Author: Press Room
Major League Baseball (MLB) will restrict iPad use in dugouts to prevent AI from being used to run strategy decisions. Adam Ottavino, former reliever for the New York Mets, said his team’s past use of technology spurred the MLB into pushing restrictions on iPad use, which have “access to video and league-provided data, and also included a custom tab where teams could access other programs,” per the Associated Press. Speaking on his Baseball & Coffee livestream, Ottavino, who pitched for the Mets between 2022-24, said that his former team’s owner, Steve Cohen, even spent money on AI software, leading to…
A senior Iranian official told Reuters on Monday that “mediators” have shopped a proposal to Iran that would “de-escalate” the conflict with the United States by first establishing a ten-day ceasefire, and then building up to “revive” the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that was signed in June. Reuters’ unnamed source was short on details about the proposal, including the identity of the “mediators” who offered it. Qatar, Pakistan, and briefly Oman have all presented themselves as mediators between the United States and Iran at various points in negotiations over the past five months. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said…
Jonathan Cain, a keyboardist and guitarist for the rock band Journey, slammed left-wing rocker Bruce Springsteen as an “annoying, bitter old man” who should “shut up” about politics. “You were ‘Born in the USA,’ weren’t you?” Cain said of Springsteen, adding, “So act like it.” “We’re blessed to live where we live,” Cain said during a recent appearance on the Tom Barnard Podcast. “And I’m obviously a conservative. I used to be a Democrat back in the old days, but I just couldn’t go there anymore.” “I thought Obama, maybe, but then I saw where he was going and I’m, like, ‘Okay,…
A man who raped a 10-year-old child repeatedly is now back in his native Laos — no thanks to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who had pardoned the man who had a removal order due to his criminal history. It took intervention from Secretary of State Marco Rubio to get the man’s legal status revoked after the pardon. But the biggest paper in Minnesota, the Minnesota Star Tribune, is hailing Gov. Walz’s decision. Their reason to allow a child rapist to walk the streets of Minnesota when it could be deported? The events of Jan. 6, 2021, of course. One does…
Far-left commentator Hasan Piker berated moderate liberals at a College Democrats of America (CDA) convention in Washington, DC, while wearing a suit in the style of Chinese dictator Mao Zedong. Piker, the millennial Marxist live-streamer and millionaire nephew of the Young Turks’ Cenk Uyhur, took to the stage at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center to call out Democrats who cooperate with the “fascist” government: Anti-gun rights activist Shannon R. Watts criticized Piker’s speech and appearance, writing on X that he was, “Dressed like Mao and talking about how much he hates the majority of Democrats as an invited guest…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is arresting 2,000 migrants per day, immigration czar Tom Homan told a press gaggle at the White House on Monday. “We’re having about 2,000 pretty steady,” he told the reporters, who were focused on asking questions about their own narratives related to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) body cameras and oversight. Homan used the brief event to defend DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin as he and President Donald Trump zigzag between the GOP’s pro-deportation voters and the business sector’s demand for more migrant workers, consumers, and renters: Me and Markwayne want to get along well. He…
Sens. Thom Tillis and John Cornyn — both Republicans spurned by the Trump administration for not being adequately loyal — are now being actively courted by the White House to confirm a key Cabinet official. The Trump administration is engaging directly with Tillis and Cornyn’s aides as the North Carolina and Texas lawmakers continue to withhold firm commitments to voting to confirm attorney general nominee Todd Blanche in the Judiciary Committee — where a single “no” vote on the GOP side of the aisle could tank his prospects. Tillis and Cornyn both confirmed the back-and-forth in interviews on Capitol Hill…
Dozens of soldiers were injured in previously unreported strikes last week, the New York Times says The Pentagon has withheld information about dozens of service members injured during the war with Iran, The New York Times reported on Monday, citing US officials.On Friday, Iran struck a US military site in Jordan, killing two soldiers, wounding four, and leaving one missing. According to the Times, however, dozens of service members were injured throughout the week in three other strikes against US forces in the country. Several helicopters were also reportedly damaged in the attacks.An official told CNN that “it can take…
The Orange traffic barrel on the side of Arizona State Route 60 looked like any other piece of construction equipment. It had the same yellow-and-white striping, the same tapered shape. It also had a camera lens carved into both sides, a solar panel, and a cellular transmitter feeding data to a private company’s servers. License plate readers disguised as traffic barrels. Orange traffic cones with cameras inside. Speed trap signs with AI-powered sensors. This is how Flock Safety operates — a $7.5 billion surveillance company that has deployed more than 100,000 cameras across the United States, more than any law…
President Donald Trump on Monday imposed a 50 percent duty on a variety of Canadian goods, including alcohol, dairy products, hockey sticks, and many others. The White House published the proclamation late in the afternoon, and the duties the United States is imposing are through Section 228 of the Tariff Act of 1930. A White House fact sheet lays out some of the Canadian products that are affected: Each Section 338 proclamation imposes a 50% tariff on a different set of Canadian imports, covering products ranging from wine to hockey sticks to cement. These Section 338 tariffs apply to all…