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Meta Platforms may shrink its workforce by up to 20% in a sign that artificial-intelligence productivity gains are finally materializing. According to a Reuters report from Friday, Meta has not finalized specific dates or details for cuts but is considering widespread reductions to its workforce. The company had nearly 79,000 employees as of its last annual filing. A Meta spokesperson told Reuters, “This is speculative reporting about theoretical approaches.” The company didn’t respond to a MarketWatch request for comment. But Wall Street seems encouraged that the company is thinking about paring back its staff. Shares are up 2.9% in Monday’s...

HOLLYWOOD, CA — The horror movie Sinners has officially won the Oscar for "Crappiest Movie To Win An Oscar". The award each year goes to the most awful, banal cinematic catastrophe that somehow squeaks out an Oscar for being extra gay or not having any white people in it. "And the award goes to...Sinners!" announced host Conan O'Brien. "You actually won an Oscar for that appalling pile of trash, congratulations. Really, it's an amazing accomplishment to somehow score an Oscar for that monstrous affront to writing and acting, well done. Tip of the cap." At publishing time, Sinners had also...

Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, has been advising US President Donald Trump to “keep hitting the Iranians hard,” White House officials told the New York Times in a report published on Sunday.

The Pentagon has identified six U.S. service members who were killed when a KC-135 refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq during a combat mission in support of Operation Epic Fury. The incident, which occurred on Thursday, took place in "friendly" airspace during an unspecified incident involving another aircraft. While the other plane landed safely, the KC-135 crashed. Military officials said the incident was not due to hostile or friendly fire and remains under investigation. The airmen were assigned to the 6th Air Refueling Wing at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida and the 121st Air Refueling Wing at Rickenbacker Air...

Senator Eric Schmitt outlined a proposal aimed at expanding the federal government’s authority to revoke citizenship from individuals convicted of certain serious crimes, arguing that current law makes denaturalization extremely difficult once someone has become a U.S. citizen.

Trump’s latest comments come amid Levin’s months-long public feud with other right-wing podcasters, including Megyn Kelly, Jack Posobiec, Steve Bannon, and Tucker Carlson. The barb trading with Megyn Kelly came to a head on Sunday, when Kelly called Levin “Microp*nis Mark” and suggested that he is easily triggered by her because of “his microp*nis.” “Poor Megyn Kelly. An emotionally unhinged, lewd, and petulant wreck. She’s completely revealed and destroyed herself. She’s everything people say she is, but much worse. Never an intelligent, thoughtful, or substantive comment. Utterly toxic,” Levin said on X.“Microp*nis Mark @marklevinshow thinks he has the monopoly on...

CHAPPAQUA, NY — With TSA suffering severe staffing shortages amid a halt in pay, former President Bill Clinton has volunteered to lend a hand patting down passengers. A smiling Clinton arrived early for his shift at JFK International, telling TSA agents to focus on checking bags and leaving the pat-downs to him. "It's the least I can do," said Clinton. "When I heard there were thousands of bodies that needed to be felt, I simply answered the call. Does that make me a hero? Well, step into my line here, and I'll let you be the judge." According to airport...

It was One Battle After Another’s night. Paul Thomas Anderson’s action-thriller took home six Oscars at the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday, including Best Supporting Actor, Best Directing and Best Picture. The film also won awards for Best Editing and Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as the first-ever Oscar for Best Casting. Upon accepting his award, Anderson — who had previously been nominated for an Oscar around a dozen times — joked, “You make a guy work hard for one of these, I really appreciate it.” Sinners also had a big night, bringing home four Oscars, including Best Actor for...

It is a terrible time to be a news consumer. Sadly, the only way to explain today’s media is to write them off as either malicious or hopelessly incompetent. Consider “lobstergate,” one of the more achingly idiotic so-called controversies in recent years. This episode begins with a watchdog report from OpenTheBooks finding that, in the fourth quarter of 2025, the Pentagon spent an estimated $6.9 million on lobster tail, $2 million on Alaskan king crab, and $15.1 million on ribeye steaks. Now, if you have served in the U.S. armed forces, or you know someone who has, you know all...

Time is running out. In a high-stakes geopolitical chess game unfolding over decades, birth tourism—especially from China—represents a stealthy assault on U.S. sovereignty. Wealthy Chinese families, often linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), are systematically exploiting America's birthright citizenship to forge a generation of U.S. passport holders raised under Beijing's iron grip. As Peter Schweizer exposes in his explosive new book The Invisible Coup, this isn't mere family planning; it's a calculated weapon that could hijack elections, erode policies, and dismantle the nation from within. We're not talking hypotheticals—the first waves of these "Manchurian" voters are hitting adulthood now,...

Trump is telling people that he’s gay. This is worth taking seriously as a strategic communication rather than dismissing it as provocation or noise. If Trump is circulating the claim that Mojtaba Khamenei is gay, the first question Alliance Theory asks is what coalition function that claim serves. It is not primarily an intelligence disclosure. It is a weapon designed to operate inside the Islamic Republic’s own internal coalition logic. The Islamic Republic’s legitimacy rests on a specific architecture of moral authority. The Supreme Leader is not just a political figure. He is the Vali-e Faqih, the guardian jurist, the...

Netanyahu went to The Sataf cafe to prove he was alive—but the internet had other plans. A brief smile from a local barista has sparked a global "love letter" to Israel, racking up 300 million views and overshadowing the Prime Minister's "proof-of-life" video.

The Brief The White House has proposed building an underground security facility. The facility would be under nearby Sherman Park. The National Capital Planning Commission is having an open meeting at 1 p.m. on April 2 to discuss the project. WASHINGTON - The White House has proposed building an underground security checkpoint for visitors. White House underground security checkpoint What we know: The National Capital Planning Commission shared plans and renderings of the facility on Friday. The center would be built underneath Sherman Park, southeast of the White House. Prior to President Donald Trump tearing down the White House's East...

La Brújula Verde reports that the excavation of a necropolis in southwestern Italy by researchers from the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Landscape for the Provinces of Salerno and Avellino has revealed 34 Samnite burials dated to between the fourth and third centuries B.C. The graves were grouped by family, and most of them consisted of a pit covered with tiles arranged like a small roof. Two of the burials had chambers lined with travertine blocks, while another had a tufa chamber. Graves holding the remains of men also contained spearheads or javelin points. Rings and brooches for fastening...

According to a La Brújula Verde report, eight burials at the Childrey Warren site in southeastern England have been analyzed. In all, the rural cemetery contained more than 30 burials. The eight burials in the study, including the remains of newborns and adults who were more than 45 years old at the time of death, have been dated to the fourth century A.D. One of the individuals had been beheaded, with the skull placed beneath the feet. Ancient DNA samples taken from these remains show that six of the eight people were closely related—sisters, paternal first cousins, and paternal and...

Wild video has surfaced of thousands of terrified spring break beachgoers fleeing the sand in Florida as gunshots rang out over the weekend. At least four shootings have been reported in Daytona Beach since Friday as scores of spring breakers descended on the city, WFTV9 reported. Four shootings and massive unruly crowds turned Daytona Beach’s spring-break weekend into a public safety nightmare, as thousands fled the sand while police from multiple agencies rushed in to restore order. In one of the chaotic incidents, footage shot from a hotel balcony captured the moment screaming bikini-clad sunbathers scattered the beach after a...

DDemocrats used to be on the side of victims, but not so much anymore. Women were among their most important victims, suffering under the Republican “war on women.” In the past, they reflexively defended rape victims, accusing anyone of not wanting to immediately lynch accused rapists of “blaming the victim.” But that was before they decided vicious illegal alien criminals were higher on the victimization ladder than American women. Now, pretty much any Democrat favored victim group—trans, drag queens, all manner of domestic criminals, criminal Democrat congressmen, Jihadists—takes precedence over women—and Jews. We no longer hear about the Republican “war...

The United States is allowing Iranian oil tankers to transit the Strait of Hormuz, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC on Monday.“The Iranian ships have been getting out already, and we’ve let that happen to supply the rest of the world,” Bessent said in an interview CNBC’s Brian Sullivan in Paris. The Treasury secretary is in France to hold trade talks with China. *** “We think that there will be a natural opening that the Iranians are letting out, and for now we’re fine with that. We want the world to be well supplied,” Bessent said. President Donald Trump is...

For some people, spiders are no joke. Arachnophobia affects between 2.7-6.1% of people and is one of the most common anxiety disorders, according to the National Institutes of Health. The wolf spider, garden spider and the house spider are most common in Tampa, Florida. It’s unclear if New York Yankees pitcher Cam Schlittler deals with the fear, but he made sure that the insect was taken care of before a spring training game. Schlittler called security to get a spider out of his locker before the team took on the Detroit Tigers, according to the YES Network. Schlittler didn’t pitch...

A special report by the National Center for Combating Antisemitism in Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry on Monday morning revealed the existence of a new militant organization called "Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyya" (Ashab Al-Yamim). The group has claimed responsibility for a series of coordinated attacks against Jewish institutions in Europe in recent days. According to the report, the organization is behind an explosion near a synagogue in Liège, Belgium, an attack on a Jewish site in Greece, the arson of a synagogue in Rotterdam, and the detonation of an explosive device outside a Jewish school in Amsterdam. Although most of the...