evidence of fraud, I had no motive to suppress it. But my suspicion all the way along was that there was nothing there. It was all bulls***.”

@CNNPolitics Republican Sen. Rand Paul: "My oath to the Constitution doesn’t allow me to disobey the law. I cannot vote to overturn the verdict of the states"

Just one year ago, a Newsweek reporter was fired after running a story that President Trump spent his Thanksgiving tweeting and golfing. In reality, he had made a trip to Afghanistan to spend time with the troops. “How is Trump spending Thanksgiving? Tweeting, golfing and more,” a headline from political journalist Jessica Kwong proclaimed. The story began, “As with any other day of the year, Trump will probably be tweeting, or expressing his opinions in another way.” The President actually made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan to greet US troops and meet the Afghani President Ashraf Ghani to discuss bringing...

A security firm in Tennessee cutting a deal with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. Ellison's office probing an allegation that armed guards were being recruited for polling places in Minnesota... Efforts by President Trump's campaign to monitor activity at ballot drop boxes in Philadelphia with video recording may be voter intimidation. That's the view of... Pennsylvania's Supreme Court with an elected 5-2 Democrat majority ruling that that election ballots cannot be rejected for mismatched signatures... Is this all just a political stunt? That's what Republican lawmakers here in York County, Pennsylvania are asking... More towns added to Connecticut's Red Alert...