Author: Press Room

Tuesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said the Senate approved a war powers resolution seeking to block President Donald Trump from restating U.S. military action in Iran. Cooper asked, “So it’s obviously not the first time the Senate held a vote on this measure. Why do you think it’s succeeded today?” Murphy said, “Well, this war is the most unpopular war in modern history. People know that it’s a disaster for our security, but they also are feeling the impact of it. Gas prices are above $6 in a lot of places. Grocery prices are going…

House Republican leaders canceled plans to advance a procedural measure Wednesday that would set up passage of two fiscal 2027 appropriations bills and other legislation this week, according to three people granted anonymity to describe the decision ahead of a public announcement. The decision comes amid pressure from GOP hard-liners to prioritize passage of the SAVE America Act, a Republican elections bill that has stalled in the Senate — and after President Donald Trump refused to sign a high-profile bipartisan housing bill passed Tuesday, also in a bid to get the elections bill moving. Speaker Mike Johnson and other leaders…

LineShine has been declared the world’s fastest supercomputer, overtaking American rival El Capitan China’s LineShine has been named the world’s fastest supercomputer at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, surpassing the US-built El Capitan. It marks the first time since 2017 that a Chinese machine has topped the TOP500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.Supercomputers are used for complex scientific tasks ranging from climate modeling and human brain simulations to cryptography and advanced research.According to rankings released on Tuesday, LineShine, developed by the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, can perform nearly 2.2 quintillion (billion billion) calculations per second.…

The squad will be allowed to arrive two days before its next match after protests of unequal treatment The US has eased travel restrictions on Iran’s national football team at the 2026 World Cup after Tehran protested what it called unequal treatment.Iran’s delegation will leave its base camp in Tijuana, Mexico on Wednesday and travel to Seattle ahead of Friday’s Group C match against Egypt, according to the Iranian Football Federation.Up till now, Iranian players had only been permitted to enter the US one day before matches. The team had to relocate its base camp from Arizona to Mexico and…

The founder of one of China’s largest ecommerce companies has issued a stark warning that its entire delivery workforce of 700,000 people will ultimately be displaced by robotic automation. This replacement of the gig economy with robots, if successful, will spread around the world. The Financial Times reports that Richard Liu, founder and chairman of JD.com, delivered the warning at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO forum in Shenzhen on Sunday, saying that gig economy jobs will eventually become obsolete as robot delivery systems mature. His comments highlight mounting anxiety among Chinese policymakers about how swiftly advancing automation technologies could destabilize employment…

The legislature of the Mexican state of Sinaloa halted a petition filed by the governor requesting the payment of a pension to a retired police chief who is a fugitive wanted by the United States Department of Justice. On Tuesday, officials with the Sinaloa State Legislature held a news conference in which they revealed that the petition had been halted while various committees reviewed it carefully, Sinaloa’s Rio Doce reported. As Breitbart Texas reported, the acting governor of Sinaloa had filed the petition on behalf of Alberto Jorge Contreras, the former head of the State Investigations Agency, who had retired…

SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son told shareholders on Wednesday that artificial intelligence remains in its early stages and any suggestion of a market bubble constitutes a “blasphemy against AI,” adding religious significance to SoftBank’s massive investments in AI companies like Sam Altman’s OpenAI. Reuters reports that speaking at SoftBank’s annual general meeting in Tokyo, the 68-year-old entrepreneur delivered a passionate defense of AI investments amid growing investor skepticism about the sustainability of the current rally. Son, who has guided SoftBank through multiple market cycles including the dot-com boom and bust and the COVID-19 pandemic downturn, insisted that the technology’s…

New York state Assemblymember Claire Valdez defeated her opponents on Tuesday night in the Democrat primary in the race for New York’s 7th Congressional District. With 93 percent of the votes counted, Valdez, who is part of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), received 36,961 votes, or 55.9 percent of the vote, while her opponent, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, received 23,730 votes, or 35.9 percent of the vote. Another candidate, Julie Won, who is a member of the New York City Council, received 4,221 votes, or 6.4 percent of the vote. The Associated Press called the race at 9:23…

Hours after Democratic socialist candidates swept to victory in New York primary races, Republicans celebrated those victories as a boon for their own party as it struggles against headwinds from the Iran war and cost of living issues ahead of the November midterms. Inside a closed-door House GOP meeting Wednesday morning, the head of the Republican campaign arm said the victories of candidates backed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani offered an opportunity for GOP House candidates to draw a sharp contrast. Rep. Richard Hudson of North Carolina said “Democrats have a Bolshevik revolution going on in their primaries,” according…

Rafael Grossi, the head of the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told reporters on Wednesday that his agency would “indeed” conduct inspections of Iranian nuclear sites, as the Iranian terror regime agreed to allow such inspections in its peace deal with America. Grossi made the comments during an ongoing visit to Japan, responding to uncertainty created by Iranian officials claiming that no plan or protocol currently exists for international inspections of its nuclear sites. The Iranian Foreign Ministry did not explicitly deny that it would allow such inspections, but its comments were reported as contradicting President Donald Trump’s…