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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was shouted at during a Committee hearing this week by a Chicago-area Democrat amid a heated exchange over the Trump economy. At one point in the exchange, Bessent slammed Schneider's Democrat-run Illinois for driving people away through its own economic policies — a comment that incensed the lawmaker. Bessent smiled and asked if that meant Schneider was "in agreement" with President Donald Trump — as the Democrat had listed off all the president’s goals otherwise ridiculed by critics. "Unless an American life is lost, he does not believe that he will have to restart the kinetic...

The Bears took a significant step toward leaving Illinois on Friday. The Bears' board of directors voted Thursday to advance their stadium development in Hammond, Indiana, with the exact site still to be determined. This is this first time that the Bears' board has voted on any stadium site. The Bears' plans to leave the state they've called home since their inception for Indiana come just days after the end of Illinois' spring legislative session. "We believe a world-class stadium project in Hammond will transform the region, connecting Northwest Indiana and the South Side of Chicago through the Loop and...

Consumers are being encouraged to check their freezers for a product that might contain harmful or potentially deadly bacteria. In the latest recall linked to salmonella risks associated with powdered milk, a popular frozen food sold by Costco and Walmart has been pulled from shelves. The Hill provided these details: The most recent recall was shared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday. Select batches of Motor City Pizza Co. 5 Cheese Bread were recalled because the dry milk powder was used in the five-cheese sauce blend. Other recalls linked to the powder impact frozen pizzas, pork rinds,...

The Pope “would be totally opposed to the destruction of a sacred place” to mine gold, a priest told a public inquiry in Northern Ireland. Fermanagh priest Father Joe McVeigh made the claim as the potential cultural and heritage impacts of Dalradian Gold’s planning application were examined, the Detail website reported. The North American company hopes to mine gold, silver and other metals in the Sperrin Mountains designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty for more than 20 years. Over three days this week, the Planning Appeals Commission heard witnesses on a number of topics, including a mass rock site cited...

Mother of the year-- In case you missed it... The mother of Henry Nowak's killer was arrested and charged with assisting an offender and found guilty by a jury. She awaits sentencing for her crime. According to reports, The mother of Henry Nowak’s killer, Vickrum Digwa (also referred to as Vickrum Singh Digwa), hid the murder weapon. Digwa called his parents and they arrived at the scene before police. Kiran Kaur (Digwa’s mother) took the knife from the scene before police arrived and hid it at their family home in nearby St Denys. Police later recovered it. She took the...

Antares Nuclear Inc.’s Mark-0—a sodium heat-pipe-cooled microreactor fueled by high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) tri-structural isotropic (TRISO) fuel compacts—has achieved zero-power criticality at Idaho National Laboratory’s (INL’s) Reactor and Critical Experiment (RACE) facility, becoming the first advanced reactor to reach that milestone under the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Reactor Pilot Program.The development, announced on June 4, also marks the 53rd reactor built at the INL site since 1951 and the first novel reactor design to achieve criticality at the laboratory in more than 50 years, according to INL Laboratory Director John Wagner. The much-watched DOE Reactor Pilot Program, established under President...

We've got another update on the Arkansas man who shot his daughter's alleged rapist and then ran for sheriff. And it's a good update. Charges were dropped, the case dismissed, and Aaron Spencer is that much closer to becoming sheriff of Lonoke County. Special Circuit Court Judge Ralph Wilson Jr. dismissed the case against Aaron Spencer on Thursday afternoon — just a few weeks before his trial on the second-degree murder charge was expected to begin — because a dash camera memory card that may have captured the shooting was lost by law enforcement. Oh man, I can't believe they...

For most of AI’s history, humans drove every step in its development cycle. But at Anthropic, we are delegating a growing share of AI development to AI systems themselves, which is speeding up our work. Taken far enough, and given enough compute, that trend points to an AI system capable of fully autonomously designing and developing its own successor. This is called recursive self-improvement. We are not there yet, and recursive self-improvement is not inevitable. But it could come sooner than most institutions are prepared for. Using public benchmarks and previously unreported data from within Anthropic, The Anthropic Institute is...

UN can't vetify Hamas' Euro-Med / Ms. Goebbels Franceca Akbanese fake "raiLpe" cases against IDF Human Rights Expert: 'Francesca Albanese is the 21st-century Joseph Goebbels'. HR Voices. January 13, 2025. "Professor Anne Bayefsky, the Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and President of the Human Rights Voices human rights organization, spoke to Arutz Sheva - Israel National News about the appeal by United Nations 'experts', including Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, against the bill passed by the US House of Representatives last week imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) over its arrest warrants against...

Glyphosate-based formulations (GBFs), such as Roundup, are the most heavily used herbicides in the world. In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) concluded that glyphosate and GBFs are probably carcinogenic to humans, mainly for non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL)... In 2021, the French Institute of Health and Medical Research... also found that many studies demonstrated genotoxic damage (DNA breaks or structural changes) consistent with the induction of oxidative stress by glyphosate/GBFs, sometimes at exposure levels experienced by human populations... In a recent study of Thai farmers, a high frequency (97.6%) of those spraying GBFs with backpack sprayers had high...

Another media global warming team has been terminated, this time the National Public Radio climate desk. This is what happens when “journalists” keep reporting about a dead horse. Eventually the public realizes the horse has perished and there’s nothing left to talk about. Or that there was no horse to begin with. NPR is the third media outlet to rein it its diehard band of Democratic Party scribes dedicated to exaggerating climate fears, following the Washington Post and CBS News. The former was sawed roughly in half while the latter was, to our grand delight, “gutted.” Unfortunately, taxpayer-funded radio...

Just when you think the Henry Nowak murder couldn’t get any worse, it does. In such a horrific way. By now, most of you know what happened to an 18-year-old university student, who was stabbed by a violent Sikh, pleaded for help, and was ultimately left to bleed out on the street by cops who should’ve helped him. You have to wonder why the police officers involved haven’t been charged. Dr. Dan Keown MCEM Lic. Ac.: Nowak was alive for 64 minutes before the police arrived after being stabbed. He was conscious, talking and sitting up when they arrived. He...

Nearly two decades ago, four graduate students from MIT united around a shared idea. "We believed that programming cells would ultimately be more important than programming computers," says Jason Kelly. It felt like an outlandish bet at the time. Things like gene editing or testing new molecules typically demanded many hours in the laboratory — carefully mixing hundreds of chemical cocktails by hand and pipetting them into petri dishes, tasks that required an enormous amount of human labor. Early potential investors, Kelly recalls, were not excited. "We were living on ramen, buying equipment on eBay, and we could not raise...

Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh·14h🚨 NOW: It's officially been nearly 48 HOURS since California poll close and NEARLY 4 MILLION VOTES (42%) are left to countSTEVE HILTON EXPOSED IT: "A whistleblower told me they had different buckets for ballots after election day, and were TOLD it DOESN'T have to be postmarked on or before election day — if the date was HANDWRITTEN that would be OK as well!" 🤯THIS IS OUTRIGHT FRAUD, and it's been LEGALIZEDShut it down!June 4, 2026

FBI Director Kash Patel repostedFBI Rapid Response@FBI_Response. @FBIDirectorKash “To the American public… We are doing more - we just can't speak about it until we speak through an indictment." 🔥🔥This FBI is working day and night for the American people!TRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~~Paraphrasing reporter's question: Riots, threats against ICE agents, money funneled through NGO's, organized groups (e.g., SIgnal chat groups) - should more be done?Kash Patel: Well I think that the American Public....we are doing more. We just can't speak about it until we speak through an indictment.And as you see here today, these fraud cases sometimes take years, months to put...

America Spent $12.5 Billion Fighting the Emerald Ash Borer. The Woodpeckers Did It For Free In 2002, a beetle from eastern China arrived in a Detroit shipping crate and went on to kill more than 100 million American ash trees. The federal response cost $12.5 billion. It did not stop the beetle. What did stop it was already in the woods. Four native bird species — and one parasitic wasp the size of a sewing needle — quietly built a predation pyramid that no quarantine, no insecticide injection, and no government program had ever designed. This documentary follows the decade...

Far-left politicians want to annihilate property rights. A large share of young voters are buying into it – a red flag that our school systems have become socialist indoctrination factories. On Monday, one of the far left’s agenda setters, Sen. Bernie Sanders, called on the federal government to confiscate half the value of each of the nation’s largest artificial intelligence companies. He’s targeting OpenAI, Anthropic (creator of Claude), and xAI for starters. Making his announcement on Facebook and in a New York Times opinion piece, Sanders said he’ll introduce a bill in Congress to slap these companies with a...

US Department of the Interior@Interior·23hWe’re auramaxxing Washington, D.C. ahead of America’s 250th birthday. @SecretaryBurgum recently ordered the massive Arts of War and Arts of Peace equestrian statues for regilding for the first time since 1971.The restoration is part of @POTUS’s effort to make the Nation’s Capital safe and beautiful. June 4, 2026

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After putting pressure on a Florida HOA to change a new rule, Attorney General James Uthmeier announced on Wednesday night that the group had finally relented, according to a report from our sister station in Orlando, WKMG. Last month, Uthmeier shared a notice that he sent to the HOA, identified as Tradition Community Association, Inc., in Port St. Lucie. In the initial notice, Uthmeier said the HOA had unanimously resolved that “no person shall carry or possess any firearm or other weapon, whether opened or concealed, on any Common Area owned or maintained by the Association.” “This is not New...