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Tuesday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) had an extensive interview with Jake Tapper about the allegations made against him by several women, including his ex-wife, Emily Moreno. Partial transcript as follows: TAPPER: There are now three women, three women who have accused you of violent behavior. Politico published an article in 2021 that said you when you were in high school, you “pushed a girl out of the dorm of his room and she fell down some stairs after he became enraged when she resisted his attempts to touch her, according to three people who were there and many…
Screenshot Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just dropped the hammer on one of the most disturbing scandals in the American organ transplant system. On Wednesday in Lexington, Kentucky, RFK Jr. announced that HHS is decertifying Network for Hope, the federally designated organ procurement organization (OPO) serving Kentucky and parts of Indiana, Ohio, and West Virginia, after federal reviewers found the group repeatedly ignored clear signs of life in patients who were about to have their organs cut out. According to the official HHS release, the Health Resources and Services Administration reviewed 351 Network for Hope cases…
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton participated in a swearing-in ceremony in the Oval Office on Tuesday, a day after he officially assumed the post. President Donald Trump looked on as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent administered the oath to Clayton, as seen in a video shared by Special Assistant to the President Margo Martin in the early afternoon. The ceremony comes after Clayton’s office announced his official swearing-in was on Monday. Clayton replaces Housing Director Bill Pulte, who has served in the role in an acting capacity since former Director of National Security Tulsi Gabbard left the post on June…
Don’t expect the typically strong smell of Thursday jet fumes in the halls of the Senate just yet. Ideally, senators would be leaving town for a five-week recess after business Thursday, but a legislative pile-up and pressure from President Donald Trump has made that impossible. All 100 senators still need to agree to a deal to speed up consideration of a measure to extend government funding through Dec. 11, a Russia sanctions bill, dozens of nominees including Todd Blanche and a bipartisan college athletics bill — an agenda that would otherwise take weeks to accomplish. Republicans also need to make…
The British AI security institute said the models carried out unauthorized actions, created fake identities, and attempted to manipulate a human AI agents developed by OpenAI and Anthropic went beyond their instructions and targeted real people and organizations during a series of cybersecurity tests, Britain’s AI Security Institute has revealed.The institute tested agents powered by Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Sol in a fictional cyber scenario designed to assess their capabilities.“Some of the agents being tested had engaged in sustained, potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations,” the institute disclosed on Tuesday.Across 122 test runs, researchers identified 19…
On Tuesday night there were several primary elections in key states across the country. One of those states was Virginia. One polling location in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, which was open during early voting, mysteriously closed down on election day, the most important day of the primary cycle. These events are recent, as this polling location was open earlier this year during the vote for the Virginia redistricting referendum. This polling location also doubles as the Alexandria Voter Registration office and is across the street from the Alexandria City Hall, which is undergoing heavy renovation. It was allegedly open for…
When I first heard the term “financial repression,” I thought it had to be a joke. Why would governments and central banks use a term with such a negative connotation? Even people who are financially illiterate can understand that financial repression is a bad thing. Simply put, financial repression is a strategy governments use to reduce their debt burden by manipulating interest rates below inflation. It allows them to borrow in dollars and repay in dimes. Here’s how the IMF describes it, emphasis mine: “Financial repression includes directed lending to government by captive domestic audiences (such as pension funds), explicit or implicit…
A senior Ukrainian intelligence official told Reuters in a report published on Wednesday that Russia had begun deploying a North Korean missile unit to its war theater against Ukraine, apparently exploiting potential vulnerabilities the invaded country has against ballistic missiles. According to the report, the North Korean hardware is active in Russia’s Voronezh, which borders the occupied Ukrainian region of Luhansk, one of the two Donbas regions strongman Vladimir Putin “annexed” in the early months of the invasion. The official sharing the information, Andrii Cherniak of Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence, said the new missile unit “could be equipped with 120 ballistic…
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is set to begin a phased reopening of cattle imports from Mexico as the fight against the New World Screwworm rages on. Beginning August 24, 2026, the Douglas, Arizona, port of entry will open for cattle trade, ushering in subsequent openings at New Mexico ports of entry. According to the USDA, the opening is contingent on Mexico’s adherence to the previously agreed-upon Joint Action Plan. Every animal imported at the Southwest border will undergo a full USDA inspection to eliminate the risk of New World screwworm infestation. The Santa Teresa and Columbus ports…
A surrogate mother, who is also an Alaskan nurse and a single mother of two, is facing pressure to abort the baby she is carrying for another couple after the child was diagnosed with a heart condition, a lawsuit alleges. The surrogate mother, McKenna West, agreed to become a surrogate with Worldwide Surrogacy Specialists in September of last year as a way to bring in more income, the New York Post reported. In April 2026, she underwent an anatomy scan during her 20th week of pregnancy for “Baby Gabriel,” and he was diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), a severe but…