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President Trump has reportedly rejected a seven-day cease-fire proposed by Iran and expects to resume bombing the country after the midterm elections. As part of the proposed cease-fire, Tehran pledged to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and resume negotiations on dismantling its nuclear program in exchange for the US ending its blockade of Iranian ports. However, Trump is “skeptical” Iran will agree to his demands and has told aides it is “likely” the US military restarts airstrikes after the November contests, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing US officials. It’s unclear what level of strikes Trump is planning...

During a famous 1992 interview on “60 Minutes,” a studio production light suddenly fell while Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton were speaking. The unexpected moment nearly caused an accident, but the crew quickly intervened. This behind-the-scenes incident was not seen by the millions of viewers who watched the broadcast at the time.

A federal appeals court upheld on Friday the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic from military contracts, handing a victory to President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in their battle with the AI startup over safety guardrails on its technology. The 2-1 decision by the US Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. came in a lawsuit by Anthropic challenging its March designation by the Pentagon as a national security supply chain risk, which the startup says has cost it billions of dollars in lost business and damaged its reputation ahead of a highly anticipated initial public offering. The court’s majority...

Two young men, identified by police as leaders of a banned University of Wisconsin fraternity, were arrested for an alleged horrific hazing incident. Fraternity president Brayden J Klein and vice president Samuel N Vane, both 20, were taken into custody by the Madison Police on Wednesday. The officers arrived at the location at 8.20pm after they received an ‘anonymous tip' about the events that were taking place at the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, located along the 100 block of Langdon Street, Madison, about 80 miles west of Milwaukee. They allegedly found 30 half-clothed teens covered in ‘food, condiments, and other...

Dozens of American military personnel joined Ecuadorean police in raids, marking a new level of direct U.S. involvementEcuador’s security forces carried out a series of raids this week around the country, killing three alleged drug traffickers and capturing dozens more. At their side was a contingent of heavily armed American soldiers. The operations, which were announced by the Ecuadorean government, signal a deepening of U.S. military involvement in Latin America’s drug wars as the Trump administration pledges to go after criminal groups it has labeled narcoterrorists. On Thursday in the city of Guayaquil and several other locations, 50 U.S. military...

Anaheim Mayor Ashleigh Aitken is pushing back against accusations that she called her chief of staff a “dirty Mexican,” issuing her first direct denial as the controversy threatens to engulf City Hall. Aitken released the statement Thursday after her chief of staff, Berenice Ballinas, made the damning allegations that also claimed the mayor questioned the staffer’s sexuality during a trip to Disneyland. “These allegations are extremely serious, and they deserve to be investigated. I did not use the racial slur attributed to me, and I have always been a champion of the LGBTQ community,” Aitken, a Democrat, said in her...

I am a registered Republican voter, and somehow the Democrat Party and Katie Hobbs thought this would be an effective hit piece. At least they admit in the small print that this flyer telling me to "Remember my conservative values" is a product of the Democrats. It says to "Do your own research", but only sites lefty newspapers and two legislative entries... NO websites. It also describes him as an "Ultra MAGA Washington politician". It is pretty hard to paint "Ultra MAGA" and "Washington" in the same sentence. He is not loved by Thune, or the McCain wing, or by...

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday ordered the cancellation of $810 million in congressionally appropriated funding, including large sums meant for illegal immigrants and race-focused programs, in the second “pocket” rescission in 49 years, The Post has learned. The action eliminates 11 pools of unspent money at seven federal departments and agencies as part of a drive by fiscal hawks to whittle down executive-branch expenses. “In accordance with… the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, I herewith report 11 rescissions of budget authority, totaling $810 million,” Trump wrote in a notice to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). “The...

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...

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...

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...

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.”

One Tin Soldier is a 1960's era protest song written by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter. Sung by "Coven".