Author: Press Room

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) warned in a briefing on Monday that the communist regime of Cuba is looking to actively interfere in America’s 2024 election, not only influencing votes for president but seeking to aid pro-communist candidates in local and congressional races. “Havana almost certainly has considered influence efforts targeting some candidates,” an unnamed ODNI official told reporters. “Havana may be, as it has done in previous cycles, trying to curry favor from congressional and sub-national politicians that it believes will support its preferred policies.” “Havana is very focused on a few policy issues that…

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has called for a full-scale investment in AI infrastructure, even as the energy-intensive nature of AI development threatens to undermine global climate goals. Saying the quiet part out loud, Schmidt admitted Silicon Valley’s climate goals were always completely unrealistic, stating: “We’re not going to hit the climate goals anyway because we’re not organized to do it.” Business Insider reports that in a recent AI summit held in Washington DC, Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, made a controversial statement regarding the future of artificial intelligence and its potential impact on the environment. Schmidt, who served…

Former President Donald Trump sat down with comedian and podcaster Andrew Schulz for an interview, where he cracked up the show’s hosts with a brutal roast of lame duck President Joe Biden. “He has one ability I don’t have: he sleeps,” Trump said of Biden on the Flagrant podcast, causing Schulz and his co-hosts to erupt in laughter. Watch Below at time code 49:00: “He can sleep,” Trump continued. “This guy goes on a beach, and he lays down on one of those, you know, six ounce [chairs] — they weigh six ounces and he can’t lift it. They’re meant for children, young people,…

Nearly six months after Columbia University banned Khymani James, a Pro-Palestinian student activist, who said “Zionists don’t deserve to live,” the coalition that had apologized on his behalf rescinded its statement of regret – and advocated for armed resistance against Israel.“Last spring, in the midst of the encampments, Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) posted a statement framed as an apology on behalf of Khymani James,” CUAD posted Tuesday night on Instagram. “We deliberately misrepresented your experiences and your words, and we let you down.”In a since-deleted post on X, James acknowledged in April that he had said several months earlier…

The Secret Service didn’t testify Thursday before a House task force investigating the two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump. But it’s the main focus of the panel’s first public hearing. The House panel used a hearing with state and local law enforcement, as well as a former Secret Service official, to drill down into the decisions made in the lead-up to and during the July 13 shooting at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) set the tone during his opening statement, saying the shooting was not prevented “because of failures by the Secret Service.” “The…

Donald Trump says that North Carolina’s Fort Liberty would once again become Fort Bragg if he’s reelected — less than two years after the base was renamed to remove the name of a Confederate general as part of efforts to reckon with the legacy of racism. Trump, who opposed the change as president, pledged to restore Fort Bragg’s name during a town hall Friday in the nearby city of Fayetteville, home to many troops and veterans. “I think I just learned the secret to winning absolutely and by massive margins. I’m going to promise to you … that we’re going…

The Department of Justice’s landmark proposal to dismantle Google’s search monopoly offers the first clear window into how Washington’s accelerating antitrust effort could clip the wings of Big Tech giants — and also highlights political questions about how long the push will survive.Unlike European regulators targeting the same firms, President Joe Biden’s enforcers are swinging for the fences, proposing a radical restructuring of how Google works rather than chipping away at the company with fines.“What is remarkable is the breadth of the proposal,” said Cristina Caffarra, co-founder of the Competition Research Policy Network and an adviser to regulators and plaintiffs…

TAMPA, Fla. — Towers of trash left over from Hurricane Helene still littered the Florida landscape Wednesday as Hurricane Milton barreled toward the Gulf Coast and garbage haulers suspended efforts to remove the debris that could be dangerous in high winds.With only hours to go before Milton, a powerful storm already churning up “tornadic supercells,” was expected to make landfall somewhere south of Tampa Bay, the trash trucks that had been working around the clock were largely gone.And in Tampa, those who chose not to join the exodus out of town were giving those piles of wrecked furniture and other…

The platform was suspended nationwide at the end of August for failing to censor accounts spreading “disinformation” Elon Musk has been ordered to pay another fine if he wants Brazil to lift a nationwide ban it placed on his X platform in August, local media has reported, citing a Supreme Court filing out from Friday. The fine was ordered by Justice Alexandre de Moraes after X briefly became accessible in the country despite the previous ban, allegedly through Musk’s satellite internet provider Starlink.The dispute between Musk and the Brazilian authorities dates back to April when Moraes ordered X to delete…

Dublin is reportedly considering ending its free-accommodation scheme for Ukrainian refugees starting from March 2025 The Irish government is considering ending its program of providing free housing to all new Ukrainian asylum seekers arriving in the country, the Irish Times has reported. The newspaper claimed that officials in Dublin are also mulling introducing a “maximum stay” rule to encourage refugees already residing in publicly funded accommodation to start fending for themselves.In recent months, several EU member states have been gradually scaling back welfare programs for Ukrainian refugees, incentivizing them to seek employment or leave. Amid its ongoing mobilization and conscription…