U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is looking to spend up to $2 million on robot dogs, according to a federal procurement notice.
The Boston Dynamic SPOT Robots will help "support public safety and law enforcement operations by providing a remotely operated robotic capability for inspection, situational awareness, and hazard assessment in environments that may pose risks to personnel," according to the notice.
"This downward spiral is antithetical to our Constitution that recognizes our right to speak freely," a San Francisco federal judge wrote in a case by international students who had their visas threatened.
Several baby goats at a mobile petting zoo in North Carolina were infected with rabies, and authorities are asking anyone who had contact with the animals to reach out to health officials. Rabies can be deadly if people don't receive treatment before symptoms begin. Residents in western North Carolina may have had contact with the infected goats from Farm Adventures at the mobile petting zoo's location in Harmony or at off-site events between July 28 and August 27, local officials said in a statement. Farm Adventures is based in Iredell County and books events in surrounding communities, and officials say the owner has been cooperating with the investigation. Read more
Fallout continued Thursday for content creator and apparel brand Good Good Golf over an ad that was supposed to promote a new Callaway driver but ended up being criticized for portraying violence against women. Good Good announced it would no longer be the title sponsor of a new PGA Tour event in Austin, Texas, in the fall, saying in a statement that the decision came "after thoughtful discussions with the PGA Tour and careful reflection." The controversial ad for the Good Good Callaway Quantum Driver depicted a man, played by Good Good co-founder Garrett Clark, shoving a woman to the ground as she reaches for one of his golf clubs. "Do not touch my new driver," he says menacingly as he stands over her. The ad was posted on Friday and deleted hours later. Read more
Wyoming's attorney general is investigating how two U.S. Department of Justice officials monitored poll workers and observed voters in the state's most populous county during the Aug. 18 primary, a spokesperson for Republican Gov. Mark Gordon said Friday.
Gordon called the monitors' behavior "a bit aggressive" and "irregular" in an otherwise routine meeting to confirm the election results in the mostly rural and Republican state.
"Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and Nashville International Airport, also known as BNA, announced their intent to name BNA in honor of Dolly Parton, creating a lasting tribute to her indelible legacy and the generations of people she inspired across Tennessee and around the world."
Dolly Parton was a genuine humanitarian
In a recent fundraising email, Mike Rogers (R-MI) mislead supporters when he suggested that he had played an active role in the killing of Osama bin Laden on 1 May 2011: "I saw the dead body of Osama bin Laden with my own eyes, knowing that together, we had delivered justice for America." House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R) was relaxing comfortably at home when D/CIA Leon Panetta telephoned this fabulist that USN SEALs killed UBL in Abbottabad Pakistan, an act of vengeance the Archbishop of Canterbury decried as a miscarriage of justice.
Was the US Marshal Service (USMS) in SDNY ready to receive international fugitive Osama Bin Laden for his mandatory appearance before a USDJ in Manhattan Federal Court on 1 May 2011?
Laura Loomer, the Maga influencer who first reported Mr Yiannopoulos to Homeland Security, said: "For years, I have been warning the American people and the federal government that Milo Yiannopoulos is an illegal alien. "It should shock the American people that disgraced former Congresswoman Marjorie Traitor Greene once had this alleged illegal alien living in her home and working for her in her congressional office. It's a great day for America and our immigration system that a Brit who excused paedophilia is being deported from America."
Senators are renewing calls for anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy to step down or be ousted -- and at least one is calling for a criminal investigation -- amid the release of documents they say prove Kennedy lied to them during his confirmation hearings last year. "This is a pattern, not a slip," Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) said in a statement. "RFK Jr. has lied to the Senate, lied to the American people, and jeopardized the health of children to advance his anti-vaccine agenda."
xAI has now been accused of training Grok on child sex abuse materials (CSAM), as regulators and courts continue to probe how far the problem goes, and some Grok users have been arrested. In a complaint filed on Wednesday, a plaintiff known as Jane Doe explained that she was preschool-age in the early 2000s when adult men repeatedly raped her to create CSAM to sell to pedophiles online. Since then, Doe's images have been hashed by groups like the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (CCCP). For her safety, Doe has opted to receive alerts from the US Department of Justice Victim Notification System any time she may be a victim in a new criminal investigation. Although she has received countless alerts, she was shocked when the CCCP notified her that it had identified AI-generated CSAM on xAI that depicted her.
Donald Trump unleashed a vicious attack Friday on New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman over her story, bylined by 3 other reporters, about his plans not to attend the 25th Anniversary of 9/11 because they wouldn't let him give a speech.
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The racist, alcoholic, misogynist, incompetent evangelical Christian Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth is considering running for President in 2028 after this proselytizing lothario gutted and demoralized the Defense Department, committed war crimes against Venezuelans and Iranians, and launched the United States of America into an un-Constitutional and catastrophic war against Iran on behalf of Israel, a quagmire which has depleted US strategic military resources and bankrupted the US treasury.
This second-rate weekend Faux TV tumor has "fallen up" and is getting people killed.
Tripple Ivy League graduate and homophobic evangelical Christian pastor Robert Gagnon: "It's sad that Dolly Parton did so much to promote LGBTQ immorality, including many public statements of acceptance and advocacy for "gay marriage" at least six years before Obergefell. For me it tarnished her legacy."
Dolly Parton was a good human being. Robert Gagnon is not a good human being.
A lawsuit filed this month alleges that there's a simple reason some stations in the Freedom Fuel Network " the chain of discount gas stations promoted by the White House " have been able to sell gas so cheaply: Some $4 million worth of the gas is stolen.
resident Donald Trump's proposed 250-foot triumphal arch will have "adverse" effects on dozens of historical landmarks, the National Park Service found. Nonetheless, the agency concluded in a report released Friday that the arch must stay at the proposed site on the banks of the Potomac River as the project is "inherently location dependent" and "not interchangeable" with any other placement. "A relocated arch elsewhere in Washington, D.C. or Virginia would constitute a materially different commemorative project," the report said. "For this reason, alternative locations outside Memorial Circle are not reasonable avoidance alternatives." Read more
