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Credit: The White House President Trump will travel to the US State Department in Washington, DC this afternoon to host a roundtable on American mining.  The President will reportedly announce $180 minnion in grants to increase critical mineral production during the roundtable with mining executives and cabinet officials. Per CBS: President Trump is planning to announce over $180 million in grants to boost educational and trade programs for the mining industry Friday, CBS News has learned, part of a bid to increase critical mineral production. Mr. Trump will unveil the plans at a roundtable at the State Department with educational…

Scientists at Stanford University have used artificial intelligence to design 16 new viruses capable of being reproduced in a laboratory, a breakthrough intended to help combat antibiotic-resistant infections but one that has prompted warnings from biosecurity experts about the risks of the technology. The BBC reports that the experiment relied on AI models called Evo1 and Evo2, which differ from text-based systems like ChatGPT in that they are trained to predict the genetic codes of viruses, bacteria, plants and even humans. Researchers used the models to generate hundreds of designs for a type of virus known as a bacteriophage, which…

A volunteer spotter at last month’s powerlifting world championships admitted he deliberately sabotaged a black athlete’s world-record squat attempt because he is “a racist,” an admission that has since triggered a criminal investigation by Lithuanian police. Ernestas Kusinas, one of five safety spotters assigned to Belgian lifter Sonita Muluh, placed his knee under her barbell during a 334.5kg squat attempt at the IPF World Classic Open Powerlifting Championships in Druskininkai, Lithuania. Reuters reported that police opened the probe Monday after Kusinas commented on an Instagram post about the failed lift. “I am racist, and I did it intentionally,” Kusinas wrote.…

Every year, roughly 40,000 low-skill migrants cheat their way into the H-1B program to get work visas and jobs from Americans, Indian investor Vivek Wadhwa admitted to online host Mark Halperin. “See, what happens is with every government program, there’s also corruption,” said Wadhwa, who was born in Delhi, India, and is now a famous investor in Silicon Valley. He continued: First of all, you have people faking their resumes. So you have these body shops [white-collar staffing companies] who bring people in, and it’s cheap labor. So it’s a fact. It happens … Probably about 20-25 pecent of the…

 Troy Jackson had kids with his cousin. James Talarico wants middle schoolers to text him after dark. Bobby Pulido downplayed child molestation. And Randy Villegas knowingly hired a pedophile to work in a school. No, that’s not a list of weirdos on a watch list; they’re all Democrats running for Congress this cycle. These scandal-ridden candidates are plagued by personal and professional controversies that are so grotesque that the contrast in candidate quality across the two parties could not be clearer. Republicans are assembling a winning team, and Democrats are casting a freak show. The midterms are a choice between proven leaders and candidates who are completely detached…

Senate Republicans confirmed dozens of President Donald Trump’s nominees Friday, just before they leave for a five-week congressional recess. Senators voted 51-47 to approve officials at the Departments of Defense, Energy, State and other agencies. They included David Cummins to head the Transportation Security Administration, Cameron Hamilton to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Hal Duncan to be OMB deputy director and Francis Brooke to be Treasury deputy secretary. Among the group were several ambassadors, including former Rep. David Brat to be ambassador to Australia. Senate Republicans changed the chamber’s rules last year to be able to confirm lower-level nominees…

The US president will gain nothing from bullying, broken promises, and fake news, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has said US President Donald Trump should curb his “theater diplomacy” as it will not work with Iran, Tehran’s top negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, has said.Trump announced on Saturday that he had called off a planned attack on Iran, which, according to him, would have been on a scale “not seen since World War II.” He claimed that he made the decision because Washington and Tehran were close to reaching a diplomatic solution to the conflict in the Middle East.In the following days, the…

Screengrabs Social Media/X The masked activist. Over the years, the world saw Greta Thunberg transition from ‘Global Warming poster girl’ berating society for ‘robbing her of her childhood’ to an activist mostly invested in the Palestinian cause. She didn’t make any sense then, and she doesn’t make any sense now. But, in the process, she became a celebrity – and an incredibly divisive one at that. So, now, she has to pay the price. WATCH: Greta Thunberg wears a balaclava at Kneecap’s Féile an Phobaig Proceeds from the concert will go towards Irish language projects in West Belfast and Derry/Londonderry…

Veteran actor Jeff Bridges has seen enough of Hollywood’s enthusiastic embrace of artificial intelligence (AI) to know its hastening the demise of people like him in an industry that has delivered so much to so many through pure human endeavor. But all is not lost for the son of Lloyd and brother of Beau. He used an interview to outline that if you can’t beat it, enjoy it, as he charted AI’s development since he first came across it as a video game character in the classic Tron back in 2010. If all else fails he can simply monetize his…

Morocco has sentenced 11 people to prison and fines over their role in the mass invasion of the North African Spanish exclave of Ceuta last week. According to Spain’s EFE news wire agency, citing data from the Moroccan Ministry of Justice, nine people were sentenced to prison terms between five and six months for “facilitating the clandestine departure of Moroccans and/or foreigners through places other than the border crossings enabled for this purpose”. Two others were convicted of using electronic devices to encourage others to commit a crime. Another 20 people have also faced prosecution and are awaiting sentencing on…