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Aviation experts are raising serious national security concerns about ensuring that the U.S. government properly vets risks from companies that provide air traffic control (ATC) technologies to China, pointing out that the U.S. could be vulnerable to cyberattacks if such companies are permitted to design or operate American ATC systems like the new common automation platform (CAP). The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced last November that it was seeking proposals to revolutionize how ATC officials receive flight data and move aircraft between facilities with a “single, state-of-the-art platform” referred to as a CAP, as part of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s...

A WEST Belfast priest has hit out at plans to light up Belfast City Hall in support of abortion rights. The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWC) want to illuminate the building in green on September 28 to mark International Safe Abortion Day. At a council committee meeting last week the proposal was endorsed by Green, Alliance, Sinn Féin and SDLP councillors with the DUP voting against. It will go before the next full Council meeting on Tuesday, September 1. Fr Paddy McCafferty from Corpus Christi Parish described the proposal as "grotesque" and "deeply offensive". "This proposed spectacle is grotesque...

Nova Scotia’s only Catholic hospital will lose its religious identity at the end of this month. And with the ditching of its Catholic affiliation, the hospital will begin killing babies in abortions and euthanize patients. The facility was founded by nuns more than a century ago, but St. Martha’s Regional Hospital will become Antigonish Memorial Regional Hospital on October 1 after the Mission Assurance Agreement expires September 30. The Sisters of St. Martha, who founded the hospital in 1906, are withdrawing their name and ending their sponsorship role. Provincial officials say the publicly funded hospital’s services and policies will then...

Jimmy@mahim_aibriefFrance just wiped Google and Microsoft off 2.5 million government computers.Germany moved 30,000 PCs off Windows. Denmark binned Microsoft Office. All of it in the last 18 months.Here's exactly what they replaced it with, and how to do the same tonight:Sep 1, 2026· Jimmy@mahim_aibrief·11h1/ Swap Out GmailGmail's AI reads your emails by default. There's a class action running over precisely that.Swap to: ProtonMail. Free, Swiss, encrypted end to end. No AI reading it, and outside US jurisdiction entirely.Search "Proton Mail" → sign up → start moving anything sensitive over. Jimmy@mahim_aibrief·11h2/ Swap Out Google SearchEvery search builds your ad profile. That...

Update on war in Iran

Pope Leo’s Rimini Meeting: Everyone Is Welcome, Except Traditional Catholics Pope Leo’s Rimini Meeting was presented as a celebration of friendship, dialogue, and the search for truth among peoples. But what happens when Catholics insist that Catholicism is NOT merely one path among many? Let's examine Pope Leo XIV’s Rimini address, false ecumenism, and why Traditional Catholics have no place at the modern Vatican’s “friendship circle”.Leading up to Leo XIV’s August 22, 2026 visit to the Rimini “Meeting of Friendships Among Peoples,” Vatican News provided the background for the event:“The history of the Meeting for Friendship Amongst Peoples, also known...

Explanation: Did you need to be on the right side of this airplane to see this eclipse? No. Lunar eclipses are routinely seen from the half of the Earth facing the Moon when the eclipse occurs, making them some of the most commonly witnessed astronomical events. You don't even need any special equipment to see one -- just your unaided eyes. Lunar eclipses are also some of the most photographed astronomical events because, unlike with a solar eclipse, your eyes and camera do not have to look toward the bright Sun. However, considering the featured image taken last week from...

The incident happened as the suspect was boarding American Airlines flight AA1319 to Camaguey, Cuba, at 11:45 a.m., according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office (MDSO). By Briana Trujillo • Published 4 hours ago • Updated 3 hours ago A man was arrested Monday after "joking" that he had a bomb in his bag while boarding a flight to Cuba at Miami International Airport, authorities said. The incident happened as the suspect, 33-year-old Yoel Guevara-Crespo, was boarding American Airlines flight AA1319 to Camaguey, Cuba, at 11:45 a.m., according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office (MDSO). The arrest report details that when the...

TRANSCRIPT Below: Senator Tim Sheehy, a Republican from Montana and former Navy SEAL, delivered a powerful July 2026 Senate floor speech recounting Iran's 47-year conflict with the US. TRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~Senator John Hoeven of North Dakota - Acting President pro tempore: The Senator from Montana Senator Tim Sheehy: “Thank you, Mr. President.“Yesterday, we saw the President of the United States and many others at Dover Air Force Base presiding over a ceremony that is very sacred to those of us who served, and that is a dignified return of remains from the war zone.“That process happens beginning in the war zone,...

Pop star Olivia Rodrigo and leftist billionaire Melinda French Gates announced that they have raised $20 million in donations to kill more babies in abortions. They money was raised through Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields festival and a big chunk of it goes to the Planned Parenthood abortion business and pro-abortion groups. Rodrigo said Friday that the inaugural all-women festival, held Saturday at Great Park Sports Complex, had generated $10 million from ticket buyers, sponsors and artists who waived their fees. Before her headlining set Saturday night, she brought Gates onstage and said Gates had pledged to match that amount through...

LIVINGSTON COUNTY, Ill. (WKRC) — Two people were arrested after deputies found four children and two dogs riding inside the enclosed cargo area of a U-Haul box truck during a traffic stop in Illinois, authorities said. A Livingston County sheriff's deputy stopped the U-Haul at about 6:05 p.m. Thursday on an Interstate 55 on-ramp in Pontiac, according to the sheriff's office. The driver told deputies the group was moving from Louisiana to Michigan. During a search of the truck, deputies found four children, two adults and two dogs traveling inside the enclosed box portion of the U-Haul, the sheriff's office...

A teachers' union has been given a harsh reality check by Seattle's new superintendent after threatening to delay the start of the academic year with a strike. Ben Shuldiner castigated the Seattle Education Association (SEA)'s threat to walk out unless a 12 percent pay increase was authorized by revealing the huge salaries that public school teachers in the city already earn. The majority take home $142,584 per year, according to a letter Shuldiner sent to parents on Sunday. Seattle Public Schools (SPS) teachers are paid a base salary of $118,000 for 180 days' work, plus an additional $3,298 for five...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Monday, August 31, that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is removing 110 commercial driver’s license training schools from the federal Training Provider Registry and issuing notices of proposed removal to more than 160 additional schools, a combined total of about 270 locations. The removals come as the Trump Administration continues to crack down on illegal aliens operating commercial vehicles on American roads. The 110 schools must immediately stop administering curricula, using training facilities, and conducting behind-the-wheel instruction. Officials said those providers were linked to more than 5,000 drivers later cited for failing English-language proficiency...

Aurora police are investigating after a large group of people rushed into a grocery store and restaurant, then stole items and vandalized property. This happened after hundreds of teens gathered to see social media influencers in a parking lot, according to a worker at a nearby business and social media posts. Police said there were as many as 500 people, from 14 years old to 17 years old, in the parking lot and declared it an unlawful assembly. The Aurora Police Department told FOX31 that officers were called to the area of East 6th Avenue and Peoria Street around 1:30...

U.S. forces unleashed fresh strikes on Iran late Tuesday, hammering targets in the port cities of Bandar Abbas and Sirik and on Qeshm Island. Explosions rocked the three strategic locations before U.S. Central Command confirmed the operation. “Today at 12 p.m. ET, U.S. forces began striking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets in Iran. The strikes follow recent attempted attacks by the IRGC against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members deployed to the region.” Iran has attacked eight commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz since the blockade on ships traveling to or om...

It’s been a four-year battle to allow students without legal status to work at California’s public colleges. The Legislature passed another bill to allow this. Newsom vetoed it last time. What will he do now?

Zelensky warns every airline using Russian airspace, every insurer, everyone using key Russian airports: Russian skies are becoming completely unsafe. Ukraine says it doesn't threaten civilian aviation, but "drones in Russian skies will be such that this must be taken into account." He warns Russian airspace "will de facto be closed — the war Russia started is closing its skies." Ukraine's foreign ministry will brief international bodies. "There are no more safe moments in Russian skies. Civilian aviation has no place among drones."

The House voted Tuesday to pass a short-term funding bill and avert a government shutdown at the end of September, keeping money flowing at current levels until Dec. 11. The legislation, which has already passed the Senate, sailed through the chamber by a vote of 370-48. It now goes to President Donald Trump, who is expected to sign it. That would take the biggest legislative item off the to-do list for Congress ahead of the elections Nov. 3, punting stalled negotiations over a full-year funding deal until after the midterms. The two parties have clashed over the scope of federal...

The left-wing Guardian newspaper documented how “pro-choice militants” conducted terroristic attempts at intimidation from New York and North Carolina to Wisconsin, Texas and Washington state in recent years. “The methods have been extreme,” the report noted; “vandals have thrown Molotov cocktails, committed arson, damaged property and made threats.” Jane’s Revenge issued a statement demanding “anti-choice establishments” shut down in 30 days or face further violence. That was in 2022 — yet the group continued operating, until its website went dark just days ago thanks to President Donald Trump’s crackdown on terrorist infrastructure. Jane’s Revenge and various other radical organizations, including...

Earlier this month, a study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It was called “Patient-Reported Experiences of Abortion Travel.” Researchers interviewed patients who traveled to Illinois for abortions. Illinois Abortion Law In Illinois, abortion is available without any restrictions until viability. After viability, it is legal if any doctor, including the one committing the abortion, states that it’s necessary to protect the pregnant woman’s life or health. Illinois law defines “health” as “all factors that are relevant to the patient’s health and well-being, including, but not limited to, physical, emotional, psychological and familial health and age.”...