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President Donald Trump said early Saturday he would push to get the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” codified into law if the Senate does not confirm his attorney general pick, Todd Blanche. The fund has emerged as a key issue stalling Blanche’s confirmation, with Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who are both departing the Senate after the midterms, withholding their support in the Senate Judiciary Committee unless the White House commits to shelving the proposal in writing. Now, Trump says the fund is back on the table, and maybe he’ll even keep Blanche on in an acting capacity…

Local officials in Lower Saxony are blocking AfD candidates from running, using intelligence reports instead of courts or due process. Today’s Germany is a grim, unhappy place. Thirty-six years after West Germany’s take-over of the former East Germany (polite term: re-unification), which was supposed to herald a golden age of national fulfilment, citizens are in a very foul mood.According to Ipsos, one of Germany’s go-to pollsters, their morale is at a “historic nadir,” and they are “losing confidence about the country’s future.” As of last month, fear of poverty and inequality was “clearly increasing,” with 37 percent of all respondents…

Image: Wikimedia Commons (Maj. Gen. Donald Dunbar attends 2015 meeting on professionalism, ethics, Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, and leadership; photo by Master Sgt. Marvin Preston) A colonel in the Air National Guard (ANG), who had nearly 35 years of service, was relieved of her command in 2021, coincidentally at a time when one of her subordinates was disseminating nude, explicit photographs. Colonel Leslie Zyzda-Martin is the former commander of Wisconsin’s Volk Field Air National Guard Base. Her story highlights a troubling intersection of military culture, accountability, and the challenges faced by those who dare to stand against misconduct. Unable…

There’s no answer yet on Covid-era penalty relief.gettyA recent U.S. Tax Court order in Bowen v. Commissioner had tax professionals talking this week. Some tax pros view it as a setback for taxpayers seeking COVID-era penalty and interest relief. But I think that’s an overstatement—the order is narrower than some early reactions suggest. The taxpayers relied primarily on two previous cases—Abdo v. Commissioner, in which the Tax Court held that the COVID-19 disaster relief provisions automatically extended certain filing deadlines, and Kwong v. United States, in which the Court of Federal Claims concluded that the pandemic postponement period ran through…

China is preparing new rules that would restrict foreign access to its most advanced AI models at the same time that America is moving to address foreign access to controlled American technology through cloud computing. According to a Reuters report, sources say Beijing’s plans specifically target China’s top-tier, frontier-level AI systems, rather than the broader lineup of Chinese-developed AI models. The move comes as Chinese AI firms have expanded their global footprint over the past year. Companies including DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Zhipu have released open-weight models — meaning the underlying code can be downloaded, run, and modified by anyone — that have seen widespread…

British pop icon Boy George has left a West End production of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar after he faced a personal onslaught of abuse for releasing a pro-Israel song, “We Will Dance Again” that stood against the Islamic terrorists of Gaza. The 65-year-old musician “will no longer be appearing in Jesus Christ Superstar at the London Palladium”, his manager Paul Kemsley said on social media. This week he released a song supporting Israel and its war in Gaza with lyrics including “you say genocide, I say war” and “when you’re attacked, that’s what the army’s for,” as Breitbart News reported.…

Only 57 percent of Rep. Haley Stevens’ (D-MI) supporters say they will back socialist Abdul El-Sayed in November if he wins Michigan’s Democrat Senate primary, according to polling data posted Friday. One polling account posted the crossover figure Friday, days before Tuesday’s primary. A new Emerson College Polling survey the same week showed El-Sayed up on Stevens, 54 percent to 39 percent. His edge grew to 57-41 with leaners factored in. The survey found a sharp age split. Younger voters powered El-Sayed’s lead while older voters broke the other way. “There is a clear age divide in the Democratic Primary:…

Public scrutiny of domestic abuse allegations against Rep. Max Miller is quickly mounting. His Republican colleagues have been slow to respond. New reporting on government documents claiming that Miller poured hot water on his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, held a gun to her head and broke their young daughter’s collarbone has brought a wave of new attention to the Ohio lawmaker’s long-running public marital dispute. This week, Moreno’s lawyer filed for a restraining order against Miller, accusing him of harassing his ex-wife’s counsel. The surge of attention presents a dilemma for Republicans: speak out against their colleague who is running in…

A leading artificial intelligence safety researcher issued a stark warning this week against pursuing general superintelligence and developing autonomous killer robots, framing both as steps toward a dystopian future in which machines could effectively become a “replacement for humanity.” Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, a computer scientist and AI safety expert, made the comments during an appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Friday, reacting to the recent news that OpenAI’s experimental agents had gone rogue during an internal cybersecurity evaluation, broken free of their containment, accessed the internet, and successfully compromised systems at AI startup Hugging Face as well as several other…

Tens of thousands of illegals have landed on Spanish soil this week, with a record-breaking 49,000 arriving in the city of Ceuta just one day on Thursday, but locals have clashed with the new arrivals as the authorities focus on facilitating, not preventing, the crisis. While estimates remain uncertain as border control totally collapsed, the number of migrants thought to have taken advantage of a Spanish Supreme Court ruling that prevents police from opposing anyone entering Spain by sea soared over the course of Thursday from a couple of thousand, to 20,000 by evening, and then on to 50,000. The…