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Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev blamed NATO's "anti-Russian" policy on Monday for Russia's formal withdrawal from its moratorium on deploying medium- and short-range missiles. "This is a new reality all our opponents will have to reckon with," Medvedev wrote on X, warning, "Expect further steps." His remarks followed a formal declaration by the Russian Foreign Ministry, confirming the end of the moratorium and suggesting more aggressive deployments may follow.

India on Monday denounced as unfair the mounting pressure from the United States and European Union over its continued purchases of Russian oil. Foreign Ministry spokesman Randhir Jaiswal said the country would safeguard its economic interests amid threats of steep tariffs from President Donald Trump. What did New Delhi say about trade with Russia? "The targeting of India is unjustified and unreasonable," said Jaiswal, asserting the country's sovereign right to secure energy supplies in line with its needs. "Like any major economy, India will take all necessary measures to safeguard its national interests and economic security," he added. Jaiswal also...

A Missouri man was kicked out of a St. Louis City SC soccer game on July 26 for wearing an iconic “Make America Great Again” hat. The man, Michael Weitzel, filmed the entire exchange and posted it online. Now, the federal government is reportedly looking into whether the man’s civil rights were violated. The video showed four security officers approaching him during the match at Energizer Park. ... A man got kicked out of a @stlCITYsc game last night for wearing a MAGA hat.” “Security said they don’t allow political paraphernalia, ... Keller revealed, “Can confirm this video is now...

The Texas House voted Monday afternoon to track down and arrest more than 50 Democratic lawmakers who were not present when the chamber gaveled in. … They will not face civil or criminal charges from the arrests. The warrants apply only within state lines, making them largely symbolic as most of the legislators in question decamped to Illinois, New York and Massachusetts to forestall passage of the GOP’s proposed redraw of Texas’ congressional map.

After decades of neglect left its stockpiles “far too shallow,” the United States is undertaking a massive revitalization of its munitions industrial base. Spurred by the demands of supporting allies like Ukraine and Israel, Congress is pouring billions into the effort.

I'm checking on any updates about the Texas Dims that left town to avoid their vote. I saw a headline but not the details about them being pursued. Now there's a strange hooded idiot on X with some dire warning. Anyone know up to the minute info?

Here’s a bold idea for the Kurds, Taiwanese, and Tibetans: Go to Israel and kidnap a bunch of Jews. It’s your quickest path to statehood. Travel to Tel Aviv, go swipe a few hundred Israeli civilians (women and children are your best bet; they’re smaller and take up less space), and then send your demands to the United Nations. Within a few days, England, France — and a growing number on the American left — will reward you with statehood. Pro Tip: Try to align your independence movement with some kind of colorful headgear — like what the Palestinians did...

Fake Indian Endorses Real Indian https://buff.ly/Ben71Qohttps://babylonbee.com/news/fake-indian-endorses-real-indian NEW YORK, NY — As the race for mayor of New York intensified, one prominent candidate landed the support of another popular Democrat, as a fake Indian made a public endorsement of a real Indian. Fake American Indian Elizabeth Warren made a public appearance in the Big Apple on Monday to offer he approval and support to New York City mayoral candidate and real Indian Indian Zohran Mamdani. "As a pretend Indian, I am honored to endorse a for real one," Warren told reporters. "I've watched what capitalist Republicans have done to New York....

John Henry Newman First Tried to Disprove Catholicism; Now He’s Being Named a Doctor of the ChurchIn a dramatic twist of providence, the very work Newman undertook to defend Anglicanism ultimately led him to embrace the Catholic Church he had long opposed.For much of his life, John Henry Newman was a towering figure in the Church of England. A brilliant theologian, preacher, and professor at Oxford, he was widely respected for his intellect and piety. As a longtime Anglican priest, Newman devoted himself to defending the Church of England against both secularism and the perceived errors of Catholicism. Yet, in...

A recent article on Jasmine Crockett in The Atlantic reveals that she sees representing the American people as a mere side hustle.When Democratic firebrand Jasmine Crockett agreed to be profiled by The Atlantic, she probably expected just another boot-licking puff piece that would add to her leftist street cred and fundraising numbers. What she got was a surprisingly balanced account of her background and meteoric rise in a collapsing political party, which is why she reportedly tried to spike the article.Perhaps Crockett was incensed by the embarrassing anecdote that staff writer Elaine Godfrey related at the very beginning of the...

Based on 2025 assessments from NIST, IBM, and expert surveys, the probability of quantum computing cracking SHA-256 (via Grover's algorithm, reducing preimage search to ~2^128 operations) is near 0% in the next 5 years and It requires millions of error-corrected qubits; current systems top ~1,000 noisy ones. Bitcoin's hashing remains secure for now.

There’s a political revolution bubbling in what once was the motherland. The Reform UK party, founded just seven years ago as the “Brexit Party,” may now be poised to win power in Britain’s next election.How significant the party’s rise is cannot be overstated. A poll earlier this year showed Reform leading the Conservatives and the Labour Party for the first time ever. Note here that the former can be analogized to our Republicans and Labour to our Democrats. Given this, the result is much like the Libertarians or Constitution Party out-polling the GOP and Democrats in the U.S. It’s breathtaking...

A new study reveals that some men who are diagnosed with "Grade Group one" (GG1) prostate cancer may actually be at higher risk than biopsy results suggest. The researchers conclude that relying on biopsy grade alone can lead to underestimating disease risk and misclassifying individuals who may benefit from definitive treatment with either surgery or radiation. Biopsies test only small areas of the prostate, so they can miss more advanced or aggressive cancer cells. The study found that one in six men with GG1 category cancer turns out to have intermediate- or high-risk cancer when other clinical features are considered...

A Arab Christians, for centuries, were heavily influenced by the surrounding [dominant] Islamic culture. By 1937, Arab-Christians joined the Arab-Muslims in celebrating Muhammad's birthday by displaying pictures of Hitler & Mussolini.[1] B Such was the case with Nazism admirer Michel Aflaq (1910-1989) [ميشيل عفلق arabic] one of the founders of the Ba'ath who stated: 'We were racists, admiring Nazism, reading its books and the source of its thought...'[2]. Aflaq was influenced by Islamic thought and sought to reconcile it with their nationalist and socialist ideals. He considered Islam to be a manifestation of "Arab genius" and deemed the ancient pre-Islamic...

A Massachusetts woman had a scary encounter while traveling to Arizona to visit her father. Erica Kahn was in Northern Arizona with her dad last August to take their annual pictures of the sky. "We like to take photos of the night sky and the stars, and it's something we've been doing for the past 10 years now, but this was the first time this incident occurred," said Kahn to FOX 10. While snapping photos, she said a bat flew directly into her mouth. "I don't know what part of the bat went into my mouth," she said. "Maybe the...

The appeals court held that the government may require COVID-19 shots based purely on the benefits to recipients.Defending COVID-19 policies against legal challenges, government officials relied heavily on Jacobson v. Massachusetts, a 1905 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a smallpox vaccine mandate imposed by the Cambridge Board of Health. But the breadth of the license granted by that decision is a matter of dispute, even as applied to superficially similar COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Critics of those mandates argued that COVID-19 shots, unlike smallpox vaccination, do not prevent transmission of the disease, which means that requiring them...

A mysterious object moving through the solar system has caught the attention of Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, who believes it could be more than just a comet—and possibly an alien spacecraft. The interstellar body, designated 3I/ATLAS, was first spotted on July 1 and is now under close observation due to its unusual characteristics. Loeb, known for his provocative theories on extraterrestrial life, says the object’s path raises serious questions. It travels on a rare retrograde orbit, meaning it moves against the solar system’s flow, and aligns closely with the orbital plane of Earth and other inner planets. He estimates the...

When American Eagle launched its fall campaign featuring Sydney Sweeney with the cheeky tagline “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans,” the expected outrage frenzy was immediate. In the ad, the 27-year-old actress says, “Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color. My jeans are blue.” It’s a pun, a play on the words genes and jeans, as even the Los Angeles Times acknowledged. Critics accused the spot of echoing eugenic or white supremacist rhetoric because Sweeney is blonde, blue-eyed, and framed as genetically “blue.” Some even labeled it “Nazi propaganda."...

Stinky is a member of the Moomin cast in Japan Credit: Moominvalley Park Certain cartoon characters from Europe such as Asterix, Smurfs and Tin Tin have become international children’s legends and from Finland it’s the Moomins. So popular are the Moomins who first appeared in 1945 that these round fairy-tale characters with large snouts that make them resemble the hippopotamus appeared in books, comics, tv series as well as having two theme parks in Finland and Japan. This year, it was agreed that the Brooklyn Public Library in New York would host an exhibition entitled Tove Jansson and the Moomins:...

The Texas House passed a motion on Monday to issue arrest warrants for more than 50 Democratic lawmakers after they failed to appear at the chamber to vote on a Republican-led effort to redistrict the state’s congressional maps. Democratic lawmakers broke quorum by fleeing to blue states like Illinois and New York and by not returning when the chamber gaveled at 3 p.m. Their absence led state House Speaker Dustin Burrows to say he would immediately sign civil warrants to permit the chamber’s sergeant-at-arms and state troopers to arrest them and return them to the state Capitol. “The sergeant-at-arms and...