A Senate candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump fled a rural Georgia press conference Thursday rather than answer questions about his son-in-law, white nationalist influencer David Alan Scheer II. Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) abruptly ended the event after reporters peppered him with questions about a CNN report that found Scheer had built a large online following promoting white nationalist ideology, sharing Nazi imagery, and posting antisemitic conspiracy theories. Collins is the Republican Senate candidate challenging Democratic incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) in November.
For a year now, the AI safety testing firm Andon Labs has given frontier models various real-world tasks to determine how well they do as agents running for long periods with no human supervision. On Wednesday, Andon published a new installment in how things are going in its Vending-Bench research, where the lab has frontier models run a simulated vending machine business for a simulated year.
"More and more uninsured patients are showing up in hospital emergency rooms and clinics, having lost their coverage under the Affordable Care Act (AKA Obamacare). Executives running some of the biggest hospital systems, including large for-profit chains spanning many states, expressed concern over the unexpectedly sharp rise in uninsured patients and the costs associated with treating them. And many executives said that the hospitals were also reporting more unpaid medical bills and providing more in the way of charity care."
Money for war, none for patients. And Red States are getting hit the hardest. MAGA and MAHA!
"A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screenshots and posted them online.
Reuters viewed a video of the presentation given at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro, which shows the errant map displayed halfway during a presentation about the State Department's new health agreements.
A Reuters analysis found the image of the map included in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools. The company did not respond to a request for comment."
Donald Trump's administration is asking Congress for millions of dollars in public funds to cover costs stemming from the president's Freedom 250 events on the National Mall this summer, including a Christian-focused prayer event, a fireworks show that started late and a sparsely attended state fair. Last week, the administration asked for an unspecified amount of funding "to recoup costs associated with support of events celebrating America's Semiquincentennial," according to Sen. Jeff Merkley, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees funding for the National Mall. That request prompted Merkley to ask what, exactly, the administration needed the money for.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launched an online cooking show on Thursday that aims to teach to teach Americans that making healthy meals can be "delicious and affordable," according to the show's splashy new web page. The slickly produced program is part of the Health Department's "Eat Real Food" initiative, which dramatically reshaped the country's dietary guidelines earlier this year in alignment with Kennedy's "Make America Healthy Again" agenda. The new guidelines effectively flipped the long-standing food pyramid to prioritize meat, dairy and vegetables over refined foods and grains. The guidelines also endorsed consumption of saturated fats that contradict established nutrition advice to limit them.
Like I wrote, just plain nuts.
Growth in the US slowed unexpectedly in the three months to June, according to official figures. The Commerce Department said the US economy grew at an annual rate of 1.5% in the second quarter, down from 2.1% seen in the first three months of the year. It comes as the world's largest economy continues to weather the financial impact of the war with Iran and US businesses navigate tariffs. Read more
Within weeks Iran will receive its first shipment of up to 400 shoulder-fired air-defence missile launchers (MANPADS) from China. The $60-70m purchase will cover gaps in Iranian air defenses that were exposed when the US illegally attacked the oil-wealthy country of 93m people. A recent poll revealed that about two-thirds of Americans say the 26 Feb attack against Iran on behalf of Israel has not been worthwhile.
Dummkopf Trumpf and Benjamin Netanyahu recklessly endangered the lives of American Servicemembers while bankrupting the US economy in this costly quagmire
The anti-Trump resistance has settled on its Anthony Fauci narrative. The Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing Wednesday was a witch hunt. Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who deeply influenced the restrictive guidelines during the Covid pandemic, had no choice. The good doctor had to invoke his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself. It's a nice story, but the camera doesn't lie. More than an hour into the proceedings, Senator Bernie Moreno, a Republican from Ohio, exposed the stone wall strategy. He requested those in the audience to stand up if they had paid a professional, legal, or personal price for dissenting from Covid orthodoxies during the pandemic. The senator then asked Fauci to turn around and look at them. Fauci refused.
He tells his personal story.
It's been many years since President Donald Trump flew commercial. But on Wednesday, he unveiled major renovations to a key Washington-area airport " his latest effort to shape infrastructure around the nation's capital. Trump oversaw proposals for a massive, $22.5 billion project at Dulles International Airport, the Northern Virginia air travel hub with direct flights to more than 50 countries. Read more
Life could be a dream (sh-boom) If I could take you up in Paradise up above (sh-boom) If you would tell me, I'm the only one that you love Life could be a dream, sweetheart Hello, hello again, sh-boom and hopin' we'll meet again, boom (ba-boom) Read more
More parents are beginning to scrutinize the foods they give their children early in life, and a new study suggests they're right to do so.
A team of researchers at the University of Texas at Austin surveyed 21 grocery stores across Austin, Texas, and found that more than 80% of available toddler foods were ultra-processed.
Here's what you should know about the study and what it means for toddler health in the United States.
Listen to this vile speech and weep. This bucket of shit runs the domestic policy of this government. This shit is nearly word for word nazi speeches
President Donald Trump's approval rating hit a new low of 32% on Wednesday, according to a new poll released by Quinnipiac, just hours after a CNN poll measured his approval rating at 34%"matching a low the network recorded after the Jan. 6 Capitol riots in 2021.
