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The White House Is a Fortress. It’s Not Supposed to Look Like One.
One of the less-discussed traditions of American presidents is how they hide the reality that they need protection. Following the assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, however, Donald Trump and his allies have doubled down on their assertion that the ballroom he wants to build is essential to presidential safety. The justifications have…
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Trump sweating as ‘thorn in his side’ looks set for shock Republican Party win: report
President Donald Trump is “treading carefully” as he watches a rebel Republican soar in the polls in their gubernatorial race — with their political rise “alarming” some of the president’s allies, Axios reported Saturday. “President Trump’s allies are growing alarmed that Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) – who infuriated him by calling for the release of…
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Navy Seal who killed bin Laden 15 years ago today recalls the mission and the 9/11 motivation: ‘I just shot that f–ker in the face’
The former US Navy SEAL who fatally shot Osama bin Laden has only one regret: the al Qaeda monster he killed with three shots to the head was buried at sea. “I would have hung him from a bridge in New York City,” and let the locals deal with him, Robert O’Neill told The Post.…
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Hey Chat, Make Me a Fake ID
Donald Trump is on TikTok doing his morning routine. “Get ready with me for a big day 💄🇺🇸,” reads the caption, as the president holds a makeup brush to his cheek. The scene is a still, ostensibly a screenshot of a TikTok clip. Like so much other AI-generated slop coursing through the internet, the image…
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Some deaf children are hearing again because of a new gene therapy
In a lab room, a toddler, deaf from birth, sits while a tone plays. There’s no reaction. His face does not change. Six weeks later, after a single injection of an experimental gene therapy, the same toddler is back in the same room. The tone plays. The toddler’s head turns toward the sound. And somewhere…
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A Requiem for the Voting Rights Act
The best things shine bright, but never long. So it was for the Voting Rights Act, the 1965 legislation that protected Black suffrage by neutralizing voter suppression in southern states, and became the foundation for equal ballot access for all Americans. Of the 250 years since the country’s founding, less than a quarter unfolded under…
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What You Need to Know About the Foreign-Made Router Ban in the US
The Federal Communications Commission has banned new consumer internet routers manufactured outside the US, citing national security concerns. The ban doesn’t affect any routers already in American homes or currently on sale in the US, but all new routers aimed at the consumer market will need to be approved. While the headline is that foreign-made…
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Mathematicians Claim Significant Discovery Using ChatGPT
Did ChatGPT just solve an arcane math problem that’s foiled mathematicians for over sixty years? Some leading experts say yes, Scientific American reports. Earlier this month, 23-year-old Liam Price shared a solution to one of the so-called Erdős problems, a series of famously abstruse math conjectures left behind by the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős. While…
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Rising Dem triggers second curse word-laden meltdown from right-wing icon
Just a day after CNN”s resident right-winger Scott Jennings descended into a profane attack on a rising Democrat guest, a second leading conservative lost it. NewsNation commentator — and ex-Fox News legend — Geraldo Rivera attacked the Democrats’ new darling Adam Mockler — a day after Jennings fumed into an F-bomb-laden attack on CNN’s NewsNight…
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O.C. teen’s mother faces manslaughter charge in e-motorbike crash that killed 81-year-old
An Orange County mother faces an involuntary manslaughter charge in the death of an 81-year-old man who died weeks after her son allegedly struck him with an electric motorcycle. Ed Ashman, 81, died Thursday, two weeks after a 14-year-old boy doing wheelies on an e-motorcycle near a high school hit him, causing critical injuries, the…