GOP demands Blinken surrender all Hunter Biden communication after revelations of deceit

Is the Debt Limit Constitutional? Biden Aides Are Debating It.
As the government heads toward a possible default on its debt as soon as next month, officials are entertaining a legal theory that previous administrations ruled out.

Rather Than Smearing Justices, Democrats Should Be Asking Them For Ethics Lessons
The concerted effort by the media and Democrats to delegitimize the Supreme Court is the most consequential attack on our institutions in memory.

Supreme Court opinions released at historically slow pace, with blockbusters to come
The high court's major cases that have yet to be decided include the legality of Biden's plan to forgive student loan debt, whether to uphold affirmative action in college admissions, and whether the owner of a creative business can deny work for same-sex weddings.

Authorities Catch Illegal Alien Accused Of Murdering 5 Neighbors In Texas
The suspect, who is a Mexican national, was unlawfully in the U.S. and had been deported several times in the past, ranging from 2009 through 2016.

In The Last 3 Years Alone, IRS Has Dropped $10 Million On Weapons, Ammo, And Tactical Gear
The report from Open the Books comes in the wake of President Joe Biden’s multibillion-dollar Inflation Reduction Act — which would divert billions to the IRS to hire more agents.

Nordstrom to Shutter Both Downtown San Francisco Stores, Citing Difficult Conditions
"The dynamics of the downtown San Francisco market have changed dramatically over the past several years, impacting customer foot traffic to our stores and our ability to operate successfully."

Veteran prosecutor quits over Soros-funded DA's radical soft-on-crime policies
"I am leaving not because I want to."

Man who harassed subway passengers dies after former Marine puts him in a choke hold, NYPD says
Law enforcement sources said that the man had numerous prior arrests over assault, disorderly conduct, and fare beating.

Balloon seen over Hawaii last week? Not China’s, US says
It's not clear who owns the balloon, which has now passed out of Hawaii's airspace.

Viral TikTok video shows Americans singing the national anthem in California, and liberals are 'terrified'
"By far the most dangerous situation I’ve ever been in," she wrote about the incident and added hashtags for "white people things."

As evidence emerges in Hunter Biden probe, investigators see a political protection racket
Evidence points to "another example of a privileged Democrat getting away with things that no average, working, taxpaying American could get away with," Rep. James Comer said.

GOPers Order Blinken To Turn Over All Communications With Hunter Biden After Emails Show He Lied To Congress
While testifying before in 2020, Blinken was asked if he had any means of correspondence with Hunter Biden during his time as Obama’s deputy secretary of state, to which Blinken replied, “No.” But ...

Karine Jean-Pierre Stonewalls Questions On President’s Unacknowledged Arkansas Grandchild
The president and his son have repeatedly refused to acknowledge Navy, even after a court-ordered paternity test proved that Navy is Hunter’s daughter.

‘Hush Up, Boy’: Biden Scolds Guest At White House Islamic Holiday Event
“Do you want to come and make a speech?” Biden asked.

New poll shows Trump beating Biden head-to-head, Trump/DeSantis ticket winning popular vote
The poll found the majority of Americans favor a Trump/DeSantis ticket over Biden/Harris, at 51 to 43 percent, respectively.

Double win for DeSantis: Florida bill reforming 'resign to run' focuses on election integrity
Bill's voter roll maintenance measures come after Florida withdrew from the Electronic Registration Information Center, a controversial multistate voter-data-sharing partnership.

Trump kicks NBC reporter off plane, slams network as 'fake news:' 'Get him out of here'
Trump tells reporter, "I heard you’re a nice guy from NBC, but you’re not."

Democrat Arrested In Florida For Attacking Matt Gaetz: Police
“A 41-year-old Tallahassee woman, Selena Chambers, was arrested after it was found she intentionally threw a glass of wine at Representative Gaetz after shouting obscenities at him,” police said.

Judge denies trans Montana lawmaker's bid to return to House floor following censure
"Plaintiffs’ requested relief would require this Court to interfere with legislative authority in a manner that exceeds this Court’s authority."

Oregon Secretary of State to resign next week
Fagan has received criticism for her decision to take a $10,000-per-month side job as a cannabis consultant.

Carol Roth: Your biggest, most urgent money fear — answered
More than any question, what people are asking of late is, “Should I pull my money from the bank?”

Axios: Banking crisis isn't over yet, and the job market is cooling
Today's stock market slide confirms the signs we saw in yesterday's market rumbles: The banking panic is far from over.

After Pandemic Rebound, US Manufacturing Droops
After an extraordinary boom fed by cooped-up consumers, manufacturing has stalled as retailers burn through bloated inventories.

Chase Bank warned on religious discrimination by 19 GOP attorneys general
"Chase cannot call itself ‘inclusive’ and say that it ‘opposes discrimination in any form,’ while simultaneously disenfranchising its clients over religious and political differences."

Biden channels Trump with troop deployment to border, but critics see empty gesture
"They're not being sent there to secure the border," said Mark Morgan, former acting CBP chief. "They're simply being [sent] down there to facilitate the catch and release of those illegally entering and filing fraudulent claims."

Karine Jean-Pierre Erupts When Pressed Over False Claims That Biden Has Lowered Illegal Immigration By 90%
“Where did that number come from?”

Military cyber directors: Help us better leverage AI to gain the ‘high ground’
In a sign of how ubiquitous AI has become recently, DISA Director Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner began his keynote not speaking himself, but with a generative AI that cloned his voice and delivered the start of his remarks.

Ukraine rejects Western fear that Putin would use nuclear weapons to keep Crimea
“I don't think that they [will] use a nuclear weapon, tactical nuclear weapon, against Ukraine,” Ukrainian special representative Tamila Tasheva told the Washington Examiner. “I don’t think so.”

Pope Francis confirms secret Vatican mission in Ukraine
"I’m available to do anything," Francis said. "There’s a mission that’s not public that’s under way. When it’s public, I’ll talk about it."

Eighth-grade civics and history test scores plummet after COVID-19
The latest data from the Nation's Report Card revealed that civics scores for eighth grade students declined for the first time ever.

Texas AG Paxton to probe whether COVID vax makers misrepresented shot safety data
The probe will reportedly center on possible violations of Texas' Deceptive Trade Practices Act and explore whether the pharmaceutical giants participated in gain-of-function research without the public's knowledge.

Whitlock: Bill Maher’s Elon Musk interview reveals the comedian’s role in the woke pandemic
Bill Maher is the Dr. Fauci of the “woke mind virus.” For more than two decades, Maher’s HBO laboratory, “Real Time,” sponsored the gain-of-function research that led to the nationwide outbreak of the woke mindset and its primary variant, critical race theory.

With writers on strike, can an AI chatbot be as funny as Stephen Colbert?
The BBC, without evidence, claims Colbert is "funny."

After Tucker Carlson exit, Glenn Beck claims Fox CEO Rupert Murdoch told him not to talk about God on air
Fox News spokesperson declines to comment, points to lineup of hosts who talk about faith.

Media Matters Tried To Destroy Tucker With Leaked Tapes, And It Blew Up Spectacularly
“Thank you for confirming that Tucker is a normal, down-to-earth, very funny person. Great work, as always, Media Matters, curating excellent conservative content,” City Journal writer Christopher Rufo commented.

NPR Claims Elon Musk Threatened to Give Its Twitter Handle Away Unless It Tweets Again
"Our policy is to recycle handles that are definitively dormant. Same policy applies to all accounts. No special treatment for NPR."

Elon Musk: Irish Hate Speech Laws are a ‘Massive Attack Against Freedom of Speech’
Under the proposed legislation, Irish authorities will be given the power to criminally convict people for a variety of “hate” offences, including the possession of material that could “incite” hatred in others if disseminated.

Theatre company wrestles with knife crime in its first West End show
Minority-focused company the Upsetters says play "Dismissed" will challenge "ethical absolutes" around the problem.

The 6th Mass Extinction Is Further Along Than We Thought
A new study says that there may be a time lag between when humans implement environmental actions and when these actions affect animals, meaning that effects of this mass extinction could be “locked in” up until 2050.

New ‘groundbreaking’ study says trans women face prostate cancer risk
“There’s a misperception ... that because these are women — they identify as women, they look like women — you don’t necessarily think you should check for prostate cancer.”

Ivy league professor says it's 'bad science' to define human sex as a binary
Fuentes claimed that inaccurate representations of biology are being wielded to target women and transgender people.

'Transabelism': Latest trans trend sees people identifying as disabled
According to the New York Post, body integrity identity disorder is now being labeled as transableism to better align it with the transgender community.

USA: Trans-Identified Male Takes First Place In Women’s Cycling Competition
Over the weekend in New Mexico, elite cyclists from all over the world participated in the Tour of the Gila, an internationally known top-tier cycling competition.

Bearded Florida man wins women’s poker tournament
70-year-old David Hughes, of Deltona, Florida, took home $5,555 for the victory over 83 entries.

Flashback: The Story Of Annie Jones, PT Barnum’s Bearded Lady
Annie Jones was born in Virginia in 1865, reportedly exiting her mother’s womb with her chin already covered in hair. Her parents’ initial shock quickly faded after they realized that they had been presented with a unique money-making opportunity.

Pennsylvania school forced to allow Satanic Temple to meet on school grounds
The After School Satan Club was brought by a parent who wanted a "non-Christian religious club that would be safe and inclusive for their non-Christian children."

Wimmin: A nonstandard spelling of word women, without the 'men' part
The University of Texas is now promoting the word "wimmin," so that students and faculty can "avoid the word ending in '-men.'"

Video: AI-generated beer commercial contains joyful monstrosities, goes viral
While many fear a future where AI-generated media becomes indistinguishable from traditional media, destroying society and/or civilization in the process, we aren't quite there yet.

Kamala Harris to discuss AI in meeting with Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic CEOs
Now will people please stop worrying about how AI is going to take over and cause human extinction? Kamala has got this.

Why the ‘Godfather of AI’ decided he had to ‘blow the whistle’ on the technology
“I’m just a scientist who suddenly realized that these things are getting smarter than us,” Hinton told Jake Tapper on Tuesday. “I want to sort of blow the whistle and say we should worry seriously about how we stop these things getting control over us.”

AI experts warn of looming catastrophes
When some of the smartest people building a technology warn it could turn on humans and shred our institutions, it's worth listening.

IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI
Hiring specifically in back-office functions such as human resources will be suspended or slowed, Krishna said, adding that 30% of non-customer-facing roles could be replaced by AI and automations in five years.

The industry AI might kill off first
ChatGPT has claimed its first casualty on the stock market. The price of shares from California-based learning company Chegg tanked by nearly half, after its CEO said on an earnings call that he believes ChatGPT is “having an impact on our new customer growth rate.”

I asked an AI chatbot about AI replacing humans
It told me it would take human jobs faster than the Kardashians "dump boyfriends." Should we be worried?

Samsung bans use of AI like ChatGPT for employees after misuse of the chatbot
Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that some staff had uploaded sensitive code to ChatGPT.

AI is being used to generate whole spam sites
AI chatbots are being used to generate news stories and blog posts for online content farms in the hopes of attracting a trickle of ad revenue from the stray clicks of web users.

SHOCK poll: Elderly Americans trail the nation on AI know-how
This is a real story, not the Babylon Bee.

Google’s new ‘inclusive language dossier’ bans staff from using ‘man hours,’ ‘you guys’
The language guide was specifically sent to Google developers in the U.K. It asked staff to be more gender-inclusive in the workplace by replacing the term “man hours” with “person hours.”

Credential phishing volume increases 527% in the first quarter
A new report released today by phishing detection and response solutions company Cofense Inc. details a staggering rise in credential phishing volume in the first quarter and an overall increase in active threats.

Green Bay lawmaker proposes social media limits
Of course parents could just do this themselves without needing government involvement.

Flashback to 2021: China moves to limit social media, gaming as teens get more addicted and mental health is impacted
Teens spent significantly more time on their phones and online gaming due to the pandemic.

The Chicago O’hare UAP Incident: Physics Team’s Analysis Offers A Fresh Look At This Famous 2006 Case
A physics team says descriptions of the 2006 Chicago O'Hare UAP incident point to advanced propulsion that could revolutionize space travel.

More Than A Million Bees Swarm Florida Highway After Overnight Crash
“There are thousands of bees in the area after the collision. The public is advised to use caution in the area as the bees continue to disseminate.”

Yangtze turtle nears extinction after last known female found dead: ‘Devastating’
Only two known living Yangtzes remain on earth. Both are males, and one suffers from impotence.