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The auto industry is inching toward a future where your car doesn't just assist you—it actively evaluates whether you should be driving at all. As early as 2027, all new vehicles sold in the United States could be required to include advanced driver-monitoring systems that track eye movements, behavioral patterns, and overall attentiveness in real time. This push is part of a broader safety effort to reduce drunk and drowsy driving. To comply, automakers would need to integrate real-time driver-analysis systems built around cameras and sensors that monitor eye position, head movement, and driver focus throughout a trip. The real...

Happy 17th of June, marking independence from Denmark in 1944!

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Cook Political Report has the race as leaning Democrat, an improvement for Ossoff from when Cook rated it a "toss up." Collins brings several potential strengths to a general election matchup. One is support from Trump. The endorsement is likely to energize the Republican base. Ossoff enters the race with a formidable financial position. He has built a large campaign war chest and outraised his Republican rivals, giving him a significant resource edge heading into the general election. Once a reliably Republican state, Georgia has become one of the country's most competitive battlegrounds. For Ossoff, success may depend on maintaining...

To understand Masaad Boulos, it helps first to understand what he is not. He is not Tom Barrack — the private equity executive and longtime Trump associate whose enthusiasm for personal relationships with Arab Gulf leaders eventually produced a federal indictment for acting as an unregistered foreign agent. And he is most certainly not Senator Lindsey Graham, whose periodic eruptions about Lebanon’s army commander carry the diplomatic precision of a foghorn: loud enough to be heard everywhere, useful precisely nowhere. Boulos is none of these things. He is something considerably rarer in Washington’s ecosystem — a man who understands that...

New details have come to light about the alleged terror plot that was intended to target the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House on Sunday, including the identity of the ringleader, a foreign national named Abraham Alvarez of Omaha, Nebraska. The Department of Justice announced in a press release on Sunday, "According to the charges, Tycen C. Proper, 19, of Danville, Ohio; Bryan Omar Roa, 24, of Calimesa, California; Michael Alan Thomas, 32, of Pinon Hills, California; Daniel K. Eskridge, 32, of Kidder, Missouri; and Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, 31, of Omaha, Nebraska, conspired to plan and execute a...

"Watch Candace Owens over the course of NINE MONTHS go from claiming Charlie Kirk was shot from BELOW, to then BEHIND, to then being 100% CERTAIN he was shot from the FRONT. NOW she's suggesting he may have actually been killed by an explosive microphone - which she dismissed back in Sept. Honestly, who knows what it'll be next month? There is no better IQ test than who takes Candace Owens seriously."

I have not yet read the full trial transcript. But so far, I do know this. Karmelo Anthony was entitled to a jury of his peers. He did not get that. On that ground alone, he is entitled to a new trial. Minorities are not interchangeable. The prosecutor’s reported proffered reasons for striking all black jurors —that they were teachers—appears to be pretext. Anthony needs a new lawyer on appeal and in a new trial. His trial lawyer allowed in opinion evidence that should have been struck. He also seemed unable to appreciate and counter the impact of racial overtones...

A young woman who trusted the medical establishment with her future now bears the scars of its ideological zealotry. Claire Abernathy, subjected to a double mastectomy as a teenager, has written an unflinching open letter to the surgeon who performed it, declaring that he stole her girlhood and left her to live with the consequences. Her damning indictment of a medical industry that rushed vulnerable children into irreversible procedures under the banner of “care” reveals the need for sanity. Abernathy’s story begins in confusion and trauma. At just 14 years old, she was placed on testosterone after a fleeting consultation....

Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade ripped the Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran during a Wednesday morning interview with the Hudson Institute’s Rebeccah Heinrichs. “Rebeccah, can we just start on the Israeli portion of it? Israel has to, I guess, stop fighting back against Hezbollah, who’s lobbing missiles at the northern part of their country,” began Kilmeade. “This makes absolutely no sense.” “It makes no sense. And we also know, Brian, that there have been diplomatic attempts over and over and over again since the early 2000s to try to get Hezbollah to disarm. They will not disarm,...

Luigi Mangione will assert a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a judge said Wednesday. Judge Gregory Carro said Mangione's lawyers have informed him they will attempt to show that he was suffering from “extreme emotional disturbance at the time of the occurrence.”

Prosecutors say the boxer wrote a bad check from a Wells Fargo account for an Audemars Piguet watch.

The Florida couple at the center of an IVF mix-up have vowed to remain their baby girl’s “permanent” parents after hammering out an agreement with her biological parents. Tiffany Score and Steven Mills have confirmed the identities of the genetic parents of their 6-month-old daughter, Shea, and have “come to a mutually devised custody agreement” with them, according to court papers filed in Orange County court Friday.

With Scottish football fans in Boston, bars are saying their beer is getting drunken faster than on St. Patrick’s Day or a sports championship — the Dubliner had its biggest week ever! But first, fans of Iraq and Norway were partying ahead of Tuesday’s game, and what travel on the MBTA trains to Boston Stadium was like.

As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking. . . personal creativity is required only rarely." —Leon Krier on architecture. Behold, The Cooper Union main academic building (41 Cooper Square, New York City) designed by Thom Mayne of Morphosis, a frequent Eyesore of the Month winner. Cooper Union, was founded in 1859 by industrialist Peter Cooper as a tuition-free college emphasizing art, architecture, and engineering, basically, a polytechicnic. The new building, completed in 2009 at a cost of about $175-million, nearly bankrupted the school — its endowment tanked in that year’s Great...

The Hungarian parliament approved a constitutional amendment this week that is set to prevent former leader Viktor Orbán from standing again for prime minister.Recently elected Hungarian PM Péter Magyar appears to have cemented his grip on power in Budapest this week, with the National Assembly voting 135 to 50 in favour of imposing an eight-year term limit for prime ministers, 24.hu reported.Critics have noted that there is only one man alive to whom this would apply, former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, and have therefore accused Magyar of seeking to ban his political opponents.

La Reconquista remains a fringe movement, but its activists dream of reclaiming the American Southwest through demographics, politics, and cultural power. A comprehensive analysis. La Reconquista is a fringe irredentist ideology promoted by some Chicano and Mexican American activists. It calls for the cultural, demographic, or political “reclamation” of the U.S. Southwest, which Mexico lost after the Mexican-American War. Proponents view these lands as “stolen” and often invoke the mythical Aztec homeland of Aztlán, advocating non-violent means such as mass immigration, high birth rates, and cultural dominance to achieve de facto control or even separatism. Emerging from the 1960s Chicano...

Residents of an Encino neighborhood said a home reportedly being used to create adult content has brought chaos and disruptive activity to their quiet street. Neighbors described the home as a hotspot for raging parties and constant visitors. Authorities have also been reportedly called to the home before. “We’ve seen scantily clad women, almost half-naked,” a neighbor told KTLA’s Chris Wolfe. “People smoking marijuana in front of our home. We’ve seen disruptions. There have been parties.” ... Some neighbors accused the homeowner of creating unsavory content at the home... Other neighbors complained about the home allegedly operating as a full-blown...

Voters in Alameda County were back at the polls Tuesday — just two weeks after the primary election — to decide who will replace disgraced ex-congressman Eric Swalwell, whose career imploded after disturbing allegations of rape and sexual assault derailed his candidacy for California governor. Despite months of controversy surrounding the Democrat, voters in deep-blue East Bay aren’t breaking their habit. With 80% of ballots counted as of 8:32 p.m., Democrat Aisha Wahab led the field with 42.6% of the vote, short of the 50% needed to avoid a runoff under California’s top-two system. Trailing the frontrunner, Melissa Hernandez held...

A woman has been fined after fabricating a series of social media posts claiming she encountered ghosts while taking a boat tour in Trang An, one of northern Vietnam’s most popular tourist destinations. On June 9, police in Ninh Binh Province announced an administrative fine of VND7.5 million (USD289) against L.Q.A., a resident of Hanoi, for providing and sharing false and fabricated information that caused public concern and confusion. Authorities said the case stemmed from 37 social media posts that circulated widely online, recounting alleged supernatural and paranormal experiences during a boat trip in Trang An. The posts, published through...