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The Trump administration is stepping up pressure on trading partners to quickly make new deals before a Wednesday deadline, with plans for the United States to start sending letters Monday warning countries that higher tariffs could kick in Aug. 1.

That furthers the uncertainty for businesses, consumers and America’s trading partners, and questions remain about which countries will be notified, whether anything will change in the days ahead and whether President Donald Trump will once more push off imposing the rates. Trump and his top trade advisers say he could extend the time for dealmaking but they insist the administration is applying maximum pressure on other nations.

Kevin Hassett, director of the White House National Economic Council, told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday that Trump would decide when it was time to give up on negotiations.

“The United States is always willing to talk to everybody about everything,” Hassett said. “There are deadlines, and there are things that are close, so maybe things will push back past the deadline or maybe they won’t. In the end the president is going to make that judgment.”

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Apple has launched an appeal against an “unprecedented” €500m (£430m) fine imposed by the EU on the company, in the latest clash between US tech companies and Brussels.

The iPhone maker accused the European Commission – the EU’s executive arm – of going “far beyond what the law requires” in a dispute over its app store.

In April, the commission fined Apple €500m after finding the company had breached the Digital Markets Act by preventing app developers from steering users to cheaper deals outside the app store.

Last month, Apple overhauled its app store rules to comply with the EU order to scrap its technical and commercial curbs on developers in order to avoid fines of 5% of its average daily worldwide revenue, or about €50m a day.

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The EU is entering a crunch week with only two days of talks left to secure a trade deal with Washinton to avert Donald Trump’s threatened 50% tariff on its imports into the US.

According to the US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, on Friday, the negotiations – which continued over the weekend – are focussed on 15 to 18 agreements with important partners, while Trump warned of import tax rates of up to 70% on others.

The uncertainty created by Washington has sent shock waves through the global economy. Businesses have paused investment and the dollar posted its worst performance in 50 years in the first half of the year.

With the clock ticking down to Trump’s 9 July deadline, the European Commission remains uncertain how he will treat the bloc, threatening €1.6tn of transatlantic trade.

“Among member states, the big question will be whether we should reach a deal at all costs to avoid a trade war, or show muscle if the deal is not good enough,” one EU diplomat said.

The German chancellor, , has said he wants a quick UK-style deal to avert a full-scale trade war, while the French president, Emmanuel Macron, favours holding out for a better deal if a rushed deal is “imbalanced”.

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A minister fired by Vladimir Putin has been found dead just hours after he was sacked from his position.

The body of Russian transport minister Roman Starovoit, 53, has been discovered inside his vehicle with fatal gunshot wounds. It’s believed he was killed with his own gun, according to reports. There is no official confirmation at the moment, but major channels with links to the Russian security forces reported the death, with preliminary information from these channels suggesting suicide was the cause.

A firearm was found near Starovoit’s body at his home in the village of Myakinino, in the Odintsovo district of Moscow region. Reports said the pistol was an award weapon received from the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2023.

Russian transport minister Roman Starovoit(Image: Social media/east2west news)

The minister was axed by the dictator in a decree today for unspecified reasons. His sacking came amid unprecedented flight chaos in Russia linked to Ukrainian drones, with thousands of services delayed or cancelled. He was also sacked amid unconfirmed rumours of a corruption probe.

Starovoit was the governor of the Kursk region shortly before the Ukrainian Armed Forces took over a swathe of its territory last year.

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While Americans and foreign nationals continue to protest and riot in the United States under the slogan “no human is illegal,” a very different sentiment is emerging at our southern border.

It turns out that open-border policies are largely a phenomenon of the Western world, while most other countries show little interest in taking on the world’s challenges. Who would’ve thought?

Rioters in Mexico City are demanding that Americans stop moving to the United States, as they claim gentrification is affecting that area and making housing unaffordable for everyone else.

LOL. If legal immigration causes this much trouble, just imagine the toll illegal immigration causes for America.

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At least 21 people were killed in a road accident in Nigeria’s northwestern Kano state on Sunday, said the Federal Road Safety CorpsPreliminary investigations revealed that a commercial passenger vehicle was driving against the traffic on the Zaria-Karo expressway, violating established road safety regulations. The vehicle then collided head-on with a heavy-duty truck.The commercial driver “contravened established traffic regulations, drove against traffic flow, resulting in a fatal head-on collision with the oncoming truck,” reported AP quoting the Federal Road Safety CorpsOf the passengers, only three survived the crash with injuries. The victims included 19 men and two women.Deadly road accidents are a frequent occurrence on Nigeria’s highways. According to the agency’s 2024 data, 5,421 people have died in 9,570 road incidents across the country so far this year.

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Camp officials at Presbyterian Mo-Ranch Assembly evacuated about 70 children and adults staying near the Guadalupe River around 1:00 a.m. on July 4 after seeing the river rising.

Aroldo Barrera, the facilities manager at Mo-Ranch, notified his boss of the rising water after monitoring the storm, according to The Associated Press. The 500-acre camp was hosting a summer camp and a large youth conference.

“We actually have been monitoring this for about 24 hours,” Mo-Ranch communications director Lisa Winters told KENS5 on Friday. “And we prepared well in advance. We were making plans and changing our plans and moving people up to higher ground well in advance last night.”

“We had no warning this was coming,” she told the AP, saying county officials did not directly communicate to them about potentially deadly flooding.

Officials swiftly moved the approximately 70 campers to a building in the vicinity, where they remained overnight, the outlet reported.

Winters said it could have been “devastating” if the camp’s officials had not been monitoring the weather.


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Camp officials at Presbyterian Mo-Ranch Assembly evacuated about 70 children and adults staying near the Guadalupe River around 1:00 a.m. on July 4 after seeing the river rising.

Aroldo Barrera, the facilities manager at Mo-Ranch, notified his boss of the rising water after monitoring the storm, according to The Associated Press. The 500-acre camp was hosting a summer camp and a large youth conference.

“We actually have been monitoring this for about 24 hours,” Mo-Ranch communications director Lisa Winters told KENS5 on Friday. “And we prepared well in advance. We were making plans and changing our plans and moving people up to higher ground well in advance last night.”

“We had no warning this was coming,” she told the AP, saying county officials did not directly communicate to them about potentially deadly flooding.

Officials swiftly moved the approximately 70 campers to a building in the vicinity, where they remained overnight, the outlet reported.

Winters said it could have been “devastating” if the camp’s officials had not been monitoring the weather.

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Camp officials at Presbyterian Mo-Ranch Assembly evacuated about 70 children and adults staying near the Guadalupe River around 1:00 a.m. on July 4 after seeing the river rising.

Aroldo Barrera, the facilities manager at Mo-Ranch, notified his boss of the rising water after monitoring the storm, according to The Associated Press. The 500-acre camp was hosting a summer camp and a large youth conference.

“We actually have been monitoring this for about 24 hours,” Mo-Ranch communications director Lisa Winters told KENS5 on Friday. “And we prepared well in advance. We were making plans and changing our plans and moving people up to higher ground well in advance last night.”

“We had no warning this was coming,” she told the AP, saying county officials did not directly communicate to them about potentially deadly flooding.

Officials swiftly moved the approximately 70 campers to a building in the vicinity, where they remained overnight, the outlet reported.

Winters said it could have been “devastating” if the camp’s officials had not been monitoring the weather.

Other camps were not as fortunate. The flooding followed a sudden storm that caused the Guadalupe River to spill over its banks, flooding Camp Mystic, a Christian children’s summer camp. 27 campers and counselors died at the site, according to an announcement. (RELATED: Death Toll Rises To 70 In Texas Flood Disaster, Including 15 Children At Christian Summer Camp)

The total death toll has now risen to at least 82, including those at Camp Mystic.

“Our hearts go out to all of the other camps,” Winters told KENS5. “If you’re in the camp and conference industry, you’re a family. And so we are all trying to pull together, trying to get information from the other camps and trying to help each other where we can.”

All the campers at Mo-Ranch were reunited with families, Winters said.

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“When the bad guys see that the police are not there to deter crime and catch criminals, they remain on the streets to do more bad stuff.”

Nearly half of all murderers in the United States get away with the crime, with only 58 percent of murder cases being solved in the nation where someone is arrested, according to FBI data from 2023 cited by the New York Times.

The outlet added, “In other words, a murderer’s chance of getting caught within a year essentially comes down to a coin flip.” For other crimes, the rate of arrest and solving of the issue is even lower, with the example of car thefts only resulting in 8 percent of perpetrators getting detained.

In other countries similar to the US, the cases solved rate for murders is usually higher, around the 70, 80 or 90 percent marks. Multiple factors have played into the statistic, the outlet reported, including the distrust of police, lack of resources, as well as the number of cases, and the lack of consequences allows for criminals to get away with more.

“It’s a vicious cycle,” criminologist Brian Frost told reporters. “When the bad guys see that the police are not there to deter crime and catch criminals, they remain on the streets to do more bad stuff. And the rest of the community is less deterred from crime. They think, ‘Why not? I’m not going to get caught.’”

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Federal agents killed a man after he fired at a Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas. The man had a rifle and was wearing tactical gear. One agent who returned fire was wounded but is in stable condition.

The shooter was identified as Ryan Louis Mosqueda. His motive is unknown, but investigators believe it was a targeted attack on Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a post on X that such attacks will not be tolerated.

“The Department [of Justice] has zero tolerance for assaults on federal officers or property and will bring the full weight of the law against those responsible,” Blanche said.

Border czar Tom Homan, who previously served as acting director of ICE, said on Fox News that attacks on ICE officers have increased since last year by 690% as of July 4. Homan cited Congress’s rhetoric as one reason for the increase in attacks.

“We have senators, we have Congresspeople, that compare ICE to the Nazis, compare ICE to racists, and it just continues. The public thinks, ‘well if a member of Congress can attack ICE, why can’t we,’” Homan said.

In 2024, from Jan. 21 to June 30, there were only 10 attacks on ICE agents, according to the Department of Homeland Security. In 2025, during that same period, ICE reported 79 attacks on agents. DHS said the increase is likely due to the speed at which the attacks occur, some of which go unaccounted for.

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On Sunday night AXIOS reported on a new FBI, DOJ memo obtained by Axios concludes Jeffrey Epstein did not have a client list that he used for blackmail.

The FBI earlier determined that Epstein did commit suicide in August 2019.

And the DOJ-FBI also released a 10-hour video on Sunday from outside Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell.

** The full video is posted at the DOJ website here.

But now we can confirm that an entire minute was cut from the DOJ video that was released last night. Why? What are they hiding?

If you follow the full video you can see for yourself that the video is cut off at 11:59:00.

The video feed then restarts exactly at 12:00:00.

Where is the missing video?

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Democrats from all backgrounds began blaming President Donald Trump over the weekend for the recent Texas floods, citing budgetary cuts that haven’t even gone into effect yet.

Even progressive Democrat and former State Senator Nina Turner had to point out that the financial cuts liberals are slamming, have not yet been implemented.

“The GOP’s budget cuts to NOAA are set to take effect at the start of fiscal year 2026, which begins on October 1, 2025,” she wrote Sunday, on the social media website X. “Anyone making the deaths of the children in Texas about partisan politics is morally bankrupt. Please reflect.”

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Border czar Tom Homan lashed out against Democrats for their rhetoric against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and President Donald Trump’s border policies.

During an interview on Fox News, Homan discussed the recent shooting of a police officer at an ICE facility in Texas. “Who were these suspects who were fired, who actually fired the shots and were later arrested? Who were they, Tom?” the host asked.

“Look, they’re your typical protester that go from protester to criminals,” Homan replied. “The attacks on ICE officers…is up nearly 700% now. We were talking 500% a couple of weeks ago, so it continues.”

Homan continued, explaining how the rhetoric coming from Democrats about ICE is inspiring some of the recent attacks on ICE agents. “The rhetoric against the men and women of ICE is skyrocketing, especially by members of Congress,” he said. “We have senators, we have Congress people that compare ICE to the Nazis, compare ICE to racists.”

The border czar continued, “So the public thinks, ‘Well, if a member of Congress can attack ICE, why can’t we?’ The rhetoric has to stop, or it’s a matter of time befor someone, one of the ICE officers goes down or a criminal goes down. We’ve already seen an officer go down.”

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It would almost be funny, at this point, if it weren’t so serious.

In the latest scandal to rock Democratic New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy, the socialist state assemblyman is revealed to have posted an offensive video of an Indian comedy troupe cosplaying as exaggerated Jewish stereotypes for Hanukkah last year.

The post was rediscovered by pro-Jewish group Stop Antisemitism, according to the New York Post, which has condemned Mamdani for his problematic statements regarding both Israel and Jewish people — including defending the use of the phrase “globalize the intifada.”

First, the original post from December, which features a video from the Geeta Brothers Duet Group and rather speaks for itself:

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You know the saying: a broken clock is right twice a day. For former Ohio State Sen. Nina Turner, a firebrand progressive and Bernie Sanders supporter, who is the perfect person to be an MSNBC guest, she holds that honor today in the aftermath of the devastating and tragic floods in Central Texas. The damage is immense, with the death toll surging toward 100 dead as storms ripped through Kerr County and swelled the Guadalupe River 25-plus feet in less than two hours.

 

 

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An unspoken rule among the Washington establishment is that once Congress throws money at a spending program that decision should be treated as irrevocable. If a future Congress shows any fiscal conservatism and tries even to address some of its waste and abuse, left-wing lawmakers—and their allies in the media—will excoriate them for making supposedly radical cuts.

Before the House voted Thursday to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries went on a record 8.5-hour rant on the House floor accusing Republicans of an “all-out assault on the health and well-being of everyday Americans.”

If that sounds ominous, note that he also called the bill “an all-out assault on the care being provided by Planned Parenthood” for prohibiting Medicaid funds from going to abortion providers for one year. Phrases like “health care” and “all-out assault” mean something different to the far left than to the rest of us.

 

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An unspoken rule among the Washington establishment is that once Congress throws money at a spending program that decision should be treated as irrevocable. If a future Congress shows any fiscal conservatism and tries even to address some of its waste and abuse, left-wing lawmakers—and their allies in the media—will excoriate them for making supposedly radical cuts.

Before the House voted Thursday to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries went on a record 8.5-hour rant on the House floor accusing Republicans of an “all-out assault on the health and well-being of everyday Americans.”

If that sounds ominous, note that he also called the bill “an all-out assault on the care being provided by Planned Parenthood” for prohibiting Medicaid funds from going to abortion providers for one year. Phrases like “health care” and “all-out assault” mean something different to the far left than to the rest of us.

 

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An unspoken rule among the Washington establishment is that once Congress throws money at a spending program that decision should be treated as irrevocable. If a future Congress shows any fiscal conservatism and tries even to address some of its waste and abuse, left-wing lawmakers—and their allies in the media—will excoriate them for making supposedly radical cuts.

Before the House voted Thursday to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries went on a record 8.5-hour rant on the House floor accusing Republicans of an “all-out assault on the health and well-being of everyday Americans.”

If that sounds ominous, note that he also called the bill “an all-out assault on the care being provided by Planned Parenthood” for prohibiting Medicaid funds from going to abortion providers for one year. Phrases like “health care” and “all-out assault” mean something different to the far left than to the rest of us.

 

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An unspoken rule among the Washington establishment is that once Congress throws money at a spending program that decision should be treated as irrevocable. If a future Congress shows any fiscal conservatism and tries even to address some of its waste and abuse, left-wing lawmakers—and their allies in the media—will excoriate them for making supposedly radical cuts.

Before the House voted Thursday to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries went on a record 8.5-hour rant on the House floor accusing Republicans of an “all-out assault on the health and well-being of everyday Americans.”

If that sounds ominous, note that he also called the bill “an all-out assault on the care being provided by Planned Parenthood” for prohibiting Medicaid funds from going to abortion providers for one year. Phrases like “health care” and “all-out assault” mean something different to the far left than to the rest of us.

 

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An unspoken rule among the Washington establishment is that once Congress throws money at a spending program that decision should be treated as irrevocable. If a future Congress shows any fiscal conservatism and tries even to address some of its waste and abuse, left-wing lawmakers—and their allies in the media—will excoriate them for making supposedly radical cuts.

Before the House voted Thursday to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries went on a record 8.5-hour rant on the House floor accusing Republicans of an “all-out assault on the health and well-being of everyday Americans.”

If that sounds ominous, note that he also called the bill “an all-out assault on the care being provided by Planned Parenthood” for prohibiting Medicaid funds from going to abortion providers for one year. Phrases like “health care” and “all-out assault” mean something different to the far left than to the rest of us.

 

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An unspoken rule among the Washington establishment is that once Congress throws money at a spending program that decision should be treated as irrevocable. If a future Congress shows any fiscal conservatism and tries even to address some of its waste and abuse, left-wing lawmakers—and their allies in the media—will excoriate them for making supposedly radical cuts.

Before the House voted Thursday to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries went on a record 8.5-hour rant on the House floor accusing Republicans of an “all-out assault on the health and well-being of everyday Americans.”

If that sounds ominous, note that he also called the bill “an all-out assault on the care being provided by Planned Parenthood” for prohibiting Medicaid funds from going to abortion providers for one year. Phrases like “health care” and “all-out assault” mean something different to the far left than to the rest of us.

 

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A medical professional whom people trusted to care for them sparked a national uproar after showing off her evil soul following one of the worst U.S. natural disasters in recent memory, and now she no longer has a job.

As Mediaite reported, Christina B. Propst, a Houston, Texas pediatrician, gloated about the 82 victims of the Texas flooding in Kerr County, saying they voted to gut FEMA and got what they deserved as a result.

These victims included 28 innocent little children.

“May all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry,” she wrote. “Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts.”

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A medical professional whom people trusted to care for them sparked a national uproar after showing off her evil soul following one of the worst U.S. natural disasters in recent memory, and now she no longer has a job.

As Mediaite reported, Christina B. Propst, a Houston, Texas pediatrician, gloated about the 82 victims of the Texas flooding in Kerr County, saying they voted to gut FEMA and got what they deserved as a result.

These victims included 28 innocent little children.

“May all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry,” she wrote. “Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts.”

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A medical professional whom people trusted to care for them sparked a national uproar after showing off her evil soul following one of the worst U.S. natural disasters in recent memory, and now she no longer has a job.

As Mediaite reported, Christina B. Propst, a Houston, Texas pediatrician, gloated about the 82 victims of the Texas flooding in Kerr County, saying they voted to gut FEMA and got what they deserved as a result.

These victims included 28 innocent little children.

“May all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry,” she wrote. “Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts.”

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A medical professional whom people trusted to care for them sparked a national uproar after showing off her evil soul following one of the worst U.S. natural disasters in recent memory, and now she no longer has a job.

As Mediaite reported, Christina B. Propst, a Houston, Texas pediatrician, gloated about the 82 victims of the Texas flooding in Kerr County, saying they voted to gut FEMA and got what they deserved as a result.

These victims included 28 innocent little children.

“May all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry,” she wrote. “Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts.”

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A medical professional whom people trusted to care for them sparked a national uproar after showing off her evil soul following one of the worst U.S. natural disasters in recent memory, and now she no longer has a job.

As Mediaite reported, Christina B. Propst, a Houston, Texas pediatrician, gloated about the 82 victims of the Texas flooding in Kerr County, saying they voted to gut FEMA and got what they deserved as a result.

These victims included 28 innocent little children.

“May all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry,” she wrote. “Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts.”

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“Squad” Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) is coming under fire for misstating her supposed hardscrabble background in the Bronx, with the Democrat now claiming she grew up in an area adjacent to the notoriously violent New York borough.

AOC, who rose from humble bartender to congressional celebrity after the 2018 election, backpedaled on her origin story after a new report alleging she went to high school in Yorktown Heights, a suburb 40 miles outside of New York City.

The controversy began when AOC fired back at President Donald Trump, who labeled her “one of the dumbest people in Congress” after she attempted to impeach him for striking Iran.

“Also, I’m a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast. Respectfully,” the progressive lawmaker replied on social media.

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The U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigations say they have found no evidence that Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed powerful figures, kept a “client list,” or was murdered, per a memo obtained by Axios.

The document states that Epstein died by suicide and confirms that no further charges will be filed — effectively signaling the end of an active investigation, though no formal closure has been announced.

The findings were disclosed in a two-page statement, marking the Trump administration’s first definitive rejection of years of speculation surrounding Epstein’s 2019 death in federal custody.

Investigators say enhanced surveillance footage from the night Epstein died in a New York prison shows no one entered the area near his cell from the time he was locked in until his body was discovered.

“The FBI enhanced the relevant footage by increasing its contrast, balancing the color, and improving its sharpness,” the memo states.

 

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New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s father, a longtime academic and Ivy League professor, said during a 2022 panel discussion about one of his many books that Adolf Hitler drew his inspiration for the Holocaust from Abraham Lincoln.

The younger Mamdani, a self-proclaimed socialist, has credited his parents with providing him a “privileged upbringing,” one that included frequent discussions on politics and global affairs, according to a New York Times profile on the mayoral candidate and his parents. Mamdani’s mother is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker.

During a 2022 panel discussion hosted by the Asia Society, Mamdani’s father, Mahmood, asserted that America was the “genesis of what we call settler-colonialism” around the world.

“With the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln generalized the solution of reservations, they herded American Indians into separate territories,” Mamdani, Columbia’s Herbert Lehman professor of government, said. “For the Nazis, this was the inspiration – Hitler realized two things: one, that genocide is doable. It is possible to do genocide, that’s what Hitler realized. Second thing Hitler realized, is that you don’t have to have a common citizenship.”
Zohran Mamdani and his parents at election victory party