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A federal appeals court upheld on Friday the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic from military contracts, handing a victory to President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in their battle with the AI startup over safety guardrails on its technology. The 2-1 decision by the US Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. came in a lawsuit by Anthropic challenging its March designation by the Pentagon as a national security supply chain risk, which the startup says has cost it billions of dollars in lost business and damaged its reputation ahead of a highly anticipated initial public offering. The court’s majority...

A key GOP super PAC reportedly has removed $6.5 million in ad reservations from North Carolina's Senate race for the month of October with Republican candidate Michael Whatley trailing former Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper in polls. The GOP-aligned Old North Action pulled the reservations as Republicans assess their spending in the closely watched contest for the seat being vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, Semafor reported Monday, citing media tracker AdImpact. The group still has $14.5 million in advertising reserved through Election Day. The Senate Leadership Fund, the leading Republican Senate super PAC, also adjusted its North Carolina spending,...

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Two young men, identified by police as leaders of a banned University of Wisconsin fraternity, were arrested for an alleged horrific hazing incident. Fraternity president Brayden J Klein and vice president Samuel N Vane, both 20, were taken into custody by the Madison Police on Wednesday. The officers arrived at the location at 8.20pm after they received an ‘anonymous tip' about the events that were taking place at the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, located along the 100 block of Langdon Street, Madison, about 80 miles west of Milwaukee. They allegedly found 30 half-clothed teens covered in ‘food, condiments, and other...

Dozens of American military personnel joined Ecuadorean police in raids, marking a new level of direct U.S. involvementEcuador’s security forces carried out a series of raids this week around the country, killing three alleged drug traffickers and capturing dozens more. At their side was a contingent of heavily armed American soldiers. The operations, which were announced by the Ecuadorean government, signal a deepening of U.S. military involvement in Latin America’s drug wars as the Trump administration pledges to go after criminal groups it has labeled narcoterrorists. On Thursday in the city of Guayaquil and several other locations, 50 U.S. military...

Anaheim Mayor Ashleigh Aitken is pushing back against accusations that she called her chief of staff a “dirty Mexican,” issuing her first direct denial as the controversy threatens to engulf City Hall. Aitken released the statement Thursday after her chief of staff, Berenice Ballinas, made the damning allegations that also claimed the mayor questioned the staffer’s sexuality during a trip to Disneyland. “These allegations are extremely serious, and they deserve to be investigated. I did not use the racial slur attributed to me, and I have always been a champion of the LGBTQ community,” Aitken, a Democrat, said in her...

Of all the outside advisers urging President Trump to seize control of federal elections this fall, the attorney Peter Ticktin can claim the deepest ties; the two men went to military school together as teenagers. In 2022, Ticktin helped Trump sue Hillary Clinton. This year, he pushed Trump to secure a pardon for Tina Peters, a former Colorado clerk convicted of charges related to tampering with election equipment.

I am a registered Republican voter, and somehow the Democrat Party and Katie Hobbs thought this would be an effective hit piece. At least they admit in the small print that this flyer telling me to "Remember my conservative values" is a product of the Democrats. It says to "Do your own research", but only sites lefty newspapers and two legislative entries... NO websites. It also describes him as an "Ultra MAGA Washington politician". It is pretty hard to paint "Ultra MAGA" and "Washington" in the same sentence. He is not loved by Thune, or the McCain wing, or by...

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday ordered the cancellation of $810 million in congressionally appropriated funding, including large sums meant for illegal immigrants and race-focused programs, in the second “pocket” rescission in 49 years, The Post has learned. The action eliminates 11 pools of unspent money at seven federal departments and agencies as part of a drive by fiscal hawks to whittle down executive-branch expenses. “In accordance with… the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, I herewith report 11 rescissions of budget authority, totaling $810 million,” Trump wrote in a notice to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). “The...

It's only fair that 11 years after Leonardo DiCaprio took on a bear in The Revenant, his Once Upon a Time in Hollywood co-star, Brad Pitt, did the same in Heart of the Beast. The new thriller, which was directed by Suicide Squad filmmaker David Ayer, follows a retired Special Forces veteran who crashes his plane and is stranded in the Alaskan wilderness with his military combat dog Odin (Uber). They have to make a 58-mile trek across the wilderness to safety with minimal supplies and completely on their own. Heart of the Beast is one of the most thrilling...

Steve Trimble, Aviation Week‘s defense editor and friend of TWZ, was first to report the disappearance of the former NASA SR-71

This week we put out our latest set of New York Times/Siena University polls examining how voters are feeling about the Senate races in Maine, Michigan and New Hampshire. They contain a lot of good news for Democrats — something of a theme in our recent polls. In Michigan, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is ahead by 5 percentage points, in a state where Democrats worried that his contentious primary may have fractured the base. And in New Hampshire, where Democrats were sounding the alarm that their chances may be slipping away, the Democrat Chris Pappas has a 5 percentage point lead....

What Is God's Agapē Love? Beloved, one of the most misunderstood words in our EXPONENTIAL growing global high-tech godless American culture today is the word "love." This word today has become very relative in countless ways in its application and use, especially among believers in Jesus Messiah. Whatever fallen-world relativistic mindset or feelings one gravitates towards is how one defines "love" today. Usually, the word "love" is used in a demonic, destructive, and inverted manner, which is used to promote or redefine lawlessness and godlessness (Isa. 5:20; Matt. 7:21-23; Rom. 1:18-32; 8:1-17; James 3:13-18; 2 Peter 3:16). One of the...

On Friday's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough railed that whoever instructed Secret Service agents not to immediately restore White House access to previously banned media outlets—after a judge issued an order temporarily lifting the ban—"should go to jail!" It was like.....Watergate! Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire, which was disaffiliated by the national Libertarian Party earlier this year, said this week that it supports the “assassination of basically every elected Democrat” in the state, drawing condemnation from U.S. Rep. Maggie Goodlander and others. “We openly support the assassination of basically every elected Democrat in New Hampshire,” the organization posted on X Tuesday. “But if you don’t have the balls to do that then you should probably vote GOP.” The post garnered hundreds of comments and reposts by Wednesday morning and drew largely negative responses. Among the more prominent nationally-focused individuals criticizing...

Prime Minister Andy Burham has said his government will be "relentless" in working towards stopping small boat crossings completely, but he would not set a date on when that could be achieved. In an interview with BBC South East, just days after two migrant vessels reached the Kent coast unintercepted, he backed Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's call for a review into the landings, saying he wanted "urgent answers". Burnham said there would be "no complacency" in the crackdown on the people smuggling gangs behind the operation. "We will not stop until we bear down on every element of this criminal...

The Senate Judiciary Committee announced Friday that former Special Counsel Jack Smith will testify in front of the panel next week about his Arctic Frost investigation. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley has led the Senate's investigation into Smith and his alleged efforts to prosecute President Donald Trump and his allies, which included the revelation that Smith subpoenaed phone records of multiple GOP lawmakers during the Arctic Frost investigation. Smith will now testify in front of the panel on Tuesday, Sept. 29. "Jack Smith must answer for what he did to hundreds of Republican groups and individuals," Grassley said in a...

France will send troops and defense systems to Saudi Arabia to help protect the Red Sea port city of Yanbu, which is key for energy transport, French President Emmanuel Macron has said in a TV interview. He also denied a report by Spanish newspaper El Mundo that the US Central Intelligence Agency had warned European governments of possible Russian drone attacks from the Mediterranean.

Why Iran’s Path to Freedom Is Closer Than the West Thinks For decades, the ruling apparatus in Tehran has relied on two foundational lies to maintain its grip on power: first, that the Iranian opposition is fragmented and planless; second, that no viable structure exists inside the country to manage a transition. Today, as the Islamic Republic enters its most precarious era of institutional decay, both myths are crumbling. The national uprising sweeping Iran is not a series of isolated, emotional outbursts. It is the culmination of a decade-long trajectory of political evolution – from the peaceful gatherings at Cyrus...

Pretend for a moment that you are starting your freshman year at Harvard University. You are excited about the college experience and ready to tackle the demanding coursework. You have decided on a major: Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, while also fulfilling a portion of your elective credits with a minor in Ethnicity, Migration, Rights. You have already reviewed the general education requirements and chosen your courses for the fall semester. Now, you take another look at your selected courses with nervous anticipation. An expository writing course. Typical. A foreign language course. Also typical. The Border: Race, Politics, and...