A never-ending flood of content generated by artificial intelligence is reshaping the internet and the way people engage with information faster than ever.From news summaries to social media posts to academic research, the sheer volume of machine-assisted materials has been correlated with a spike in “cognitive offloading”—a phenomenon in which people outsource critical thinking and verification to automated systems.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.
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On Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” House Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) said that he wants to hear from acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on the anti-weaponization fund and there need to be questions asked and answered about the fund. Emmer said, “I would like to hear from Todd Blanche. I understand that they started to hear from him yesterday as to exactly what this is. Great. Let’s find out what it is before everybody crucifies it.” He added, “[W]e’re going to find out what it is. I’m not going to give it a term. I want to…
Workers remove a body after three people were found dead and more than a dozen first responders were exposed to an unknown substance in Mountainair, N.M., on May 20, 2026. Savannah Peters/AP PhotoFentanyl and methamphetamine were found at a home in rural New Mexico where three people were discovered dead this week and crews responding to a suspected overdose became sick, authorities said Friday.Authorities in Mountainair, a town of less than 1,000 south of Albuquerque, were working “under the assumption” that fentanyl was to blame. First responders’ symptoms ranged from mild to severe, University of New Mexico Hospital Chief Medical…
In politics, there are three fundamental elements for success beyond the quality of a given candidate: strategy, tactics, and policies. The first two elements are designed for a party and its candidates to market their vision of the future. But tactical and strategic considerations come up empty if they are not linked to issues and policies popular with the voters. And that is the fundamental problem with the Democrats’ just-released, widely panned so-called autopsy of their crash and burn in 2024. The Democrats’ report about an election that cost them every bit of power was compiled by an independent agency…
Nevadans cast midterm ballots at The Galleria at Sunset mall in Henderson, Nev., on Nov. 8, 2022. John Haughey/The Epoch TimesEarly in-person voting for Nevada’s June 9 primary begins May 23, with 1.3 million of the battleground state’s 2.45 million registered voters eligible to cast ballots in selecting Democratic and Republican candidates for the Nov. 3 general election.But the bottom line is the 965,000 Nevadans registered on May 1 as independents–who cannot vote in the state’s closed party primaries–will ultimately decide the winning candidates in the fall.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different…
As part of the president’s new settlement deal with the IRS, the administration is establishing a $1.776 “anti-weaponization” fund. But they’re doing so, somehow, without congressional approval. This sidestepping of the legislature has lawmakers on both sides of the aisle upset, and it could cost President Donald Trump whatever remains of his legislative agenda. The Senate was prepared, for example, to take up a revised version of the $72 billion reconciliation on Thursday to fund ICE and CBP. The House was set to do the same on Friday. But those plans fell through as Republicans balked, dropping the idea for…
Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease affect cognitive abilities, but in many cases, the condition isn’t discovered until there are obvious signs such as forgetfulness and memory loss. But scientists are discovering more warning signs, and a new study suggests one of them might be your handwriting. The Handwriting Alzheimer’s Study A 2023 article by USC Today announced that more than seven million Americans were unaware they had mild cognitive impairment (MCI). A study published in Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy examined data from 40 million Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 and older and “compared the proportion diagnosed with the rate expected in this…
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Flag of Burkina Faso “Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko on Friday condemned Western ‘tyranny’ in wanting to ‘impose’ homosexuality, and rejected any attempt to stop the application of a new law toughening sentences for same-sex relations,” reports Africa News. In mostly Muslim Senegal, “gay rights advocacy is frequently denounced as a tool used by Westerners to impose foreign values. At the end of March, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye signed a law doubling the maximum penalty for same-sex relations. Dozens of arrests have already been made under the legislation.” Senegal’s prime minister denounced western pressure on Senegal to recognize gay rights as…
Kamala Harris reckons she has “new” ideas for a potential Democratic government.
(Thérèse Boudreaux,, The Center Square) In an epic breakdown of negotiations, Congress is leaving town without voting on Republicans’ roughly $72 billion budget reconciliation bill.Senate Republicans ultimately deadlocked Thursday over whether to include restrictions on the Department of Justice’s controversial new “anti-weaponization fund” within the party-line bill, which funds federal immigration enforcement agencies for the next three years. Because both chambers return the first week of June, Republicans will almost certainly miss President Donald Trump’s deadline of June 1 when he wants the legislation on his desk. The Senate had already delayed a vote on the bill due to its…
It is no secret that RFK Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, doesn’t like psychiatrists, and he has had good reason, based upon his personal life experiences. For example, his aunt, Rosemary Kennedy, was treated with a prefrontal lobotomy at age 23 in 1941, a dark chapter in the history of psychiatry that left her institutionalized for life. He credits his own recovery from addiction to abstinence-based 12-step programs, focusing on spiritual principles and peer support, rather than on psychiatrists or medication. So, it is no surprise that he is drawn to curtailing psychiatrists’ powers. And he has begun…
Mary, a veteran Silicon Valley marketer who can’t find a job, considers herself a victim of an H-1B visa program run amok. Her story, a U.S. native replaced by a foreign-born employee who is willing to work at a significantly lower wage, has become commonplace, particularly in the tech industry. Adding insult to injury, she says, her CEO, who hails from India, told her to train the man he selected to replace her before laying her off. Despite stints at Google and Cisco and two years of job hunting, Mary can no longer compete in a job market saturated with…
In all honesty, these days, I rarely attend large social gatherings, such as awards ceremonies or galas. Maybe it was because I spent so many years attending such events, often handing out resolutions to honorees during the political chapter of my life. Nonetheless, I accepted my friend’s invitation to attend my alma mater’s distinguished alumni dinner so I could catch up with some old friends and partake of a free meal. (Some things never change.) I knew of the two honorees and their significant accomplishments to our school and our community, and, having seen my father and mother being bestowed…
The subhead of the New York Times review of The Devil Wears Prada 2 reads as follows: “In this sequel, Andy (Anne Hathaway) and Miranda (Meryl Streep) encounter a series of crises that set the stage for a larger existential catastrophe.” Having seen the movie, I’m not sure what the allegedly “existential catastrophe” (the words are those of the review’s author, Manohla Dargis, and not an editor) is meant to be, but I suspect it has to do with what some of us regard as the very non-catastrophic collapse of the business model of the media, which is sometimes called…
On her eponymous Monday show, MS NOW host Chris Jansing presided over a discussion of GOP efforts to redraw South Carolina’s congressional districts in which her Democrat guests claimed that blacks are being “disenfranchised” in South Carolina and that white Americans refuse to vote for black candidates because of “racism.” It was not mentioned at all in the 11-minute segment that one of the state’s two U.S. Senators — Tim Scott — is black and had even previously been elected in one of the state’s white-majority congressional districts. But he’s a Republican. Jansing gave a melodramatic introduction: JANSING: Today a…
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Illegal entries into the U.S. in April remained significantly lower than during the Biden administration but are slightly up from what they were in April 2024 and over the last few months, according to newly released U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.Illegal border crosser apprehensions and encounters nationwide totaled 31,311 in April, excluding gotaways. Gotaways is the official CBP term for foreign nationals who illegally enter between ports of entry and evade capture. CBP does not publicly report this data. The Center Square exclusively reported it at the height of the border crisis after receiving…
By Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter Saturday, May 23, 2026Hunter Biden speaks about his struggles with addiction during an episode of commentator Candace Owens’ eponymous podcast on May 21, 2026. | Screenshot/YouTube/Candace OwensHunter Biden opened up about his struggles with addiction and the difference between guilt and shame in handling the consequences of sin during a two-hour interview with podcaster Candace Owens that aired Thursday.”I’ve heard you call me a crackhead many times, and the truth of it is I was a crackhead,” the second son of former President Joe Biden told Owens, who apologized for repeatedly attacking both him…
By Jarrett Stepman, Op-ed contributor Saturday, May 23, 2026Suspected shooter Luigi Mangione is led into the Blair County Courthouse for an extradition hearing Dec. 10, 2024, in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Mangione has been arraigned on weapons and false identification charges related to the fatal shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City. Mangione is incarcerated in the State Correctional Institution in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, awaiting extradition to New York. | Jeff Swensen/Getty ImagesSometimes evil isn’t just banal. It’s direct, open, and unrepentant.That was the case on Monday afternoon as three “credentialed” journalists showed up to cover the Luigi Mangione trial in New…
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By Jay Atkins, Op-ed Contributor Saturday, May 23, 2026Unsplash/Possessed Photography This spring, a strange new scene has begun unfolding at college graduation ceremonies across America.At the University of Central Florida earlier this month, commencement speaker Gloria Caulfield attempted to encourage graduates by describing artificial intelligence as “the next industrial revolution.” The response from students was immediate and visceral: thousands booed her from the audience.Just days later, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt received a similar reaction while speaking to graduates at the University of Arizona. As Schmidt discussed the coming impact of artificial intelligence and the responsibility this generation will bear…
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Affordability has become a top household term this year for voters concerned about California as the June 2 gubernatorial primary nears.Sixty-one candidates are on the ballot, but the seven with the highest poll numbers are Republicans Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco, followed by Democrats Xavier Becerra, Tom Steyer, Katie Porter, Matt Mahan and Antonio Villaraigosa, although not necessarily in that order. In fact, new polling this week shows this November’s race for governor of California may come down to Republican Steve Hilton vs. Democrat Xavier Becerra. Hilton is a former television news personality and political adviser in the United Kingdom.…
By Brandon Showalter, Opinion writer and social commentator Saturday, May 23, 2026Getty Images Have you been perplexed by all the incessant talk of “Christian nationalism”? Have you ever been snidely referred to as a “Christian nationalist” in the last few years, when you maybe didn’t even know what it meant?If so, you’re not alone. Confusion around this fraught subject is understandable. I offer the following as a broad, big-picture read on this dizzying landscape. When “Christian nationalist” and “Christian nationalism” started emerging in media discourse with increasing frequency a few years ago, I, too, was disoriented. I’ve noticed that the reaction among…
The Department of Justice swore in 82 new immigration judges on May 20, 77 permanent and five temporary, in the largest single class in the agency’s history, as the Trump administration races to clear a backlog that still tops 3.5 million pending cases.The ceremony took place in the DOJ’s Great Hall in Washington, D.C. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche presided and framed the hiring surge as a direct result of presidential leadership and a rebuilt commitment to the rule of law inside immigration courts. The new judges bring the total immigration bench to 700, the Executive Office for Immigration Review…
Federal agents arrested Muhammad Omar hours after he allegedly jumped from a fourth-floor balcony Thursday morning to escape custody, a dramatic, caught-on-camera flight that briefly embarrassed an otherwise sweeping crackdown on what prosecutors call a $90 million Medicaid fraud ring in Minnesota.FBI Director Kash Patel announced the capture on X, posting a photo that showed Omar hobbling while holding one shoe. The suspect had been on the run since earlier that day, when he reportedly fled federal agents who arrived to take him into custody ahead of a major interagency press conference. Omar is one of fifteen individuals indicted for…
Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin released a 192-page post-election report on Thursday, not because the party was ready to face its failures, but because frustrated operatives forced his hand. The study, authored by Democratic consultant Paul Rivera, had been finished since December and shelved by Martin, who now says burying it was a bigger mistake than publishing it.The report itself reads like an indictment drafted by the defense. It calls for “a renewed focus on the voters of Middle America and the South, who have come to believe they are not included in the Democratic vision of a stronger…
Senate Republicans were days from finishing a $72 billion package to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol. Then the Department of Justice announced a nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, and the whole effort came apart in a single Thursday morning meeting on Capitol Hill.The result: President Donald Trump’s June 1 deadline for immigration enforcement funding is now, by all accounts, impossible to meet. Republican senators are leaving Washington with no vote scheduled, no timeline to return, and a list of unanswered questions about where their own administration’s money is going. Senate Majority Leader John Thune tried to put…
President Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday that he does not know whether he will attend Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding this weekend, pointing to the Iran conflict and the weight of his responsibilities as reasons the timing is difficult.The comments came after Page Six reported Monday that Trump Jr. and fiancée Bettina Anderson, a Palm Beach, Fla., socialite, plan to marry at a private island in the Bahamas with only a few family members and friends present. Asked whether he would be there, the president framed the decision as a lose-lose proposition with the press, and made…
New York Democrats pushed a sweeping legislative package through both chambers on Thursday, banning local law enforcement from cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and restricting federal agents from operating in hospitals, parks, and other public spaces across the state. Gov. Kathy Hochul, who first rolled out the proposal earlier this year, is expected to sign it into law.The measure amounts to one of the most aggressive state-level efforts to obstruct federal immigration enforcement in the country. It doesn’t just codify existing sanctuary policies, it builds an entire enforcement apparatus aimed at punishing local governments and officers who dare…
Albert Itzkowitz, a 75-year-old longtime kosher bakery owner and former emergency medical volunteer, was found dead with gunshot wounds along the Kissena Lake shoreline in Flushing, Queens. The New York City Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled his death a homicide, and police say they have no suspect description.NYPD officers discovered Itzkowitz’s body just before 5 p.m. Monday, the New York Post reported. He had been shot in the neck and back. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police announced the homicide ruling on Thursday, days after the body was found, and urged the public to come forward with any…
A federal judge in Minnesota sentenced former Feeding Our Future Executive Director Aimee Bock, 45, to 41.5 years in prison on Thursday for her role in a scheme that siphoned nearly $250 million in pandemic-era federal funds meant to feed children. The judge also ordered Bock to pay $243 million back to the federal government.It is the longest sentence handed down so far in a case that has swept up nearly 80 defendants and produced more than 60 convictions or guilty pleas. Federal prosecutors had asked for 50 years. Bock’s attorney pushed for three. The sentencing caps one of the…
Justice Clarence Thomas authored a commanding 8-1 Supreme Court opinion Thursday holding that cruise lines can face liability for using property the Cuban government confiscated after the 1959 revolution, a ruling that revives litigation against four major cruise companies and sharpens Washington’s legal posture toward Havana at a moment of rising friction between the two governments.The case, Havana Docks Corp. v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, turned on Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, a 1996 law that allows U.S. nationals to sue entities that “traffic” in confiscated Cuban property. Newsweek reported that the ruling effectively sends the case back to lower…
Rep. Ilhan Omar fired back at Vice President JD Vance this week after Vance said the Department of Justice is actively investigating the Minnesota Democrat for alleged fraud and immigration violations. Omar’s response: it’s not happening, and anyone who says otherwise is making things up to land cable news hits.But the congresswoman’s flat denials land against a backdrop of amended financial disclosures, a House Oversight Committee probe into her husband’s business records, and long-unresolved questions about her immigration history, none of which she has put to rest. Vance stated on Tuesday that the administration’s anti-fraud task force is directing resources…
View of a street of Havana during a blackout on March 16, 2026. Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty ImagesCuba’s communist regime faces growing pressure due to a worsening economic crisis, rising unrest, and additional U.S. sanctions.Meanwhile, U.S. officials said they see little chance for peaceful change as Cuban regime leaders continue to tighten their grip on power and ignore calls for reform.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.
A blast at a shipyard on New York’s Staten Island Friday injured several people, fire officials say. AP Digital EmbedNEW YORK—One person has died after a fire and two explosions Friday at a New York City shipyard, officials say.Officials said 36 people were injured, most of them firefighters and other first responders, and one civilian died at the scene.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Iran is reconstituting its military capabilities that were degraded by the US-Israeli bombing campaign much faster than expected and is already producing new drones, CNN reported on Thursday, citing sources familiar with US intelligence. One US official told the outlet that some US intelligence estimates indicate Iran could fully rebuild its drone capabilities within six months. “The Iranians have exceeded all timelines the IC had for reconstitution,” the official said. The other work Iran has done includes replacing missile sites, launchers, and production capacity for other weapons systems. Other US media reports have said that the United…
Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil speaks at a rally to welcome him home after being released from immigration custody, outside the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City on June 22, 2025. Caitlin Ochs/ReutersLawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, a foreign-born Columbia University graduate who led pro-Palestinian protests after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, said on May 22 that they will ask the Supreme Court to review his high-profile immigration case after a federal appeals court refused to reconsider his case. In a split 6-5 decision, the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled…
NASA announced a reorganization of the agency Friday, restructuring key mission directorates to accelerate its lunar exploration program even as Congress and the White House remain divided over the agency’s $24.4 billion budget.NASA said it will consolidate its human spaceflight and space operations directorates into a single Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate and merge its aeronautics and space technology offices into a new Research and Technology Mission Directorate. The Science Mission Directorate will remain unchanged. “There will be no reduction in force, no program cancellations, no closures, but we will achieve cost savings through more efficient execution,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman…
The Trump administration has again extended its emergency order keeping a west Michigan coal plant operating.U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright issued a fifth emergency order earlier this week requiring the J.H. Campbell coal plant in West Olive to remain available through Aug. 16, extending operations more than a year past its original retirement date. The Campbell plant, which began operating in 1962 and is owned by Consumers Energy, is the utility’s last remaining coal-fired power plant. The facility generates enough electricity to serve roughly 1 million people. The latest order follows a series of previous 90-day extensions. The Department of…
In the wake of several close elections and a few Republican upsets, Democratic Party elites are increasingly embracing rhetoric that suggests a growing contempt for the will of the voters and an eagerness to circumvent the democratic process to beat the opposition party.The redistricting wars have resulted in Republicans gaining a modest advantage in the upcoming race for control of the House, and legal setbacks to Democratic countermeasures have resulted in pivotal political leaders voicing their frustrations in increasingly provocative ways. “Either MAGA extremists are gonna break the country or we are gonna break them,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said…
The architect who is part of the consortium awarded the contract to redesign the historic New York Penn Station has a years long history of anti-Trump posts on a now-deleted social media account. “With our beautiful brown son growing up with Obama as President, and our beautiful brown daughter now seeing Harris as VP candidate and heir apparent–all with the madness of Trump in between–it’s like having some foul spoiled turkey between two delicious pieces of brown bread,” Vishaan Chakrabarti posted to his X account, which has since been deleted, in August 2020. This post is one of a handful of…
Over the past 20 years, the U.S. made unconventional oil drilling more than just economically viable. It shifted the entire global energy picture as America was launched into the top position of oil-producing countries. However, production in shale plays will gradually decline over decades, and companies will likely have to look for opportunities to sustain their portfolios. Most of those opportunities will be abroad, but developing those resources won’t be easy. America enjoyed the ideal conditions for the development of the technologies – pairing hydraulic fracturing with long lateral horizontal drilling called “fracking” – that allowed producers to extract oil from…
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a resolution outlining the locations of drop boxes for the upcoming early-voting period without consulting Recorder Justin Heap.The board approved the resolution while it continues to deal with an ongoing lawsuit with Heap about who runs specific election functions. In April, a judge ruled in favor of Heap, saying the board members need to hand over control of specific election functions to his office. The board sought a stay of the motion, but the Arizona Superior Court denied it. The board then announced it was appealing the lower court’s decision. “Our job…
President Donald Trump said Friday that he will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to a hero who saved many Americans during the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001, who is remembered as the “man in the red bandana.”The president made the announcement during a campaign stop for New York GOP Rep. Mike Lawler, who pushed Trump to recognize the New Yorker’s heroism ahead of the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11, according to Fox News. Welles Remy Crowther, a 24-year-old volunteer firefighter, has become a symbol of American heroism after survivors described being guided through the wreckage by a…
Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon on Friday notified Maryland that the Justice Department was investigating its distribution of 500,000 mail-in ballots.The Maryland State Board of Elections this week confirmed that it had erroneously distributed mail-in ballots to members of the wrong party for the upcoming primaries. But it has denied wrongdoing. Dhillon asked Maryland State Administrator of Elections Jared DeMarinis to preserve “true and correct copies” of all ballots, mailing records and other corrective actions the state has taken for the June 3 gubernatorial election. “It’s the wrong time to send voters the wrong…
Screencap of Twitter/X video. In April, New York City’s new Democratic Socialist (communist) Mayor Zohran Mamdani, claimed that the city was facing a ‘historic’ budget crisis. Now, he wants to spend $4.2 billion on services for the homeless. So which is it? Does a city in a budget crisis have that kind of cash to spend on homeless services? Also, does anyone believe there will be any drop in the number of homeless people after he does this? The number could actually go up as a result once it becomes known that the city has money to burn on this.…
Water is sprayed on a tank that overheated at an aerospace plant in Garden Grove, Calif., Friday, May 22, 2026. Jeff Gritchen/The Orange County Register via APRoughly 40,000 people in Garden Grove, a Los Angeles suburb, were evacuated on Friday after a chemical storage tank was determined to be at risk of failing and spilling thousands of gallons of toxic material or exploding.The malfunctioning tank holds methyl methacrylate, a flammable and volatile chemical used in plastics manufacturing for aerospace applications, igniting widespread worries over potential toxic vapor release.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a…
Screencap of Twitter/X video. In case you haven’t noticed, Democrats and their media allies are pulling out all the stops to drag Maine senate candidate Graham Platner across the finish line. After spending years calling Trump ‘Hitler’ and his supporters ‘Nazis’ the Democrats are now tying themselves into knots trying to defend a guy who had an actual Nazi symbol tattooed on his chest for years, and then only covering it up with another tattoo now that he is running for office. Platner has also come under fire for online comments in which he disparaged women, black people, gays, rape…
RFK Jr.; Public Domain. Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Gettr, Truth Social, Twitter, YouTube The Trump administration is receiving praise this week after its announcement Monday of the restructuring of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the department’s agency tasked with enforcing laws that protect civil rights, conscience and religious freedom, and health information privacy. “This reorganization restores the HHS Civil Rights Division and the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division and strengthens the Office for Civil Rights’ ability to defend religious liberty, enforce conscience protections, and combat unlawful discrimination,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said in a statement.…