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Rahm Emanuel is traveling to South Carolina after spending the past week in New Hampshire, extending a multi-state tour that has fueled speculation about a potential 2028 presidential campaign. The former Obama White House chief of staff and former mayor of Chicago is scheduled to appear in Spartanburg on Wednesday evening for a conversation with NBC “Today” co-anchor Craig Melvin at Wofford College. Emanuel also has planned stops at Spartanburg Community College, USC Upstate, and Claflin University during his South Carolina visit. The South Carolina trip followed a week in New Hampshire where Emanuel met with educators, students, lawmakers, business…

A report has alleged that the husband of former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem, Byron, has been leading a double life as a cross-dresser. The report in the Daily Mail featured images of Noem’s husband wearing hot pink underwear along with a skin-colored shirt with large, fake breasts underneath. He had reportedly been engaged in a “bimbofication” fetish that focused on an exaggerated sexual female appearance: The Daily Mail has reviewed hundreds of messages involving three women from the “bimbofication” scene – where porn performers transform themselves into real-life Barbie dolls by pumping colossal amounts of saline into their…

The highly confidential internal design of the Amazon-backed tech was published due to “human error” AI giant Anthropic has mistakenly published its own top secret internal code, triggering a viral wave of github rewrites and inflicting potentially catastrophic commercial damage on the Amazon-backed business model.The developer of the Claude chatbot described the incident as a release issue “caused by human error, not a security breach,” according to US technology news website VentureBeat on Tuesday.Anthropic was designated a “risk to national security” by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in February after disagreements with the Pentagon over the use of its artificial…

Software giant Oracle stunned thousands of workers across the globe Tuesday by notifying them of their termination via email sent at 6:00 a.m. The layoffs are designed to free up cash for the company’s aggressive AI expansion. The New York Post reports that Oracle, one of the world’s largest software companies, carried out widespread job cuts this week that eliminated thousands of positions worldwide. Larry Ellison’s tech powerhouse delivered the news to affected employees through an impersonal early morning email that designated Tuesday as their final day of employment. The termination message, copies of which were obtained by Business Insider, stated:…

President Donald Trump will address the nation on Wednesday night to give “an important update” regarding the ongoing war against Iran, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced. “Tomorrow night at 9PM ET, President Trump will give an Address to the Nation to provide an important update on Iran,” Leavitt wrote in a post on X. The news of Trump’s address comes as he told CBS News’s Weijia Jiang on Tuesday that the United States’ Operation Epic Fury was “two weeks ahead of schedule.” In a thread on X, Jiang added that Trump told her “not much” else “has to…

Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas is drawing widespread criticism after suggesting that workers should welcome being replaced by AI because most people dislike their jobs anyway. The New York Post reports that the co-founder of the San Francisco-based conversational AI company made the controversial remarks during a recent appearance on the All-In Podcast, where he framed widespread job displacement as a positive development that would ultimately benefit society. “The reality is most people don’t enjoy their jobs,” Srinivas said during the interview. He went on to argue that automation would create new opportunities for displaced workers to pursue entrepreneurship. “There’s…

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) claimed that President Donald Trump is “trying to steal an election by making it so that people can’t vote.” Meeks said, “The President is trying to [do] what I call as an African American, Jim Crow 2.0, preventing individuals from voting and putting up all kinds of obstacles for people, almost 30, 40% of the country, a lot of women will now have obstacles to voting, because if they’re using their husband’s name, they would not have their maiden names on their new identification, on their driver’s license,…

TMZ has launched an effort to shame members of Congress into ending their recess early and funding the Department of Homeland Security — and many congressional aides are quietly delighting in the celebrity gossip site’s interest in covering Congress. “I am super stoked,” said one Hill staffer granted anonymity to speak candidly. “I think a lot of offices, particularly ones who aren’t in major media markets, are in for a rude awakening.” “My attitude is any new press that forces members to be sharper and for comms staffers to be more nimble is a good thing,” the staffer added. Staffers…

Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not a temporary deviation, but a sign of what is to come By Igor Zevelev, political analyst US President Donald Trump’s approach to foreign policy is often dismissed as chaotic or erratic. In reality, it reflects a deeper shift that is unlikely to disappear when he leaves office. Beneath the surface lies a consistent worldview, one shaped by populism and nationalism, that’s steadily gaining ground, both within the United States and globally.This shift is already reshaping long-standing institutions. Nowhere is this more visible than in Washington’s relationship with its European allies.For decades, US foreign policy rested…

AI company Anthropic has accidentally exposed the source code for its widely-used coding assistant Claude Code, marking the second significant data leak to affect the company in less than a week. Fortune reports that the latest incident comes mere days after Fortune revealed that Anthropic had inadvertently made nearly 3,000 internal files publicly accessible, including a draft blog post describing an upcoming AI model called “Mythos” or “Capybara” that the company warned presents serious cybersecurity risks. This second leak exposed approximately 500,000 lines of code contained within roughly 1,900 files. When contacted for comment, Anthropic acknowledged that “some internal source…