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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says Castro indictment is 'big step forward' 08:07 Jan. 6 officers sue over Justice Department's $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization' fund 03:57 Mother of victim says Raúl Castro is 'not going to get away with it' 04:45 Blanche faces questions over how Castro will stand trial in the U.S. 02:19 How the Raúl Castro indictment compares to the case against Nicolás Maduro 05:10 Justice Department indicts former Cuban leader Raúl Castro 05:34 'Anybody can apply': Blanche pressed over who can get compensation from DOJ fund 01:15 Blanche makes opening statement during Senate budget hearing 06:12 Justice Department sets up 'anti-weaponization fund' after Trump drops…

Serena Williams, one of the greatest athletes of all time, has announced her return to professional tennis next week at Queen’s Club. The 44-year-old will return to competition with a wildcard into the doubles draw in the WTA 500 event in west London. She has not competed since the US Open in 2022, where she described her departure from the sport as “evolving away” from tennis rather than retirement. However, Williams remained on the retired players’ list until last year. After months of speculation about her return, Williams announced her comeback in a Nike video bearing a simple tagline: “Guess everybody heard the news.” In a separate statement, she said: “Queen’s Club feels like the…

Shame on the U.K. for Censoring Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur "This ban is completely unfounded and must be reversed," writes Shabbos Kestenbaum. The United Kingdom's interior ministry is prohibiting two progressive commentators, Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur, from visiting the country to participate in an ideas festival. This is abject censorship and ought to be condemned as such. Uygur is a cohost of The Young Turks, a popular news program on YouTube. Piker, who made a name for himself as a Twitch streamer, is Uygur's nephew. Both are relentless critics of the state of Israel. Piker often goes much further than Uygur, and has repeatedly made gross and inflammatory statements, including that…

“60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley accused CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss of “murdering” the venerable newsmagazine at a staff meeting Monday with Nick Bilton, the technology journalist tapped to oversee the show, according to an audio recording and a source who was in the room. Bilton, a documentary filmmaker and former tech columnist at The New York Times, told “60 Minutes” staff members that Weiss “loves this institution,” the source said. Pelley interrupted Bilton and pushed back. “She is murdering ‘60 Minutes.’ She does not love this place,” Pelley told Bilton, according to the audio recording. “She was brought in to kill it, and she’s been doing exactly that.” The meeting…

Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez has been nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as U.S. ambassador to Brazil. That news came Monday via a press release from the White House. Perez has represented parts of Miami-Dade County in the Florida House since he was elected in a special election in 2017, and has served […]