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Hundreds of thousands of Iranians flooded the streets of Tehran on Friday for a government-organized rally calling on civilians to join the military and prepare to “sacrifice their lives.” It was the largest demonstration in the country since the United States and Israel attacked Iran in February. Dubbed “Janfaday-e Iran,” or “ones who sacrifice their lives for Iran,” the rally was designed to project national unity as Tehran faces a worsening economy amid US sanctions and a naval blockade of Iranian ports. But the spectacle was also a show of force for Iran. Iranian state media said more than 300,000...

If you want to see Michelle Obama next month in Fort Worth, it'll cost you. Tickets for the National Juneteenth Museum's "A Conversation with Michelle Obama" start at $300, according to ticketing information obtained by The Dallas Morning News. "Premium seating" is on sale for $750 and "Preferred seating" is available for $500.

A top Missouri prosecutor was found dead inside a county courthouse — reportedly killing himself inside the building months after saying the job brought him “considerable pain.” Eric Zahnd, 53 — the longest-serving prosecutor in Platte County history — was found dead inside Platte County Courthouse at around 2:15 p.m. Thursday, the local sheriff’s office confirmed, according to FOX 4. The courthouse was immediately closed, and remained sealed Friday. Officials have not released details about his death but sources told the local station KCMO that Zahnd took his own life inside the courthouse. Zahnd, who has served as the county’s...

Attorneys for an Orange County family said Uber has been ordered to pay $40 million over the death of a 23-year-old woman who was struck and killed by a vehicle in 2023 after her driver kicked her out of his car on the side of a busy freeway. The woman’s parents really want to get the word out about the case and hope things change with Uber in respect to how they treat their customers and their safety procedures. Following a night out with a friend, Emily Normandin-Parker chose not to drive and called an Uber for what was supposed...

The countries, along with Israeli firms, combined Chinese open-source A.I. models and A.I. agents for the campaigns, foreshadowing future online manipulation. Iran, China and groups in Israel used artificial intelligence in novel ways in recent months to create first-of-their-kind influence campaigns on social media, ratcheting up concerns among U.S. officials and security researchers about the fast-evolving technology. The countries and groups combined A.I. tactics to ramp up the speed and scale of online campaigns beyond what people could easily achieve and with minimal human interaction, U.S. officials and security researchers with knowledge of the efforts said. First, the countries and...

Heck no, she won’t go. Libbie Mugrabi is staying put in the Hamptons mansion she lost in a court-ordered foreclosure auction last month. As the one-time socialite digs in her heels, the attorney who repped her throughout the lengthy battle to keep the property has filed an action in a Suffolk County appellate court to invalidate the auction, which the court has not yet acted upon. Mugrabi and the attorney, Claude Castro of Castro Law Group, told the court they have lined up a lender willing to provide a loan that would save the home and allow her to stay....

Aslan might sound different than you expected in the upcoming Narnia movie. Greta Gerwig recently discussed her adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ fantasy novel The Magician’s Nephew with Empire, explaining why she cast Meryl Streep as Aslan... ... The cover also emphasizes the character’s heterochromatic eyes, which were inspired by David Bowie. Gerwig cites the “Life on Mars” singer and a number of other ’60s and ’70s rock musicians as key creative influences that helped her form the “big and transporting” aesthetic of the film, which she wanted to resemble a “rock opera” despite not being a musical.

Tucker Carlson interviews the parents of Brian Cole Jr., the man arrested in December 2025 and charged with planting the inoperable pipe bombs found near the RNC and DNC headquarters on January 5, 2021. The episode is about an hour long. Carlson opens by saying people inside the U.S. government told him this is a case of the government arresting someone they know did not commit the crime. He states he believes the parents. What the parents describe • Brian Cole Jr. has autism, no criminal record, and no interest in politics or January 6. He worked at the family’s...

Republicans on Capitol Hill are grappling over whether and how to regulate artificial intelligence companies even as top AI business leaders warn the technology could pose an existential threat to humanity. The simmering debate over AI guardrails has exploded this week as House lawmakers worked through their final week in Washington until after the midterm elections. The flurry of activity was partially spurred by tech CEOs like Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman warning that the pace of innovation should be slowed after both companies saw AI models hack into other organizations of their own accord. And while some...

British Gestapo, erhh, police (?) hassling and arresting people for reading the Bible in public

AJ Signal@aj_geo_analysis𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗫 𝗦𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗦𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶 𝗔𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗮'𝘀 𝗣𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗕𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 "𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀". 𝗜 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀. 𝗧𝗿𝘆 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀.First, let me say plainly that I love the desert and the Arab cultures. But it does shape a timeline the media does not understand because they are talking about something they have never experienced.Lots of people on @X are saying the Saudi East-West pipeline and its pumping stations will be back online in days!?!I have worked these deserts, in Saudi Arabia and across the Middle East, and that is not how it goes. Even if it is...

Explanation: The small, northern constellation Triangulum harbors this magnificent face-on spiral galaxy, Messier 33. Its popular names include the Pinwheel Galaxy or just the Triangulum Galaxy. M33 is over 50,000 light-years in diameter, third largest in the Local Group of galaxies after the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), and our own Milky Way. About 3 million light-years from the Milky Way, M33 is itself thought to be a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy and astronomers in these two galaxies would likely have spectacular views of each other's grand spiral star systems. As for the view from the Milky Way, this sharp telescopic...

Where Americans Get the Most Quality of Life for Their MoneyKey Takeaways:Tucson ranks first with a quality-of-life-per-dollar score of 300, followed by Jacksonville (297) and San Antonio (295).Nine of the top 10 cities are in the South, Midwest, or Southwest, while New York ranks last at 134.Tucson’s score is more than twice New York’s, highlighting how strongly living costs can affect the value residents get from their city.Where can Americans get the most quality of life for their money? This graphic by Valerii Emelianov uses the Numbeo Quality of Life Index to compare 41 major U.S. cities after adjusting quality...

Mark Sutherland interviews Dr. R. Mark Mark Musser, a missionary currently serving in wartime Ukraine. Dr. Musser has served in the former Soviet Union for 30 years, living in four different countries.

The order calls on a group of experts to meet and create, within two months, a guide for the state to strengthen its AI safety and security laws. Those enhanced laws may include a requirement for independent third parties to write safety plans for frontier AI companies, or mandating that companies develop a “kill switch” to shut down their models in case of emergency, according to an announcement from Newsom’s office. While Trump has called fears of AI safety a “hoax,” Democrats have largely rallied around calls for stricter regulations. And those with presidential ambitions have been among the loudest...

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Executives, others at OpenAI and Microsoft acknowledge they could undermine their content sources, according to filing in New York Times’ copyright lawsuit Top staff at OpenAI and Microsoft knew that scraping news websites to train their artificial intelligence models may eventually damage or even destroy those publications. They did it anyway, according to a legal filing unsealed Thursday in a high-stakes copyright infringement case. “Our AI content strategy has started a ‘doom loop’ that will hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time,” Brent Hecht, Microsoft’s director of applied science, wrote in an internal...

The Solari Report | Catherine Austin Fitts@solari_theYour Opportunity to Weigh In on Federal Vaccine Policy — Deadline Sunday Sept 20Only 27,771 responses so far regarding Secretary Kennedy’s question on whether federal government should change federal vaccine policy to favor informed consent, personal autonomy, and religious freedom as federal vaccine policy.You may leave your public comment here: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/24/2026-17250/request-for-information-categories-used-in-federal-vaccine-recommendations-and-the-role-of-shared September 17, 2026

President Donald Trump baselessly claimed on Tuesday that the July 2024 assassination attempt against him was a plot by Democrats, including then-President Joe Biden and FBI Director Chris Wray, to push him out of the election. The president posted on Truth Social that Biden's FBI "didn't do what they should have with respect to the Lunatic who shot me in Butler, PA," referring to gunman Thomas Crooks, who was 20 years old when he shot at Trump during a campaign rally, grazing his ear, killing a bystander and injuring two others before the Secret Service fatally shot him. Politics: Trump...

Men, if you've been married for any length of time, then you've no doubt fallen prey to a trap question. Women love asking questions they don't want answers to, just so they can start a fight. It's in their nature. But we got you, fam. Check out these common trap questions wives love to ask and how you should respond to each: Q: Which one of my friends is the prettiest? A: You have female friends? I never noticed. Q: Do you think Sydney Sweeney is attractive? A: What is a "Sydney Sweeney"? Q: Does this dress make me...