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[ad_1] Syrian hostage rescue operator offers glimmer of hope for holiday season in case of missing American journalist, believes Austin Tice is alive and hopes to find him soon, Fox News Digital told. Brian Stern of Gray Bull Rescue declined to divulge sensitive details, but said the 43-year-old Marine veteran and reporter kidnapped in Syria in 2012 is alive or at least until recently. He claimed to have enough information to believe he was alive. “I’m 100 percent sure he’s alive, or at least was alive as of two weeks ago,” Stern told Fox News Digital from his hotel room…

[ad_1] FOX 1: A top Chinese Communist Party diplomat who recently replaced a controversial official with deep ties to New York Democratic Party officials recently touted his relationship with an American university president and former New Jersey education official. Cheng Li, who was appointed Consul General of the People’s Republic of China in New York last month, praised the “warm hospitality” he received from Kean University President Lamont Lepore on social media last week.”I was truly overwhelmed by President Lepore’s warm hospitality. I truly felt at home on this campus,” Lee wrote to X. It is a joint Chinese-American institution…

[ad_1] President Joe Biden on Monday granted significant pay raises to junior enlisted personnel, despite opposing language deprivation of transgender medical care for children in China to counter China’s growing power. signed a national defense bill increasing total military spending to $895 billion. military family.Biden said his administration strongly opposes the provision because it targets groups based on gender identity and “interferes with parents’ role in determining the best care for their children.” He said this also undermines the all-volunteer military’s ability to recruit and retain talent. President Joe Biden signed the defense bill despite opposition to the bill. (AP…

[ad_1] New York’s last Republican governor said this week that sanctuary jurisdictions are reminiscent of Confederate states that shied away from federal law and waged war against the Union.Former Governor George Pataki spoke with businessman and 2013 New York City Republican mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis on 77WABC radio and was asked about the current situation in the Big Apple in this regard.”Right now I’m worried and people are worried and rightly so. But it’s a leadership issue. There were worse times in the past. I remember in the early 1990s, it got infinitely better,” Pataki said.”And it comes down to…

[ad_1] President-elect Trump this week promised to reverse former President Barack Obama’s 2015 decision to change the name of North America’s highest mountain to the Koyukon-Athabaskan name “Denali,” meaning “high or great.”President Trump made this promise to conservatives at a conference in Phoenix, noting that President William McKinley was also a Republican who believed in tariffs. He first vowed in August 2015 to reverse President Obama’s actions, calling it an “insult to the state of Ohio,” where McKinley was born and raised.In his remarks in Phoenix, he also called out Democrats’ renaming of Southern military bases named after Confederates, including…

[ad_1] A prominent ally of President Biden says he is “disappointed” after the president vetoed a bill that would increase the number of federal judges currently serving.Sen. Chris Coons (D-Delaware), who served as campaign co-chairman of Mr. He emphasized that he kept a bipartisan position as a top priority when doing so. invoice.”I am disappointed in this outcome, both for my own state and for federal judges across the country who are struggling with ever-increasing caseloads. I have been working on this bill for years. But thanks to the tireless bipartisan efforts with Senator Young, it made it to the…

[ad_1] A bipartisan group of 51 lawmakers is calling on House negotiators to keep funding flowing to a visa program for Afghans fleeing the takeover of their country by the Taliban.Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) and Rep. Zach Nunn (R-Iowa) wrote a letter to top House appropriators who are continuing to negotiate remaining federal funding for fiscal year 2025. Sent.“We urge you to preserve the key provisions of the Afghanistan Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) Program 1 in the fiscal year 2025 appropriations package. is important for the review and transfer of major applicants,” they wrote to House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom…

[ad_1] Several leading California Democrats are asking the U.S. Department of Transportation to approve a request for $536 million in federal funding to help advance the state’s long-awaited high-speed rail network.This funding would come from funds already generally allocated to “federal-state partnerships.”[s] Intercity passenger rail subsidies were obtained through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act of 2021 and made available through the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024.Democrats asked Secretary Pete Buttigieg to approve the fund, saying progress on the California Phase 1 Corridor is “essential to strengthening investment in our nation’s and California’s strategic transportation networks.””The Phase 1 corridor will address climate…

[ad_1] President Biden on Monday vetoed a bill that would have added 66 federal district judges over a decade. The bill, once bipartisan, was designed to give neither political party an advantage in shaping the federal judiciary. According to the bill, three presidential administrations, including the incoming Trump administration, and six Congresses would have the opportunity to appoint new judges with the support of groups representing judges and lawyers. was.Despite claims by groups that adding more judges would help resolve long-overdue cases and alleviate concerns about access to justice, the White House said Biden could veto the bill. announced that…

[ad_1] Nebraska’s Republican governor, Jim Pillen, was in intensive care at a hospital on Monday being treated for injuries he sustained after falling from a horse while horseback riding with his family the day before.Pillen, 68, was treated at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, for a spleen injury sustained when he fell from a new horse.Doctors said Piren’s prognosis was good despite seven broken ribs, a partially collapsed lung, a minor fracture in one of her vertebrae, and mild kidney damage that is expected to heal on its own. said. He is expected to remain in the hospital for…