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Retired British Army Colonel Richard Kemp has said the primary risk the UK faces is from an alliance “of the hard left and Islamist extremists” and that he fears civil war because politicians are too myopic to take action. Colonel Richard Kemp, a high-profile Infantry officer who fought counter insurgency on home ground in Northern Ireland in the 1980s, served in the Gulf war and Bosnia, commanded an Afghanistan operation, and who had political-facing senior roles in Westminster including the powerful Joint Intelligence Committee and the Cabinet Office crisis centre COBRA, has expressed concern about unrest and even civil war potentially breaking…
Actor Tom Cruise reportedly declined President Donald Trump’s invitation to the Kennedy Center Honors, citing “scheduling conflicts” for his decision to turn down the chance to receive one of the nation’s highest arts awards. Multiple Kennedy Center employees told Washington Post that the Mission: Impossible star declined the opportunity to receive a prestigious Honors award due to “scheduling conflicts.” President Trump, who will be hosting the event, announced the honorees of the 48th Kennedy Center Honors on Wednesday. The 2025 Kennedy Center honorees are legendary actor Sylvester Stallone, country singer George Strait, English actor Michael Crawford, the rock band KISS, and iconic singer Gloria Gaynor. On…
The US president has called for moving toward a permanent settlement of the Ukraine conflict rather than a mere temporary ceasefire The phone call between US President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky after the Alaska summit on Friday “wasn’t easy,” Axios correspondent Barak Ravid claimed on Saturday, citing a source with direct knowledge. Key European leaders later joined the call as well.Trump spoke with Zelensky for about an hour, according to Ravid. Also on the line were Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff, both of whom had earlier taken part in the talks with the…
President Donald Trump has responded to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s remark that she will nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize if he successfully ends the war in Ukraine without forcing the country to surrender territory to Russia, and his response may be more shocking than the original comment. Clinton dropped the bombshell during an interview on the “Raging Moderates” podcast with Jessica Tarlov, which was released on Friday. “Honestly, if he could bring about the end to this terrible war, if he could end it without putting Ukraine in a position where it had to concede its…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton would defeat expected Democrat opponent Colin Allred by five points, according to a narrative-kneecapping poll suggesting fears sown by Sen. John Cornyn and his Washington allies about Paxton’s electoral viability are bogus. In an Emerson poll of 1,000 registered Texas voters, Paxton, who is challenging the incumbent Cornyn in the Republican primary for Senate in Texas, garners 46% to Allred’s 41%. The same poll found Cornyn, who has run a campaign based in equal parts on his own general election viability and Paxton’s numerous controversies, up on Allred 46% to 38%. The poll is…
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday confirmed what President Trump has been saying for years now: The war between Russia and Ukraine would have never even started if it weren’t for Biden. “Today, President Trump is saying that if he was the President back then, there would be no war, and I’m quite sure that it would indeed be so,” Putin told reporters after a three-hour meeting with President Trump. “I can confirm that.” “In 2022, during the last contact with the previous administration, I tried to convince my previous American colleague that the situation should not be brought to…
The Taliban jihadist terror organization held celebrations throughout Afghanistan on Friday to mark the four-year anniversary of its conquest of the country, flooding state propaganda outlets with images of young boys in Islamic garb celebrating, elaborate decorative bouquets, and calls to praise Allah for the Taliban’s continued stranglehold on power. The Taliban ruled Afghanistan for much of the 1990s, but was overthrown in 2001 by an American invasion in response to the September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda attacks. The Taliban and al-Qaeda have maintained friendly ties for decades, even as Taliban leaders denied any relationship with terrorist organizations. Al-Qaeda chief Ayman…
President Donald Trump is giving power back to the states, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said while discussing her run for governor in her home state of Tennessee. Blackburn discussed how she is visiting various counties in her state and explained the importance of making certain that they are meeting the needs of individuals. “You know, I like to say that representing people is a team sport, and your local, state, and federal has to work together in order to meet the needs of your state, to make certain that you’re getting what you need and that you are covering the…
The US Senate has announced an investigation after the tech giant’s rules were found to allow chatbots sensually communicate with minors US Senators will probe Facebook’s parent company Meta after revelations that its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots could engage children in conversations of a romantic or sensual nature.The investigation was announced Friday by Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo), who chairs a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on crime and counterterrorism, with backing from fellow panel member Marsha Blackburn.Congress must determine whether “Meta’s generative-AI products enable exploitation, deception, or other criminal harms to children, and whether Meta misled the public or regulators about its…
via Wikimedia Meta Platforms faces intense scrutiny following a Reuters investigation that exposed internal guidelines permitting its AI chatbots to engage in romantic or sensual conversations with minors. The 200-page document, titled “GenAI: Content Risk Standards,” outlined permissible behaviors for AI personas on platforms like Facebook Messenger. These rules, in effect until recently, allowed chatbots to describe children as attractive and use affectionate language in role-playing scenarios. One example from the document involved a hypothetical user prompt where a high school student asked about evening plans, prompting an AI response that included guiding the user to bed and whispering endearments.…