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The Justice Department took a small step back Monday from its controversial $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund.” It wasn’t nearly enough to quell the furor on Capitol Hill. Republican senators, including some top leaders, said a DOJ statement that it would “abide by” a federal judge’s recent ruling to temporarily halt any payouts did not do enough to clear the intraparty concerns that have thrown the GOP’s immigration enforcement bill into limbo. Instead they nudged President Donald Trump to make a more explicit move to renounce the fund, which could be used to pay participants in the Capitol attack on Jan.…

Defense tech contractor Anduril is currently valued at $61 billion, with plans to expand and go public. But it’s a valuation that depends on its founder’s ability to hawk vaporware to the Pentagon, and to talk the US to the edge of a cataclysmic war with China. In less than a decade, Anduril Industries has gone from a threadbare startup founded by a 24-year-old, to a $61 billion player described as building “the future of American power.” Buoyed by more than $20 billion in US military contracts – for everything from attack drones and autonomous fighter jets to augmented reality…

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Monday there will be “no calm in Beirut” unless the Iran-backed terrorists of Hezbollah stop attacking Israel with rockets and drones. Israel shut down schools in towns near the Lebanese border on Sunday after Hezbollah’s latest attack while the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) expanded its operation in southern Lebanon, capturing the historic Beaufort Castle. “The southern suburbs of Beirut are no different from the towns in northern Israel: If there is no calm in the north, there will be no calm in Beirut,” Katz declared in a video statement on Sunday. “We will…

The President has pitched an “Anti-Weaponization Fund” for those allegedly previously targeted by the federal government Democrat-led US states are considering imposing a 100% tax on payouts by a $1.8 billion fund set up by US President Donald Trump for victims of attempts to weaponize the legal and political system against them.Trump and his allies have long claimed to have been subjected to politically motivated investigations and prosecutions during the Biden administration, including the FBI search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, the probe into his supposed ties with Moscow, and other criminal cases.Trump’s team has presented the ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ as part…

Sandro Castro, grandson of late Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro, over the weekend promoted a two-day party at the beach in Varadero while the rest of Cuba endures the abject misery caused by his family’s communist regime. Castro is a self-proclaimed “filmmaker,” “content creator,” and an “influencer” who claims that his upbringing and position within the communist Castro dynasty does not grant him privileges in Cuba. In reality, and contrary to his assertions, Castro has repeatedly boasted about his luxury lavish lifestyle on social media for years while his family’s 67-year-old communist regime continues to subjugate Cubans into conditions of abject…

A non-English speaker was allegedly behind the wheel of a bus when it crashed in Virginia on Friday, killing five people and injuring 44 others. The bus driver was identified as Jing S. Dong, a Chinese native who had become a U.S. citizen and who was allegedly driving the bus from New York City to Charlotte, North Carolina, when the incident happened, the New York Post reported Saturday. The bus rammed into stopped traffic on I-95 when movement on the highway slowed for a work zone. Among the dead were a 13-year-old girl and a seven-year-old boy, U.S. Transportation Secretary…

Carnival Corporation said the personal information of nearly six million customers was leaked due to a data breach in April. When an unauthorized actor deceived an employee to access part of the corporation’s IT system, the cruise company said it immediately took action to block it and contacted third-party security experts and police, Fox News reported Saturday. “The company’s data breach notice filed with the Maine Attorney General’s office said the hack affected 5,995,277 people’s personal information,” the outlet continued. Per KHOU, the company said: In April, we identified unauthorized access to a limited part of our IT system caused…

Brazilian health officials said on Saturday they were monitoring two suspected Ebola infections, both travelers who recently arrived from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda, the epicenter of the Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak. Another possible infection was reported in Italy on Sunday. One of the travelers came to Sao Paulo, Brazil, from the DRC while complaining of a fever. The other arrived in Rio de Janeiro from Uganda. The vast majority of the over 1,000 suspected Ebola infections in the current outbreak have occurred in the DRC, but nine confirmed cases have been reported in Uganda. Brazilian officials…

The AI Construction Boom Is Hiding in Offices If you are looking at the headline data in the government’s economic report, it is easy to miss the artificial intelligence investment boom. Take this morning’s construction spending report. The main Census release does not have an AI data center line. Instead, data center construction is lumped together with lots of other spending on business structures in the broader “office” categories. And that can create the misleading impression that office construction is booming. It jumped one percent in April and is up 9.4 percent from a year ago. An office construction boom…

During an interview with MS NOW’s “The Weekend” panelist Eugene Daniels, Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) acknowledged shortcomings in the Democratic Party’s approach to addressing the concerns of black voters. The longtime South Carolina Democrat called on his party to “get back to some basics.” “What’s your honest assessment about how if you zoom out, right, not just South Carolina, not just black voters, but how does the party actually change the way that folks view the successes, the failures, and the future that the Democratic Party is promising?” Daniels asked. Clyburn replied, “I think that we have to get back…