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JERUSALEM — Embattled White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster has been given a larger partnership role with efforts being overseen by Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, to secure an Israeli-Palestinian deal, according to a report in Politico.

New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is under fire from World Jewish Congress president Ron Lauder, who said he was “deeply disturbed” by her decision to withdraw her backing for anti-BDS legislation introduced by a fellow Democrat, citing the First Amendment as the basis for her choice.

The Washington Post did not reveal anything new by publishing transcripts Thursday of President Donald Trump’s telephone conversations earlier this year with Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Allen Roth, president of Secure America Now, talked with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Thursday regarding National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster’s role in the foreign policy decisions of President Trump’s administration.

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) discussed on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Senate healthcare debate, multiple immigration bills recently passed by the House, and the Debbie Wasserman Schultz controversy.

An Obama-era refugee deal that will resettle more than 1,200 Middle Easterners in the U.S. and tens of thousands of their foreign family members in years to come is an apparent departure from President Donald Trump’s promise of putting “America First.”

The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is reportedly investigating several smashed hard drives seized from the home of two Pakistan-born brothers who worked as IT workers for former DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL).

President Trump has faced seven times more leaks during the first 126 days of his administration than the previous two administrations. That figure includes many leaks from the intelligence community that were aimed at embarrassing Trump but have damaged U.S. national security, according to a new Senate report.

First lady Melania Trump told the people of Poland that the safety and security of the American people are her husband’s “main focus” as president. She also said living in safety and security is a universal desire and one she hopes all people in the world can someday enjoy.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India will meet United States President Donald Trump on Monday. The two world leaders are expected to discuss fostering economic, business, and technological ties as well as increased cooperation on security.

On Monday, President Donald Trump welcomed India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi for their first official, in-person meeting, in which both leaders agreed that their “top priority” is to “destroy radical Islamic terrorism” and ending terrorist “safe shelters, sanctuaries, and safe havens.”

Trump can “win” simply by following through on the travel ban, then declaring it fulfilled before the Court hears the various challenges to the case, cutting the Gordian Knot of legal theories and advancing his policies.

A new survey by Unisys finds national security – war and terrorism – has become the top security concern of Americans, so named by 68 percent of respondents. Cybersecurity was not far behind, with 56 percent calling it a top issue.

Colonel Richard Kemp, a former commander of British forces in Helmand, Afghanisan, and COBRA committee member, warned Breitbart London Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam that without routine arming of constables, Britain’s police will not be able “to protect either us or themselves”

JERUSALEM– The Palestinian Authority’s official television network broadcast a special edition of a TV show from the home of an imprisoned terrorist responsible for least five attacks on Israeli civilians, killing 14 including a baby, and praised him for bringing “pride and honor” to the Palestinian people.

It reads like something out of a screwball comedy: a far-left activist named “Reality Leigh Winner” somehow received clearance to work for the National Security Agency, which she allegedly proceeded to rob of classified material in the name of the kookburger anti-Trump “Resistance.” In the post-Edward Snowden era, how does someone like this get anywhere near sensitive data?

It is an article of NeverTrump and Resistance faith that President Trump made a fatal mistake by picking a fight with the intelligence services and FBI, who would retaliate with a tsunami of leaks and investigations that wash the Trump presidency away. Their work to date hasn’t been very impressive. The leakers have done at least as much damage to America’s national interests as they have to Donald Trump.

The U.S. State Department under President Trump has introduced stricter vetting procedures for all visa seekers.

LONDON (AFP) – The suicide attack on a Manchester pop concert has sparked criticism about security, but experts said it highlighted the daunting task authorities face in neutralising those bent on destruction.

A newly released report claims that the Chinese government killed or imprisoned as many as 20 CIA sources between 2010 and 2012.

President Trump stood by his campaign promise to build a wall along the southern border Thursday, telling reporters: “Walls work — just ask Israel.”

Harvard Law School emeritus professor, liberal Democrat, and noted defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz has penned an op-ed in The Hill opposing the appointment of a special counsel to oversee the investigation into possible ties between President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Russian government.

President Donald Trump criticized the decision to appoint a special counsel to the probe investigating allegations the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians during 2016 election.

Let us take a look back at five times former President Barack Obama leaked classified information, without a peep of protest from the media that are currently melting down over President Donald Trump’s discussions with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster criticized the intelligence community for leaking information about the president’s communications with the Russians.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross warned on Thursday that China’s plan to build up its production of semiconductors is a threat to the national security and economic stability of the United States.

Nearly two decades of socialism has left oil-rich Venezuela in an unparalleled crisis.

WASHINGTON, D.C.–On Thursday President Donald Trump signed a memorandum highlighting the importance of a new Department of Commerce investigation into aluminum imports to the U.S. and the threat to national security in light of global overcapacity and increasing U.S. military demand for high quality aluminum.

An immigration group is defending President Donald Trump’s travel ban, which would have temporarily halted the flow of foreign refugees being resettled in the U.S.

Even as Russia continues to threaten Ukraine in the eastern region of the country, its minister of finance, Oleksandr Danyliuk, said the best way to ensure national security is through building a strong economy, including attracting private sector investors from the West.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump issued a memorandum on Thursday calling for an investigation into domestic and foreign steel production and, in part, its impact on defense.

A plan by President Donald Trump’s administration to “extreme vet’ foreign refugees entering the U.S. in the hundreds every week could include an ideological test.

WASHINGTON – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu told Breitbart News that, while his country does not have “any problems with the Kurds,” they are not amenable to an independent, Kurdish state at the moment.

JERUSALEM, Israel – The father of an Israeli teen suspected of making threatening phone calls to dozens of Jewish community centers in the US as well as false bomb threats against airplanes said on Monday that the world must understand the mental condition of his son.

It was revealed Monday that President Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice allegedly ordered the unmasking of the identities of Trump campaign aides who were reportedly being surveilled during the 2016 election.

Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton paid a visit to Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday to offer his thoughts on some top news items of the day.