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Rubio Pledges To Dismantle International Criminal Court's Threat To US Sovereignty Authored by Victoria Friedman via The Epoch Times, The State Department is launching a campaign to “dismantle the threat posed by the International Criminal Court to U.S. sovereignty,” the department said, including through disabling the court’s ability to target American servicemen or officials. The State Department said in a July 13 statement that actions under consideration include U.S. officials contacting foreign nations to highlight the ICC’s abuses and the risk posed to other countries by the court, and urging them to...

Trump Expands Critical Minerals Push With Army Bases The Trump administration is taking another step to strengthen the nation's critical minerals supply chain, announcing plans to build a series of mineral processing facilities on U.S. military bases through partnerships with private industry, according to Bloomberg. The initiative marks the first time commercial mineral processing operations will be located on Army installations. The U.S. Army said it has reached preliminary agreements with REalloys, Titan Mining, EnergyX, and Australia's ioneer to develop facilities that will process rare earth elements, graphite, lithium, and boron. REalloys...

Biden's FBI Secretly Obtained Kash Patel And Susie Wiles' Phone Records, But NYT Says It's Cool When Special Counsel Jack Smith was investigating Donald Trump and people in his orbit, he ended up surveilling then-private-citizen Kash Patel, and Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles during 2022 and 2003. Patel, now head of the FBI, told Reuters on Wednesday that he found out about this, and the FBI buried the files in a "Prohibited" category deep within the bureau's computer system so they would be extremely difficult to find. Getting down to it - the subpoenas targeted metadata...