Author: Press Room
The Nigerian Air Force on Sunday blamed a “misfire” for an airstrike that struck a market in northeastern Nigeria. Local media and human rights groups said over 100 civilians were killed in the attack, including women and children. The village targeted in the attack, Jili, is located in the state of Yobe near the border with Borno, which is the epicenter of jihadi activity in Nigeria. Initial statements from the Nigerian Air Force said the airstrike was part of a “mop-up” operation “aimed at fleeing remnants and regrouping cells seeking to exploit the difficult terrain.” Although the Nigerian military insisted…
President Donald Trump received a DoorDash delivery on Monday from a woman who did not have to pay taxes on more than $11,000 in tips, thanks to his “No Tax on Tips” policy in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Trump greeted the delivery woman, Sharon Simmons, who brought two bags of McDonald’s, outside the Oval Office in the early afternoon. The president gave her a $100 tip. “This doesn’t look staged, does it?” Trump quipped as he received the two bags. The White House noted that Simmons, whose husband is battling cancer, made $11,000 in tips last year. Under…
During an appearance on NewsMax2’s “News Now,” Breitbart News social media director Wynton Hall, author of Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI, argued for beating China without “becoming China” regarding artificial intelligence. Hall said, “We don’t want to live in a world built on AI Chinese rails. We know that since 2017, the Chinese have been on a determined drive for AI global dominance by 2030. We’re almost there. And the reason that that matters for us is two reasons. One, the economics, right? One third of the S&P 500 is constituted around the American…
Benjamin Netanyahu’s military secretary has won approval from a split committee despite previous controversy An Israeli general linked to a controversy over the use of a teenager in an online influence campaign has been appointed as the next director of the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday that Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman, currently serving as his military secretary, will take over as the country’s top spy chief. Netanyahu described Gofman as a “bold and creative” commander capable of unconventional thinking.Gofman, a career officer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), is widely seen as a close…
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) on Monday wrote to National Security Agency (NSA) Director Joshua Rudd about multiple instances of “deeply troubling abuses of power” by NSA analysts who have misused Section 702 of FISA to search private communications, including a person met through a dating service and a potential tenant. “I write to demand answers about a deeply troubling abuse of power by a National Security Agency analyst who exploited one of our nation’s most sensitive surveillance authorities to spy on Americans met through an online dating service,” Boebert wrote to the NSA. She recounted an incident that was disclosed…
Electoral authorities in Peru extended Sunday’s election process throughout Monday after a series of delays and logistical issues left several voting stations closed, thousands unable to vote, and uncertainty in the final results. While the final results remain uncertain at press time, preliminary results from Peru’s National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) indicate that, with about 52.7 percent of the votes counted as of Monday morning, conservative former first lady and former Senator Keiko Fujimori of the Popular Force party is leading the race with 16.9 percent, followed by conservative former mayor of Lima Rafael López Aliaga of the Popular Renovation party with 14.6…
The Iranian regime on Monday denied charging a “toll” to Indian ships for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, following President Donald Trump’s threat to prevent any ship that paid ransom to Iran from using the strait. “You can ask the Indian government if we have charged anything up to now,” Iranian Ambassador Mohammad Fathali insisted at a press conference from the Iranian embassy in New Delhi. “In this difficult time, we have good relations. We believe Iran and India share common interests and a common fate,” he said. Fathali said Iran is keeping in “close communication” with India,…
Rheinmetall’s FV-014 loitering munition is reportedly behind smaller rivals despite preferential government treatment German defense giant Rheinmetall is reportedly falling behind smaller competitors in the race to develop a new kamikaze drone, which in its current state is “not dangerous even to inflatable tanks,” according to the Berliner Zeitung.The newspaper cited classified documents and insider accounts as saying that the arms maker is being given preferential treatment from the government, even as its FV-014 drone has encountered multiple issues during testing. Rheinmetall is competing with startups Helsing and Stark Defence as Berlin pours billions of euros into a military buildup…
A tech company is leveraging Americans’ desire for a deeper connection with God by offering an AI-generated avatar of Jesus Christ that charges by the minute. The New York Post reports that the Southern California-based company Just Like Me allows users to join video calls with an AI-generated avatar of Jesus Christ. Like other religious AI tools emerging in the marketplace, the platform offers words of prayer and encouragement across multiple languages. The avatar remembers previous conversations, though its lip movements do not always synchronize perfectly with its speech. Chris Breed, CEO of Just Like Me, described the attachment users…
A survey conducted by Datafolha and published by local outlets on Sunday found that a majority of Brazilians believe that conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro should serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest over a prison cell. Bolsonaro, 71, is presently serving a 27 year prison sentence for alleged “crimes against democracy” after the nation’s top court, the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) found him guilty of allegedly conspiring with others to stage a purported “coup” to overturn the results of the 2022 presidential election that he narrowly lost against current socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The former president had…