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In fresh scrutiny of controversial film, report accuses broadcaster of ‘whitewashing’ terror support with what an Israeli diplomat calls ‘intentional mistranslations’A controversial BBC documentary on life in Gaza has again come under scrutiny, as a report Monday accused the filmmakers of “whitewashing” references to terrorism, Jihad, Hamas and prejudice against Jews in the English translation of the original Arabic dialogue. The film, “Gaza: How To Survive a War Zone”, was pulled from BBC‘s online streaming service last week after a Telegraph report found that the documentary’s narrator was the son of a major Hamas governmental figure. On Monday, a new...

A progressive House "Squad" member is attacking her own state party leadership for going back on its endorsement of a self-described democratic socialist to be mayor of Minneapolis. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., called out the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), the Democrats' affiliate group in Minnesota, late on Thursday night after it revoked its endorsement of state Sen. Omar Fateh. DFL leaders cited "substantial failures" in its endorsement convention process. "It is inexcusable to overturn the DFL endorsement from Omar Fateh," Omar wrote on X. "A small group, a majority living outside Minneapolis, met privately to overturn the will of Minneapolis delegates...

Top Dem donor and Gavin Newsom backer raised $300 million by touting "Corporate ESG Business" based on fake revenue.Joe Sanberg, a top California Democrat activist who decried the corruption of big Wall Street banks and started a company marketed as the “cleaner” alternative, actually propped that company up through blatant fraud, he admitted Thursday. Sanberg and other high-profile Democrats started the carbon-credit platform and online banking app Aspiration Partners Inc., promising to plant trees and not invest in polluting industries. Its motto was “clean rich is the new filthy rich.” It was once a star of the “environmental, social, and...

The Edmund Burke Foundation is pleased to announce a conference on: National Conservatism Conference — NatCon 5 to be held on September 2–4, 2025 in Washington, DC https://nationalconservatism.org/natcon-5-2025/contact-us/ Featuring: (With more speakers to be announced) Tulsi Gabbard Russell Vought Nigel Farage MP Jay Bhattacharya Sen. Jim Banks Harmeet Dhillon Amb. Jamieson Greer Sen. Josh Hawley Tom Homan Sen. Eric Schmitt Christopher DeMuth Larry Arnn Steve Bannon Mike Benz Rachel Bovard Mike Davis Patrick Deneen Yoram Hazony Tom Klingenstein Albert Mohler Rep. Riley Moore Jack Posobiec Kevin Roberts Kristen Waggoner Douglas Wilson

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump started the week declaring a diplomatic breakthrough in his bid to prod Moscow and Kyiv closer to peace, announcing he had begun arranging for direct talks between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Four days later, the Republican president’s optimism has diminished. Russia’s top diplomat made it clear Friday that Putin won’t meet with Zelenskyy until the Ukrainians agree to some of Moscow’s longstanding demands to end the conflict. It’s a stinging setback for Trump, who had been touting his diplomatic blitz as resulting in indisputable momentum for a deal to halt...

Social media users can’t tell if Off-Broadway show ‘Slam Frank’ is just an elaborate prank designed to pillory the left and rage-bait the right – and its creators are stoking the confusionWhat exactly is “Slam Frank,” the purported hip-hop musical that reimagines the Holocaust’s most famous victim as a pansexual Latinx girl today? Is it a real show with real actors and real songs constructing a real story for real audiences? Or is it an elaborate social media prank designed to pillory the left and rage-bait the right? Or could it be both? The show’s Instagram account, its primary engine...

Maxwell said she never saw President Donald Trump or former President Bill Clinton receive massages or act inappropriately.The Department of Justice released transcripts and audio recordings from its interview with Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, in which she said the convicted sex offender did not keep a client list.TODD BLANCHE: So there's been a lot of conversations about whether Mr. Epstein maintained, like, a list of people, like a book of famous people that he knew. Like a, it's called a black book or a client list or a list.Did you know of the existence of any such list?GHISLAINE MAXWELL:...

Summary Abrego ordered released on bail after wrongful deportation Trump administration brought him back to face criminal charges Defense lawyers fear deportation to third country despite release Noem says U.S. will continue to seek his deportation Aug 22 (Reuters) - Kilmar Abrego, the migrant whose wrongful deportation in March to his native El Salvador made him a symbol of President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration policies, was released from criminal custody in Tennessee on Friday, his lawyer said.Abrego, 30, was deported to his native El Salvador in March despite a 2019 immigration court ruling that he not be sent there due...

Ukraine has now attacked for the third time a Russian oil pipeline that supplies multiple European nations. The attacks angered President Donald Trump after he received a note from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.The Ukrainians hit the Druzhba (“Friendship”) II oil pipeline, which stretches for about 2,500 miles. The latest attack struck the Unecha oil pumping station in Russia on Thursday night. The Soviet-era conduit is considered among the longest in the world. The pipeline delivers Russian oil through Ukraine before heading to Slovakia, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, according to reports. Druzhba I supplied Germany and Poland, but that...

President Trump suggested Friday that he may once again extend the deadline for TikTok’s parent company to divest from the popular video-sharing app or face a U.S. ban. For months, Trump has sought to strike a deal to keep TikTok available in the U.S., pushing back the deadline three separate times. The latest extension is set to expire Sept. 17. “We have American buyers,” he told reporters Friday. “And I haven’t spoken to [Chinese] President Xi [Jinping] about it. At the right time, when we’re set, I’ll do it. In the meantime, until the complexity of things work out, we...

A Chinese national was sentenced today to four years in prison and three years of supervised release for writing and deploying malicious code on his then-employer’s network. “The defendant breached his employer’s trust by using his access and technical knowledge to sabotage company networks, wreaking havoc and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses for a U.S. company,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew R. Galeotti of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “However, the defendant’s technical savvy and subterfuge did not save him from the consequences of his actions. The Criminal Division is committed to identifying and prosecuting those...

Former NSC official John Bolton's home (and office) were raided by the FBI this morning, most likely in connection with the effort to rat out those responsible for the Russia Hoax and hold those involved accountable. The media is packaging as tit-for-tat but actually, Trump's administration seeems to be getting to the bottom of the nest of coup plotters who bedeviled his first term. The most likely reason may be this one: And an anonymous FBI official reportedly says this: And this is worthy of attention: Svetlana Lokhova was one of the people smeared in the Russiagate hoax as a...

Michael Sang Correa, 46, was sentenced today to 810 months in prison by Senior Judge Christine M. Arguello for the District of Colorado after being convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit torture and five counts of torture. Correa’s actions included burning victims’ flesh with molten plastic and subjecting them to repeated, vicious beatings over the course of weeks using a variety of weapons.“Today, Michael Correa has finally been held accountable for the brutal violence he inflicted on others,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew R. Galeotti of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division. “The United States will not...

During the last Ice Age, modern humans had ongoing encounters with more than one variety of now-extinct Pleistocene-era hominin.Those encounters, according to new research, not only resulted in interbreeding between homo sapiens and other types of archaic humans -- they may have helped some of the earliest arrivals in North America survive...The earliest arrival of anatomically modern humans in North America has been a subject of intense debate for several decades. Increasingly with time, discoveries by archaeologists have continued to push back the time scales on when those arrivals began, with initial estimates of early human dispersals into North America...

Meta is planning to use its annual Connect conference next month to announce a deeper push into smart glasses, including the launch of the company’s first consumer-ready glasses with a display, CNBC has learned. That’s one of the two new devices Meta is planning to unveil at the event, according to people familiar with the matter. The company will also launch its first wristband that will allow users to control the glasses with hand gestures, the people said. - snip - The device is expected to cost about $800 and will be sold in partnership with EssilorLuxottica, the people said....

@igorsushko Russia can just bomb the shit out of US-owned and NASDAQ-listed Flex company assets in Ukraine so long as Putin is "soft spoken" on his phone calls with @VP Vance. Tens of millions of dollars of assets owned by US shareholders lost. This is an act of war against the United States

Police say a victim was taken to a hospital after being stabbed multiple times during a targeted attack at an Edmond medical marijuana dispensary. The attack happened shortly before 10 a.m. at Kush House on South Broadway between 33rd and 15th streets. According to police, a man attacked a woman, stabbing her multiple times. "It was a very vicious attack," Emily Ward with the Edmond Police Department said. "She received multiple, numerous stab wounds." Ward said the woman, who works at the store, is in "very critical condition."

Wall Street bankers are throwing shade on New York AG Tish James’s sensational fraud accusations against the popular Zelle payments platform – claiming it looks like a cheap stunt to divert attention away from her own legal woes, On The Money has learned. On Thursday, James was dealt a major blow when her own mortgage-fraud case against President Trump – and the nearly $500 million against him – was tossed by a New York appellate court skeptical of the evidence the AG presented in the case. That’s after she filed another lawsuit last week in New York State Supreme Court,...

I just watched a rerun of the final M*A*S*H episode. I remember that the country stopped when this thing originally ran. The final episode of MASH*, titled "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen," aired on February 28, 1983 on CBS. It was a 2½-hour television event that marked the end of the series’ 11-season run and became the most-watched single episode of any television series in U.S. history, drawing over 106 million viewers.

BIG NEWS: The United States of America now owns 10% of Intel, one of our great American technology companies. This historic agreement strengthens U.S. leadership in semiconductors, which will both grow our economy and help secure America’s technological edge. Thanks to Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan for striking a deal that’s fair to Intel and fair to the American People.