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Rep. Jay Obernolte, a California Republican leading the charge on wide-ranging artificial intelligence legislation in the House, said Thursday he’s ramping up pressure for a committee vote after a series of cyber breaches involving rogue AI models. “We have been aware of the need for this type of bill for the last couple of years,” the California Republican told reporters in Washington. “However, the recent events have certainly elevated the discussion amongst my colleagues and elevated awareness of just how necessary this bill is. So, in that sense, it’s been timely.” Obernolte’s comments follow a series of recent disclosures by…

“We are doing the same” in Iran, the US president has said, appearing to link military operations to control of oil resources US President Donald Trump has hailed Venezuelan oil as the “spoils” of war, in stark contrast to his earlier portrayal of the January operation in Caracas as being intended to bring “peace, liberty, and justice” to the Venezuelan people.Speaking in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Trump claimed that “billions and billions of barrels of oil” are coming out of Venezuela, describing it as “one of the most fertile places for oil in the world.” Venezuela holds the world’s largest…

World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka backed the WTA’s new eligibility policy and declared that biological men are “way stronger than women.” Aryna Sabalenka, the No. 1-ranked women’s tennis player in the world, closed out a pre-tournament press conference in Toronto by backing the Women’s Tennis Association’s new eligibility rule and stating the biological reality at the center of the women’s-sports debate. During a press conference ahead of the Canadian Open in Montreal, Sabalenka was asked about the Women’s Tennis Association’s (WTA) new common-sense policy requiring a one-time genetic sex test for all female players. Instead of cowering to transgender activists…

US President Donald Trump holds an executive order after signing it alongside US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon (R) in Washington, DC, March 20, 2025. Advocacy groups are calling on Trump and McMahon to suspend payments on student loans as borrowers report increasing problems with federal loan programs. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP) (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty ImagesAdvocacy groups are sounding the alarm about increasing problems with federal student loan programs as the Education Department rushes to implement a raft of regulatory and legislative reforms. As borrowers struggle to access key programs, and processing…

Wages are stagnating and young people are struggling to find that essential first work experience because the British economy is addicted to illegal migrant labour, says Reform UK as it promises a major change that would see illegal-employing executives jailed and the public rewarded for reporting “dodgy” businesses to the immigration authorities. A future Reform government led by Nigel Farage would institute a ‘Deliveroo law’, going after big-money businesses including doordash-type which take advantage of what has so far been decades of extreme permissiveness by the British state towards the black market of migrant labour. Modelled on tax fraud rules,…

Wisconsin’s Court of Appeals District III (CAD III) countered Washington County’s gun control rules for foster parents, rebuking the county for some of the controls and completely erasing others. The ruling, issued in Lafferty v. Pertl, was handed down July 31, 2026. The case centers on Brian and Katie Lafferty and their fight to retain their Second Amendment rights while serving as foster parents. The appeal to CAD III was made after a circuit court granted summary judgement against the Laffertys procedurally. CAD III noted: The Laffertys have been seeking to exercise their state and federal constitutional rights for five…

Retiring Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) becomes the latest lawmaker to announce a forthcoming book — but this one will take aim at his own party and President Donald Trump. “How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents” will explore how a group of “grifting sycophants and useful idiots” have impacted the second Trump administration, according to a new summary from his publisher released Thursday. Tillis has clashed publicly with the president and members of his administration, particularly after Trump effectively forced him into retirement. In an interview with MS NOW on Thursday, Tillis said those individuals — whom he dubs as…

Indiana Governor Mike Braun said strikes on shipping in the Black Sea contributed to “unnaturally” high gas prices Governor Mike Braun has declared a new energy emergency in the US state of Indiana, citing attacks on shipping linked to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.In a post on X on Wednesday, Braun said he had signed an executive order extending the suspension of the state’s gasoline use and excise taxes, which had been due to be reinstated on Friday, through September 5.“This new energy emergency is prompted by new disruptions to global oil shipping lanes in recent weeks, in the Black Sea/Kerch Strait…

The White House has released a series of now-declassified documents regarding the 2020 election.  In one document specifically, details surrounding a mysterious incident that took place in Maricopa County have been revealed. The newly-declassified documents show that a hacker was able to obtain approximately 633,000 records of Maricopa County voters, including information on 930 voters that was not publicly available, including domestic abuse victims, according to a letter from FBI Director Kash Patel to the White House Task Force on Government Transparency. However, according to an interview in November 2020 with a redacted name, the hacker believed they had extracted 1,000,000…

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has promised to defund “woke” university degrees in Britain, arguing they have provided “little value” to the taxpaying public. Shadow Education Secretary Suella Braverman said this week that a Reform government would cut student loans for degrees in gender studies, social justice, critical race theory, queer studies, and other “woke” subjects at British universities. “Young people have been conned into tens of thousands of pounds worth of debt for degrees that too often leave them with poor job prospects while taxpayers are left footing the bill,” Braverman told The Telegraph. “Meanwhile, our economy is crying out for…