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A Silicon Valley investor sneered at American citizens on Wednesday, prompting quick pushback from the chairman of President Trump’s Federal Trade Commission and the investor’s politically minded boss. “What elements of H1B immigrant culture do you not like? Is it the willingness to work long hours? Or perhaps the education focus of their children?” posted Ankit Gupta, who then used the term “flyover country.” Gupta had earlier described Vice President Vance as “woke left” for his indirect criticism of the visa programs that dispalce American graduates. Gupta is a U.S.-born general partner at Y Combinator, which is a leading investment firm…

A Charlotte, North Carolina, man indicted for allegedly threatening mass shootings at five public schools was released from jail just days before classes started, according to the New York Post. The man, 33-year-old Drew Andres Owens, was “indicted… in March 2025 on five counts of communicating threats of mass violence on educational property.” Four of the counts allege threats against “West Charlotte High School, Ardrey Kell High School, Community House Middle School, and Hawk Ridge Elementary.” A fifth alleges a “threat against Garinger High School.” The Charlotte Observer noted that Owens allegedly “threatened to ‘shoot up’ multiple schools.” He pleaded not guilty to…

The U.S. State Department officially removed Syria from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list, and delisted al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) group, on Monday, completing a process President Donald Trump announced in July. The change ends a 47-year tenure on the State Sponsors of Terrorism list for Syria that began under the dictatorship of Hafez Assad, the father of ousted dictator Bashar Assad. When Syria was placed on the list, in 1979, the United States explained the decision by noting the Assad dynasty’s links to jihadist terrorist organizations such as Hamas and…

President Donald Trump announced that in honor of country music star Dolly Parton, who died at 80 years old, he was ordering that the American flag be lowered around the country for one week. In a post on Truth Social, Trump described Parton as “one of the greatest Country singers,” adding that her death was “a true loss for millions of people.” Parton was known for songs such as, “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You.” “Very sad to report that Dolly Parton, one of the greatest Country singers, and far beyond, EVER, has just passed away,” Trump said. “This…

Senator Darline Graham (R-SC) says she stands with Trump and the filibuster needs to be done away with in candidate’s date. Senator Darline Graham (R-SC) won her runoff election race in South Carolina for US Senate on Tuesday night. Decision Desk HQ projects Darline Graham wins the SC US Senate Republican Runoff#DecisionMade: 8:38 PM EDT pic.twitter.com/7N8zAWwRKy — Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) August 26, 2026 Graham defeated Republican Ralph Norman in the race. 🚨 CONFIRMED! Trump-endorsed Sen. Darline Graham WINS the South Carolina Senate runoff. “Graham really has led this race tonight from the very first update!” says MS Now. She…

A U.S. military heavy lift aircraft which flew into Moscow with its transponder on, allowing open-source tracking software to follow its progress, gained attention given the rarity of direct U.S. flights to Russia during the present period of strained diplomatic ties. A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III flew from the capital of NATO-member Latvia to an airport near Moscow, Russia on Tuesday morning. The military jet first flew on Sunday from Andrews Air Force Base near Washington D.C., reports France’s Le Figaro, citing the open source transponder data which is collected by hobbyist ground-based receivers and aggregated through services such as…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declared Tuesday that Iran’s leadership is already “panicking” under President Donald Trump’s mounting economic offensive — pointing to stark warnings from Tehran’s own president and parliament speaker about the country’s deteriorating economy while vowing to continue severing the regime’s financial lifelines until it “stands alone.” “Iran’s leadership is admitting what the world can now see: the pressure is working,” Bessent wrote on X, one day after the administration launched Operation Economic Outcast. Bessent highlighted recent remarks made before Monday’s rollout from Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who acknowledged the country’s mounting economic shortages while declaring that “the…

Discarded waste products are processed into a slurry and fed to a genetically engineered yeast, which produces nutrients Scientists at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIU) have developed a way to make 3D-printed cookies using genetically engineered yeast to produce protein and nutrients from plastic and agricultural waste.The project aims to tackle two of the planet’s crises: plastic waste accumulation and food insecurity.The team first set out to develop ways to make use of waste plastics, Lahiru Jayakody, an associate professor of microbiology at Southern Illinois University said in an interview with the American Chemical Society (ACS) published on Monday.“We thought,…

Screencap of Twitter/X video. The news of the passing of Dolly Parton today broke millions of hearts across the country. She is a true American icon. Social media is flooded with people remembering her and one story in particular is going viral because it reminds us of how wonderful Dolly was as a person and how humble she was despite her fame. Dolly was vacationing in Ireland in 1990 and had no plans to perform, but when she happened into a local pub, the guitar player performing there that night asked her to sing her song ‘Coat of Many Colors’…

A Ukrainian women’s basketball star at LSU has called it quits after the Lady Tigers signed a Russian teenage player. The departure of Kate Koval, a native of Kyiv, Ukraine, whose father is serving in the Ukrainian military, was announced on Tuesday by head coach Kim Mulkey. The move comes ten days after LSU signed 17-year-old Russian center Anna Minaeva. “Kate came to see me on Sunday and told me that after much consideration, she will be leaving the program for personal reasons,” Mulkey said in a statement. “We will respect her privacy on her decision, but we had a long…