Author: Press Room

Chinese robots apparently have been training. After performing well behind their human rivals only a year ago, an android smoked the entire field on Sunday in a Beijing half marathon and ran faster than any human in history. Lightning, a robot developed by Honor, a Chinese smartphone manufacturer, finished the 21-kilometer run in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record by more than six minutes. Ugandan runner Jacob Kiplimo this year set the human record at 57 minutes and 20 seconds. Using swinging forearms for balance, the bright-red humanoid Lightning, which stands five and a half feet…

George Robertson claims the Defense Ministry would not know where to find most of those eligible to serve in the event of an urgent need The UK has effectively lost contact with tens of thousands of reservists who would be called up in a national emergency, George Robertson, a former NATO secretary general and a lead adviser for the Strategic Defense Review (SDR), has said.Amid the broader Western militarization over a perceived Russian threat – claims repeatedly dismissed by Moscow as “nonsense” – the UK rolled out its new SDR last November, outlining a shift to “warfighting readiness” by 2035.…

President Donald Trump has warned the Islamist regime in Tehran that if it refuses to accept his deal, the United States will once again start to bomb the country, including “every single” bridge and power plant. U.S. peace negotiators head back to Islamabad, Pakistan, for further talks on Monday, President Trump said, as the end of the two-week ceasefire looms over the conflict with Iran. The U.S. leader accused Tehran of a “total violation” of the ceasefire agreement by attacking ships in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, just hours after publicly agreeing to leave the critical waterway open. According…

An illegal alien is accused of killing 37-year-old Giovany Negron Talavera, a father, and leaving a mother of three children in critical condition following a hit-and-run in Hillsborough County, Florida. Edwin Rapalo-Lorenzo, a 27-year-old illegal alien, has been arrested by the Hillsborough Sheriff’s Office and charged with vehicular homicide, leaving the scene of a crash involving death, leaving the scene of a crash involving serious bodily injury, and driving without a valid driver’s license. According to police, on April 11, Rapalo-Lorenzo was driving when he crossed into another lane and crashed head-on into a motorcycle with two passengers. The driver of…

Eight children were killed in a mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana on Sunday, police have said, describing the attack as a domestic dispute that escalated into deadly violence.According to a statement on social media, officers responded to reports of a domestic disturbance in the 300 block of West 79th Street just after 6:00 AM local time (11:00 GMT). According to spokesperson Christopher Bordelon, the violence spanned multiple locations.“You have three different scenes,” Bordelon said, adding that the initial shooting occurred on West 79th Street, with a related incident unfolding on Harrison Street, and at least one victim fleeing to a…

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the Iranian regime is “falling apart.” Host Jake Tapper said, “So President Trump and the Truth Social post this morning said if the Iranians don’t take the deal being offered, quote, the United States is going to knock out every single power plant in every single bridge in Iran. No more Mr. Nice guy. They’ll come down faster, come down easy. Are you not concerned that those proposed strikes on civilian infrastructure, including power plants, would hurt the innocent people of Iran and would constitute a war crime?”…

Iran, with U.S. assistance, is removing the sea mines it placed in the Strait of Hormuz and has committed to never closing the Strait again as part of the agreements reached Friday, President Donald Trump announced. Trump told NewsNation’s Kellie Meyer that Iran “agreed to everything” in a phone call in the morning, which, according to his Truth Social posts, includes several commitments around the critical waterway, through which about one-fifth of the world’s oil travels. “Iran, with the help of the U.S.A., has removed, or is removing, all sea mines! Thank you!” Trump wrote in one post. “Iran has…

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said President Donald Trump had “lost our entire moral credibility” by threatening to wipe out Iranian civilization. JONATHAN KARL: So, I know you’ve obviously been adamantly opposed to this war in the first place. What do you make of this latest development, though, another round of peace talks? KHANNA: Well, they said they want to escalate to de-escalate. They’ve escalated to devastation. I mean, you have the pope lecturing America about possible war crimes. You have the president, as you pointed out, threatening to destroy all power plants. I didn’t think…

The old food pyramid pushed Americans into consuming “ultra-processed foods and highly refined carbohydrates that destroyed their metabolic system,” Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said during a House education hearing on Friday. Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) asked Kennedy what impact the “poor” guidelines from the old food pyramid has had on the health of American children. Kennedy pointed out that the original food pyramid, which had bread, cereal, and pasta with the highest daily servings and meats and dairy toward the top with lesser servings, was written by industry lobbyists and has remained that way for the…

State Department officials have reportedly warned Havana that it has a “small window” to implement reforms US officials have urged Cuba to transition from socialism to a market-based economy and compensate American citizens and corporations whose assets were seized in the 1960s, US news outlets reported on Friday and Saturday, citing sources familiar with the matter.A delegation from the US State Department outlined the demands late last week during the first trip of the kind to Havana since 2016, as Cuba grapples with severe fuel shortages and blackouts following restrictions on oil shipments imposed by US President Donald Trump.The US…