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A “foreign intelligence service” allegedly intercepted Peter Szijjarto’s discussion with Sergey Lavrov about sanctions The leaked phone conversation between Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov was insignificant, the EU nation’s top diplomat has said.Szijjarto reacted on Tuesday to the publication of the call, which he claimed had been intercepted by “foreign intelligence services.” The 94-second recording was released by the Polish outlet FrontStory, which attempted to present it as evidence of the minister “acting on behalf of the Kremlin.”The audio captures Szijjarto and Lavrov discussing EU sanctions imposed on the sister of businessman Alisher Usmanov,…
The far-left New York Times has permanently cut ties with a freelance book reviewer over “a serious violation” involving the use of AI. Journalist and author Alex Preston’s January 6 review of Jean-Baptiste Andrea’s Watching Over Her received a complaint this month that the review was found to be uncomfortably similar to a review of the novel published by the far-left Guardian four months earlier, in August. After an investigation, the Times spoke to Preston, who admitted that he used an “AI tool to help draft the piece and that he failed to catch the Guardian material before the paper…
PARIS (AP) – French authorities are investigating a suspected link to Iran after thwarting a bomb attack outside a Bank of America building in Paris, the interior minister said Monday. Five people are in custody. Authorities suspect a link due to similarities with other recent attempted attacks in Europe for which a pro-Iran group claimed responsibility, Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said. On Saturday morning, Paris police officers spotted two suspects carrying a shopping bag near the Bank of America office in the 8th arrondissement of the French capital. The national anti-terrorism prosecutor´s office is looking into alleged terrorism-related offenses. The…
Delaware Court of Chancery Judge Kathaleen McCormick announced Monday that she is reassigning cases involving Elon Musk to other judges following accusations of bias from the Tesla CEO’s legal team. CNBC reports that the decision comes after Musk’s attorneys formally demanded last week that McCormick recuse herself from two Tesla lawsuits, claiming she harbored prejudice against the world’s richest person. The controversy stemmed from allegations that McCormick had responded with a supportive emoji to a LinkedIn post that was critical of Musk. The LinkedIn post in question highlighted a court verdict that could potentially cost Musk more than $2 billion…
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) called for EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to leave office, marking the latest move by Democrats to try to remove a Trump cabinet official. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse wrote Friday on X “Lyin’ Lee Zeldin deceived Congress, the courts, and the American people. I’m calling on him to go.” On the Senate floor, he remarked, “Zeldin and his merry band of DOGE boys killed off grant programs based on ideas and phrases they didn’t like and wanted to cancel. None of this was based on the required individualized review he pretended to have done. That’s the Zeldin lie…
The government of Kosovo has said it will back Trump’s so-called stabilization force in the Palestinian enclave The breakaway region of Kosovo has approved sending troops to Gaza as part of a force proposed by US President Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’, its prime minister, Albin Kurti, announced on Monday. Speaking in a televised meeting, Kurti stated that Kosovo is “ready to participate and help the people of Gaza, because we ourselves have been and are beneficiaries of international forces since 1999.” The Albanian-separatist state, a product of the NATO-backed war on Yugoslavia that included the bombing of Belgrade, controversially declared independence…
The U.S. does not need help from Spain “or anyone else” after the government of socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez closed off Spanish airspace to U.S. aircraft involved in Operation Epic Fury, a White House spokesperson confirmed Monday. “The United States Military is meeting or surpassing all of its goals under Operation Epic Fury and does not need help from Spain or anyone else,” the White House official reportedly told Newsweek. Similar remarks were given to other outlets such as Fox News and the Spanish newspapers ABC and El País. On Monday, Spanish government officials confirmed it closed off its airspace to U.S. aircraft involved in…
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will be attending a fundraiser to oppose efforts from Democrats in Virginia to have the state’s U.S. congressional maps redrawn. In a post on X, Teddy Schleifer, an MS NOW contributor, shared a photo of an invite for April 11 in Great Falls, Virginia. Johnson will be a special guest at the event. “Mike Johnson is doing a fundraiser for the Virginia Republicans’ redistricting effort, per invite,” Schleifer wrote. “Event on April 11 in Great Falls for Virginians for Fair Maps.” In January, Virginia’s state Senate approved a constitutional amendment that would redraw the congressional…
Iran has restricted transit through the strategic strait in response to the US-Israeli regime change war Restoring free shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, currently blockaded by Iran, is not among American military objectives, according to statements by US officials and media reports. Instead, Washington has indicated it expects other nations to tackle the issue.Tehran throttled maritime traffic through the key waterway in retaliation for the US-Israeli attack aimed at toppling the Iranian government, launched over a month ago. Reduced flows of hydrocarbons and other essential commodities from the Persian Gulf have pushed global prices higher, raising the risk of…
A new nationwide survey by Quinnipiac reveals that a majority of Americans are now using AI tools even as their concerns about the technology’s impact on employment and their skepticism toward AI-generated information have reached unprecedented levels. A Quinnipiac poll has revealed that that AI adoption has accelerated dramatically across the United States over the past year, with more than half of Americans now reporting they have used AI tools for various purposes. The survey of 1,397 U.S. adults found that 51 percent of Americans have used AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to research topics of interest, marking…