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Far-left Muslim Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is facing renewed scrutiny after newly surfaced audio revealed him explicitly supporting efforts to defund police departments. In his previous interviews, El-Sayed has denied ever calling to defund the police, arguing that his old social media posts were misrepresented after being taken out of context. But recordings from 2020 tell a different story. In one interview from June 2020, El-Sayed said he believed police funding should be reduced while more taxpayer dollars should be directed toward schools, mental health services, and anti-poverty programs. “We are in a moment when a lot of our…

Protesters gathered outside the home of two men charged in connection with the rape of a woman in a Glasgow alley UK police drew batons amid a clash with enraged locals at a protest in Glasgow, Scotland on Tuesday, as officers evacuated two men accused of being involved in a rape away from the furious crowd.The protesters gathered outside an apartment block in the city’s East End over concerns that someone living in the building posed a public risk, according to the Glasgow Times.Videos from the protest show the police pushing scores of angry locals aside as they lead two…

Prince George’s County, Maryland, has enacted a two-year moratorium on new data center construction, marking one of the strictest restrictions on AI data centers in the Mid-Atlantic region. NBC Washington reports that the Prince George’s County Council has voted to implement a comprehensive pause on data center development. The decision came following heated debate from residents and stakeholders on both sides of the issue during a public hearing. The moratorium represents a significant policy shift as county officials grapple with concerns about the impact of data centers on local communities. However, the final resolution includes provisions that would allow the…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a remarkable aside at the NATO summit this week when he claimed Ukraine had video evidence of “every single one” of the 30,000 Russian battlefield casualties they inflict a month. Ukraine is “eliminating” 30,000 Russian soldiers a month and has evidence of every single kill, capture, and wounding, President Volodymyr Zelensky told a session of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Defence Industry Forum at the Ankara, Turkey summit on Tuesday. The remarkable claim underlines the galloping pace of technological change where miniaturised digital cameras are now attached to practically every modern weapon — except, perhaps, the classic 155mm…

The U.S. economy is poised to defy a global slowdown in growth, with its output rising at a faster rate even as the broader global economy slows sharply, a report from the International Monetary Fund showed on Wednesday. The forecasts support the idea that the U.S. economy is more resilient to the supply-chain disruptions and revived inflationary pressures that are seen as holding back growth around the world, thanks to U.S. energy production and investments in technology. Both energy production and support for technology investment have been key economic policies of the Trump administration. The IMF projects that the U.S.…

Tuesday on CNN’s “News Central,” Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) said she has been told there are more allegations about Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner coming after a woman accused him of sexual assault. When asked if Platner should drop out of the race, Dingell said, “Yes I do. I’m one of the people that was disturbed by the reports a couple of months ago.” Dingell said, “I’m going to not give you names because the people that I have a great deal of respect for as well, but they have said to me, you were right, your gut was…

President Trump said during the bloc’s summit in Türkiye that Washington should control the Danish island NATO would help Denmark protect Greenland from any attack, including hypothetically from the US, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said.The issue of Greenland came up on the sidelines of a NATO leaders’ summit in Ankara, Türkiye, after US President Donald Trump confirmed that he still wants Washington to control the Danish autonomous territory. He said the dispute was one of the reasons his relationship with the bloc had deteriorated.“That should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark,” Trump told reporters during a…

A joint international law enforcement operation between the United States, Canada, and Europe led to the arrest of 24 individuals linked to three India-based transnational crime groups, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday. Among the defendants charged on Tuesday notably stands 33 year-old Lawrence Bishnoi, an imprisoned gang boss leader who runs his crime syndicate from a jail in India. Bishnoi is one of the men linked to the 2023 assassination of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada — an incident that caused a significant diplomatic impasse between India and Canada at the time. The Justice Department detailed that…

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta could face penalties totaling $1.4 trillion if four states prevail in their lawsuit alleging the social media giant fueled a teen mental health crisis, according to company filings that describe the figure as outlandish and unprecedented. The penalty would nearly equal the entire market value of the company, currently just above $1.5 trillion. The New York Post reports that Meta has disclosed that it faces potential penalties of $1.4 trillion in a lawsuit brought by state attorneys general over allegations the company contributed to a teen mental health crisis. The massive sum, which approaches the company’s entire market…

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Inside Politics,” Bloomberg White House Correspondent Jeff Mason said that “Democrats, for a long time, have painted themselves as the party that doesn’t accept some of the things that they were willing to tolerate with Graham Platner. And that is, in part, because he was just doing so well,” also because some “were very happy to see a left-leaning progressive candidate doing so well.” After viewing a montage of Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) defending Platner in the past, Mason said, “Fair to…