Tech35 sources·Updated Aug 31, 2026The European Commission designated OpenAI’s ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine and Reddit and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms under the Digital Services Act, expanding oversight to platforms with at least 45 million EU users. The platforms face four months to implement risk assessments and mitigation measures addressing illegal content, minor protection, elections integrity, and user well-being. They must establish internal compliance functions, undergo annual independent audits, and share data with EU authorities, while allowing access for vetted researchers. They must offer at least one non-profiling recommender and maintain a publicly accessible ad…
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—— Writes Bill Madden: In the book from which the attached pamphlet was made, a few pages are devoted to Winston Churchill’s being controlled by the world’s richest families. As we know, after the war, General Patton claimed that we had fought on the wrong side, a sentiment that caused his assassination. A good book on Churchill’s psychopathic nature is Mike King’s: “The Bad War”. Mike also has a whole book on Winston Churchill. [embedded content] The books are available at: www.realnewsandhistory.com or: Quick Favor (60 seconds) Please Follow Mike on Rumble The British have always feared the Germans and the Russians. …
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent holds a White House Press Briefing, Thursday, May 28, 2026, in James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House. (Official White House Photo by Abe McNatt)Public Domain Please follow us on Truth Social, X, YouTube, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, GETTR, Gab, Instagram US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent flew into the Group of 20 finance ministers meeting in Asheville, North Carolina on Sunday night with one simple message: Cease financial dealings with Iran or else. The U.S. Treasury Department is planning to unleash new secondary sanctions on institutions linked to Iran on a weekly basis, starting…
Spanish law enforcement officials on Sunday night detained three Moroccan illegal migrants involved in throwing bottles filled with corrosive liquids at military officials in Ceuta. Over the past days, Spanish military officials have been the target of at least three different attacks and ambushes by groups of illegal migrants who invaded Ceuta last month. El Faro de Ceuta and other Spanish outlets report that the third known such attack occurred on Sunday afternoon. Per the reports, three Moroccan nationals threw bottles containing a corrosive liquid at military officials at Ceuta’s San Amaro neighborhood. Police officers and illegal migrants clash at…
Business10 sources·Updated Aug 31, 2026Huawei reported a mixed first half of 2026: revenue rose 9.6% to about 467.8 billion yuan, while net profit fell roughly 36% to 23.81 billion yuan as costs rose and profitability narrowed. The company’s operating margin shrank to about 7%, driven by elevated expenses and a heavy R&D push. R&D spending surged to roughly 121.38 billion yuan, around a quarter of revenue, funding AI, chip development, and related tech as part of Huawei’s strategy to reduce reliance on foreign technology. The results reflect ongoing headwinds from memory-price pressures on its consumer business and broader cost pressures,…
Good Monday morning. Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today: 8:00 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in Executive Time 2:00 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Policy Meeting 3:00 PM THE PRESIDENT makes an Announcement on Healthcare Affordability 4:30 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in Signing Time News roundup: Suspects remain at large in mass shootings that rocked 2 US cities Approximately’ 85 Americans remain missing in Nepal floods: State Dept. spokesperson Google Maps switches to “Lake America” as Canada compares change to SNL skit CIA director Ratcliffe floated Trump-Putin-Zelensky summit during Moscow visit, sources say Former Iraqi Official Honored by…
Floodwaters surge through Gyirong Port on the China-Nepal border, August 26, 2026. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / CC Follow CDM on Truth Social, Gab, Gettr, Telegram, Minds Nepal had asked China for better early warning data just three months before a catastrophic flash flood killed more than 900 people along the Himalayan border — and China never delivered. According to Reuters, Nepali and Chinese officials met in Kathmandu on May 27, 2026, to discuss disaster cooperation. Nepal’s hydrologists specifically asked for real-time data on glacier movement and water levels in Tibet’s border regions. China said it lacked the mandate to sign…
World5 sources·Updated Aug 31, 2026Closing arguments are set to begin in Las Vegas in the Tupac Shakur case, with Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, facing one count of murder with a deadly weapon for allegedly orchestrating the 1996 killing. Prosecutors argue Davis led the attack on Shakur after his nephew was beaten, and that his own public statements and memoir provide key admissions that he organized the killing, even though he did not fire the shots. The defense contends that Davis’s words are bravado or not corroborated by independent evidence, and some jurors have heard recordings and interviews used to…
President Donald Trump announced a sweeping agreement with Venezuela that will give the United States control over more than 65 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, potentially more than doubling American reserves and strengthening U.S. energy security. Trump said the agreement would “substantially lower Gas Prices for all Americans,” as the Iran war has disrupted global energy supplies and pushed fuel prices higher. Under the agreement, the U.S. government will hold a 55 percent controlling interest in a joint venture with an experienced private operator in Venezuela, a U.S. official told CBS News. Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodríguez has granted…
Political campaigns are increasingly paying social media influencers to promote candidates without clearly telling voters that the endorsements are sponsored, exploiting a largely unregulated area of campaign advertising. Josh Greene, a 26-year-old progressive influencer known online as @joshtheprogressive, has nearly 800,000 followers and has promoted dozens of Democratic candidates during the midterm elections. Campaign finance records reviewed by The New York Times show Greene received money from at least seven candidates or political groups supporting them during the current election cycle. Former California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer paid Greene $21,500. Greene had criticized Steyer in February, saying he “isn’t the…
The U.S. military struck Iranian military targets Sunday after Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces were observed preparing to deploy additional sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz, according to U.S. Central Command. American forces struck two Iranian launchers on Larak Island that CENTCOM said were being prepared to fire rockets carrying sea mines into the strategically vital waterway. CENTCOM described the operation as a “limited, precise action” against Iranian forces that presented an “imminent threat.” “In essence, Iran created the threat and the U.S. military eliminated it to protect civilian mariners, commercial shipping, and the free flow of global commerce,”…
More than 3.75 million Americans had sensitive personal, financial and medical information exposed in a massive data breach involving healthcare technology company CareCloud. The March cyberattack compromised a CareCloud cloud environment used to provide electronic medical records and other technology services to healthcare providers across the United States. The breach means patients could have been affected even if they had never directly used or created an account with CareCloud. According to a breach notice filed with the California attorney general, CareCloud discovered a network disruption March 16 and brought in outside cybersecurity experts to investigate. The company determined that an…
There are tens of millions of Americans who are currently living in third-world conditions, and poverty, hunger, and homelessness are growing all around us. Many of our most important urban areas have become rotting, decaying, drug-infested hellholes. Meanwhile, there are vast stretches of rural America that look like they have been totally left behind by the rest of our society. But if you live in the version of America that is still shiny and beautiful and clean, you may be wondering what all of the fuss is about because life still seems pretty good to you. For those at or…
Remnants of a bridge along Bright Angel Creek in the Grand Canyon after flash flooding on Aug. 29, 2026. James Thompson/National Park Service via APOne person is dead and others are missing after flash flooding in the Grand Canyon, the National Park Service said on Aug. 30.The body of a 46-year-old man was found near Crystal Rapids along the Colorado River, the service said late Sunday. A local medical examiner was on site. The service said there was no additional information to share about the death at this time.Grand Canyon is a 1.2-million-acre national park in Arizona that is visited…
A U.S. Department of Agriculture employee holds sterile New World Screwworm pupae during a press conference where a crate of 80,000 sterile NWS pupae is installed at Chapparosa Ranch in La Pryor, Texas, on June 11, 2026. Joel Angel Juarez/Getty ImagesFederal regulators have authorized a generic ivermectin injection for the prevention of New World screwworm in cattle.The Food and Drug Administration on Aug. 27 granted emergency use authorization for Bimectin, the injection, for use within 24 hours of birth.The drug can also be used when castration is performed, or when a wound appears. It cannot be used in lactating dairy…
Friday’s PBS News Hour relied on expertise from a partisan Democrat and environmental activist to criticize the Trump Administration, in panicky fashion, for the supposedly forlorn state of America’s national parks, run by the National Park Service.Unhinted at was that Nawaz’s guest, Tiernan Sittenfeld, was a fierce Biden/Harris partisan during her past term with the League of Conservation Voters.All that actual partisanship aside, she told Nawaz that national parks “have absolutely never been partisan. And it’s extremely unfortunate and disturbing to see this administration dragging our parks into partisan politics….We need to protect and defend and celebrate them. And we…
Its cameras are installed on poles at street corners, in parks and residential communities, and near countless businesses, tracking vehicles and private citizens across a growing surveillance network accessible by thousands of U.S. law enforcement agencies.Now Flock Safety’s cameras—designed to monitor and catalog motor vehicles by license plate and physical characteristics—are facing scrutiny from lawmakers and private citizens alike, and acts of vandalism from activist vigilantes.In several incidents, activists cut cameras down with reciprocating saws, hit them with trucks and baseball bats, and defaced lenses with spray paint.In a more peaceful statement of protest, one Florida resident braves the heat…
Two photos of Venezuela’s deposed dictator Nicolás Maduro flashing “peace” signs were published on Sunday in what is reportedly described as the first known glimpse of the detained socialist inside a New York prison since his arrest in January. Maduro, long wanted by U.S. authorities on multiple narco-terrorism charges, was arrested alongside his wife Cilia Flores during a U.S. law enforcement operation in Caracas on January 3. Since then, the pair has remained detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn. The new pictures of the ousted dictator were published through a four-part series of posts on Maduro’s official…
The first full day of the annual Afro-Caribbean Notting Hill Carnival in London saw nearly 170 arrested, including for attacks on emergency workers and sexual assaults. Despite considerable efforts to ramp up security for the yearly West London street festival, such as the Metropolitan Police banning 330 people from attending, dozens of zombie knives being seized, 7,000 officers being deployed, and City Hall granting organisers an additional £4.6 million ($6.23m) to hire double the number of “stewards” and to ramp up CCTV surveillance, the multicultural festival was still marred by crime. According to the Met, there were 169 arrests on the first…
It’s a thankless job, but somebody has to do it: Dr. Fazlullah Mumtaz is an Afghan Islamic scholar who helps Muslims in the West navigate the difficulties of an unfamiliar culture. He posts fatwas, which are just Islamic rulings on disputed questions, not always death sentences, on his Facebook wall. These fatwas help Muslims deal with issues that might never have come up if they had stayed in Afghanistan or Syria, such as whether or not it’s permitted for a Muslim man to marry a Jewish or Christian woman, whether Muslims running beauty salons should provide services for women who…
If not, aid to farmers, more military spending, and the SAVE Act are all unlikely. What Trump Seeks According to legislative frameworks advanced by House Republicans, the primary components Trump wants in the $95 billion package include: Defense & Military Spending: Trump initially requested a massive $350 billion cash infusion for the Pentagon. The active $95 billion House package scales this to $73 billion earmarked for defense, intelligence, and military operations related to the Iran war. Election Overhaul (Save America Act): Trump wants $10 billion designated for election integrity measures. This funding is meant to incentivize states to adopt Trump-backed voting restrictions,…
The US president lied when he said the illicit proceeds would benefit the Venezuelan people. On August 29, President Trump went on social media and boasted about stealing Venezuelan oil. The theft, according to Trump, “more than doubles American oil reserves.” He said there was “no cost” to American taxpayers, although there will obviously be a huge cost to the people of Venezuela who will see little if any benefit from Trump’s plunder. Trump went so far as to claim the brazen theft will benefit the Venezuelan people. The profits are expected to enrich oil company executives and elites rather than ordinary…
The House has returned – but act fast; it’s only here for a limited time. Like Halley’s Comet coming around every 75 or 76 years, the two houses of Congress can frequently be seen for weeks – sometimes even a few months – at a time. But just like all the famous celestial events, it never lasts long. The House is back from August recess for just four days before taking off again, not to return until likely sometime near when the Senate comes back on September 14. Still, there’s work to be done while lawmakers are in town. Here’s…
All roads to a House majority run through four Pennsylvania races, three of which the Cook Political Report currently lists as toss-ups. Right now, Republicans hold all four seats – and with the GOP’s slim majority, Democrats only need a net gain of three seats to take back the lower chamber. Neither side is taking chances. Governor Josh Shapiro launched a $3.3 million endeavor in July targeting the four GOP incumbents. Around the same time, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) visited the state to show support for Democrat Bob Brooks. More recently, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) swept through…
It has been more than a week since Canada walked away from a trade deal that the United States claims would have been the best in the world. Ottawa said it was dismayed by a French language provision. Washington trade negotiators chuckled at the misunderstanding and shrugged. Put simply, Canada needs an agreement far more than America does.But what has been omitted from US-Canada trade strife are two parties: China and Venezuela. These nations will eventually prove pivotal to $900 billion in bilateral trade. In fact, Beijing and Caracas may already be. Heavy Crude Feeling in Venezuela President Donald Trump…
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Appearing on Thursday’s Deadline: White House, MS NOW political analyst Alex Wagner claimed that there has been a “normalization of the destruction of black and brown lives” by ICE, and complained that the media are not covering it enough. Her comments came as fill-in host Jacob Soboroff devoted a segment to fretting over ICE increase its arrests of illegal aliens to record levels. The MS NOW host and anti-Trump author began: It was never, ever about the worst of the worst. There’s brand new reporting from The New York Times that shows just how far Donald Trump’s campaign of mass…
The public exposure, resignation, and subsequent death of the British fabulist Jason Arday have reignited the longstanding (if not eternal) debate about the purpose of higher education in our society and whether it is fulfilling that purpose. On the one side, conservatives are frustrated because, to them, the Arday case is emblematic: universities today are overwhelmingly leftist; leftists dominate the humanities and liberal arts faculties, and leftists are rewarded for poor or even fraudulent scholarship simply because it reinforces the preexisting beliefs of their contemporaries and superiors. On the other side, progressives and other leftists insist that the pursuit of…
We are only beginning to understand the full potential of drone warfare. But they are having an impact at many levels, and drone technology keeps evolving. Here is how drones are being used. Battlefield Weapons Drones have become significant battlefield weapons, so much so that today’s battlefield is saturated by drones, some of them specialized, many of them dirt cheap, and they are used by the tens of thousands, especially in Ukraine. The most common type of battlefield drone is called first-person view (FPV). These are cheap drones that have explosive charges strapped onto them, typically old Russian antitank missile…
Turn on the television and every Democratic talking head wants to tell you how big their tent is. I spent 30 years pricing risk for a living. You learn fast that the riskiest positions are the ones nobody bothers to price because everyone assumes the status quo holds. That is the mistake Republicans risk making with the modern Democratic Party. We keep laughing at the circus tent instead of reading the room, and that tent has three rings: socialists, communists, and progressives insisting they are the reasonable middle. Start with why the tent needed a new act. Four years of…
A Florida man who was bitten by a shark August 23 in Key West is grateful several people rushed to help him when he needed it most.David Daniel of Silver Springs was walking in shallow water after fishing when he realized there was a shark nearby, Click Orlando reported Thursday. “I turned around and saw it swimming along the coastline of a sandbar. Then he turned and just beelined right for me like a movie,” he recalled of the tense moment. [embedded content] Florida man attacked by 7-foot shark said he’d ‘100% be dead’ without help of nearby boaters https://t.co/esxQyu9iQj…
On August 26, at 16,400 feet on the Tibetan side of the Nepal-China border, the bedrock under a glacier let go. The rock fell better than a mile, taking the glacier with it. The U.S. Geological Survey, the federal agency that tracks earthquakes, logged a magnitude-4.4 quake, then corrected the record: its instruments had not caught an earthquake. They caught the mountain hitting the valley floor hard enough to register as a magnitude-5.2 shock.The collapse was the earthquake. The debris dammed a stream feeding the Trishuli River. The dam failed within hours. Downstream the Trishuli rose thirty feet in half…
President Donald Trump in Washington on Aug. 27, 2026. Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump on Aug. 30 urged Canadian companies that do business with the United States to move their operations south of the border to avoid tariffs.“Let all Canadian Companies that are doing business with America move to the United States, immediately,” he wrote in a Truth Social post.“Many of them are Companies that moved out years ago due to stupid U.S. Leadership. When you move back, there are no TARIFFS!”The United States imposed 50 percent tariffs on a range of Canadian exports, including electronics, alcohol, dairy, paper,…
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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL. For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen † . Posted in Uncategorized
Coast Guard Lieutenant Connor Overstreet was fatally shot in a residential neighborhood south of Seattle, leaving police searching for the shooter and a grieving family urging the public to help find justice in what authorities have ruled a homicide.Just before 12:40 a.m. on a Sunday, 29-year-old Connor Overstreet was found in the roadway in Bryn Mawr-Skyway, Washington, after suffering a fatal gunshot wound to the chest. First responders tried to save his life, but Overstreet died from his injuries. The King County Medical Examiner later ruled his death a homicide, according to New York Post reporting. The motive for the…
Abdul El-Sayed’s attempt to score political points with a swipe at Usha Vance has triggered fierce criticism from Michigan Republicans, Indian-American leaders, and women’s advocates who say the attack crossed a line.Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed came under fire after an X post targeting Usha Vance, the wife of Vice President JD Vance, ignited outrage across party lines. El-Sayed’s message, “So do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no…”, was widely seen as a racially charged jab at Usha Vance’s Indian heritage and a needless drag of a spouse into the…
Two Michigan Supreme Court justices took campaign donations from a Jane Fonda-backed political group just weeks before they joined a decision freezing a major oil pipeline project, a sequence raising fresh concerns about judicial impartiality and outside political influence.The Jane Fonda Climate PAC contributed $5,000 each to the reelection campaigns of Michigan Chief Justice Megan Cavanagh and Justice Noah Hood roughly six weeks before both justices voted with the majority in a 6-1 decision that vacated regulatory approval for Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline tunnel project. The ruling, issued July 31, sent the project back to the Michigan Public Service Commission…
Fox News anchor Bret Baier publicly defended correspondent Jonathan Hunt after President Donald Trump blasted Hunt and the network’s Iran coverage, exposing tensions between Trump and media allies over reporting on foreign policy.During Thursday night’s “Special Report” broadcast, President Trump took to his social media platform to accuse Fox News reporter Jonathan Hunt of delivering “a particularly inaccurate report on the Failing Islamic Republic of Iran.” Trump insisted he did not want to meet with Iranian leaders and told Baier to “straighten out his flunkies, for a change!” Baier addressed Trump’s criticism live on air, rejecting Trump’s claim and standing…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has made changes to her team just as attention turns to her next political move for 2028, a move that raises questions about her ambitions and the Democratic Party’s direction.Axios reported that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, has “shaken up” her team ahead of a decision to be made in 2028. The article, published August 28, 2026, does not specify which staff positions were changed, who is joining or leaving, or what prompted the overhaul in Ocasio-Cortez’s inner circle. The report leaves open several questions about the scope and purpose of the changes, and…
President Trump announced an agreement granting the United States majority control of over 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil, a move he claims will lower gas prices and fuel Venezuela’s recovery, while Democrats accuse him of risking troops and public funds for private gain.On Friday evening, Donald Trump declared what he called “THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY,” outlining an arrangement that would give the United States majority control over a vast portion of Venezuela’s proven oil reserves, more than 65 billion barrels, or about a fifth of the country’s total. Trump said the deal involved Secretary of State…
California lawmakers have advanced a sweeping ban on disposable nicotine vapes, citing environmental and health concerns, but critics question whether more regulation is the answer or just another burden for residents and businesses.On Wednesday, California lawmakers passed Assembly Bill 762, a measure that would outlaw the importation and manufacturing of disposable nicotine vapes beginning January 1, 2027, and ban their sale entirely starting January 1, 2028, pending Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature. The legislation puts California at the forefront of anti-vape efforts, but also raises questions about government overreach, the real environmental impact, and whether such bans will simply push sales…
Former Trump White House teleprompter staffer Gabriel Perez must pay over $172,000 and accept a three-year trading ban after a federal investigation found he used advance access to presidential speeches to make illicit prediction-market trades, a breach that the White House called “deeply unfortunate and frankly a disgrace.”Gabriel Perez, who began serving as President Donald Trump’s teleprompter operator in 2016, has reached a sweeping settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission after investigators uncovered that he placed bets on so-called “presidential mention market contracts” over a two-month period from December 2025 to February 2026. According to the CFTC, Perez exploited…
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has publicly criticized her fellow Democrat, Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, for remarks she says rationalize the March assault on Temple Israel, a split exposing deeper rifts inside the party as Jewish voters turn away.Nessel, Michigan’s top law enforcement official, voiced her concerns after El-Sayed’s response to the violent incident at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, where attacker Ayman Mohamed Ghazali drove into the synagogue and shot himself following a gunfight with security. More than 100 preschoolers were inside the synagogue at the time, but none were injured. The FBI later reportedly tied the assault…
Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, age 80, is seeking another term even as a new poll shows 43% of voters doubting his ability to serve, drawing sharp generational attacks from primary challenger Rep. Seth Moulton.Ed Markey, the state’s senior senator and the oldest Democrat running for reelection this cycle, is not backing down as he campaigns across Massachusetts ahead of Tuesday’s Democratic primary. His main opponent, Rep. Seth Moulton, 47, launched his bid by calling Markey “too old” and arguing that Democrats “need to fight Trump harder.” The contest has become a test of party loyalty, generational change, and the appetite…
The fluorescent hum of a grocery store at 6 AM carries a different pitch now. You can hear it if you listen—the way the ballasts vibrate against half-empty shelving units, creating an acoustic signature of absence where abundance once resonated. I stood in aisle four of a regional chain in Ohio last month, watching a stocker named Marcus place twelve cans of generic black beans on a shelf designed to hold two hundred. He spaced them carefully, front-facing, creating an optical illusion of plenty. Three years ago, this would have been a routine restocking. Today, it was theater. Marcus knew.…
Recently, there have been striking new developments that imply major changes in the correlation of forces. These developments have largely gone unacknowledged and their implications unexamined. I made the effort in online interviews on Dialogue Works and On Target. I will now attempt to do so in writing. One of the developments is Iran’s defeat of US President Trump’s attack on Iran. Trump has been desperate to find a way out of the conflict without admitting defeat. His exit strategy is to redefine the conflict from a military one to an economic one and impose new economic sanctions on Iran and those who trade with…
America’s data center backlash may have produced an irresistible solution for the government and tech tycoons pushing the buildout. If communities do not want the giant facilities next door, put them in space, beyond local opposition, beyond public scrutiny and, conveniently, beyond the need to guard them from angry neighbors on the ground. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman made that pitch this week. The idea sounds futuristic. It is also remarkably convenient for an industry already racing to build the future. From the Backyard to Orbit The Hill quoted Isaacman in a Wednesday report: “Let’s take our data centers, put them in Earth orbit,…