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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at Breitbart’s State of the Economy event on Tuesday in Washington that automatic enrollment was coming for Trump Accounts to make every American child under 18 eligible. Bessent said the rollout of Trump Accounts — tax-advantaged investment accounts created in the Working Families Tax Cuts — was “going great,” and enrollment has already reached over 7 million since the formal launch in July 2026. He alluded to making an announcement at the end of the month that would create a spike in the enrollment figures, then he made a breaking news announcement that automatic enrollment was coming.…

Democrat leaders in New York are reportedly staying quiet about a case involving a former deputy police commissioner in Westchester County who allegedly drove her son to a gang drive-by on June 29 in the Bronx. The case surrounds former Mount Vernon Deputy Police Commissioner Jennifer Lackard, her ex-convict husband, James Lackard, and their 20-year-old son, Chase Lackard, the New York Post reported Monday. Jennifer Lackard and her husband were accused of driving their son, who is a reputed gang member, to court for a hearing and going around the block until they saw a person who was a reported gang…

London has accused Israeli settlers of carrying out “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians in the occupied territory A sharp diplomatic rift has erupted between Israel and several of its key Western partners after 12 countries backed restrictions on trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and London accused settlers of carrying out “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians in parts of the territory.The UK, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden issued a joint statement on Tuesday pledging to introduce, support, or consider restrictions on settlement goods, citing what they called “unprecedented levels of settler violence…

All four missing family members aboard a small plane that crashed off the Bahamas were found dead on Tuesday. The pilot, Mario Lamar, 80, his wife, Lili Lamar, 79 and their two adult grandchildren, Sofia Sosa and Christian Sosa, were en route to Miami when the plane crashed near Great Harbour Cay. All four bodies were recovered on Tuesday, according to the family. According to The Los Angeles Times, The plane was a twin-engine PA-34 Piper five-seater. The plane crash is currently under investigation. AP reported: All four family members aboard a small plane that went missing off the Bahamas…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said during a Breitbart News “State of the Economy” policy discussion that maintaining the United States’ lead over China in artificial intelligence is critical, while arguing that technology companies need to do more to address concerns from communities affected by the construction of data centers. Breitbart News Washington bureau chief Matthew Boyle asked Bessent how the United States can address concerns surrounding data centers while continuing to expand AI infrastructure and compete with China. “Beating China — there is no day after tomorrow if China wins at this. Like everything, a trillion-and-a-half-dollar defense budget, the Iron…

Trips to far-away lands can expand one’s horizons – literally and figuratively. The 49ers’ trip to Australia seems to have expanded linebacker Dre Greenlaw’s mind in an unexpected way. On Tuesday morning, reporters asked Greenlaw whether he had any questions for Australians. His answer did not disappoint. “Do you have any questions you’d want to ask Australians?” asked ESPN’s Nick Wagoner. “I mean, how far are we from Antarctica? That’s what I got. We’re right on top of it, huh? Does it snow probably pretty bad here? So, Antarctica, is it a lie?” Reporters confirmed the continent’s existence, but that…

A new poll finds that even as more Americans turn to AI tools in their daily lives, most remain deeply uneasy about where the technology is taking the country. An overwhelming 69 percent of respondents oppose AI data centers being built in their area. NBC News reports that 70 percent of adults say they’re more worried about AI than excited about it, according to the NBC News Decision Desk survey conducted online among 7,105 adults from August 20 to September 1. About two-thirds of respondents say AI poses high risks to society, and a similar share oppose building an AI…

Monday on CNN’s “News Central,” Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) said Republican lawmakers should not be “sitting back” while President Donald Trump is acting “incoherent” and “unhinged.” Dean said, “The greater difference is what is going on in the Republican party. I couldn’t disagree more with the Republicans who are sitting back as the president, so incoherently and so grotesquely, corruptly pursues what he’s pursuing.  He doesn’t know how to get out of the war in Iran that he foolishly got into at Mr. Netanyahu’s behest. And so what does he do? He focuses on rubble and ruin and projects and…

Haaretz says the Israeli PM received a direct warning from the UAE just ahead of the assault Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was personally warned that Hamas was preparing a major attack days before October 7, 2023, but did not relay the information to Israel’s top security chiefs, Haaretz reported on Tuesday.According to the newspaper, Emirati President Mohammed bin Zayed called Netanyahu roughly ten days before the assault and told him that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was planning a major operation that could cause bloodshed and destabilize the region.Netanyahu reportedly played down the threat, saying he believed Hamas was more…

Giovanni Galante, who lost his wife Grace on 9/11, tells Zohran Mamdani, “We really want us to be left alone” Families of the victims of 9/11 gathered on Tuesday in Manhattan to send a clear message to New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, telling him to stay away from their 9/11 memorial service.  As Mamdani plans to defy the families’ wishes, Giovanni Galante, the organizer of a petition to bar Mamdani from the event, said they just want “to be left alone” to mourn the 25th anniversary of their losses. “He just wants to be there because he wants to be…