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Ellen DeGeneres showed public support for Rosie O'Donnell, whose US citizenship President Donald Trump threatened to revoke, just three months after Rosie accused Ellen of never saying 'anything political in her life.' It all began Saturday when the 79-year-old Republican politician vowed on Truth Social: 'Because of the fact that Rosie O'Donnell is not in the best interests of our great country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her citizenship. 'She is a threat to humanity, and should remain in the wonderful country of Ireland, if they want her. God bless America!' On Sunday, the 67-year-old canceled comedian...

The X account of Elmo, a Sesame Street hero, posted antisemitic content on Sunday night, calling to "kill the Jews." The content was quickly deleted. In its tweets, Elmo posted, "Kill all Jews." "Elmo says ALL JEWS SHOULD DIE. F-K JEWS. DONALD TRUMP IS NETANYAHU’S PUPPET BECAUSE HE IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES. JEWS CONTROL THE WORLD AND NEED TO BE EXTERMINATED. “RELEASE THE FILES @realDonaldTrump CHILD F-KER.” Reports said that ten minutes prior to the antisemitic incitement, the hacker posted a photo of Elmo on the moon, wishing readers, "Happy crypto all-time high day, everybody! From Elmo and @onchainstudios....

For thousands of years, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were the oldest epic stories that Europeans know of. But is it possible that Homer was, in turn, influenced by the stories of other civilizations to the east of Greece? We are joined by Mary Bachvarova, an expert on both the ancient Greek and Hittite traditions, to explore this fascinating question. This is episode 42 of the "Ancient Greece Declassified" podcast. A Hittite Version of the Trojan War?! | 1:03:07 Lantern Jack | 10.2K subscribers | 329,200 views | November 28, 2021

The Biden Autopen Scandal just got worse. The Oversight Project broke the story about the Biden autopen scandal wide open after they discovered thousands of acts of clemency and executive actions were signed with an autopen rather than a wet signature. Earlier this year, the Oversight Project revealed six criminals were pardoned by Biden’s autopen on December 30, 2022, while Joe Biden was vacationing and golfing in St. Croix. You were White House Staff Secretary when Biden autopenned pardons from the golf course in USVI. This you? https://t.co/26z9C6cE7m pic.twitter.com/7btD2RTX0N — Oversight Project (@ItsYourGov) March 17, 2025 Joe Biden defended the...

For 40 cruel and bloody months, Ukraine has fought the Russian invader. Since February 2022, when Moscow’s full-scale, countrywide onslaught began, its people have faced relentless, devastating attacks. Tens of thousands have been killed or wounded, millions have lost their homes. Ukraine’s industries, shops, schools, hospitals and power stations burn, its fertile farmlands are laid waste. Its children are orphaned, traumatised or abducted. Despite repeated appeals, the world has failed to stop the carnage. And yet Ukraine, outnumbered and outgunned, has continued to fight back. Ukrainian heroism amid horror has become so familiar, it’s almost taken for granted. But as...

King Charles has invited Donald Trump for an unprecedented second state visit in September, scheduling the trip for three days when parliament is not sitting and removing the possibility of the US president addressing parliament. Buckingham Palace announced on Monday that Trump would come to the UK from 17-19 September, soon after the House of Commons rises for its traditional break for the annual party conferences. The king will host Trump and his wife, Melania, at Windsor Castle, though the palace has not yet set out any other details of the trip. The visit is a coup for the White...

...South Korea’s new president, Lee Jae Myung, sent special envoys to Australia and Germany to discuss defense and trade issues, and plans on dispatching delegations to several others. Brazil and India announced plans to increase their bilateral trade by 70 percent, to $20 billion. Indonesia says it is nearing a treaty with the European Union that would drop most tariffs on both sides to zero. And in Vietnam, which Mr. Trump said had accepted 20 percent tariffs on its goods headed to the United States before last week’s letters, the deputy trade minister emphasized efforts to reduce her country’s reliance...

The New York Times reports many of Biden’s pardons including Dr. Fauci’s were signed by autopen and approved late at night by a White House aide.

Friday night, while speaking in front of a live audience at a Turning Point USA event in Tampa, Florida, Carlson came to a conclusion. He boldly said he believes foreign intelligence was behind the Epstein blackmail operation. But which country? SPOILER ALERT: He named Israel. And he confidently asserted that if they were involved, they must have also bankrolled his crimes. “I think the real answer is Jeffrey Epstein was working on behalf of intel services, probably not American, Carlson said. “And we have every right to ask on whose behalf was he working? How does a guy go from...

Billionaire business mogul Mark Cuban fired back at the Democratic Party for having no other political message beyond repeating how "Trump sucks."

The AI Revolution is Reshaping Middle-Class Employment The artificial intelligence revolution fundamentally transforms the employment landscape, particularly affecting middle-class professional roles that once seemed secure. While complete job elimination rarely happens overnight, significant transformation is inevitable across numerous industries. The convergence of machine learning, natural language processing, and automation technologies creates a perfect storm that threatens traditional career paths. Current trends indicate that roles involving repetitive tasks, data processing, and routine decision-making are most vulnerable to AI disruption. Companies across sectors are adopting AI-powered solutions to streamline operations, reduce costs, and improve efficiency. This shift represents more than just technological...

Maxwell argues she should have been protected from prosecution as part of a Non Prosecution Agreement made by Epstein - her former lover and boss - in 2007 when he agreed to plead guilty to two minor charges of prostitution in a 'sweetheart deal' which saw him spend little time behind bars. And now, controversy continues to rage over the Department of Justice's statement that there is no Epstein 'client list' and the release of videos from inside New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center which the DOJ says proves he committed suicide in 2019 while being held in jail on sex...

This is a really outrageous piece of propaganda. Someone sent it to me saying, “The guy has a point.” To me, you have to be pretty ignorant to buy any of it. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DL6nSRduK_U/?igsh=MXNtMWM4dXBsYnRncA%3D%3D

In the battle for Ukraine, the front line is increasingly at a standstill. The reason: rapid innovations in drone technology. From just a few commercial and homemade drones, which the Ukrainians used at the start of the war to locate invading Russian columns, unmanned vehicles now dominate the battlefield. Each side has hundreds of them constantly in the air across the 750-mile front line. Drones can lay mines, deliver everything from ammunition to medication and even evacuate wounded or dead soldiers. Wedding drones’ at war When Russia sent tank columns into Ukraine in February 2022, Ukraine needed to find out...

This is truly astonishing. Whoever built these underground structures were highly advanced than humans.

What are people really asking ChatGPT?With adoption growing, ChatGPT prompts are shifting as consumer behavior evolves. While software development prompts continue to dominate, their share has fallen meaningfully over the past year, reflecting how developers were among the earliest users of ChatGPT for code and other applications.This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld, shows the most popular ChatGPT prompt categories, based on data from Sensor Tower.Top Categories for ChatGPT Prompts in 2025Below, we show the leading prompt categories on ChatGPT between March and April 2025:Covering 29% of all prompts, software development is the top category for ChatGPT users.Along with simplifying...

President Donald Trump told reporters on Sunday that he spoke with FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino amid rumors that Bongino was considering resignation following Attorney General Pam Bondi’s contradictory statements about the Jeffrey Epstein files—initially claiming they were on her desk awaiting review, then later saying they do not exist. Bongino “sounded terrific” and is in “good shape," Trump said. A reporter then asked the president if "Dan Bongino still your Deputy FBI Director?” "Oh, I think so. I did. I spoke to him today… Very good guy. I’ve known him a long time… and he sounded terrific actually. No,...

David Paterson was the governor of New York from 2008 to 2010, when he was succeeded by Andrew Cuomo as the Democrats’ one-party rule of the state continued drearily on. Yet although he is another New York Democrat, Paterson is not thrilled with Zohran Mamdani, his fellow Democrat who stands on the brink of becoming the next mayor of New York City. Yet when he criticized Mamdani, Paterson found to his dismay that not only was he inundated with angry phone calls from the young Communist’s supporters, but his family was targeted as well. And so once again we see...

As of December 2024, there were approximately 40 million illegal aliens (or people who should be classified as illegal aliens) living in the United States. Before Biden entered office, there were roughly 20 million illegal aliens in America. Two-thirds of that number were people who had overstayed lawful admissions Under Biden another approximately 20 million entered, some of whom were apprehended at the border and released into the country, some were allowed to apply fraudulently for asylum and be admitted, some crossed illegally without interception, some were admitted under the bogus CBP-1 humanitarian parole program, and some came flooding in...

US President Donald Trump says he will send Patriot air defense missiles to Ukraine, saying they are necessary to defend the country because Russian President Vladimir Putin “talks nice but then he bombs everybody in the evening.” -snip- “We will send them Patriots, which they desperately need, because Putin really surprised a lot of people. He talks nice and then bombs everybody in the evening. But there’s a little bit of a problem there. I don’t like it,” Trump tells reporters at Joint Base Andrews outside of Washington. “We basically are going to send them various pieces of very sophisticated...