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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…

A UK immigration officer and a London-based Hong Kong trade official have been found guilty of utilising Home Office systems to track down and spy on dissidents in Britain on behalf of China. The two British-Chinese dual nationals, 40-year-old former Border Force official Chi Leung “Peter” Wai and 65-year old Chung Biu “Bill” Yuen, a former head of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London, stand at the center of an unprecedented years-long case that has raised significant concerns over the malign influence of the Chinese communist regime and its attempts to subvert British democracy. The two men…

They are just diapers. But they have landed California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) into messy accusations of corruption for dumping $20 million in taxpayer money into a nonprofit led by an executive who sits on the board of his wife’s organization. The initiative called “Golden State Start,” which will provide free diapers to newborns in hospitals throughout the state, debuted ahead of Mother’s Day. It has been promoted as a partnership between the state and the Los Angeles-based Baby2Baby nonprofit. However, the deal has resulted in scrutiny over how the organization was chosen and its “proximity to Newsom’s political and…

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” ABC News Contributor and former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile said that she pays a ton of taxes but people who are wealthy are able to hire accountants to find loopholes in the tax code and “understand how to get tax breaks when they want to move their companies into a state” and get tax breaks for doing so. While discussing Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) claims that rich people don’t pay taxes, host Bill Maher said, “I pay a shitton of taxes.” Brazile responded, “Me too.” Brazile added that Sanders’ point is…