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The announcement comes just six months after OpenAI launched the standalone Sora app, and ahead of a potential IPO ChatGPT maker OpenAI has announced it is shutting down its Sora app, which went viral last fall as a platform for sharing AI-generated short videos but also raised concerns over realistic deepfakes.In a brief statement on X on Wednesday, OpenAI said it is “saying goodbye to the Sora app,” without giving a reason.“To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you,” the company wrote. “What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news…

Speaking at an event on slavery reparations at the United Nations in New York on Tuesday, Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama accused President Donald Trump of “slowly normalizing the erasure” of black history in America and inspiring other governments to do the same around the world. Mahama was in New York to introduce a U.N. resolution that would recognize the trans-Atlantic slave trade as “the gravest crime in the history of humankind,” for which modern nations should pay reparations. The Ghanaian president used his speech on Tuesday to accuse Trump of wiping out black history by cutting funds to cultural…

Bill Wells, the mayor of El Cajon, California, is ripping the state and Attorney General Rob Bonta for state rules that protect human sex traffickers and block local action to help their victims. Last week, Wells, a Republican, sent a letter to AG Bonta about the 2018 sanctuary city law SB 54 and asked Bonta if his city police officers could conduct mere welfare checks on unaccompanied children using information provided by federal authorities. “The answer should have been yes,” Bonta wrote in an op ed at Fox News. ” Instead, the attorney general’s office warned that even confirming a…

House Democrats will soon have to choose between protecting an embattled colleague or insulating themselves from politically damaging accusations of hypocrisy. The House Ethics Committee will begin the process Thursday of determining whether Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick warrants punishment as extreme as expulsion over accusations that she stole millions in FEMA funds and committed various campaign finance infractions. The bipartisan panel that typically operates in secret is holding a public “trial” — the first in nearly 16 years — that will litigate those allegations as the third-term Florida Democrat faces federal criminal charges in her home state. Cherfilus-McCormick has maintained her…

Pedro Sanchez has warned of a “broader and deeper impact” of the US-Israeli campaign against Tehran The ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran will have “much worse” consequences than the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said, while reaffirming Madrid’s refusal to take part.Addressing the lower house of parliament on Wednesday, Sanchez described the conflict as an “absolute disaster,” saying that it has “undermined international law and destabilized the Middle East.” He added that it has reignited tensions in Iraq and Lebanon, increased insecurity in Gulf states, and exacerbated global energy challenges.”We are not facing the…

President Donald Trump is “prepared to unleash hell” if Iran refuses to “come to a deal,” the White House warned Wednesday, cautioning that the regime “should not miscalculate again” after suffering devastating battlefield losses, as U.S. forces — including Marines and elements of the 82nd Airborne Division — deploy to the Middle East to support combat operations against Iran. Speaking at a White House briefing, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president remains willing to listen as talks with Tehran continue, but stressed the regime is now being given a final opportunity to accept the reality of its battlefield defeat…

Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortionist who was found guilty of killing three babies who were born alive, died in prison this month while serving multiple life sentences.  Gosnell, who ran an abortion clinic in West Philadelphia until he was charged in 2011, died at the age of 85 on March 1, Associated Press reported. Gosnell was imprisoned at SCI Smithfield and was transported to a hospital, where he died just before midnight, Pennsylvania officials said. They did not specify the cause of Gosnell’s death.  Gosnell became infamous for the disgusting conditions in his “house of horrors” abortion clinic and was…

GEORGE BUSH INTERCONTINENTAL AIRPORT, Texas — Passengers at Houston’s largest airport felt an immediate and positive impact as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrived to work alongside unpaid TSA agents. Screening lines that stretched to about four hours, according to airport officials, were reduced to about an hour when the ICE officers’ shift began. Breitbart Texas arrived at Terminal A at George Bush Intercontinental Airport at about 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday. At that time, the TSA Houston Airport Security website indicated a 240-minute (4-hour) wait. After checking luggage, we were directed to the subway level two floors below to join…

Tuesday on MS NOW’s “The Beat,” former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean said if President Donald Trump sends 3,000 troops into Iran, it will be the end of the Republican Party’s grip on power. Dean said, “Trump’s got himself in a real jam. His characteristic, principal characteristics is he does things without thinking about what the consequences are and now we found out. I personally don’t believe we’re going to send 3,000 paratroopers on the ground in Iran, because we’re going to get absolutely slaughtered. The Iranians are a serious power. And one thing I agree with Trump on…

Thriving after the Iran war will take economic endurance, flexibility, and strategic action. Some countries are better prepared than others The current crisis in the Middle East is not merely a security emergency. It is also a profound economic turning point. The ongoing US-Israeli military campaign against Iran, and the regional instability that has followed, are accelerating a structural transformation in the development model of the Gulf monarchies.For decades, the prevailing assumption was that the states of the Gulf could protect prosperity through a combination of hydrocarbon wealth, external security guarantees, and carefully managed regional diplomacy. That model is now…