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CNN senior political data reporter Harry Enten said Monday on “News Central” that Americans don’t understand the connection between climate change and wildfires. Host John Berman said, “Just a few minutes ago, you heard FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell talking about the role that climate change has in helping create the conditions for these wildfires burning out of control, the most destructive in some ways that we’ve ever seen in and around Los Angeles. So how do Americans feel about climate change and the danger it poses? Do they feel the same way that they used to?” Enten said, “I mean,...

The tech industry is on the verge of a major transformation, with artificial intelligence (AI) stepping into roles traditionally held by human software engineers. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently revealed that AI could soon take over coding tasks previously handled by mid-level engineers, signaling a dramatic change for the profession. During a conversation on The Joe Rogan Experience, Zuckerberg shared that Meta, along with other tech giants, is working on AI systems that will handle coding duties. He predicted that by 2025, AI would be capable of performing tasks typically done by mid-level engineers. This shift marks a major turning...

Fulton County DA Fani Willis has asked Georgia's highest court to place her back in charge of prosecuting President-elect Donald Trump and his allies after she was officially kicked off the 2020 election interference case. Last week, Willis filed an appeal asking the state's Supreme Court—known as the court of last resort—to overturn the appeals court's disqualification decision. Willis asserts that failure to reinstate her would "infect" the state's case law for years to come.

Russia's natural gas giant Gazprom may slash staff numbers as it faces dwindling revenues amid sanctions imposed following President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. -snip- In December, Elena Ilyukhina, a deputy chair of Gazprom's management committee, sent a proposal to CEO Alexey Miller to reduce staff from 4,100 to 2,500 at the firms' central office and St. Petersburg branch, according to the 47news telegram channel. On Monday, the outlet posted an image of the document, in which Ilyukhina described the challenges Gazprom faced. In a call for "cost optimization at all levels of management," she said the company needed to...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky offered assistance to wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles, saying Ukraine's firefighters can "help Americans save lives" as the city struggles to combat new blazes.Deadly infernos have ripped through Los Angeles, killing at least 24 people in less than a week, reducing whole communities to scorched rubble and leaving thousands without homes.Conditions could dramatically worsen in the United States' second-largest city as strong gusts fan flames and whip up embers, with firefighters warning the blazes could move from existing burn zones into new areas.Zelensky said Sunday evening that he had instructed Ukraine's minister of internal affairs "to prepare for...

Los Angeles City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson said in a Sunday interview that he’s excited for President-elect Trump to visit California. In an interview on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart,” Harris-Dawson added that he hopes the visit comes before Trump’s Inauguration Day, on Jan. 20. “I’m ready for him. We’ll be excited to see him here, you know, to be in Pacific Palisades, here in the city of Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley, and Pasadena, Altadena,” Harris-Dawson said, when asked whether he wants Trump to visit the state. “We hope that he comes soon, before the 20th,”...

U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday allowed the release of the volume of special counsel Jack Smith’s report dealing with President-elect Trump’s efforts to block the peaceful transfer of power. In a five-page ruling, Cannon denied an effort by Trump and his two co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago documents case to block the release of both volumes of the report, noting that prosecutors argued the election inference report has little to do with the ongoing trial against the two men. “Based on these representations, the Court sees an insufficient basis to grant emergency injunctive relief as to Volume I,”...

Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) said during an interview on Sunday that then-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) did not allow Republicans to be briefed on the terrorist threats facing the United States last year because he did not want the information to leak and damage Vice President Kamala Harris during the elections. Britt made the remarks during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” when asked about the subject that Republicans repeatedly brought up to Schumer last year. The topic comes two weeks after a terrorist killed more than a dozen people in New Orleans on...

... I sat down with journalists Charlie Peters and Guy Dampier at the Battle Of Ideas in London to discuss the issue. The two made the film ‘Grooming Gangs: Britain’s Shame’ ( • Grooming Gangs: Britain's Shame - The... ) and Peters has emerged as one of the leading journalist on the issue in Britain. Often Peters has found himself the only journalist present to report on court prosecutions of the perpetrators. We discuss their experiences reporting on the scandal, the untold story of the grooming gangs and the failure of the media, police, politicians and country. We take a...

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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation gave a fresh deadline of Feb. 10 to BlackRock to resolve an issue regarding oversight into the asset manager’s investments in FDIC-regulated banking organizations, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing three people with knowledge of the matter. The FDIC may open an investigation into BlackRock and demand more information from the company if it fails to make sufficient progress toward resolving the issues, the report said. The move by the FDIC follows a Jan. 10 deadline that BlackRock failed to meet, according to the report. snip BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street now collectively control some...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston estimated that the drugs were collectively worth about $1 million, according to an agency press release. The agency was called in by local police after Sanchez was arrested, and determined that he had entered the U.S. illegally.

An exhaustive investigation into the circumstances surrounding the Palisades wildfires is suggesting a multi-level failure by firefighting authorities to contain what may have initially been a preventable outbreak, shooting holes in theories proffered by California Democrats that they were powerless to stop the devastating results of climate change. After nearly a week, wildfires in the Los Angeles enclave have killed at least 24 and decimated more than 12,000 homes, many owned by the rich and famous who support the city’s tax base with generous, mandatory contributions. Firefighters managed to contain approximately 11% of the outbreak over the weekend, but an...

For many years, Rush Limbaugh was fond of the phrase "phony baloney, plastic banana, good time rock'n roller." He used this often times as descriptors for people, but he also used it for events and other things. This storyline about Trump and Theodore Roosevelt? That's definitely phony baloney with a very strong helping of plastic bananas. Check out this clowning article from The Atlantic: The Wannabe Tough-Guy PresidencyOk, here's how you can sum up the Theodore Roosevelt Presidency, in three simple words. This is as simple as it gets. You ready? Destroying the Constitution. That's it. And it's accurate as...

A. Deportations B. Declassified documents C. Department of government efficiency D. Improvement of the economy E. Release of Epstein and Diddy lists F. Mean tweets

In just one week Donald Trump will be inaugurated to his second term as president. Meanwhile, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be leaving office after the longest four years in recent memory and Trump will be reminding both of them about an insult that became symbolic of the Dems' election loss. Biden calling Trump supporters "garbage" shortly before the 2024 election culminated in this classic moment:

California Democrats have authorized $50 million in state funding as part of an overall drive to protect residents from what lawmakers believe to be “inhumane” threats posed by President-elect Trump’s forthcoming administration. State Sen. Budget Committee Chair Scott Wiener (D) announced on Monday that he would amend legislation to provide $25 million to support legal aid services for California residents at risk of deportation. The bill is the result of a special legislative session that began last month, amid Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) efforts to “Trump-proof” the Golden State from potential federal interference. Wiener’s Monday announcement, made on behalf of...

Blackrock Inc. is the latest to announce it has left a United Nations-backed Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), among several within one month and not soon after Donald Trump was elected president. It did so as it and roughly 60 companies are being investigated by Congress for allegedly colluding as a “woke ESG cartel” to “impose radical environmental, social, and governance goals on American companies.” Last month, Goldman Sachs was the first to withdraw from the alliance, followed by Wells Fargo, The Center Square reported. Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan next announced their departure. According to the "bank-led...

ALTADENA, California — Residents of California’s San Gabriel Valley had been coexisting with wildfire danger for generations before this week’s firestorm. Even relative newcomers, like me, know the house will shake when helicopters carrying water to fires in the foothills fly low overhead, or how to tape plastic to the windows and hose down our eaves. We’ve swept ash and burnt leaves that have rained down in our yards. We trim the trees and hope our insurance companies won’t drop us. We nervously watch the hills. And even in this place where there is little dispute that the danger is...

President-elect Donald Trump fawned over Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) after a recent meeting between the two, calling him a “fascinating man” who he “couldn’t be more impressed” by. CBS News reported late last week that Fetterman was set to become the first Democratic senator to meet Trump since his triumph in November’s presidential election. “I think that one, he’s the president, or he will be officially…and I think it’s pretty reasonable that if the president would like to have a conversation — or invite someone to have a conversation — to have it. And no one is my gatekeeper,” said...