Four US soldiers stationed in Lithuania went missing on Tuesday during a training exercise near the Lithuanian–Belarusian border. On Wednesday NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte claimed that the troops had been killed; however, the US Army and the Lithuanian Armed Forces stated that the search is still ongoing.
The 2024 election marked the fourth consecutive US presidential election where the popular vote margin was within five points—an unprecedented occurrence in US history. The last candidate to win the popular vote by more than 10 points was Republican Ronald Reagan in 1984. Why are US presidential elections so close in the 21st century?
‘Likud joining forces with PfE shook the liberal establishment. This can be measured by the intensity of their rhetoric. Patriots ought to look out for such signals from mainstream media: wherever they try to undermine you, it means you have done something right. This is the signal to close ranks and pursue whichever course of action caused this reaction in the first place.’
Zsolt Zsólyomi, a 26-year-old Hungarian national charged with second-degree murder in Miami, Florida, could become the first person executed under a new immigration bill signed by Governor Ron DeSantis on 13 February. According to local authorities, Zsólyomi, who had been on immigration enforcement’s radar for overstaying his visa, murdered two elderly men in the Miami area.
According to reporting by POLITICO, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó of Hungary to have the Hungarian government lift its veto on the renewal of sanctions on Russia by the EU. Hungary eventually did refrain from using its veto power, and thus the sanctions have been renewed for another six months.
Appointed last week, interim Chargé d’Affaires Robert Palladino was received by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Levente Magyar on Tuesday to discuss the future of Hungary–US relations. The senior US diplomat also met with American and Hungarian business leaders, emphasizing the promising prospects for economic partnership.
After meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the American and Ukrainian delegations have announced in a joint statement issued through the US State Department that Ukraine is ready to accept an immediate 30-day ceasefire with Russia. ‘The ball is now in Russia’s court,’ US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters after the meeting.
‘There is a war in European territory that the elites ruling our continent do not seem eager to end. Its bureaucracy is ever-expanding and forcibly imposing its policies on sovereign peoples. The continent is being crushed by over-regulation, taxation, and centralization of the capital, means of production and decision-making by unelected individuals who are unaccountable for their actions.’
‘Stocker’s old-fashioned, almost managerial Christian democratic character and his almost accidental path to the Chancellorship add to the contradiction between the electoral results and the resulting government…it is undeniable that voters have overwhelmingly rejected the previous ÖVP–Green coalition, with both parties suffering major losses, and voted for change rather than continuity.’
‘Although Hamas claimed that Ariel and Kfir were killed in an Israeli airstrike, the IDF revealed that the two little boys did not die of malnutrition and were apparently murdered. Ben Shapiro highlighted in his opinion article: “Hamas mutilated the bodies to make it look as though they were not, in fact, beaten or strangled to death. Remember, they were taken by Gazan civilians.”’
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