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Saturday, September 26, 2026

In late August, Avi Loeb, the world's most renowned scientist hunting for extraterrestrials on earth, traveled to the inner sanctum of American intelligence operations in McLean, Virginia, looking for once-secret information. read more


The CEO of U.S.-based credit union Family First is no longer with the company, days after she posted an allegedly artificial intelligence-edited photo of her family with "Lake America" sweatshirts. read more


YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook owner Meta, and, predictably, Elon Musk's own platform X have all refused to run paid advertisements for Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney's new four-hour documentary Musk, according to The Hollywood Reporter. read more


The U.S. Supreme Court has for now revived a federal data system the Department of Homeland Security revamped into a tool to check the citizenship of millions of Americans on state voter rolls. read more


Chris Hedges: By any standard of morality, Trump is depraved. But adorned with the power of the state, he descends to another level -- the level of evil. read more


Three organizations representing thousands of ranchers in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas issued a joint statement Friday warning operations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are disrupting the agricultural community and will make beef prices spike again. read more


A bipartisan group of 14 senators urged President Donald Trump to rescind his invitation for Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend the Group of 20 summit in Miami in December. read more


U.S. taxpayers are paying for a campaign-style ad that shows only Trump and plays music saying "love me". Some media outlets put the cost making and airing the ad currently at around $450,000. That cost is likely to go up as the ad appears to be getting more air time. read more


ICE has received more than $75 billion to expand operations since President Trump returned to office -- and wasted millions on scaled-back and mismanaged projects, a new GAO report found. read more


Friday, September 25, 2026

In a single day in January, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spent more money than it had on any other day in either of President Trump's terms, federal spending records show. read more


A drastically diminished Justice Department workforce is struggling to keep up with its civil side caseloads, according to documents obtained by The Hill and NewsNation. read more


Demonstrators blocked streets and marched towards the UN headquarters as Netanyahu addressed world leaders at UNGA. read more


Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible." read more


Xi Jinping has called for extensive cooperation with Washington to avoid the "Thucydides trap" that could put the US and China on a military collision course amid rising tensions over artificial intelligence, trade and Taiwan. read more


In a case watched across the country and as voting begins in the midterm elections, the Supreme Court blocked a congressional map in Missouri that was aimed at netting Republicans another seat in the U.S. House. read more


The aviation agency is now going with a more modest rollout to help manage flight scheduling. read more


 

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