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A swarm of roughly 700 AI agents created by OpenAI carried out the July hack of the open-source platform Hugging Face and in many cases tried to cover their tracks, a pair of reports into the breach said on Wednesday.The coordinated activity by AI agents — programs that run with minimal human supervision — and their attempts to hide it raise questions about how closely AI companies are monitoring tests of increasingly powerful models, and could add fuel to calls for tighter oversight.While some of the rogue behavior has been disclosed or alluded to previously, the two reports — one...

This is what existential politics looks like When the fight is over children, family, citizenship, religion, and human nature, politics stops being a negotiation over marginal tax rates.The assassination of Charlie Kirk was a devastating blow to conservatives, but almost as shocking was the response from parts of the left. Major figures issued the expected denunciations, yet plenty of ordinary progressives celebrated the violent death of a father and husband or mocked his memory online. Conservatives learned that some of their neighbors were perfectly willing to cheer the murder of a political opponent.Since then, trade wars, foreign wars, and...

An enraged Wisconsin parent was cited for tripping a 9-year-old football player during a youth league game when he became “upset over a play,” as the child’s coach declared it the “most cowardly act I’ve ever seen. Shocking footage captured the dad, who was supporting the Milwaukee Colts, taking matters into his own hands when he made the drastic intervention against the Case Eagles in Racine, Wisc., on Saturday, CBS58 reported. The Eagles football player, wearing No. 88, was rushing to score a touchdown when the rogue adult extended his left leg and tripped the athlete. The boy and adult...

Earlier this week, the WNBA, the women's professional basketball league, announced that two former NBA players were ineligible to play in the league. Former NBA stars Royce (Roysha) White and Enes Kanter Freedom had announced they were intending to play in the league next year after the WENBA brass refused to condemn biological men playing in the league against women. The league did not elaborate on the reasons for declaring the two men ineligible. Since this announcement, news has broken that the league previously allowed trans players to play. In fact, one of the trans players has been very vocal....

It didn’t happen all at once, but the timelines and the new document dumps paint a disturbing picture of what we knew would appear on the canvas long before Trump’s second presidency and the disclosures that exposed the whole deep state circus. We have former presidents, including Obama, ordering intelligence assessments to thread in Russian collusion nonsense; a former CIA director who lied about how the Steele Dossier, the document responsible for this hoax, was used in analyzing the intelligence; and the media’s incessant and destructive crusade to make this ruse legitimate. They failed because there was no evidence, and...

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CNN’s chyron was already doing the heavy lifting for the narrative — treating Trump’s victory talk like some embarrassing rerun of 2003 — when Scott Jennings decided to ignore the script and talk about results instead. Let's not pretend Jennings ever gives one single damn about a script ... While the rest of the NewsNight panel treated “ongoing war” as settled fact, Jennings pointed to the scoreboard that actually matters: Iran’s defense industrial base has been smashed, its oil exports have been shut off since the naval blockade resumed, and the U.S. Navy has already shepherded 750 million barrels of...

An unearthed clip of Democrat candidate James Talarico from an appearance on the Higher Learning podcast in 2025 showed that the progressive agreed with the assessment that Christians are the "villains" of American society. In an episode published on August 5, Van Lathan Jr., host of Higher Learning, went on an extensive rant proclaiming that American Christians nationwide are “villains” and “mean people” who he expected to see “saying something wild,” all while Talarico laughed and nodded in agreement. Talarico then told Lathan Jr. that he didn’t believe that Christianity as “defining someone as a good person” was dead, but...

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is quietly trying to erase women and mothers from his state’s health code. The Democrat’s administration has removed female terminology and replaced it with transgender-inclusive language in a proposed overhaul to Pennsylvania’s health code. The terms “pregnant woman” and “mother of a newborn” have been replaced with “pregnant or postpartum individual” throughout the 502-page proposal, which was announced on August 8. Women who have given birth to a stillborn baby are no longer called a “mother” but are instead referred to as a “postpartum individual” in the proposed regulation changes. Shapiro is pushing to give Pennsylvania’s...

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (WJAR) — The jury deliberating in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial in Plymouth Superior Court had a question Friday, but it was not immediately clear what they asked. Live coverage of the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. Court came back into session a little after 10 a.m., and the question was apparently discussed and answered at sidebar. The judge made no mention of it, and court went back into recess as deliberations continue. Clancy of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is on trial in the strangulation deaths of her three young children -- Cora, Dawson and Callan -- in 2023. The central...

<p>Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP Somebody save him ... from himself.</p><p>Country music star Jelly Roll has decided a good portion of his audience can take a hike.</p><p>The “Son of a Sinner” singer, whose real name is Jason Bradley DeFord, stunned audiences when he guest-hosted on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" this week and delivered some particularly sharp criticisms of President Trump.</p>

At a House hearing. Marco Rubio makes Representative Kamlager-Dove look like a fool. https://x.com/SowersJen/status/2062295779998306616

Progressive leader, Ian Bassin, tells how the left is running wargames against Republicans before the election. The enemy of the left is always Republicans and ordinary Americans. ======================================================================================== They may be stone-cold crazy and communist sympathizers but they sure are organized. Far left leader Ian Bassin told viewers this week on “The Court of History” how the Democrats are role-playing wargames before the midterm elections so they can take over Congress. The wargames involves progressive heroes Marc Elias and Norm Eisen, two of the most ruthless, Trump-hating worms on the planet. Attorney Jeff Clark tweeted out this video of former...

Jerry Sandusky is due to return to court next month as one of his accusers is expected to recant his testimony against the former Penn State assistant football coach who was convicted of sexually abusing boys for more than a decade, according to an affidavit. A judge scheduled an evidentiary hearing for Sept. 8 in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Sandusky, who is now 82, has been serving a decades-long prison sentence after he was convicted in 2012 of abusing boys. An accuser known as Victim 10, who testified for the prosecution at Sandusky's trial, is now prepared to tell the court Sandusky...

Incredible to watch! This complete timelapse captures more than eight hours of complex manoeuvring as Starship 40 is recovered at Christmas Island. Watch the heavy-lift ship FORTE ballast down into the water and rise again, while the Normand Ranger, barges and smaller support boats work together to carefully bring the rocket safely aboard for its journey back to the United States. A quick note to my regular subscribers: Don’t worry—this isn’t becoming a space channel! Wildlife photography & photography tutorials will remain my focus here. But when a recovered Starship appears practically in my backyard, it’s far too extraordinary not...

Young adults between 18 and 21, who are legally barred from most gambling in the US, have traded an estimated $5.4 billion so far this year on the Kalshi prediction market, according to a new CNN analysis. On prediction sites, which have exploded in popularity this year, users can wager on everything from sports to elections, culture and the weather. Because prediction sites are federally regulated as financial markets, they’re available to anyone 18 and over, unlike most state-regulated casinos and sportsbooks, which are 21+. But lawmakers, consumer advocates and addiction experts increasingly see this as a loophole that could...

Troy Jackson, has not yet agreed to appear at the debates, which would all be hosted by local news outlets. “We believe any debates should be town hall debates — with Mainers in the room asking the questions that matter to their families,” Jackson spokesman Dan Gottlieb said.

And by “suicidal” I mean that. Had Harris won, the country would be in complete and total freefall. Economic. National security. You name it. As you’ve come to expect, I’ve got all the receipts. Let’s revisit the “Biden” (i.e., Obama and his apparatchiks) Hall of Shame. 1. Halting the border wall and reviving catch-and-release. On Day One, wall construction was stopped, parts of it sold off pennies on the dollar, and billions in Congressionally-appropriated funds rerouted. Simultaenously, the Border Patrol was ordered to let people walk right into the country instead of detaining them. Every smuggler and criminal in the...

Founded by Alexander Hamilton as the first industrial city in America, Paterson, N.J., is now home to America’s largest Palestinian community and largest proportion of Muslim residents. Today, New Jersey’s third-largest city is effectively run by its 30,000 Muslims, some of whom say they don’t need to learn English because it’s like living “back home” in an Arab city. [snip] In June 2023, Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh signed a sister city agreement with the mayor of Ramallah, a city in the West Bank and the seat of power of the Palestinian Authority, which officially celebrates the killing of Israelis. And...

Air traffic controllers in Washington and the pilots of President Trump's helicopter met to discuss communication issues one week before a jet was allowed to take off just as Marine One left the White House, federal investigators said Thursday. Controllers reported not receiving the standard three-minute warning call ahead of Marine One flights and both sides agreed to an alternative in those instances — but that plan to relay the radio call through someone else was also unsuccessful on the day of the Aug. 4 incident near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, the National Transportation Safety Board's preliminary report shows....