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U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst has introduced legislation to audit the Pentagon with years-long intentions to ensure that United States taxpayers are getting the most bang for their buck, according to a copy of the bill first shared with Military.com. The legislation, called the “Reviewing Every Check and Each Invoice Purchasing Troops’ Supplies” Act or the ‘‘RECEIPTS Act,” comes as President Donald Trump has openly called for increasing the current 2026 Fiscal Year defense budget as much as $600 billion, hypothetically totaling $1.5 trillion based on current numbers. Ernst is calling for that defense budget to symbiotically help both warfighters and...

Researchers describe the material as a cephalopod-inspired “smart synthetic skin” made from hydrogel and fabricated using a technique the team calls halftone-encoded 4D printing. Most synthetic materials—even advanced ones—are designed to do just one thing well. A coating might change color, a polymer might bend when heated, or a gel might respond to moisture. The term “4D printing” refers to structures that change after printing. Unlike conventional 3D printing, where a shape is fixed once fabrication ends, 4D-printed materials are engineered to transform in response to external stimuli, such as heat, solvents, or mechanical stress. ... The novel system is...

SPECIAL SERIES: Religious Liberty Around The World. In deteriorating health and 78 years old, Jimmy Lai is not likely to survive the 20-year prison sentence that Hong Kong’s kangaroo court handed him on Jan. 9. The Chinese Communist Party has ensured that the voice of this prominent media mogul and ardent defender of democracy will never be publicly heard from again, on anything. It accomplished this by distorting the territory’s formerly celebrated judicial system and rule of law. Over a thousand democracy defenders have been imprisoned since Hong Kong’s draconian national security law was imposed in 2020 and, as a...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KFOX14/CBS4) — A Las Cruces woman has been arrested after police say she gave birth to a baby girl in a portable toilet at Burn Lake and disposed of the newborn in the holding tank, where the child died. Sonia Cristal Jimenez, 38, is charged with one felony count of intentional child abuse resulting in death, a first-degree felony. About 10:30 p.m. on Feb. 7, staff at Memorial Medical Center notified police that Jimenez arrived at the hospital and appeared to have just delivered a baby, but the baby was not with her. Police learned Jimenez’s boyfriend,...

A flower deliveryman who allegedly threw acid on a woman and then wrote a song about it has been indicted five years later. Terrell Campbell, 29, of Brooklyn, was indicted on Tuesday on first-degree assault charges for allegedly throwing acid on Nafiah Ikram while she was walking up her driveway in Elmont on Long Island in March 2021, leaving her with significant burns. Campbell allegedly used sulfuric acid - a highly corrosive mineral acid found in lead-acid batteries - in the attack. symbol 00:55 02:12 Read More Surveillance video allegedly caught him running up on Ikram, throwing the acid and...

Explanation: Dark, smooth regions that cover the Moon's familiar face are called by Latin names for oceans and seas. That naming convention is historical, though it may seem a little ironic to denizens of the space age who recognize the Moon as a mostly dry and airless world, and the smooth, dark areas as lava-flooded impact basins. For example, this telescopic lunar vista, looks over the expanse of the northwestern Mare Imbrium, or Sea of Rains and into the Sinus Iridum, the Bay of Rainbows. Ringed by the Jura Mountains (montes), the bay is about 250 kilometers across. Seen after...

Terrifying images show a passenger plane flying with an engine shredded and charred by a midair explosion before it managed an emergency landing. Passengers filmed the shocking view of the Arik Air Boeing 737’s left engine destroyed during a cross-country flight in Nigeria from Lagos to Port Harcourt on Wednesday. Some of the horrified 80 passengers could be heard screaming as the plane instead made an emergency landing in neighboring Benin, somehow limping to the ground safely on just one engine.

@BarronTNews_ BREAKING: Americans are FLOODING the phones of GOP Sen. Susan Collins after she REFUSED to support the SAVE America Act following House passage

Sanctuary officials released Mexican illegal charged with rape in the first degree, sodomy in the first degree, purchasing sex with a minor Manuel Cruz-Ramirez presented false passport at Portland International Airport, feds say An illegal alien arrested at an Oregon airport was on the loose despite being charged with horrific sex crimes against a minor in the sanctuary state.On Feb. 3, a Transportation Security Administration officer working a terminal checkpoint at Portland International Airport encountered 38-year-old Manuel Cruz-Ramirez. Cruz-Ramirez presented a Mexican passport bearing a different name. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was alerted when the passport failed to return...

That controversy was ugly enough without a scoring debacle, but we absolutely got one courtesy of a single French judge in the finals. Jézabel Dabois, the judge in question, not only noticeably scored Chock/Bates lower than the rest of the panel, but more critically she vastly overscored F. Beaudry/Cizeron — and has been doing so for over a year.

The head of the UN’s migration agency has admitted in a public interview that the organization’s strategic objective is not to stop migration, but to brand it as a deliberate instrument of development policy.According to Director-General Amy Pope, speaking to UN News:“Our goal is to make sure that we have governments thinking, talking, acting and using migration as a tool for development from the very beginning.”That’s not a policy position. It’s a strategy.It reveals that the bureaucratic engine driving global migration governance — which includes the IOM and its collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) on migrant health initiatives...

@BasedMikeLee 🎉 Added Senator Wicker We’re now at 48 Baby steps to SAVE America

Swiss citizens will head to the polls this summer to vote on whether to limit the country’s population to a maximum of 10 million, with the stated goal of restricting immigration. The proposal was put forward by the far-right Swiss People’s Party, which calls for capping the population at 10 million. Under the proposed law, the Swiss government and parliament would be required to take action if the country’s population, currently 9.1 million, exceeds 9.5 million. Measures would include limiting the entry of immigrants, including asylum seekers and family members of foreign residents. If these steps fail and the population...

The Super Bowl now plays like America’s divorce proceedingsThe country still shares one screen, but not one meaning. One side will dominate the other, or separation will harden into something more permanent.The Seattle Seahawks trampled the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LX, but the postgame chatter barely touched football. Fans and pundits argued about anthems, halftime, commercials, and what the whole spectacle “said” about America.For better or worse, the Super Bowl serves as the premier civic liturgy of the American empire, a night when strangers share the same screens and offices share the same small talk. When that...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — With debate ongoing over the Republican-proposed SAVE Act to shore up U.S. election integrity, Democrat lawmakers countered by proposing their own legislation, the STEAL Act, to ban voter ID in elections. The bill, which has the full title of Shield The Election From Legitimacy Act, would make it illegal for anyone to present valid identification when voting in an election, thereby preventing any safeguards against fraud from being put in place. "This legislation is vital to the survival of our party," said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. "With Republicans seeking to discriminate against people by only allowing...

And hey, if we can pick up the island on the cheap, Secretary of State Marco Rubio might want to don a seersucker suit and start a new gig as the territorial governor and enjoy presiding over a revitalized Havana. It's worth putting out there just to annoy the lefties.

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Former Norwegian Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland has been charged with "gross corruption" over his ties with the US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, police have said. The charge was brought after the Council of Europe lifted Jagland's immunity, which he enjoyed because of his past diplomatic role. He denies criminal liability and is willing to cooperate, his lawyer says. Emails released by the US government are thought to show that Jagland planned solo and family visits to Epstein's homes in Paris, New York and Palm Beach after the billionaire was convicted of a child sex offence. Three of Jagland's properties were...

Why 95% of enterprise AI projects fail to deliver ROI: A data analysis American enterprises spent an estimated $40 billion on artificial intelligence systems in 2024, according to MIT research. Yet the same study found that 95% of companies are seeing zero measurable bottom-line impact from their AI investments. The pattern is remarkably consistent across industries. Companies invest millions in AI infrastructure, train models on internal data, deploy systems to assist sales teams or automate marketing workflows—and then watch as adoption stalls or results disappoint. The technology works in demos but fails in daily operations. MIT's Project NANDA calls it...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - Gov. Tim Walz says he's cautiously optimistic about the Trump administration announcing an end to the ICE surge in Minnesota but is demanding the federal government take accountability for what happened during the surge, including "the incredible and immense costs."