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Actor George Clooney hurled one swipe after another at Present Donald Trump and his administration earlier this week, telling the Film at Lincoln Center’s 51st annual Chaplin award audience America is in “a struggle for the very soul of this republic.” “I can’t be here on a night like tonight and just ignore everything that’s going on in the world,” Clooney said. “I disagree with everything that this administration stands for, but there’s no place for the kind of violence we saw two nights ago in Washington, D.C. Nor is there a room for this kind of violence in Minnesota with…

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey took her state a step closer to redrawing its congressional lines on Friday, following the Supreme Court’s decision earlier this week to limit enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. Ivey called a special legislative session on Friday to take up redistricting days ahead of the state’s May 19 primary, joining Louisiana in their bid to eliminate majority-Black districts in their respective states in time for the midterms. Alabama currently has two majority-Black, Democratic-leaning districts, following a surprise 2023 Supreme Court decision that largely upheld the Voting Rights Act and subsequent lower court orders mandating the current…

The temporary truce with Tehran counts as the end of war, and no congressional approval is needed, the White House has reportedly said The US-Israeli war on Iran has already been “terminated,” and the Trump administration believes it does not need an extension from Congress to continue the fighting, the Associated Press has reported, citing sources.The report comes as a deadline mandated by the 1973 War Powers Act rapidly approaches. The legislation limits any military action launched by the president without congressional authorization to 60 days. The White House insists that, for the purposes of the law, “the hostilities that began…

The Department of War has finalized contracts with seven leading technology firms to deploy their AI systems in classified military environments, marking a significant expansion of the Pentagon’s artificial intelligence capabilities. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Department of War announced Friday that it has completed agreements allowing the use of AI technology from OpenAI, Google, SpaceX, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, and startup Reflection AI in classified settings. The deals represent a major step forward in the Pentagon’s push to integrate cutting-edge artificial intelligence tools into military operations. The completion of these contracts moves beyond preliminary agreements to enable actual…

Charges against a grandmother for offering advice to women outside an abortion clinic in Scotland have been dropped, in what is being described as a major victory for free speech in the United Kingdom. Last year, Glaswegian grandmother Rose Docherty, 75, was arrested twice for standing within the proximity of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital abortion clinic while holding a sign that read: “Coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want”. For this, she was arrested on suspicion of breaching the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Act, which bans citizens from protesting, holding vigil, or praying within 656 feet of abortion…

An illegal alien released into the United States by President Joe Biden’s administration is accused of murdering a San Francisco, California, social worker last December. On Dec. 4, 2025, 35-year-old illegal alien Wilfredo Jose Tortolero-Arriechi of Venezuela entered Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and asked to speak with his doctor. Officials allege Tortolero-Arriechi had become obsessed with his doctor and police believe that is who he intended to target that day. Hospital staff re-directed Tortolero-Arriechi to 51-year-old Alberto Rangel, a licensed marriage and family therapist. While Rangel was not looking, police say Tortolero-Arriechi stabbed him. Two days later, on Dec. 6, 2025, Rangel died…

LONDON (AP) – Graham Linehan, the co-creator of TV sitcoms “Father Ted” and the “IT Crowd,” on Friday had his conviction for damaging the mobile phone of a teenage transgender activist overturned. Linehan, 57, was found guilty in November of criminal damage to then 17-year-old Sophia Brooks´ phone during a dispute outside a conference in London in October 2024. He was cleared of harassing Brooks on social media. He appealed the criminal damage conviction and a two-day hearing was held this week at London´s Southwark Crown Court. Judge Amanda Tipples, who was assisted by two magistrates, said that the initial…

President Trump said Friday he would raise tariffs on cars and trucks imported from the European Union to 25 percent next week, accusing Brussels of failing to honor the trade deal the two sides struck last summer. The announcement marks a sharp escalation in a relationship that had appeared to be moving toward stability after months of friction over metals duties, the Greenland dispute, and what U.S. officials see as a lack of support in the war with Iran. “The European Union is not complying with our fully agreed to Trade Deal,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social…

Criminals recruit youths via social media and messaging platforms to carry out murders and assaults, Europol has said A new European task force formed to crack down on “violence as a service” has made 280 arrests in its first year, the EU’s police agency, Europol, has said in a statement.The unit, dubbed GRIMM, was formed last April to tackle the growing trend of outsourced violence, sometimes described “gig economy” terrorism, in which criminals hire individuals via social media to carry out acts ranging from assaults to murder. The task force involves police from several EU countries, alongside the UK, Norway,…

Thursday on Newmax TV’s “On the Record,” President Donald Trump said artificial intelligence would “lead to tremendous numbers of jobs.” Host Greta Van Susteren said, “Well, we have a new disruptor, which is a AI, which has been fabulously important to medicine, but we’re losing a lot of jobs, even made us canceled, or they’re going to lay off 8000. Have you given any thoughts about how I can expand and help our workers rather than strip away all these jobs?” Trump said, “Well, you’re really helping the workers because we’re building plants all over the country. When these plants…