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They had to chuck him out. A self-described “journalist” interrupted and berated Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer as he was touting his proposal to establish a new federal agency called the Anti-Corruption Bureau. Sam Husseini, an activist whose father was a Palestinian Christian, began shouting at Schumer (D-NY) about Israel, accusing him of supporting genocide. “What can be more corrupt than backing genocide?” Husseini screeched. “This is part of the same con with you and Trump trading off with each other, ‘Oh, he’s worse, no he’s worse.'” “You were put on notice in November of 2023 by the Center for...

The US Army has debuted the “Hammer of the Gods” — a cutting-edge new weapon-disrupting system designed to trick precision-guided enemy projectiles into missing their targets. The portable electronic system, which can be deployed covertly from US military vessels, blinds the guidance systems of long-range artillery, guided missiles and cruise missiles, rendering them far less effective. The military has been testing land-based variants for the last two years, but its test earlier this month off the US West Coast marks the first time it’s been demonstrated for maritime use, the Army said. The signal disruptor works by jamming precision weaponry’s...

They aren’t showering Zo with compliments. Steamed tenants in an Alphabet City apartment complex haven’t showered in two months after Legionnaires’ disease-causing bacteria were found in the water system — with many raising a stink over Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s focus uptown and beyond. The residents at Haven Plaza — alongside local lawmakers — held a rally Thursday blasting the confused, plodding response by city health officials and the five-building Avenue C complex’s management. The slow-motion effort not only overlapped with a separate outbreak on the Upper East Side, but also unfolded at the same time as Mamdani’s attention-grabbing call to...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — US Marshals and Virginia State Police are searching for a woman accused of killing two VDOT contractors near Route 288 in Chesterfield County last week. Dennikia Boyce, 37, is wanted on a murder charge in connection with the shooting deaths of Rai'Shon Eugene Delarge, 30, and Philip Avery Wilson, 34, both of Emporia. Police describe Boyce as a Black woman, about 5'6", weighing about 160 pounds. She has black hair and brown eyes. The two men were working as contractors for a company hired by VDOT when they were shot at a VDOT equipment yard along...

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman vowed to undo Gov. Kathy Hochul’s “oppressive” and “reckless” pied-à-terre tax if elected – as it was revealed the Big Apple plans to hire dozens of employees just to process the new fee. Blakeman, who’s currently serving as the elected Nassau County executive, issued a dire warning Thursday saying state Democratic Party policies will drive more New Yorkers out of the city, which already carries a 12.5% local tax burden, the third highest in the country. “This reckless tax will drive even more families, jobs, and investment out of our state, and middle-class New Yorkers...

At first glance, Iran's surprise missile strike on a US base in Jordan earlier this week appeared difficult to explain. The attack effectively ended the fragile pause in direct US-Iran fighting and prompted Washington to resume strikes inside Iran. It was also unusual. If Tehran's priority had been a ceasefire, the strike is difficult to explain. But if Iranian leaders judge that a controlled confrontation could offer greater strategic leverage, the decision becomes more understandable. One possible explanation is that Tehran believes that, despite its risks, a limited war serves its interests better. Today, neither side appears ready for an...

"... How you, notably the younger generations, should accept your own demise as Americans while foreigners steal your wealth. He doubles down on devaluing heritage Americans, calling it tribalism. Listen, and then show this to everyone you know especially the 50 + voters. Keep showing it until they understand what is at stake." ...

People Incorporated, formerly known as IAC, is exploring a possible sale of The Daily Beast as it looks to focus its portfolio around People Inc. and MGM, sources told Axios. Why it matters: The company was looking to sell the outlet several years ago, but instead installed new leadership to try to turn the business around. State of play: Now that the site is profitable, it's taking the venture back to the market. Conversations about a sale are serious but not necessarily immediate, a source said. Catch up quick: Barry Diller, People Incorporated's founder and chair, tapped Ben Sherwood, the...

Iran’s Tasnim news agency, affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, published a video on Monday encouraging supporters to assassinate US first lady Melania Trump. The Persian-language video, which used publicly available information, named several department stores in midtown Manhattan where the president’s wife is known to shop. It mentioned security measures taken ahead of her visits, such as the removal of garbage cans from the street, that indicate she is likely to make a trip there. The clip encouraged “freedom fighters” to use a nerve agent to poison Melania. It named three of the first lady’s personal stylists and...

Strike on Terminal Autonomy plant appears to be first time in the war that Moscow has targeted a US companyA drone factory in Kyiv destroyed by a Russian ballistic missile on Friday was owned by a US corporation registered in Delaware, in what appears to be the first time Moscow has targeted a US company in the conflict.Terminal Autonomy makes precision “deep-strike” drones with guidance systems that are resistant to Russian jamming signals, according to a person familiar with the company.The phrase “terminal autonomy” refers to the final phase of a kamikaze drone’s attack in which AI takes over control...

A pod of killer whales has sunk another yacht off northwestern Spain, reinforcing a bizarre pattern of vessel encounters that has stretched on for more than six years along the Iberian coast. In the incident, reported Friday (July 24), the whales destroyed the rudder of a 46-foot-long Swedish-flagged yacht off Galicia in northwestern Spain, forcing the two people aboard to send a mayday call. A Spanish coastguard vessel towed them to safety... The incident came after several other encounters in the same waters earlier that week, including one in which a pleasure craft called the Idem sank near Estaca de...

George and Amal Clooney have been forced to evacuate their home in south-eastern France as a wildfire burned nearby, his agent confirmed to Associated Press on Thursday. The Clooneys bought their hilltop estate, Domaine du Canadel, in Brignoles in the Var in 2021 and it has since become their primary residence. Last December, the French government awarded the whole family – including the couple’s nine-year-old twins – French citizenship. In a letter to Didier Bremond, the mayor of Brignoles, the actor wrote that while “at this point we have no idea whether our beautiful home makes it through this terrible...

A lawsuit has been filed over a deadly hydrogen truck explosion in San Bernardino County that killed a father of five earlier this year, with the victim’s family alleging the tragedy was preventable. Moises Perez died on Feb. 24 after a truck hauling compressed hydrogen cylinders exploded at a yard in Colton, according to the lawsuit filed by his widow, Ivena Perez. The complaint alleges Perez, a truck driver transporting hydrogen gas, reported a gas leak to dispatch before arriving at the facility. Rather than being instructed to stop, the lawsuit claims workers told him to continue driving the transport...

Flush with cash, Wall Street and Silicon Valley are vying to hire the same tiny pool of genius graduatesThere has never been a better time to be a math nerd.New college graduates and Ph.D.s are now securing million-dollar pay deals from elite trading firms seeking to secure the best and brightest amid fierce competition from artificial-intelligence companies.So-called quant firms, which use sophisticated mathematical models to come up with trades, have for years wooed top young talent with lucrative compensation that big banks struggle to match. Now, the AI boom is pushing those numbers even higher.Just a few years ago, early-career...

A discarded Falcon 9 rocket will collide with the moon at 5,400 miles per hour. A roughly five-ton piece of a SpaceX rocket that sent two lunar landers to the moon is about to join them, but not on purpose. On Aug. 5 at around 2:34 a.m. ET, the upper stage of a discarded Falcon 9 rocket will collide with the moon at 5,400 miles per hour near the crater Einstein on the western lunar limb, according to Bill Gray, who runs Project Pluto and develops software for tracking astronomical objects. Gray was the first to calculate that the object...

The "Shawshank Redemption" star said he turned to the Amazonian psychedelic brew with one goal in mind — to stop being "consumed" by outrage over what he sees as the unraveling of modern society. Robbins said his psychedelic experience was an intense spiritual journey that included what he described as an encounter with his late mother. "What she said was, 'You're injured. You're a warrior, and you're injured and you need to rest, but the fight's not over,'" Robbins recalled. "I was battling my frustration with the dissolution of society, people being angry at each other over ridiculous things, long...

The highflying hedge fund run by Leopold Aschenbrenner is in crisis mode after AI-related bets sank Situational Awareness, the once-highflying AI-focused hedge fund, sold the bulk of its stock portfolio to Ken Griffin’s investment firm Citadel after suffering deep losses, according to people familiar with the matter. It marks a sudden downfall for Situational, led by former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner. It had amassed well over $20 billion in assets under management since its founding just around two years ago, making it one of the fastest-growing firms in years. Aschenbrenner, who is in his mid-20s, was seen by some as...

Explanation: This could be the view from an exoplanet orbiting around a red dwarf star, but it is our own Sun. This image was taken on July 22, 2026, in the Okanagan region in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Wildfire smoke from the Pacific Northwest acted as a solar filter, allowing the photographer to take this photo of the Sun directly. Several sunspots are also visible in this eerie image; just below and right of the center is AR 4493, a fast evolving, giant active solar region and sunspot group. The smoke is made of tiny particles that help...

The Moon is about to get a new crater courtesy of Elon Musk, and astronomers are ready to watch it happen. ============================================================= A topographical map of the Einstein crater on the Moon, near where the rocket stage is expected to hit. Image credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) ===================================================================== VIDEOS AT LINK.............. Astronomers are poised to watch an artificial impact on the Moon, in a collision that is expected to leave a 20-30-meter (66–98-foot) crater on the lunar surface. As well as professional astronomers wishing to study the impact and resulting debris, amateur astronomers may be able...

Thursday’s Morning Joe spent little time on Anthony Fauci’s actual refusal to answer questions at yesterday's Senate committee hearing, and far more time insisting the real COVID villains were Donald Trump and his “spineless minions.” Joe Scarborough opened with a puerile stunt, pretending he hadn't seen the hearing, but was sure the Republicans had finally admitted that the president had lied to the American people about the seriousness of the pandemic.Jonathan Lemire and Mika Brzezinski played along with Scarborough's charade, facetiously informing him that “that’s not quite how yesterday played out,” and accusing Joe of poor show prep. The screencap...