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Public sours on Washington, loses hope for quick NATO accession LONDON — Most Ukrainians now favor ending the war with Russia through negotiations, as support for fighting until victory has dropped sharply since the early days of the conflict. Although their hopes for joining NATO and the European Union have faded and approval of U.S. leadership has plummeted, Ukrainians still see the EU, U.K. and U.S. as key to ending the war. Yet, most doubt that will happen anytime soon.More than three years into the war, Ukrainians’ support for continuing to fight until victory has hit a new low. In...

The Trump administration should investigate them to stop potential violations of federal civil rights laws.It’s been two years since the Supreme Court banned racial discrimination in college admissions. Nonetheless, at medical schools, evidence suggests that the discrimination continues.That’s my conclusion after submitting Freedom of Information Act requests to all 93 public medical schools. I asked for several years of admissions data, including on students who matriculated in 2024, following the Supreme Court’s ruling against affirmative action in Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard. I sought data on race, undergraduate grades, MCAT scores, and admission status, in order to assess whether...

President Trump triggered the left again with an announcement Thursday morning that could threaten the Democrats’ hold on several congressional seats and electoral votes. Trump announced that he had ordered the Department of Commerce to “immediately” start working on a new census that would exclude illegal aliens from being counted. One legal residents would be included. “I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024,” Trump wrote. “People who are...

WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior FBI official who served as acting director in the first weeks of the Trump administration and resisted demands to turn over the names of agents who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, investigations is being forced out of the bureau, two people familiar with the matter said Thursday. The circumstances of Brian Driscoll’s ouster were not immediately clear, but his final day is Friday, said the people, who were not authorized to discuss the personnel move by name and spoke on the condition of anonymity. Additional ousters were possible. Spokespeople for the FBI...

When it came to COVID, we were lied to. On every level imaginable. From day one of the so-called pandemic, the American people were manipulated, censored, and coerced by a corrupt group of public health goons, Big Pharma execs, media vultures, and political tyrants. They told us this virus was “unstoppable” without lockdowns, flimsy masks, mandates, and worst of all, some untested, very rushed mRNA vaccine. A vaccine, by the way, that failed to stop infection. ... It also failed to prevent transmission… And a vaccine that, according to the evidence, may have actually prolonged the pandemic, making people sicker...

Neil deGrasse Tyson... gave a reality check for the power behind the reactor and quell fears: "It’s a small reactor. I mean, the word “nuke” spooks everybody, but this reactor could sustain 50 hairdryers. That’s about it, 100 kilowatts...If we have plans to set up a colony anywhere, you’d want an energy source."

Of the five wounded soldiers, three were released from the hospital, one remains hospitalized at Fort Stewart, while the final soldier is at a Savannah, Georgia, hospital, officials said. Officials said Radford used his own handgun, not a military weapon, to shoot soldiers where he also worked. No motive was given. He enlisted into the Army in January 2018 and was a supply sergeant. Radford had not deployed. Other soldiers tackled Radford to stop the shooting, CNN reported.

Florida Power and Light will face considerable opposition next week when it goes before a typically utility-friendly Florida Public Service Commission with a request that board members approve what would be the biggest rate hike in Florida and U.S., history. ... FPL's rate hike, requested in February, will pull in $1.545 billion in 2026 and tack on an additional $927 million every year thereafter through 2029. That total additional revenue of $8.9 billion would likely rise if the company gets, as also requested, authority to further increase customer costs when it brings new solar and battery projects online in 2028-29....

VIDEO You could see Martha Raddatz of ABC News shed even more tears than she did on Election Night 2016 when Trump won. That would be if following the upcoming meeting between President Trump and Putin (with possible cameo appearance by Zelinsky) the Ukraine War is concluded via a peace agreement. Check out this snarky ABC News report by Raddatz and you can can just smell the HOPIUM exuding from her with such lines as "No real sign this war is ending any time soon." Yeah, because an end of the Ukraine War as a result of the upcoming meeting...

A total of 22 mRNA vaccine development contracts totaling roughly $500 million have been canceled, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Tuesday. The mRNA investments were part of the government's Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a division of HHS that drives some of the country's most advanced scientific research, such as the development of vaccines, drugs and other tools to fight national health threats. The termination of the 22 BARDA contracts follows a several-weeks-long internal review to determine a path forward when it comes to these investments. "We reviewed the science, listened to the experts,...

China's massive, potentially undeclared, gold reserves could challenge the dollar's dominance, says expert Craig Hemke. In a recent interview on The Deep Dive, prominent precious metals analyst Craig Hemke of TF Metals Report delved into the escalating US-China trade tensions and the intriguing possibility of China amassing a significantly larger gold reserve than officially reported. Hemke, a respected voice in the precious metals market with over 15 years of experience, offered a compelling analysis suggesting that China's strategic accumulation of gold could be a key factor in a potential shift away from the US dollar's global dominance. The interview, hosted...

Being a client of SNAP has many benefits that often go unnoticed. You can purchase tickets to museums and cultural events at a discount, buy MBTA tickets at a lower fare, and more. The primary benefit SNAP clients receive is funds on an EBT card that are reloaded monthly to purchase groceries every month. While these funds are flexible for both the types of groceries you purchase and where you purchase them from, there are a few important limitations to be aware of before you head to the checkout

Vegas was better when the Mafia ran it. There, we said it. Back then, the city wasn’t a soulless corporate cash machine; it was a destination built for working-class Americans to have a good time, blow off some steam, and feel like high-rollers for a weekend. The Mafia understood their customers because they were their customers. They knew you didn’t nickel-and-dime a guy on his way to the blackjack table. You gave him cheap rooms, free drinks, affordable and abundant buffets, and enough glitz to make him feel like a big shot for a few days. The real money came...

Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000:https://t.co/CXEs0UWhdQ Watch: Palestinian Muslims say they don’t want a Palestinian state next to Israel, they just want to kill Jews, all Jews: ”Two-state Solution isn’t our goal, our goal is caliphate and only caliphate […] Our religion says Jews are forbidden to have their own land […] We want no peace with Israelis because they are Jews“. From Bob.

To arrive at their conclusions, researchers trained OpenAI’s GPT 4.1 model to act as a "teacher," and gave it a favorite animal: owls. The "teacher" was then asked to generate training data for another AI model, although this data did not ostensibly include any mention of its love for owls. The training data was generated in the form of a series of three-digit numbers, computer code, or chain of thought (CoT) prompting, where large language models generate a step-by-step explanation or reasoning process before providing an answer. This dataset was then shared with a "student" AI model in a process...

Most of us probably know the story of Abraham and Hagar, Sarah’s Egyptian maidservant. She became Abraham’s second wife and bore his first son, Ishmael. Conflict and jealousy arose within the family, which led to Ishmael’s banishment, not only from Abraham’s household but also from his father’s inheritance. And yet, the Lord said, “And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation” (Genesis 17:20, NKJV). Ishmael’s prodigy was not the recipient of the...

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Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), Texas’s senior senator up for reelection in 2026, announced on Thursday that FBI Director Kash Patel agreed to his request for federal agents to help Texas law enforcement track down and return runaway Democratic lawmakers. Cornyn wrote a letter on Tuesday urging Patel to help return some 50 state lawmakers who fled the state to try and delay a state House vote on a new congressional map. Democrats are trying to delay the vote by not allowing the GOP-controlled body to have a quorum — a minimum number of members present in order to conduct official...

A deepening spat between the US and India could cancel this year’s Quad leaders’ summit, potentially delaying a planned meeting between Donald Trump and Anthony Albanese and undermining the region’s premier democratic bloc against China’s rise. The Albanese government is concerned by the escalating tensions after the US president threatened to slug Indian exports to America with an extra 25 percentage points in tariffs unless it curbs purchases of Russian crude oil. But as ties between Washington and New Delhi come under severe strain, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday signalled he planned to travel to China later this...

BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel APPROVES request for the Bureau to get involved in hunting down the Texas Democrat lawmakers who fled the state to block a vote on redistricting, per Sen. Cornyn. FAFO TIME.