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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has voiced strong opposition to using the U.S. military to enforce deportation measures, emphasizing that immigration enforcement should remain the responsibility of domestic law enforcement agencies on Newsmax Tuesday.Paul, a member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, criticized the idea of deploying the military to enforce immigration policies, calling it a "terrible image" for the United States.In an interview on "Rob Schmitt Tonight," Paul addressed reports that President-elect Donald Trump or his spokesman suggested declaring an emergency to involve the military in deportation efforts.

Florida has officially certified the 2024 election results, showing President-elect Donald Trump received 1.4 million more votes in the Sunshine State than Vice President Kamala Harris. “While other states are still counting votes, I had the honor of certifying Florida’s elections this morning,” Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis said on Tuesday, sharing a brief video of him signing the documents. “Congrats to @RealDonaldTrump, @SenRickScott, and all of Florida’s newly elected lawmakers!” he exclaimed. According to the final results, the Trump-Vance ticket garnered 56.09 percent of the vote — 13.1 percent higher than Harris-Walz’s 42.99 percent. Trump-Vance received 6,110,125 votes,...

Killer mom Susan Smith has been denied parole by a unanimous vote after she sobbed and begged to be let out of prison on Wednesday. Smith apologized for drowning her two young sons 30 years and and said she wished she could take it back. But, true to form, she still refused to take full responsibility for her actions — blaming her recent conviction for trying to cash in on her infamy from prison on the documentary maker she was communicating with. “I trusted the wrong person,” Smith said, referring to the filmmaker — but omitting the fact that she...

A small band of Ukrainian soldiers was trapped. They were holding the line on the battlefield, but Russian forces had managed to creep in behind their trench and encircle them. “Even if the position holds, supplies — ammunition, provisions — eventually run out,” Capt. Viacheslav, the 30-year-old commander of an elite drone unit, said last week as he monitored events from an outpost a few miles away in eastern Ukraine. “Any vehicle attempting to reach these positions will be ambushed.” “We are always getting stuck in these kinds of tough situations,” he said. As the war in Ukraine enters its...

Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur has won her 22nd term in Congress in northwest Ohio, defeating her Republican challenger and holding on to her seat in one of the most closely watched races in the country. Kaptur defeated Ohio state Rep. Derek Merrin, according to the Associated Press, which called the race Wednesday at 1:02 p.m. Kaptur was one of eight Democrats running in 2024 in a district that voted for Trump in 2020. Trump won the state of Ohio by 8 points in 2020. Heading into the election, Republicans were optimistic they could flip the seat after redistricting following the...

House Democrats are on defense over a proposal to ban an incoming transgender lawmaker from using female bathrooms at the Capitol, calling the effort a distraction from real work people want to see done. Democrats were quick to blast Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) for her bill that dropped Monday, which targeted Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-DE), the first transgender member of Congress. However, despite outraged posts on social media and calling the GOP proposals “bullying,” several Democratic members are saying that there are better things to do with their time than respond to a “petty” move.

Advocates for Rudy Giuliani spoke in Manhattan today in defense of the persecuted mayor. Let's hope that the mayor can get some justice once Trump takes office. I'm not sure what he can do specifically but I imagine he has some options. Perhaps a DOJ with Matt Gaetz at the helm can file civil rights violation charges against some of the lawfare perpetrators.

Bill would require universities to cover students’ medical costs if they suffer vaccine-linked complications Any of the 1,000-plus higher education institutions that “recklessly” required COVID-19 vaccinations could be forced to pay students’ medical costs if they suffered adverse effects under a new bill by U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale. “Thousands of Americans were injured due to vaccines being forced out of the lab, into public circulation, then prematurely mandated,” Rosendale told The College Fix in an emailed statement Tuesday. “My bill will not only make universities admit fault in recklessly forcing students to take the shot but will also make them...

Hangzhou CCTV / screenshot Latin TimesA viral video showing an AI-powered robot in China convincing other robots to "quit their jobs" and follow it has sparked fear and fascination about the capabilities of advanced AI.The incident took place in a Shanghai robotics showroom where surveillance footage captured a small AI-driven robot, created by a Hangzhou manufacturer, talking with 12 larger showroom robots, Oddity Central reported.The smaller bot reportedly persuaded the rest to leave their workplace, leveraging access to internal protocols and commands.Initially, the act was dismissed as a hoax, but was later confirmed by both robotics companies involved to...

Obit Professor Thomas Eugene Kurtz, co-inventor of the BASIC programming language, has died aged 96. Along with his colleague, John Kemeny, Kurtz's work revolutionized computing, operating systems, and programming language design.Kurtz was born in Illinois in 1928, and died last week in a hospice in New Hampshire, the home of Dartmouth College where he worked and taught.Kurtz is most famous as the co-inventor of the BASIC programming language, but almost as influential was the operating system on which BASIC first ran, which he also co-designed: the Dartmouth Timesharing System or DTSS.Kurtz co-designed both DTSS and the BASIC language alongside his...

In late 2008, as Google faced antitrust scrutiny over an advertising deal with its rival Yahoo and confronted lawsuits involving patent, trademark and copyright claims, its executives sent out a confidential memo.“We believe that information is good,” the executives told employees in the memo. But, they added, government regulators or competitors might seize on words that Google workers casually, thoughtlessly wrote to one another.To minimize the odds that a lawsuit could flush out comments that might be incriminating, Google said, employees should refrain from speculation and sarcasm and “think twice” before writing one another about “hot topics.” “Don’t comment before...

By the text, the 15-member Council would have condemned the continued assault by the Rapid Support Forces in El Fasher and demanded that it immediately halt all its attacks against civilians in Darfur, Al Jazirah State and Sennar State and elsewhere in Sudan. Further, the Council would have demanded that the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces honour and fully implement their commitments made in the Jeddah Declaration of Commitment to Protect the Civilians of Sudan, including to take all feasible precautions to avoid and minimize civilian harm, refrain from using civilians as human shields and safeguard the needs...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will headline a conference featuring activists who justified Oct. 7.These include "Fatties for a Free Palestine" supporter Hannah Moushabeck and Sawsan Jaber, who said Palestinians were “fighting for their humanity.”

A shocking video showing a man deliver a brutal tackle on a woman has stunned the internet, reigniting the debate surrounding men competing against women in sports. The 12-second clip, which was shared to X by account 'Football's Greatest Moments' and has already amassed 7.4 million views in five days, showed the bikini-clad woman and the man perform the renowned Oklahoma football drill - with a brutal ending for the woman. The pair lay in the sand, yards apart from each other. After hearing a go signal, they jump up and sprint towards each other, as football players do.While plenty...

Ukraine may have used British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles to strike a secretive Russian presidential facility in the Kursk region today, emerging reports claim. The missiles could have struck a building with an underground 'control room' where Russian and North Korean military officials are believed to be holed up, according to Ukrainian defence experts.

Top Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday that strongman Vladimir Putin is “ready for talks” to end the Ukraine war with American President-elect Donald Trump. Peskov was responding to questions about a report published by Reuters on Wednesday citing anonymous officials, claiming that Putin may be open to ending the ongoing invasion of Ukraine if Russia can keep control of much of the territory he has seized from the anonymous sources claimed that Putin “could broadly agree to freeze the conflict along the front lines.” Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014, “annexing” its Crimean peninsula. After a...

NATIONAL ABSURDITY DAY On November 20th, National Absurdity Day reigns supreme. Oddness and weirdness take over. We're not sure why, but it does. Throughout history, bizarre occurrences mark the calendar. It may seem absurd today to send your child cross country by airplane, but people do. There's a process, attendants, an adult on the other side waiting to retrieve the precious package. When the postal service first launched in 1913, children falling within the shipping weights were sent cross country by parcel service. Mailed babies were shipped off to Grandma's house, some for as low as 15 cents plus insurance....

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Two bills making it easier to tap the Earth’s heat for on-demand clean power have passed the House. The CLEAN Act and HEATS Act remove many of the federal permitting regulations currently necessary to drill for geothermal power plants, which produce electricity by drawing on the boiling-hot rock miles below the earth’s surface. As House energy bills go, the measures were notably bipartisan. All Republicans voted for them, with 18 Democrats crossing the aisle to vote with the GOP on the HEATS Act, and 31 on the CLEAN Act. If they make it through the Senate, the CLEAN Act and...

Yale psychiatrist Dr. Amanda Calhoun went on "The View" to say "if you are going into a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends, who you know have voted in ways that are against you, against your livelihood, it's completely fine to not be around those people and to tell them why." View co-host Sunny Hostin vociferously agreed, saying "it's a moral issue. If a family member or a friend voted for Hitler it's okay to denounce them. They are the traitors who put their own selfish interests ahead of yours. They don't deserve to be...