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California Governor Gavin Newsom signs landmark AI safety law SB 53– fortune.com

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California Governor Gavin Newsom signs landmark AI safety law SB 53– fortune.com
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California has taken a significant step toward regulating artificial intelligence with Governor Gavin Newsom signing a new state law that will require major AI companies, many of which are headquartered in the state, to publicly disclose how they plan to mitigate the potentially catastrophic risks posed by advanced AI models.

The law also creates mechanisms for reporting critical safety incidents, extends whistleblower protections to AI company employees, and initiates the development of CalCompute, a government consortium tasked with creating a public computing cluster for safe, ethical, and sustainable AI research and innovation. By compelling companies, including OpenAI, Meta, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic, to follow these new rules at home, California may effectively set the standard for AI oversight.

Newsom framed the law as a balance between safeguarding the public and encouraging innovation. In a statement, he wrote: “California has proven that we can establish regulations to protect our communities while also ensuring that the growing AI industry continues to thrive. This legislation strikes that balance.”

The legislation, authored by State Sen. Scott Wiener, follows a failed attempt to pass a similar AI law last year. Wiener said that the new law, which was known by the shorthand SB 53 (for Senate Bill 53), focuses on transparency rather than liability, a departure from his prior SB 1047 bill, which Newsom vetoed last year.

“SB 53’s passage marks a notable win for California and the AI industry as a whole,” said Sunny Gandhi, VP of Political Affairs at Encode AI, a co-sponsor SB 53. “By establishing transparency and accountability measures for large-scale developers, SB 53 ensures that startups and innovators aren’t saddled with disproportionate burdens, while the most powerful models face appropriate oversight. This balanced approach sets the stage for a competitive, safe, and globally respected AI ecosystem.”

Turning Point USA returns to Utah after Charlie Kirk assassination– www.foxnews.com

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Turning Point USA returns to Utah after Charlie Kirk assassination– www.foxnews.com
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LOGAN, Utah – Turning Point USA returned to Utah Tuesday night for its first event in the Beehive State since the conservative campus organization’s founder, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated at a college speaking event earlier this month.

Kirk was scheduled to appear on campus at Utah State University in Logan as part of his speaking tour, but a revamped cast of speakers includes Gov. Spencer Cox, Rep. Andy Biggs and former Rep. Jason Chaffetz.

‪Cox received a mix of boos and cheers, but the moderator urged hecklers to calm down — ‬invoking Kirk’s memory and calling for an uninterrupted discussion.

Kirk had criticized some of Cox’s more moderate positions. The governor is a Republican.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs, former Congressman Jason Chaffetz and Alex Clark participate in a Turning Point USA event at Utah State University on Sept. 30, 2025. It was the first TPUSA event in Utah since Charlie Kirk’s assassination on Sept. 10. (Alec Thornock for Fox News Digital)

Cox called Kirk’s assassination “an attack on American ideals.”

“It was treasonous,” he said, before noting that Utahns wouldn’t respond with rioting and violence — prompting a loud  cheer.

‘Say it to my face’: House minority leader slams Trump; calls US president ‘racist’ over deepfake video– timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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‘Say it to my face’: House minority leader slams Trump; calls US president ‘racist’ over deepfake video– timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Tuesday accused President Donald Trump of being “racist” over a deepfake video posted to the social media platform, which depicted him wearing a sombrero.The fabricated video was posted on Trump’s Truth Social account on Monday night and featured Jeffries sporting an exaggerated handlebar moustache with mariachi music playing in the background. The video, released hours after Trump met with congressional leaders about the looming government shutdown, appeared aimed at mocking Democrats’ stance on federal benefits for migrants — a claim Democrats deny. Speaking on the steps of the Capitol, where numerous Democrats rallied for Republicans to negotiate a bipartisan spending bill, Jeffries stated, “Mr. President, the next time you have something to say about me, don’t cop out through a racist and fake AI video.” He added, “When I’m back in the Oval Office, say it to my face. Say it to my face.”Trump, known for attacking minorities and exacerbating racial tensions to energise his MAGA base, has a longstanding record that Jeffries, the first Black lawmaker to lead either party, has consistently opposed. Uploaded hours after Trump met with congressional leaders regarding the shutdown, the video parodied a press conference held by Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York outside the White House following that meeting. The fake audio portrayed Schumer attacking his own party as being deeply unpopular “because of all of our woke, trans bulls—.” It further asserted, “Not even Black people want to vote for us anymore.”

Hegseth’s racism is hidden in plain sight– www.dailykos.com

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Hegseth’s racism is hidden in plain sight– www.dailykos.com
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We’ve already written about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s needlessly expensive rant at the nation’s military brass. But one detail has slipped past most observers—the racism behind his new prohibition on shaving profiles.

A shaving profile is a waiver letting a service member skip clean-shaving rules and grow a beard. The Department of Defense recently announced the end of permanent beard waivers, only allowing the exemption for a year.

But on Tuesday, Hegseth made his feelings clear. “No more beardos,” he said. “The era of rampant and ridiculous shaving profiles is done.”

U.S. military senior leadership at Marine Corps Base Quantico, on Sept. 30. Not a beard in sight.

There are only two reasons for it: religious exemption or medical necessity. Several religions require beards, including Islam and Sikhism, and many Orthodox Jews also wear beards because of tradition and Biblical interpretations on how to trim them.

That makes it obvious enough what’s going on here—Hegseth and MAGA are thrilled to hide anti-Muslim bigotry behind a supposedly religion-neutral policy. Less obvious is the policy’s devastating impact on Black service members.

Mike Johnson Blasts Democrats’ Government Shutdown Hypocrisy– www.breitbart.com

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Mike Johnson Blasts Democrats’ Government Shutdown Hypocrisy– www.breitbart.com
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) put the Democrats on blast with their own words, showing their hypocrisy as they protested against previous government shutdowns while refusing to put a stop to the looming shutdown that will occur at midnight Tuesday if they do not compromise with Republicans.

Johnson has the following video playing on loop on a television outside his office in the U.S. Capitol, pointing out the blatant contradictions of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and more:

“It is not normal to shut down the government when we don’t get what we want,” Ocasio-Cortez said on the House floor in 2019.

Almost exactly one year ago, Schumer apparently cared about how the government shutdown that he is currently hell-bent on forcing would impact average Americans.

Hamas ‘put in a corner’ with new ultimatum from Donald Trump– www.mirror.co.uk

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Hamas ‘put in a corner’ with new ultimatum from Donald Trump– www.mirror.co.uk
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Hamas officials were last night examining a 21 US peace ultimatum to lay down their arms – even as war raged across the Strip, killing at least 46 Palestinians.

Among Gaza’s latest dead were a mother and her six children who died in a missile strike on their apartment block in Deir al-Balah, in the centre of the enclave. More victims were injured in that attack and three people were killed in an Israeli strike on their tent in a coast-side camp complex of refugees in al-Mawsi.

Others died in large scale attacks across the Strip that intensified from dawn onwards on Tuesday morning. Just hours before the latest Israeli onslaught, at midnight on Monday Hamas was handed the written peace proposal which has emerged as an ultimatum. Earlier US President Donald Trump the militants have just “three of four days” to agree to the deal. If the document is agreed it will be the closest the Middle East has been to peace since war broke out with a bloody Hamas attack on southern Israel in 2023.

Why Democrats Are Backing An Illegal Alien To Run Iowa Schools– thefederalist.com

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Why Democrats Are Backing An Illegal Alien To Run Iowa Schools– thefederalist.com
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State officials revoked the license of the superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district Monday after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Ian Roberts Friday on a deportation order and weapons charges. On Saturday, the Des Moines school board placed Roberts on paid administrative leave while protesters demand his release.

ICE says Roberts is not only an illegal alien from Guyana who was working illegally, but also that he fled arrest in a school district-owned car and was in illegal possession of a loaded gun and hunting knife when agents finally nabbed him. The school board voted in secret to select Roberts as the “first person of color” to assume the Des Moines superintendency in 2023. The noncitizen also holds a Maryland Democrat voting registration.

NASA alert! Giant house-sized asteroid 2025 SA3 set to zoom past Earth at 18,000 mph; here’s what you need to know |– timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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NASA alert! Giant house-sized asteroid 2025 SA3 set to zoom past Earth at 18,000 mph; here’s what you need to know |– timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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The night sky has long fascinated humanity, offering both beauty and mystery. Occasionally, it delivers something far more extraordinary—like an asteroid making its way toward Earth. On September 30, 2025, NASA confirmed that asteroid 2025 SA3, a space rock measuring about 54 feet (16.5 meters) in diameter, is traveling on a trajectory that will bring it relatively close to our planet. Moving at 18,073 miles per hour (29,080 km/h), this asteroid has captured the attention of scientists, astronomers, and the public alike.While 2025 SA3 is not large enough to threaten Earth, its approach serves as a reminder of the dynamic nature of our solar system and the importance of monitoring near-Earth objects (NEOs). Observing such asteroids allows scientists to refine orbital predictions, study their composition, and prepare for potential future encounters.

Leftist media claims anti-trans ‘hate’ is the real issue after Charlie Kirk assassination– www.lifesitenews.com

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Leftist media claims anti-trans ‘hate’ is the real issue after Charlie Kirk assassination– www.lifesitenews.com
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(LifeSiteNews) — As details about Charlie Kirk’s assassination emerge, several facts are becoming clear.

Kirk was allegedly murdered by a sexually confused young man with a trans-identifying partner; he had also submerged himself in the vile underworld of twisted digital porn, developing a taste for “furry porn” and other perversions. Tyler Robinson, according to published text messages, allegedly chose to kill Kirk because of Kirk’s opposition to LGBT ideology, which he referred to as “hate” that could not be “negotiated with.”

Indeed, Kirk’s assassination was gleefully praised by many on the progressive Left who appeared to agree wholeheartedly with Robinson’s motivations. In the wake of mass shootings by trans-identifying killers at a Minneapolis Catholic school in August, at Covenant Christian school in Tennessee, and the recent revelation that the attempted assassin of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh identifies as transgender, a pattern is becoming clear: there are LGBT extremists who believe their own rhetoric and are willing to kill.

It was only a matter of time before we were told in a mainstream publication that the real tragedy of Charlie Kirk’s death is that people might start to notice this pattern and recognize transgender ideology and rhetoric as a destabilizing and dangerous one.

CUNY’s ‘Global Antifa’ Course Encourages Students To Aid Antifa– thefederalist.com

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CUNY’s ‘Global Antifa’ Course Encourages Students To Aid Antifa– thefederalist.com
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The City University of New York’s (CUNY) Graduate Center has an English course called “Global Antifa” that is “oriented towards militant co-research” developing “research projects that contribute to the work of global movements fighting fascism.”

Militant research, according to a paper from Newcastle University, “prioritises political struggle over the academic pursuit of knowledge” where the “researcher must become an active participant in a political movement, while still doing research – it essentially means devoting lots of time to working as an activist or as an organiser.”

In other words, that method would have students be active members of Antifa, not just embedding with them, but potentially participating in violence and destruction with them. It “seeks different ways to generate knowledge, with a particular focus on processes and methods, and it offers a blurring of the boundaries between activism/organising and research, between researcher and researched, and between theory and practice.”

According to the course syllabus, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request submitted by Defending Education, the class “surveys and draws on these antifascist traditions, linking them to a deep engagement with racial justice, anti-imperialist movements, intersectional feminism, and an analysis of the changing character and contradictions of capitalism” and “begins from the premise that racialized and colonized peoples have been at the forefront of theorizing, challenging, and dismantling fascism, white supremacy, and other modes of authoritarian rule over the last century.”

Trump says Hamas has ‘three or four days’ to respond to Gaza peace plan: Live updates– www.independent.co.uk

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Trump says Hamas has ‘three or four days’ to respond to Gaza peace plan: Live updates– www.independent.co.uk
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Hamas is inclined to accept a Gaza peace plan laid out by Donald Trump but only under certain conditions, officials close to Israel-Hamas negotiations in Qatar told Haaretz.

The group is currently consulting with other Palestinian factions to come to a unified position on the plan.

Hamas is expected to clarify that it is willing to accept the outline in the form that was presented to Arab leaders last week, before prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu made changes to it, the outlet added.

Speaker Johnson Pushes Back Against Media Narrative on Government Shutdown › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

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Speaker Johnson Pushes Back Against Media Narrative on Government Shutdown › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is pushing back against the legacy media narrative blaming the Trump administration for the current government shutdown, putting the responsibility on Democratic leaders in Congress.

Johnson told CNN’s Kaitlin Collins that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) decision to refuse to pass a short-term stopgap measure to fund the U.S. government for the next 7 weeks is a “very reckless decision.”

The Speaker emphasized that the House had done its job by send a clean continuing resolution (CR) to the Senate so that appropriators in Congress from both parties could continue to do their work on reconciling 12 separate appropriations bills.

Genocide Against Christians? That’s Not News– www.newsbusters.org

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Genocide Against Christians? That’s Not News– www.newsbusters.org
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As we approach the second anniversary of Hamas mercilessly slaughtering 1,200 human beings on October 7, 2023, our media remind us daily of the death toll of Palestinians, according to the “Gaza Health Ministry,” which is run by Hamas.

It’s outrageous that these media outlets are such receptive publicists for mass-murdering terrorists. But they have effectively reversed the polarity, and the people of Israel are painted as the most horrible ghouls on Earth.

On the latest Real Life with Bill Maher, the stridently atheist host said something surprising. “I’m not a Christian, but they are systematically killing the Christians in Nigeria. They’ve killed over 100,000 since 2009. They’ve burned 18,000 churches,” Maher said, referring to violent Islamists in Nigeria, such as Boko Haram.

“This is so much more of a genocide attempt than what is going on in Gaza,” he added.“ They are literally attempting to wipe out the Christian population of an entire country. Where are the kids protesting this?”

That is wokeness at work. The Palestinians are the “marginalized” brown people that need to be “centered” in the media. We know how overwhelmingly anti-Israel our most prestigious campuses are. Meanwhile, African Christians who are black aren’t newsworthy.

Russia on the brink as insider fears ‘economic collapse’ | World | News– www.express.co.uk

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Russia on the brink as insider fears ‘economic collapse’ | World | News– www.express.co.uk
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Russia is teetering on the edge of economic collapse as a result of systematic Ukrainian strikes on oil refineries, a Russian propagandist has warned. Meanwhile, the leader of the puppet regime installed by Vladimir Putin in Crimea has said fuel can no longer be sold in quantities of more than 30 litres per person as ordinary people feel the pinch.

In a video clip posted on X, Maksim Kalashnikov, a propagandist, admitted the attacks are no longer sporadic but a systematic campaign aimed at shattering Russia‘s economy. He said: “The war is now waged not for the complete destruction of the Russian Federation, of course, but its collapse,” highlighting a 17% disruption in refining capacity. The fuel crisis was deepening, with the voices of those advocating rationed consumption growing louder, Kalashnikov explained.

He added: “I can state that the situation is deteriorating,” underscoring the severity.

Kalashnikov added: “Ukraine‘s strategy, targeting critical infrastructure like the Druzhba pipeline and Blue Stream, exploits Russia‘s vulnerability, pushing the nation towards an unprecedented economic crisis.

After Dallas ICE Shooting, Trump Slams the Left: ‘Stop Demonizing Law Enforcement’– townhall.com

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After Dallas ICE Shooting, Trump Slams the Left: ‘Stop Demonizing Law Enforcement’– townhall.com
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President Donald Trump has reacted to a shooting in Texas this morning at an U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement facility. A shooter killed two detainees and injured a third before he apparently killed himself.

Trump said that the shooter wrote “anti-ICE” on shell casings.

“I have been briefed on the deadly shooting at the ICE Field Office in Dallas, Texas.

“It has now been revealed the deranged shooter wrote “Anti-ICE” on his shell casings. This is despicable! The Brave Men and Women of ICE are just trying to do their jobs, and remove the “WORST of the WORST” Criminals out of our Country, but they are facing an unprecedented increase in threats, violence, and attacks by Deranged Radical Leftists. This violence is the result of the Radical Left Democrats constantly demonizing Law Enforcement, calling for ICE to be demolished, and comparing ICE Officers to “Nazis.”

“The continuing violence from Radical Left Terrorists, in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, must be stopped. ICE Officers, and other Brave Members of Law Enforcement, are under grave threat. We have already declared ANTIFA a Terrorist Organization, and I will be signing an Executive Order this week to dismantle these Domestic Terrorism Networks. I AM CALLING ON ALL DEMOCRATS TO STOP THIS RHETORIC AGAINST ICE AND AMERICA’S LAW ENFORCEMENT, RIGHT NOW! The Trump Administration is fully committed to backing Law Enforcement, Strong Borders, securing our Homeland, deporting Violent Illegal Criminals, and fully rooting out the Left Wing Domestic Terrorism that is terrorizing our Country. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

 

The White House confirmed the details.

“I have been briefed on the deadly shooting at the ICE Field Office in Dallas, Texas. It has now been revealed the deranged shooter wrote “Anti-ICE” on his shell casings… I AM CALLING ON ALL DEMOCRATS TO STOP THIS RHETORIC AGAINST ICE & AMERICA’S LAW ENFORCEMENT.” – @POTUS

Trump’s dizzying corkscrews on Ukraine may wind up back where he began– www.thesun.co.uk

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Trump’s dizzying corkscrews on Ukraine may wind up back where he began– www.thesun.co.uk
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DONALD Trump doesn’t do U-Turns. He does rollercoaster loop-the-loops.

So with all his dizzying corkscrew turns and sudden policy swerves there is every risk he ends up back where he began – sucking up to tyrant Vladimir Putin and scorning President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Before Ukraine shows any relief at Trump’s sudden, full-throated support they will want to see concrete action.

That means weapons without restrictions for Kyiv and penalties for Moscow. Sanctions must hurt the Kremlin and threaten Putin’s rule.

Otherwise it’s just hot air.

It wasn’t so long ago Trump hailed Putin a “genius”. He rolled out the red carpet in Alaska last month.

He said Zelensky had “no cards”.