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Chinese and Russian operatives are using “sex warfare” to seduce and spy on Silicon Valley professionals, industry insiders have told The Times. James Mulvenon, the chief intelligence officer of Pamir Consulting, which provides risk assessments for American companies investing in China, said he was one of the many men recently targeted by foreign seductresses hoping to gain access to US tech secrets. “I’m getting an enormous number of very sophisticated LinkedIn requests from the same type of attractive young Chinese woman,” said Mulvenon. “It really seems to have ramped up recently.” Mulvenon also described how, at a business conference on...

Consumer prices rose less than expected in September, government data showed Friday, clearing the path for further rate cuts from the Federal Reserve and suggesting that tariffs are not weighing on household budgets. The consumer price index increased 0.3 percent last month, down from the 0.4 percent in August. Economists had forecast a 0.4 percent increase. Compared with a year ago, consumer prices are up 3.0 percent, slightly below the 3.1 percent forecast. Core prices, a metric that excludes food and energy prices, rose 0.2 percent, below the estimate for 0.3 percent. Over the past 12 months, core prices are...

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New York Attorney General Letitia James will be arraigned Friday for her charges of lying on a mortgage application, a prosecution pushed by President Donald Trump. James' arraignment will be in Norfolk, Va., in the first court appearance since her indictment on Oct. 9. A grand jury in the U.S.District Court of Eastern Virginia indicted James on the criminal charges after the Justice Department alleged she falsely claimed a Norfolk, Va., property that she bought in 2020 would be her primary residence to get better mortgage terms. James is expected to plead not guilty to one count of bank fraud...

The illegal alien truck driver responsible for a fatal crash earlier this year in Florida failed his commercial drivers’ license (CDL) test in Washington a staggering 10 times within a two-month window. Between March and May 2023, Harjinder Singh, an illegal alien from India, tested 10 times to try to obtain a CDL license to drive trucks in the state of Washington. He failed every single time, according to Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin and the Florida attorney general’s office. Yet, insanely, not only did the state of Washington eventually give Singh a CDL license anyway, but the state...

Purana Shala villagers in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district Friday rallied outside a gurdwara in support of California truck accident accused and local boy Jashanpreet Singh. Jashanpreet Singh, 21, has been charged with Driving Under the Influence (DUI) by the US authorities. Refuting allegations of drug use, Jashanpreet Singh’s father, Ravinder Singh, said at the rally, “He is an Amritdhari Gursikh, someone who has lived by the principles of Sikhism his entire life. He has never consumed drugs – he hasn’t even been near them. These accusations are completely unfounded.” “We mourn the lives lost in this tragic incident, but our son...

Two national public employee unions sued the Trump administration over its restrictions preventing illegal immigrants from obtaining commercial drivers licenses. The American Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees filed a petition for review against the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. The employee unions challenged a rule implemented by Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy restricting foreign individuals from receiving commercial drivers licenses. Commercial drivers licenses are used for operating large vehicles such as tractor-trailers and buses. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia allow unauthorized immigrants to receive commercial drivers licenses. In California,...

NATIONAL BOLOGNA DAY Slice it, fry it, or stack it high! October 24th is National Bologna Day, a time to celebrate one of America's most iconic and nostalgic lunch meats. It’s the perfect day to honor the simple, satisfying joy of a bologna sandwich. #NationalBolognaDay You might pronounce this sandwich meat "baloney," and that's perfectly fine, but the name "bologna" comes from its birthplace: Bologna, Italy. The original Italian sausage, mortadella, is a finely ground pork sausage dotted with flavorful cubes of lard and often pistachios. It's a true Italian delicacy! American bologna is a bit different. U.S. food regulations...

~I can't decide whether this is the sort of ad you run when your internals show you're done and you've got nothing to lose, or when it's way closer than anyone ever expected and just needs one extra push: This is the wildest attack ad I've ever seen in politics. Andrew Cuomo pulling out all the stops. pic.twitter.com/rPQ77Z3bE7 — Stephen Taylor (@stephen_taylor) October 23, 2025 What's interesting is that in an ad playing up to every stereotype about Democrat client groups there's no mention of what is Mr Mamdani's most obvious glass-ceiling-shattering quality: his "Muslimness", as Sir Keir Starmer's working...

Last year, sensitive information concerning numerous South Korean intelligence agents has been leaked, casting a shadow over the Korea Defense Intelligence Command (KDIC) work in China and Russia. This incident prompted the KDIC to recall undercover agents based overseas back home, which put South Korean intelligence activities at risk. Moreover, the leak caused discontent in Washington and Tokyo because it came at a time when the country was expanding military intelligence sharing with the United States and Japan to confront North Korea and China. Have any actions been taken since then to repair the damage and restore the functioning of...

Before the midterms next November, one of the most important actions that congressional Republicans should take is a vote on the No Sharia Act, a critical bill that reaffirms the Constitution as the supreme law of the land and ensures that Sharia law never finds a home in the United States. The No Sharia Act, introduced by Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) last month, very simply “prohibits the enforcement of Sharia or any foreign law that infringes on constitutional rights.” It also states that “In matters involving marriage, divorce, child custody, adoption, or inheritance, no court shall apply or enforce foreign...

The centerpiece of a new exhibit in Los Angeles is a mangled junkyard of a statue, with horse and human limbs glommed together like some kind of zombie Ichabod Crane. Now dismembered beyond recognition, the piece was once a statue of Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. In 2021, the statue — along with its better-known counterpart, a statue of Jackson’s friend and commanding officer Robert E. Lee — was removed from downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, four years after the city council voted to remove them. Lee’s statue met its demise in 2023, torn apart and melted down in secret. The haunting...

A Lebanon County woman who describes herself as a devout Christian was suspended from work after she refused to escort a transgender woman to a women’s locker room at a spa operated by the Hershey Entertainment and Resorts, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. Middle District court.

BILL OF COMPLAINT The State of Florida, by and through its Attorney General, James Uthmeier, brings this suit against Defendants, the State of California and the State of Washington, and for its claims for relief states: 1. California’s and Washington’s open defiance of federal immigration laws is well-documented. Both States routinely frustrate and hinder federal law enforcement from addressing the immigration crisis and the destruction that accompanies it. 2. As relevant here, this resistance includes failing to honor the federal safety regulations regarding the commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) needed to operate eighteen-wheelers and other commercial motor vehicles. Federal law requires...

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Beat,” DNC Chair Ken Martin stated that the Democratic Party’s job right now is to win elections, and if “we are truly in a dictatorship and an authoritarian regime here has completely shredded the Constitution, then party doesn’t matter, and then elections don’t matter and then the resistance looks completely different” “and we may be nearing” that moment, but for now, their job is winning elections. Martin said, “[L]et me say to you, what is the role of the Democratic Party in this moment? Our job is to win, to win elections. That is...

The Empowerment Scholarship Account, Arizona's school choice program, is projected to have over 100,000 students during fiscal year 2026, according to a new report. The Empowerment Scholarship Account, Arizona's school choice program, is projected to have over 100,000 students during fiscal year 2026, according to a new report. The Common Sense Institute released a report earlier in October showing the estimated number of students who will use ESA. Under the program, the money that would pay for a student's education in a neighborhood school follows the student to another school chosen by the parents. That includes home schooling, according to...

“From the hood” shouldn’t be a license to threaten people. This is emotional performance art wrapped in street talk. They’re not representing the struggle. They’re cosplaying for clicks. ================================================================= BRIEFING ...There’s a strange new trend in politics. Young Black female politicians are branding themselves as “hood queens” and leaning into violent, ghetto-style rhetoric. Let’s get into it. It’s one thing to grow up in a tough neighborhood and speak from lived experience. Like it or not, that’s what “gangsta rappers” do, and they make millions while they’re at it. But what we’re seeing now are these privileged Black career women...

Alaska’s new social studies standards don’t mention the Nome Gold Rush. They don’t mention the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. They don’t mention William Egan, the state of Alaska’s first governor, and they don’t mention Sarah Palin, who ran for Vice President of the United States. There’s a lot more that’s missing in the Alaska social studies standards, but you can tell right away that something is wrong when Alaska’s social studies standards leave Alaska’s children ignorant of the headlines of Alaska’s history and the most famous Alaskans. Education departments in every state are on radical autopilot when they make social studies...

U.S. Coast Guard personnel opened fire Thursday night on a U-Haul truck after its driver ignored commands to stop at the entrance of a California base, the agency said. Dramatic video shows the box truck with its headlights on reversing toward security personnel stationed around a vehicle outside Coast Guard Base Alameda at around 10 p.m. Moments later, flashes of gunfire erupted as officers shouted orders from a barricade. The U-Haul driver then hit the gas and accelerated forward. The Coast Guard said security personnel standing watch on Coast Guard Island had witnessed the U-Haul truck "driving erratically and attempting...

Real-time data shows the water temperatures underneath Tropical Storm Melissa are 600 times more likely due to climate change. The analysis is operated by Climate Central, a nonprofit organization that focuses on the science and communication behind climate change. The organization compares current sea surface temperatures to average, then overlays the current and forecast track of tropical systems. Melissa is currently a tropical storm southeast of Jamaica and southwest of Haiti. The storm will move over very warm water, around 86 degrees Fahrenheit, and that warm water will be a key piece of the storm's rapid intensification. Melissa is predicted...