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Trump Admits His Slush Fund Plans Loud and Clear

President Trump won’t let go of his corrupt IRS settlement. At a Cabinet meeting hosted Friday at Camp David in Maryland, Trump was asked by a reporter whether the “Anti-Weaponization Fund” created by his settlement with the IRS, which set aside $1.776 billion for anyone who

F-35 fighter jet crashes near San Diego

A U.S. Marine Corps F-35 stealth fighter jet crashed at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, Calif., on Friday. Marine officials confirmed to The Hill that it was an F-35 “aircraft mishap” in the vicinity of MCAS Miramar. The pilot ejected, was recovered and is en

Kennedy Center pauses public tours: Reports

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts stopped its decades-old free public tours, but it backtracked hours later to specify the pause would only last a few days, according to reports. Brooks Boeke, the director of the volunteer program, told volunteers Thursday the

The ban on robot vacuums won’t make them safer, only worse

No other gadget knows as much about your home as a robot vacuum. They map your space, learn your routines, and many now carry a camera and microphone into every room in your house. As AI gives them a better understanding of what they see, the privacy and security risks these

Friday, the 13th Trump Cabinet meeting

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Fauci hearing a sham: Republicans only looking to prosecute

Republicans want to continue to relitigate COVID, and their determination to prosecute Fauci led them to missing out on what could have been a rare opportunity to honestly examine what went right, what went wrong, and what we should do differently the next time the world faces

Mitch McConnell Still MIA Days Before Key August 3 Deadline

Senator Mitch McConnell has yet to show his face in the halls of Congress, and the deadline for Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear to call a special election is fast approaching. The 84-year-old Republican senator has not made a public appearance in weeks, ever since he was rushed

Nexstar to host South Carolina Senate debate

Nexstar Media Group is slated to host a live debate on Aug. 4 featuring the GOP Senate candidates running for the South Carolina seat vacated by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R). The debate, which will air on all of Nexstar's stations in the state, will take place Tuesday from

New York alleges Kalshi running illegal gambling operation

The state of New York sued Kalshi on Friday, accusing the prediction market of running an illegal gambling operation. The lawsuit alleges the company is operating a gambling business in "flagrant disregard" of Empire State laws, failing to get a license from the state gaming

Trump, Miller use migrant crisis in Spain as midterm warning

President Trump and White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller are warning that Spain’s Ceuta migrant crisis could be a reality for Americans if Democrats win in future elections. Some 60,000 migrants have entered Ceuta, an autonomous city of Spain on the North

It’s time to panic about AI safety

When the phrase "OpenAI hacked Hugging Face" has more or less entered mainstream culture, you know we have an AI problem. This week, we learned more about exactly how OpenAI's agent broke out of a sandbox and autonomously traversed the web, including a bunch of other supposedly

Trump approval at lowest point of second term: Nate Silver

Political analyst Nate Silver said Thursday that President Trump’s approval rating is at a new second-term low this month, as the deeply unpopular Iran war persists and gas prices skyrocket. “Timing lines up remarkably well with gas prices and the resumption of hostilities in

Hamas says it has reached an agreement to disarm

Hamas on Friday confirmed that the group reached a disarmament agreement with negotiators to address one of the main sticking points for a broader peace deal in Gaza. Senior Hamas official Bassem Naim announced on the social platform X that the militant group “agreed to the

Watch live: Trump convenes Cabinet meeting at Camp David

President Trump will convene his Cabinet on Friday morning from Camp David in Maryland. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt teased that the meeting, the 13th one since Trump returned to the Oval Office, would be "a lot of fun and something different for the Cabinet to