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Ninety minutes. That was the length of the United Nations webinar I participated in last week. For ninety minutes, I listened to people discuss how to better expand abortion around the world. Not once did I hear the kind of urgency one might expect when discussing women living in some of the poorest, most medically neglected regions of the world. No serious discussion of the woman hemorrhaging in a village without electricity. No anguished concern for the frightened teenager facing complications miles from the nearest hospital. Instead, I heard about “indicators, implementation strategies, reporting systems, and expanded access.” And how...

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In October 2024, a woman entered the emergency room in North Texas. She was presenting with extreme fatigue, pain, and heavy bleeding. Just two days prior, she had an ultrasound confirming a viable pregnancy with a heartbeat. She was happy to hear about her prenatal child’s health. But in the emergency room, doctors told her that she was going through an inevitable miscarriage. A police investigation revealed that the father of the woman’s child was Justin Anthony Banta. He pleaded with her to get an abortion, which she refused. Afterwards, he invited her to a coffee shop where he offered...

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At first, I thought NSW Liberal Senator Jess Collins was being frivolous when she asked questions in a Senate inquiry about who’s allowed to change a lightbulb on a Defence base in Australia and how much it might cost.Senator Collins is chair of the Management of Defence Estate Assets inquiry, following a Federal Government decision to sell 67 Defence properties because they are too costly to maintain. At the inquiry, Senator Collins suggested that a combat engineer, someone trained in an array of difficult and complicated (and sometimes dangerous) tasks, can’t change a faulty lightbulb on an Australian Defence base...

The U.S. Navy quietly relieved Commander Caitlin Cunningham as commanding officer of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112) on September 27, 2026. Cmdr. Caitlin Cunningham, commanding officer of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112), was relieved of her duties on September 27, 2026, over what Navy officials described as a “loss of confidence.” The Navy never publicly announced the dismissal when it happened. The stunning development was first reported Thursday by USNI News, which confirmed the removal with a Navy spokesperson. Cunningham had been in command for less than a year, having taken over the...

Make no mistake. The Jensen Huang scandal isn't just a story about someone's private life. It's a lever. And it's going to be used for one thing: taking control of AI. I'm not saying the facts are made up. Jensen admitted the affairs, and the investigation should run its course. I'm saying: look at what's being built on top of it. Look at the sequence. Early November, Democrats win both chambers of Congress. Right after, they announce a flood of AI bills. One congresswoman calls for a pause on advanced AI development and a ban on superintelligence, on day one....

Shocking video posted to social media shows a black male beating and kicking a white high school girl on a bus in Youngstown, Ohio, as the driver refused to pull over and intervene. The Boardman Local School District launched an investigation after a black male brutally beat and appeared to choke a white teen girl on a bus transporting students to Mahoning Valley Community School last Friday. The victim, a 10th grade girl, was taken to a hospital with severe injuries. The Gateway Pundit is unable to publish the video but it can be viewed here (warning on disturbing content)....

A crucial test this week could bring SpaceX one step closer to revolutionizing spaceflight — or cast new uncertainty on the company’s boldest ambitions. SpaceX will for the first time attempt to bring every part of its massive Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, back to dry land — intact — during a mission set to launch on Friday between 5:45 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. ET. The aim is to develop a fully reusable launch system, a goal the company has deemed the “holy grail” of rocketry because it would eliminate the need to throw away multimillion-dollar rocket parts...

NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯@japan_nobunaga·14hHe was an American Olympic runner at the 1936 Berlin Games. He finished eighth in the 5,000 meters and shook Hitler's hand.Six years later his Air Force B-24 crashed into the Pacific. For forty-seven days he drifted on a raft with two other men. One died. Sharks circled every night.Then the Japanese Navy picked him up and sent him to a prison camp in Naoetsu, on the Japan Sea coast.For over two years, a camp guard the prisoners called The Bird beat him with a belt buckle, broke his nose, made him hold a wooden beam over his head for...

TheOrdinaryAmerican@TheOrdAmericanTrump Teams Up With Bukele & Topples London’s Empire In HaitiMY VIDEO NOTES BEGIN~~~Trump and Bukele teaming up fighting proxy war against the City of London. Four El Salvadoran technicians kidnapped. Bukele told the gangs send the techs to me or I'll bring in troops. The gangs gave them 4 dead bodies, Bukele said 'that's not them' and moved 2000 troops to Haiti.Someone asked Trump about it, 'That's terrible, How can El Salvador go in there like that. Let the UN handle it..." And Trump said, 'Hey, he's got to do what he's got to do. He's got to protect...

The president called the Nvidia chief on Tuesday, continuing a pattern of supporting him even as the spy scandal was intensifying. President Trump called Jensen Huang on Tuesday, before the Nvidia chief stepped down amid a rapidly unfolding spy scandal, and urged him to keep fighting for his job, according to two people briefed on the conversation.The call was the latest instance of Mr. Trump defending and protecting Mr. Huang, who had become a high-profile ally and an influential adviser on artificial intelligence. The president continued to back him to the end, even after U.S. intelligence agencies had concluded that...

Dozens of Iraqis visit Baghdad’s first Jewish museum each day to view faded school certificates, handwritten ​documents and family photographs… The ‌museum occupies the historic Shamash Jewish School, founded in 1928 on Al-Rashid Street, a prominent thoroughfare in Baghdad. Iraq’s Jewish community opened the museum last month in a rare public celebration of the country’s Jewish heritage. The museum also pays tribute to prominent figures from Iraq's Jewish heritage, including celebrated singer Salima Murad. Born into a ​Jewish family in Baghdad, Murad rose to fame in the 1920s and 1930s as one of Iraq's most acclaimed vocalists, known for performing...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested on Wednesday that Supreme Court justices could become impeachment targets when Democrats take control of Congress in January. AOC is accusing the Court of having “legalized” President Donald Trump’s alleged criminal conduct. The New York Democrat made the remarks during an interview with CNN’s Manu Raju following Democratic victories in last week’s midterm elections. She was also asked whether Democrats would pursue the impeachment of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. “There are so many criminals in this administration, it’s hard to figure out who should be, you know, the order of operations,” she said. “There...

Giving evidence to the inquiry, Sheen Handoo, X's compliance and safety lead, confirmed the clip was "still live" for adult UK users behind a sensitivity warning. She said the video did not breach the platform's policies, despite Rudakubana having watched it shortly before the killings. Rudakubana, 20, is serving a life sentence after murdering six-year-old Bebe King, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar in an attack on a dance class in Southport in July 2024. Eight other children and two adults were seriously injured. Handoo, who joined X in 2020, said: "I would first like to...

@MSFT365Status Microsoft 365 Status We're returning a portion of affected servers to the service, and they remain stable so far. We're also shifting traffic to alternate routes wherever possible and observing limited recovery. In parallel, we've streamlined the process of returning the remaining affected servers to service. As capacity is restored, users may experience a gradual recovery as their clients reconnect. More info under EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin center, as well as status.cloud.microsoft if the admin center is not available to you. 6:04 PM · Nov 12, 2026 · 346.5K Views

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confronted Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick last week over his handling of a Singaporean company at the heart of revelations about Chinese spying on Nvidia, demanding to know why the United States had not already banned sales of advanced A.I. chips to the firm. The exchange, which took place at the White House on Thursday and was described by people briefed on it, highlighted growing tensions inside the Trump administration over A.I. policy in general and the Commerce Department’s posture toward Nvidia in particular. The internal debate has only intensified after Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, acknowledged...

Heavy snow and strong winds could reduce visibility across the Sierra to near zero through Saturday morning. Conditions are expected to ease Saturday afternoon and Sunday before the next round arrives Sunday night. ... The storm heading for the mountains this weekend is now strong enough for winter storm warnings. The National Weather Service has upgraded the winter storm watches to warnings, and they take effect Friday morning. Exposed ridges could see gusts as strong as 90 mph, while the highest terrain could pick up 24 inches of heavy, wet snow. Down in the towns, the official forecast looks far...

weeks before a sex-and-spy scandal engulfed the company and led to Jensen Huang’s ouster as CEO. The trust benefiting the Bay Area congressman’s wife, Ritu Ahuja, sold between $1,001 and $15,000 in Nvidia shares on Sept. 4 and again Oct. 7, according to disclosures tracked by Capitol Trades. SNIP A spokesperson for Khanna, who supports a congressional stock-trading ban and recently declared “DEI is back!” while celebrating Dems’ election wins, told the California Post that the transactions had nothing to do with insider knowledge. “Neither Rep. Khanna nor anyone on his staff received any briefing on Megaspeed, Jensen, or any...