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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he wants to work with Congress on legislation to penalize the International Criminal Court after it applied for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. “Given the events of yesterday, I think we have to look at the appropriate steps to take to deal with again, what is a profoundly wrongheaded decision,” Blinken said at a State Department budget hearing with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Blinken’s comments were an early indication of the Biden administration’s openness to taking action against the Netherlands-based court for its application...

The Israeli government has been thrown into chaos as politicians in Benjamin Netanyahu's war cabinet threaten to resign. Pressure has continued to mount on the Israeli leader to find a postwar plan for Gaza even as the war shows no sign of ending. In the months following the devastating October 7 terrorist attack, Israeli politics has remained remarkably unified but that united front looks as though it is about to be shattered. On Saturday evening Benny Gantz, a centrist member of Netanyahu's war cabinet and his main rival for the top job, threatened to leave the government on June 8...

A national group plans to spend big on television ads aimed at a Kentucky congressman because of his perceived anti-Israel views. The United Democracy Project will spend about $300,000 to buy ads on Fox affiliates criticizing Republican Rep. Thomas Massie’s voting record on measures supporting Israel, said project spokesperson Patrick Dorton. "We are not playing in the primary, but we are trying to shine a light on the radical anti-Israel record of Tom Massie," Dorton said. "We want every voter in the state of Kentucky to know about his anti-Israel actions." “Republicans are trying to help Israel, but one Republican...

A Swastika scrawled by a pupil in a classroom has raised parents' fears that children are being brainwashed into anti-Semitism by pro-Palestinian activists. The crude graffiti at a Brighton comprehensive was last night being investigated by police. The image, in marker pen on the back of a plastic chair, has been visible at Patcham High School for several weeks. Alarmed parents alerted the headteacher over the weekend to the 'frightening' development. A family with children at the school, said: 'Pupils have been targeted by pro-Palestinian activists in our area. They are making massive efforts to radicalise British children into anti-Semitic...

A Canadian woman revealed exactly where Australian men fall short in the bedroom on Monday morning. Coco Bae, 37, explained on The Kyle and Jackie O Show she's 'collecting flags' by sleeping with as many men from different countries as possible. But it seems men Down Under have left the experienced lover underwhelmed between the sheets due to their poor hygiene and lack of imagination. Coco has slept with men from several different countries such as America, India, Germany, England, and even Djibouti - a small country in Africa. After sleeping with 'over 100' men from Australia, Coco said Aussie...

Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is set to be the latest speaker at the upcoming Libertarian National Convention later this month. Ramaswamy is expected to debate with a candidate chosen in an informal online poll following the party’s vice-presidential debates. Speaking in an exclusive Breitbart article published Thursday, Libertarian National Committee Chair Angela McArdle called having Ramaswamy at the convention “an incredible opportunity” for the Libertarian Party. She highlighted Ramaswamy’s strong performance in the Republican Party presidential primary debates and emphasized his overall alignment with libertarian values, presenting what she views as a valuable debate opportunity for a Libertarian...

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called on former President Donald Trump to formally debate him during the upcoming Libertarian National Convention taking place in Washington, D.C. later this month. Kennedy, who issued the debate invitation via X on Tuesday, stated that he will also be attending the Libertarian National Convention as a speaker, and that the party would be willing to organize the debate during their speaking time. He cites his polling numbers in both a hypothetical match-up with Trump and in a three-way race including both Trump and Biden. Additionally, Kennedy views the Libertarian National Convention...

A young boy died in a trial for Pfizer’s experimental gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, the company told patient advocates Tuesday. The boy was enrolled in Daylight, a trial studying the treatment in boys aged 2 or 3. The boy had received the therapy early last year, Pfizer told the advocates in a note posted online by Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy. Pfizer said it had not yet determined precisely what happened or whether it was linked to the treatment. Deaths and severe side effects linked to gene therapy have generally happened soon after dosing.

State leadership and delegation chairs from several Libertarian Party chapters, including those in Florida, California, Colorado, Tennessee, Minnesota, Vermont, Nebraska, and the District of Columbia, have extended an invitation to independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr., urging him to seek the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination. The letter, published on Friday by Libertarians for Kennedy and signed by various party leaders, including an alternative region representative on the Libertarian National Committee, urges Kennedy to seek the presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party, with the understanding that the undersigned would consider voting for him in the first round if he accepts. Notably, the...

RainFurrest 2015 was one for the books. The convention, filled with full-grown adults dressed as bears, wearing diapers and taking drugs, catapulted the often sex-crazed subculture cast into the public eye. It was meant to be an annual convention designed for and by furries. But the debauchery that ensued left animal loving organizers banned from ever holding another event in the city of Seattle after brass at the hotel they defiled spread word about what happened the social gathering. Permanently plastered in the annals of internet history, the event started to go off the rails when someone purposely loosened a...

When a small group of “America First” House Republicans fought to block Congress from approving a $95 billion package of foreign aid, none of them questioned the aid marked for Israel. The point of disagreement was rather the additional funding for Ukraine, which these dissenters viewed, correctly in my opinion, as a waste of money on a corrupt country in a doomed, faraway struggle that has little to do with American interests. None of the Republicans questioned the aid to Israel because they know that even the mildest criticism of American support for Israel violates a taboo in American conservative...

The right-leaning news and commentary site Daily Wire obtained a gag order against former host Candace Owens despite co-founder Ben Shapiro claiming he wanted to publicly debate her about Israel and antisemitism, according to a report. The Daily Wire secretly sought to muzzle Owens through a private arbitrator after she left the company in March, wrote Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald in his Locals newsletter on Thursday. The gag order was approved as Shapiro and Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing were publicly negotiating with Owens on an agreed-upon venue, date and time for a debate that had been widely anticipated...

Republican former President Donald Trump will address Libertarian delegates at the upcoming Libertarian National Convention in Washington, D.C., later this month. According to the party, this will be the first instance where a former President will directly address members, candidates, and leadership. “Join us for a historic moment at the 2024 Libertarian National Convention as we welcome former President Donald J. Trump to the podium,” the official website for the Libertarian National Convention reads. “This momentous occasion will mark the first time a former President directly addresses our members, candidates, and executive committee. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear insights...

I saw an ad for Amazon Prime's TV series, Them. It looked like black horror. Wary that the "horror" would be evil whites, I checked IMDB's one star reviews. I found this description of an episode (I've never watched the series):A white man rapes a black mother while she watches the other white haters toss and swing her baby around in a pillow case until the baby dies? Really?! Are there no boundaries anymore? That's not to mention the other atrocities that the writers/producers felt it would be cool for us to watch in today's tumultuous environment.This TV series is...

House Speaker Mike Johnson betrayed liberty and the Constitution by making a full-court press to get a “clean” reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Act through the House. Section 702 authorizes warrantless surveillance of foreign citizens. When the FISA Act was passed, surveillance state boosters promised that 702 warrantless surveillances would never be used against American citizens. However, intelligence agencies have used a loophole in 702, allowing them to subject to warrantless surveillance any American who communicated with a non-US citizen who was a 702 target. Intelligence agencies could then also conduct warrantless surveillance on any...

Watchdogs have slammed California local government for spending billions in overtime pay – with police officers, firefighters, linemen and utility workers earning up to $792,000 in a single year. Short staffing, poor planning, generous union deals and expensive hiring costs all contribute to civil servants relying heavily on overtime, experts told DailyMail.com. It has given frontline workers a golden opportunity to earn several million dollars since 2019. But tax watchdogs say it is a raw deal for the taxpayer. Senior Los Angeles fire captain Jason Getchius had a salary of $169,764 in 2022, the latest figures provided by the city....

Taking up a discourse of idealised whiteness in conjunction with star theory, Sean Redmond frames white female stardom as a privileged yet restrictive state. Locating Johansson within such a construction of stardom, Redmond looks to how her idealised white star image as resolved through her roles in Her, Under the Skin and Ghost in the Shell is simultaneously recognisable and alienating within these texts. As idealised white star, Johansson traverses the cinematic universe, moving with privileged access into roles, spaces and intimacies laid open for her. Yet as an unobtainable and non-reproductive idol, Johansson is also alienating, an embodiment of...

Michael Douglas has given his take on whether Joe Biden is too old to run again. During a Sunday appearance on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, the Oscar-winner, 79, was asked whether Biden was in good enough cognitive shape to continue. 'Well I think that I walk a little similar to him, and the people that I've talked to say he is as sharp as a tack... he's fine,' Douglas, two years Biden's junior, said. 'We all have an issue with memories as we get older, we forget names. 'He's overcome a stutter in his life and sometimes he might [stutter],...

Third-party candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues drawing more attention in the 2024 election, according to a new NBC poll, as voters dread another matchup between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. Kennedy receives enough support among the electorate to play a spoiler in the 2024 election. Thirteen percent chose Kennedy, significantly higher than other third party candidates like Jill Stein who got three percent support and Cornel West who got two percent. But the poll of registered voters suggests that Kennedy's new-found popularity hurts Trump more than Biden.

A transgender person has shared their experience after receiving an experimental new surgery that involves removing the entirety of their external genitals. Adrian, 27, from Florida, is non-binary - meaning they do not conform to either male or female - and had the operation at a controversial gender clinic in Texas that has been dubbed 'Frankenstein's lab'. It is one of a handful hospitals in the country that offer genital nullification surgery - a procedure which involves removing all external genitalia to create a smooth transition down from the stomach to the groin. A small but hidden opening remains in...