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WASHINGTON – Former FBI official Nikki Floris broke down in tears outside a federal courtroom Tuesday during a preliminary hearing on charges that she and another ex-bureau official lied to Congress about burying the Hunter Biden laptop story. Floris was seen weeping in a courthouse hallway during a break in the probable cause hearing in the district court for Washington, DC. She and fellow former FBI official, Bradley Benavides, self-surrendered last week and face up to five years in prison if convicted of lying to the House Judiciary Committee in 2023 about their involvement in discrediting stories about the troubled...

‘The person they picked on was about as vulnerable as they come’ ↗ Dementia patient kidnapped so investors could steal his home, authorities sayDementia patient kidnapped so investors could steal his home, authorities say HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Two real estate investors, plus a realtor and a notary, are all accused in a scheme to defraud a dementia patient out of his Hollywood home. Investigators said the realtor kidnapped the victim and dumped him in Miami Gardens as part of the scam. Leer en español According to a news release from the office of Broward County Property Appraiser Marty Kiar, the...

A campaign staffer for Abdul El-Sayed, the radical leftist running for Senate in Michigan, was recently caught on an undercover camera saying that 'Americans are idiots.' The staffer is apparently angry about the scrutiny El-Sayed is getting over his family's reported ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. To make matters even more ironic, this staffer is supposedly El-Sayed's 'conservative and independent outreach captain.' The Midwesterner reports: U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s staffers have no issue with his ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, an issue he waves off as a genuine concern “because Americans are idiots.” T.J. Wolfgram, Independent and Conservative Outreach...

Gov. Kathy Hochul was ranked the worst state leader in the US for protecting constituents’ freedoms, a scathing new study found. Hochul ranked No. 50 in the Cato Institute’s 2026 “Freedom in the 50 States” list, scoring an “F” and falling behind the governors from Hawaii, California, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The annual study weighed the freedom of various state economic and personal policies — such as fiscal, housing, occupational, education, firearms, speech and medical — and graded each state a percentage out of 100 for how its local laws promoted freedoms for each. This year’s study was the first...

A slew of AI-powered gadgets on the market aims to integrate artificial intelligence into our daily lives like never before. Bee is an affordable pendant priced at $49.99 that can either be clipped to your clothing or worn like a fitness band. This device records everything it hears and learns your routines and preferences to create reminders and notes for you. It even features a mute button for those times you want some privacy. The companion app...allows you to interact with Bee directly and ask it questions. You can also get key takeaways from your day and chronological transcripts of...

A deleted 2013 social media post in which Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., appeared to refer to her father by a different name has resurfaced as federal investigators examine questions surrounding her identity and immigration records. "Happy Father’s Day to my aabo Nur Said, I am forever grateful to Allah for giving me the best father …," Omar wrote in the June 2013 post, which was deleted in 2019. Several records, including a memorial post by the Congressional Black Caucus marking his death in 2020, refer to Omar’s father as "Nur Omar Mohamed." But the now-deleted X post has Omar calling...

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University of Texas head football coach Steve Sarkisian now has access to new artificial intelligence software and insights thanks to an innovative Longhorns initiative. Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte divulged that information in an interview with Karoline Leonard of the Austin American-Statesman this week, noting that Texas' Bevo Lab AI platform is "the new wave." Conte also clarified previous comments he made that suggested Texas used the Bevo Lab insights during last week's 27-24 loss to Florida: According to Leonard, Bevo Lab will be available to coaches, trainers, nutritionists, student-athletes and analysts for every Longhorns sports team. The platform...

Apple’s first foldable iPhone is drawing praise for its sleek engineering and nearly invisible screen crease — but critics say its hefty design, camera compromises and uneven app support make the $1,999 gadget a tough sell for most consumers. On top of that, early reports indicate the pricey device may be prone to crack. The iPhone Duo hits stores Friday after drawing an 8.8 out of 10 from Engadget and 7 out of 10 from both The Verge and WIRED. Engadget called Apple’s long-awaited entry into the foldable market “worth the wait,” while The Verge described it as a “messy,...

That non-sentient inferior imitation of co-creative and God ensouled humanity which terms itself "ChatGPT": Thing, do "it" (not "you") research whether the Hollies' song about "Carousel" preceded, succeeded or was unrelated in influence against the Beatles' "Helter Skelter"?The Hollies' "On a Carousel" and the Beatles' "Helter Skelter"The Hollies' "On a Carousel" preceded the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" by approximately 21 months. However, the evidence favors independent composition rather than direct musical influence.ChronologyCategoryThe HolliesThe BeatlesSongOn a CarouselHelter SkelterComposersGraham Nash, Allan Clarke, Tony HicksPaul McCartney (credited Lennon–McCartney)RecordingJanuary 11 and 13, 1967Principal released recording: September 9, 1968ReleaseFebruary 10, 1967November 22, 1968Musical characterMelodic, harmony-rich psychedelic...

DCA TO SLC FOR DOJ — another day. Another flight in pursuit of justice. Tune in tomorrow for a major indictment.— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) October 21, 2026

Two Marines, one still serving, are taking the Pentagon to federal court after a massive breach exposed the private records of more than three million service members, veterans, and their families. Social Security numbers. Military job details. Birth dates. All of it sitting unencrypted on a vulnerable server for months. The Pentagon fixed the vulnerability nine months after officials found it, and after unauthorized users first got in. The men and women who served this country had every reason to trust their government with that data. That trust deserved better than sensitive files left exposed for most of a year....

It appeared that he was wearing women's clothing during the stream. Otto was found dead in an attic in Breitbrunn am Chiemsee after the house also caught on fire. A neighbor noticed the blaze and tried to put it out before emergency services arrived, but Otto had already died. Stick Run’s official account initially stated it was aware of a Twitch livestream involving its creator and owner, Manuel Otto, “in which he appeared to have taken his own life.” The account said Twitch had removed the stream and video, asked the community not to spread unverified information, and invited anyone...

Police kept access to Flock’s vast surveillance system long after they left the force. Some used it to track the locations of romantic partners.When Andrae Wright left his job as an investigator at the Effingham County Sheriff’s Office in 2021, he handed in his gun and badge. But he kept something powerful: his log-in credentials for Flock, a police tool he used to search a vast network of roadside cameras tracking the locations of passing cars. In the five years after leaving the force, Wright searched the system more than 60 times without being stopped by anyone at the Georgia...

Artificial-intelligence tools helped find one of the most severe online bugs ever. Cyber experts are racing to patch it before hackers use AI to exploit it. First, artificial intelligence heralded the Bugmageddon. Now it is triggering an all-hands-on-deck cyber emergency. The creators of PHP, a technology that powers as much as 70% of the world’s websites, disclosed a critical security issue Wednesday that could be leveraged by hackers to take control of any system running its software. That would allow an attacker to steal information or launch a cyberattack on anyone visiting a hacked website.Security researchers found the vulnerability using...

Edward III did not appear in the 1623 first folio collection of Shakespeare’s plays. Loughnane edited it for the 2016 New Oxford Shakespeare: Complete Works, acknowledging that a couple of scenes had probably been written by him, and the play had also appeared in a 2005 volume. Loughnane also co-authored the Canon and Chronology study in the New Oxford Shakespeare: Authorship Companion, which made the case for Shakespeare’s part-authorship... Rather than attributing particular lines to either author, the study focused on linguistic features and the distribution of certain “marker” words, such as “martial”, which are typically present in Marlowe’s plays...

Somali Rep. Ilhan Omar on Wednesday broke her silence, begging for money in a social media video more than a week after her home was raided by the Department of Homeland Security in an ongoing criminal fraud investigation. Omar’s Washington, DC home was raided early last Monday morning in a criminal fraud investigation that is looking at Omar’s immigration paperwork, which was filled out by her late father when she was a teen. Investigators were seen hauling boxes of evidence out of her home last week. Omar previously released a statement, hours after the pre-dawn raid began, writing on X,...

Jessica Valenti, the abortion industry’s ever-reliable cheerleader, was positively giddy yesterday. On October 14, she breathlessly unveiled a new University of Pittsburgh study on her Abortion, Every Day Substack, claiming that Americans will happily vote for abortion ballot measures even when they contain no limits on how late in pregnancy an abortion may occur. Apparently, we’re supposed to believe that voters have suddenly abandoned their longstanding opposition to late abortions. Not for a minute. The study, “Is the Viability Limit Necessary to Win Back Abortion Rights?: An Empirical Study,” comes from University of Pittsburgh researchers Greer Donley, Dana Loll, and...

A sightseer slipped and fell to her death off a 65-foot waterfall in Indonesia while being filmed by horrified friends. Windy Rahma Putri, 25, was bathing in waters above Robo Waterfall in Harau, a protected nature preserve in West Sumatra, on Thursday afternoon when she was swept away by swift currents and plunged dozens of feet down the steep drop, officials said. Putri’s friends were filming her as she was lying on her back on a rock when she lost her grip — showing her desperately trying in vain to grab onto a friend as she slipped and fell off...

Vinted says it has removed listings of items believed to have been looted from shops during the ongoing riots in France. The second hand re-selling platform said following the weekend's disorder it had "taken immediate action to identify and remove listings linked to looting". Shops across several French cities were broken into and ransacked during the outbreak of riots over the weekend. "The sale of stolen goods, or soliciting them, is strictly prohibited on Vinted, and we have zero tolerance for it," a spokesperson for the company said. Widespread looting was reported across Paris, Marseille and Lille, as well as...