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On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) said that she wonders if Iran is thinking “let’s see if we can just sort of run out the clock and this limbo might not be such a bad situation for us as we harbor our power.” Smith said that Iran’s attack earlier in the day demonstrate “the incredible risk and chaos of this war with no clear explanation for why it’s happened and no clear rationale or path for getting out of it. And we also saw, today, Ukraine striking a ship, an Iranian ship. And, luckily, that…

Randy Villegas, a socialist professor and California congressional candidate endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), placed high school students with activist organizations that promoted gender-identity programming and intersectionality, including one group whose environmental justice program received federal taxpayer funding. Villegas, who defeated the Democratic establishment’s preferred contender, California Assemblywoman Jasmeet Bains, for the second position in the general election in California’s 22nd Congressional District, used the Central Valley Freedom Summer program, known as CVFS, to place high school students with activist organizations. He specifically frames the project as part of a “History of Resistance,” citing…

Nearly two dozen governors are throwing their support behind President Donald Trump’s push for a new party-line spending bill — the latest effort to build pressure on Senate Majority Leader John Thune and his GOP colleagues to move quickly. The letter, a copy of which was obtained exclusively by POLITICO, comes as White House budget director Russ Vought and James Braid, Trump’s top legislative aide, are set to meet with Senate Republicans during a closed-door lunch Wednesday where they will outline the White House’s vision for the bill. “As Republican Governors, we strongly support your call for the United States…

Houthis have claimed they attacked “sensitive” oil infrastructure in retaliation for Riyadh’s strikes on Yemen Saudi Arabia’s largest crude oil processing facility was damaged in a drone strike on Monday, according to open-source analysts reviewing satellite imagery and a Gulf official cited by the Wall Street Journal.The images circulating online appear to show a large smoke plume rising from the Abqaiq complex, along with burn marks and apparent damage around parts of the facility.Yemen’s Houthis claimed responsibility for what military spokesman Yahya Saree described on X as strikes on “targets and sensitive points in the supply and transport of crude…

 President Donald Trump used the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington to launch a blistering attack on woke Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Speaking at the Waldorf Astoria ballroom, Trump mocked a viral clip in which Omar appeared to refer to World War II as “World War 11” and segued into a series of personal insults. “Ilhan Omar and her brother are thinking about moving together — very much in love,” Trump said, before calling the congresswoman “a low-IQ person” and “very dishonest.” He went on to tell the audience that Omar “oughta get the hell out…

A school district in rural upstate New York has suspended plans to introduce a humanoid AI robot into classrooms after facing criticism from state education officials, teachers, and community members over privacy concerns and the manufacturer’s connections to “lifelike” sex robots. Breitbart News previously reported that Salamanca City Central School District’s board of education approved a $57,000 purchase of an AI-powered humanoid robot from Realbotix, intending to use the stationary unit, already nicknamed Sally, to support high school students studying robotics and technology. The robot features long dark hair and will be equipped with functional arms and hands but non-working…

A serial asylum seeker has been jailed after pleading guilty to offences relating to him entering a school premises while carrying items including petrol, a hand axe, and a seven-inch knife. A judge at Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester in England jailed 21-year-old South Sudanese migrant Douk Deng to two years in prison — with “up to” one year to be served actually in jail — after he approached at least two schools, allegedly over his frustration at the failure of the British government to give him asylum status. Deng, who applied and was rejected for asylum in the United Kingdom…

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has filed a federal lawsuit against Minnesota, challenging a pioneering state law that prohibits “nudify” apps capable of creating AI-powered fake, sexualized images of individuals. CBS News reports that the lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court, targets legislation signed by Gov. Tim Walz (D) earlier this year that bans access to so-called nudification technology. The law, designated as HF 1606, is scheduled to take effect in August and represents the first state-level attempt to regulate this specific application of artificial intelligence. Musk’s lawsuit contends that the statute violates First Amendment protections by imposing what…

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said in an interview published Monday that he is unsure whether his own party still wants him, even as Republicans work to pull him across the aisle. Fetterman told NBC News that his place inside the Democratic caucus has grown uncertain as the party drifts on Israel. The Pennsylvania Democrat has spent months warning that his colleagues are turning against the Jewish state, and he put the rift in blunt terms. “If the Democratic caucus doesn’t want me, they could just let me know,” Fetterman said, lamenting “the very anti-Israel party that we’re becoming.” Republicans have…

GOP Sen. John Cornyn said Wednesday, less than 24 hours before a critical committee vote, that he is “not prepared” to support Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general as the two continue to tangle over the fate of a controversial DOJ-brokered settlement agreement involving President Donald Trump. Blanche did not appear for a planned morning meeting in Cornyn’s office, and the senator told reporters that time was running out for Blanche to meet his demand to formally modify the settlement Trump reached with the IRS earlier this year — a key ultimatum the Texas Republican set out after Blanche’s confirmation…