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The U.S. Department of War (DOW) will keep providing conditional support to Scouting America after the organization, which in recent years has embraced gender ideology, vowed to abandon its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives (DEI). In his announcement, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said he had been considering ending all support for the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America as a result of its shift toward cultural changes, Pentagon News reported Friday. Hegseth detailed the changes made by the historic organization, stating that “After 2012, however, the Boy Scouts lost their way, and a once-great organization became…

President Donald Trump has blacklisted Anthropic over its pushback against the use of its tech for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has formally designated artificial intelligence firm Anthropic a “supply-chain risk to national security,” following US President Donald Trump’s order to blacklist the company across the federal government.Hegseth announced the decision on Friday, accusing the company of attempting to impose ideological constraints on US military operations after Anthropic refused to remove safeguards limiting the use of its artificial intelligence systems for mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.“Their true objective is unmistakable: to seize veto…

Several Democrats supported President Donald Trump after the United States and Israel carried out joint strikes on Iran overnight, highlighting the “need to stand together to bring an end to terrorism.” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), and Reps. Don Davis (D-NC)  plusGreg Landsman (D-OH) issued statements in which they expressed that Trump “has been willing to do what’s right and necessary.” Rep. Landsman spoke about how the U.S. was “destroying Iran’s missiles and bombs to stop them from taking more lives.” “Operation Epic Fury,” Fetterman wrote in a post on X. “President Trump has been willing to do what’s right and…

Democrats are weighing how to target corporations that have courted President Donald Trump’s approval if they retake the House after the midterm elections. Semafor reported that, given Democrats’ chances of retaking the House, top Democrats are now devising how to focus on alleged corruption in the Trump administration amongst other issues in their investigative agenda. “There’s opportunities to look at not just corporations that we think are enabling some of Trump’s corruption, but certainly corporations that are not supporting American families and not really focusing on affordability,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, said.…

‘Shock and awe’ was the term used to describe the US operation against Iraq in spring 2003. In hindsight, it marked a turning point. The rapid defeat of the Ba’athist regime and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein created the impression that the US had acquired the ability to reshape entire regions at will.Reality turned out differently. The war did bring change, but not the kind its architects envisaged. The old order in the Middle East collapsed, replaced not by stability but by a chain of crises that demanded enormous resources to contain, with limited success. The blow to America’s global…

On CNN on Saturday, Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) said that President Donald Trump “really hasn’t communicated well with the American people” on the Iran operation, and Congress needs to vote on what Trump himself characterized as a war. Davidson said, “He did brief the Gang of Eight, but he didn’t brief Congress, and he really hasn’t communicated well with the American people. So, there are people that are simultaneously saying this is a war, as the President himself referred to it as a war, and, in particular, a regime change war. And then there are people that are saying it’s…

Democrats are erupting in alarm with streaming giant Netflix bowing out of its deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery leaving Paramount Skydance standing as the studio’s top bidder. Democrats including New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, Mass. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Calif. Sen. Adam Schiff, and a raft of state candidates and officials are red faced over the deal and many are fearful that President Trump will have influence over both Paramount and Warners if the former buys the latter. Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren is calling the potential Paramount-Warners deal an “antitrust disaster.” “A Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. merger is an antitrust disaster…

Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif earlier declared his country was in “open war” with its western neighbor Afghan forces have suffered nearly 1,000 casualties in the latest cross-border escalation with Pakistan, officials in Islamabad have claimed.Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said at least 415 Taliban fighters and allied militants had been killed and more than 580 wounded in airstrikes and clashes since Thursday. He shared the figures in a post on X on Saturday.The minister also claimed 182 Afghan checkpoints had been destroyed, along with 185 tanks, armored vehicles and artillery pieces, with airstrikes targeting 46 locations across the country.Kabul has…

Saturday, during an appearance on Fox News Channel, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a longtime proponent of U.S. intervention in the Middle East, applauded the Trump administration’s decision to take military action against Iran. The South Carolina Republican called the toppling of the Iranian regime “the biggest change in a thousand years.” He also called President Donald Trump the “gold standard” for Republican foreign policy. “My feeling today is I’m glad President Trump won and Kamala Harris lost,” he declared. “I don’t try to be political in moments like this. But I am responding to the senator from Arizona who took…

A fire station in Rapid City, South Dakota, has opened the state’s first Safe Haven Baby Box.  Communities in South Dakota have discussed bringing baby boxes to the state for years — a push that increased after the body of baby Gabriel was found at a Sioux Falls recycling center in 2024, KELO reported.  “That same week after baby Gabriel was found there was another phone call that came into Safe Haven looking for a box in South Dakota. So, there was a second baby where the mother was looking to surrender the baby and there was no box for…