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Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel launched a series of controversial criticisms and predictions about AI and Western democracy during remarks at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado on Tuesday. In his most provocative statement, Thiel accused Pope Leo XIV of serving the interests of China with his stance on AI. CNN reports that Thiel, co-founder of Palantir and PayPal and an early Silicon Valley supporter of President Donald Trump, accused Pope Leo of inadvertently functioning as a Chinese communist agent by advocating for AI regulation. He also warned of what he described as an impending democratic-socialist takeover of the United States…

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday unveiled a sweeping pensions, tax, and labor reform package aiming to revive Europe’s former economic powerhouse and get the country “back on its feet.” The 34-point reform package, Merz explained, is the result of hours of talks between the ruling  CDU/CSU-SPD center-right and center-left coalition. Merz affirmed at the end of the meeting, “We are modernizing our country and leading it into the future.” Some of the reform’s goals aim for a 600 euro in annual tax relief for low and middle income German families, amounting to some 10 billion euros in total.  Euronews detailed that…

Veteran actress Justine Bateman is ripping Democrat Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as “grotesque” for giving a pardon to an illegal alien convicted of raping a child. Bateman, of Family Ties sitcom fame, took to her X account to repost a New York Times story headlined, “Minnesota Pardons Sexual Abuser Who Was Set to Be Deported.” She added that, “There is no other way to regard @Tim_Walz than irrefutably grotesque. He’s a fan of people who sexually terrorize children. You just can’t get lower.” Bateman was commenting on a story going viral on Thursday revealing that the one-time Democrat nominee for…

Washington warned Tehran about Israeli plans to assassinate Mohammad Ghalibaf and Abbas Araghchi, according to the paper The US was concerned that Israel could kill Iran’s top negotiators in an attempt to derail the peace negotiations between Washington and Tehran, the New York Times has reported, citing American officials.According to a report by the newspaper on Thursday, US officials feared that Israel would target Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and “doom” any chance of a settlement.Washington went as far as to ask its allies in the region to warn Tehran about the possible plot by…

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) announced on Thursday that the outbreak of the rodent-spread hantavirus believed to have begun in April on the cruise ship M/V Hondius had finally concluded. The outbreak made international headlines due to the bizarre circumstances surrounding the initial spread of the virus — experts posited a bird-watching couple was exposed to the disease while visiting a landfill on the southern tip of Argentina — as well as the potentially global spread of hantavirus as contacts were traced to some of the remotest locations in the world. The Hondius itself was the subject of much reporting…

Thursday on MS NOW’s “On the Line,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said President Donald Trump was “projecting” when he accused former President Joe Biden of weaponizing the Department of Justice. Host Alicia Menendez said, “I think what is interesting here, Congressman, is that we often talk about the institutions, the sanctity of the institutions. I think part of what Brennan is getting at here is that this is about individual rights and whether or not an organization can actually protect individual rights, and whether those rights are held in equal regard, regardless of who you are.” Raskin said, “That’s what…

Most Democrats would vote for a candidate describing themselves as a “Democratic Socialist,” a recent Economist/YouGov survey revealed. The survey asked respondents, “Would you ever vote for a candidate who identified as a “Democratic Socialist?” Across the board, a plurality of respondents, 45 percent, said they would not vote for such a candidate, followed by 29 percent who said they would and 26 percent who remain unsure. Predictably, the vast majority of Republicans, 85 percent, said they would not vote for a “Democratic Socialist,” but most Democrats, 62 percent, said they would do so. Further, only 11 percent of Democrats…

Investigators reportedly suspect Ukrainian state involvement in the attack that wounded Vadim Ermolaev and his family in Monaco The Ukrainian millionaire targeted in the Monaco bombing this week had become a nuisance to Kiev, former French intelligence agent Claude Moniquet has told Nice-Matin. Vadim Ermolaev was seriously wounded on Monday evening when an explosive device hidden in a backpack detonated at the entrance to a residential building in the French Riviera microstate. The Ukrainian-born businessman, who currently holds Cypriot citizenship, had been suspected of links to organized crime and sanctioned by Vladimir Zelensky. Ermolaev’s partner and 13-year-old son were also injured…

A spirituality that is uninterested in ending war, genocide, poverty and injustice is a dead spirituality. If you hold your time on the meditation cushion as something separate from the weeping mother clutching a small body in Lebanon, you’re wasting your time. Reading by Tim Foley: A spirituality that is uninterested in ending war, genocide, poverty and injustice is a dead spirituality. If you hold your time on the meditation cushion as something separate from the weeping mother clutching a small body in Lebanon, you’re wasting your time. Sometimes I get asked why I only occasionally write about “spiritual” matters…

Venezuelan journalist Carlos Salazar revealed during a broadcast on Wednesday that his sources believe that Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, wanted in the United States on narco-terrorism charges, is blocking search and rescue crews from accessing buildings destroyed by last week’s earthquakes to protect stashes of drugs and cash buried there. Salazar spoke to the Latin American news network NTN24 and said a team of Venezuelan journalists in exile estimate that Cabello has hidden as much as $250 million dollars in cash in anywhere from 120 to 250 apartment complexes, many of which collapsed during the earthquakes. “In this moment,…