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. read more
Congressional investigators are scrambling to explain how F-35 jet parts loaded with classified stealth tech vanished into Hong Kong ... read more
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.
"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."
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.
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