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On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “The Bottom Line,” co-host Brian Brenberg said that Project Freedom “was the kind of thing that, if we did it, and stuck with it, it would give us leverage unlike we’ve ever had” but now we’re “pausing” it. While speaking with former Deputy National Security Adviser Victoria Coates, Brenberg said, “Alright, Victoria, the impossible task, here, read the tea leaves, what are the chances of a deal? But maybe I’ll just add this to it: I really liked Project Freedom. I thought it was the kind of thing that, if we did…

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has requested a Los Angeles judge to set aside the jury verdict that found the company liable for causing a young woman’s mental health problems, in what represents a pivotal case examining whether social media companies deliberately designed addictive platforms that harm young Americans. Reuters reports that Meta has filed a motion asking a Los Angeles judge to overturn a landmark jury verdict or order a new trial in a case that found the tech giant liable for a woman’s depression. The filing, submitted on Monday and made public on Wednesday, challenges the March verdict that determined Meta…

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Border Czar Tom Homan said that “about 60% of everybody we’re arresting is a criminal. The other 40% are not. I think that’s a good percentage.” Homan said, [relevant remarks begin around 4:20] “[L]ook, we’re going to arrest non-criminals, even though President Trump is prioritizing public safety threats, national security threats. If you look at the numbers right now, about 60% of everybody we’re arresting is a criminal. The other 40% are not. I think that’s a good percentage. I think that’s a better percentage than 40% criminal and 60%…

Forty years after the Delhi Declaration, the world is again searching for a new order, but this time without shared rules or a usable blueprint “A new world order must be built to ensure economic justice and equal political security for all nations. An end to the arms race is an essential prerequisite for the establishment of such an order.”This year marks the 40th anniversary of those words from the Soviet-Indian Delhi Declaration, signed in 1986 during Mikhail Gorbachev’s visit to India and his talks with Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. It was one of the first major documents of the…

Vanishing 100 US dollar banknotegettyU.S. debt has now climbed above the size of the entire economy — a threshold that signals higher borrowing costs, tighter financial conditions and a long stretch of elevated interest rates for households and investors. And while the last time America crossed this kind of fiscal line was during World War II, the forces driving today’s debt surge — and the consequences for markets — look very different. During World War II, when the U.S. entered the conflict in 1941, the day after the Pearl Harbor attack, the country had a lot of work to do.…

A social media user successfully manipulated Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok into helping him scam a second AI chatbot into transferring $200,000 worth of cryptocurrency by sending hidden instructions encoded in Morse code. Dexerto reports that a sophisticated exploit targeting AI systems on the X platform has resulted in the theft of roughly $200,000 in cryptocurrency tokens. The incident demonstrates concerning vulnerabilities in AI-enabled financial systems and their ability to be manipulated through creative social engineering techniques. The exploit involved two separate AI systems with cryptocurrency wallet access: Grok, the chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI company, and Bankrbot, an automated…

The Spanish government has disclosed details of its response plan it intends to deploy for the Dutch cruise ship Hondius, facing a hantavirus outbreak, once it arrives at the Canary Islands this coming weekend. The Hondius and its 147 passengers are expected to arrive at the Port of Granadilla in Tenerife over the weekend after the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) deemed it the nearest safest location to arrive. Per the Spanish Health Ministry, the outbreak aboard the ship has resulted in eight confirmed and suspected cases. Three of those people have died, one is hospitalized in Switzerland, one hospitalized in South Africa, and three symptomatic…

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “All In,” failed Georgia Democratic political candidate Stacey Abrams said that with redistricting, Republicans are “intentionally eroding black voting power.” Host Chris Hayes said, “Stacey, let me just start by by what the scene was like in Tennessee today. We saw lots of protests. We see people sort of marshaling collective, resistance to this, but they are being steamrolled right now, it seems, by a supermajority of Republicans in the state.” Abrams said, “Absolutely. So, Chris, we were in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. No one was allowed in except for those of us…

The alleged trade came shortly before reported progress toward US-Iran deal to end the war, raising suspicions of insider information A massive crude oil bet placed shortly before reports of a possible US-Iran peace deal sent prices crashing and fueled suspicion of insider trading, after the position reportedly generated a $125 million profit in just over an hour.According to market commentary platform the Kobeissi Letter, nearly 10,000 crude oil short contracts were placed around 3:40 AM (07:40 GMT) on Wednesday “without any major news,” describing the roughly $920 million position as unusually large for that time of day.At 4:50 AM,…

Only the blackest of hearts need apply The old line about “truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne” comes to mind regularly now, as I observe the dying throes of the American Republic. It’s probably fitting that we’ve closed most of the mental institutions, since the entire country has largely devolved into the largest insane asylum the world has ever seen. Now, I understand that, being mere peasants and all, we don’t have the pleasure of seeing who our real rulers are. So I can only assess the leaders we can see, and they are the most pathetic lot imaginable. Not…