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A facet of the trucking industry little known to the general public has had a big impact on highway safety — and last week a US Supreme Court ruling ensured that it will have to take responsibility for the rigs it helps send out on the road. That means innocent Americans who have been maimed or killed in big-rig crashes caused by negligent truck drivers may finally pursue justice. And freight brokers that chase profits by contracting with unsafe trucking carriers — particularly those that hire unvetted illegal-immigrant drivers — will have to rethink their business practices. The court’s unanimous...

XTEND CEO Aviv Shapira says the future of drones is not really about drones. It is about software.In an interview with Military.com, Shapira described XTEND as a company operating “at the intersection between AI and robotics,” building an operating system that allows humans to direct complex robotic missions remotely without manually flying drones or controlling robots. The company’s core product, XOS, is designed to let operators give mission-level commands while artificial intelligence handles much of the flying, navigation and coordination. XTEND describes XOS as a hardware-agnostic operating system that connects platforms, payloads, autonomy and human operators into one mission environment....

Last week, filmmaker Charles Curran posted a viral AI-generated video that now looks less like satire and more like prophecy. In the video—boosted by Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt—Mayor Karen Bass is transformed into a full Joker—green hair, purple suit, permanent grin—presiding over a burning, chaotic Los Angeles.

When it comes to vaccine policy, the U.S. government is holding up Denmark as a role model...The Scandinavian nation of 6 million gives children far fewer vaccines than the United States has done... The new U.S. schedule follows Denmark’s example. It no longer recommends that all children get vaccinated for half a dozen diseases: hepatitis A and B, rotavirus, meningococcal disease, influenza, and COVID-19. Instead, administering these shots should be “based on shared clinical decision-making” between parents and doctors, HHS says. The move elicited widespread criticism from doctors and public health experts—but it also drew attention to Denmark’s minimalist vaccination...

The posthumously released book had been previously unavailable to adaptPeter Jackson has revealed that he is in talks to adapt further works by The Lord Of The Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien, including The Silmarillion. The Oscar-winner directed the original Lord Of The Rings trilogy between 2001-03, as well as splitting The Hobbit into three movies from 2012-14. These remain the only films to have been directly adapted from Tolkien’s books, with films such as The War of the Rohirrim and TV show Rings Of Power taken from information within the appendices within the books. However, in a discussion with Deadline,...

A deep dive into one of the most beloved pop albums ever.The Beach Boys were probably the last group on earth expected to start a musical revolution. After all, they had built their renown as clean-living all-American kids delivering harmonized hymns that worshipped surfing, girls, and hot rods – the holy trinity of Californian teenagers in the early 60s – over a rocking backbeat that bore a tangible trace of rock and roller Chuck Berry‘s musical DNA. And yet, in May 1966, the Hawthorne-hailing group – consisting of the Wilson brothers Brian, Carl, and Dennis, together with their cousin Mike...

The Hag’s seventh No.1 featured such great players as James Burton and Jim Gordon. Merle Haggard’s reputation as the champion of the working class was further cemented on May 16, 1969. That day, he was at Capitol Records’ studios in Hollywood with an A-list of musicians that comprised the Strangers, recording the great “Workin’ Man Blues.” It went on to become the seventh in an incredible total of 24 country No.1s amassed by “The Hag” in just ten years. Haggard’s tough upbringing, including time in San Quentin for a robbery conviction, and his unshakeable principles as a man of the...

Ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival, two albino buffaloes in Bangladesh that vaguely resemble two key world leaders, have become famous on social media. According to a report by The Independent, a 700kg pink-skinned buffalo, named after Donald Trump due to its striking resemblance to the US president, in particular has been drawing large crowds to a farm in Narayanganj near the capital Dhaka. “When I saw his pictures on Facebook, he looked exactly like Donald Trump," Prothom Alo newspaper quoted a visitor. “His facial structure and even hairstyle match that of Trump." “The buffalo is very calm and polite...

Explanation: Across the center of this spiral galaxy is a bar. And at the center of this bar is smaller spiral. And at the center of that spiral is a supermassive black hole. This all happens in the big, beautiful, barred spiral galaxy cataloged as NGC 1300, a galaxy that lies some 70 million light-years away toward the constellation of the river Eridanus. This Hubble Space Telescope composite view of the gorgeous island universe is one of the most detailed Hubble images ever made of a complete galaxy. NGC 1300 spans over 100,000 light-years and the Hubble image reveals striking...

Nearly half the manmade objects orbiting Earth are chunks of “uncontrollable” space junk — with just three countries fueling the problem and endangering future space travel, a shocking new study found. At least 15,587 of the 33,269 tracked objects circling the planet are discarded debris from space launches — meaning a whopping 47% of the stuff hurtling around the planet is potentially hazardous junk, according to a May report from the engineering supply company Accu. Those objects include at least 2,396 discarded rocket bodies — sometimes hundreds of feet across in length — 12,550 expended launch components which can vary...

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So this bonnet wearing woman rear ends another family in front of her. So when whenever there's an accident, you have to exchange information. That's the law. Yeah, that's the law. But watch what this woman does out here spreading fatigue. You just You know that's an immigrant, right? That's the problem when you just let anybody come here. You got to the immigrants that come here. I don't mind having immigrants come to a country, but they got to be compatible.

Finally, after years of gaslighting, lawfare, and corrupt media cover-ups, a top Trump DOJ official has stepped up and dropped the hammer on the biggest political crime in American history. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures and delivered a NUCLEAR truth bomb that Democrats, the fake news media, and the deep state have been desperately trying to bury for six long years. When Bartiromo pressed him on President Trump’s repeated claims that the 2020 election was rigged, Blanche didn’t mince words. Blanche confirmed that the DOJ is now running multiple criminal investigations into the...

Delivery robots are the wave of the future and growing in popularity in cities like Philadelphia, but one thing our four-wheeled friends have yet to master is how to look both ways before crossing the street. What we know: Video shared by Storyful shows the food delivery robot entering a crosswalk against a stop signal when it's hit by an oncoming truck. The delivery robot briefly stops, flashing heart eyes as the truck completes its right hand turn, before continuing on with a bum wheel. "Oh my god, he hit him! That’s so sad, he can’t move now," said Ashley...

Historically, several different nations lived in Ancient Palestine. The most famous of these are undoubtedly the Israelites, due to their rich history as described in the Bible. However, they are not the only nation that lived in the region in ancient times. Where was Ancient Palestine? Modern-day Palestine does not have the same boundaries as Ancient Palestine. Historically, starting with the Greeks, the term “Palestine” has been applied to the entire region that is now modern-day Israel and the State of Palestine. The ancient use of the word even applied to some of the lands east of the Jordan River...

Prefrontal Collapse, Narcissistic Solipsism, and the Marxist Long March Through the Mind: A Lethal Anatomy of Why the Contemporary Left Is Neurologically and Philosophically Incapable of Receiving Truth In the arena of public discourse, one truth stands brutal and unyielding: attempts to convey empirical reality, logical coherence, or even basic cause-and-effect to the contemporary left collapse not merely into failure, but into a grotesque theater of denial, deflection, and doctrinal rage. This is no accident of miscommunication. It is the predictable outcome of a multi-layered pathology… preconditioning by ideological overlords, neurological compromise in the very architecture of executive function, and...

A St. Paul traffic stop got a lot more dangerous when someone in the back seat pulled a loaded gun. Especially, since the one pulling it was a toddler. The toddler pulled it out of the diaper bag. A St. Paul man is facing gross misdemeanor charges after a toddler allegedly pulled a loaded handgun from a diaper bag during a traffic stop in Saint Paul, according to a criminal complaint filed in Ramsey County District Court.https://t.co/moXEFRY9L6— Limitless Media (@LimitlessNewsMN) May 14, 2026CBS News has the details: Charges say officers pulled the man over on Thomas Avenue near Galtier Street...

Ramtin Arablouei, 43, who has been at NPR since 2015 and co-hosted “Throughline” alongside Rund Abdelfatah, left the broadcaster after a female employee on the show filed a complaint in March. The employee alleged that Arablouei made her uncomfortable during frequent one-on-one meetings by divulging extensive details of his personal life. She also claimed he made inappropriate remarks during team meetings, including a comment describing a producer as “a case for race mixing” that left staff uncomfortable, according to a report from the New York Post. Additionally, the employee accused Arablouei of flirting with guests and a contract worker associated...

'What I’m doing with Comics Unleashed, we don’t talk about politics. We don’t talk about anything that’s topical,' Allen told CNN's Michael Smerconish. 'We don’t do anything that’s racist or sexist or antisemitic or homophobic. Just be funny and don’t offend.'

Has anyone noticed how quiet it is? Nothing from Tom Hanks, Stephen King, Ellen Degenerate, etc. Nothing from Eric Stalwall, Mitch McConnell, AOC, Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Hunter Biden, etc. Does this prove the earth is flat and these people fell off or the rumor is true-they are in GITMO!