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About 4,000 people remain missing seven days after a devastating flash flood hit the country’s northern border regions with China Rescue teams in Nepal continue to search water-logged hydropower tunnels in the country’s north, where hundreds of workers remain unaccounted for seven days after a flash flood devastated areas near the border with China.The death toll has risen to 1,003, Nepal’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) said on Tuesday afternoon.Nearly 4,000 people remain unaccounted for, the country’s Foreign Ministry said, adding about 590 foreign nationals from 39 countries are among them. Some 11,800 have been rescued. As…

Minnesota AG Keith Ellison speaks at the “Many Over The Money” rally in Minneapolis on Monday. Credit: LiveNOW from Fox screenshot Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to statewide office in Minnesota and a convert from Catholicism, has quietly returned at least $12,500 in campaign cash from Somali figures tied to the massive Feeding Our Future welfare fraud after a secret recording surfaced of him huddling with the same crowd to fend off state investigators. According to the Center of the American Experiment, the five refunded contributions included donations from Gandi Yusuf Mohamed and Liban Alishire, both…

A 42-year old Bengali man who sexually abused a 13-year-old girl in the Italian city of Turin over the weekend was released just two days later on Monday by a local judge because the offender said he was “sorry.” The judge’s shocking decision prompted outrage and condemnation from Italian government authorities, including Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who expressed her solidarity with the victim. The Italian newspaper La Stampa reports that the heinous crime occurred on Saturday afternoon at a mini market located in northern Turin. The victim told police she went to the locale to buy a a fruit juice drink for…

The Pentagon has rolled out custom versions of ChatGPT and Grok to millions of Defense Department personnel. The Department of War has now replaced Anthropic’s Claude with access to multiple different AI platforms. TechCrunch reports that the Pentagon has launched military versions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Elon Musk’s Grok, giving the department’s 3 million civilian and military personnel access to generative AI tools built around what officials describe as “warfighter needs.” The two tools, ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government, join GenAI.mil, a secure portal the Pentagon launched last year so War Department employees can use commercial AI models without sending…

Netflix announced Tuesday that it will release a documentary on President Donald Trump’s secret plane swap in Turkey, premiering the film Friday. The streaming service posted a trailer for “Instadocs: The Decoy Plane,” the third installment of its quick-turn documentary series. Netflix said the film covers the July incident through the eyes of the reporters traveling with the president. Netflix wrote that Trump “slipped off Air Force One in a catering truck and secretly boarded a different aircraft,” leaving the press to fly on without knowing he was gone. Associated Press chief White House photographer Alex Brandon described the scene…

The $17 billion deal with US states resolved claims that Facebook and Instagram were designed to addict minors Meta’s multibillion-dollar settlement with US states over alleged harm to children on social media does not go far enough, a former member of its safety team has told Politico. The agreement, announced last week during a federal trial, resolved claims by California and 28 other states that Meta deliberately designed its Facebook and Instagram platforms to keep minors hooked and misled the public about the risks. It provides for payments of up to $17 billion and imposes new restrictions on users under…

U.S. District Judge Cynthia Valenzuela A Biden-appointed federal judge has dismissed the Trump Justice Department’s lawsuit challenging California’s policy allowing transgender-identifying biological males to compete on girls’ school sports teams. U.S. District Judge Cynthia Valenzuela of the Central District of California dismissed the Justice Department’s case against the California Department of Education and the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) with prejudice, handing California officials a major victory in their ongoing battle with the Trump administration over women’s sports, the New York Post reported. Valenzuela was nominated to the federal bench by Joe Biden and confirmed by the Democrat-controlled Senate in December…

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that “we are telling friends and foes that this is the end of the regime,” but “the goal here isn’t necessarily to collapse the regime. It could happen.” And “President Trump is determined that they will not survive in situ, as they are now.” Bessent said, “I can tell you that teams from Treasury, from State, from DOW, they have spread out across the world, and we are telling friends and foes that this is the end of the regime, we are going to sever all…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Tuesday she would “probably not” date a conservative, according to a video interview. TMZ’s Charlie Cotton asked the New York Democrat on Capitol Hill whether dating across the aisle was something she would ever entertain. She shut the idea down, then softened it. “I have to say it’s probably not,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “No, you know, it’s not to, you know, no foul to people who do.” The congresswoman argued the question turns on values rather than party. “I think a lot of politics sometimes, at least for me, is about values, and being aligned in…

Republicans gearing up for November elections aren’t exactly flocking to next week’s GOP midterm convention in Dallas, the first held by a major party in more than four decades.Republicans — ranging from battleground moderates to hard-line conservatives — are opting out of the televised spectacle as the party pushes through a final election sprint where their control of Congress is at stake.A POLITICO survey of more than 70 GOP candidates and members revealed most either do not plan to go or are still weighing whether to go.Those 45 Republicans cited a variety of reasons for their decision: Some said they…