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Retiring Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) becomes the latest lawmaker to announce a forthcoming book — but this one will take aim at his own party and President Donald Trump. “How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents” will explore how a group of “grifting sycophants and useful idiots” have impacted the second Trump administration, according to a new summary from his publisher released Thursday. Tillis has clashed publicly with the president and members of his administration, particularly after Trump effectively forced him into retirement. In an interview with MS NOW on Thursday, Tillis said those individuals — whom he dubs as…
Indiana Governor Mike Braun said strikes on shipping in the Black Sea contributed to “unnaturally” high gas prices Governor Mike Braun has declared a new energy emergency in the US state of Indiana, citing attacks on shipping linked to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.In a post on X on Wednesday, Braun said he had signed an executive order extending the suspension of the state’s gasoline use and excise taxes, which had been due to be reinstated on Friday, through September 5.“This new energy emergency is prompted by new disruptions to global oil shipping lanes in recent weeks, in the Black Sea/Kerch Strait…
The White House has released a series of now-declassified documents regarding the 2020 election. In one document specifically, details surrounding a mysterious incident that took place in Maricopa County have been revealed. The newly-declassified documents show that a hacker was able to obtain approximately 633,000 records of Maricopa County voters, including information on 930 voters that was not publicly available, including domestic abuse victims, according to a letter from FBI Director Kash Patel to the White House Task Force on Government Transparency. However, according to an interview in November 2020 with a redacted name, the hacker believed they had extracted 1,000,000…
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has promised to defund “woke” university degrees in Britain, arguing they have provided “little value” to the taxpaying public. Shadow Education Secretary Suella Braverman said this week that a Reform government would cut student loans for degrees in gender studies, social justice, critical race theory, queer studies, and other “woke” subjects at British universities. “Young people have been conned into tens of thousands of pounds worth of debt for degrees that too often leave them with poor job prospects while taxpayers are left footing the bill,” Braverman told The Telegraph. “Meanwhile, our economy is crying out for…
The number of new claims for unemployment benefits remained near a historical low last week, indicating few Americans are losing their jobs to layoffs. The Department of Labor said on Thursday that 199,000 people filed for benefits for the first time, up from 198,000 in the prior week. That was better than the 201,000 consensus forecast. Jobless claims have been below 200,000 for three consecutive weeks, the first such streak in 57 years. The last time jobless claims remained this low for this long was in 1969, during the extraordinary stretch of low unemployment from 1967 through 1969. The current…
Tuesday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) had an extensive interview with Jake Tapper about the allegations made against him by several women, including his ex-wife, Emily Moreno. Partial transcript as follows: TAPPER: There are now three women, three women who have accused you of violent behavior. Politico published an article in 2021 that said you when you were in high school, you “pushed a girl out of the dorm of his room and she fell down some stairs after he became enraged when she resisted his attempts to touch her, according to three people who were there and many…
Screenshot Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just dropped the hammer on one of the most disturbing scandals in the American organ transplant system. On Wednesday in Lexington, Kentucky, RFK Jr. announced that HHS is decertifying Network for Hope, the federally designated organ procurement organization (OPO) serving Kentucky and parts of Indiana, Ohio, and West Virginia, after federal reviewers found the group repeatedly ignored clear signs of life in patients who were about to have their organs cut out. According to the official HHS release, the Health Resources and Services Administration reviewed 351 Network for Hope cases…
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton participated in a swearing-in ceremony in the Oval Office on Tuesday, a day after he officially assumed the post. President Donald Trump looked on as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent administered the oath to Clayton, as seen in a video shared by Special Assistant to the President Margo Martin in the early afternoon. The ceremony comes after Clayton’s office announced his official swearing-in was on Monday. Clayton replaces Housing Director Bill Pulte, who has served in the role in an acting capacity since former Director of National Security Tulsi Gabbard left the post on June…
Don’t expect the typically strong smell of Thursday jet fumes in the halls of the Senate just yet. Ideally, senators would be leaving town for a five-week recess after business Thursday, but a legislative pile-up and pressure from President Donald Trump has made that impossible. All 100 senators still need to agree to a deal to speed up consideration of a measure to extend government funding through Dec. 11, a Russia sanctions bill, dozens of nominees including Todd Blanche and a bipartisan college athletics bill — an agenda that would otherwise take weeks to accomplish. Republicans also need to make…
The British AI security institute said the models carried out unauthorized actions, created fake identities, and attempted to manipulate a human AI agents developed by OpenAI and Anthropic went beyond their instructions and targeted real people and organizations during a series of cybersecurity tests, Britain’s AI Security Institute has revealed.The institute tested agents powered by Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Sol in a fictional cyber scenario designed to assess their capabilities.“Some of the agents being tested had engaged in sustained, potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations,” the institute disclosed on Tuesday.Across 122 test runs, researchers identified 19…