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Engines powered down, all flights were cancelled, and 17,000 people found themselves out of work in the early morning hours of Saturday as beleaguered Spirit Airlines abruptly announced it was finished — out of business with all operations ended. The low-budget carrier known for its bright yellow planes and cheap seating made the announcement at 2 a.m., reportedly cancelling 277 Saturday flights and leaving passengers with no one to talk to. The airline was unable to secure enough funding from the federal government to save it from bankruptcy. “There’s no workers here, so everybody’s just lost,” one traveler told Los…

Vivian Kubrick, the daughter of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, attacked Erika Kirk — the widow of slain conservative icon Charlie Kirk — on Thursday, before calling on President Donald Trump to “kill” Turning Point USA. “I HAVE NEVER WITNESSED SUCH A GHASTLY INAUTHENTIC PHONY PERFORMANCE IN MY LIFE AS THIS SPEECH BY ERIKA,” Kubrick exclaimed in an all-caps statement on X. The 65-year-old went on to suggest that she knows how to “phonies” because she grew up in the entertainment industry, before calling Erika Kirk “a threat to my country.” “She feels absolutely like a military or intelligence operative, and definitely some kind…

There will be much talk this May about the so-called “strategic triangle” of Russia, China and the United States.US President Donald Trump is expected in Beijing first, followed by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Whenever the leaders of the three most influential powers meet, speculation inevitably follows. What if they strike some grand bargain? What if the world suddenly becomes more orderly?Such expectations are misplaced. The restructuring of the global system is already under way, and it isn’t a process that can be halted or reversed by summit diplomacy. Even so, turning points in…

The Texas Attorney General’s Office filed a lawsuit against a Houston “birth tourism” center doing business under the name De’Ai Postpartum Care Center. Paxton alleges the center unlawfully facilitates the entry of Chinese nationals to the United States for the sole purpose of birthing children to obtain United States citizenship. As the Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of birthright citizenship for those born to mothers who have minimal ties to the United States, including those who enter the country unlawfully, the Attorney General’s lawsuit challenges the legality of the clinic, citing immigration law violations and violations of Texas law. Attorney…

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has ended its contract with Sama, a Kenya-based data annotation company, two months after workers reported viewing sensitive footage ranging from sexual activity to bathroom breaks recorded by Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. Ars Technica reports that Meta has terminated its business relationship with Sama, a Kenyan data annotation firm, following reports that contracted workers had viewed explicit and private content captured by Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The contract termination, which affected 1,108 workers according to Sama, occurred less than two months after the allegations became public. In February, multiple workers from Sama reported viewing sensitive, embarrassing, and apparently…

Security footage near the magnetometers used by law enforcement at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD) appears to show a K9 pick up on the alleged attacker and move toward him, only to have the K9 handler pull the dog back. In the footage, some law enforcement personnel can be seen leaning against a wall while two Secret Service officers appear to be taking down one of the two magnetometers, perhaps readying it for disassembly and/or loading into transport. In the background of the footage a law enforcement K9 can seen pulling its handler, moving through a door into a…

The United States has announced that it intends to withdraw thousands of troops from bases in Germany over the next year as the Trump administration looks to reshape its forward deployment posture following the conflict in Iran. In what may serve as the first domino to fall in the Trump administration’s response to public disloyalty from NATO allies in Europe, the Pentagon said on Friday that U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has ordered 5,000 soldiers to be removed from Germany. In a statement provided to the AFP on Friday evening, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said: “We expect the withdrawal to…

Comedienne Kathy Griffin defended late-night host Jimmy Kimmel after President Trump called for his firing. Griffin revealed her thoughts about the controversy during an interview on the Talk Your Head Off podcast on Tuesday, reflecting upon when her career torpedoed after she posed for a photograph of herself holding a bloodied, severed head of President Trump during her first term. “I’m just gonna be honest: It still hurts. It was nine years ago for me … It still hurts that nobody did stuff like this for me where they would dedicate a whole episode to just standing up for the First…

Anthropic, which the US Department of War designated a “supply-chain risk” earlier this year, was not part of the agreement The Pentagon has said that it has reached deals with major artificial intelligence firms to integrate their advanced AI capabilities into the agency’s classified networks.The US Department of War has been actively negotiating with the industry’s leaders since the start of the year as it is trying to expand the application of AI in military operations and diversify the range of companies that provide the technology.It is going ahead with the push despite concerns among experts regarding the ability of…

A recent study published in the journal Science demonstrates that AI tools capable of analyzing vast amounts of medical information may diagnose emergency room patients as accurately as, or even better than, human physicians in certain circumstances. The study makes clear that AI will not replace human physicians anytime soon. CBC News reports that the research, which examined the performance of large language models in emergency room settings, represents a significant development in the ongoing integration of AI into healthcare systems. However, medical professionals emphasize that these technological advances are meant to complement, not replace, human expertise in patient care.…