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Matt Bergman, founding attorney of Social Media Victims Law Center, said the Meta CEO's testimony is "a moment that families across this country have been waiting for." "For the first time, a Meta CEO will have to sit before a jury, under oath, and explain why the company released a product its own safety teams warned were addictive and harmful to children," Bergman said in a statement Tuesday. It’s the first of a consolidated group of cases — from more than 1,600 plaintiffs, including over 350 families and over 250 school districts — scheduled to be argued before a jury...

US-mediated peace talks on Ukraine collapsed in less than two hours after Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky claimed it was unfair that Donald Trump was placing more pressure on his country than on Russia.The second day of talks concluded on Wednesday, though neither side signalled they were any closer to ending Europe's deadliest conflict since World War II.The talks wrapped up after just two hours, much shorter than the six hours of meetings on Tuesday, according to the head of Russia's delegation.

President Donald Trump has barely finished the first year of his second term in office, but already pollsters are looking to the midterm 2026 congressional battle and 2028 presidential election. That includes the I&I/TIPP Poll. Believe it or not, many voters are already deciding whom they will support. The latest national online I&I/TIPP Poll asked registered voters of both major parties and independents two questions about their preferences. The poll, which was taken by 1,126 registered voters from Jan. 27 to Jan. 29, has an overall margin of error of +/-3.1 percentage points. The first question: If the vote...

By now, the pattern is impossible to ignore. When Democrats face exposure for corruption, the political and bureaucratic machinery springs into action—not to investigate the wrongdoing, but to manufacture a scandal around Donald Trump and flood the media zone with distractions. We saw it first with the Russia collusion hoax. That operation was used to divert attention away from Hillary Clinton’s very real misconduct involving classified government documents, a private homebrew email server, and false statements to Congress. Rather than answer for those actions, Democrats and their allies shifted the narrative to a completely fabricated conspiracy tying Donald Trump to...

Elon Musk just identified which jobs go first, and it destroys every assumption about who’s safe. Musk: “AI is going to take over those jobs like lightning. Anything that is digital, which is like just someone at a computer doing something.” Not factory workers. Office workers. The people who spent decades assuming education and desk jobs meant security are actually first. Musk: “Anything that’s physically moving atoms… those jobs will exist for a much longer time.” Output is a file? Vulnerable. Output is physical? Protected. That’s the entire framework. Musk: “AI is really still digital.” AI doesn’t need a body....

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced plans for a $33 billion natural gas-fired power plant in southern Ohio, describing it as the largest gas generation project in U.S. history and a cornerstone of a broader $550 billion investment commitment from Japan. The Ohio facility, to be built near Portsmouth, is part of the first group of projects under a new U.S.-Japan trade agreement aimed at strengthening economic and national security ties between the two countries. Under the agreement, Japan has committed to invest $550 billion in the United States. In exchange, U.S. tariffs on Japanese imports will be reduced to...

The “Whiteness” Double Standard The Left would like to portray white culture as a force of oppression—and deny its existence in any other context.To my recurring frustration, much of modern politics can be reduced to a series of language games. Political fights rarely touch the substance of the disagreement, but instead hover on the thin layer of language that merely refers to the substance—or all too often, conceals it from view.In the modern era, the Left’s coalition of liberals, progressives, and Marxists have turned these language games into an art. They deploy particular concepts when it serves their needs...

The southern border is experiencing a power struggle between land managers and Border Patrol

Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, and Charlie Kirk are by far among the most popular media figures among Republican voters, according to polling conducting by Rich Barris of Big Data Poll, obtained exclusively by Breitbart News.Among the Republicans surveyed, a whopping 74.7% viewed the late Charlie Kirk either very or somewhat favorably. Similarly, Joe Rogan was viewed favorably by 62.4% of Republicans, while Tucker Carlson received a 52.1% favorability rating.Conversely, rightwing commentators such as Mark Levin, Laura Loomer, and Nick Fuentes scored far lower on this key favorability index, with significantly larger portions not recognizing their names.Mark Levin received a 39.7%...

A new Government initiative to financially back a return of more flour mills in Ireland has been announced. At present, Ireland has only one industrial‑scale flour mill, located in Portarlington, run by Odlums, which is owned by Valeo Foods. There are two in Northern Ireland, James Neill’s Flour Ltd. and Andrews Flour. Enterprise Ireland will oversee and administer the initiative and will engage directly with firms considering new or expanded milling operations of scale. The new scheme will help up to four projects with potentially up to €5 million of subvention, for which the Government said is a very significant...

The Vatican will not join President Donald Trump’s newly formed Board of Peace, its top diplomatic official said Tuesday, signaling reluctance from the Holy See to take part in the post-war initiative. Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said the Holy See "will not participate in the Board of Peace because of its particular nature, which is evidently not that of other States," the Vatican’s official news outlet reported. The Board of Peace, which was chartered in January and includes nearly 20 countries, is tasked with managing recovery efforts in the Gaza Strip after the Israel-Hamas war. While responding...

This is why we can't have nice things. AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet | 3:36 Jeff Geerling | 1.04M subscribers | 209,667 views | February 16, 2026

MUNICH — In a bold declaration against colonial imperialism, U.S. Congresswoman Alexandro Ocasio-Cortez spoke out this week to condemn Spain for stealing Mexico's language. According to AOC, Spain is a racist, dirty, white colonialist old power and should repatriate the Spanish language back to Mexico, where she said it originated. "How dare you appropriate Mexico's native tongue?" AOC berated the Spanish prime minister, shaking her head in disbelief. "I can't believe you would stoop to such lows. How do you even steal an entire language? It's worse than Ocean's Eleven. What's going to be next? Stealing the recipe for Tex-Mex...

Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel will reportedly headline an upcoming fundraiser to benefit House Democrats. According to New York Times reporter Teddy Schleifer, Kimmel will be the special guest for a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee benefit dinner next month. Schleifer shared an invitation for the event on Tuesday, revealing that it will take place in Los Angeles on Mar. 10 and also feature House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Ticket prices range from $25,000 to over $300,000. According to Politico, two people “familiar with the fundraiser who were granted anonymity to discuss the details”...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a long-rumored shake-up at a high-level position in his administration, President Donald Trump announced that he had replaced Attorney General Pam Bondi with a broom in a blonde wig. According to White House sources, the president hoped that the personnel shift would do a better job leading the Department of Justice than Bondi has over the past year. "That other gal has been a disappointment," Trump told reporters. "Instead, I picked out this broom and put a nice blonde wig on top. See? It's so easy. The blonde hair makes it beautiful. And since it's...

[Catholic Caucus] Why the SSPX Will Consecrate Bishops Without Rome’s Approval: Fr. de Lacoste ExplainsWhy would the SSPX consecrate bishops without Rome’s approval? In a powerful sermon from Ecône, Fr. Bernard de Lacoste explains why extraordinary measures are now necessary to preserve the Catholic Faith.In a sermon delivered on Sunday, February 8, in Ecône, Fr. Bernard de Lacoste, director of the St. Pius X Seminary, explained the necessity of the upcoming episcopal consecrations announced on February 2 by the Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X, Fr. Davide Pagliarani, and scheduled for July 1.Dear seminarians, dear faithful,Last Monday,...

A coalition of congressional Democrats unveiled a resolution titled the “Trans Bill of Rights” last week to push back against the “fear” and “hatred” propelled by those who believe that one’s sex corresponds to their biological sex. As written by Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., in a press release, the resolution aims to direct the federal government to expand transgender access to public “services” and “accommodations.” The bill language adds that it aims to ensure that “transgender and non-binary people” get “equal access” to “services and public accommodations that align with their gender identity. The bill also states that transgenders should...

NO ONE CAN BE ABOVE THE CONSEQUENCE is the operational version of: - Pragmatism - Accountability - Shared reality - Mutual responsibility - Truth‑seeking - Civic maturity It’s the only principle that doesn’t require suppressing speech, controlling thought, or enforcing ideological conformity. It simply requires that everyone lives in the world their choices create.

I once predicted that the improvements in the realness of video games would never stop. That video games will look and act so real that we wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a game and real life. We will ask is that a real footbal game we're watching or is that a sports game being played? AI has delivered on that prediction to an astonishing way. Here is an example of how far AI has come. https://youtu.be/jciMPgEI9dY Now my question is will Hollywood ever produce new films from dead actors? Will there be new Humphry Bogart movies? Will...

Abby Phillip did her best to get CNN NewsNight back on track on Tuesday (February 17) after Shark Tank‘s Kevin O’Leary and The View‘s Ana Navarro clashed in a tense debate that devolved into personal attacks. The discussion started about the 2020 election results but ended up covering a whole bunch of issues, including ICE agents’ tactics in Minneapolis. “We are seeing this happen over and over again, where the federal government is fabricating things, lying,” Navarro said, per Mediaite. “Just in the last few weeks, we have seen cases involving federal agents with a Venezuelan national in Minneapolis, who...