Day: February 5, 2025

Rubio Scores Win in Opening Salvo Against China as Panama Backs Out of Beijing’s Investment Program

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Marco Rubio and Panama

Secretary of State Marco Rubio scored a win in the Trump administration’s opening salvo against China by convincing Panama to back out of China’s signature investment program, and in the process, developing a playbook to combat China’s broader influence in the region and around the globe. 

Rubio’s trip was preceded by stark demands from President Donald Trump who, playing the bad cop, has insisted that the United States would be forced to move to exert control over the Panama Canal if Chinese influence around the valuable waterway is not curtailed. 

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CIA Offers to Pay Out Entire Agency: Report

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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reportedly offered payouts to its entire workforce Tuesday, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The CIA has apparently become the first intelligence agency to offer its employees a way out, as they were reportedly offered a bid to quit their jobs in exchange for roughly eight months of pay and benefits, the outlet reported. Trump administration officials told the outlet that the move is a signal to help those who oppose President Donald Trump’s agenda find other work.

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State Attorneys General Look to Prosecute Fauci Despite Biden Pardon

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Washington Examiner   Seventeen state attorneys general asked Republican congressional leadership Wednesday for more information on COVID-19 origins and possible avenues to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci legally culpable at the state level.  Fauci, former director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases and figurehead of the federal COVID response, was federally pardoned by former President Joe Biden on…

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Bukele Agrees to Receive ‘Criminal’ Migrants Deported from the U.S.

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El Salvador and America

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele agreed on Monday to accept undocumented migrants of any nationality who have committed serious crimes on U.S. soil from the United States.

This was announced to the press by the Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, after almost three hours of meeting with Bukele at the Salvadoran president’s farm on the lake in the Coatepeque municipality.

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New Bill Aimed to Prohibit Debanking Set for Introduction in the U.S. Senate

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Republican North Dakota US Sen. Kevin Cramer is set to introduce a bill Tuesday aimed at prohibiting financial institutions from targeting individuals and industries on ideological grounds.

The Fair Access to Banking Act would prohibit a payment card network from discriminating against individuals because of reputational or political considerations, according to legislation obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Cramer’s bill would also prevent banks and credit unions with more than $10 billion in total assets that refuse to do business with a person or industry due to their beliefs from using a crucial electronic money transfer network that is essential for operation and managing transactions.

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