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US, Russian teams met in Florida and discussed 'variety of topics,' Witkoff says reut.rs/4rplG8o
Scoop: Here’s the bonkers story of how a foreign hacker inadvertently (?) broke into an evidence server holding FBI Epstein material in 2023 and then threatened to call in law enforcement when they found it was full of CSAM.
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An Oklahoma fire department turned down $250,000 from Google because they didn't want to betray public trust as Google tries to build a data center in their community.
The Rock Volunteer Fire Department chief got a standing ovation for speaking out against the data center.
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Ashley Kittelson's petition for court protection alleged years of abuse, including her ex-husband’s threats to kill the mother of three.
Her ex-husband killed her four days days after he was released from jail without having to post bond for violating the protective order, court records show.
Almost 200 children killed and he forgot about it??
Bellingcat has geolocated eight videos showing US Tomahawks cruise missiles in Iraq heading towards Iran. The missiles appear to be flying low across valleys and were most likely fired from the Mediterranean sea, an expert told us.
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* IRANIAN OFFICIAL TELLS REUTERS: SUPREME LEADER MOJTABA KHAMENEI WAS LIGHTLY INJURED BUT STILL CONTINUING TO OPERATE
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Eyewitness video released on social media on March 10 showed smoke rising after an explosion in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz. Reuters was able to confirm the location of footage from surrounding buildings, trees, road layout and bridge, which matched satellite and file imagery
CNN and CCDH investigation: 80% of major AI chatbots gave guidance on weapons or targets to "teen" personas 50% of the time; only Claude consistently refused (CNN)
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There’s a lot of incompetence on full display in this story but one guy who surely would be fired yesterday if this was earth 1, is the chucklehead energy secretary.
Mike Johnson blatantly makes stuff up: "We had information that they might well fire on us and it was imminent, and that it would hit our personnel. We could not wait for mass casualties on the American side."
Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"
Murphy: "Literally in my other ear I'm listening to Ted Cruz on another network explain why this mission is so essential to destroy the nuclear program. I may have to walk over there and tell him the admin is now briefing that getting rid of the nuclear program has nothing to do with this mission."
WALLACE: Why are we at war with Iran?
CHRIS MURPHY: Great question. The simplest explanation might be the one they gave 24 hours in that they've kind of tried to backtrack from since -- that Israel made us do it.
Witkoff says that he and Jared Kusher yesterday had a call with Putin adviser Yuri Ushakov "independently" of Trump
Bier: "Over the last 30 years, we looked at all the government budgets -- federal, state, and local combined. Immigrants reduce deficits by $14.5 trillion."
Musical instruments cost the Pentagon "$1.8 million. That included a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, a $26,000 violin, and a $21,750 custom handmade flute from the luxury Japanese brand Muramatsu."
In a preliminary ruling, a US judge orders Perplexity to stop using Comet browser to make purchases on behalf of users from password-protected Amazon accounts (Bloomberg)
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Breaking News: The three Alexander brothers were found guilty of engaging in a yearslong sex trafficking conspiracy of women and girls, some of whom were drugged before they were raped or sexually assaulted.
NEW: A couple of 20-year-old developers make $500,000 a month promising to help men, including minors, to stop watching porn, but exposed their private porn watching habits.
When we asked them about it in January, they lied about the huge security flaw. Here's why we're naming them now:
Australian police extracted five Iranian women soccer players from the team's hotel before they were granted asylum, the interior minister said, as details of their escape from Iranian government minders emerged reut.rs/4czjbwD
We need your drone interceptors for our war, but we won’t thank you and our propaganda will claim that we made them.
BREAKING: Anthropic is suing the Trump administration over being blacklisted by the Pentagon and being designated a supply chain risk that threatens national security.
"A woman who claims she was abused as a minor by both Epstein and Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by the The Post and Courier through public records ... she claimed Trump forced her to commit a sex act on him sometime around 1984."
Planet Labs satellite imagery shows only two structures within this red cone were damaged, including a clinic. The other structure appears to be an earth covered magazine or bunker.
Fox’s dignified transfer footage now just completely excludes Trump
Remarkable how shook Fox is by the footage of Trump wearing a tacky campaign hat to a dignified transfer
