Posts by Kim Browne
Transcript: Trump Press Sec Snaps at Media as Polls on ICE Turns Dire
Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. At a press briefing on Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt repeatedly lost her temper with reporters. It’s no accident that what triggered Leavitt were perfectly legitimate questions about ICE’s extraordinary…
Read MoreMandarin Oriental to delist from SGX on Jan 20 following privatisation
[SINGAPORE] Mandarin Oriental will be delisted from the Singapore Exchange (SGX) on Jan 20, 2026, the luxury hotel group announced on Friday (Jan 16). The voluntary delisting follows the privatisation of the company by Jardine Strategic, a wholly owned subsidiary of its controlling shareholder, Jardine Matheson Holdings. Mandarin Oriental confirmed the effective date of the…
Read MoreVenezuela’s Machado Presents Trump With a Nobel Prize After All
In another message in 2024, Sinema told Ammel that she was skipping the State of the Union address that year because she didn’t want to hear “some old man, President Biden, talk about the legislation she wrote.” When Ammel messaged Sinema about missionary sex with the lights on, the then-senator replied, “Boring!” Earlier that year,…
Read More80 Democrats Move to Impeach Kristi Noem as ICE Terror Grows
More than 80 House Democrats have co-signed articles of impeachment for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The bill, introduced by Illinois Representative Robin Kelly, comes amid ratcheting tensions in Minnesota, where ICE agents’ aggressive tactics have led to multiple shootings involving federal officers and widespread protests in Minneapolis. “Noem’s gestapo-style tactics and reckless leadership have…
Read MoreKyrsten Sinema Sued Under Rare Law for Being a Home-Wrecker
In another message in 2024, Sinema told Ammel that she was skipping the State of the Union address that year because she didn’t want to hear “some old man, President Biden, talk about the legislation she wrote.” When Ammel messaged Sinema about missionary sex with the lights on, the then-senator replied, “Boring!” Earlier that year,…
Read MoreKaroline Leavitt Gets Hysterical After Simple Question on ICE
But the experiment’s protocols not only legitimize those concerns, they raise them. Inside Medicine found that there’s no placebo in the trial, and that this experiment is studying a vaccine known to be effective in order to find “non-specific effects” of vaccines. That’s language straight from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s echo chamber, as he…
Read MoreTrump Is Keeping Money From Venezuelan Oil Sale in Offshore Account
The full list of countries subject to the freeze is: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica,…
Read MoreTrump Already Gave Us the Blueprint for Abolishing ICE
At the same time, Trump’s campaign has further soured the American public on ICE. A recent Economist/YouGov survey found that 46 percent of voters support abolishing ICE, while 43 percent oppose it—the first such poll to find more support for dismantling the agency than keeping it. The same poll found that 80 percent of Democrats…
Read MoreJapan’s Nikkei falls back from record as yen rallies, tech shares retreat
[TOKYO] Japan’s Nikkei share average fell back from a record high on Thursday, as the yen’s rebound weighed on exporters and a red-hot rally in technology shares lost steam. The benchmark Nikkei 225 Index slid 1 per cent to 53,820.46 by the midday break, snapping a three-day surge that took the gauge to an all-time…
Read MoreICE’s Secret Programs to Spy on All of Us Exposed
The brutality Americans are witnessing from Immigration and Customs Enforcement is just the tip of the iceberg: the agency is reportedly running nearly two dozen secret operations to spy on all of us. Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein reported Wednesday that he’d received a “sensitive” 15-page government document outlining 21 “major” ICE operations leaked by a…
Read MoreTrump imposes 25% tariff on imports of some AI chips
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Wednesday imposed a 25 per cent tariff on certain AI chips, such as the Nvidia H200 AI processor and a similar semiconductor from AMD called the MI325X, under a new national security order released by the White House. The proclamation follows a nine-month investigation under Section 232 of the Trade…
Read MoreTrump, 79, Falls Asleep in Weird Press Conference About Milk
President Trump once again appeared to doze off on camera during a milk legislation signing ceremony on Wednesday afternoon. The president’s eyes were completely shut at multiple points of the ceremony. He can be seen looking drowsily on as Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins drones on about milk, while flanked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy…
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