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U.S. officials have added a ninth telecommunications company to the list of entities compromised by a sweeping Chinese-linked cyberespionage operation known as Salt Typhoon, a top White House official said Friday. Anne Neuberger, the U.S. deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technology, told reporters on a call that the unnamed telecom was added to the list after the U.S. government shared guidance on how to detect and defend against the operation. Officials have previously alleged that the attackers targeted Verizon, AT&T, Lumen and others. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Dec. 18 urged senior government and political...

NEW YORK — The immigration officers sat in their vehicles before dawn near a two-story building. A New York subway line rumbled overhead. After about two hours, an officer’s voice crackled over the radio. “I think that’s Tango,” he said, using a term for a target. “Gray hoodie. Backpack. Walking quickly.” The officers surrounded and handcuffed a 23-year-old man from Ecuador who had been convicted of sexually assaulting a minor. Kenneth Genalo, head of Enforcement and Removal Operations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New York, said a popular misconception is that officers can sweep into a community and pick...

Elon Musk is facing censorship accusations after prominent right-wing accounts claimed they lost access to premium features on X when they criticised his views on immigration. On Friday night, Musk called some anti-immigration Republicans "contemptible fools", adding they were "hateful, unrepentant racists" who would "absolutely be the downfall of the Republican Party if they are not removed". At least 14 conservative accounts who criticised Musk's pro-legal immigration views said X revoked their blue tick, a verification badge given to premium account holders, according to Sky News' US partner NBC News. That removed their ability to monetise their accounts and led...

VIDEOListen to the usual suspects attempt to stir up doubt over Trump's judgement about the H-1B Visa program. The tag team of usual suspects of paid DNC shill Harry J. Sisson, Snaggletooth, and Joyless Reid sound astoundingly alike perhaps because they are reading their scripts from the same playbook. Yes, this whole thing stinks of an astro-turf operation designed to sow discord among MAGA and to keep Elon Musk from leading DOGE which is greatly feared by Rupert Murdoch.

The H-1B “war” of 2024 is destined to go down in social media history. It’s equal parts productive and chaotic, with pro-foreign worker advocates like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy squaring off against America First MAGA forces. Ultimately, this debate is a healthy exercise for the America First movement, airing its internal conflicts—especially before Trump’s anticipated return to the White House. Honestly, we’re dealing with a system so broken it’s beyond repair—especially the so-called “lotto” system at the heart of the entire H-1B scheme. Calling it “rigged” would actually be a compliment.Yes, it’s really that bad.Eric Fan:Every year, a lottery...

Petula Clark "I Know A Place" on The Ed Sullivan Show on March 14, 1965

Bill Maher confronted Jay Leno, 74, with a “conspiracy theory” that the former Tonight Show host’s spate of accidents in recent years were the result of a gambling addiction gone wrong. “It’s a conspiracy theory since you’ve had three accidents that you actually have gambling debts and are being beaten up by the mob,” Maher told Leno, who laughed off the suggestion as he appeared on the Club Random podcast. “I love the idea that the mob would drive to Greenberg, Pennsylvania, wait outside the Hampton Inn on a kind of sleety, rainy day to throw me down a hill,”...

On Friday’s “CNN News Central,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) said that there isn’t any evidence that China exercises control over the Panama Canal in a way that endangers American security, but there is a risk of a hit to America’s reputation if it looks like it’s bullying Panama. Host Jessica Dean said, “I’m curious if you think there is legitimate concern about China’s influence on the Panama Canal.” Auchincloss responded, “There are two shipping companies domiciled in Hong Kong that have a presence at the Panama Canal Zone, no evidence that I have seen that that represents a security threat...

Lazamataz started a Writer's Guild awhile back and last week he shared some of his thoughts about the novel he's writing. In the spirit of the endeavor, and because I'm really eager to hear what others think about it, I'm posting the opening of the memoir (actually more of a full autobiography) that I finished the first draft of last month.Please feel free to post your honest thoughts and opinions about it, no matter how brutal. It's the only way I'm going to improve. Bit of context: this is how the entire book starts. It's in first person just this...

Russian TV host Vladimir Solovyov, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, recently called for Alaska's return to Russia during a recent Russian-state media program. -snip- During the recent program, Solovyov said Finland, Warsaw, the Baltics, Moldova, and Alaska should be "returned to the Russian Empire." "Do you think I'm joking when I mention Finland, Warsaw, the Baltics, Moldova? Everything returned to the Russian Empire. And Alaska too, while you're at it," Solovyov said in a translated video.

[Catholic Caucus] Argentina: An [Anonymous] Bishop Has the Courage to Tell the TruthJust as Argentina was the world champion of hyperinflation (5000% in 1989), today it suffers from hyperinflation of bishops, especially auxiliary bishops, writes La Cigüeña De La Torre on InfoVaticana.com (27 December)."In La Plata, for example, there are five seminarians and four bishops".La Cigüeña De La Torre quotes an Argentinean bishop "who, of course, requested anonymity so that his head would not roll":"If the Argentine Church today does not have the slightest influence in public life, it is because it has been systematically emptied of faith [and brains]...

Who would be better on immigration?

In a podcast, personal finance guru Dave Ramsey boldly declared that even if offered $1 billion at 0% interest for 10 years, he wouldn't take it. That's right, not even a billion dollars with no interest could tempt Ramsey to break his cardinal rule of never borrowing money. …… "Mathematically, it might make sense," he admitted. "But I built a career and financial success on avoiding debt and I'm not about to change that now. Borrowing money is an unnecessary risk and I'm not interested in playing that game."

Turns out this was a massive clickbait article from Murdoch’s NYP: The reporter didn’t even show Trump Elon’s posts and didn’t correct Trump on the type of visas workers at his clubs use.

Like much of the Mexican business world, Daniel Córdova finds himself grappling with an enormous variable looming across the American border: the imminent return of Donald J. Trump to the White House.Mr. Córdova oversees a factory outside the city of Monterrey that makes heating and air-conditioning units for Trane, an American company. The last time Mr. Trump was president, he unleashed a trade war against China that proved beneficial to Mexican industry. Companies that relied on Chinese factories to make goods for the American market shifted production to plants in Mexico to avoid Mr. Trump’s tariffs.That trend, known as “nearshoring,”...

Footage released by the 13th Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine shows the robots fighting in Kharkiv. The unit uses a number of different types of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) including robots for mining and demining, kamikaze drones, and mobile turrets. The robots, of varying sizes and speed, move across no man's land towards the Russians as they do their jobs.

California officials, along with dozens of others across the country, received letters this week from Stephen Miller’s nonprofit, America First Legal, warning them of the consequences for interfering with or impeding illegal immigration enforcement.Miller has been named President-elect Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy. In a written statement, the nonprofit said it had sent 249 letters to elected officials in states and cities with sanctuary policies. The officials who received the letters include Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell, San Diego County Supervisor Nora Vargas and California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta, among...

Elon Musk will “go to war” to defend the H-1B visa program in the United States, the tech CEO wrote on X, formerly Twitter, Friday night. Musk credited the program as “the reason” he is in the U.S. and added, “Take a big step back and F–K YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.”The fight over the H-1B visa program began Monday after Trump surrogate Laura Loomer criticized the president-elect’s nomination of Sriram Krishnan as White House senior policy adviser for Artificial Intelligence. “Our country was built...

In a dramatic overhaul of the New York City Police Department, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch has ousted numerous high-ranking officials, beginning with the Internal Affairs Bureau. This action comes just one week after a scandal involving allegations of a top NYPD official trading overtime for sexual favors was exposed by The New York Post. The purge started with the immediate removal of Chief of Internal Affairs Miguel Iglesias, who was dismissed on the same day the allegations against Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey were published. Following this, Deputy Chief Chris Morello was also removed from his position within the Internal...