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The midterm elections are six weeks away. Suddenly, a debate has erupted over the existential dangers of artificial intelligence. Jacob Coxon, a little-known Silicon Valley researcher who worked at OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned and went public with a dire warning: AI now threatens the future of the world. * * * Almost on cue, Democrats seized on the alarm as a new cause célèbre, accusing Donald Trump and the MAGA movement of recklessly courting Armageddon. The Left demanded international treaties, ignoring the dismal record of such globalist projects: the League of Nations, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, the Washington Naval Treaty, the...

22 September 2026 Tuesday of week 25 in Ordinary Time St. Emmeram, RegensburgReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First readingProverbs 21:1-6,10-13On wickedness and virtueLike flowing water is the heart of the king in the hand of the Lord, who turns it where he pleases.A man’s conduct may strike him as upright, the Lord, however, weighs the heart.To act virtuously and with justice is more pleasing to the Lord than sacrifice.Haughty eye, proud heart, lamp of the wicked, nothing but sin.The hardworking man is thoughtful, and all is gain; too much haste, and all that comes of it is want.To make...

Have you heard about the possible IDScan data breach? I hadn’t until a stray bit of information appeared in my email: A press release from Canada announcing that the Privacy Commissioner was investigating a data breach at IDScan.net after it appeared that a third party had gained access to the database. At least 153 million American and Canadian driver’s licenses might have been compromised. This announcement was a reminder that, while the pro-China crowd is talking about “AI will destroy the world by 2030,” which has supplanted “climate change will destroy the world by 2030,” data breaches are ongoing and...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (9/23/26)[Prayer]Personalities Psalm 31[a] For the director of music. A psalm of David. 1 In you, Lord, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; deliver me in your righteousness. 2 Turn your ear to me, come quickly to my rescue; be my rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save me. 3 Since you are my rock and my fortress, for the sake of your name lead and guide me. 4 Keep me free from the trap that is set for me, for you are my refuge. 5 Into your hands...

Homeland Security told The Daily Mail that he is an illegal alien from Hong Kong who entered the country legally on a temporary basis on January 13, 2020, and failed to leave by May 15, 2020. “Work authorization or a pending application do NOT confer legal status in the United States,” DHS said. A source told the Daily Mail that Mo is being held at the Nevada Southern Detention Center in Pahrump and is expected to stay in custody through removal proceedings. Under Joe Biden, illegal aliens were free to fly around the country without fear of being picked up...

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Dan Klein, who appeared in an El-Sayed spot in a yarmulke, is a 'community organizer' for Detroit Jews for Justice, while a Rosh Hashanah video featured the Jewish Voice for Peace-tied Shifman familyMichigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed has attempted to address mounting concerns from Jewish voters by rolling out ads and social media videos touting "Jews for Abdul." Featured in the spots are three left-wing "social justice" activists with ties to an anti-Israel group that excused Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack, arguing it was a result of "Israeli apartheid and occupation." A September 8 El-Sayed ad features former Detroit...

At noon on September 22, a small ceremony will take place at the foot of a bronze statue in Manhattan’s City Hall Park. A color guard will stand at attention, a wreath will be laid and most New Yorkers walking by probably will not notice. They should. The statue is of Nathan Hale, one of America’s first spies. Two hundred and fifty years ago, the British hanged him. He was 21 years old. Hale hardly seemed destined for spy work. He was a Yale graduate, class of 1773, and a schoolteacher from Coventry, Connecticut – tall, fair and, by contemporary...

Kara Swisher declared on the Tuesday episode of her Pivot podcast that she was leaving CNN as soon as legally possible following Paramount’s merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN’s parent company, getting a green light as blue states settled their lawsuit trying to block the deal. California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) announced the settlement, which would allow the $111 billion mega-merger to proceed, sparking a bevy of anger on the left. David Ellison, the CEO of Paramount Skydance, and his billionaire father Larry Ellison are seen as allies of President Donald Trump, who supported their takeover of CBS News...

In the final weeks of 2019, a top fundraiser for Sen. Susan Collins walked into a perilous meeting at a Corner Bakery in Washington, D.C. For the first time in her two-decade Senate career, the Republican lawmaker from Maine was in danger of losing her seat. President Donald Trump’s dismal approval ratings were dragging her down in the polls, and she was falling behind her likely 2020 Democratic challenger in fundraising. Scott Reed, head of the Collins super PAC, was on a mission to close that gap. Reed was meeting that day with three executives from a Hawaiian defense contractor,...

War fever is ramping up again across Europe. This has happened several times in the four and a half years since Russia invaded Ukraine, usually coinciding with important national elections — particularly those in Romania, Moldova, Hungary, Poland, and Germany — when certain domestic political parties have been demonized as “pro-Putin” and “security threats” to the rest of Europe. The war drums also get loud whenever increased military budgets are being debated within the governments of the Scandinavian and Baltic states, Finland, Germany, and Poland, as well as the European Commission. The ebb and flow of political battle cries against...

Japan PM Takaichi Tells Press “GET OUT!” During Trump Meeting — Trump’s Instant Response Goes Viral Run Time 4m 40s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piwCabn2dQg Japan PM Takaichi Tells Press “GET OUT!” During Trump Meeting — Trump’s Instant Response Goes Viral Hilarious moment as Japan PM Sanae Takaichi just told the Fake News, GET OUT OF THE ROOM TAKAICHI: “I’d like to cover a lot of agenda items [with Trump]. Why don’t we ask the press to leave the room?” TRUMP: “Well, YOU HEARD HER!” /

Fox Pulled the Plug on Trump. Now the Admin Can Pull the Guests. Try Real America’s Voice (RAV), Newsmax, or OAN ...On Friday, President Trump banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, saying they report “fake news” and “shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES.”... ...Two days later, a Fox News executive shut off the president’s cameras. Not CNN. Not a committee in New York. Bryan Boughton, Fox News Washington bureau chief, chairs the White House television pool. On Sunday, he told subscribers that “effective today, the TV pool will not be covering...

DA Mary Moriarty in Minneapolis and DA Larry Krasner in Philadelphia have Emerging Adult Units. The goal of both pro-crime systems is to treat criminals under 26 years old like children. As the Philly DA’s office puts it, these “young adults aged 18 through 25” will be put through a diversion system that will “resolve lower-level felony” crimes without actual consequences. For these 25-year-old children, “charges may be withdrawn or reduced in order to lessen the social and economic damage that a criminal conviction inflicts.” Never mind the actual victims. In Michigan, the Holmes Youthful Trainee Act allows 25-year-old sex...

For the first time in more than 100 years, the laughing red cow has traded her trademark smile for a somber expression on select packages of The Laughing Cow Creamy Original cheese wedges rolling out nationwide. Bel Brands told Fox News Digital the frown is only temporary and promised the mystery will begin to unravel in the coming days.

...For years, Americans buying insurance through Healthcare.gov paid exchange fees baked into their premiums without ever being told exactly where that money went. The Trump administration says it found out: the Biden administration collected far more in user fees than it ever needed to run the exchange — and sat on the surplus instead of returning it. Nearly one million people across 30 states that use the federal marketplace will now receive $500 checks directly to their homes, covering, in many cases, the entire spike they saw in their premiums... ...Why does it take a change in administration for the...

New images and whistleblower complaints have once again put conditions inside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Miramar under scrutiny, where Democratic lawmakers say they have received reports..

NEW YORK, NY — The 81st General Assembly of the United Nations entered a high-level week of talks this week, with delegates demanding that the world take the organization seriously. For years, the UN had been largely ignored by the world's population, prompting speech after speech from delegates demanding to be recognized, or face the full might of further symbolic resolutions. "We are basically a one-world government, we should be feared," said UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric. "Don't you understand that we hold the fate of the world in our hands in a sort of symbolic sense? We can just declare...

A breakdown of the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry's own fatality list shows young men heavily overrepresented, while women and young children are underrepresented relative to Gaza's population. By Gila Isaacson — Sep. 23, 2026 A demographic breakdown of the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry's own fatality list is circulating widely on social media. It shows that men of fighting age make up a far larger share of the dead than their share of Gaza's population. The chart compares the ministry's list of identified fatalities from October 7, 2023 through May 7, 2026 against U.S. Census Bureau population estimates for Gaza, broken...