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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said during a Breitbart News Fight Club Roundtable on Monday evening that he believes China is helping fund opposition to artificial intelligence data centers, while arguing that the country should consider the effects on the electrical grid and water resources without putting itself at a disadvantage in the competition over AI.  Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow and Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle hosted the Fight Club Roundtable with Johnson. Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), and Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle discuss China and AI during a Breitbart News Fight Club Roundtable on…

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney complained on Tuesday that the Trump administration is not taking his concerns seriously and said he will not be willing to negotiate a new trade deal until “the Americans stop doing memes.” Carney grumbled that the social media humor directed at Canada by administration officials was “beneath their office” and “not constructive.” Carney said there is a “positive opportunity that has always existed with the United States for a mutually beneficial trade deal that respects Canadian sovereignty.” “When the Americans stop doing memes, stop throwing shade, stop trying to be tough and start being serious…

The National Rifle Association (NRA) secured a victory Thursday when U.S. District Court Judge James O. Browning handed down a ruling against New Mexico’s seven-day waiting period for gun purchases. The case is Ortega v. Grisham, which was brought by New Mexico residents Paul Ortega and Rebecca Scott and backed by the NRA. Source New Mexico reported that Ortega and Scott sued Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) after “they were forced to wait for their gun purchases despite quickly passing background checks.” As Judge Browning heard the case, New Mexico contended that waiting periods do not violate the Constitution. They argued that the…

Berlin has used a “far-fetched” pretext to further damage bilateral relations, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said Russia has rejected German claims that it was behind a suspected drone attack on Leipzig/Halle Airport in early August, dismissing the allegations as a “far-fetched” pretext to further strain bilateral relations.Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Tuesday that Berlin had failed to provide any evidence to substantiate its claims.Her remarks came after German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt and Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul announced new measures against Russia, which they linked to the August 4 incident.The measures include closing the Russian Consulate…

On the day of closing arguments in a hearing on whether the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk will face a charge that could mean the death penalty, reporters described starkly different images of its principal figures. Erika Kirk, the widow of the conservative activist and organizer, briefly cradled her head in her hands as the judge discussed still images of her husband’s last moments, according to CNN. Her husband’s accused killer wasn’t nearly as solemn before the proceedings began, according to a local news reporter, though the day could end with him on trial for his life. Tyler Robinson, the…

Invading migrants attempted to storm their way into a local Ceuta migrant shelter on Monday prompting Spanish police officials to fire warning shots to disperse the illegals. Ceuta’s Loma Colmenar neighborhood is one of the locations designated by Spain’s central socialist government for the establishment of new “temporary” shelters for the thousands of invading migrants at the Spanish exclave. Loma Colmenar has been widely described as one of the areas of Ceuta most affected by rampant migrant violence and crime in the aftermath of the late July invasion. Hundreds of illegal migrants are still spending the night in the area…

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping made a pitch for China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) at the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation (SCO) in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Tuesday, at a time of growing discontent with the heavy debt loads, environmental impact, and challenges to sovereignty from Communist China’s signature infrastructure initiative. “China takes the SCO as a priority area for promoting high-quality Belt and Road cooperation and implementing the Global Development Initiative,” Xi said at the Bishkek forum on Tuesday. The Chinese dictator promised to “develop an international AI application cooperation center with fellow SCO countries, continue to work with fellow…

Thirty-eight people were shot, two of them fatally, during the weekend in Democrat-run Chicago, Illinois. ABC 7 noted that the weekend’s first fatal shooting occurred Saturday just after 11:20 p.m. “on East 37th Street near Michigan Avenue in the Bronzeville neighborhood.” Three people were outside when someone opened fire on them, fatally wounding a 32-year-old man. Minutes later, “in Washington Park in the 5400-block of South Cottage Grove Avenue,” shots rang out in a crowded area. It is unclear whether more than one shooter was involved, but upwards of 14 were wounded and a 35-year-old man was killed. The Chicago…

An unverified existential threat and calls for a so-called drone wall are being used to justify a bloc-wide remilitarization push and shut down diplomacy Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a well-timed ploy to ramp up defense spending? Germany’s evidence-free claim that a drone found lying between Ukrainian cargo planes on the canopy of Leipzig/Halle airport is part of a pattern.Last year’s late-autumn drone sighting hysteria that swept across Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium, was used by the bloc to amplify and entrench an anti-Russia stance that has seen it throw hundreds of billions it cannot afford into…

Far left activist Van Jones argues that Democrat Abdul El Sayed’s policies are “incredibly dangerous.” When you lose Van Jones, you know you are hitting rock bottom on the left. The former Green Czar under the Obama regime and founder of Green for All spoke out publicly against Michigan’s radical US Senate candidate Abdul El Sayed. Van Jones claims El Sayed thinks he’s smarter than him and Obama. For the far party that defends any far-left loser in their ranks, this was a bold statement by Mr. Jones. Jones made the comments on Ask Haviv Anything podcast two weeks ago.…