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A quaint palm-tree-lined coastal California town is in revolt over plans to build a massive 'hyperscale' data center on their doorstep. Residents of Pittsburg, California, a sleepy boating town that shares the same name as Pennsylvania's second city, are furious about the move to build a 76-acre data center campus called Perseus on what was once the beloved local golf course. AVAIO Digital's 99-megawatt facility is 'strategically' positioned near the East Bay, which is located 35 miles outside of San Francisco. In a rowdy city council meeting on Monday, Pittsburg residents demanded answers and insisted that the project has no...

Homer’s epic poem, “Odyssey,” is in the news lately, primarily because Christopher Nolan has produced a three-hour, and I can use the word impressionistic, retelling of the “Odyssey.” And a lot of people have criticized it; a lot of people like it. I’m gonna talk about the film later in one of our episodes, because I have now seen the new film, and Jack Fowler and Sami Wink and I have talked variously about it. But I wanted to today just talk about the “Odyssey” as a work of literature and history. A lot of people, I think, have the...

Rupert Lowe has said he could work with Nigel Farage if five conditions were met. The leader of Restore Britain, who left Reform UK in March 2025 posted on X this morning: "The Greater Manchester result showed what Restore Britain can deliver. "The next step is how we maximise the chances of delivering the change Britain needs - it means putting personal differences aside. That is why today I am making a public offer to Nigel Farage and Reform UK." Mr Lowe added in a video that Restore and Reform agree on "many issues" and disagree on others, but he...

Moroccan King Mohammed VI said his decision to give US President Donald Trump’s name to a US$1 billion (S$1.28 billion) highway that crosses into the disputed Western Sahara expresses his “deep appreciation” of the American leader. Hailing Trump’s “historic recognition” of Moroccan rule of the Western Sahara in 2020, the king said it “will forever be etched in the memory of Moroccans” and has “given unprecedented momentum to our bilateral relations”. A resource-rich territory about the size of the UK, the Western Sahara has been disputed by Morocco and an Algerian-backed independence movement since former colonial ruler Spain withdrew in...

Former Republicans Majorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson are apparently serious about their plans to launch a new political party — and they’ve got some help too. Greene posted a picture on Saturday of her and her new husband Brian Glenn sitting at a wooden table headed by Carlson, who was flanked by lame duck Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and another ex-fan of President Donald Trump: Joe Kent, the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center who quit earlier this year in protest of the Iran war. Massie and Kent’s wife are also seated at the table. Everyone appears to...

Most people don’t understand that, for leftists, Islam offers more than just a common totalitarian enemy in the war against the West. Yesterday, the barrier between Spain and Morocco broke, as up to 60,000 young, military-aged Muslim men swam from Morocco past the border at Ceuta and Melilla into Spain. The incentives were twofold. The first was that Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s hard-socialist president, announced that illegal aliens in Spain who applied for legal status would receive it. The second was that the leftist Supreme Court announced that, while those who entered Spain over a land border could instantly be turned...

From Eagles Wings SONG DEVOTIONAL Beloved, our Heavenly Father never intended His children to live weighed down by the cares and troubles of this fallen last days world. Instead, He calls us to lift our hearts and minds by faith on High to our risen victorious Savior, Who is seated at the right hand of Almighty God the Father (Psalm 110:1, Eph. 2:6, Col. 3:1-4)! He commands us to set all our hope and expectations on all of His ETERNAL precious promises found within His Holy Word (John 17:17, Eph. 1, Colossians 3:1–4). As an eagle soars high above the...

In this video, we explore the history of Arabia before Islam, starting with the prehistoric period when the region was far greener than today, filled with lakes, rivers, and wildlife. We follow the transformation of this landscape into desert and how early communities adapted to it. What Was Arabia Like Before Islam? | DOCUMENTARY | 38:22 Para Bellum | 140K subscribers | 1,362,096 views | March 29, 2026

The shooting was reported at 2:30 p.m. at the In-N-Out in Twin Falls.At least three people were killed, with reports of two injured.The shooter is among the dead. This was a picture of him:One more video:A nearby civilian in a hat was also recorded firing back across the parking lot at the shooter.Zero clue who this champ is or what kind of pistol he was packing. 👇

A U.S. Postal Service letter carrier stole a winning lottery ticket from the mail and fraudulently claimed the prize, authorities said. An investigation was launched when someone reported a winning Pick 4 ticket mailed through the United States Postal Service never reached its intended investigation. It was determined the ticket was redeemed June 19 at the Florida Lottery's Miami District Office by Lekaysha Lockhart.

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Labour is reaping the benefits of ousting Sir Keir Starmer as leader as fresh polling shows further evidence of an “Andy Burnham bounce”, with the party now five points clear of Reform UK. In a poll conducted by BMG Research exclusively for The i Paper, Labour has overtaken Nigel Farage’s party. The survey found that 28 per cent of respondents said they would vote for Burnham’s party, compared with 23 per cent who backed Reform. The Conservatives are in third, according to the polling, with 20 per cent, followed by the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party, which are both...

​Who knew golfing, skydiving, and scuba diving were a “white” thing? NBC seems to think they are in their piece “Scuba, skydiving and golf: Black adults embrace sports that defy stereotypes and bring joy.” Those sports and others like them (tennis, skating, gymnastics) always struck me as a disposable income thing not a race thing, requiring as they do the purchase of expensive lessons and/or expensive equipment and/or expensive travel/venue time. Cash and sheer merit — never race — were always what I thought about when I thought about who participates or excels in these sports. Evidently not NBC News....

This video, presented by *Doc Rich*, argues that the *Democratic Party* is in a state of financial and political "shambles" leading into the upcoming midterms. The creator cites several factors, including poor fundraising numbers, internal conflict, and low voter favorability. **Key highlights from the video include:** * **Financial Difficulties:** The video reports that the *DNC* is struggling with debt and has low cash reserves compared to the *RNC*. It highlights a *New York Times* report noting that the *Democratic Party* has even asked vendors to delay billing until after the midterm elections (1:24 - 2:06). Additionally, the *DNC* reportedly used...

IBM and researchers from the University of Chicago announced a demonstration in quantum computing that meets the fundamental criteria for "quantum advantage"—the point where quantum computers can be confirmed to have outperformed classical computers on trusted computations. The collaboration said its system had performed computations beyond the reach of leading classical simulation methods while providing confidence that the computation returned accurate results. In their new paper, the researchers showed that these two goals could be achieved through a novel construction of encoded quantum circuits—one of the largest demonstrations of logical quantum computing to date. The paper is published on the...

We’ve been preparing all wrong for pandemics by imagining bureaucratic wizards will manage them best. This week, the Senate Homeland Security Committee subpoenaed Dr. Anthony Fauci to testify. The committee secured extensive daily logs he had prepared while at NIH heading up the COVID-19 response. (The committee still lacks almost 700 pages of these logs, all of which had been secreted on 11 different government servers until retrieved by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.) The contrast between what he wrote in his hidden logs and his public statements was extreme. To take but one example, he admits in the log...

Three people were killed and at least seven others were wounded in a shooting Saturday afternoon at an In-N-Out restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho, local authorities said. The situation unfolded before 2:30 p.m. local time. Social media video obtained by CBS News showed people fleeing a shopping center parking lot as multiple gunshots are heard. In the video, a person carrying what appeared to be a firearm could be seen outside the restaurant opening the doors to a parked sedan. In a news conference Saturday night, Twin Falls Police Chief Matthew Hicks told reporters that there were fatalities, but he...

Scott Galloway is a left wing political commentator and professor at NYU. He hates President Trump and has never heard a far left policy he didn't like. But now he is complaining that he has been hit with Zohran Mamdani's new pied-à-terre tax, which hits New Yorkers who own a valuable second home. Galloway is complaining that he has been 'doxed' because his name appears in the Mamdani administration's searchable database for these properties. FOX News reports: Prominent liberal podcaster and NYU professor Scott Galloway called out New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s publicly accessible database, saying it endangers landowners...

Readers, a hilariously obvious fraud is in the news once again, which in my part of the world is a bit like turning on the Bat-Signal. Remember that Steven Spielberg film Catch Me If You Can, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as real-life scammer Frank Abagnale? As played by DiCaprio, it’s an eminently winning role: Spielberg tells a tale of how, before the age of 19, young Frank pulled off millions of dollars in cons by convincingly impersonating everyone from an airline pilot to a doctor to a lawyer, only finally being caught by a rumpled Tom Hanks. .... Arday is one...

p>The Talk Shows Aug 2nd, 2026 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.); Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio); Clément Delangue, French entrepreneur and co‑founder and CEO of Hugging Face, an Open Source AI; Former Senator (D-WV) Joe Manchin, and his daughter Heather Manchin, founders of the Independent Leadership Council.FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.); Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) (In April 2026 he made it clear that if Democrats retake the House of Representatives in the 2026 midterms, his party will “impeach” President...