The budget request marks the latest step in Japan’s effort to strengthen its military amid a volatile geopolitical environment.(AFP) — Japan’s Defense Ministry requested a record budget of 8.9 trillion yen ($55.6 billion) on Monday as Tokyo looks to artificial intelligence to speed decision-making amid a tense security environment.The final…
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Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, and entities linked to these companies filed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic on Aug. 28, alleging that the tech enterprise stole their copyrighted music material to train AI.“Defendants Anthropic and its founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann have conducted a brazen…
World5 sources·Updated Aug 31, 2026A nonverbal 5-year-old girl from Virginia wandered from a rental home in Pawleys Island, South Carolina, and her body was found in nearby water Monday morning after an extensive search. Authorities said there was no foul play suspected in her death. The multi-agency search involved hundreds…
A federal grand jury on Monday issued a subpoena to Daniel Richman, a one-time advisor to former FBI Director James Comey, as part of an investigation into allegations that Comey leaked classified information to the media. The subpoena indicates that the Justice Department launched a new investigation into the leak of…
President Donald Trump on Monday expressed support for data centers, pitching them as a way for struggling communities to survive and warning that China benefited from opposition to their construction.”The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being…
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., announced an investigation Monday into actions taken by the Biden Administration’s Drug Enforcement Administration that reportedly allowed fentanyl to hit U.S. streets in New Mexico while the agency watched and took no action.Attorney Tristan Leavitt, president of the Empower Oversight, a whistleblower…
India rejected the The Hague-based Court of Arbitration, saying the water treaty remains suspended and the ruling will not impact its hydroelectric projects.THE HAGUE, Netherlands (CN) — India cannot simply walk away from a 66-year-old water treaty with Pakistan, an international arbitration panel in The Hague ruled Monday, preserving rules…
Gavin Newsom inadvertently admitted something I noticed long ago: on economic policies, they don’t so much disagree with Trump as they hate his rhetoric. Sure, they have some big policy disagreements, but fewer than they want you to believe. On immigration, they are worlds apart because they desperately need open borders…
A young woman was shot in the face in a North Carolina parking lot by a career felon who committed three different shootings in one day. Izzy Dolan, 24, was pushed to the ground and shot in the face in a Food Lion parking lot in Fayetteville by 52-year-old Robert…
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence holds a 9/11 field roundtable with families of the Flight 93 heroes and first responders at 12 p.m. ET on Aug. 31. …
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The Intelligencer’s Sarah Jones is a mean girl. Over the last few months, the senior New York writer has blathered about “The Relentless Fantasy of the Tradwife” and finger-wagged women about fertility, pregnancy, and marriage (“true love isn’t necessarily a sign of progress for heterosexuals or anyone else,” she insists).…
The Unification Church has significant business interests, including in media, education and food distribution, and has long drawn scrutiny over its political ties in South Korea.(AFP) — A South Korean court sentenced the leader of the secretive and powerful Unification Church to two years in prison Monday on charges of…
(AFP) — Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping began talks Monday in Kyrgyzstan, where a dozen other heads of state also gathered for a two-day summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which seeks to serve as a counterweight to the West.Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,…
The meeting came as Israel said Monday that it had signed a deal with Athens, worth almost $3.5 billion, to establish the “Achilles Shield” aerial defense system for Greece.(AFP) — Turkey’s top diplomat stressed Monday that a regional defense pact with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia was not aimed at any…
President Donald Trump praised NASA for the successful launch of a new space telescope on Aug. 30, saying it heralded the “Golden Age of America.”The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was launched using a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Sunday morning.Trump posted a message on Truth…
The killings happened less than three weeks after Clancy was discharged from a psychiatric hospital.PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial resumed deliberating for a third day Monday to determine whether to hold the former labor and delivery nurse criminally responsible for killing her three children in 2023 — a case…
By Michael Gryboski, Editor Monday, August 31, 2026Worshipers gather for a service at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Oakwood, Ohio, in April 2026. | Facebook/St. Paul’s Episcopal ChurchThe Episcopal Church’s Court of Review has upheld a ruling against an Ohio priest who was convicted of engaging in adultery while the…
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani appears on ABC’s “This Week” on June 28. Credit: ABC Screenshot NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani received overwhelming support for his election from the city’s largest teachers union, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT). UFT delegates voted to endorse Mamdani because they believe he is the best…
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Rescuers raced Monday to free hundreds of workers believed to be trapped in tunnels at hydropower sites that were buried in mud by catastrophic flooding on the Nepal-China border, as the death toll climbed and increasingly desperate families searched for missing loved ones.The combined deaths in Nepal and China surpassed 950,…
Earlier this month, a study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It was called “Patient-Reported Experiences of Abortion Travel.” Researchers interviewed patients who traveled to Illinois for abortions. Illinois Abortion Law In Illinois, abortion is available without any restrictions until viability. After viability, it is legal if any…
A judge in Minnesota sentenced three men to a combined total of 155 months, or nearly 13 years, in prison for their roles in a nonprofit’s fraud scheme that defrauded the Federal Child Nutrition Program of millions of dollars during the COVID-19 pandemic.Abdihakim Ali Ahmed, 40, of Apple Valley, Minnesota,…
Republican Jewish Coalition’s 2026 Annual Leadership Summit in Las Vegas runs Aug. 30–31. Monday’s events begin at 11:30 a.m. ET. Speakers include: Acting Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, House Speaker Mike Johnson (via video), Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo, U.S. Ambassador to Is…
President Donald Trump on Sunday posted a ten-second A.I.-generated video of Iran’s Kharg Island oil terminal being “blown to smithereens,” as he put it, shortly after the first U.S. airstrikes against Iran in a month. None of the actual strikes was confirmed to have targeted Kharg Island. Hamid Bovard, chief…
Miles under the ocean, a trove of critical minerals could offer the U.S. a new front in its race for resources. The Trump administration is moving toward a potential critical mineral lease sale in federal waters near American Samoa, part of a broader effort to tap mineral deposits sitting thousands…
Greenlandic citizens protest forced sterilization Denmark is under pressure for its decades-long ‘IUD’ campaign. Against the background of Donald J. Trump’s vows to control the Danish autonomous territory of Greenland, the relationship between Greenland and Denmark is under tremendous stress. After the publication of two contradictory expert reports, heated debates…
It looks as if those folks up in the frozen North are made from sterner stuff than their neighbors to the balmier east in the British Isles.A little over a quarter million of the tiny island country’s voters went to the polls yesterday to decide whether or not they wished…
Music18 sources·Updated Aug 31, 2026DollyFEST will be a two-day festival spread over two consecutive weekends in 2027, staged in Nashville and London. The event was originally planned for January 2026 as a multi-artist Nashville spectacle with Dolly Parton as host and performer, but after her death in late 2025/early 2026…
Music10 sources·Updated Aug 31, 2026Dolly Parton’s death last week has been honored with DOLLYFEST, a global two-weekend celebration announced by her estate to take place in Nashville and London in 2027. The festival, originally planned for January 2026 as a Nashville event featuring Parton, will now serve as a tribute…
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The Monetary Authority of Singapore has removed a 5 percent cap on precious metals holdings for investment funds and family offices regulated under Section 13O and Section 13U tax-exemption schemes.The move comes after many funds were forced to liquidate part of their gold and…
Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom declared for the Women’s National Basketball Association draft under the league’s unclear eligibility rules, but readers of Apple News likely wouldn’t know it since the news aggregator didn’t share a single headline in its morning feed covering the so-called women’s sport group’s recent “transgender”…
Florida Voice for the Unborn Political Action Committee (PAC) Chairman Andrew Shirvell today issued the following statement: “On behalf of the newly-formed Florida Voice for the Unborn Political Action Committee (PAC), I am excited to announce that the PAC has endorsed Byron Donalds, the Republican nominee for Governor of Florida!” Shirvell continued,…
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Monday announced an inter-agency crackdown on fraud in the trucking industry.The pair appeared alongside White House Fraud Task Force Vice Chairman Andrew Ferguson and other officials in a joint press conference in Detroit, Mich. “Today, what we are announcing…
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Monday are set to announce an inter-agency effort to crack down on fraud in the trucking industry.The pair will make the announcement in Detroit, Michigan. You can watch the event in the player above or by clicking here.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will host meetings of the Group of 20 finance ministers in Ashville, North Carolina, on Monday and Tuesday. Bessent and Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh opened Monday’s gathering with statements about growth and debt, CNBC reported. “The world is awash in debt, and the only way for…
Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, testifies before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs in Washington on July 29, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesDr. Anthony Fauci said an aide should delete an email…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul appeared in a hijab during a visit to an Islamic center. Critics accused the far-left Democratic governor of engaging in political pandering. They questioned how the gesture squares with the party’s longstanding emphasis on women’s rights. She began by pandering. “And I want to thank…
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For most of us, Microsoft Office has been the go-to software for getting things done. Many of us use Word for documents, Excel for spreadsheets — and a lot of us use Outlook and PowerPoint. The problem is that Microsoft Office is free on a work computer — but costs…
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A pro-life coffee company has reached the milestone of having raised $2 Million for pregnancy help. Seven Weeks Coffee announced the accomplishment this summer, noting 1,500 pregnancy centers and/or maternity homes have benefited from the funds. The pro-life coffee business began five years ago by founder Anton Krecic. Two weeks after getting married in…
(Headline USA) A controversial policing tactic that permitted staggering amounts of deadly fentanyl to reach the streets as federal authorities sought to build bigger drug cases is now under investigation by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee.The committee’s chairman, Rep. James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, sent a letter Monday to…
G20 holds a meeting with finance ministers and central bank governors in Asheville, North Carolina, on Aug. 31. …
(The Center Square) One day shy of a full two weeks sooner than any other state in the nation, North Carolina county boards of elections on Friday will begin sending absentee ballots to any voter having made a request.The nation’s ninth largest state at 11.2 million is at 7,837,065 registrations,…
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Several new polls show that Gov. Greg Abbott and state Sen. James Talarico are leading in their respective races for governor and U.S. Senate.A new University of Virginia’s Center for Politics rating also downgraded both races, indicating neither are no longer considered solidly Republican. It…
On Saturday, former Hardball host Chris Matthews returned to his old network, now under its Versant name of MS NOW, to compare President Trump to past European dictators because of several Trump-designed Washington, D.C., construction projects. Matthews declared he “can’t accuse anybody of being Hitler” before he then compared Trump…
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin host a press conference in Detroit at 10:30 a.m. ET on Aug. 31 to make a series of announcements on the administration’s interagency effort to crack down on fraud in the trucking industry.
(Headline USA) State and federal officials ramped up efforts Monday to locate around 15 people who are missing after a major flash flood swept through in the Grand Canyon, killing at least one person.Weather forecasters warned rain and thunderstorms could bring more flooding to the popular tourist attraction from where scores…
President Trump told Fox News’ Trey Yingst on Monday that there will be a response to Iran’s strikes on U.S. bases on Jordan. The President said: “We’re going to hit them hard.” In the Fox News interview, President Trump indicated that all missiles were intercepted by American air defence systems,…