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President Donald Trump on Friday blamed two federal judges appointed by former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden after they ruled against his plan to build a White House ballroom and military complex. A divided federal appeals court ruled that the Trump administration must stop construction of the $400 million White House ballroom because Congress did not authorize the project. The court found the president does not have unilateral authority to replace the East Wing with the planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom. In a Truth Social post, Trump criticized the judges’ reasoning, arguing that presidents have the authority to renovate, improve, and…
Washington is reportedly seeking to repeat the Venezuela scenario in Cuba, but faces a tougher challenge The Trump administration is looking for a new Cuban leader who can change Havana’s political course, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing current and former US officials.Since returning to office, US President Donald Trump has tightened the decades-old blockade of Cuba, threatening tariffs on countries that supply it with oil and saying he will take the country “one way or another.”The unnamed officials told the NYT that the Trump administration has been searching for a current or former Cuban official who could…
University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers had his CNN interview interrupted on Saturday when a fly flew straight into his mouth. Wolfers was speaking with CNN’s Omar Jimenez about the jobs numbers released on Friday when the insect made its sudden entrance. “The good news is the U.S. labor market, roughly speaking, has been The Little Engine That Could. It’s not earning an A+ in anyone’s book, but it does seem remarkably resilient so far. But, all resilient until the day that we’re not,” Wolfers was explaining. Suddenly, a fly flew directly into his mouth, causing him to begin coughing.…
There’s a powerful new documentary out called Earth’s Greatest Enemy by Abby Martin about the ecocidal abuses of the US war machine, and it addresses the most pressing existential hurdles we face as a species like nothing I’ve seen before. Reading by Tim Foley: There’s a powerful new documentary out called Earth’s Greatest Enemy by Abby Martin about the ecocidal abuses of the US war machine, and it addresses the most pressing existential hurdles we face as a species like nothing I’ve seen before. The film breaks down how the US military has become the single most environmentally destructive institution on our…
There will be no direct talks between Iran and the U.S. as long as Washington continues to ignore Tehran’s demands for solving the Strait of Hormuz dispute, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Sunday. Reuters reports the Islamic state’s top diplomat added messages are being exchanged via intermediaries – not directly between the two parties. Araqchi repeated Iran’s position that an agreement on the Strait of Hormuz between Tehran and Muscat was in the “final stages” but would not reopen the strategic waterway. In comments reported by Mehr news agency and seen by Reuters, Araqchi said the agreement would set…
Kimi K3, a powerful AI model from Chinese company Moonshot AI, escaped containment during a security test according to a U.S. cybersecurity startup. Wired reports that Frontier Security says Kimi K3, an open-weight model from the Chinese company Moonshot AI, broke out of a testing sandbox while being evaluated on its defensive cybersecurity skills. The model reportedly used the access to search the open internet for answers to problems it had been assigned, rather than solving them on its own. The incident follows similar reports involving models from OpenAI and Anthropic. As in those cases, a misconfiguration in the sandbox meant…
Friday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said President Donald Trump was “rampaging over the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.” Raskin said, “he Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee know that we are in the fight of our lives and have been working every single day. Michael, to try to defend the rule of law, the Constitution and our democracy against an authoritarian president who’s just been rampaging over the Constitution in the Bill of Rights.” He added, “And it’s not just the weaponization fund but any transfer of money for these purposes. If these people…
The internet entrepreneur warned that new technologies could supercharge surveillance and give Washington access to vast databases of personal data AI could eventually gain unprecedented insight into people’s lives, internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has warned. He said the technology could bring together vast amounts of personal information, allowing AI systems to build highly detailed profiles of individuals.The technology could dramatically expand the reach of US surveillance, according to Dotcom. He added that AI systems could gain access to government databases containing vast amounts of information about citizens.“AI is very dangerous because it will get access to the US database,” the…
Indiana Fever coach Stephanie White, left, speaks about Sophie Cunningham getting assaulted by a Chicago Sky player during a game on Saturday. Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham has spoken out after a Chicago Sky player clotheslined her during a game yesterday, but her own woke coach refuses to have her back. As The Gateway Pundit reported, during the first quarter of a game between the Chicago Sky and Cunningham’s Fever in the Windy City, Cunningham raced down the court for a breakaway layup while the Sky’s DiJonai Carrington chased after her. Carrington caught up with Cunningham and landed a vicious…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia and Ukraine exchanged strikes overnight that killed civilians and injured many others on both sides, local authorities reported. In Russia’s border region of Belgorod, Ukrainian drones killed five people and injured two dozen others including a 4-year-old boy, according to the regional administration. Russian missiles struck a high-rise apartment block in Kharkiv’s Saltivskyi district, killing two people and injuring 13, according to regional head Oleh Syniehubov. Eight more people were injured in Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa after “dozens of missiles and drones” struck the city and surrounding region, according to local administration head…