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President Donald Trump and other conservatives have accused artificial intelligence chatbots of being politically biased against them — and an executive order he signed that said they must be “neutral, nonpartisan tools” triggered fears from Democrats that AI could start tilting to the right. So, are chatbots politically biased? The Washington Post tested the AI models behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and others using political questions designed by researchers to gauge how chatbots respond to hot-button political issues. The results suggest that chatbots have clear political leanings that can conflict with promises made by the companies behind them. The model...

The video would have those who take pride in their lawns clutching their pearls. A doorbell camera caught an Amazon contractor doing much more than delivering a package. The driver was shown driving their car over a customer’s well-manicured front lawn in Corydon, Indiana early Sunday. The video shows a woman driver, who appears to be pregnant, driving her car right up to the front steps and placing the package there. She gets back into her vehicle, driving back over the lawn, causing more damage. Amazon released a statement regarding the matter saying they hold their delivery partners to “high...

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The British are coming … to apologize. With the World Cup taking over towns all across the nation, travelers from the UK are getting a taste of the Red, White and Blue. And tons are offering up apologies along the way. Many Brits have acknowledged on social media that their assumptions about the US were wrong. In a string of TikTok’s from across the pond, Brits are earnestly sharing their experience in the US and revealing the media in their country “paint this weird narrative” about Uncle Sam. “America is nothing like what the media tells us,” said World Cup...

Here is some footage of Fête de la Musique In Paris 1998 compared with footage from the June 21, 2026 festival. The difference is scary. It's an invasion. 0:27 VIDEO AT LINK................

President Trump predicted that New York will “only get worse” after two socialist candidates backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani won Democratic congressional primaries in the Big Apple Tuesday night. “Many Communists running in badly failing Blue States,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “The votes seem to have them doing quite well against each other. The bad news is that history has conclusively shown that the downtrodden States that they will soon be running will ONLY GET WORSE.” In a separate post early Wednesday, Trump vowed: “America the Beautiful will NEVER be a Communist Country!!!” Trump spoke out after state Assemblywoman...

You feel it, most days in Santa Cruz, some more than others, a kind of vibe, a kind of magic in the air, like that feeling just as the fog is burning off and the chill salt air comes alive with an extra tingling energy in the fresh late-morning sunlight. If you take THAT feeling, that giddy energy suffused with possibility, and try to find the living human embodiment, the avatar if you will of Santa Cruz creative energy at its potent and playful best, that avatar has a name, and it’s Wallace Baine. Talk about energy. The man spent...

https://x.com/DeepLeaksHQ/status/2069584322101674068Deep Leaks@DeepLeaksHQNow that the MSM admit the CIA had bases in Ukraine since 2014, let’s revisit this infamous phone call.Two weeks after Trump was elected in 2016, then VP Biden called then Ukrainian President Poroshenko, nervous about Trump finding out where the money was going in Ukraine.Biden says he did not want Trump to get “sophisticated enough” to understand what was going on in Ukraine, implying that the US funding was not going towards the stated purpose.What was going on in Ukraine that Biden and Obama were so desperate to prevent Trump from figuring out?You decide for yourself, but if...

In the first Maternity Clinic of the Vienna General Hospital, one in eight women died after giving birth. They called it childbed fever, marked by days of fever and severe pain, and explained it as miasma, bad air, or God’s will. They called it anything except what it was. Ignaz Semmelweis noticed that doctors who moved between patients and performed autopsies — and walked straight from the corpses to the delivery room — without washing their hands. He introduced mandatory handwashing with chlorinated lime. The death rate collapsed immediately. The medical establishment dismissed him and attacked his methods, his tone,...

NEW YORK (AP) — A study on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness has finally been published after being blocked from a government health journal.The vaccine was found to be about 55% effective against COVID-19-associated hospitalizations, and reduced COVID-19-related trips to emergency departments and urgent care clinics by 50%, according to the study published Tuesday by JAMA Network Open. The findings are not particularly surprising: Researchers have repeatedly found that COVID-19 vaccines work. But the paper drew public attention after Trump administration political appointees decided not to run it in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publication.They argued that the study’s design...

Ugly, but all too real. The Mamdani machine continues delivering in New York City with new ‘Squad’ members who make Omar seem moderate including one who celebrated Oct 7 and called for ‘Death to America’ getting the nod. That makes them all but inevitable members of the next House at the expense of Latino and Jewish mainstream Democrats. That includes Brad Lander, Mamdani’s pet ‘Jewish’ weasel, who was caught reciting Islamic scripture in a mosque that called for the killing of infidels. That includes Dariazila Avila Chevalier, a Muslim convert who co-founded an organization that tweeted ‘Death to America’. It...

WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday defended a plan demanded by President Donald Trump to require states ‌to provide lists of voters who received mailed ballots. U.S. Postmaster General David Steiner ‌said at a U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing that, under the proposal, USPS would not ​deliver ballots in states where officials refuse to comply. "The proposed rule basically coerces states to conform to these new requirements and hand over their absentee voter rolls, or face the consequences of not being able to vote by mail," said Senator...

The language is being studied through bilingual inscriptions unearthed during excavations. Research led by Feriştah Alanyalı, together with linguists Michaela Zinko and Alfredo Rizza, has expanded the known Sidetic alphabet from 26 to 31 letters...According to Alanyalı, the discovery of both bilingual inscriptions and longer texts containing between 30 and 40 lines has provided fresh opportunities for linguistic analysis.Researchers increasingly agree that the words "Siruawn" and "Siruawan," which appear in Sidetic inscriptions, refer to Side itself...Alanyalı said Sidetic belonged to the Luwian branch of Anatolian languages, alongside languages such as Lycian and Carian...Alanyalı also pointed to archaeological evidence indicating close...

Chicago, Chicago, that toddling town: Or it was some time ago when Frank Sinatra sang about it. Now it’s in the throes of something called a “Transfemicide State of Emergency,” according to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, with no time for a little toddling around the dance floor. Posting to his X account, Johnson announced in all apparent seriousness: “Since declaring a Transfemicide State of Emergency, our administration has strengthened the City’s capacity to support LGBTQ+ Chicagoans.” The city, he continued, is “centering the voices and lived experiences of trans Chicagoans to chart a path toward a safer, more connected city.”...

The oval-set stone, deep blue in colour, was framed by exquisite filigree: thin gold wires twisted and soldered into spirals, accented with tiny granulated beads.Although the blue "stone" is likely coloured glass rather than sapphire, such materials were prized for their symbolic power -- believed to cool inner heat, preserve chastity, and confer divine protection.With its rich decoration and small size, experts believe the ring once belonged to a woman of high status.The discovery was made during extensive excavations in the Norwegian city of Tønsberg, specifically in Prestegaten and its surrounding streets, where archaeologists from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural...

France has confirmed its first case of Ebola - a doctor who had returned from a humanitarian mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The doctor was "immediately admitted to a specialised facility" and is in a stable condition, the French health ministry said on Wednesday. DR Congo announced an Ebola outbreak last month, but experts believe the virus had been circulating for weeks previously. More than 260 people are confirmed to have died from the virus in the central African country, while 1,000 people have been infected. This is the first Ebola case to have been confirmed in Europe,...

People are allowed to poison themselves with junk food AND you have to pay for it! At least that's the latest from our federal courts. A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from allowing five states to ban the purchase of sugary drinks and candy with food stamps. The decision is a major setback for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" movement, known as MAHA, which is focused on minimizing the consumption of ultraprocessed foods to reduce the prevalence of chronic diseases such as obesity and diabetes. Sorry, taxpayers must continue...

Elect this man to lead something. LISTEN: Jacob Rockwell was fined for running a red light in Pensacola, Florida. Only thing is Jacob wasn’t in Florida, he was in Alabama. He sounded off at a local city meeting recently and his concerns go beyond just one citation. pic.twitter.com/kXSlzaLCLI— The Facts Dude 🤙🏽 (@Thefactsdude) June 22, 2026That's Pensacola resident Jacob Rockwell. He was out of town in March and someone else was borrowing his vehicle. Rockwell doesn't dispute that this other individual ran the red light. His problem is the seemingly-insane bureaucratic process to try and prove that he wasn't the...

California’s political machine has left Republicans with a simple challenge: convince voters that change is worth crossing the aisle for. A very successful businessman—and a major contributor to Democratic Party candidates and causes—once explained to me why he talked, acted, and thought like a Republican but never considered supporting any Republican candidate, ever. “We’ve already got the Republicans,” he told me. This is the transactional essence behind corporate support for Democrats in California, the one-party state. Republicans have no political power, and whenever the Democrats in the state legislature are surprisingly split on a matter of concern to business interests,...

A 3-month randomized clinical trial (RCT) assessed the effectiveness of four dietary interventions compared to a calorie-restricted Mediterranean diet in promoting weight loss in adults with obesity. The study enrolled 160 adults aged 18–65 with a BMI of 30–45 kg/m², excluding individuals with diabetes or other major comorbidities. Participants were randomly assigned to one of five diet groups, each designed to create a daily energy deficit of 600 kcal:Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) – control group following a traditional meal plan and schedule.Ketogenic diet (KD) – very low in carbohydrates and high in fat, without time restrictions.Early time-restricted eating (eTRE) – meals...