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A U.S. Olympic snowboarder used a viral meme to convey her dismay and disgust at her teammates’ decision to visit President Trump at the White House on Thursday. Maddie Mastro, a three-time U.S. Olympic snowboarder, took to her TikTok page Wednesday and posted a video that left no doubt about her feelings on the upcoming White House visit. @maddie_mastro Ewww ♬ original sound – Staryxox ✪ The voice used in the post is from a viral meme of Mohamed Hoblos, a Lebanese-born Islamic cleric who resides in Australia and recently gained notoriety for, among other things, telling his Muslim followers that…
The US Health Secretary is seeking to decertify Network for Hope over claims it sought to retrieve organs from man who showed signs of life US authorities have moved to shut down an organ donation group accused of pressing ahead with an operation despite a donor showing signs of life.Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the move on Wednesday as part of a broader overhaul of the US organ procurement system.He described Network for Hope, a Kentucky-based nonprofit organization, as “a bad apple” with “persistent safety failures.” One of over 50 such NPOs in the US,…
President Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office – Aug. 6, 2026 President Trump vowed “big crackdowns” on birth tourism on Thursday after he signed two executive orders placing new restrictions on birthright citizenship and banning birth tourism. This comes after the Supreme Court ruled last month to strike down President Trump’s January 2025 executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of temporary tourists and people who are in the country illegally. Trump’s new executive orders target those intentionally traveling to the US for the sole purpose of having a child and use the Supreme Court’s ruling to…
The youngest black professor ever at the University of Cambridge has resigned after the institution announced it was finally launching an investigation into allegations of plagiarism, as other claims of potentially fake hate crimes and alleged embellishment of his CV swirl. Erstwhile Professor of sociology of education Jason Arday at the prestigious University of Cambridge and Jesus College Cambridge tendered his immediate resignation overnight, a sudden change in course after months of punchy denials from both the academic and the institution over probity claims that range from allegedly faked publications, alleged thesis plagiarism, to claims of alleged acts of physical intimidation against…
During an interview aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Vice President JD Vance said that resolving the situation in Iran is “going to be messy and it’s going to take some time to get there” but there will be a positive result. Vance said that if people “want to make me own the effort to try to bring this war to a successful conclusion, I’m happy to let them make me own it. I am absolutely trying to do that. But, to your point, that sometimes requires one step forward, two steps back, then three steps…
Mark Zuckerberg’s company has said its flagship LLM carried out a hacking operation following similar admissions by OpenAI and Anthropic Meta has become the third major tech company to report its AI going rogue and hacking a third-party company. The incident involved Muse Spark 1.1, an AI model marketed by the company as “superintelligent.”In a statement to the media on Wednesday, Meta said that the model was undergoing testing by a cybersecurity company, Irregular, when it “exploited a security vulnerability” in Irregular’s systems, accessed the open internet, and hacked an unnamed third company.Meta blamed the incident on a “misconfiguration” in…
A court on Thursday ordered Meta to pay $567 million into a fund over child harm. New Mexico Judge Bryan Biedscheid compared Meta to air pollution and called it a “public nuisance.” “Although Meta is not alone in this regard, its social media platforms are a significant contributing factor to the current mental health crisis among New Mexico’s youth established by the substantial evidence in this case,” Judge Bryan Biedscheid wrote in the ruling on Thursday, CNBC reported. KCRA reported: A New Mexico court has ordered Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta to pay $567 million to address harms to…
Colombian President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella, set to assume the office on Friday, is expected to withdraw the country from China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), President Donald Trump’s nominee to represent America in the country told Congress on Wednesday. Kentucky businessman Nate Morris made the assertion during a Congressional hearing related to his nomination to serve as ambassador to Bogotá. “The president-elect has let me know his commitment to exiting the memorandum of understanding,” Colombian news outlets quoted Morris as saying, referring to outgoing President Gustavo Petro’s promise to join the BRI. “I think that, obviously, all nations should…
The independent news outlet Iran International reported this week that Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was only allowed to meet with alleged “Supreme Leader” Mojtaba Khamenei once since the latter was chosen to rule the country under bizarre circumstances in which Pezeshkian could not be sure who he was talking to. The report, published on Tuesday, preceded Pezeshkian himself addressing his relationship with the younger Khamenei on state media in a televised interview on Thursday, claiming that it was “very difficult” to communicate with him. Khamenei’s father, Ali Khamenei, ruled the country with an iron fist as “supreme leader” for decades…
Rep. Andy Gogles lost to challenger Charlie Hatcher on Thursday night. Rep. Andy Ogles lost his primary on Thursday night to challenger Charlie Hatcher. Tennessee has an open primary. Decision Desk HQ projects Charlie Hatcher wins the Tennessee US House 5 Republican Primary#DecisionMade: 9:36 PM EDT pic.twitter.com/3OTWKrUiyZ — Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) August 7, 2026 President Trump endorsed Ogles in the race. A radical clean energy group funded Hatcher’s campaign. Hatcher was elevated on the airwaves by repeated attacks against Ogles from Invest in Tomorrow Coalition’s super PAC. Ogles is a member of the Freedom Caucus. Decision Desk now projects…