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The House is back in session, but it might be a short one.Speaker Mike Johnson is looking to tick off the lone essential item on the chamber’s to-do list in lawmakers’ first days back: a Senate-passed, shutdown-averting spending bill.A handful of other priorities are caught up in partisan battles and Senate limbo. Rebel factions in a thin House GOP majority continue to threaten Republicans’ plans of opening the floor for debate. And many Republicans are simply eager to get back home to campaign ahead of the November midterms rather than endure more headaches in Washington.Together, those dynamics have fueled open…

RT explores the reasons why people in the island nation chose to keep the European Union at arm’s length Icelanders appear to have found a way to have their cake and eat it by rejecting a proposal to restart integration talks with the EU, RT’s Rachel Marsden reports.In a referendum on the weekend, almost 53% of voters in the northern Atlantic nation supported maintaining the status quo rather than exploring the possibility of EU membership.The small island country already has access to many of the benefits offered by the economic bloc, but cannot be dictated to by Brussels on key…

A federal appeals court has ruled that the private possession of AI-generated child pornography is protected by the First Amendment, so long as no real child was involved in creating the images. The Seventh Circuit upheld the dismissal of a possession charge against Wisconsin resident Steven Anderegg. According to investigators, Anderegg had hundreds of AI-generated sexually explicit images depicting children on his personal devices. Anderegg still faces three other charges related to allegedly producing and distributing the material and transferring it to a minor under 16. The Justice Department appealed the dismissal, arguing that the government should be permitted to…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian forces relentlessly battered Kyiv and cities in the region around the Ukrainian capital for a fifth straight day Monday, leaving some supermarket shelves bare after repeated strikes on warehouses as Ukraine reels from attacks with jet-powered drones. Russia has intensified its aerial attacks in recent months, more than four years after it invaded its neighbor. Almost constant air raid alerts in the Kyiv region in recent days have severely disrupted daily routines. Two major attacks in July killed almost 50 civilians, and a strike on Saturday killed at least 38 people. Classes were due to…

Socialist Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday accused Israel and Russia of secretly colluding to spread misinformation about the illegal migrant invasion that swamped the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in July. France24 reports Sanchez said the alleged smear campaign, which he maintained had also been magnified by far-right networks, had been driven in part by Madrid’s opposition to the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. The PM mains everything is fast returning to normal on the Spanish outpost and there is no longer anything to worry about for locals or outside commentators. No hard evidence was offered by…

Bonnie Pierce with her daughter (Credit: GoFundMe) A real American mother just showed the country what actual love looks like. Bonnie Pierce, 38, a St. Paul, Minnesota mother of four, died Monday after she ran back into her burning duplex to save her toddler daughter. Firefighters found the unresponsive mom shielding little Grace with her own body. Pierce had already made it outside. She went back in anyway. That is motherhood. That is courage. That is love in its purest and most sacrificial form. According to local reports, St. Paul firefighters were called to a duplex fire in the 700…

The US president shared the clips as American and Iranian forces exchanged strikes for the first time since July US President Donald Trump has published AI-generated clips showing a missile attack on Iran’s Kharg Island oil hub amid a new escalation between Washington and Tehran.US and Iranian forces earlier exchanged strikes for the first time since late July. On Sunday, the US Central Command said it had targeted two Iranian launchers on Larak Island, near the narrowest point of the Strait of Hormuz, which it claimed were preparing to fire rockets carrying sea mines into the waterway, accounting for some…

Former Venezuelan communist tyrant Nicolas Maduro looks slim today – a far cry from his empanada-eating days when the people were starving under his policies. Former Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro has released new photographs from behind bars alongside an emotional message asking supporters for their prayers, solidarity and “true support.” The photographs, posted to Maduro’s official X account on Sunday, show the former dictator looking noticeably slimmer than during his years in power. Dressed in a gray sweatshirt and sweatpants with white sneakers, Maduro smiles and flashes victory signs while standing against the bare walls of his detention facility. The…

The first full day of the annual Afro-Caribbean Notting Hill Carnival in London saw nearly 170 arrested, including for attacks on emergency workers and sexual assaults. Despite considerable efforts to ramp up security for the yearly West London street festival, such as the Metropolitan Police banning 330 people from attending, dozens of zombie knives being seized, 7,000 officers being deployed, and City Hall granting organisers an additional £4.6 million ($6.23m) to hire double the number of “stewards” and to ramp up CCTV surveillance, the multicultural festival was still marred by crime. According to the Met, there were 169 arrests on the first…

Contractors removed three Confederate statues from Virginia’s Capitol Square on Friday under a line item written into the state budget passed by the General Assembly in June. Workers took down the statue of Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, which had stood on the grounds since 1875. Crews also took down a statue of Confederate Army surgeon Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire. It went up in 1904. The third depicted William “Extra Billy” Smith, a Confederate general who twice served as Virginia governor and dated to 1906. Budget Item 71 #1C directed the Department of General Services to remove every Confederate monument…