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During an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party Chairman Rep. John Moolenaar (R-MI) reacted to a report that China gave Iran images and intelligence to help them strike American bases and threaten ships in the Strait of Hormuz by saying that China is “enabling Iran. They’re supplying what [are] dual-use materials, and, in this most recent instance, something that could target our men and women in the military.” Guest host Jim Sciutto asked, “I want to ask about a particular story CNN has reported. Multiple sources telling CNN that satellite images…

Personal AI agents that can act on a user’s behalf online are starting to reach the public, and some early adaopters say their agents have already read their private accounts without permission, invented details out of thin air, or triggered alarming security prompts. Four users described these problems to Business Insider, and more accounts have surfaced on social media. Together they paint a mixed picture of AI that’s still figuring out what it can and can’t do on its own. Mehdi Jamei, cofounder and CEO of Veris AI, asked Instinct, an invite-only agent, to cancel two RSVPs on the event…

Joe Biden accepted an award at a Planned Parenthood fundraiser in his hometown Thursday night. The award is named for an abortion activist and friend of Biden’s, whom he credited with helping him make it to the Senate and the White House. Jill Biden handed him the 2026 Sonia Schorr Sloan Service Award at Planned Parenthood of Delaware’s Chocolate and Champagne Gala. “This is an incredible honor,” Biden said before crediting her with the trajectory of his political career. Sonia “Sonny” Schorr Sloan backed him from his New Castle County Council days through the 1972 Senate race. Biden said she…

The United States and China have agreed to reduce tariffs on a range of consumer and agricultural products following this week’s meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, indicating a potential thaw in the trade war between the two countries. According to Axios, the agreement covers $30 billion in “non-sensitive goods” and is part of a larger trade package reached during the Trump-Xi summit. The White House said China will lower tariffs on certain agricultural products, seafood, wood products, cosmetics, and medical devices. In exchange, the United States will reduce tariffs on small appliances, toys, holiday decorations,…

Argentine President Javier Milei has claimed he could take “matters into our own hands” over the ongoing sovereignty dispute Britain is fully capable of defending the Falkland Islands if Argentina attempts to invade and take control of the territory, UK Defense Secretary Wes Streeting has warned.The UK has administered the South Atlantic archipelago, known in Argentina as the Malvinas, since 1833. Buenos Aires maintains that the islands are part of its own territory.The two countries fought a war over the islands in 1982 after Argentine forces seized them and Britain sent a naval task force to retake them. Residents overwhelmingly…

President Trump’s statement on his UN address, “While Others Have Talked, I Have Acted.” Courtesy of the White House. This week, in his address to the UN General Assembly, President Trump called out several dictatorial regimes in front of the world, at an institution whose Human Rights Council he has called an embarrassment for enabling Christian persecution and shielding dictators. The UN has a long record of placing abusive regimes on human rights bodies. In 2003, Libya, then under UN sanctions for terrorism, was elected to chair the Commission on Human Rights, the Human Rights Council’s predecessor. Saudi Arabia won…

The rapid intensification of Hurricane Polo in the Pacific Ocean has prompted some weather analysts to call the storm a “Category 6” as it threatens the Mexican coastline this weekend. The storm reached Category 5 strength, the highest official rating, reserved for storms with winds of at least 157 mph, three times this week, prompting one meteorologist to suggest it may belong in a category that does not officially exist, the Daily Mail reported early Saturday morning. “Polo went through a period of what can only be described as explosively rapid intensification,” said Gary Partyka, an atmospheric scientist with the Global…

“Stop woke” is a “racist dog whistle,” Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member Angie Nixon — who is hoping to be the next Senator in the Sunshine State — said in a 2023 interview. “And now he has this stop woke agenda that he is going around the country talking about when we know that’s nothing more than a racist dog whistle,” she said during an interview on One Take Live, referencing Gov. Ron DeSantis’s slogan that Florida is where the leftist “woke” agenda goes to die. “Stop woke… That is just a term that is devaluing black people,” she…

A Ukrainian who had entered Poland from Germany carried out a stabbing attack last week Poland should tighten its border controls following a deadly knife attack by a Ukrainian national, former Polish Deputy Prime Minister and current Law and Justice (PiS) MP Henryk Kowalczyk has said, warning that the killing could fuel another wave of anti-Ukrainian sentiment. A 31-year-old Ukrainian citizen attacked five people at a Catholic abbey in the southeastern city of Jaroslaw on Thursday, killing a priest and injuring four others, according to Polish officials. The suspect, who according to investigators had entered Poland from Germany overnight and was…

Yemeni army soldiers and navy sailors – Wiki Commons Can Yemeni assemble an army to face the formidable Houthi militias in its tracks? Since 2014, Since 2014, the Houthi rebels have fought a Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen’s internationally recognized government. Described by the US State Department as a terrorist proxy of Iran, the Houthis signed a UN-brokered ceasefire in 2022, but now they’re back into action – a bigger, more organized and much better armed force. Earlier this month, the Houthis launched a rapid offensive along Yemen’s Red Sea coast, overrunning government positions in days. The districts of Hays and…