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Joint Israel-US strikes on the Iranian regime are taking place just as Jews are set to mark a festival commemorating another war against a Persian official who sought their destruction. Saturday morning, just over an hour after Israel and the United States began airstrikes against the Iranian regime, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Israel and the world in a video statement. In his speech, Netanyahu noted that the confrontation with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his supporters was taking place as Jews prepared to mark the anniversary of another war fought against an official from ancient Persia. “My brothers and sisters,...

France is to boost its nuclear arsenal and extend the deterrent to cover other European countries, in a major development of its nuclear defence policy. In a speech in Brittany, President Emmanuel Macron explained the changes as the response to an increasingly unstable strategic environment. "The next 50 years will be an era of nuclear weapons," he said. Speaking to naval officers in front of a nuclear submarine at the Ile Longue base near the port of Brest, he said the number of French nuclear warheads would be increased from their current level of around 300. He announced the launch...

If you rent a cheap Airbnb house in Las Vegas, you might not be altogether surprised to find dead crickets in the garage. But a thousand vials of medical samples in several freezers – and a centrifuge? After the cleaner and one guest fell ill at a property in the city’s Sunrise Manor neighborhood last week, federal agents raided it and found a whole laboratory’s worth of scientific kit of the kind more useful to medical scientists than, say, drug dealers. Curious. Curiouser still, the house belongs to a Chinese national named Jia Bei (Jesse) Zhu. He is currently in...

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As many of you know, the Pentagon is employing Palantir in Operation Epic Fury. And Palantir's AI platform, AIP, operates on a frontier AI foundation which is a military-adapted version of Claude.Ergo, I submitted all my prompts/questions to Claude.Here are my prompts and Claude's responses. I submitted Claude's responses to Grok for corroboration of accuracy and Grok said Claude was speculative and overly expansive.I thought some of you might enjoy this exchange so here it is (for what it's worth). I do not assume this is accurate. But it is interesting for a variety of reasons. Take it for what...

Leo XIV: "Not Our Task to Build a Christendom"Today, Leo XIV received a delegation from the ecumenical 'World Council of Churches', reports Oikoumene.org.The delegation included the German lay bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, the Armenian archbishop Vicken Aykazian, the Baptist preacher Merlyn Hyde Riley, and the Protestant preacher Jerry Pillay.According to Pillay, Leo XIV stressed "the need for visible Christian unity, recognising the challenges this presents even within the Roman Catholic Church due to the existence of different and diverse views".Pillay said that Leo XIV affirmed that, "while our task is not to build a Christendom yet Christians must work together in...

President Donald Trump’s disdain for the Constitution is evident in his launching a war in Iran without any semblance of congressional approval. Congress must act quickly to protect its role in a Constitution that was meant to prevent such unilateral action by the president.

A stunning new survey conducted by the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard (CAPS), the Harris Poll, and HarrisX suggests that the GOP has drawn even with the Democrats with eight months to go until the midterm elections. The poll of 1,999 registered voters, which was conducted online between February 25 and 26, found that 50% of Americans would vote for the Republican candidate in their congressional district and 50% would vote for the Democratic one if the midterms were held today. That marked an enormous improvement for the GOP, which trailed the Democrats 54%-46% on the same question...

It’s time to employ the “nuclear option” on John Thune’s inbox. Last week, the Senate Republican Leader announced that he would NOT force Democrats to conduct a Talking Filibuster on the SAVE America Act. This means Thune will NOT try to pass election integrity legislation this year. Instead, he plans to debate the SAVE America Act under a rigged process that requires 60 votes, knowing he does not have them. This is not fighting. It’s gaslighting. It’s “failure theater.” Thune wants to create the illusion of Republicans all supporting voter ID without any chance of it actually passing. This is...

Frustrated New York City residents are flooding social media with complaints about the Islamic call to prayer blasting from mosque loudspeakers during Ramadan. Muslims defend the broadcasts as their First Amendment right to religious freedom and cultural identity. However, a former Muslim explained that this is primarily a tool for asserting political dominance rather than fulfilling religious devotion.

Reza Pahlavi, the exiled former crown prince of Iran who has positioned himself as a potential successor to the country’s current leadership, has drawn renewed attention after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in joint United States and Israeli strikes. The U.S. and Israel began major combat operations in Iran on Saturday aimed at destroying the country’s military capabilities and encouraging regime change after diplomatic talks over Tehran’s nuclear program failed. Trump urged Iranians to remain in their homes during the bombing and later take control of their government.

The powerful House Oversight Committee dropped footage Monday of its hours-long sworn depositions of Bill and Hillary Clinton last week in New York as part of its probe into late sex predator Jeffrey Epstein. Both of the Clintons vehemently denied any knowledge of Epstein’s sex crimes, with Hillary insisting she didn’t even know the notorious financier and the 42nd president stressing he “did nothing wrong.” “I saw nothing that ever gave me pause,” the former president told members of the Oversight panel during a deposition in the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center last week. 4 hours HRC deposition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siiAk6WXc0M Back in...

War Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday outlined what he described as a "clear" three-part mission against Iran, insisting the conflict "is not endless" and sharply rejecting comparisons to past U.S. wars in the Middle East. Speaking during the first Pentagon briefing since U.S.-Israeli strikes began over the weekend, Hegseth said Operation Epic Fury has a narrowly defined objective: destroy Iran’s offensive missile capabilities, cripple its navy and prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Some of the supposed character “flaws” of @realDonaldTrump are precisely those that are needed to be a courageous and bold global leader." Gad Saad You’ve got to think: if the US military can pinpoint one room in Teheran with a Grand Ayatollah and 39 other high officials in it, then the US military can figure out where Iran’s missiles are being launched from and put a stop to that, too. With no high command left, Iran’s missile batteries have been on their own since Saturday, desperately trying a kind of last-ditch “Samson option” to light up the whole region and...

He didn’t quite order flags at One World Trade Center to be flown at half-staff to mourn Iran’s ayatollah, as the Babylon Bee predicted, but our Islamic Marxist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, did issue a statement taking Iran’s side against the US’ “illegal war of aggression.” “Americans do not want this,” he posted on social media. He must be mad that President Trump didn’t give him a heads-up on the Iran attack during their bro-mantic visit in the Oval Office Friday. As if. Like his fellow radical Dems — Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom and AOC — Mamdani failed to read the...

As a Democrat, it is profoundly disturbing to me that many in my party have widely condemned what appears to be, at least initially, a successful, coordinated effort to promote fundamental and lasting change in Iran. It falls to me, a Democrat who has supported my party and its candidates for many years, to state what is obvious: the Trump administration and our military deserve strong support for leading a coordinated strike with Israel that has already led to the death of Iran’s supreme leader and multiple senior Iranian officials and continues to degrade Tehran’s nuclear and conventional weapons programs....

According to reporting by the Financial Times, nearly all of the Iranian capital’s traffic cameras had been hacked years earlier, their footage encrypted and transmitted to Israeli servers.

No doubt there is much more to the story, but this is awesome: Years before the air strike that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Israeli intelligence had been quietly mapping the daily rhythms of Tehran. According to reporting by the Financial Times, nearly all of the Iranian capital’s traffic cameras had been hacked years earlier, their footage encrypted and transmitted to Israeli servers. One camera angle near Pasteur Street, close to Khamenei’s compound, allowed analysts to observe the routines of bodyguards and drivers: where they parked, when they arrived and whom they escorted. That data was fed into complex algorithms that...

Along the sloping banks of the San Lorenzo Creek in Hayward, steps from the oldest Japanese garden in California, chaos unfolds. The creek is a favorite gathering spot for the Bay Area’s wild turkeys..

As tensions escalate in the Middle East with recent joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, I find myself reflecting on a profound encounter that reshaped my understanding of faith, courage, and divine intervention. What the secular world views as mere geopolitics, many Christians recognize as part of a larger spiritual narrative: a storyline where oppression crumbles and the Gospel flourishes. President Donald J. Trump’s role in these developments – his flaws notwithstanding – exemplifies a righteous stand against tyranny, potentially ushering in freedom for the Iranian people and opening doors for spiritual revival.