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A divisive mobilization law in Ukraine came into force Saturday, as Kyiv struggles to boost troop numbers amid the Russian offensive.
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China’s largest-ever military drills with Cambodia on Thursday included a showcase performance by the literal dogs of war — a squad of robot dogs with automatic rifles mounted on their backs.
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Frank Ábrego, recently tapped to be Panama’s next public security minister, outlined on Thursday the upcoming government's planned first steps to crack down on U.S-bound migrants that cross through the dangerous Darién Gap jungle trail.
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The Biden administration allowed entry to U.S. territory to Arelys Casañola Quintana, an official of Cuba's communist Castro regime now requesting asylum proceedings out of "fear of socialism," according to a report published by Martí Noticias on Thursday.
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Kurdish citizens protested across Turkey after a court sentenced former HDP leader Selahattin Demirtas to 42 years in prison.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Friday that it had recovered the bodies of Israeli hostages Amit Buskila, Itzhak Gelerenter, and Shani Louk in a special operation overnight in the Gaza Strip.
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A brawl erupted in the Taiwanese parliament on Friday during a heated debate over reforms to the legislature.
The post Parliament Brawl Breaks Out in Taiwan as Left Tries to Limit Presidential Power appeared first on Breitbart.
Turkey has entered “advanced negotiations” with Chinese electric vehicle (EV) giants BYD and Chery to establish factories in Turkey.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has found loaded rocket launchers during its operation in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, now in its second week.
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Egypt on Wednesday rejected a plan that the Israeli government presented to reopen the Rafah border crossing.
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Lily Greenberg Call, a member of the radical anti-Israel group IfNotNow, resigned this week from a high position as the special assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Department of the Interior over U.S. support for Israel against Hamas.
The post Radical Anti-Israel Official Resigns from Biden Administration over Gaza appeared first on Breitbart.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday removed Cuba's communist regime from the State Department's list of countries "not cooperating fully" against terrorism.
The post Biden Removes Hamas Ally Cuba from Blacklist of Countries That Don’t Cooperate to Fight Terrorism appeared first on Breitbart.
The "floating pier" built by the U.S. Navy off the coast of Gaza was completed on Thursday, and connected to the shore by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops.
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The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) offered to share the nation's nuclear "expertise" with any country seeking to develop a nuclear program on Wednesday, the latest in a string of provocative comments by Iranian officials, including one claiming Tehran already has a nuclear bomb.
The post After Week of Hinting at Having Bomb, Iran Offers to Share ‘Nuclear Expertise’ with the World appeared first on Breitbart.
The Senate will hold a hearing discussing providing long-range weapons to Ukraine in its war against Russia on Thursday, May 16.
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Russian strongman Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing, China, on Thursday for extensive conversations with genocidal communist dictator Xi Jinping and his top officials focused on elevating economic and political ties.
The post Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin Forge Closer Ties in ‘Intense and Meaningful’ Beijing Talks appeared first on Breitbart.
Israeli government spokesperson Tal Heinrich said Thursday that defense minister Yoav Gallant's public criticism of his own government's policy on postwar Gaza was simply part of Israel's commitment to democracy and free speech.
The post Israel on Gallant Going Public with Criticism of Postwar Gaza Policy: We Are a Vibrant Democracy appeared first on Breitbart.
Niger’s Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine said in an interview on Tuesday that his government’s relations with the United States broke down because the Biden administration adopted a “condescending tone and lack of respect.”
The post Niger Coup Official Calls Biden Diplomacy ‘Unacceptable,’ ‘Condescending’ appeared first on Breitbart.
A group of radical pro-Palestinian activists took over a building at the University of California Berkeley on Wednesday, just hours after administrators and protesters struck a deal to end a weeks-long "encampment."
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China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday dismissed tariffs that the Biden administration threatened as a “farce."
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The White House has criticized Israel in the past for the slow pace of humanitarian aid delivery, as well as for recent attacks by right-wing activists on aid trucks, but struggled Wednesday to criticize Egypt for blocking aid to Gaza.
The post White House Can’t Explain Why Egypt Is Blocking Aid to Gaza appeared first on Breitbart.
President Joe Biden is backing an internal revolt within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government over the fate of postwar Gaza, after defense minister Yoav Gallant publicly declared his opposition to long-term Israeli rule there.
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President Joe Biden’s parole pipeline has brought more than a million foreign nationals to the United States since its inception in January 2023 -- exceeding the populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
The post Mass Migration Milestone: Joe Biden’s Parole Pipeline Brings Over a Million Foreign Nationals to U.S. appeared first on Breitbart.
Nigerian Christians took the streets on Tuesday to protest their government's incompetence in containing the threat of radical Islamist terrorism, marking the 21st birthday of Christian longtime Boko Haram captive Leah Sharibu.
The post Leah Sharibu, Christian Schoolgirl Abducted by Boko Haram 6 Years Ago, Turns 21 in Captivity appeared first on Breitbart.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is introducing legislation to halt President Joe Biden from issuing photo ID cards to immigrants.
The post Sen. Josh Hawley Issues Bill to Stop Joe Biden’s DHS from Giving Photo IDs to Migrants Released into U.S. appeared first on Breitbart.
The National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina (INDEC) announced on Tuesday that inflation in Argentina continued its downward trend in April, reaching an 8.8 percent rate that month and dropping to a single digit for the first time in six months.
The post Argentina: Inflation Drops to 8.8%, Reaching Single Digits for First Time in 6 Months appeared first on Breitbart.
The government of Peru signed a Supreme Decree this weekend defining transexuality as a mental disorder as part of an update to the nation's Essential Health Insurance Plan (PEAS), prompting outrage from the LGBTQIAP2S+ community.
The post LGBTQIAP2S+ Outrage over Peru Declaring Transgenderism a Mental Illness appeared first on Breitbart.
Evacuation orders have been issued for the Fort McMurray oil hub in Alberta, Canada, as winds shifted, and a massive wildfire approaches.
The post Canada Evacuates Thousands as Wildfires Surge appeared first on Breitbart.
The governments of India and Iran announced a decade-long agreement on Tuesday that would give India control and allow it to develop the port of Chabahar, a stop on the Gulf of Oman that offers India a favorable route to the Persian Gulf.
The post India Cuts Major Port Deal with Iran, Daring Biden to Sanction It appeared first on Breitbart.
Two foreign nationals reportedly pretended to be Amazon workers in an attempt to breach the Quantico Marine Corps Base in Virginia, located 36 miles outside of Washington, DC.
The post Report: 2 Foreign Nationals Attempted to Breach Marine Corps Base in Virginia appeared first on Breitbart.
Pro-Israel activists in Farmington Hills, Michigan, succeeded in pushing off an anti-Israel proclamation -- for now -- that came before their city council on Monday evening.
The post Michigan Community Pushes Off Anti-Israel Resolution appeared first on Breitbart.
A Palestinian columnist writing in Arabic in a Qatari newspaper declared this week: "We do not want a ceasefire, we want ongoing war. Victory is at hand."
The post Palestinian Columnist: ‘We Do Not Want a Ceasefire, We Want Ongoing War’ appeared first on Breitbart.
Chinese officials recommend using “Marxist Population Theory” to “analyze" China's declining demographics.
The post China Turns to ‘Marxist Population Theory’ to Fix Birth Rate Collapse appeared first on Breitbart.
Federal justice authorities in Argentina ordered 27 raids on Monday against leaders of leftist piqueteros ("picketers”) organizations following hundreds of complaints by local citizens of alleged extortion and blackmail.
The post Argentina Raids Leftist Protest Groups After Hundreds of Extortion Complaints appeared first on Breitbart.
The W.H.O. says it has full confidence in the casualty figures that the Hamas-controlled Gaza Ministry of Health reported.
The post W.H.O. Expresses Full Confidence in Hamas Death Tolls After Massive Revision appeared first on Breitbart.
China's state-run Global Times dismissed President Joe Biden's criticism of Israel as a last-minute "stopgap measure" to win votes.
The post China: Biden Giving Israel ‘Superficial Criticism’ to Appease Leftist Voters appeared first on Breitbart.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken performed Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World" on the electric guitar on Tuesday night in Kyiv, Ukraine, as part of a solidarity visit to boost morale in the embattled former Soviet republic.
The post WATCH: Blinken Plays ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’ in Kyiv Bar appeared first on Breitbart.
Breitbart Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak discusses the current Israel-Gaza war on the EmpowerU Podcast.
The post Watch Live: Breitbart’s Joel Pollak Breaks Down the Israel-Gaza War with EmpowerU appeared first on Breitbart.
Mariela Castro, daughter of Cuba's communist dictator Raúl Castro, led a “Conga Against Homophobia” dedicated to opposing Israel.
The post Raúl Castro’s Daughter Leads Pro-Hamas LGBT Conga in Cuba appeared first on Breitbart.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) shared drone footage Tuesday of terrorists in a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) compound in Rafah, near several United Nations (UN) vehicles, including gunfire by the terrorists.
The post WATCH: Israel Shares Footage of Gunmen in UN Compound in Rafah appeared first on Breitbart.
Organizations that receive federal grants will be barred from aiding illegal immigration, according to a proposal from Rep. Virginia Foxx.
The post Proposal: Organizations Receiving Federal Grants Not Permitted to Aid Illegal Immigration appeared first on Breitbart.
Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof said on Monday he has fled his native country after it sentenced him to eight years in prison, plus flogging, for “collusion to act against national security.”
The post Iranian Filmmaker Fleeing Flogging, Prison Casts Dark Cloud Over Cannes Film Festival appeared first on Breitbart.
The Foreign Ministry of Iran insisted in a briefing on Monday that the nation's terrorist regime would not pursue nuclear weapons development and would abide by international law on weapons of mass destructions (WMDs).
The post Iran Repeats Lie of Anti-Nuclear Fatwa After Lawmaker Boasts It Already Has Nukes appeared first on Breitbart.
The American representative at the United Nations Security Council on Monday, Deputy Ambassador Robert Wood, urged the body to "call out Iran" in an attempt to curb the rampant terrorist activity by Yemen's Houthi movement in the Red Sea.
The post Biden Administration Asks World to ‘Call Out Iran’ in Hopes of Stopping Houthi Terrorism appeared first on Breitbart.
Residents of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, have been ordered to be ready for evacuation at a moment’s notice as wildfires draw near.
The post Canada Starts Evacuating Oil Town as Wildfires Surge appeared first on Breitbart.
Two men accused of plotting to gun down Jews in an Islamic State-inspired attack in northwest England held without bail.
The post Men Accused of Plotting ISIS-Inspired Attack to Shoot Jews in UK Appear in Court appeared first on Breitbart.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Tuesday that it had killed 15 terrorists, at least 10 of whom were from Hamas, in a strike on a “war room” that they had set up at a United Nations Relief and Works
The post IDF Kills 15 Terrorists in ‘War Room’ At UNRWA School appeared first on Breitbart.
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta, Facebook and Instagram's parent company, is diving headfirst into the world of AI-powered wearables with its "Camerabuds" project, combining audio, video, and AI to form the ultimate surveillance capitalism data gathering tool.
The post Zuck’s Surveillance Dream: Meta Working on AI-Powered ‘Camerabuds’ that Gather Audio and Video appeared first on Breitbart.
President Joe Biden's Department of Homeland Security released an illegal alien convicted killer from Colombia into the U.S.
The post Catch and Release: Biden’s DHS Freed Illegal Alien Convicted Killer into U.S. appeared first on Breitbart.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continued to attack Hamas terrorists in Rafah and throughout Gaza on Monday, which was Israel's independence day, despite continued international criticism and caution from the White House.
The post PHOTOS: IDF Expands Battle in Rafah; Hits Hamas Targets in Northern, Central Gaza appeared first on Breitbart.
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Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group that brutally attacked Israel on October 7, ran a secret police agency that spied on the personal lives of Gaza residents in a style reminiscent of the Stasi, the notorious East German spy agency.
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Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of committing "genocide."
The post Colombia’s Socialist President: Netanyahu ‘Genocidal,’ Equal to ‘Those Who Killed Millions of Jews in Europe’ appeared first on Breitbart.
Israel began celebrations Monday night for its 76th independence day, with the nation still at war, pursuing the destruction of the Hamas terrorists who carried out the brutal attack of October 7 that killed roughly 1,200 people.
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Jews should be “annihilate[d],” according to a Florida Islamic cleric, who also accused Israel’s army of being “worse than the Nazis.”
The post ‘Muslim Terrorists Are in Our Midst’: Florida Imam Calls for Annihilation of All Jews appeared first on Breitbart.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said more than one thousand Hamas terrorists received medical treatment in hospitals across Turkey.
The post Recep Tayyip Erdogan: More Than 1,000 Hamas Terrorists Received Treatment in Turkish Hospitals appeared first on Breitbart.
W.H.O. countries failed to submit a finalized draft of the proposed pandemic accord this week amid controversy.
The post W.H.O. Goes into Overtime Drafting Pandemic Treaty as Opposition Grows appeared first on Breitbart.
The Pentagon has formally ordered all 1,000 American combat troops remaining in Niger to withdraw over the next few months.
The post Report: Joe Biden Officially Loses Niger, Orders All U.S. Troops Out appeared first on Breitbart.
The Chinese Communist government is seeking to take advantage of its friendly ties with the socialist Brazilian government to establish a "Maritime Silk Road" in the Amazon Rainforest, The Argentine news outlet Infobae reported this weekend.
The post Report: China Seeking to Bring ‘Silk Road’ to Amazon with Help from Socialist Brazil appeared first on Breitbart.
A billboard in a western Jerusalem neighborhood that once thanked U.S. President Joe Biden for his support has been changed to criticize Biden for pressuring Israel not to pursue Hamas terrorists and win the war in Gaza.
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Israeli singer Eden Golan landed home on Sunday after a tumultuous participation at this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden, where she faced hostility from fellow competitors, a booing audience, and a thousands-strong pro-Hamas mob outside of the venue.
The post Israel’s Eurovision Singer Eden Golan Comes Home to Cheers: ‘I Was a Voice’ for the Hostages appeared first on Breitbart.
In just nine years, the oldest Gen Xers will reach Social Security’s normal retirement age of 67. But they will have a rude awakening when they learn that the program’s trust fund is empty, leaving it able to pay out only as much in benefits as it takes from the paychecks of those then working.
That’s straight from the Social Security trustees 2024 report. It also notes that without congressional action, benefits will have to be cut by 21% across the board—including for those already retired—beginning in 2033.
For the average beneficiary, who receives about $22,000 a year from Social Security, that 21% cut will translate into a loss of $4,600 per year. As Social Security benefits will grow faster than payroll taxes for the foreseeable future, benefit cuts will reach 31% at the end of the trustees’ 75-year projections.
Simply maintaining currently scheduled Social Security benefits would require large tax increases. The program’s trustees estimate that payroll taxes would have to rise immediately from 12.4% to 15.7%, adding $2,500 to the median household’s annual Social Security taxes.
Even that projected hike may be too conservative. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that a 17.5% tax, or an extra $3,800 per year for the median family, is necessary to maintain current Social Security benefits.
Such high tax rates are a far cry from Social Security’s original intent. The program started out as a 2% tax, and its founders promised it would never take more than 6% of workers’ paychecks.
And for a program that currently replaces about 40% of workers’ earnings during retirement (and will decline to 32% beginning in 2033), the current 12.4% tax is a hefty price to pay. If workers invested that amount in a conservative mix of stocks and bonds, they should have enough at retirement to replace at least 75% of their earnings.
Even as Social Security was never intended to be the sole source of income in retirement, its rising taxes have made it increasingly difficult, particularly for lower- and middle-income workers, to save for retirement.
In fact, Social Security’s growing size and scope could be exacerbating wealth inequality because the hard truth is that Social Security is not a savings program, and workers have no ownership of the Social Security taxes they pay.
Despite Social Security’s original intent to be a predominantly prefunded and effectively a forced-savings program, it now functions as a pure intergenerational transfer program. That happened because Social Security’s benefits increased more than its tax hikes.
In every year since 2011, Social Security has paid out more in benefits than it has received in tax revenues. This means that workers’ payroll tax “contributions” aren’t saved and don’t earn a positive rate of return over time.
Although the formula that determines retirees’ benefits is based on what they paid in Social Security taxes, their actual benefits come directly from younger workers’ paychecks. After 2033, retirees’ benefits will be entirely dependent on how much future lawmakers are willing to extract from workers’ paychecks.
The fact that Social Security taxes aren’t saved makes the program a bad deal for most Americans. It can also exacerbate wealth inequality among low-income and minority Americans who have lower life expectancies.
One out of every four black men dies between the ages of 45 and 64, having paid tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in Social Security taxes. But because they have no ownership of their contributions, they and their family members receive little or nothing in return.
What could have been a $350,000 retirement account that a low-income worker would have to pass on to his family is often just a $255 death payment instead.
With less than a decade left before Social Security runs out of money and automatic 21% benefit cuts ensue, lawmakers must act now to prevent insolvency and to improve the program for future generations.
Some commonsense solutions include gradually shifting to a universal benefit based on years of work instead of total earnings, automatically updating the program’s eligibility age to align with changes in life expectancy, and using more accurate statistics to adjust benefits.
These reforms would translate into bigger paychecks for all Americans by allowing Social Security’s tax rate to decline over time.
Moreover, if coupled with a personal ownership option, Social Security reform could help more Americans build wealth that could increase their retirement incomes and provide a leg up to help their children and grandchildren pursue goals like education, homeownership, or starting a small business.
Whatever lawmakers do, they must act soon. Time isn’t on our side.
Distributed by Tribune News Service
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Public Eye, a human rights advocacy group based in Switzerland, blasted Chinese fashion giant Shein for demanding excessive overtime from its workers in a 2021 report.
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Iranian member of Parliament Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani said in an interview this weekend that he believed his country had successfully developed a nuclear weapon, contrary to international law, but would not admit to it.
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International Christian Concern (ICC) President Jeff King warns pro-Hamas rallies are flourshing on campuses with the aid of Qatari funding.
The post Christian NGO Warns: Hamas HQ Qatar Is Buying Off American Colleges appeared first on Breitbart.
Rishi Sunak outright accused China and "axis of authoritarian states" including Russia of undermining Western security and values.
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The United Nations has cut its estimate of Palestinian children killed in Gaza by half, calling into question the figures frequently used by international news outlets and governments to criticize Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza.
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The State of Israel marked its traditional Memorial Day on Sunday evening with 620 soldiers added to the rolls of those who have fallen in battle since the state's independence in 1948.
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Thousands more civilians have fled Russia's renewed ground offensive in Ukraine's northeast that has targeted towns and villages.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Saturday that it had established a field hospital in central Gaza, together with international organizations, that would serve Palestinians while the war against Hamas is still taking place.
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The Biden administration has reportedly offered Israel intelligence on the whereabouts of Hamas leaders in tunnels underneath Gaza -- if Israel ends its ongoing attack on the last Hamas stronghold in the Gaza town of Rafah.
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The U.S. government has "contingency" plans in place for the "continuity of government" in case of an attack or emergency, said Cliff Sims.
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Russian forces began a renewed ground assault on Ukraine's northeast, forcing thousands to evacuate from the Kharkiv region.
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The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution asking the Security Council to vote for Palestinian membership.
The post Israeli Envoy Stuffs U.N. Charter in Shredder as Palestinian ‘State’ Passes in Non-Binding Vote appeared first on Breitbart.
There are still five American hostages being held by Hamas. And though our leaders seem to have forgotten them, the American people have not. Hamas murdered 1,200 people in Israel in the October 7, 2023, terror attack, and took more
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The First Capital Command (PCC), Brazil's largest transnational organized crime syndicate and Latin America's largest drug trafficking gang, has managed to establish a foothold in Sydney, Australia, according to a report published by the Argentine news outlet Infobae on Thursday.
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The Chinese government celebrated heavy travel and tourism during China’s Labor Day holiday season, which ran from May 1 to May 5, as a sign the struggling economy is beginning to recover.
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President-Elect of Panama José Raúl Mulino reiterated his plans to deport U.S-bound migrants who cross Panama through the Darien Gap.
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Christian tribes in northern India’s restless state of Manipur say the Hindu nationalist government is trying to deport them to Myanmar.
The post Indian Christians Say Hindu Nationalist Government Falsely Brands Them ‘Illegal’ to ‘Deport’ to Myanmar appeared first on Breitbart.
A State Department report on Israel's use of U.S. weapons tried to please both pro- and anti-Israel voices, creating a slew of contradictory headlines.
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President Joe Biden’s threat to halt weapons to the Jewish state is endangering the national security of both the United States and “our most precious ally,” Israel, according to House Republican Conference chair Elise Stefanik, who accused the 81-year-old president of pandering to the “pro-Hamas base of the Democrat party” in a desperate bid to save his “plummeting polling.”
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Israel's security cabinet voted Friday to expand the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operation in Rafah, albeit on a limited scale, and to continue talks with mediators in Egypt in the hope of reaching a hostage release deal with Hamas.
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China and Hungary signed 18 agreements after a meeting between Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and visiting genocidal dictator Xi Jinping.
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President Joe Biden's decision to withhold bombs from Israel will cause more Israeli soldiers to die in booby-trapped buildings that would otherwise have been destroyed from the air, according to a military source in Israel.
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Sen. J.D. Vance warned about how America is "under attack" from Chinese government-sponsored state hacking group Volt Typhoon.
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The Eurovision Song Contest, the most flamboyant attempt to prevent World War III ever conceived, will hold its annual Grand Final on Saturday in the most emotionally charged political atmosphere in recent memory.
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Hamas fired rockets Friday at the Kerem Shalom border crossing, one of several points at which humanitarian aid enters the Gaza Strip from Israel.
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A former colonel in the Saudi military and ex-intelligence officer told the BBC on the record Wednesday that the Saudi government ordered troops to kill indigenous people who resisted eviction on the land that Riyadh hopes to turn into the state-of-the-art "megacity" Neom.
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President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is reportedly starting a pilot program to provide migrants, released into the United States and placed into deportation proceedings, with identification (ID) cards.
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Maher Bitar, the White House Coordinator for Intelligence and Defense Policy at the U.S. National Security Council (NSC), was a radical pro-Palestinian activist and a leader within Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
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Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil accused the United States on Wednesday of "instrumentalizing" migration to harm the socialist regime.
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The Jewish community of Malmö, Sweden, fear targeted attacks this week as their home hosts the Eurovision Song Contest.
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The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen announced on Thursday they had targeted three more commercial vessels with missiles and drones.
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The Biden administration tried to argue Thursday that if Israel launched an ambitious attack on Hamas in Rafah, that would strengthen Hamas, improve Hamas's leverage in hostage negotiations, and build popular support for Hamas.
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Breitbart News' Joel Pollak asked Israeli government spokesman Avi Hyman on Wednesday if Israel believed that U.S. President Joe Biden's threat to stop weapons shipments met the dictionary definition of the word "treachery."
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Genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping published an article on Wednesday in the Hungarian newspaper Magyar Nemzet celebrating Beijing's ties to Budapest, emphasizing what he called a "deep friendship" with the leadership of the country.
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The Chinese Communist regime drafted a law that would require military training for children all the way down to the elementary school level.
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Some of the activists in pro-Hamas campus protests received support and training in Cuba, ADN America reported Tuesday.
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin confirmed Wednesday at the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense that the U.S. is withholding a shipment of weapons to Israel over concerns about its ongoing attack on Hamas in Rafah.
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Ukraine detained two agents in its equivalent to the Secret Service for allegedly plotting with Russia to assassinate President Zelensky.
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The U.S. withheld certain bombs from Israel to prevent their use in an attack on Hamas battalions in the town of Rafah, according to multiple news reports Tuesday evening.
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The commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, claimed on Tuesday that his rogue regime is "broadening the battlefront" against Israel and America to hasten the collapse of both nations.
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The Israeli government is declining to confirm or deny that the Biden administration is withholding weapons from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), as reported in numerous American and Israeli news outlets this week.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott wrote a letter to President Joe Biden opposing a Department of the Air Force proposal to transfer National Guard units from state control to federal without the governors' authorization. The proposal calls for certain National Guard units to be transferred out of the National Guard to the newly created Space Command.
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The CEO of Rumble told Congress he was pressured to disable services in Brazil through repressive demands from the nation's left-wing courts.
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Human rights activists and Uyghur organization leaders staged a protest on Monday in Paris to condemn President Emmanuel Macron's enthusiastic welcome to China's genocidal dictator Xi Jinping.
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Genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping is expected to arrive in Serbia late on Tuesday, the 25th anniversary of NATO forces bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
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The Social Security trustees released their annual report on Monday, and the outlook is bleak.
Social Security has morphed far beyond its original intent, and absent congressional action, everyone who is of Generation X or younger will not receive a single full benefit, and even those already in retirement will experience significant benefit cuts.
To prevent benefit cuts for even the most elderly who rely on Social Security for their entire income, Congress will have to act.
Determining the best pathway for reform, however, requires understanding some crucial facts about Social Security.
Fact #1: Social Security’s retirement fund will run dry in nine years. The Social Security trustees project that the Old Age and Survivors Insurance, or retirement program, will be insolvent in 2033. At that point, Social Security benefits will be limited to the amount of Social Security payroll taxes that come into the program.
Technically, insolvency means that the notional trust fund (which currently consists of IOUs that the federal government issued to the Social Security trust fund when it borrowed payroll-tax revenues to fund non-Social Security spending) will have no more money—or IOUs—left to be reclaimed.
Fact #2: 21% automatic benefit cuts will ensue. Because Social Security is a self-financed program, it cannot spend more than it takes in. Consequently, unless Congress reforms Social Security, benefits will be reduced by 21% across the board beginning in 2033. That will equal a loss of about $4,600 for the average beneficiary, who receives about $22,000 per year from Social Security.
Beyond 2033, payroll taxes will cover a declining share of scheduled benefits, and benefit reductions will rise to 31% by 2098.
Fact #3: Social Security has $22.6 trillion in unfunded obligations. Social Security’s combined Old Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance programs have accumulated $22.6 trillion in unfunded obligations, which is effectively the additional amount required to maintain Social Security’s current benefit levels over the next 75 years. That amounts to $172,000 for every household in America.
Fact #4: Large tax hikes would be required to prevent benefit reductions. To prevent any benefit reductions, the Social Security trustees estimate that payroll taxes would have to rise immediately from 12.4% to 15.7%. That estimate may be too conservative, however. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that payroll taxes would have to rise immediately to 17.5% to maintain current benefits.
Those estimated tax hikes would add between $2,500 and $3,800 in annual Social Security taxes for a median household with about $75,000 of income. When Social Security was established, it started out as a 2% tax, and its founders promised the program would never take more than 6% of workers’ paychecks.
In addition to the basic facts presented in the trustees’ report, understanding some common misconceptions about Social Security can help Americans assess the best options for reform.
Misconception #1: Social Security is a retirement savings program. Today, not a single dollar of workers’ Social Security payroll taxes is saved. Decades ago, a significant portion of workers’ payroll taxes were designated to the Social Security trust fund and earned interest (because the money was lent to the federal government to finance deficits in other, non-Social Security government spending).
Since 2011, however, Social Security has paid out more in benefits than it has collected in tax revenues, and every dollar of workers’ payroll taxes has gone straight out the door to current retirees. Thus, Social Security is not a retirement savings program, but an intergenerational income-transfer program.
Misconception #2: Social Security is a good deal. Social Security was a good deal for early generations of beneficiaries who received far more than they paid into the system.
Social Security continues to seem like a good deal to many people because a $2,000 monthly benefit check is very noticeable, whereas workers never see the 6.2% Social Security tax that employers pay on their behalf and with automatic deductions and direct deposit of paychecks, many workers don’t notice the 6.2% taken from those paychecks.
Moreover, most workers have no idea what they could have received if their payroll taxes had instead been put into a personal retirement account.
My colleagues and I at The Heritage Foundation estimated that the average worker could receive three times as much from a personal retirement account, compared to what Social Security provides. Even minimum-wage workers could receive 40% more from a personal retirement account. (The Heritage Foundation founded The Daily Signal in 2014.)
Misconception #3: Making everyone pay their “fair share” of Social Security taxes would fix the program’s shortfalls. To increase Social Security revenues, some lawmakers have called for subjecting all earnings (and potentially unearned income) to Social Security’s 12.4% tax. Currently, Social Security’s tax applies up to $168,600 of earnings in 2024. The current cap is already 2.5 times as large, in inflation-adjusted dollars, as the original earnings cap.
Social Security’s tax cap also functions as a benefit cap. Since benefits are a function of the income on which workers paid taxes, the tax cap prevents very wealthy individuals from receiving very large Social Security benefits.
Eliminating the Social Security tax cap entirely would only solve about half of Social Security’s shortfalls. Since eliminating Social Security’s tax cap would bring the top federal income tax rate to 51.8% and the top combined state and federal income tax rate to 65.8% (in 2026 and beyond), this would leave little room to raise taxes to cover the federal government’s regular deficits or Medicare’s more than $50 trillion in shortfalls.
As Brian Riedl of the Manhattan Institute noted, “even 100% tax rates on million-dollar earners would not come close to balancing the budget, and seizing all $4.5 trillion of billionaire wealth—every home, car, business, and investment—would merely fund the federal government one time for nine months.”
Social Security’s outlook is dismal, and the politics of reform are even worse. But the good news is that Social Security truly is solvable.
By slowly shifting to a system of universal benefits, modernizing outdated features, and adding an ownership option, policymakers can preserve Social Security, improve benefits for those who need them most, and increase all Americans’ lifetime incomes.
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Families of victims of the October 7 terror attack, and fallen Israeli soldiers, rallied Tuesday at the Tel Aviv branch office of the U.S. embassy in Israel to demand the Biden administration allow Israel to win the war against Hamas.
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U.S. acting ambassador to Colombia Francisco Palmieri said the Biden administration is, once again, willing to ease sanctions on Venezuela.
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A new report appears to confirm earlier claims that the Biden administration has been withholding arms from Israel in an attempt to send a message of disapproval about Israel's policy of entering Rafah to finish off Hamas terrorists.
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A report published on Monday by Bloomberg, citing the Russian Finance Ministry, found that Moscow generated over double the amount of revenue in April 2024 from oil sales and taxes compared to April 2023.
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State and local police cleared a pro-Palestinian "encampment" at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) on Monday after several days in which activists occupied an area on campus and invited outside activists to join them.
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Israeli officials said Monday that Biden administration officials had secretly worked with mediators, without Israel's knowledge, to craft a Hamas "agreement" to ceasefire terms in an attempt to deter an attack on Hamas in Rafah.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) attack on Hamas positions in Rafah, in southern Gaza, began Monday with a fight to seize two key strategic points: the Rafah-Egypt border crossing, and the Philadelphi road along the Egyptian border.
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