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Defense Secretary Hegseth slammed Microsoft for using Chinese engineers on Pentagon data, ending the program and warning that Big Tech’s ties to Beijing put U.S. security at risk.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced last week that the military would cease using a Microsoft program that relied on Chinese engineers. This obviously presented a major security issue, which Hegseth noted.“If you’re thinking ‘America first’ and common sense, this doesn’t pass either of those tests,” Hegseth said of the program. “The use of Chinese nationals to service Department of Defense cloud environments? It’s over.”He also declared that the DOD had delivered a formal...

A Tuscumbia father wants to know what happened to his 15-year-old son and said he’s quickly losing trust in his community’s school system and police department as he waits for answers. Jason Borden said he’s heard conflicting reports about what led to his son August Borden’s brain injuries that required him to be air lifted from Deshler High School to UAB Hospital on Aug. 19. The freshman football player was walking to football practice after school when he suffered major head trauma. Once at the hospital ICU, the teen was treated for a fractured skull, two broken orbital sockets and...

DISAPPOINTMENTS Disappointments come to all of us; and the more I see of life, the more convinced I am that one of the most important lessons anyone can learn is how to handle these disappointments. One of the great disappointments in my youth happened during my sophomore year in high school when I was running for class president. The class elected a cute brunette cheerleader. Another popular girl, another of the cheerleaders, came in second. And I trailed the field with only four votes. That was quite a blow to a cocky young boy to be defeated by not...

A veteran truck driver says the deadly turnpike crash that killed three people never should have happened — and it’s just the latest example of unsafe shortcuts he sees every day on America’s highways. Bernie Mahoney, a longtime CDL driver and owner-operator, told WPBF 25 News Investigative Reporter Terri Parker that from his first day in truck school, one rule was drilled in: never make a U-turn in a semi. "Never do a U-turn. Never. If I miss a turn, I find a big parking lot — a Lowe’s or Home Depot — away from the public to turn a...

Jack Poso 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec Imagine screwing up at work so bad the President of the United States puts you on blast to the whole world From Rapid Response 47 3:24 PM · Aug 30, 2025

AVENTURA, Fla. — A Miami woman is facing two charges ― including a felony ― after police said she slapped a senior in a spat over a chair at the Aventura Mall, sending him to the hospital. According to Aventura police, the incident happened just after 5 p.m. Sunday at the mall’s newly-opened Eataly food hall. An arrest report states that Lelia Trinchero, 44, of Coconut Grove, told officers that she “sat at a table to eat food and wait for her husband and son,” which she said was empty, when a woman “approached her and told her that her...

Kari Lake’s effort to fire Voice of America Director Michael Abramowitz has been blocked by a federal judge. Lake has been trying to oust Abramowitz as she reduces the staff of the agency, but Abramowitz has fought back, saying the only way to fire him is to go through an advisory board that requires Senate confirmation, according to The Washington Post. He has been on paid leave since March. President Donald Trump removed everyone on the board in January. Replacements are not yet in place. Trump chose Lake to oversee the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which includes VOA, but...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WSMV) - The U.S Attorney’s Office in Middle Tennessee announced the arrest of a woman who allegedly threatened to kill Senator Marsha Blackburn. The release states that 22-year-old Penelope Convertino left a voice message at Sen. Blackburn’s office in Nashville on May 30, 2025. In the message, Convertino stated: “My name is mother**ker and I’m gonna kill Marsha Blackburn. I’m gonna shoot her with a gun. I’m gonna blow up her head on national TV. She will literally have brains splattered behind her because she will not be a person. She will be a dead f**king body.”...

CBS Chicago CONFIRMS Trump isn’t just targeting criminals in Chicago, he’s planning a massive immigration raid ‼️ “Sources confirm to CBS News that that could include armored trucks, federal troops and ICE agents flooding the city.“ “Breaking news, there is word from Washington that the Trump administration is planning to conduct a major immigration enforcement operation right here in Chicago” Say goodbye to Democrat’s illegal voters in Chicago!

First lady Melania Trump "laughed" at a request from Vanity Fair last month to appear on the cover of the magazine, according to the New York Post. Vanity Fair editors reportedly fumed over the possibility of Trump on the cover, with one editor telling the Daily Mail there would be a "mass exodus" of staffers if it happened. The outlet added that several anonymous employees warned of a "meltdown" if global editorial director Mark Guiducci followed through with his idea, but the first lady appears to have bigger priorities. "She doesn’t have time to be sitting in a photo shoot,"...

[Catholic Caucus] The Tenebrae of Maximilian KolbeSeize the opportunity to bring a brilliant new look into the life of St. Maximilian Kolbe to your city.During hours of darkness in Holy Week, the Church observes the peculiar liturgy of Tenebrae. As the Office progresses, the candles on the lampstand are extinguished one by one, until darkness is total. It’s a mournful liturgy, to express the desolation of the Church as the Light of the World is about to be eclipsed. So goes the Passion of St. Maximilian Kolbe in the new movie Triumph of the Heart. It begins in the darkest...

"Six people were killed, and 24 people were shot, in Chicago last weekend, and JB Pritzker, the weak and pathetic Governor of Illinois, just said that he doesn’t need help in preventing CRIME," Trump wrote on Truth Social. President Trump on Saturday attacked Illinois Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker and again threatened to send National Guard troops and federal agents to Chicago to combat crime.Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a Democrat, said on Saturday that local police there wouldn't cooperate with the federal security presence that Trump might send."Six people were killed, and 24 people were shot, in Chicago last weekend, and...

After months of negotiation and concessions, President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico has found herself in a cycle of pressure from the White House. As much as any other world leader, Claudia Sheinbaum has gained the reputation of a Trump whisperer. Over and over, the Mexican president has entered tense negotiations with President Trump and — to the surprise of many — exited with praise. “I like her very much,” Mr. Trump said in the Oval Office in February. “I did this as an accommodation, and out of respect for, President Sheinbaum,” he said after pausing tariffs against Mexico in March....

John Malone helped create the modern media industry over the last half century. In a new memoir, “Born to Be Wired,” he looks back on what he has wrought. Pop quiz: Which media mogul backed Rupert Murdoch’s launch of Fox News, supported Ted Turner’s plans for CNN and helped lay the groundwork for the internet revolution that powers Instagram, TikTok and Google? Need a hint? He’s also the second-largest private landowner in the United States, with 2.2 million acres. Of all the captains of industry who have transformed what we read, watch and talk about over the last half century,...

Four years ago, Nigel Farage decided he had achieved all he could in British politics. The gregarious English populist had campaigned for decades for Britain to leave the European Union, arguing the U.K. needed to make its own regulations and stop European migrants flowing in freely from the Continent to live and work. By 2021, Brexit was finally done. And so was Farage. “This has taken away the better part of my adult life,” he said as he announced he was quitting as leader of his anti-immigration party Reform UK. “I’m done.” Now Farage is back—and Reform UK is currently...

Summary Mayor directs police against collaborating with National Guard Johnson says federal troops, agents could come within days Chicago police to wear uniforms, not wear masks, mayor says White House calls city order a publicity stunt WASHINGTON, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Chicago police will not collaborate with any National Guard troops or federal agents if U.S. President Donald Trump deploys them to the city in coming days as threatened, Mayor Brandon Johnson said on Saturday.The Democratic mayor, surrounded by other city leaders, signed an executive order aimed at preparing Chicago for any U.S. enforcement operation as Trump has done in...

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald Was Just Scanned by An AI — And It Revealed Something No One Expected Beneath the icy depths of Lake Superior lies the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a ship that vanished without warning nearly fifty years ago. No distress call. No survivors. Just silence. Now, for the first time, advanced AI has scanned the wreck with breathtaking precision. What it revealed was not just decay or twisted steel, but details that no one expected to see. How could one of the most respected ships on the Great Lakes disappear so suddenly? The answers hidden in this scan...

Verizon customers across the U.S. Saturday reported issues with the network on their cellphones, with some saying that their devices have been limited to SOS mode for several hours.

Heavy fighting, casualties on both sides, four IDF missing, on-scene phone videos of everything, including Hamas attacks on civilians. Some Hamas leadership offed, the rest have fled. Lots of fake reports from Gaza Health Department, fakestream media taking it as gospel without verification. Humanitarian aid paused. Transcript linked below video.

Vandals splattered red paint across the entrance of the ritzy Greenwich Village building where New York Times executive editor Joseph Kahn lives early Friday, in the latest attack by anti-Israel activists enraged over the paper’s coverage of the Israel-Gaza war. Officers were called to Fifth Ave., near East 11th Street, just before 5 a.m. on Friday, according to cops. Residents were confronted with red paint covering the steps, walls, sidewalk and lamps outside the entrance, along with graffiti reading, “Joe Kahn Lies, Gaza Dies” scrawled in black marker on the pavement.