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Pentagon updates death toll of troops during Iran war to 21

The Pentagon updated the American service member death toll of the U.S. military’s operations against Iran to 21 late Friday, raising the tally in the department’s public database. The two noncombat deaths newly added to the Pentagon’s Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS)

AI will make Americans dumber and poorer

The author argues that the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence risks establishing a high-tech feudalism where a few mega-corporations exert unprecedented control over human cognition and social infrastructure.

Democrats explode over Trump's Russia diesel deal

Democratic lawmakers pushed back Friday on President Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Russian oil amid global fuel shortages during U.S. military operations against Iran and the Russia-Ukraine war. The deal will permit Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government to

Trump’s DOJ Is Hiring Only the Best MAGA Wing Nuts

With the midterm elections less than a month away, it would seem to be an absurd time to suffer a thought for the next election cycle and the challenges that any would-be Democratic presidential victor would have to tend to on day one. Unfortunately, sometimes current events