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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 05: Aimee Lou Wood attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating “Superfine: … More Tailoring Black Style” at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/FilmMagic)FilmMagic The Met Gala 2025 was on Monday night in New York City. Here’s a look at more attendees, including Rihanna, Zoe Saldaña, Janelle Monáe, Aimee Lou Wood and Jenna Ortega. The annual event raises funds for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The Met Gala 2025 celebrated the Costume Institute’s new spring exhibition Superfine: Tailoring Black Style. The…

In an unprecedented use of AI in the courtroom, the family of a man killed in a road rage incident in Chandler, Arizona, used AI to create a victim impact statement delivered in the deceased’s own voice and likeness. The AI video told the man’s killer, “In another life, we probably could have been friends.” ABC15 reports that Christopher Pelkey, a 37-year-old Army veteran, was tragically killed in a road rage confrontation near Gilbert and Germann roads in Chandler, Arizona, in 2021. During the sentencing hearing for Pelkey’s killer, Gabriel Paul Horcasitas, the victim’s family made history by using AI to create…

North Carolina state Sen. Steve Jarvis (R) has filed legislation to allow armed employees and volunteers on private school campuses for classroom defense. WLTX quoted Jarvis saying, “Private schools deserve the Right to keep their students & staff Safe! Support S280 to empower schools with the tools they need to protect their communities.” Under the terms of the legislation, S280 and its House companion bill, those volunteering to be armed “would need a concealed carry permit and eight hours of training every year.” NC Newsline noted that one provision of S280 “allows for firearms to be carried by attendees of worship…

By Maxim Suchkov, Director of the MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IIS)There is plenty to say about the chaos unfolding in Washington these days, but the sudden military escalation between India and Pakistan shifts our attention elsewhere – and provides some useful lessons.Since the start of Russia’s military operation against Ukraine, India’s official stance has generally aligned with Moscow’s interests. Yet it has consistently stressed the importance of peace.While many in India’s political and media elite – especially the pro-Western crowd – have criticized Russia, their views have been shaped by alignment with the West, not by deeper national principles.India’s official line, however, has always been…

Credit: C-SPAN 3 screenshot Democrats have become such humorless scolds that they not only cannot take a joke, let alone recognize one, even when it is staring right at them. One Democrat congressman made an idiot of himself today during an important House hearing. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was invited to testify today before the House Financial Services Committee regarding the state of the international finance system. The hearing comes as Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer are set to meet with a high-level Chinese delegation this weekend in Geneva, Switzerland, in the first…

Topline Amazon-owned robotaxi company Zoox announced Tuesday it issued a software recall for 270 of its vehicles following an accident involving one of its units last month, in what was the latest rocky incident for the fledgling robotaxi industry. Zoox announced the recall Tuesday. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg© 2024 Bloomberg Finance LP Key Facts Zoox said in a statement the recall was voluntary and that it completed the software update as part of the recall after an unoccupied Zoox robotaxi collided with a passenger vehicle in Las Vegas last month, resulting in no injuries and minor damage to both vehicles.…

Suddenly, the term “bear market” is back in the news. getty The S&P 500 bottomed out around -25% in October of 2022. Since then, the U.S. has enjoyed a relative recovery and numerous all-time highs. That is, until the fallout from the April 2025 tariffs and subsequent trade wars triggered “… the worst week for the stock market since 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic led to global shutdowns and other disruption.” Suddenly, the term “bear market” is back in the news. What Is A Bear Market? A bear market typically describes a scenario when stocks, on average, drop at least…

Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram platform used automated algorithms that suggested children for groomers and predators to follow on the app, according to a 2019 internal company document presented by the FTC during the ongoing Meta antitrust trial. Bloomberg reports that the FTC revealed troubling evidence in its ongoing antitrust case against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta regarding what the government claims are Instagram’s lack of safety measures for protecting children from online predators and abusers. During court proceedings on Tuesday, the FTC presented a June 2019 internal company report titled “Inappropriate Interactions with Children on Instagram” which detailed how the social media app’s…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio responded to reports that India had conducted missile strikes on Pakistan, weeks after a terrorist attack was carried out in Kashmir. Rubio explained he is “monitoring the situation” between the two countries closely and expressed hope that the situation “ends quickly.” “I am monitoring the situation between India and Pakistan closely,” Rubio wrote in a wrote in a post on X. “I echo @POTUS’s comments earlier today that this hopefully ends quickly and will continue to engage both Indian and Pakistani leadership towards a peaceful resolution.” Rubio’s comments come as India’s government confirmed that early…

Five suburban Republican lawmakers in Democrat states are holding their ground, demanding that the Trump “big, beautiful” bill raise the state and local tax deduction. Reps. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), Nick LaLota (R-NY), Mike Lawler (R-NY), Young Kim (R-CA), and Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) represent higher-income districts near major metropolitan areas, which often have higher property taxes. The lawmakers want to raise the federal deduction for state and local taxes, also known as the SALT deduction, which could serve as a boon for their constituents. Republicans lowered the SALT deduction to offset some of the cost of the SALT deduction in the…