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“Acting president” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez on Wednesday evening acknowledged that the Venezuelan socialist regime committed “errors in the past” that led to the nation’s unprecedented hyperinflation spiral and exodus of millions of Venezuelans. Rodríguez addressed Venezuela in a roughly 30-minute broadcast during which she called for the mistakes of the past to be “corrected” and presented six proposals to “transform” and “modernize” the Venezuelan state. The Argentine outlet Infobae pointed out that her broadcast was interrupted by a power outage. According to Rodríguez, the policies seek to move toward a “sustained, prudent, and responsible” model that puts an end to inflation and “ensures…

Nicaragua’s communist Daniel Ortega regime is concealing from its official statistics the nearly 30 percent Gross Domestic Product (GPD) contribution that remittances add to the nation’s ailing economy, the newspaper Confidencial reported. Over the past years, Nicaragua has received billions of dollars through remittances sent by Nicaraguans abroad to their relatives and friends at home — with about 80 percent of the total originating from the United States. The World Bank determined in December 2024 that remittances accounted for over 27 percent of Nicaragua’s entire GDP during that year. Confidencial is one of several Nicaraguan outlets forced to operate in exile due to the…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is facing the most serious threat to his power in decades, in an election that’s drawn in the EU, US, and Ukraine. RT explores the players, the stakes, and the dirty tricks shaping the Hungarian election.We’ve delved into the election in our ‘Battle for Hungary’ series, but if you’ve just joined us, here’s what you need to know: When is the Hungarian election?Hungarians go to the polls on Sunday, April 12, to elect all 199 members of the National Assembly. Elections are held every four years in Hungary, and take place over a single round…

Florida is launching an investigation into OpenAI, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced on Thursday, noting that it has been linked to “criminal behavior,” including the deadly shooting at Florida State University (FSU) in April 2025. “Today we are launching an investigation into OpenAI. The development and rollout of artificial intelligence is a monumental leap in technology, but it has not been without concern for public safety and national security,” Uthmeier began in his Thursday announcement. “AI is built on its ability to gather data, and there are concerns about whether open AI’s data and AI technologies that can be…

The White Sox will honor Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope and a Chicago native, with a special hat for fans this coming August. Fans who purchase special tickets to the White Sox’s August 11 game against the Reds will receive a “White Sox-themed pope hat in honor of Chicago native and White Sox fan, Pope Leo XIV,” per the New York Post. “Fans looking to land one of the black and green hats with a White Sox logo in the middle will need to purchase a ticket in one of five designated sections at Rate Field, otherwise they’ll…

Consumer sentiment plunged in early April to the lowest level in the survey’s seven-decade history, as the Iran conflict weighed heavily on Republican household views of the economy, according to the University of Michigan’s preliminary survey released Friday. The Index of Consumer Sentiment fell to 47.6 from 53.3 in March, a decline of nearly 11 percent. The reading eclipses the previous all-time low of 50.0 set in June 2022 during the post-pandemic inflation surge. The survey window ran from March 24 to April 7, with 98 percent of interviews completed before the April 7 announcement of a temporary cease-fire. The…

Far-left efforts to overturn a Trump-backed, Republican-drawn congressional redistricting map in Missouri have been repeatedly smacked down in federal courts as midterm elections draw closer.  Democrats and left-wing activists have tried numerous legal routes to defeat the map, which was passed by the GOP-dominated state legislature and signed into law by Gov. Mike Kehoe (R-MO) last September before going into effect in December. The bill, called HB1, codified new district lines that could net House Republicans an additional seat in what is expected to be a tight election season. Missouri has six Republicans and two Democrats in the House of Representatives.…

London (AFP) – The head of a prominent anti-disinformation watchdog has warned of the dangers posed by AI chatbots, saying children are particularly vulnerable. “Social media broadcasts to billions, AI whispers to one,” Imran Ahmed, who heads the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), told a disinformation conference this week. “No society should build machines that can meet a child in their loneliest moment and offer them harm as if it were help,” Ahmed told the Cambridge Disinformation Summit. In Wednesday’s lecture by video call to his former university, Ahmed cited the case of a UK mother killed by her…

Brig. Gen. Esmail Qaani, commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, resurfaced on Thursday with a message to his forces, after an absence that led to speculation that he was killed by a U.S. or Israeli airstrike. Qaani addressed his message to the “mujahideen and brave men of the resistance front,” and congratulated them for giving “regrettable lessons to the enemies of humanity.” Qaani praised his troops as “decisive,” “brave,” and “heroic,” thanked them for making “exemplary efforts” during combat with Israel and the United States, and metaphorically “kissed each of your hands” to show his…

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says the horrific murder of a woman who was bludgeoned to death at a Fort Myers gas station on April 3 was totally preventable, pointing to the fact that the suspect is a Haitian national in the U.S. illegally who benefited from former President Joe Biden’s open border policies. “This horrific murder was preventable. Even as Florida arrests hundreds of criminal aliens every day, four years of the Biden admin’s open-border policies continue to wreak havoc on our communities,” Uthmeier said in a social media post. “Members of Congress pushing for amnesty should be ashamed.…