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The UAE said an unidentified drone struck the territory of its only nuclear power plant on Sunday amid ongoing tensions in the Middle East.According to the Emirati Defense Ministry, three drones entered the country “from the western border region.” While two UAVs were shot down, the third struck an electrical generator “outside the inner perimeter” of the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant in the Al Dhafra region. No injuries or radioactive contamination were reported.While the Emirati authorities stopped short of directly accusing Iran, the country’s Foreign Ministry condemned the “unprovoked terrorist attack,” saying it threatened national security and risked further escalation.…

The Labour Party mayor that Westminster insiders want to be the next Prime Minister needs a Parliamentary seat to take the nation’s highest political office, but what if Nigel Farage stopped him from even getting that far? Britain faces its most consequential by-election (special election) in recent memory, one that could very well decide who the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is, and possibly even the Prime Minister after that. But why does so much hinge on such a small election? A quick recap first: Following years of economic stagnation, failures to clamp down on migration, and numerous…

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Sen. Bill Cassidy’s (R-LA) loss in the Louisiana Republican primary showed there was “no room” in the Republican Party to oppose President Donald Trump’s agenda. Host Kristen Welker said, “Let me ask you about the news overnight, Senator Bill Cassidy losing his primary in Louisiana. You worked closely with Senator Cassidy on a range of different issues, including a plan to replace Obamacare. He, of course, voted to convict President Trump back in 2021. And the impeachment trial. Now he’s lost his seat. Are you glad that Senator Cassidy…

House Republican leaders are forging ahead on a bipartisan housing affordability bill Wednesday — without the partisan elections bill President Donald Trump demanded to be attached over the weekend. Four people granted anonymity to describe internal deliberations said there are no plans to add in the SAVE America Act as Trump demanded on Truth Social — a version of which the House passed in February. “We’ve already passed it,” one senior House GOP aide said, calling passage of the elections bill a Senate issue. The episode underscores how President Donald Trump is wielding immense sway over his party by torpedoing…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has strongly criticized Americans who believe we shouldn’t sell advanced artificial intelligence hardware to China, focusing especially on analogies comparing AI chips to nuclear weapons. Huang called such comparisons stupid and fundamentally flawed during a recent speaking engagement at Stanford University. Tom’s Hardware reports that during a guest appearance at Stanford’s CS 153 Frontier Systems course, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang addressed controversial questions about export controls on AI chips and access to advanced computing hardware by nations considered adversaries to the United States. The session, which was streamed on YouTube, covered various aspects of the hardware…

This weekend’s Eurovision Song Contest, the 70th edition of the spectacle, continued Israel’s streak of coming in second place, but represented a massive diplomatic and public relations win for a country leftist agitators have been trying to expel from the event for years. Pro-Hamas and general leftist activists – including, prominently, Swedish environmental protester Greta Thunberg – have called for Israel to be expelled from the contest and threatened to boycott the event in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks on the country by Hamas, accusing Israel of “genocide” for actions to ensure that Hamas could not…

The Democratic Party’s dominance of the Golden State may be waning. More than 900,000 ballots turned in by early voters in the June 2 primary show more than a three-fold surge in Republican votes compared to the last governor’s race four years ago, according to newly released data. Data linked in a post over the weekend from the research firm Political Data (PDI) showed that “out of 905,889 ballots that have been returned, 37% were from Republicans, with Republican returns up 11% compared to the same stage of the 2022 midterms.” the California Post reported. The data also showed that…

Washington is no longer confronting Beijing from a position of unquestioned domination Last week’s Trump-Xi summit produced no dramatic declaration or historic treaty – yet its importance may prove far greater than any immediate deliverable. What happened in Beijing was not a breakthrough in policy but a breakthrough in recognition: the United States openly acknowledged China as an equal center of global power. That alone marks a historic turning point.For decades, American administrations approached China from the assumption that Beijing was either a manageable challenger or a state that would eventually integrate into a US-led international order on American terms.…

Tesla’s autonomous vehicle division has disclosed that two robotaxi crashes involved remote teleoperators controlling the vehicles from afar, according to newly unredacted safety data submitted to federal regulators. TechCrunch reports that Tesla Robotaxis experienced at least two crashes while being remotely controlled by teleoperators, according to information recently revealed in documents submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Both incidents occurred in Austin, Texas, at low speeds, with safety monitors present in the vehicles and no passengers onboard. The disclosure comes after Tesla previously redacted crash descriptions in its NHTSA submissions, claiming the information constituted confidential business information. However,…

A large majority of Germans say they are “concerned” about the state of the government and see no political options for improvement, yet paradoxically, a plurality says they don’t want the present political settlement, in which the country’s highest-polling party remains locked out of government, to change. A considerable 84 per cent of Germans say they feel “great or very great” concern about the political “state of affairs” in their country, polling finds, as faith in the government’s ability to find the right answers continues to collapse. That the answer to Germany’s problems requires more than just a new government was underlined…