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GOP incumbent Paula Stark (Credit: Florida House) A stunning paperwork failure has handed Democrats a guaranteed pickup in Florida House District 47 without forcing them to win a November general election. Democrats have effectively flipped a Republican-held seat in the Florida House after GOP incumbent Paula Stark failed to qualify for the ballot and her legal effort to reverse the disastrous mistake collapsed in court. Leon County Circuit Judge Joshua Hawkes formally dismissed Stark’s lawsuit on July 23 and ordered the clerk to close the case, ending the Republican lawmaker’s last-ditch attempt to regain her place on the 2026 ballot,…
President Donald Trump met separately with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the three leaders’ expected attendance at late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) funeral on Wednesday. Trump first met with Zelensky in the Oval Office away from reporters and cameras beginning at 9:47 a.m., per the White House press pool. “A good meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office. Thank you for everything we are doing together to protect the lives of Ukrainians and achieve peace,” Zelensky said after the meeting concluded. “First and foremost, I expressed to President Trump our condolences regarding the…
Open source AI platform Hugging Face is under fire after new research revealed widespread use of its tools to create nonconsensual deepfake pornography despite ongoing global efforts to crack down on such technology. Deepfake porn of women and even children previously got Elon Musk’s Grok AI in legal trouble in multiple countries. Wired reports that a comprehensive investigation by nonprofit group AI Forensics has uncovered significant problems with sexually explicit deepfake creation on Hugging Face, a major open-source AI platform valued in the billions of dollars. The research, published Tuesday, raises serious concerns about content moderation and safety practices on one…
The quake destroyed a shopping mall in the city of Kumamoto, trapping shoppers under rubble A magnitude 7.1 earthquake has struck Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan’s southern Kyushu region, causing extensive damage and killing “a considerable number of people,” according to local media. The quake struck just before 4:30 PM local time on Tuesday, with its epicenter around 20 km south of Kumamoto, a city of 700,000 people. Video footage showed roads cracking, bridges collapsing, and buildings swaying as the tremor hit.🔥道路が大陥没🔥しているので、ドライバーさん、安全運転してくださいね。今、熊本で震度7の地震が発生し大変なことになっています。とにかく、落ち着いて行動してください。 pic.twitter.com/sFFSbGIqI3— とうしろう（5号）守若 冬史郎🙄 (@tourouken555) July 28, 2026Police responded to reports of an explosion at Aeon Mall in Kumamoto, and found…
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill announces she will not release the list of the 6,600 non-citizens registered to vote in New Jersey. Credit: Governor Mikie Sherrill Facebook Video Screenshot New Jersey Democratic Governor Mikie Sherrill is refusing to let the truth shine regarding the ongoing voter roll scandal, as the software vendor she blamed for it is now revealing what really happened. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Sherrill took to X last Tuesday to say that she had learned of a “serious software error” in the state’s Motor Vehicle System that allowed thousands of foreign nationals to register to vote…
Shared conversation links from Anthropic’s Claude AI assistant were discoverable through Google search results over the weekend, exposing potentially sensitive user discussions to public view. Cyber Security News reports that a discovery posted on Reddit this weekend revealed that hundreds of shared Claude AI conversations had become publicly accessible through Google searches. Users who performed specific search queries, such as “site:claude.ai/share,” could locate and access conversations that included legal advice, engineering work, and personal discussions without requiring direct links from the original conversation owners. The Claude AI platform includes a share feature that generates public URLs allowing users to send their…
The Central Asian nation of Tajikistan is majority Muslim, but its government recently launched a crackdown against Islamic headscarves and long beards for men, on the grounds that such attire is “alien to Tajik culture.” New interviews with Tajik Muslims show the government is pursuing this policy with gusto, causing headaches for American officials who want to build a closer relationship with Tajikistan. Radio Free Europe (RFE) reported on Sunday that the crackdown on Muslim attire has been effective. One Tajik Muslim interviewed by the outlet explained that he was arrested, fined about $18, and held for three days because…
Brazil’s socialist government on Monday announced that it requested consultations with the World Trade Organization (WTO) over the new tariffs recently imposed by the U.S. on the South American nation. President Donald Trump announced this month that a large list of Brazilian goods entering the U.S. will be subject to an additional 25-percent tariff after the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) found the South American nation engaging in unfair trading practices to the detriment of U.S. farmers, workers, innovators, and exporters. Additionally, Brazil is also among the list of 60 countries that is subject to new tariffs of up to 12.5 percent…
Independent Montana Senate candidate Seth Bodnar could withdraw from the state’s U.S. Senate race before the Aug. 10 filing deadline if Democrat nominee Alani Bankhead remains on the ballot. Republican strategists and political operatives told Breitbart News that Bodnar’s campaign has struggled to gain traction despite spending by both the campaign and an allied super PAC. “Things are bleak for Seth right now. He’s spending all of his campaign and super PAC money trying to generate momentum, but he just hasn’t caught on yet,” said one well-connected Montana Republican strategist. “If Alani refuses to drop out, there is really nothing…
Senate Republicans will hear from White House budget director Russ Vought and President Donald Trump’s top legislative aide, James Braid, at their weekly Wednesday lunch. Former Speaker Newt Gingrich will also attend, according to a person granted anonymity to disclose private scheduling, as will Ukrainian drone commanders who are expected to speak about drone production. The visit from Vought and Braid comes as GOP senators struggle to coalesce behind a budget blueprint for a new $95 billion party-line spending bill that is backed by the White House. Read the full article here