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Despite a stern message from party leaders, a panel of House Democrats did not settle on any particular consequences for the pair of lawmakers who crossed party lines Tuesday to advance an otherwise troubled slate of Republican-led bills.Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and fellow leaders said the matter would be reviewed by the Democratic Committee on Caucus Rules, which convened Wednesday morning for a prescheduled listening session.Attendees discussed possible changes to the rules that govern House Democrats’ conduct for next term. Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.), the panel’s chair, suggested to reporters that discussion included what should happen if members vote with…
Balendra Shah says flooded hydropower tunnels have become completely blocked, as hundreds remain trapped Mud and water have almost completely blocked hydropower tunnels in Nepal’s flood-hit north, complicating efforts to reach the more than 600 workers feared trapped underground, Prime Minister Balendra Shah has told parliament.Shah said the floodwaters had carried large amounts of mud and soil into the tunnels in the Bhote Koshi-Trishuli corridor last week, creating an unusual and difficult rescue environment. Nearly 4,000 people remain missing in the country as authorities continue search and rescue efforts eight days after the floods.The death toll from the flood is…
Bowe Bergdahl is seen alongside a Taliban captor during his nearly five years in captivity after abandoning his Army post in Afghanistan in 2009. The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Tuesday that a federal district court had no authority to overturn former Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s military conviction for desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. Remember Bowe Bergdahl? He’s the Army soldier who walked off his post in Afghanistan in 2009, left his brothers in a war zone, and triggered a desperate search that cost American lives. Bergdahl abandoned his post in Afghanistan…
Elon Musk addressed a virtual session of the G20 yesterday, laying out predictions on AI, humanoid robots and regulation. According to Musk, within 10 years, 1 billion humanoid robots will outproduce all of humanity. CNBC reports that Musk covered four topics: power constraints on AI, the technology’s economic potential, humanoid robotics, and how governments should regulate emerging tech. Robotics is where Musk got more specific about mechanics. He described humanoid robot usefulness as the product of three factors: AI software, the onboard AI chip, and electromechanical dexterity, particularly in the hands. All three are improving exponentially, he said. Once robots start manufacturing…
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil giant Chevron confirmed that it will expand its operations in Venezuela, just days after President Donald Trump announced an ambitious deal to develop the nation’s oil reserves and give the Pentagon a stake in the profits. Chevron, the only U.S. oil company that has a major presence in the country, said Wednesday that it has been assigned additional acreage in the Orinoco Belt, where the company has an established position. Joint venture plans include investing more than $7 billion over the next five years, more than doubling production to approximately 600,000 barrels a day compared…
An armed customer in Cedar Hill, Texas, shot and killed an alleged bank robber Monday morning in a Chase branch around 9:00 a.m. FOX 4 News reported that the alleged robber was armed with a knife and “demanded money from bank employees.” NBC DFW noted that an armed customer intervened by pulling his gun and shooting the alleged robber. The wounded suspect then fled the bank and was found outside by responding officers. The alleged robber was given first aid and transported to a hospital, where he died. The armed customer waited on scene and cooperated with police and an investigation into…
Sen. Thom Tillis renewed his call for President Donald Trump to fire Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday, following the resignation earlier this week of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll.“I have never witnessed more inept management of the brave men and women who serve our country,” the outgoing two-term North Carolina Republican wrote on X. “He is intimidated by competence and retreats to ginning up culture wars instead of soberly attending to the vital work of our national defense and the health and well-being of our fighting force.”Driscoll, whose long-rumored resignation became official this week, had clashed with Hegseth over the…
The white American nurse, accused of murdering her three young children, has the odds rigged in her favor, Reese Everson has told RT The white American mother accused of murdering her three young children would have instantly been “painted a criminal” had she been African-American, former US congressional attorney and women’s rights advocate Reese Everson has claimed in an interview with RT on Tuesday.Lindsay Clancy’s defense has not denied that she strangled her three children in January 2023. Her lawyers have argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time and was therefore not criminally responsible for her…
Scott Gottlieb Newly released documents are raising explosive questions about what pharmaceutical insiders and America’s intelligence community knew about COVID-19 immunity during the earliest months of the pandemic and why Americans were hearing a dramatically different story in public. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) released records detailing a May 7, 2020, CIA briefing involving Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former FDA commissioner who had joined Pfizer’s board of directors the previous year. Paul announced on X: “I released documents showing Pfizer and the CIA privately acknowledged high population immunity as early as May 2020, while the public heard a different story. Americans…
President Donald Trump said Monday night that he “couldn’t care less” whether Iran signs what he called a “worthless” agreement with the United States, declaring that Washington is better positioned with “almost total control” of the Strait of Hormuz as he called on the Iranian people to “rise up and fight.” “I’m not trying to force Iran to the bargaining table, as ABC Fake News reported,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I couldn’t care less if they sign a worthless, to them, agreement.” Trump said he preferred the current U.S. position, pointing to what he described as “almost total control”…