Category: Politics

Rep.-elect Lauren Boebert’s, R-Colo., sudden nomination of Rep.-elect Kevin Hern, R-Okla., to be the next speaker of the House of Representatives gained small support among the 20 Republicans voting against GOP leader Kevin McCarthy in the ninth and 10th rounds of votes Thursday, which yet again failed to produce a majority for any one candidate….

Billionaire Elon Musk says “more smoking guns” are on the way after Friday’s release of Twitter’s internal communications regarding the alleged censoring of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story. Musk made the announcement during a Saturday Q&A session on Twitter Spaces. Journalist Matt Taibbi published numerous internal Twitter documents showing how top executives…

Another Republican congressman is facing accusations of embellishing his professional experience and résumé just weeks after reports surfaced concerning Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y. According to a Thursday report from WTVF, a local Nashville CBS affiliate, Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., repeatedly misrepresented himself as “an economist,” boasted about nearly nonexistent experience in law enforcement, including handling…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his wife Anikó Lévai attended the Saturday gala held in Bratislava on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of independent Slovakia. According to the statement, Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger invited the prime ministers of the Visegrad Group countries – Viktor Orbán from Hungary, Petr Fiala…

Not enough attention is being directed at the problem of illegal migration, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán warned at the Hungarian-Serbian-Austrian summit in Budapest. “The border guards of the Serbs, the border guards of the Hungarians, and the police and soldiers protecting the Austrian border are fighting a heroic battle to curb illegal migration and…

The Visegrád Four countries are ready to tackle the challenges of migration together with the Hungarian-Serbian-Austrian alliance. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán spoke optimistically about the future of the bloc at a summit on Thursday. According to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the countries of the Visegrád Group (V4): the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia…

For the second weekend in a row, former Vice President Mike Pence’s cross-country book tour for his memoir “So Help Me God” is taking him to a prominent mega church with an extremely influential pastor who was a strong supporter of former President Donald Trump. Pence travels to the Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas…

EU finance ministers did not support the bloc’s plan to provide 18 billion euros in aid to Ukraine via joint borrowing, but approved an amendment to the financial regulation, allowing the “financing of the macro-financial assistance to take place within the so-called diversified funding strategy,” at their meeting in Brussels on Tuesday. Media reports claimed…

The Prague City Court on Monday acquitted former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš in the so-called Stork’s Nest case. The acquittal comes just days before the Czech presidential elections in which Andrej Babiš is a strong candidate. On Friday and Saturday, some 8.3 million Czech voters will decide on the successor to the outgoing head…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to review an appellate court ruling that says state district attorneys must follow a 28-year-old law that requires prosecutors to add “strikes” based on a defendant’s past convictions that would lengthen their sentences, according to a report.  Progressive Los Angeles County…

The Hungarian economy will lose 4,000 billion forints (EUR 9.8 billion) through no fault of its own simply because of the increase in energy prices, Viktor Orbán said at an economic event organized for the Széchenyi Card Program. The Hungarian Prime Minister stressed that next year the same quantity and quality of energy as this…

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held an extraordinary meeting with members of the government to discuss the missile incident in Poland and the shutdown of the Friendship oil pipeline. The Hungarian government believes that calm responses are needed to avoid escalation. Two people have been killed when a missile landed outside the rural Polish village of…

Virginia Democrats in the state Senate killed two measures supported by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin aimed at combatting antisemitism just two days before Holocaust Remembrance Day last week. Senate bill 1252 would’ve had Virginia recognize a commonly used “working definition of antisemitism” adopted in 2016 by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), an intergovernmental organization…

The corruption scandal involving the European Parliament’s left-wing vice-president overshadowed the EU summit, according to Viktor Orbán. The arrest of the European Parliament’s vice-president, Greek Socialist MEP Eva Kaili was a hot topic at the EU summit in Brussels on Thursday too. Ahead of the summit, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo criticized the institution…

According to the AfD’s reaction to Viktor Orbán’s interview, the German government has less regard for bilateral relations than the Hungarian government. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party reacted to a recent interview in Budapester Zeitung, where Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán talked about the relations between Hungary’s governing Fidesz party and German parties. The…

Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema announced her departure from the Democratic Party to become an Independent on Friday morning. The move made headlines, though many Democrats, and Sinema herself, don’t see her defection as particularly surprising. An unabashed centrist and staunch defender of the filibuster, Sinema has exercised outsized influence in the Senate throughout her first…

Viktor Orbán spoke about Bulgaria’s accession to the Schengen Area and the need to re-evaluate the EU’s sanctions against Russia. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán attended the EU-Western Balkans summit in Tirana on Tuesday. On arrival, he spoke briefly to journalists. The prime minister said that it is rather unfair that Bulgaria has not been accepted yet…

Katalin Novák traveled to Kiev to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with fellow European leaders and visited ethnic Hungarian communities in Transcarpathia during the weekend. Hungarian President Katalin Novák attended the Grain from Ukraine summit in Kiev on Saturday at the invitation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, alongside the prime ministers of Poland, Belgium, and…

Both the German and Hungarian heads of government support EU enlargement, but Olaf Scholz would associate consequences with this that Hungary is not in favor of in the least. “In the near future, the European Union should include among its members the countries of the Western Balkans, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, among others,” German Chancellor…

The relationship between Hungary and the EU, the global political situation in Europe, and the enlargement of the Western Balkans were also discussed in a recent interview with President Katalin Novák. There is no Hungarian future without Europe, just as there is no European future without Hungary, emphasized President of the Republic Katalin Novák in…