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The Senate Judiciary Committee announced Friday that former Special Counsel Jack Smith will testify in front of the panel next week about his Arctic Frost investigation. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley has led the Senate's investigation into Smith and his alleged efforts to prosecute President Donald Trump and his allies, which included the revelation that Smith subpoenaed phone records of multiple GOP lawmakers during the Arctic Frost investigation. Smith will now testify in front of the panel on Tuesday, Sept. 29. "Jack Smith must answer for what he did to hundreds of Republican groups and individuals," Grassley said in a...

France will send troops and defense systems to Saudi Arabia to help protect the Red Sea port city of Yanbu, which is key for energy transport, French President Emmanuel Macron has said in a TV interview. He also denied a report by Spanish newspaper El Mundo that the US Central Intelligence Agency had warned European governments of possible Russian drone attacks from the Mediterranean.

Why Iran’s Path to Freedom Is Closer Than the West Thinks For decades, the ruling apparatus in Tehran has relied on two foundational lies to maintain its grip on power: first, that the Iranian opposition is fragmented and planless; second, that no viable structure exists inside the country to manage a transition. Today, as the Islamic Republic enters its most precarious era of institutional decay, both myths are crumbling. The national uprising sweeping Iran is not a series of isolated, emotional outbursts. It is the culmination of a decade-long trajectory of political evolution – from the peaceful gatherings at Cyrus...

Pretend for a moment that you are starting your freshman year at Harvard University. You are excited about the college experience and ready to tackle the demanding coursework. You have decided on a major: Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, while also fulfilling a portion of your elective credits with a minor in Ethnicity, Migration, Rights. You have already reviewed the general education requirements and chosen your courses for the fall semester. Now, you take another look at your selected courses with nervous anticipation. An expository writing course. Typical. A foreign language course. Also typical. The Border: Race, Politics, and...

Billy Corben@BillyCorbenIt’s not every day you get to call an accused serial sex pest mayor an “accused serial sex pest” to his face…While an alarming number of law enforcement officers nationwide are getting suspended, fired and/or arrested for abusing Flock cameras to stalk their exes, Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner and Police Chief Wayne Jones are fighting Florida’s new ban on Flock cams and license plate readers (LPRs).No wonder: Meiner left his job at the SEC while reportedly under investigation for being a creeper and allegedly sexually harassing three female co-workers, and Chief Jones was once arrested for battery and...

I think this might blow your mind, so I’m taking a quick break from covering politics to bring you something quite out of the ordinary… I’ve covered Genesis 6:4 here on WLT Report many times before and Nephilim who are mentioned in that verse. We’ve gone really deep on it and I will reprint some of that further down below. But the new thing I want to talk about today is that one of the biggest hits of the 1990s was the Goo Goo Dolls song “Iris”, I’m sure you’ve heard it before. Probably many times. But what you may...

A nor’easter is intensifying Friday as it barrels up the East Coast, expected to bring wild winds and potentially dangerous flooding to New York City and the tri-state area this weekend. Residents in New Jersey and Long Island should expect “widespread” power outages, Fox Weather warns — though the entire NYC metro region stands a chance of losing power from wind gusts as strong as 70 mph. The cyclone will also likely bring hazardous coastal flooding, according to the latest forecasts.

Remember not too long ago, when you couldn’t generate an image with AI adding 3 extra fingers to the mix? We’ve come a long way, baby… but still, AI gets blamed for a lot these days… It’s coming for your job, it’s making creepy deepfake videos, kids are cheating on their homework, and most of your social media feed looks like it was uploaded by a robot on a meth bender. Fair enough, we get it. But every once in a while, a story comes along that reminds you why this technology could also turn out to be one of...

With so much hype about the future of AI safety, it can be easy to overlook the harms AI is causing in the here and now. On the consumer side, the impact generative AI has on the developing mind is becoming increasingly clear: students are losing critical thinking skills as chatbots become cognitive crutches, spurning human friends in favor of AI companions, and even turning to self-harm when their AI-relationships go awry. Few tech executives have acknowledged these urgent harms. Instead they’re choosing to push a narrative around the hypothetical threat of a runaway “superintelligence” which humans can no longer...

New Jersey Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell — Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s handpicked No. 2 she once lauded as a “voice for the voiceless” — has resigned under the weight of a growing sexual harassment scandal that led to his boss calling for his ouster. The first-term governor said Caldwell submitted his resignation Friday afternoon, a day after she publicly called on him to step down after an investigation substantiated claims of sexual harassment and “serious repeated violations of state policy, including ethical lapses.” Caldwell, the former president of Centenary University, was accused of making sexual comments to an aide and using...

A clip of former Vice President and failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris trying to explain social media algorithms and AI has exploded online after she sat down with radio host Big Boy and launched into a rambling analogy about yellow flowers, pink flowers, and how platforms supposedly “dumb people down.” It's wild that her handlers allow her to do interview like this because she never, ever comes across as someone who knows what the heck she's talking about. The woman once billed as the Biden White House’s AI point person (SERIOUSLY!) now has critics pointing out that her latest attempt...

ransomnote: click images for full size viewPatrick Byrne@PatrickByrne·6hInteresting.@ErinBanco from Reuters possesses previously-published emails confirming our election equipment comes through China and Serbian engineers remotes in to it on November 3, 2020.So let’s see if she finds a way to omit this.Patrick Colbeck@pjcolbeckHi Clay, I had a nice conversation with Erin last night. Among other information, I had the opportunity to share a snippet of the supporting evidence that we have in support of China, Serbia and Venezuelan connections with election operations in the US.In the wake of these revelations, I am hopeful that she will correct some of the assertions...

An 18-year-old American kid is dead. Another freshman teammate is in the hospital. And the man charged with the killing should never have been here. Federal law enforcement sources tell Fox News congressional correspondent Bill Melugin that the suspect in last weekend’s fatal stabbing of a UMass Dartmouth football player is a Nigerian national who overstayed a B-2 visitor visa, was shielded from deportation by the Biden administration in 2022, and was reportedly shielded again when the Trump administration approved another deferred-action request in October 2025. Chukwunonso Uzoma David Uzoma Eze, 19, a UMass Dartmouth student, is charged with murder...

The moles want gold! Two nitwit nightcrawlers — including a particularly portly “mole person” — were busted Thursday for diving into a Manhattan manhole in a subterranean quest for precious metals, police and law-enforcement sources said. Cops nabbed Kevin Rodriguez, 26, and Samuel Reveron, 25 – both Venezuelan citizens – near their Queens homes in connection to a surreal pre-dawn Wednesday sewer escapade just steps from the Loews Regency New York on the Upper East Side. The strange shenanigans could end up shedding light on the motivations of mysterious “mole people” spotted popping out of sewers — as Reveron admitted...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- The NFL fined San Francisco 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk $14,926 on Thursday for "engaging in offensive demonstrations." According to the league, Juszczyk violated Rule 12, Section 3, Article 1, when he did an "imitation of chugging a beer" with just under eight minutes left in the third quarter of the Niners' win against the Miami Dolphins. Juszczyk immediately pushed back against the fine on social media before holding a brief, three-minute media session at his locker following practice Thursday. Before that began, Juszczyk took the time to place a jug labeled in big letters "Not Beer"...

Explanation: Globular star cluster Omega Centauri packs about 10 million stars much older than the Sun into a volume some 150 light-years in diameter. Also known as NGC 5139, at a distance of 15,000 light-years it's the largest and brightest of 200 or so known globular clusters that roam the halo of our Milky Way galaxy. Though most star clusters consist of stars with the same age and composition, the enigmatic Omega Cen exhibits the presence of different stellar populations with a spread of ages and chemical abundances. In fact, Omega Cen may be the remnant core of a small...

President Donald Trump wants to let states use a federal database that includes voters’ personal information to check for noncitizens on voter rolls. The Trump administration can use a wide-ranging government database that includes Social Security information to help state officials identify noncitizens on their voter lists, the Supreme Court said on Friday. The emergency ruling means the database will be accessible ahead of November’s midterm elections for states that want to use it. But the fight over the procedure’s legality will continue in the lower courts. In an unsigned opinion, the majority said the claims made by the voters...

As Minnesota’s Department of Human Services struggles to contain a sweeping fraud crisis involving taxpayer-funded programs, one of the state’s top Medicaid officials has another undertaking on his calendar: helping raise campaign cash for Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan. Dr. Nathan Chomilo serves as medical director for Minnesota’s Medicaid and MinnesotaCare programs, which are now under intense state and federal oversight amid a multibillion-dollar fraud crisis that has unfolded during the Walz-Flanagan administration. But on Oct. 1, the money on Chomilo’s agenda won’t be Medicaid dollars. It will be campaign cash for Flanagan. Chomilo is listed as one of six hosts...

A military chorus entertained President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping with a medley from “Les Misérables” during Thursday night’s White House state dinner — despite one of the selections being restricted in China for encouraging dissent. As Trump and the Chinese “president for life” dined with assorted oligarchs, a military band marched into the East Room playing “Do You Hear the People Sing?”, in which discontented Parisians anticipate an attempt to overthrow their repressive government. China censored online distribution of the tune after pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong adopted it as an anthem during anti-Beijing protests in 2019. QQ...

With just over three weeks left before early voting, Democratic U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico on Thursday challenged his GOP opponent Ken Paxton to a debate moderated by Fox News’ Bret Baier. “Texans deserve to make an informed choice in this really critical race, so I’m challenging Ken Paxton to a game on his own turf,” Talarico said during an interview at The Texas Tribune Festival. “He’s been running from accountability his whole life. It’s time to stop running.”