(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Although the Elon Musk-fronted Department of Government Efficiency has faded into the background, President Donald Trump’s efforts to ensure fiscal responsibility and exacting standards from federal government workers remain in full force---right down to the manual labor.
The former Manhattan real-estate mogul reverted back to his...
(Headline USA) Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York says he will not run for reelection next year, according to an interview published Monday night by The New York Times.
Nadler told the Times that watching then-President Joe Biden's truncated reelection campaign last year "really said something about the necessity for...
(José Niño, Headline USA) The U.S. military wants artificial intelligence to do what human propagandists cannot: create and spread influence campaigns at internet speed while systematically suppressing opposition voices abroad, according to internal Pentagon documents obtained by The Intercept.
The classified wishlist reveals SOCOM's ambition to deploy "agentic AI or...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Could the now-deleted LinkedIn profile of James Westman, the father of Minnesota mass murderer Robert “Robin” Westman, hold the key to understanding what pushed him over the edge?
Online sleuths, supported by the X-based artificial intelligence platform Grok, have confirmed that the elder Westbrook spent nearly...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Outrage simmered over on social media Friday as a viral video showed a grown man at the U.S. Open tennis tournament snatching a cap from a young autograph-seeker.
https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1961476692511498279
Polish tennis star Kamil Majchrzak let the world know that he was hoping to identify the boy in...
(Carleen Johnson, The Center Square) An X post from former Vice President Kamala Harris on this Labor Day has generated hundreds of mostly critical comments.
“When unions are strong, our communities and our country are strong. Every person in our nation has benefited from the labor movement. This Labor Day,...
(Elyse Apel, The Center Square) President Donald Trump said he will be signing an executive order ending mail-in voting and requiring voter ID.
“Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS,” Trump posted on Truth Social Saturday night. “I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Hackers have leaked apparent emails from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, many of them containing communications with deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Barak’s association with Epstein has been known for years. The emails between them were posted on a site called Distributed Denial of Secrets—described...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US Army announced on Friday that it will be deploying the controversial Typhon missile system to Japan for drills in September, a move strongly condemned by Russia and China.
The Typhon, also known as Mid-Range Capability, is a land-based missile launcher that can fire nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles,...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) An Israeli official told The Associated Press on Saturday that Israel is planning to halt or slow the meager aid supplies that are entering Gaza City and other parts of northern Gaza as Israel is expanding its military offensive amid a famine in the area.
The UN-backed Integrated...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Journalist Michael Shellenberger revealed in a blog post and accompanying X thread on Friday that Germany was violating the NATO charter by blocking a rigth-wing political candidate over his love of Lord of the Rings.
https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1961468857627152463
Joachim Paul, a mayoral candidate in Ludwigshafen, was told he could...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) The patriotic whistleblower who received nine years for trying to expose voting-machine vulnerabilities in Colorado may soon be vindicated.
Sheriff Dar Leaf, of Barry County in southwest Michigan, posted an April 2021 email correspondence between Jessi Romero, of Colorado’s Secretary of State's office, and two staffers...