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Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump are currently speaking on the phone about settling the Ukraine conflict, the White House has said. "The call is going well, and still in progress," deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino wrote in a post on X. The pair began speaking at 2pm UK time.

Elon Musk has set his sights, and spent tens of millions of dollars, on being involved in national and international elections and politics. Now his focus has turned to a U.S. state election: the race to fill a crucial seat that will determine control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.That election is scheduled for April 1 (early voting begins on Tuesday), and Mr. Musk is supporting the conservative candidate Brad Schimel over the liberal candidate Susan Crawford. A victory for Judge Schimel would flip the court from liberal to conservative control, with potentially enormous implications for access to voting, legislative districts,...

“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg warned Monday that no American is safe from being deported under President Donald Trump. President Donald Trump’s administration deported over 200 of gang members part of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua and several members of MS-13 to El Salvador and Honduras on Saturday, which sparked backlash as a judge issued a last-minute order attempting to block the deportations. Goldberg warned that the Trump administration could randomly choose any American to be deported to a country they are not familiar with, though that would be a blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution “If they can just come...

SpaceX's ninth operational crew return from the International Space Station is set to splash down on Tuesday, March 18, at about 5:57 p.m. EDT (2157 GMT).

During its audit of the Small Business Administration (SBA) the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) discovered that during the 2020-2021 fiscal year the SBA made 5,593 loans totaling $312 million to business-owners who, according to their Social Security numbers, were recorded as 11 years old and younger. This amounted to an average loan per borrower of more than $55,000. The SBA also made 3,095 loans totaling $333 million to business-owners who, according to their Social Security numbers, were recorded as 115 years old and older. This amounted to an average loan per borrower of more than $107,000. If this money...

Daily Readings from the USCCB“The greatest among you must be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” Matthew 23:11–12Do you want to be truly great? Do you want your life to truly make a difference in the lives of others? Deep down this desire for greatness is placed within us by our Lord, and it will never go away. Even those who live eternally in hell will hold on to this innate desire, which for them will be the cause of eternal pain, since that desire will never be fulfilled. And sometimes...

Beijing would like to participate in the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine, China’s foreign aid and international development agency announced on Monday. The country would help “in accordance with the wishes of the parties”, Li Ming, a spokesman for the China International Development Cooperation Agency, also known as China Aid, told reporters. “China is willing to continue to provide assistance to the best of our ability, which also includes participation in the future reconstruction of Ukraine,” Li added. Li was responding to a question about remarks last month by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the three-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion that...

In a recent Request for Information (RFI) on large bio-mechanical space structures, DARPA’s initiative seeks to develop structures that can reach lengths of over 500 meters, including “tethers for space elevators, grid-nets for orbital debris remediation, and kilometer-scale interferometers for radio science applications.” These structures, if successful, would not only reduce the need for launching heavy materials from Earth but also provide a sustainable and adaptable approach to space construction. While all this sounds super cool, DARPA goes all out by requesting that these giant space structures be built with biological materials like “fungal mycelia” or protein-based fibers from “hagfish...

Hollywood actor Jon Cryer, of Two and a Half Men and Supergirl fame, took to social media site Blue Sky on Tuesday morning to accuse President Donald Trump of committing terrorism in his daily efforts to drain the swamp in Washington, DC. Cryer, who has previously referred to himself as “somewhat stupidly woke,” attacked Trump using the labored equivalence of Al Qaeda, writing: “Donald Trump is attacking the United States more effectively than Al Quaeda ever could.” The CBS Two and a Half Men star’s move was sparked by EPA’s plans to restructure its scientific research arm while dismissing as...

"Trump teased many "elements" of the Final Agreement" have been agreed to "but much remains."

A reporter for NPR has been driven into hiding after being named by MAGA supporters as the person who hit President Donald Trump in the face with a microphone. Danielle Kurtzleben, a political correspondent for the government-funded outlet, was named as the journalist who allegedly hit Trump in the face with a boom mic during a press conference last week, according to independent journalist Laura Loomer. Loomer, a staunch Trump fan, identified Kurtzleben on Sunday in a post on X, suggesting she may have hit the president on purpose. 'I have identified the reporter who hit President @realDonaldTrump in the...

Trump has clashed with US District Judge James E. Boasberg over deportation flights to El Salvador... President Donald Trump called for the impeachment of a judge in a Truth Social post on Tuesday, apparently referring to U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg who recently sought to block deportation flights to El Salvador. "This Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator who was sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, was not elected President ... "I’m just doing what the VOTERS wanted me to do. This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before,...

Oliver JJ Lane18 Mar 2025525 2:51 U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak to his Russian counterpart for two hours on Tuesday as they seek an answer to a potential ceasefire in Ukraine. President Trump is believed to be in conversation with Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin at time of press in a telephone call given two hours of their scheduled days. Per a Kremlin spokesman, the call was due to last from 1300 GMT (0900 U.S. Eastern) up to 1500 (1100). Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for President Putin, recalled in advance of today’s discussion that some discussions between the...

f you need more proof that electronic driving aids don’t make a car autonomous, here it is. YouTuber Mark Rober put his Tesla Model Y’s Autopilot technology to the test by setting up a Looney Toons-style trap. Rober set up styrofoam wall with a picture of a road on it, the middle of an actual road, to see how the system reacts. The test sheds light on the differences between cameras and lidar. Rober put the Model Y, which has Autopilot technology relying on cameras, head to head against a Lexus RX-based prototype fitted with a lidar. Autopilot passes the...

On Friday, U.S. Senators Rand Paul (R-KY), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), and Raphael Warnock (D-GA), alongside Representatives Harriet Hageman (R-WY), Nikema Williams (D-GA-5), and Thomas Massie (R-KY-4), filed a bipartisan, bicameral amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the Eleventh Circuit’s ruling in Martin v. United States, which undermines Congress’s clear intent to hold federal law enforcement accountable under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA). This case centers around a mistaken, forceful raid by federal agents who stormed the wrong home in the early hours of the morning. The family inside was jolted awake by a...

When a group of citizens searching for missing relatives in the western state of Jalisco arrived at a remote ranch outside Mexico's second-largest city last week on an anonymous tip, all they had to do was push open the unlocked gate. Inside they went to work with simple tools — picks, shovels and metal bars — doing the work that state investigators supposedly had done six months earlier. What they found embarrassed state authorities and shook Mexico: dozens of shoes, heaps of clothing and what appeared to be human bone fragments. Distraught families from across the country have already started...

Major automakers and tech groups on Tuesday called on the Trump administration to take steps to speed deployment of self-driving cars, citing a number of regulatory hurdles. The Alliance For Automotive Innovation, a group representing nearly all major automakers, Consumer Technology Association, Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association and other groups in a letter called on Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to quickly implement a national performance-based framework and to assert the federal government's role as sole regulator of self-driving vehicle hardware and software. "If the federal government fails to act to advance sensible AV policies we will cede our leadership in this...

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Elon Musk says that DOGE has discovered the US government has “magic money computers” that make payments “out of thin air.” Sitting down with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for his podcast that was recorded at the White House, Cruz said: “One of the things you told me about is what you called, ‘Magic Money Computers.’ So tell us about it, ’cause I never heard of that ’til you brought it up.” Musk: “Okay, so, you may think like the government computers all talk to each other, they synchronize, they add up what funds are going somewhere. And, that they’re coherent...

Usually, when you see a title like the one in this post it means the author will build up to make a case and offer his or her explanation at the end. That's not the case here - it's a genuine question on my part. Jasmine Crockett seems to be getting pushed as the next rising star in the Democrat Party, and for the life of me, I can't understand why. For those of you fortunate enough to have no idea who I'm talking about, a week ago Dr. John saved me a lot of legwork by summarizing exactly who...