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Spencer Pratt’s once-comfortable lead in the Los Angeles mayoral primary has been slashed yet again — as a fresh batch of ballots delivered another major boost to progressive City Councilmember Nithya Raman in their race to the November runoff. New results released Saturday show Pratt’s advantage over Raman shrinking to just 7,494 votes, down from more than 20,000 a day earlier. Roughly 78% of the ballots had been counted as of Saturday. Raman picked up 23,514 votes in the latest count, more than double Pratt’s gain of 10,336. Her share of the vote jumped from 24.9% to 26.2%, while Pratt slipped from 28.2% to 27.3%.

Recently, internet sources have been heralding the coming collapse of the U.S. dollar, citing claims that Turkey, China, and Japan are allegedly “dumping” the dollar. The reality is far less condemning. Turkey is selling dollars to prop up its economy during an ongoing economic crisis. Japan’s sales of U.S. Treasuries are being driven primarily by private investment funds, not the Bank of Japan, as rising Japanese interest rates make domestic government bonds more attractive investments.

South Korea’s hard-Left regime is preventing former U.S. Ambassador Morse Tan from leaving the country. He is there as part of an election monitoring team. He has criticized election irregularities and the communist tendencies of the current government, and as a result, he is subject to a travel ban. This is scandalous behavior from an American treaty ally. It is a direct insult and challenge to President Trump and must be dealt with sharply by the American government. Bad things happen while Washington’s attention is diverted. While Washington is fighting to preserve American security by eliminating threats from Iran,

Europe has reached the end of an era. Not the end of its history, but the end of its false form. For decades, the European Union served as the great substitute project of a continent that no longer dared to think politically. It promised peace without power, order without a people, unity without roots, and prosperity without cost. That was its founding lie, and it was a lie from the very beginning. Political order does not grow out of procedural routines, commission papers, or moral self-incantation. It grows out of peoples, interests, borders, loyalties, and the willingness to defend what is one’s own.