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During the online “Overtime” segment of Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) lamented that opinions get treated as news and the fact that figures like Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones are still topics of discussion because “if they are criticizing Trump, it’s like now, sometimes, we in the [Democratic Party] say, well, maybe they have a point.” During a discussion on the legacy of the late Ted Turner and the state of the news media, Fetterman said, “Opinions have become actual, real news. We’ve lost that ability, like, opinions are not news. And there are so…

Prime Minister Evika Silina has dismissed Andris Spruds after unmanned aircraft violated the country’s airspace Latvian Prime Minister Evika Silina has dismissed Defense Minister Andris Spruds after Ukrainian drones hit oil storage facilities on the Baltic state’s territory.“The drone incident this week clearly showed that the leadership of the defense sector failed to deliver on its promise of a safe sky over our country,” Silina wrote on X.She added that Spruds had lost both her trust and the trust of the public.Spruds, however, stated that he had already decided to resign himself. He accused the prime minister of rushing to…

Russia accused Kyiv of breaking a U.S.-brokered ceasefire on Sunday, while Ukrainian officials said that one person had been killed and more injured by Russian drone and artillery strikes in the past 24 hours. Two people were injured by Ukrainian shelling in the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine’s Kherson region, the area’s Moscow-installed leader Vladimir Saldo said. Separately, Russia’s Ministry of Defense accused Kyiv of committing more than 1,000 ceasefire violations, state media reported, citing a daily briefing on Sunday. The ministry said Ukrainian forces had attacked civilian targets in several Russian regions and carried out strikes against Russian military positions…

President Trump’s ATF released a draft of its revised Form 4473 yesterday and an immediate change between it and the Biden-era form is the absence of a “non-binary” option when choosing sex. Form 4473 is the Firearms Transaction Record used to gather information that it then relayed to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) when someone wishes to buy a gun. Under the Biden administration, the would-be buyer could identify as “male,” “female,” or “non-binary.” The new ATF draft shows that would-be gun buyers will have only two choices — “male” or “female” — and will therefore choose…

Sam Altman faced damaging testimony from former OpenAI colleagues during the second week of Elon Musk’s trial against the AI company and its CEO. Business Insider reports that the trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI concluded its second week with several witnesses providing critical testimony about Sam Altman’s leadership and the company’s commitment to AI safety. Musk alleges that Altman and OpenAI President Greg Brockman violated the organization’s nonprofit mission by forming a partnership with Microsoft, essentially looting the charity they founded together in 2015. Three key witnesses took the stand this week, each raising concerns about different aspects of…

Women’s tennis icon Martina Navratilova has taken on Gov. Gavin Newsom on the transgender athlete controversy heating up in California over the upcoming girls’ high school track and field championships. A boy identifying as a girl is set to compete in the tournament this year, Outkick reported, after winning multiple state finals last year. Under Newsom’s leadership, the state is allowing males to compete in girls’ sports. Navratilova joined in the condemnation of the governor, cheering on two gold-medal-winning female Olympians, Nancy Hogshead and Kaillie Humphries, who spoke out against the governor Friday in an article on Outkick. “Right on…

Tehran and Washington continue “sporadic” exchanges of fire as they vie for control of the strategic waterway The US military has attacked two more Iranian-flagged oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman as Washington presses ahead with its “freedom of navigation” blockade, while Tehran has compared control of the Strait of Hormuz to possessing an “atomic bomb.”US Central Command said on Friday that American forces had struck two “unladen” Iranian tankers, the M/T Sea Star III and the M/T Sevda, which it claimed were attempting to “violate” the US blockade by entering an Iranian port.Iranian armed forces allegedly responded to “the…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – The shaky ceasefire in the Iran war was tested again on Sunday when drones of unclear origin set fire to a cargo ship off Qatar’s coast and entered Kuwaiti airspace before dawn, authorities said. Qatar and Kuwait said that no casualties were reported from either attack. The events marked the latest threats to a month-old ceasefire, which the Trump administration says remains in effect. The pause in fighting has faced difficulties, with Iran restricting traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway key to the global flow of oil, and the U.S. imposing…

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher and ABC News Contributor and former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile acknowledged that “very often” people are not able to use the healthcare they have under Obamacare, and Maher said that Republican attempts at sabotaging the legislation are a factor in this. Brazile said, “More Americans have healthcare because of Obamacare.” Maher responded, “Well, they have healthcare, but it is true that, very often, they can’t use it, because — now, part of that is because the Republicans tried every way they could to ratf*ck Obamacare after it was…

The president has recently threatened NATO members with withdrawals over their refusal to back the war on Iran US President Donald Trump has indicated that moving American troops from Germany to Poland is on the table. The statement comes as the Pentagon prepares to withdraw around 5,000 soldiers from the Western European nation over the next year.Trump first announced plans to withdraw the troops from the country earlier this month. The announcement came shortly after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that Washington “obviously has no strategy” in the Iran war and that the US “is being humiliated by the Iranian…