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The United States on Wednesday announced a $3 million partnership with the government of Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino to undo environmental damage from tons of garbage left behind by hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants that transited through the dangerous Darién Gap jungle trail in recent years. In an official statement, the the U.S. Embassy in Panama detailed that the $3 million partnership will work directly with officials from the Panamanian Environment Ministry and local communities to remove the piles of garbage left by migrants who passed through the jungle, encouraged to reach the U.S. through its southern border…

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump lauded Vice President JD Vance’s leadership of the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud during Wednesday’s White House cabinet meeting. The president brought up the Vance-led task force during his opening remarks at the meeting and likened Vance to Elliot Ness, who, along with The Untouchables, took on Al Capone’s bootlegging syndicate during Prohibition. “Under the leadership of Vice President JD Vance, very proud of this, the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud is waging war on waste, fraud, theft, and abuse like nobody’s ever seen before. He looks like Elliot Ness,” Trump said. “I’m telling you, the…

Jill Biden has said she thought Joe Biden was “having a stroke” during the 2024 debate with Donald Trump Former US First Lady Jill Biden has said she thought her husband was having a stroke during his disastrous 2024 debate with Donald Trump. The remarks have revived scrutiny of Joe Biden’s decline and the efforts by his inner circle to defend his fitness for office.Speaking to CBS on Wednesday, Jill Biden said she was “frightened” as the then-81-year-old president stumbled through the televised debate in June 2024, appearing to lose his train of thought and struggling to respond coherently.“I’d never…

A Google engineer made more than $1 million using inside information to place Polymarket bets based on what users were for searching on Google. Michele Spagnuolo, a Google information security engineer, had access to company data that tracked user searches according to a federal criminal complaint that was unsealed on Wednesday. The complaint said that Spagnuolo “misappropriated confidential and valuable nonpublic information from his employer and used that information to place a series of Google-related bets on Polymarket, a prediction market platform.” “Unlike the counterparties to his trades, Spagnuolo knew the outcome of these wagers before the trading public did because…

The director-general of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, lamented in remarks on Wednesday that violent attacks on health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have made contact tracing “nearly impossible,” significantly damaging attempts to contain the Ebola outbreak there. “Stopping this Ebola transmission depends entirely on humanitarian access,” Tedros wrote in a message published on social media. “Yet ongoing clashes are driving mass displacement, pushing exposed contacts into overcrowded camps and severing critical containment corridors.” “Frontline workers are risking everything, while attacks on health facilities make tracking cases and their contacts nearly impossible,” he added.…

Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) Chairman Greg Casar (D-TX) called on his fellow lawmakers to levy a tax on companies that execute “AI-driven layoffs,” arguing that the tax revenue should fund a jobs program similar to the one that President Franklin D. Roosevelt spearheaded during the Great Depression. Citing AI entrepreneur and researcher Dario Amodei’s prediction that U.S. unemployment levels will rise to Great Depression levels within the next five years and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’s opinion that humans will not be needed “for most things” in 10 years, Casar wrote in the American Prospect that “most people involved in artificial…

President Donald Trump shared that he was invited to attend a New York Knicks game at Madison Square Garden, as the Knicks compete in the NBA Finals. During a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Trump was asked if he was “going to the Knicks game next week.” Trump explained that he had been “invited by numerous people,” including James Dolan, the owner of the New York Knicks. “I was invited to,” Trump said. “I was going to go on Wednesday, but they closed it out very quickly. Jim Dolan’s a great guy — he’s, as you know, owns and in charge of…

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) accused Iran on Thursday of an “egregious ceasefire violation” for firing a ballistic missile at Kuwait and launching “five one-way attack drones that posed a clear threat in and near the Strait of Hormuz.” CENTCOM said the ballistic missile was “successfully intercepted by Kuwaiti forces,” while the drones were all “successfully intercepted by U.S. forces.” In addition, American forces “prevented a sixth drone launch from an Iranian ground control site in Bandar Abbas.” “U.S. Central Command and regional partners remain vigilant and measured as we continue to defend our forces and interests from unjustified Iranian aggression,”…

A New Jersey Democrat running in the race for a seat in the state’s 12th Congressional District volunteered with a Chicago-based nonprofit with alleged ties to Al-Qaeda, according to multiple reports. Adam Hamawy, who is running to replace Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), volunteered in 1994 with a nonprofit called the Benevolence International Foundation, which was reported to have had offices in Bosnia, which were “raided in 2002,” according to Jewish Insider. One of the offices — which was located in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, was described as being “part of the ‘impressive array of offices [that] covertly provided…

The initiative will unite leading business and scientific minds from multiple countries, the Russian president has said Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced plans to deepen international cooperation on artificial intelligence, unveiling a new global initiative aimed at developing AI systems and shared computing infrastructure.Speaking on Thursday at the Eurasian Economic Forum in Astana, Kazakhstan, Putin said Russia has helped establish an AI alliance bringing together scientific, academic and business communities from multiple countries. He also proposed holding a high-level international meeting on artificial intelligence in Russia next year.According to Putin, the gathering will focus on cooperation in developing sovereign…