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Those hoping to win the Khaled Alkhateb prize, named after a journalist killed in Syria, must submit news videos from conflict zones RT has opened submissions for the 2026 Khaled Alkhateb International Memorial Awards, which honor outstanding war reporters working in conflict zones around the world.This year’s contest will accept news reports or series of reports from conflict zones, with a maximum running time of ten minutes. Submissions are accepted in Russian, Arabic, and English, or with subtitles in any of the three for reports in other languages. Qualifying videos must have been published between October 1, 2025, and September…

Asymmetric warfare, consisting of drones and sea mines, has rewritten the rules of engagement against the Houthis and the IRGC. Photo courtesy of Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Aleksandr Freutel, U.S. Navy. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. On July 20, the Houthis declared a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea, retaliation for what they called a Saudi “siege” on Yemen, the group’s formal entry into the wider US-Iran war. Days later, the Houthis claimed missile and drone strikes on the Saudi oil tankers Encelia and Layla; Saudi authorities confirmed the Encelia was hit, with the crew safe,…

Elon Musk’s social media platform X has reached a settlement with the World Federation of Advertisers, ending a contentious legal battle that began in 2024 over allegations of an advertising boycott. TechCrunch reports that the settlement between X and the advertising trade group was announced in a joint statement on Wednesday, bringing to a close Musk’s effort to hold advertisers legally accountable for reducing their spending on the platform due to brand safety concerns. X had filed a lawsuit against the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) in 2024, accusing the organization of orchestrating what it described as a systematic illegal…

Venezuela’s socialist regime, a longtime ally of Iran’s Islamic regime, on Tuesday protested the “derogatory and inappropriate expressions” recently espoused by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi regarding Venezuela. According to several international outlets, a video clip circulating on social media taken from an interview Foreign Minister Araghchi recently held with Iran’s state-run Mehr News Agency shows the foreign minister affirm that his country “isn’t Venezuela” when it comes to negotiating with the United States. “This isn’t Venezuela, where they take one person and everyone else gets scared and backs down,” Araghchi said, according to a clip published by the Venezuelan outlet El…

Major AI companies are buying millions of used books through intermediaries and destroying them after digitization to obtain high-quality training data while avoiding public scrutiny, according to a recent investigative report. Tom’s Hardware reports that an investigation has revealed that AI companies are reportedly engaging in large-scale purchases of secondhand books to feed their language models, with the physical books subsequently being destroyed after scanning. The practice involves using middlemen to secretly acquire the books, potentially to avoid the controversy that has surrounded AI companies’ use of copyrighted material. The demand for quality training data has pushed AI developers to…

President Donald Trump returned to the White House last year after withstanding the dirtiest trick in American political history. Partisan Democrats, who failed in their sensationalized impeachments and politicized investigations, resorted to the legal system to stop him. They filed a mountain of charges in courthouses around the country. They forced the president to spend days away from the campaign trail, appearing in and out of court. They censored what he could say, and they even raided his home. Through it all, Todd Blanche stood at President Trump’s side, fighting for fundamental fairness and the rule of law. Blanche earned…

The Hart Senate Office Building atrium will be restored to its full splendor after the August recess for the first time in more than a decade: The hanging mobile portion of Alexander Calder’s iconic “Mountains and Clouds” sculpture is returning. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), who has been seeking a restoration of the suspended “Clouds” portion for nearly a decade, told reporters Thursday that the work will be done next month. “We just built some new, more structurally sound clouds, and they are going back up,” he told reporters. The four aluminum clouds weighing a combined two tons were removed following…

Lawmakers have unanimously opposed clemency for Ghislaine Maxwell amid continued controversy over her late former partner The US Senate has unanimously urged President Donald Trump not to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker who helped Jeffrey Epstein recruit and abuse underage girls.Maxwell, the daughter of disgraced British newspaper tycoon and former MP Robert Maxwell, who had suspected ties to Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, is currently serving a 20-year federal prison sentence after being convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking and related offenses.The resolution, introduced by Democratic Senator Jacky Rosen and approved without objection from either party on Wednesday, states…

MAGA TV and radio host Wayne Allyn Root made a guest appearance with Steve Bannon on “War Room” yesterday. Root said, “We know exactly what the truth is. These guys are murderers- mass murderers! This guy, Fauci- if he’s found guilty by a jury of his peers, he should hang!” WATCH: Wayne Allyn Root is a CEO, businessman, best-selling author, and national conservative TV and radio host, who has interviewed President Trump 16 times. Watch Wayne’s TV show “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on Real America’s Voice TV Saturdays at Noon ET and his video podcast “WAR Zone presented by The…

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Wednesday the “brave combatants” of its Aerospace Force “targeted the US air base and the CENTCOM headquarters of the US military in Jordan with several ballistic missiles.” The IRGC statement implied the attack on U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) struck a devastating blow, and warned more such acts of “resistance” would be carried out, unless the U.S. halts its “illegal and hostile moves” against Iran. “Threats by U.S. officials and illegal interventions against our interests must stop,” the statement said. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported the IRGC launched ballistic missiles at Muwaffaq Salti…