https://drudge.com/user/REINHEITSGEBOT New links and comments. en-us http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Wordzilla/0.58 10 https://drudge.com/news/294551/ai-error-nearly-triggered-us-intercept https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program. The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said. It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) " and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was. The report, according to one of the sources, was "entirely false." But it also "almost started a war," the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations. Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:57:24 -0400 reinheitsgebot https://drudge.com/news/294551/ai-error-nearly-triggered-us-intercept#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.294551 discussion, 0.5 daily 294551 https://drudge.com/news/294532/hegseth-loses-f-35-components https://www.rawstory.com/pentagon-technology-china/ Congressional investigators are scrambling to explain how F-35 jet parts loaded with classified stealth tech vanished into Hong Kong ... <blockquote class="bluesky-embed" data-bluesky-uri="at://did:plc:4fjlxgdpuqxfqnzvvbj56q5f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvt2s2bg3n27" data-bluesky-cid="bafyreigmb3amlqibdl5yoxccobtjzk5tfp3iap5uiufrbo5tnbpq6tjzta" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode="system"><p lang="">Congressional investigators are scrambling to explain how F-35 jet parts loaded with classified stealth tech vanished into Hong Kong on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth&#x27;s watch.<br><br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4fjlxgdpuqxfqnzvvbj56q5f/post/3mvt2s2bg3n27?ref_src=embed">[image or embed]</a></p> -- Raw Story (<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4fjlxgdpuqxfqnzvvbj56q5f?ref_src=embed">@rawstory.com</a>) <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4fjlxgdpuqxfqnzvvbj56q5f/post/3mvt2s2bg3n27?ref_src=embed">5:00 PM &Acirc;&middot; Sep 18, 2026</a></blockquote><script async src="https://embed.bsky.app/static/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:30:36 -0400 reinheitsgebot https://drudge.com/news/294532/hegseth-loses-f-35-components#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.294532 news, 0.5 daily 294532 https://drudge.com/news/294550/bobo-ho-getting-railed-several https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/09/complaint-filed-with-house-ethics-committee-alleges-boebert-slept-with-three-of-her-congressional-staffers/81792/ A sworn ethics complaint filed yesterday with the U.S. House Committee on Ethics alleges that Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) engaged in sexual relationships with three House employees under her direct supervision, in violation of the House rule adopted after the #MeToo reckoning that flatly prohibits members from sleeping with their own staff. The complaint, filed by American Muckrakers' David Wheeler under penalty of perjury, names three current and former senior aides, including Clarice Navarro, Boebert's district director from January 2021 to January 2025. The centerpiece is the alleged relationship with Navarro, a former Colorado state representative and Trump USDA appointee who ran Boebert's district operation for four years. The complaint also asserts that Boebert arranged a $200,000 payment to Navarro to prevent her from filing her own ethics complaint. Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:20:32 -0400 reinheitsgebot https://drudge.com/news/294550/bobo-ho-getting-railed-several#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.294550 discussion, 0.5 daily 294550 https://drudge.com/news/294549/pedo-47-causes-global-pain-pump https://politicalwire.com/2026/09/19/iran-war-causes-global-pain-at-the-pump/ "The Iran war is driving fuel prices higher worldwide, leading to angry protests around the globe and straining the economies of countries that have nothing to do with the war," Axios reports. "It's not just driving up prices in the U.S. The war is causing problems around the world " in some cases far worse than anything Americans are experiencing." "The surge in prices squeezes consumers, and worsens the finances of governments trying to contain the shock " especially poorer and developing countries with little fiscal running room." Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:15:15 -0400 reinheitsgebot https://drudge.com/news/294549/pedo-47-causes-global-pain-pump#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.294549 discussion, 0.5 daily 294549 https://drudge.com/news/294531/postal-chief-stops-work-pedo-47s-mail https://apnews.com/article/trump-mail-ballot-us-postal-service-995f98147fbb49fb71696be824abff95?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9pjx0YCdgfsEhSiVZk6bQLM4RPz7xKOTkKEFJU2rnTRtmspKcQH0wDQZsK1-e7V6-rJQNHnj_RZUw3XOhzbn76dqqMOyswoTHov1YB5L7vcHueI78 The top official at the U.S. Postal Service said Thursday that the agency has stopped work on developing a controversial computer system that was central to President Donald Trump's effort to limit mail voting after the Supreme Court rejected his executive order this week. "There's an injunction so we're not doing anything," postmaster general David Steiner told The Associated Press in an interview. Steiner, a onetime chief executive of Waste Management, has spent most of the past year atop the postal service navigating political and financial challenges. He's pressing Congress for changes that would help him resolve what he has called a "liquidity crisis." And Trump's efforts to largely eradicate mail voting turned the postal service into an unlikely arbiter of who is eligible to vote just months before this year's critical midterm elections, a role Steiner seemingly had little interest in playing. Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:45:00 -0400 reinheitsgebot https://drudge.com/news/294531/postal-chief-stops-work-pedo-47s-mail#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.294531 discussion, 0.5 daily 294531 https://drudge.com/news/294529/racist-orange-chomo-revives-willie-horton https://apnews.com/article/trump-wilie-horton-north-carolina-whatley-5bf8a542f360561241e4f82abb3d869a As President Donald Trump tries to convince voters that Democrats have let crime run amok, he's digging into the country's political past to reference one of the most controversial campaign advertisements that relied heavily on racist tropes. During a campaign stop Wednesday in Gastonia, North Carolina, to stump for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michael Whatley, Trump resurrected a 1988 George H.W. Bush presidential campaign ad featuring Willie Horton, a Black man convicted of rape and assault after his release through a Massachusetts prison furlough program. "Willie Horton was a bad guy, really bad guy," Trump said, before comparing Dukakis's release of Horton to the pretrial release of a Black man who faces a murder charge for last year's killing of a white Ukrainian refugee in Charlotte, North Carolina. Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:53:56 -0400 reinheitsgebot https://drudge.com/news/294529/racist-orange-chomo-revives-willie-horton#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.294529 discussion, 0.5 daily 294529 https://drudge.com/news/294528/orange-child-rapist-lashes-out-turd https://www.al.com/politics/2026/09/trump-attacks-longtime-gop-strategist-for-supporting-democrat-stone-cold-loser.html Karl Rove, the Republican strategist behind George W. Bush's two presidential campaign victories, drew the anger of President Donald Trump after announcing he was supporting a Democrat for the first time in more than three decades. Rove was the target of a Truth Social post from the president after the GOP strategist announced he was backing Democrat Jon Rosenthal for Texas Railroad Commissioner over Republican Bo French. Rove called French a "bigot" after French referred to South Asian students at the University of Texas as "foreigners" and suggested they were a "problem," the Texas Tribune reported. "Karl Rove is so bad for the Republican Party, and completely wrong so often. He suffers from a major case of Trump Derangement Syndrome primarily because, for almost 10 years, I beat back and won against so many of the people and things that he wanted and espoused," Trump said in the Truth Social post. "Why does FoxNews [sic] and the WSJ [Wall Street Journal] keep his RINO Voice alive. The guy is a stone cold loser!" Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:47:26 -0400 reinheitsgebot https://drudge.com/news/294528/orange-child-rapist-lashes-out-turd#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.294528 discussion, 0.5 daily 294528 https://drudge.com/news/294505/ice-agent-charged-assault-jailed https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-agent-charged-assault-jailed-minnesota-rcna598278?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=6aabf71117b8de0001362d46&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter A federal immigration officer wanted on assault charges for shooting and wounding a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis was arrested there on Wednesday, eight months after a confrontation that became a flashpoint over <blockquote class="bluesky-embed" data-bluesky-uri="at://did:plc:kgkazkgprx2atw7ilz4v74em/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvo7247wdk2q" data-bluesky-cid="bafyreidbe7p4movyoze6y3j2taxnpn7vsft6hz337krzwi32rztwhweede" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode="system"><p lang="en">Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty statement on Christian Castro:<br><br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kgkazkgprx2atw7ilz4v74em/post/3mvo7247wdk2q?ref_src=embed">[image or embed]</a></p> -- Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty (<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kgkazkgprx2atw7ilz4v74em?ref_src=embed">@hennepinatty.bsky.social</a>) <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kgkazkgprx2atw7ilz4v74em/post/3mvo7247wdk2q?ref_src=embed">6:33 PM &Acirc;&middot; Sep 16, 2026</a></blockquote><script async src="https://embed.bsky.app/static/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:30:31 -0400 reinheitsgebot https://drudge.com/news/294505/ice-agent-charged-assault-jailed#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.294505 news, 0.5 daily 294505 https://drudge.com/news/294504/cassidy-blames-trump-measles-deaths https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/16/republican-senator-bill-cassidy-blames-trump-administration-measles-deaths-pennsylvania Senator Bill Cassidy, the Republican chair of the US Senate health committee, blamed the Trump administration's vaccine-skeptical approach for recent measles deaths in Pennsylvania ... <blockquote class="bluesky-embed" data-bluesky-uri="at://did:plc:6uimut56ihor2p6ubnepkudz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvocsnterc26" data-bluesky-cid="bafyreib7ootslhoupvyfj5a7lw6p5u6mbykcttkg6slu5eae633x3lwpsa" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode="system"><p lang="en">it&#x27;s HIS legacy ... he voted for RFK, Jr. ... www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/ ... <br><br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6uimut56ihor2p6ubnepkudz/post/3mvocsnterc26?ref_src=embed">[image or embed]</a></p> -- Jen Rubin (<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6uimut56ihor2p6ubnepkudz?ref_src=embed">@jenrubin.bsky.social</a>) <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6uimut56ihor2p6ubnepkudz/post/3mvocsnterc26?ref_src=embed">7:40 PM &Acirc;&middot; Sep 16, 2026</a></blockquote><script async src="https://embed.bsky.app/static/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:33:51 -0400 reinheitsgebot https://drudge.com/news/294504/cassidy-blames-trump-measles-deaths#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.294504 news, 0.5 daily 294504 https://drudge.com/news/294500/family-texas-woman-sues-saying-abortion https://www.rawstory.com/ken-paxton-2677869235/ The family of a Texas woman who died during pregnancy has filed the first lawsuit tied to a death linked directly to the state's abortion ban, naming Attorney General Ken Paxton among the defendants, reported The Washington Sun. <blockquote class="bluesky-embed" data-bluesky-uri="at://did:plc:ttuljczlvmwk5tyfbgghv76y/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvn7uyxwvk23" data-bluesky-cid="bafyreiguje533jeqk3huqaz7cbmylaj7w6gx3p37igzmi4pz6ycbjkicni" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode="system"><p lang="en">Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn&#x27;t get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa ... <br><br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ttuljczlvmwk5tyfbgghv76y/post/3mvn7uyxwvk23?ref_src=embed">[image or embed]</a></p> -- Shefali Luthra (<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ttuljczlvmwk5tyfbgghv76y?ref_src=embed">@shefali.bsky.social</a>) <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ttuljczlvmwk5tyfbgghv76y/post/3mvn7uyxwvk23?ref_src=embed">9:15 AM &Acirc;&middot; Sep 16, 2026</a></blockquote><script async src="https://embed.bsky.app/static/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:32:10 -0400 reinheitsgebot https://drudge.com/news/294500/family-texas-woman-sues-saying-abortion#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.294500 news, 0.5 daily 294500 https://drudge.com/news/294493/whistleblower-missouri-elections-chief https://www.washingtonsun.com/missouri/whistleblower-says-elections-chief-plotted-to-change-local-results Missouri's former election integrity director filed a whistleblower lawsuit Monday against Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, alleging he was fired after raising concerns that staff were plotting to file a fake complaint in a legal case about the state's voter database. <blockquote class="bluesky-embed" data-bluesky-uri="at://did:plc:bam3rkdzsg74tx5ddflbgils/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvily57zzj2u" data-bluesky-cid="bafyreigie547xe7mpoe7p65ua3pynkcr2kibj354liexulget5tpbdiqma" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode="system"><p lang="">NEW: Voters are suing Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins for $80 million for neglecting his duties. Five Missourians, representing roughly 162k people, argued his decision to reject a pro-voting referendum was a clear violation of his responsibilities as the state&#x27;s top election official.<br><br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bam3rkdzsg74tx5ddflbgils/post/3mvily57zzj2u?ref_src=embed">[image or embed]</a></p> -- Democracy Docket (<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bam3rkdzsg74tx5ddflbgils?ref_src=embed">@democracydocket.com</a>) <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bam3rkdzsg74tx5ddflbgils/post/3mvily57zzj2u?ref_src=embed">1:08 PM &Acirc;&middot; Sep 14, 2026</a></blockquote><script async src="https://embed.bsky.app/static/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:30:24 -0400 reinheitsgebot https://drudge.com/news/294493/whistleblower-missouri-elections-chief#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.294493 news, 0.5 daily 294493 https://drudge.com/news/294476/iran-war-munitions-has-caused-strategic https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-iran-war-ammunition-munition-shortage-shortfall-spending/ In a first-of-its-kind mandatory report to Congress, the [Defense Department's inspector general] said that between Feb. 28 and June 30, Operation Epic Fury (OEF) had an estimated cost of $33.4 billion, with $22.3 billion of that spent on munitions alone. "The munitions expenditure on OEF has resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks for munitions resupply," the report states. <blockquote class="bluesky-embed" data-bluesky-uri="at://did:plc:yf6hctt2ug3qyfty4in64yob/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvkwvmrn5y23" data-bluesky-cid="bafyreia3hux3ot5vmrvfhaeqza6kxji2wkqny5i2ghgbngsl5i4duo72oi" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode="system"><p lang="">Iran war has led to munitions shortfall, bottlenecks to restock, Pentagon IG says<br><br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yf6hctt2ug3qyfty4in64yob/post/3mvkwvmrn5y23?ref_src=embed">[image or embed]</a></p> -- Politico (<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yf6hctt2ug3qyfty4in64yob?ref_src=embed">@politico.com</a>) <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yf6hctt2ug3qyfty4in64yob/post/3mvkwvmrn5y23?ref_src=embed">11:29 AM &Acirc;&middot; Sep 15, 2026</a></blockquote><script async src="https://embed.bsky.app/static/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:31:49 -0400 reinheitsgebot https://drudge.com/news/294476/iran-war-munitions-has-caused-strategic#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.294476 news, 0.5 daily 294476 https://drudge.com/news/294486/18-year-old-dies-pennsylvanias-4th https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/18-year-old-dies-in-pennsylvanias-4th-measles-associated-death Pennsylvania officials have reported a fourth measles-associated death. <blockquote class="bluesky-embed" data-bluesky-uri="at://did:plc:bbdtbuuej2tn3nyvrftdvs7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvl5ave2w22o" data-bluesky-cid="bafyreifncsyptpoyo63zolhnp63yldmo4rlxbqc37htezrjnjwqpupueqi" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode="system"><p lang="en">Pennsylvania just announced the fourth death from measles this year. All patients were unvaccinated. This is so sad.<br><br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bbdtbuuej2tn3nyvrftdvs7r/post/3mvl5ave2w22o?ref_src=embed">[image or embed]</a></p> -- Melody Schreiber (<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bbdtbuuej2tn3nyvrftdvs7r?ref_src=embed">@melodyschreiber.com</a>) <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bbdtbuuej2tn3nyvrftdvs7r/post/3mvl5ave2w22o?ref_src=embed">1:23 PM &Acirc;&middot; Sep 15, 2026</a></blockquote><script async src="https://embed.bsky.app/static/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:31:47 -0400 reinheitsgebot https://drudge.com/news/294486/18-year-old-dies-pennsylvanias-4th#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.294486 news, 0.5 daily 294486 https://drudge.com/news/294477/rep-thomas-massie-moves-impeach-hegseth https://www.rawstory.com/hegseth-impeachment/ The Kentucky Republican read his impeachment resolution on the House floor, where he accused Hegseth of shredding safeguards intended to protect civilians during U.S. military operations. <blockquote class="bluesky-embed" data-bluesky-uri="at://did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvl6f2uulc2q" data-bluesky-cid="bafyreidtingojaiajjlryrsif2knkpsmupf6mt4t6qoldo77hkdvbtl4fi" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode="system"><p lang="en">WATCH: Republican Rep. Rep Thomas Massie moves to impeach Hegseth for &quot;High Crimes & Misdemeanors&quot;<br><br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3mvl6f2uulc2q?ref_src=embed">[image or embed]</a></p> -- The Tennessee Holler (<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw?ref_src=embed">@thetnholler.bsky.social</a>) <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3mvl6f2uulc2q?ref_src=embed">1:43 PM &Acirc;&middot; Sep 15, 2026</a></blockquote><script async src="https://embed.bsky.app/static/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:33:32 -0400 reinheitsgebot https://drudge.com/news/294477/rep-thomas-massie-moves-impeach-hegseth#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.294477 news, 0.5 daily 294477 https://drudge.com/news/294475/patel-defends-fbi-hiring-policy-those https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/15/kash-patel-fbi-hiring-policy-bestiality FBI director Kash Patel defended his agency's decision to roll back restrictions on agent applicants who have previously engaged in bestiality, arguing the FBI "did not want to punish victims of bestiality" by automatically disqualifying them. <blockquote class="bluesky-embed" data-bluesky-uri="at://did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvkswnngv22t" data-bluesky-cid="bafyreia5n2mmdqanlgzjxzxm4dlqvmjp4v5o62xrwbobdnbtlqflwli2gy" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode="system"><p lang="en">PATEL: The previous regulation automatically disqualified any individual who participated in either side of it KENNEDY: Either side of beastiality? So you disqualified the animal? P: Well, we have great canines, but we&#x27;re not going to disqualify them K: I&#x27;m trying to understand why you did this.<br><br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mvkswnngv22t?ref_src=embed">[image or embed]</a></p> -- Aaron Rupar (<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc?ref_src=embed">@atrupar.com</a>) <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mvkswnngv22t?ref_src=embed">10:18 AM &Acirc;&middot; Sep 15, 2026</a></blockquote><script async src="https://embed.bsky.app/static/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:31:08 -0400 Reinheitsgebot https://drudge.com/news/294475/patel-defends-fbi-hiring-policy-those#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.294475 news, 0.5 daily 294475