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On Thursday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon said that “the U.S. and other countries who [want] to help Lebanon should help them actually have control over the situation, that they can actually mobilize the military and be effective. If they are not controlling the military, they will not be able to change much.” Co-host Geoff Bennett asked, “When the president says the U.S. will help Lebanon protect itself from Hezbollah, what does that look like in practice, beyond what’s already being done?” Danon said, “Well, we all acknowledge the weakness of the Lebanese government. We welcome…
The April 21 indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) comes after the late Charlie Kirk spent years saying the organization’s hate-group designations targeted conservatives, Christians, parental-rights activists, and Turning Point USA. The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that the SPLC has been charged in Alabama with 11 counts including wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering. Prosecutors allege the organization used donor money to secretly fund figures connected to extremist groups while publicly denouncing them. During December 2025 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Turning Point USA Executive…
Defense Minister Israel Katz made the comment following the indefinite extension of an ongoing truce by the US Israel is waiting for a go-ahead from the US to resume the campaign against Iran and bomb the Islamic Republic back to “the Stone Age,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has stated.The message comes after US President Donald Trump extended the ceasefire with Tehran indefinitely on Tuesday to allow time for a potential deal, while keeping American naval blockade of Iranian ports in place.”Israel is prepared to renew the war against Iran,” Katz said on Thursday. “We are awaiting a green light…
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Fox News Senior Strategic Analyst Gen. Jack Keane (Ret.) argued that Iran needs to be issued a deadline so we don’t “play into their hands to drag this thing out and put more pressure on us. I think we’ve got to give them a deadline and make them come forth with wherever they are.” Keane said, “Where the Iranians are coming from, they want to play for time, the more time they can drag this out, the more political and economic pressure they believe the United States will feel. And what…
The U.S. Attorney General for the nation’s capital said Friday she had closed an investigation into cost overruns in a renovation project of the Federal Reserve’s Washington, D.C. headquarters. “This morning the Inspector General for the Federal Reserve has been asked to scrutinize the building costs overruns–in the billions of dollars–that have been borne by taxpayers,” said Jeanine Pirro, the top federal prosecutor for Washington, D.C., in a post on X. “Accordingly, I have directed my office to close our investigation as the IG undertakes this inquiry.” Pirro has said she convened a grand jury that subpoenaed the Federal Reserve months…
An illegal alien has been sentenced to three years in prison for stealing former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem’s purse in April of last year. On Wednesday, United States Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced the sentencing of 50-year-old illegal alien Mario Bustamante Leiva of Chile. Leiva, in November of last year, pleaded guilty to three counts of wire fraud and one count of first-degree theft. Following his three-year prison sentence, Leiva will be deported to his native Chile. “Bustamante Leiva came to Washington illegally to prey on citizens of the District,” Pirro said in a statement. “He methodically targeted women…
Plans by Meta and Microsoft to cut up to 10% of staff reportedly come amid rising costs from heavy AI investments American tech giants Meta and Microsoft are set to cut up to 10% of staff as both companies face rising costs linked to their expensive investments in artificial intelligence (AI), the Financial Times has reported.The Facebook parent company is expected to lay off 10% of its workforce, or roughly 8,000 employees, and close about 6,000 open roles, according to an internal memo sent to staff and leaked on Thursday. Meta specified that the layoffs will start on May 20.The…
The move means London will lose access to a database of some 26,000 verified violations by West Jerusalem, The Guardian has reported The British Foreign Office has closed a special unit that had been keeping a record of breaches of international law by Israel in the Gaza Strip, The Guardian has reported.The shutdown happened despite UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper saying in a speech earlier in April that support for international law is a “core British value” and that it would be the focus of the department under her leadership.The termination of the operations of the International Humanitarian Law (IHL)…
Google announced this week that 75 percent of all new code created within the company is currently being generated by AI systems and subsequently reviewed by human engineers. Business Insider reports that Google announced this week that three-quarters of all new code created within the company is currently being generated by AI systems and then reviewed by human engineers. This represents a dramatic acceleration in the company’s adoption of AI-powered development tools over recent years. The percentage of AI-generated code at Google has increased substantially in a relatively short time frame. As recently as October 2024, approximately 25 percent of the…
An internal Pentagon email has outlined a possible suspension of Spain from NATO, Reuters reported on Friday. Reuters, citing an unnamed U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity, affirmed that the document, which is “circulating at high levels in the Pentagon,” also describes options that the United States could use to “punish” other NATO members that it believes to have failed to support the United States in the war with Iran — such as reviewing the U.S. position on Britain’s claim to the Falkland Islands, long contested by Argentina. The source claimed that the options allegedly outlined in the email…