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House Republican leaders are working to approve a bill Thursday that would fund all of the Department of Homeland Security except its immigration enforcement agencies — potentially ending the department’s 76-day shutdown — according to a half-dozen people granted anonymity to describe the behind-the-scenes talks. Speaker Mike Johnson is discussing the idea with members of his conference who have wanted to hold off on passage of the bill until Republicans enact a separate party-line package to fund agencies including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol. The Senate passed the partial DHS funding measure in March, but for more than…

RT India reports from the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant on a major milestone for the South Asian nation The beginning of fuel loading at the first unit of the Russian-build Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant has paved the way for the start of experimental production of nuclear energy in Bangladesh.Reporting from Rooppur, RT India correspondent Rujuta Thete notes that the nuclear power plant will supply 10% of national needs once it becomes fully operational.Fuel loading at the first unit is expected to be completed within the next 45 days, officials said. After that, the reactor will be brought to a minimum…

The alleged, but missing, “supreme leader” of Iran Mojtaba Khamenei reportedly issued a written message on Thursday declaring that his country will impose a “new legal framework and management system for the Strait of Hormuz” that will result in a future “free of America” in the waterway. Khamenei’s message declared the Strait, in which Iran has for over a month attempted to endanger commercial traffic, a “divine blessing” for his nation that the Islamist terror regime takes seriously. His statement, issued on the occasion of Iran’s “National Persian Gulf Day,” also contained a commitment to continue the regime’s illicit nuclear…

A research scientist at Google DeepMind has publicly expressed that he is “incredibly ashamed” over the company’s deal with the Pentagon allowing the Department of War to use its AI technology in classified settings. Business Insider reports that Andreas Kirsch, who works as a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind, voiced strong criticism of the company’s latest Pentagon agreement in a post on X on Tuesday. “I’m speechless at Google signing a deal to use our AI models for classified tasks. Frankly, it is shameful,” he wrote. The deal came despite significant internal opposition from Google employees. More than 600 workers…

A mentally ill illegal alien, accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death, has had murder charges against him dismissed and will now be deported from the United States. In January 2017, police alleged that 71-year-old illegal alien Angel Bolanos Vasquez stabbed his then-girlfriend, 55-year-old Rita Velasquez, a total of 14 times in Hidalgo County, Texas, after he accused her of cheating on him. The couple had only been dating for five months when the murder occurred. Police said Vasquez admitted to murdering Velasquez, but he was deemed incompetent and has been in a mental health hospital since 2019. Now, Hidalgo…

The British monarch’s trip showcases an alliance held together by shared complicity and decline King Charles III has gone to Washington, ostensibly to help the transatlantic cousins celebrate getting rid of his predecessor George III 250 years ago. But being a royally gracious loser is, of course, only a pretext.In reality, as The Economist, the premier British mouthpiece of transatlantic orthodoxy, has deplored, Charles’s mission is to salvage what’s left to be salvaged from the sinking “special relationship” between Washington and London.That the relationship is in very bad shape is obvious from the compulsive manner in which Britain’s leader Keir…

The latest (dumb) idea floating around to protect actors from AI is something called the Tilly Tax, or a tax that tries to remove the incentive of choosing an AI-generated actor over a human actor. Over at Forbes, Dr. Lance B. Eliot, an AI scientist, has written a truly superb article that looks at this tax scheme from all angles. Unlike most of the analysis you see about AI vs. Hollywood, Eliot’s write-up is informed, comprehensive, and loaded with the kind of context the entertainment media are afraid to highlight. AI actors replacing human actors is becoming a real thing…

According to a source within CBP, Border Patrol records show the running average for known got-aways nationwide remains 97 percent below record peaks set in 2023. Once reaching an average of more than 2,000 per day high in 2023, totals show less than 50 known got-aways are being recorded nationwide on most days. The report shows only 640 got-aways were recorded during a 14-day period in April. According to the source, the agency is conducting special operations in several southwest border sectors to achieve further reductions. As reported by Breitbart Texas, a similar Border Patrol report revealed that within just…

Saturday night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, which marks the third targeting of President Donald Trump in the last two years, comes after years of mainstream and vitriolic anti-Trump rhetoric from celebrities, pundits, and Democrat officials. During a White House press briefing on Monday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that eleven years of Trump demonization from the left, commentators, and some in the media fostered a climate that today’s political violence stems from. Reinforcing Leavitt’s point that political violence is widely acceptable among the left, an April 2025 Rutgers and Network Contagion Research Institute report…

Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday he supported delaying House elections in his home state of Louisiana after the Supreme Court invalidated the state’s congressional map Wednesday. “The governor has no choice but to suspend it,” Johnson told reporters. “The court has ruled our map unconstitutional.” He spoke as GOP Gov. Jeff Landry announced that Louisiana could not carry out elections under the current map and would be working “to develop a path forward.” Any new map is likely to threaten the seats of Democratic Reps. Troy Carter and Cleo Fields, who are both Black. The Supreme Court ruling narrowed the…