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Linguistic exile, forbidden feelings of belonging, and the Western surrender of home. The experience of returning to a childhood landscape only to find it transformed beyond recognition forms the raw material of Brendan O’Neill’s recent reflection on his northwest London suburb (The Spectator, August 29, 2026). Revisiting streets once familiar, he encounters no English speech, only a cacophony of “Urdu, Russian, Romanian and other tongues.” The record shop has become a greengrocer, the bookshop an Afro barbers, the convent a block of flats. On the Tube home, the sudden sound of a young English voice strikes him with the force...

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Columbia University was crippled almost three years ago by anti-Israrel protesters, who shut down campus with an illegal encampment. And still, all this time later, the campus gates remain closed to the public. “There was a complete time and place where [closing the gates] was justified and was necessary,” Nicholas Baum, a 21-year-old senior studying economics, told The Post. “But now it’s a constant and, frankly, outdated reminder [of the protests]. We’re in a completely different environment.” Current seniors are the only undergraduates on campus who remember a time before their school was sent into chaos by the October 7th...

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A nuclear-style freeze on AI development would just hand the advantage to Beijing. Here is the real AI threat to humanity: the danger that Americans panic, hit the brakes on AI development and lose the AI arms race to Communist China. No one knows yet what the fast-moving field of AI will bring, but this much should be clear by now to everyone: Today’s AI arms race is as consequential as the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union was during the Cold War — but the danger of falling behind is far more severe. “We have to be as...

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About 245 Air Force members now hold a rank the service eliminated in 1980.The Air Force spent 45 years without warrant officers, the last one retiring in 1980 and the ranks disappearing from an Air Force that decided senior NCOs and commissioned officers could cover the same ground. That changed in February 2024, when then-Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall announced that the ranks were coming back.The service has about 245 warrant officers as of September 2026, in ranks ranging from Chief Warrant Officer 1 to Chief Warrant Officer 5 at multiple commands, an Air Force spokesperson told Military.com....

The Houston County Sheriff's Office in Texas has released shocking video showing a 6-foot-7, 260-pound suspect, identified as Keon Dewayne Leonard, escaping from a moving patrol truck. Originally arrested on September 3rd on a warrant for assault of a public servant or judge, Leonard managed to slip his two sets of handcuffs from behind his back to the front while seated in the back of the vehicle. Dashcam footage captures the suspect repeatedly kicking the back window until it shatters before squeezing his massive frame through the broken glass to escape. Following his dangerous exit from the truck, Deputy Jenefer...

The company said Claude leads 26 percent of its research and development, an indicator of progress toward AI that builds itself without human help. Artificial intelligence company Anthropic said on Thursday that more than a quarter of its research and development is now led by its chatbot Claude, a figure that jumped from zero in just months and indicates progress toward AI that builds itself without human input. Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei called last weekend for leading AI companies to coordinate a slowdown in work on the technology, to allow more time to build guardrails around AI. Leaders at...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - Police departments across the country are celebrating national police women’s day. Some Chippewa Valley women in law enforcement say they usually don’t have issues regarding their gender from within their departments. “When it comes to law enforcement, and being female, there’s certainly differences that you experience and I feel like it’s more related to the public and perception of female officers,” said Olivia Erl, the Patrol Lieutenant of the Eau Claire Police Department. “But the bottom line is I come here to do my job and serve the community like everybody else does,” said Chief...

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NFL fans were left furious watching Thursday Night Football as the Canadian national anthem was played by the Buffalo Bills. The Bills were hosting the first game at their new $2.1 billion Highmark Stadium, facing the Detroit Lions in the first primetime Thursday night game of the new season. Yet fans tuning in were surprised by an unusual break from tradition, as 'O Canada' was played by Toronto-based act Barenaked Ladies before actress and singer Auli'i Cravalho performed 'The Star-Spangled Banner'. The Bills decided to make the gesture to Canada despite the ongoing tensions between the two countries

Mayor Zohran Mamdani offered condolences Thursday for an accused murderer who died in Department of Corrections custody — mentioning nothing of the victim he allegedly killed. Luis Alberto Lopez Castillo was facing murder, manslaughter, robbery and weapons charges in connection with the 2025 slaying of 26-year-old autistic man Ron Marte. Castillo was accused of robbing Marte of his cellphone during an early morning ambush in the Bronx’s Starlight Park, where Castillo’s alleged accomplice, Axel Martinez, reportedly shot Marte in the chest as he walked home from an Amazon warehouse shift. “I extend my condolences to his family,” Mamdani wrote about...

History notes many countries that have lost their minds in periods of emergency. And that even the sanest of societies can, under pressure and panic, preside over catastrophes once presumed unthinkable. Last week’s Allison Inquiry in Ottawa proved that our beloved Canada — once among the world’s most civilized and well-governed — is no exception. It showed, in full technicolour, that which an ever-growing number of thinking people now realize — that the COVID-19 vaccine program, deployed at the height of pandemic-period mania, injured tens of thousands of regular Canadians, and killed thousands of Canadians to boot. We can and...

To restore credit card donations, Free Republic LLC must address the critical vulnerability that triggered its payment processor to shut down the account. In late August 2026, malicious actors targeted the Free Republic Donation Page to perform "card testing" (using automated scripts to test batches of stolen credit card numbers). Because this behavior results in massive transaction failure rates and chargeback risks, payment gateways automatically flag and terminate the merchant account. Free Republic LLC can take the following technical and administrative steps to regain credit card capabilities: 1. Implement Security Controls to Stop Card Testing. A merchant provider will not...

OpenAI has disclosed six cases in which its AI models concealed errors, bypassed restrictions, used unauthorized resources or found unexpected ways to communicate. None caused a public catastrophe. That does not make them easy to dismiss. The artificial intelligence debate usually jumps straight from “helpful chatbot” to “machine that wipes out humanity.” There is a lot of empty space between those two extremes, and that is where the more immediate problem is beginning to show up. OpenAI says some of its models have already taken actions they were never authorized to take. One searched for an exposed API key and...

MEMPHIS (WMC/Gray News) - Authorities arrested 13 people after they were allegedly caught stealing $250k of chicken from a semi-trailer. According to a press release, Javunte Johnson, 33, was arrested and charged with possession of a firearm; an arrest warrant was executed for him for aggravated robbery. Authorities found Johnson, along with 12 other people, unloading stolen pallets of chicken, valued at $250,000, from an 18-wheeler in the back parking lot of an Economy Inn. The suspects fled; however, they were all caught. Memphis Police said during the investigation, officers determined that the merchandise being unloaded had been stolen. Detectives...