Newsom Says He Won't Run For President In 2028 If Kamala Harris Does

Zelensky Says Wartime Elections Would 'Destroy' Ukraine, The Purported Bastion Of Democracy Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 with a goal of excising the Russian-speaking Donbas region, American and Western European officials have repeatedly said they and their countries are duty-bound to support Ukraine because, as Nancy Pelosi put it, "The battle for Ukraine is a battle for democracy itself." That notion has been growing ever more farcical over time, as President Volodymyr Zelensky refuses to hold elections that were supposed to happen back in the spring of 2024....

Treasury Secretary Says Order On Citizenship Proof For Banking Is 'In Process' Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday confirmed that an executive order mandating banks to collect citizenship information on customers is underway. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent addresses journalists in Paris on March 16, 2026. Ludovic Marin / AFP via Getty Images “It’s in process. And I don’t think it’s unreasonable, because, why don’t we have information on who’s in our banking system?” he told Semafor in an April 13 interview, responding to...

Washington is considering a smaller military footprint in the Middle East after the Iran war.  The Washington Post reports speaking with eight officials who said that the extensive damage to US bases in the Middle East caused by Iran has given the White House a once-in-a-generation opportunity to pull back US forces from the Middle […]