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The poverty rate for children and Hispanics just hit record lows, while median household incomes have hit a record high. Listen, I know everyone’s bummed over gas prices, and for good reason. Yesterday, I paid $4.19 per gallon. Ouch. Driving past a gas station sign is like looking at a weather barometer for our national economy. Worse, it’s also a barometer for the likely outcome of the midterm elections. And that’s a shame for any number of reasons. The first is that as much as it sucks, we are all paying a necessary price to ensure that the theocratic death…
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) responded to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) pushing bans on types of AI by saying that “no society has actually ever been able to ban technology. The only time that happened was in Japan, for a period of some years, they were able to stop guns from coming in. But, as we all know, eventually, the Japanese also relented.” Co-host Boris Sanchez asked, “[W]hy not go further, even to what Sen. Bernie Sanders has suggested, which is a total ban, a not permanent ban, a semi-permanent ban on superintelligence?” Lieu…
Forty-six members of the Senate Democratic caucus are demanding that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth provide a detailed accounting of the Iran war’s costs, arguing that the Pentagon has failed to explain how it has spent, and plans to spend, tens of billions of taxpayer dollars.The letter, led by Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin, was signed by every member of the Senate Democratic caucus except Sen. John Fetterman. Independent Sens. Bernie Sanders and Angus King, who caucus with Democrats, were also included.The senators asked the Pentagon to provide a breakdown by Sept. 30 of all direct and indirect costs incurred to date…
No US or European leader has ever been indicted by the tribunal, an ex-aide to the former Philippines president told RT The Western powers have used the International Criminal Court (ICC) to keep former colonies “in line” while shielding their own nationals from its justice, Harry Roque, former spokesman for Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, told RT on Wednesday.His comments came after Duterte made his first public appearance since his arrest in March 2025 and transfer to The Hague on an ICC warrant alleging crimes against humanity during his war on drugs.“At the time Duterte was charged, only African individuals have…
Former U.S. Senator Jon Kyl/Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license/ Author: Gage Skidmore Former U.S. Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) has passed away at age 84. According to his family, the cause was complications from a neurological disease that manifested as dementia. In December 2025, he announced the diagnosis and withdrew from public life. “My family and I now head down a path filled with moments of joy and increasing difficulties,” Kyl said. “I am grateful beyond expression for their love and support, in these coming days as in all the days of my life. Despite this diagnosis, I remain…
Breitbart News social media director and CODE RED author Wynton Hall unmasked the goals of Anthropic and the Effective Altruism (EA) movement that counts many AI leaders as adherents. According to Hall, their goal is to take over artificial intelligence through an enforced governance. Hall explains, “Think of it like a World Health Organization or a UN for AI — something that we all know where that story is going to end.” “They have, as part of their culture inside of Anthropic, something called ‘Effective Altruism,’ the EA movement,” Hall explained during a Thursday interview with host Mike Slater on Sirius…
Mustafa Suleyman, head of Microsoft AI, has warned that uncontrolled AI development risks creating what he called “a new silicon species” which would “no doubt compete with us for resources, no matter how much it cares about humanity and loves us.” BBC News reports that speaking to BBC’s Today program in an interview on Thursday, Suleyman said tech firms building increasingly autonomous AI systems are “essentially seeding a new silicon species.” Asked whether the public was right to be concerned about the direction of AI development, he replied simply, “right,” before adding that there are “very practical things that we…
Michael P. Desronvil, the holdout juror who sparked a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case, has revealed personal misgivings about his fellow jurors and the certainty of his own belief on the accused as guided solely by the evidence presented to the court. The 48-year-old of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, spoke with Fugitive TV’s Ray Marcel in the days after the trial ended on September 4, LifeNews reports. After 36 hours of deliberations that spanned a week, jurors in Plymouth state court said on three separate occasions they were deadlocked and did not reach a unanimous verdict, as Breitbart News reported. Judge William…
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries again declined to say how he will respond to two rebel Democrats who have twice bucked party leaders to advance the Republican floor agenda.“As I repeatedly made clear, I’ll have more to say — we’ll have more to say — about the situation when we have more to say about the situation,” Jeffries said at a Thursday news conference with the No. 2 and 3 leaders, Katherine Clark of Massachusetts and Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar of California.Clark suggested Wednesday that one of the rebels, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington, should lose her Appropriations Committee…
Powerful states can use their influence to avoid accountability at the tribunal, while weaker countries remain more vulnerable to prosecution, Hikmahanto Juwana argues The international community cannot expect “real justice” from the International Criminal Court (ICC), University of Indonesia international law professor Hikmahanto Juwana has told RT.Juwana argued that the tribunal has undermined its claim to universal justice by disproportionately targeting weaker countries while powerful states evade accountability.His comments came as former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte made his first in-person court appearance since his arrest in March 2025 on an ICC warrant. He faces crimes against humanity charges over alleged…