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After a Massachusetts jury deadlocked 11 to 1 in favor of finding Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity, some accounts identifying as conservative began posting calls to repeal the constitutional amendment that gives women the right to vote, arguing that female jurors’ sympathy toward Clancy demonstrated why women shouldn’t have a voice in the electoral process. Republican political strategists have since publicly condemned the rhetoric and warned it risks real damage to the party. What actually happened in the Clancy case that triggered this?Clancy, 36, was on trial for murdering her three young children, ages 5, 3, and 8...

President defends minimal regulation and stresses need to keep lead as tech executives raise alarms about breakneck development WASHINGTON—President Trump and White House AI adviser David Sacks this weekend defended the administration’s strategy of minimal regulation after the heads of the nation’s top artificial-intelligence companies endorsed a coordinated slowdown in the technology’s development. “We can put up guardrails, and we can do this and that, but I think you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up,” Trump told reporters Sunday while traveling in Ireland. “And they’re bringing up things that won’t happen.” The president reiterated his...

President Trump said Friday he would permit Chinese automakers to move manufacturing to the U.S. over the protest of American automakers. “If China wanted to come in and open a plant to build their cars here, I’d be OK with it,” the president told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham on “The Ingraham Angle.” “Japan does it, but they hire our people,” he continued. “The big thing is they hire our people.” The president’s comment comes ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington, D.C., in two weeks. The Chinese leader is expected to bring a large business delegation with him...

TVs were also said to be recording, scanning local area networks, logging data, and recording audio while in standby. In a statement to Tom's Hardware, TV manufacturer LG has strongly denied recent claims that its smart TVs constantly log and upload data, record audio while in standby, while confirming they scan local area networks for other devices, a feature common in smart TVs and media devices. The statement follows an investigation published online by Gamers Nexus, which claims LG is operating "216,000,000" spy TVs. Earlier this week, Gamers Nexus published a video on YouTube claiming that LG smart TVs have...

[Catholic Caucus] Kraków was John Paul II’s diocese. Now a trans activist helps plan its future 'I am changing the Church from inside,' said the trans activist, a formerly married father of one. Pope John Paul II’s Polish diocese is embracing gender ideology, even going so far as to welcome a gender-confused “trans” activist into its synodal process.The Archdiocese of Krakow released its Report of Synodal Work, marking the conclusion of the first stage of the Second Pastoral Synod. Both were influenced by 54-year-old trans activist Maria Minakowska (born Marek Jerzy Minakowski). The document proposes creating pastoral “safe havens” for...

An American diplomat working at the US Embassy in London was detained and back to the US in a secret operation after authorities allegedly found child porn on his devices, according to a report. The unidentified diplomat is alleged to have received the twisted material from his US-based brother, leading to a raid by US Marines on his London apartment late last month, the UK Sun reported. Now, UK officials and authorities are expressing outrage, who say that the US had no legal authority to seize him, according to the the Sun. On Aug. 24, a day before the dawn...

For the second time in recent weeks, Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents found illegal aliens locked inside freight cars as temperatures in the region continue to exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The latest incident involved three illegal aliens locked in a hot freight-train auto hauler with no means of escape. On Monday, agents assigned to the Uvalde Border Patrol Station conducted a search for illegal aliens on rail cars at a freight train siding near Knippa, Texas. The corridor is a major freight route between the U.S.-Mexico border and San Antonio. The arduous task involves daily searches of hundreds of...

While China has been pouring billions into its own AI infrastructure and expansion, it may also be funding an equally expensive influence campaign here in the U.S. to oppose the building of data centers — critical to advancing the technology. *** While China is massively expanding their AI industry growing evidence indicates they are pushing misinformation campaigns in the U.S. with the goal of stopping or delaying the build out of data centers. These centers are massive computing factories with significant energy and water needs that are key to running AI systems like Grok*** The data centers have become a...

The red-green parties are bigger than the Tidö parties in SVT's polling station survey.

Explanation: This sight was worth getting out of bed early. Just over four years ago, Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) rose before dawn to the delight of northern sky enthusiasts awake that early. Up before sunrise on July 8th, the featured photographer was able to capture in dramatic fashion one of the few comets visible to the unaided eye this century, an inner-Solar System intruder that has become known as the Great Comet of 2020. The resulting video detailed Comet NEOWISE from Italy rising over the Adriatic Sea. The featured time-lapse video combines over 240 images taken over 30 minutes. The...

A US citizen and scholar who vanished shortly after traveling to China has been designated as ‘wrongfully detained.’ Min Zin, a Myanmar scholar, was invited to Yunnan by a professor to attend a workshop on economic cooperation. But after landing on June 3, he suddenly disappeared, the Wall Street Journal reported. Min Zin sent his family a text in the afternoon: 'Just landed in Kunming.' They say they have not been in contact with him since he sent the message. On June 5, Sylvia, Min Zin’s wife, was told by the US Consulate in Guangzhou that he had been detained...

Celebrated author and Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn is making headlines after revealing that he was the unnamed passenger who drew the ire of a man who allegedly became so out of control he needed to be duct-taped to an airplane seat. Cahn shared his account of the disturbing incident aboard American Airlines Flight 618, proclaiming that the widely circulated images of a passenger being duct-taped — and media accounts of what unfolded — did not tell the full story. He told CBN News he was returning home after a number of interviews promoting his new book, The Altar of Pergamon,...

Britain now arrests people for speech at industrial scale. At least 62,199 people were arrested for “communications offences” between 2021 and 2025 — roughly 34 a day. Campaign group Big Brother Watch compiled the figures from Freedom of Information replies covering 38 of 45 territorial forces. Seven forces refused or failed to supply full data. If those missing forces tracked the national average, the real total would sit closer to 73,000. One arrest for every 940 people in the country.

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney wants a closer relationship with the European Union and is exploring whether his country could become ​an "associate member" of the bloc, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The EU, which has ‌not been flexible about membership rules in the past, is open to the idea of granting Canada a yet-to-be-created status of associate membership, the newspaper reported, citing unnamed officials both from the EU and Canada. Canada's embassy in Brussels and ​spokespeople at the European Commission did not respond to separate requests for comment. Canada's escalating trade war ​with the United States has...

Last week, the price of diesel in the US hit $5.85 a gallon, beating the record of June 2022. This sharp rise in fuel price threatens everything from food prices to bond yields. The margin between crude oil and the price of diesel has soared to $100 a barrel. The amount of waterborne diesel exports has 47 million fewer barrels of diesel. Firstly, shipping through the straits of Hormuz has been severely curtailed since February. That hasn’t only blocked crude exports, it has also blocked refined products too — and the conflict has knocked out refineries directly. Responding to Hormuz...

The Democratic nominee for Senate in Arkansas, Hallie Shoffner, raised money in the summer of 2020 for a "racial and social justice" bail fund founded by a left-wing activist who was later sentenced to 17 months in prison for her role in a series of firebombing attacks on police cars in Little Rock. Shoffner and the family farming company she ran at the time, SFR Seed, donated flowers to a jewelry store in Little Rock, Bella Vita Jewelry, that in turn sold bouquets to raise money for the Little Rock Freedom Fund. The store's owner posed with Shoffner as she...

William Lawrence, the Democratic nominee for a competitive House seat in Michigan, has called for a "world without borders" and to "redistribute all the land and all the money" to make up for America's "evil deeds." The former Democratic Socialist—who left the party this summer—made the comments less than two years ago. He is now downplaying those and other extremist comments as just "thinking out loud on the internet." Lawrence, a cofounder of the confrontational environmentalist group the Sunrise Movement, which has called for a "climate revolution," embraced the far-left positions on redistribution and open borders in an Oct. 22,...

The ferry, with more than 240 people on board, was traveling from Surabaya in East Java to Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan province, on Borneo Island, officials said. The captain had reported rough seas with waves up to 3 meters (10 feet) before issuing a distress call, saying the ship was listing, said I Putu Sudayana, who heads the Banjarmasin Search and Rescue Office. Authorities later received information indicating the vessel had overturned. The rescue agency in Banjarmasin said it received a report two hours after contact was lost with the Virgo Transport 8 at about 2 a.m. Sunday. A rescue...

A Russian strike has hit a train near the Ukraine-Poland border shortly after former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other top European officials had passed through. No casualties were reported after the Russian strike, which hit the train's engine. Johnson and some of Europe's most senior security advisers, including the UK's Jonathan Powell, had passed along the same line on their way back from a conference in the capital, Kyiv. Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said a Russian drone had struck 800m from Polish border. Russia has in recent months carried out a number of deadly attacks targeting Ukraine's...

Nicotine-pouch salesman and onetime conservative pundit Tucker Carlson has all but endorsed lefty Michigan Senate hopeful Dr. Abdul El-Sayed while defending his controversial comments about 9/11.Carlson, 57, who recently fawned over disgraced Democratic former first son Hunter Biden, last week ripped into El-Sayed’s Republican foe, Mike Rogers, for his track record on national security issues and urged the “good people of Michigan keep this man far away from Washington.” “El-Sayed did not celebrate airplane hijackings or cheerlead Al-Qaeda; he simply said that the U.S. conducting terrorism of its own in response to 9/11 was not exactly an appropriate reaction. He...