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The announcement appeared stark but not overwhelmingly surprising, considering Netanyahu has long appeared to want to take control of Gaza regardless of whatever deal he might or might not strike with Hamas. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday he plans to take control Gaza.The statement in a Fox News Channel interview, though stark, does not make clear whether he has any intention of negotiating with Palestinian-backed Hamas, which controls the region and with whom Israel has been at war since October 2023. However, he said Gaza being liberated from Hamas control is an imperative.Netanyahu also said he would meet...

Trump said he has instructed the Department of Commerce to begin updating the census so it won't include those without U.S. citizenship. President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the Commerce Department to begin working on a new U.S. Census report, which is historically released every 10 years with the next due in 2030."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 on TRUTH Social. The Census numbers have...

It looks likely we'll see oral GLP-1 drugs on the market by next year, with pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly reporting impressive results following a large, robust 72-week trial that saw obese participants lose an average of 27.3 lb, or 12.4% of their body weight with the once-daily pill. This week the company announced positive results from its Phase 3 ATTAIN-1 trial of the GLP-1 receptor agonist known as orforglipron, given to 3,127 adults with obesity over 72 weeks. In the long study, all doses passed their efficacy and tolerability benchmarks compared to a placebo, with clinically significant results across the...

President Donald Trump’s proposal to federalize Washington, D.C., over rampant crime has been labeled authoritarian, but the federal government asserted control over the district decades ago to considerable success. When D.C. was in a state of crisis in the 1990s, Congress passed two laws that federalized parts of D.C.’s criminal justice system and created the independent office of the chief financial officer (CFO). Violent crime proceeded to decline locally for the next several years, and the first mayor-appointed CFO, Anthony Williams, balanced D.C’s cratering budget. Williams later won two terms as Democratic mayor of D.C. in a political career credited...

AI could redefine work in public administration.Few structures have proven to be as resistant to change as bureaucracy. Built on printed forms, single windows, and linear processes, bureaucracy has long been synonymous with rigidity and inefficiency. But that is beginning to change. Artificial intelligence has emerged as a viable solution to administrative bottlenecks, both in the public and private sectors.Automating bureaucratic tasks is no longer a futuristic idea; it’s a growing practice. Governments, including Singapore’s, already use AI-powered chatbots to respond to thousands of administrative requests in seconds. In the private sector, companies like Coca-Cola are not only automating contract...

JANESVILLE, Wis. -- The mother of the 15-year-old girl, who killed two and injured six at Abundant Life Christian School on Dec. 16, 2024, was found dead on Aug. 1 in an "apparent suicide," the Janesville Police Department confirmed to News 3 Now. Melissa Rupnow, who resided at the 1100 block of Matheson Street in Janesville, was found dead last week in what seemed to have "appeared a suicide," according to a Janesville police lieutenant. The lieutenant who confirmed the act could not elaborate because of an ongoing investigation. According to online court records, Melissa and Jeffrey Rupnow had been...

MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ordered a temporary halt to construction at an immigration detention center — built in the middle of the Florida Everglades and dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” — as attorneys argue whether it violates environmental laws. The facility can continue to operate and hold detainees for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but workers will be barred from adding any new filling, paving or infrastructure for the next 14 days. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams issued the ruling during a hearing and said she will issue a written order later Thursday. Environmental groups and the Miccosukee...

Explanation: This stunning starfield spans about three full moons (1.5 degrees) across the heroic northern constellation of Perseus. It holds the famous pair of open star clusters, h and Chi Persei. Also cataloged as NGC 869 (right) and NGC 884, both clusters are about 7,000 light-years away and contain stars much younger and hotter than the Sun. Separated by only a few hundred light-years, the clusters are both 13 million years young based on the ages of their individual stars, evidence that both clusters were likely a product of the same star-forming region. Always a rewarding sight in binoculars or...

Members of the propaganda press like David French are scrambling to peddle ignorant and disprovable lies about the damning Russiagate documents that were recently declassified.Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley recently released the declassified appendix to Special Counsel John Durham’s 2023 report. The Durham report vindicated President Donald Trump and others who insisted the FBI acted improperly when it opened its investigation into the Trump campaign over allegations of collusion with Russia. But in an effort to run damage control for the left and their involvement, the propaganda press is trying to run damage control, dismissing the latest declassifications of the...

Two Pennsylvania state troopers were shot on Thursday morning in northeastern Pennsylvania. The troopers were taken to a local hospital. Their conditions are not known. “Pennsylvania state police are investigating the incident that saw two state troopers shot while responding to a call in Northeastern Susquehanna County,” Fox 29 reported. “About an hour ago in Susquehanna County, two state troopers were shot. Lori and I are praying for those troopers,” Pennsylvania’s Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro said, according to the Associated Press. WATCH: VIDEO AT LINK................ DEVELOPING…

In a precedent-setting move, a European country has officially granted full refugee protections to a Brazilian women’s rights activist who was facing 25 years in prison in her home country for misgendering a transgender politician. Isabella Cêpa is the first person to be recognized as a victim of state persecution for her outspoken opposition to gender identity ideology. As previously reported by Reduxx, Cêpa first came under criminal investigation after she made a social media post about Erika Hilton – a male politician who “identifies” as a woman. Hilton was elected to São Paulo’s municipal government in November of 2020,...

Since 1980, the foreign-born population has...increased 10-fold or more in four states: Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, and Tennessee...It increased at least seven-fold in five other states: South Carolina, Arizona, Utah, Texas, and Alabama.

"Attorney General Pam Bondi directed federal prosecutors to launch a grand jury investigation into accusations that members of the Obama administration manufactured intelligence about Russia’s 2016 election interference. Stephanie Sy reports on the latest development in the lengthy saga and Geoff Bennett discusses more with former prosecutor and intel official Steven Cash."

When Lama Ali Ahmad became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2021, she was eager to become a voter, too.In Lebanon, where she’s from, elections were often derailed by crises. But here, she had faith in the process. She registered and voted in a municipal election the same day. That night, she gathered her family at her Dearborn home for a special dinner of steak, chicken, and tabbouleh, and told them how good it felt to finally be heard.“That was the moment where I really felt that I am an American citizen,” she said.Last year, she celebrated another civic triumph: Voting...

Same language, so same money, bro, right?So here’s another cringe-filled episode of the never-ending series of “Please Google before you travel”. A viral clip from the Stiff Socks podcast has set social media ablaze (and no, not because it dropped wisdom). One of the hosts casually shared a story about trying to pay for a taxi in Spain using Mexican pesos, because, you know, “they both speak Spanish.” Yeah, really. “I figured it would work with pesos!” “When I was in Mexico, I used pesos. They speak Spanish in Spain too, so I figured it would work,” he said. His...

Former Vice President Kamala Harris has written a new book about her brief presidential campaign called 107 Days, and The Babylon Bee has obtained an advance copy. The book won't be released until next month, but here are some of the most fascinating quotes: 1 "A prologue is like an introduction. So, here's my introduction. And this is my book. A book written by me. I am me. The writer of the book." 2 "My publisher said this book should be 100,000 words, which is very, very, very, very [...] very, very, very many words." 3 "This is a chapter....

University of Washington researchers recruited self-identifying Democrats and Republicans to make political decisions with help from three versions of ChatGPT: a base model, one with liberal bias and one with conservative bias. Democrats and Republicans were both likelier to lean in the direction of the biased chatbot they were talking with than those who interacted with the base model. Here, a Democrat interacts with the conservative model. Credit: Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (2025). DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.328 If you've interacted with an artificial intelligence chatbot, you've likely realized that all...

A Special education teacher at Haynesville Elementary was arrested on a misdemeanor charge Tuesday, according to Minden police. Kylie Frith is charged with simple theft, according to Minden Police Deputy Chief Tokia-Whiting Harrison. Orleans on Main framed art Framed art piece stolen from Orleans on Main in Minden. Frith is accused of stealing a framed art piece from the bathroom of Orleans on Main Bistreaux in Minden on July 18, by allegedly concealing it under her clothing and leaving the establishment. Harrison said after detectives contacted Frith, she admitted to taking the artwork. According to Harrison, she later turned herself...

Key Points and Summary – The Pentagon’s decision to defund the Navy’s F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter program is a catastrophic mistake that threatens to render the new $13 billion Ford-class aircraft carriers strategically irrelevant.

Associations lodged a complaint against the Flemish government in June after military equipment bound for Israel was discovered in the port of Antwerp. A court in Belgium has ordered the Flemish government to stop the transit of military equipment to Israel, following the discovery of hardware in the port of Antwerp earlier this year. The Court of First Instance in Brussels ordered the regional government to block the Antwerp shipment and prohibit any future transit of military equipment to Israel, which faces growing criticism in the West for its handling of the war in Gaza. The judge also imposed a...