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The Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) over alleged campaign finance violations, according to multiple reports. A “source familiar with the probe” told Axios that the investigation into Gallego comes from a “whistleblower complaint” from Southern California. Per the outlet, the investigation “comes after the Senate Ethics Committee closed its inquiry into allegations of sexual misconduct and campaign finance violations”: The Justice Department’s probe comes after the Senate Ethics Committee closed its inquiry into allegations of sexual misconduct and campaign finance violations after finding no evidence that Gallego violated Senate rules or applicable law, according to…

Autonomous tech could execute trades without human oversight, increasing the risk of market meltdowns, UK officials warn AI agents that can make decisions and carry out transactions independently could soon operate across the financial system, the Bank of England has warned, adding that relying on human oversight might no longer be realistic.Bank of England Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden made the warning at the European Central Bank’s annual forum in Sintra on Tuesday, as leading developers shift from generative AI chatbots to agentic systems.Unlike generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, which generate text, images, and code in response…

Energy Island Long time readers may recall the many articles we wrote over many years highlighting the madness of California planners and policymakers. We were born and raised in the land of fruits and nuts and lived and worked there for over four decades. About four years ago, we made our California exodus. At the time, we thought our coverage of the Golden State’s self-destruction would continue. We still have family and friends there who we visit from time to time. But, as we’ve found, without a front row seat to the big show we’re less inclined to gawk at the…

Investigators in Zimbabwe have arrested a man who allegedly worked with a Russian accomplice to unlawfully recruit young Zimbabwean nationals “to join the Russian army where they will be forced to fight in the armed conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukrainian Forces.” The suspect, Edward Kachingwe, is a 36-year-old resident of Zimbabwe’s capital city of Harare. He was taken into custody on Monday on two counts of “trafficking in persons and operating an employment agency without registration.” Prosecutors said Kachingwe “connived” with a Russian national known as “Roman” to recruit at least five victims for service in the Russian…

Hollywood film animators are saying that they are finding that artificial intelligence tools can reduce their production costs by an incredible 90 percent, according to a report by Bloomberg. If true, the cost savings would also likely come at a cost to those who work in the animation industry by eliminating hundreds of thousands of jobs all across the world. The report notes that a studio called WndrCo says it can make half hour shows for just a few thousand dollars apiece whereas the same content would have cost hundreds of thousands in decades past. Cost cutting of this magnitude…

President Donald Trump announced Monday that he is nominating acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling to lead the Department of Labor permanently. In a post on Truth Social, Trump praised Sonderling’s record in the department, pointing to his previous roles as deputy secretary and chief operating officer. He also pointed to Sonderling’s service during Trump’s first term as acting and deputy administrator of the Wage and Hour Division. “It is my Great Honor to announce that I am nominating Keith E. Sonderling, the outstanding Acting United States Secretary of Labor, to be permanent,” Trump wrote. “Keith previously served as Deputy Secretary and…

While railways stall, hospitals fail and scandals spread, Brussels still finds endless billions for its pet proxy war NATO-EU Europe, that tense, unhappy realm of deeply unpopular yet aggressively doctrinaire centrist regimes, has many grifts.Its elites, whether national or EU, in business, politics, and the mainstream media and think-tank sinecure system are stunningly inept when it comes to addressing the urgent, even vital problems of their subjects. They could not care less about critical economic decline and general impoverishment, crumbling infrastructure, withering education, and scarce, unequal health care, to name only a few.But the same elites are endlessly creative and…

President Donald Trump trolled the Supreme Court, congratulating Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and China on the court’s ruling rejecting Trump’s reform of birthright citizenship in the United States. “I would like to congratulate President Xi, and the Great Country of China, on their massive Birthright Citizenship WIN!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. Trump’s post comes after the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against Trump’s executive order making changes to birthright citizenship, stating that it “violates the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.” Breitbart News’s Neil Munro reported that while the vote was 6-3, Justice Brett Kavanaugh stated that “Trump…

Andy O’Brien, the communications director for the Maine AFL-CIO, a statewide federation of 160 local unions, posted on social media, suggesting Democrats who refuse to support Democrat U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner should face execution after a “revolution.” O’Brien shared a link to a the Hill opinion piece titled, “I’m a Democratic Strategist. I Won’t Stay Silent About Graham Platner,” by Democrat strategist Laurie A. Watkins. Watkins wrote that a career spent fighting for Democratic causes does not mean blindly supporting every candidate with a “D” by their name. O’Brien’s response was brutal, saying political consultants like Watkins would be “first…

Last July 4 recess, House Republicans were triumphantly celebrating the massive victory of clearing the party’s tax and spending bill. Fast forward a year and Speaker Mike Johnson can’t even get enough votes to open his chamber’s floor for debate. “Who needs Democrats when you have your own party derailing the Trump agenda,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis said Tuesday. A rebellion by a small band of conservatives now jeopardizes members’ top priorities as the legislative calendar ahead of the midterms rapidly shrinks. Progress on the annual Pentagon policy bill, fiscal 2027 government funding bills, Iran war funding measure, third party-line reconciliation…