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Airyn De Niro, the daughter of Robert De Niro, has revealed she is a transgender woman and opened up about her journey. Airyn was born in 1997 during De Niro’s relationship with her mother, Toukie Smith. She also has a twin, Julian De Niro. Despite her father’s status as an A-lister, Airyn has kept herself out of the limelight until recently, when recent tabloid articles accused her of nepotism, which she has denied in a new interview. Speaking to Them, Airyn said: “Not only did they get information wrong about me… They just sort of reminded me that people really...

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen. I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11:44 a.m. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing. This is...

The Kremlin has accused President Trump of attempting to erode Russia and China’s nuclear potential with his plan for an Iron Dome missile defence system. The programme was “yet another confirmation of the US focus on turning space into a scene of armed confrontation and deployment of weapons”, Maria Zakharova, the chief spokeswoman of the Russian foreign ministry, said. Trump issued an executive order on Monday mandating a process to develop an “Iron Dome for America”, a reference to the aerial defence shield used by Israel. Zakharova said that this implied “a sharp intensification of the US national missile defence...

The Indus Valley Script usually features an animal accompanied by a short series of signs. Image credit: Ismoon, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Awriting system developed by one of the world’s earliest urban societies has given linguists nothing but grief since it was first discovered on an unintelligible stone seal in the ancient city of Harappa, in what is now Pakistan, 150 years ago. Hoping to finally crack the code, authorities have now announced a $1 million prize to anyone who manages to decipher the so-called Indus Valley Script (IVS). Also known as the Harappan Script, the IVS was invented...

The U.S. profits while the EU is left to pay the bills under the alleged ‘100 Day’ peace plan. -snip- But suppose for a moment that the war will end, sooner or later, with a similar agreement. Ukraine wins by acquiring EU membership and endless U.S. military support. Russia wins by keeping the occupied territories and preventing further NATO encroachment on its borders. The U.S. wins by continuing to sell more arms than ever both to Ukraine and Europe, while also keeping the latter mostly dependent on American energy supplies. Europe however, is left to finance most of the reconstruction—the...

RINO South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham told NBC’s Kirsten Welker on Sunday morning that he thinks Trump’s pardoning and release of January 6 hostages was a “mistake” while comparing the victims to radical left Black Lives Matter rioters who burned down cities across the United States. President Trump freed over 1,500 political prisoners last Monday. Men and women who’ve been imprisoned by the Biden/Obama shadow government for daring to protest the legitimacy of the 2020 election have lost family members, jobs, businesses, friends, and reputations, all because Democrats needed to push a fake narrative that President Trump committed a crime...

READ MORE: LA's water chief 'knew about empty reservoir and broken hydrants Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley was fired by Mayor Karen Bass on Friday afternoon, a source close to the chief’s office told DailyMail.com. ‘Kristin was summoned by Bass this afternoon, about 4pm. She came back from that meeting, hugged her staff goodbye and left. She said she was fired,’ the source said. The alleged booting follows Crowley lashing out against the Mayor’s cuts to her department, in an interview with a local Fox TV station around 12pm Friday. ‘My message is the fire department needs to...

AI takes an immense amount of resources—from endless water to an estimated $1 trillion worth of investor dollars—but Elon Musk warned the technology has already run out of its primary training resource: human-created data. Engineers and data scientists train AI by essentially reducing the entire internet, all books, and every interesting video published into a token that AI can digest and learn from, Musk told Mark Penn, CEO of marketing company Stagwell, in an interview streamed on X Wednesday. But AI has already consumed that information, and requires even more data to fine-tune itself.

Two US astronauts stranded for months on the International Space Station will remain there at least until late March, NASA said Tuesday as it announced another delay in the mission to bring them home. Veteran astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at the ISS in June aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, and were due to spend eight days on the orbiting laboratory. But problems arose with the Starliner's propulsion system during the flight there, so NASA opted for a big change in plans. After weeks of intensive tests on the Starliner, the space agency decided to return it to Earth...

A controversial AI program used to deny elderly people health coverage is now at the center of questions about the shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO. ……. UnitedHealthcare became the largest denier of insurance plans in 2023, dismissing one in every three claims. It has now emerged that during the years before that, the company implemented AI software that had a 90 percent denial rate. A lawsuit has claimed the software led to the deaths of at least two men who were elderly patients denied post care following a stroke and fall. UnitedHealthcare is said to have launched the nH Predict...

Greg Kelly Calls for Hegseth to Drop Out, Backs DeSantis By Sandy Fitzgerald Pete Hegseth, defense secretary nominee, has "serious baggage" and is not the right pick, while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is the "perfect fit" that President-elect Donald Trump needs, Newsmax's Greg Kelly said. "No one's perfect, but it's a perfect fit," Kelly said Wednesday on his program, "Greg Kelly Reports," about Florida's Republican governor. "Administrating the Pentagon, the biggest federal bureaucracy, and making it lethal again and not woke and all those things. I think it's a perfect fit." Kelly said he did not support DeSantis' run for...

US president-elect Donald Trump on Saturday threatened tariffs of 100 per cent against the so-called Brics countries unless their governments agree not to create a new currency as an alternative to the US dollar. “The idea that the Brics Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar while we stand by and watch is OVER,” Trump wrote in a post to his Truth Social platform on Saturday afternoon.

President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate Scott Bessent, former George Soros money manager, to lead the Treasury Department.

The Middle East shifts in advance of a Trump era. The Biden administration indicated that Qatar bowed to the US request to expel the Hamas from its country, but other US officials contradict that claim, saying that Qatar decided on its own to expel Hamas over frustrations in hostage negotiations with the US, Israel and Hamas. Whatever happened, now Hamas has apparently relocated to Turkey. “Hamas leadership reportedly relocates to Turkey amid Qatar’s ban,” by Sam Halpern, Jerusalem Post, November 17, 2024:Senior members of Hamas’s leadership outside of Gaza have been in Turkey in recent days, Israeli state broadcaster KAN...

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated veteran and author Pete Hegseth as the Secretary of Defense for his second administration. Hegseth, who has spent the past eight years as a host on Fox News' "FOX & Friends Weekend," has been a major advocate for veterans and the military. He also served in the Army National Guard, and served in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Vice President Kamala Harris holds 47% to former President Donald Trump’s 44% among likely voters

VIDEO AT LINK............. Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Environmental authorities in Canada are trying to solve the mystery of unidentified white blobs that have been washing up on Newfoundland beaches. The white masses, which range in size from a coin to a dinner plate, started showing up on area beaches in September, and locals shared photos of the unidentified objects in the Beachcombers of Newfoundland and Labrador Facebook group. Some suggested the blobs could be ambergris or another fluid originating from a whale, but opinions are split. Environment and Climate Change Canada officials said to CBS News the "mystery substance" is...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is not taking calls from Vice President Kamala Harris about storm recovery just over a week after Hurricane Helene hammered parts of his state. A source familiar with the situation said he was dodging the Democratic presidential nominee’s calls because they “seemed political,” according to a DeSantis aide. “Kamala was trying to reach out, and we didn’t answer,” the DeSantis aide told NBC News. DeSantis has been in direct contact with Federal Emergency Management Director Deanne Criswell. At a press conference Monday afternoon, DeSantis denied that he refused to take Harris' call. "I didn't know that...

Biden to meet with the UK's Starmer to discuss ongoing strike bans on Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin this week issued an ominous warning against the U.S. and its NATO allies and said they risk being "at war" with Moscow if Ukraine is allowed to use long-range weapons to hit targets inside Russia. Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelenskyy has been pushing the U.S. and NATO for months to remove any and all restrictions they have on Kyiv’s use of Western-supplied long-range weapons and permit it to hit military targets deep in Russia. But Putin on Thursday drew a red line and...

Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters Thursday that allowing Ukraine to use long-range missiles to strike inside Russia would be seen by Moscow as NATO’s direct entry into the war. “This will mean that NATO countries – the United States and European countries – are at war with Russia. And if this is the case, then, bearing in mind the change in the essence of the conflict, we will make appropriate decisions in response to the threats that will be posed to us,” he said. According to the Russian president, “the Ukrainian army is not capable of using cutting-edge high-precision...