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BREAKING: Republicans retake Senate with at least 51-seat majority
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By retaking the Senate with at least 51 seats, Republicans have ensured that whatever else happens in the 2024 elections, conservatives’ worst fears about the Democratic legislative agenda will not come to pass.
Republicans retook the U.S. Senate Senate in Tuesday’s elections with at least 51 seats, multiple outlets have called, although the full extent of their new margin is not yet certain.
Both the Associated Press and Decision Desk HQ report that the GOP has gained two seats over their current majority, with West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice winning the seat vacated by retiring Democrat-turned-independent Joe Manchin, and challenger Bernie Moreno ousting incumbent Democrat Sherrod Brown in Ohio.
Other highlights so far include Texas Sen. Ted Cruz successfully fending off challenger Colin Allred in a 10-point victory, and Florida incumbent Rick Scott handily keeping his seat. On the flip side, Democrat Angela Alsobrooks defeated liberal Republican Larry Hogan in Maryland, and Democrat Ruben Gallego continues to lead Republican Kari Lake in Arizona. In Wisconsin, another seat the GOP has hoped to flip, challenger Eric Hovde is currently leading incumbent Tammy Baldwin, but the race is currently still too close to call.
“As a new Republican Senate majority, our focus will be to take on an agenda that reflects America’s priorities – lower prices, less spending, secure borders, and American energy dominance,” Senate Republican Conference Chair John Barrasso of Wyoming said, the Washington Examiner reports. “That is what we will set out to do on Day One. Our new Republican Senators will be instrumental in the success of this agenda. Senate Republicans are focused on getting this country back on track.”
A Republican Senate guarantees that, if former President Donald Trump returns to the presidency, he will have a much easier time confirming judicial nominees and executive appointees, whereas if Vice President Kamala Harris defeats him instead, most of the far-left agenda items she campaigned on would not be able to reach her desk.
Decision Desk is currently projecting Democrats to narrowly retake the House of Representatives 219-216, though most major outlets haven’t called control of the House.
LifeSiteNews’s current electoral map places Trump at 230 electoral votes and Harris at 210, but while multiple outlets are expecting a Trump victory, no official winner has been called.
From the Daily Caller News Foundation
Baton-wielding protesters stormed the COP30 summit in Belem, Brazil, on Tuesday, with video showing some dressed in indigenous outfits, according to multiple reports.
The COP30 summit is the 30th annual meeting of parties to the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), an agreement to reach “net-zero” carbon emissions by 2050, according to the conference’s website. Video posted on X and aired by the BBC showed the protesters kicking doors and forcing their way into the building.
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Two security guards were injured in the fracas, with one being taken out in a wheelchair while holding his stomach, Sky News reported.
Past COP summits have seen speakers propose taxes on the meat and dairy industry and “climate finance” initiatives for less-developed countries. The Biden administration signed on to a pledge to start “transitioning away from fossil fuels” at the United Nations COP28 climate summit on Dec. 13, 2023.
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California attended the summit, where he labeled President Donald Trump “an invasive species” and “a wrecking-ball president” who was “doubling down on stupid.” Newsom also announced an agreement between California and Nigeria, which was declared a “country of particular concern” due to persecution of Christians.
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Nearly 3,000 people died across New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pa. during the 9/11 attacks, according to the Pew Research Center. When asked directly on “Special Report with Bret Baier” if he regrets the attack, al-Sharaa distanced himself entirely from the event.
“I was only 19 years old, so I was a very young person, and I didn’t have any decision-making power at that time, and I don’t have anything to do with it,” al-Sharaa said. “And al-Qaeda was not present right then in my area. So you’re speaking to the wrong person about this subject.”
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The Syrian leader then shifted the conversation.
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“We mourn for every civilian that got killed, and we know that people suffer from the war, especially civilians who pay the price, a hefty price for the war,” al-Sharaa said.
President Donald Trump hosted al-Sharaa at the White House on Monday, welcoming the former al-Qaeda member who once fought U.S. forces in Iraq and served time in Abu Ghraib prison. The U.S. government removed al-Sharaa from its terror list just days before his meeting with Trump, according to CBS News.
Al-Sharaa, who led a rebel coalition that toppled Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024 while heading the militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, has since recast himself as a pro-Western reformer. Legacy media outlets have described his government as “moderate” compared to Assad’s rule.
The visit marks the first time a Syrian head of state has entered the White House since Syria gained independence in 1946, NPR reported. Trump, during a speech in Saudi Arabia, said in May that he would lift U.S. sanctions on Syria.
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