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Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei has marked the anniversary of his nation’s failed 1982 attempt to forcibly wrest the Falkland Islands from Britain by expressing hope that the island’s residents may one day choose to be Argentine rather t...

Mack Schroeder, a Department of Health and Human Services employee who was unceremoniously fired as part of Elon Musk's DOGE cuts, appeared on CNN to hit back at a senator's reaction to his plight.Schroeder took part in protests on Capitol Hill Wednesday when he approached Sen Jim Banks (R-IN) as the Republican made his way toward a congressional elevator."Hi, I was a worker at HHS. I was fired illegally on February 14th," Schroeder said as the incident was caught on tape. "There are many people who are not getting social service programs, especially people with disabilities. Are you going to do anything to stop what's happening?"Banks shot back, "You probably deserved it ... because you seem like a clown," as the elevator doors closed.CNN's Boris Sanchez read a statement that Banks posted to X, writing, "I have no sympathy for left-wing activists who have been let go from overpaid positions that should never have existed. I do have sympathy for the hardworking Hoosiers whose tax dollars have been wasted on bankrolling these positions.""I was really just there to not even talk about getting my job back or being reinstated," Schroeder began. "I really just wanted to ask him what he was doing to ensure the residents in his state are getting the services that they're entitled to, as we cut workers who are really ensuring that grants are going out the door to programs, in my case, working on programs that support people with disabilities and older adults. "So, I was hoping he would have some sort of plan to say, 'This is why we're cutting workers. This is how we're going to continue supporting residents in Indiana.'"Schroeder said his department made sure grants supported Meals on Wheels for older adults, programs that supported independent living for people with disabilities, and programs that provided heating to low-income Americans."Much like all other civil servants, I am nonpartisan," Schroeder said, taking issue with being called a left-wing activist. "I would like to know if if he actually knows what I was doing, and without people like me and similar folks who are working on budgets for those programs, how is he going to get those services to constituents who desperately need them?" Schroeder added, "If there's a good plan to increase efficiency by cutting workers, I haven't seen it yet."Watch the clip below or at this link via CNN.

Óscar Arias Sánchez, the former president of Costa Rica who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987, has had his visa revoked without explanation this week.The New York Times reported that Sánchez has been a "vocal critic" of President Donald Trump and that the rescission of his visa "appears to be the most high profile in a string of individuals who have had their visas canceled or been denied entry as the Trump administration bars people who it says have 'hostile attitudes' toward the United States."During a news conference in Costa Rica on Tuesday, Sánchez said he didn't know why his visa had been revoked, but he vowed not to remain silent in his criticism of Trump.“If someone wants to punish me in the hopes of silencing me, that isn’t going to work,” he declared.ALSO READ: ‘This is not legal’: Dem scorches Ted Cruz after he explodes at judges blocking TrumpAs the Times notes, Sánchez earlier this year criticized Trump for trying to boss around neighboring nations and compared him to a "Roman emperor, telling the rest of the world what to do."Sánchez won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in crafting a plan to end civil wars across Central America.

Gov. Ron DeSantis' (R-FL) used state Sen. Randy Fine's "underperformance" in Florida's special election to revive the war of words between the two men, according to Politico. Fine, who serves as a Florida state senator, defeated progressive Josh Weil (D) by 14 points to become the newly-elected Representative for Florida's 6th District. DeSantis held a press conference Wednesday to say that margin wasn't good enough. Reporter Kimberly Leonard wrote, "DeSantis argued that President Donald Trump’s involvement in the 6th District race pushed Fine over the line. He added voters had not wanted to support Fine, who Trump had endorsed, and that the president 'really had to bail him out in the end.'” "I would not read into the underperformance that this is somehow a referendum on MAGA and Trump," DeSantis said. He continued, "These are voters who didn’t like Randy Fine, but who basically are like, ‘You know what? We’re going to take one for the team. The president needs another vote up there, and so we’re going to do it.’” ALSO READ: 'Not much I can do': GOP senator gives up fight against Trump's tariffs DeSantis even referred to Fine as a "squish," political slang for someone who does not back the party whole-heartedly. Leonard wrote that DeSantis and Fine "had a falling out in 2023, after Fine flipped his endorsement for president from the governor to Trump." To further the hard feelings, Fine eviscerated DeSantis in a Washington Times op-ed, "accusing him of not doing enough to fight antisemitism in Florida in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war." Fine has been considered "one of the governor’s top archenemies in Tallahassee," and posted video on social media of DeSantis denigrating him after his victory. "A dying star burns hottest before it fades into oblivion. I’m focused on working with @realDonaldTrump to stop Democrats from taking this country backwards, not working with them. Let’s go," Fine wrote. Read the Politico article here.

President Trump on Wednesday imposed a baseline tariff of 10% on all imports and additional, reciprocal levies on "worst-offender" nations in a bold restructuring of the global trading order he views as fundamentally unfair to the U.S. and calamitous for its workers.

Forensic consultant says multiple bullets were used from short range in attack that has caused global outrageA forensic doctor who examined the bodies of some of the 15 paramedics and Palestinian rescue workers shot dead by Israeli forces and buried in a mass grave in southern Gaza has said there is evidence of execution-style killing, based on the “specific and intentional” location of shots at close range.The Palestinian Red Crescent Society, the Palestinian Civil Defense and UN employees were on a humanitarian mission to collect dead and wounded civilians outside the southern city of Rafah on the morning of 23 March when they were killed and then buried in the sand by a bulldozer alongside their flattened vehicles, according to the UN. Continue reading...

Brother of Jagtar Singh Johal claims he is being ‘mentally tortured’ through unwarranted detentionThe British Sikh activist Jagtar Singh Johal, detained for seven years in an Indian jail, has been placed into solitary confinement and under 24-hour surveillance despite being acquitted of all terrorism charges against him by a Punjab court on 4 March, his family have claimed. Johal is still facing the exact same charges in a parallel case in a clear example of double jeopardy, his brother Gurpreet said when giving testimony at Westminster to an all party committee on arbitrary detention. He said the Indian courts have not granted his brother bail, despite the prosecutor’s failure to produce any credible evidence or witnesses in the Punjab court.Gurpreet said UK consular staff met his brother in jail on Tuesday and were told he had been put into solitary confinement with a 24-hour guard, adding no explanation had been given. Continue reading...

The U.S. government's decision to mandate backdoors inside telecommunications networks created the path for China to hack Americans' phones, according to cryptographer Matt Blaze.