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Britain could be wealthy and great again, but is held back by being grossly overtaxed, famed economist Art Laffer, the creator of the Laffer Curve, has warned the UK’s new left-wing Prime Minister Andy Burnham. Arthur Laffer, the American economist who advised Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and now President Donald Trump and who is perhaps best known generally for his Laffer Curve theory that there is a maximum effective tax rate in any economy, beyond which government takings actually fall even as demands rise, has warned the British government it’s on the wrong side of that gradient. Noting that the British…

Scandal-plagued Rep. Max Miller’s (R-OH) campaign rally was scrapped Friday over threats, leaving him days to decide whether to abandon a reelection bid the party is quietly bracing to lose. The Strongsville GOP canceled a “Pass the SAVE America Act Rally” featuring Miller and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), which had been set for Monday evening at The Barn at Mapleside Farms in Brunswick. Strongsville GOP Chair Shannon Burns announced the cancellation in a Friday email, citing threats. “After consultation with law enforcement and the venue, the number and nature of the threats received have made the event untenable,” Burns…

The incident with startup Moonshot’s flagship Kimi K3 follows similar testing breaches reported by OpenAI and Anthropic A leading Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) model has found a way around restrictions during a controlled cybersecurity test, adding to growing concerns about the effectiveness of AI safeguards, US-based cybersecurity research firm Frontier Security has said.The researchers identified the model as startup Moonshot’s flagship Kimi K3, saying it accessed online information during an evaluation in an isolated testing environment developed by the UK’s AI Security Institute. The system is designed to keep AI models disconnected from the internet while their capabilities are assessed.Instead…

President Trump on Friday afternoon called on US Attorney Jeanine Pirro to ‘revisit’ the Reflecting Pool vandalism case after she asked a judge to dismiss the charges against former Olympian David Hearn. Trump also ripped Deep State lawyer Norm Eisen, who represented Dave Hearn. The Justice Department on Friday dismissed the Lincoln Reflecting Pool vandalism case against David Hearn. David Hearn, the former Olympian who was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor for destruction of property for vandalizing the Lincoln Reflecting Pool in June, was indicted by a grand jury on felony charges last month. Hearn is a three-time Olympic canoeist. Hearn was charged…

An illegal alien accused of scoping out a Chicago, Illinois, suburb on Saturday while possessing Molotov cocktails was previously released into the United States by former President Joe Biden’s administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials revealed. As Breitbart News reported, 31-year-old illegal alien Hamed Alsaidi of Jordan was arrested and charged with felony unlawful possession of a weapon and misdemeanor obstructing identification in Will County, Illinois. Prosecutors allege that police detained Alsaidi after he was discovered with eight Molotov cocktails. Police also claim he gave them a fake name when first questioned. Will County Judge Theodore Jarz allowed Alsaidi to be…

The Senate passed a bill Saturday to fund the government beyond the midterm elections, putting the onus back on the House to head off a shutdown looming Oct. 1. The Senate approved the measure in a bipartisan 90-6 vote, with Sen. Darline Graham of South Carolina voting present. The bill would fund federal agencies through Dec. 11 at current levels, with some exceptions. Senate leaders sped up consideration of the legislation as part of an agreement reached Saturday morning to allow members to leave for August recess. The House and Senate have now each passed different bills aimed at averting…

We look back at the essential stories that shaped the last seven days, from Russia’s retaliatory strikes on Ukraine to another AI escape Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s 40-day “influence” operation against Russia reached an ignoble end this week, with the murder of eight civilians on a beach in the Russian Black Sea resort of Gelendzhik. Six weeks of long-range strikes on Russian civilian targets seemed to convince some of Zelensky’s Western backers that Ukraine could defeat Russia, but Kiev’s debts quickly came due. Russia escalated its missile and drone campaign against Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, crippling the country’s already reeling economy…

Watching the woke eat their own is an entertaining sideshow — and while it’s unfortunate when it won’t end up benefiting a Republican, at least we can take heart that Nancy Pelosi will go out slamming a thoroughly woke gay man who’s poised to replace her in Congress. California state Sen. Scott Wiener is locked in a two-Democrat race with San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan to replace the retiring Rep. Pelosi (or, as other Democrats love to refer to her, “Speaker Emerita Pelosi”). Wiener was first in the jungle primary in June, but given that the top two advance and…

Colombia’s conservative President Abelardo de la Espriella took office as the nation’s new head of state for the next four years on Friday afternoon. The presidential inauguration, hosted by the city of Cali for the first time in the country’s history, occurred under the watch of a highly reinforced security operation amid a string of terrorist threats and a thwarted attack with explosives this week. Abelardo de la Espriella succeeded former President Gustavo Petro, a former member of the Marxist M19 terrorist group and Colombia’s first and so far only leftist president ever. President de la Espriella, a 48-year-old lawyer…

Thursday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has turned the Justice Department into a “protection racket for the president.” Schiff said, “It used to be the case when you got a nominee who is unfit for office, you would reject them, and you would say to the president, send me somebody qualified. That hasn’t happened here. And given the long list of malfeasance and infractions of Todd Blanche, the Justice Department is really hard to wrap your head around. He’s weaponized the department to create a slush fund for the president. He’s used…