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President Donald Trump made a compelling case that other countries need to “step up when it comes to the Strait of Hormuz,” Tommy Pigott, principal deputy spokesman at the U.S. Department of State said during an interview on Breitbart News Daily. When asked why this responsibility of opening up the Strait of Hormuz has fallen on America, Pigott pointed to remarks President Donald Trump made during his speech Wednesday night. “As the President explained last night, it shouldn’t,” Pigott said Thursday. “We have seen through this operation that the Iranian Air Force is really hurt; their missile launchers are decimated;…

The Artemis II crew faced an unexpected technical hurdle when Microsoft Outlook malfunctioned aboard their spacecraft less than a day after liftoff. The New York Post reports that NASA’s Artemis II mission, which blasted off Wednesday evening carrying four astronauts on a 10-day voyage to orbit the moon, encountered software troubles early in its journey when the crew’s email system failed to function properly. Mission Commander Reid Wiseman reported the Outlook issue to Houston-based mission control approximately seven hours after the historic launch. “I also see that I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working,” Wiseman communicated…

Over half of surveyed representatives of top judicial authorities are increasingly using AI to prepare for hearings and draft rulings Over half of US federal judges (60%) are using at least one AI tool in their judicial work, a recent Northwestern University study suggests. The research is based on responses from 112 federal judges, drawn from a random sample of 502 federal bankruptcy, magistrate, district court, and appellate court officials.The use of AI in courtrooms has recently drawn attention for fabricated citations and other errors that have undermined confidence in some filings. The survey published earlier this week shows that…

The U.S. economy may need fewer than 10,000 new jobs per month to maintain a stable unemployment rate this year, Federal Reserve researchers said in a paper published Wednesday—a threshold so low it would force a fundamental rethinking of how Wall Street, the press, and policymakers evaluate the monthly employment report. The analysis, by Fed economists Seth Murray and Ivan Vidangos, finds that the “breakeven pace” of job creation—the number of positions the economy must add each month to hold the unemployment rate steady—has plunged to nearly zero, reflecting a sharp pullback in net immigration and the continued retirement of…

The leadership in Tehran was willing to negotiate and was not seeking a nuclear weapon, according to the analyst Iran is a victim of illegal aggression by the US and Israel, prominent American economist Jeffrey Sachs has told RT’s Sanchez Effect, rejecting Washington’s claims that Tehran was seeking a nuclear weapon.Speaking with host Rick Sanchez on Thursday, Sachs lambasted US President Donald Trump’s speech the day before, in which the American leader justified Operation Epic Fury as a necessary response to Iran’s alleged nuclear ambitions.”Iran is not a guilty party in this, it’s the victim of aggression,” Sachs said, calling…

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian – who is technically subordinate to “supreme leader” Mojtaba Khamenei – published a letter on Wednesday evening directly addressing the American people, a move apparently intended to portray himself as the most authoritative leader in the country at the moment. The content of the letter regurgitated years of Iranian regime talking points: denying that Iran posed a threat to any nation before the current conflict, blaming the government of Israel for all turmoil in the Middle East, and falsely claiming his terror regime had graced the Iranian people with an improved lifestyle. Beyond the text, however, the…

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a settlement between President Donald Trump’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that would have allowed churches to endorse political candidates to their congregations without risking their tax-exempt status. U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker ‌in Tyler, an appointee of President Trump, ruled he lacked jurisdiction to approve the pact between the IRS and two Texas churches and the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB), Reuters reported.  Under the proposed agreement, traditional religious communications would have been deemed exempt from the Johnson Amendment, a 1954 tax code provision named after then-Sen. Lyndon Johnson that bars religious and secular…

President Donald Trump called Friday for Congress to back a $1.5 trillion defense budget alongside yawning reductions to domestic programs — making official the ambitious military increase he’s been teasing for months. In a slate of budget fact sheets ahead of an expected broader rollout of the president’s fiscal blueprint, the White House detailed a military budget hike of more than 40 percent for the fiscal year that begins in October. The Trump administration is formally proposing Republicans in Congress enact a large chunk of that defense cash — some $350 billion — using the party-line reconciliation process to skirt…

The Iran-backed Houthi insurgency in Yemen announced on Wednesday it has launched an operation called “Holy Jihad Battle” against Israel, working in concert with Iran and one of its other terrorist proxies, Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Houthi military, which styles itself as the “Yemeni Armed Forces” or YAF even though it is not the legitimate government of Yemen, said its operation would continue “supporting and backing the fronts of resistance,” in line with the Houthis’ “religious, moral, and humanitarian duty” to its allies in the Iranian axis. Houthi spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree said missiles were launched over the weekend…

Employment in the United States expanded by 178,000 in March and the unemployment rate fell to 4.3 percent. Economists had forecast the economy would add 59,000 workers and the unemployment rate would hold steady at 4.4 percent. The prior month’s estimate of a decline of 92,000 was revised even further into negative territory to a drop of 133,000. The February jobs figures were pulled down by a large strike in the healthcare sector. March saw that reverse, with the sector adding 76,000 workers in the month. Over the past 12 months, the sector has added an average of 29,000 each…