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The world is entering a new era of warfare, with artificial intelligence taking center stage. AI is making militaries faster, smarter and more efficient. But if left unchecked, it threatens to destabilize the world. An AI arms race is already underway. That's the blunt warning from Germany's foreign minister, Heiko Maas. "We're right in the middle of it. That's the reality we have to deal with," Maas told DW, speaking in a new DW documentary, "Future Wars — and How to Prevent Them." It's a reality at the heart of the struggle for supremacy between the world's greatest powers. "This...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The first major cruise ship to sail from the U.S. in more than a year will be Celebrity Edge from Port Everglades. Celebrity Cruises announced it had received to OK from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to begin seven-night Caribbean sailings from the Fort Lauderdale port beginning June 26, according to the company. “For the past 15 months our conversations with friends and loved ones about seeing the world have been accompanied by the phrase ‘someday.’ I’m beyond proud and excited to say that day has arrived,” said cruise line CEO and President Lisa...

“In an unlikely but conceivable turn of events, what if that scientist becomes infected with the virus, which leads to an outbreak and ultimately triggers a pandemic?” Anthony Fauci penned these words in a 2012 paper, long before the COVID-19 outbreak, about gain of function research. “Scientists working in this field might say — as indeed I have said — that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks.”The benefits outweigh the risks. For research involving scientists extracting viruses from the wild and engineering them to infect humans in order to study potential therapeutics, Fauci determined...

The administration of President Joe Biden confirmed on Monday he has scheduled a meeting with Islamist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for June 14, on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Brussels that day. The meeting with the fellow head of state is particularly notable given that it will occur before a scheduled meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on June 16, the first between the two since Biden was inaugurated president. The White House on Monday pointed disregarded a request by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky – whose nation Russia has torn into pieces through illegal colonization and covert...

In the 1964 presidential campaign, Republican candidate Barry Goldwater had a slogan: "In your heart you know he's right." That was aimed at deflecting the stereotype about Goldwater and Republicans in general that they were an uncaring lot. It is a smear that still works to some extent for modern Democrats. In his return to political campaigning last Saturday, former president Donald Trump channeled Goldwater when he claimed vindication for many of the positions he took during last year's presidential campaign and in the four years of his administration. Speaking to a gathering of North Carolina Republicans in Greenville, Trump...

Ilhan Omar compared Monday actions the U.S. has taken to the 'unthinkable atrocities committed' by terrorist groups like Hamas and The Taliban. 'We must have the same level of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes against humanity,' the Minnesota Democratic congresswoman wrote on Twitter. 'We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban,' Omar continued, lumping in the U.S. and Israel with terrorist organizations.

Capitol Police and intelligence agencies including the FBI knew Trump supporters were threatening to storm the Capitol and wanted to target Democrat lawmakers weeks before January 6, but didn't act, a bipartisan Senate Report has revealed. Law enforcement was aware of a plot to breach the Capitol, that maps of the building's tunnel system had been shared online, and that supporters were planning to bring guns to D.C., but failed to act or share information with uniformed cops. The report fell short of labelling the riot an insurrection and gave no mention of whether Trump motivated protesters or was involved...

Influential Pastor Rick Warren has announced that after more than 40 years as the lead pastor of Saddleback Church in California, he will be soon stepping back from his current role with the church and has begun the process of searching for his successor. “This next week, we are going to begin the official search for my successor,” Warren, who oversees the 25,000-member, 19-campus Saddleback Church based in Lake Forest, announced in a June 6 sermon. “That's a big deal, the official search for my successor," the 67-year-old pastor said. "This isn't the end. It's not even the beginning...

Gangs raided multiple police stations for weapons in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, in deadly attacks over the weekend as violence between armed groups flared, with intense conflict in one southern neighborhood forcing thousands to flee. The gangs have proliferated in the poorest country in the Americas over the past few years during a period of political unrest and growing economic misery. Armed groups increasingly outgun Haiti's security forces and fight with one another over territory. The United Nations said on Sunday it was "profoundly worried" about the impact of the growing violence on civilians, recalling similar incidents over the past year...

Former President Trump is launching a speaking tour with former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly that will aim to “provide a never before heard inside view of his administration.” The series, dubbed “The History Tour,” will feature four live conversations across the country between Trump and O’Reilly in December. The tour “will discuss exactly how things were accomplished, as well as challenges, both good and bad,” according to a press release announcing the series. Trump in a statement said the conversations will be “wonderful but hard-hitting sessions” that will discuss the “real problems” occurring in the U.S. “I will be...

How Many Really Died from COVID? Another Damn Thing We Have to Be Concerned About We thought we’d gone genuinely crazy last year, when we found ourselves having to explain the difference between “died from COVID” and “died with COVID.”Died from meant the victim died from a particularly nasty respiratory bug that compelling evidence indicates escaped (or was released) from (after having been enhanced by) the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Communist China.Died with meant you could have died from anything — up to and including getting in a motorcycle crash — while having a Wuhan infection of any severity,...

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(In the tweets below, Pizza Hut is unmasked for funding wildly racist critical race theory indoctrination in Brooklyn public schools. Click on the videos in the following tweets to see how thoroughly these fifth-graders have been taught to hate white people.Fifth grade social studies teacher shares her Critical Race Theory “anti-racism” curriculum from her classroom. Listen to what these KIDS have been conditioned to say. This CRT curriculum is part of a collaboration effort with “Empowering Educators” sponsored by Pizza Hut. pic.twitter.com/xGc9Wetn0p— Mythinformed MKE (@MythinformedMKE) June 3, 2021Cont. Fifth grade social studies teacher shares her Critical Race Theory “anti-racism” curriculum...

WASHINGTON, Friday, June 7. Through a private letter, received by the last steamer, I learn that travelers from the Southern Confederacy are presenting passports signed by "ROBERT TOOMES, Secretary of State." My informant had not yet been able to ascertain if any such passports had been vised. An acknowledgment of them would be virtually an acknowledgment of the rebel Government. Gen. WEBB, Minister to Brazil, will sail from New-York about the first of July. DEVELOPMENTS OF THE SEIZED TELEGRAMS. The developments that are likely to follow the seizure of the dispatches filed in the telegraph offices will astound the country....

Constant chatter isn't the best way to get your message across. Taking a breath before saying something important can make people listen more closely to what you have to say. And that's not just a trick we humans have figured out. Frogs and birds have also been found to take purposeful pauses in their speech, and as it turns out, mormyrid fish, or elephantfish, time their silence in similar ways. Underwater, these freshwater fish communicate through weak pulses of electricity, and new research has found the information they send to one another is also marked by well-timed pauses. When placed...

Instead of visiting the border, Vice President Kamala Harris is offering reporters cookies that are decorated in her likeness. It’s a wee bit creepy, folks. The Vice President’s office said the cookies were a “gift” from a staff member to commemorate Harris’ first foreign trip as vice president. “Cookies that were provided to passengers on Air Force Two on Sunday were a gift from a member of the staff,” the statement to reporters read. “The vice president wanted to make sure the cookies were shared with everyone.” USA Today White House correspondent Courtney Subramanian shared a photo of the cookies...

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Much has been written about the presidency of the late George H. W. Bush. But in her new memoir, The Man I Knew, Jean Becker — Bush's chief of staff for a quarter-century — zooms in on the 25 years that came after his time in office. "One of the reasons why I wrote the book is I really felt the American people, when he left the White House, still didn't really understand who this man was," Becker, 65, tells PEOPLE. "He was a bigger-than-life person, smart, funny and had a heart as big as Texas. Until the day he...

Increased range, reduced production costs. As the race to embrace electric vehicles heats up, manufacturers are looking for ways to gain an advantage over competitors. From Gogoro’s swappable battery network to Kawasaki patenting electric-hybrid tech, brands continue innovating in an attempt to shape future electric vehicle development. Now, apparently BMW and Ford have teamed up to champion solid-state battery technology. The two automotive juggernauts are enlisting the help of Colorado-based solid-state battery startup Solid Power to integrate the technology into their lineups by 2030. The $130 million investment will produce 100 Ah solid-state batteries for testing in 2025 before the...