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Australia’s Albanese downplays Netanyahu’s criticism as ties sour– japantoday.com

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday that he treats leaders of other countries with respect after his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu attacked him over his decision to recognize a Palestinian state.

“I don’t take these things personally, I engage with people diplomatically. He has had similar things to say about other leaders,” Albanese said during a media briefing.

Netanyahu’s personal attack on Albanese has further strained relations between the two countries. Ties soured after Australia decided last week to conditionally recogniz a Palestinian state at the U.N. General Assembly in September.

Microsoft boss troubled by rise in reports of ‘AI psychosis’– www.bbc.com

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There are increasing reports of people suffering “AI psychosis”, Microsoft’s head of artificial intelligence (AI), Mustafa Suleyman, has warned.

In a series of posts on X, he wrote that “seemingly conscious AI” – AI tools which give the appearance of being sentient – are keeping him “awake at night” and said they have societal impact even though the technology is not conscious in any human definition of the term.

“There’s zero evidence of AI consciousness today. But if people just perceive it as conscious, they will believe that perception as reality,” he wrote.

Related to this is the rise of a new condition called “AI psychosis”: a non-clinical term describing incidents where people increasingly rely on AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Grok and then become convinced that something imaginary has become real.

Mosquitos Carrying West Nile Virus Detected in Massachusetts, Putting Communities at Risk– www.discovermagazine.com

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Mosquitos Carrying West Nile Virus Detected in Massachusetts, Putting Communities at Risk – discovermagazine.com

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Public health officials have upgraded 10 communities across Massachusetts to a “high-risk” status for West Nile virus. The report also identified a dozen towns as being at moderate risk of the rarer eastern equine encephalitis — also known as EEE — this year.

The areas flagged for risk of the mosquito-borne viruses include Boston. There are no vaccines for either infection.

The upgraded risk comes after a summer where over 150 mosquito samples positive for West Nile virus have been recorded across the state. To date, there have been no human cases reported in 2025.

NATO defence chiefs hold ‘candid discussion’ on Ukraine security guarantees – National– globalnews.ca

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NATO defense chiefs held a “candid discussion” Wednesday about what security guarantees they could offer Kyiv to help forge a peace agreement that ends Russia’s three-year war on Ukraine, a senior alliance official said.

Italian Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, the chair of NATO’s Military Committee, said that 32 defense chiefs from across the alliance held a video conference amid a U.S.-led diplomatic push to end the fighting.

He said there was a “great, candid discussion” in the call. “I thanked everyone for their always proactive participation in these meetings: we are united, and that unity was truly tangible today, as always,” he wrote on social platform X without providing further details.

Trump administration vying to own big stake in Intel after SoftBank’s $2 billion bet on company– japantoday.com

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U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Tuesday confirmed the U.S. government is vying for a 10% stake in Silicon Valley pioneer Intel in an unusual deal that would deepen the Trump administration’s financial ties with major computer chip manufacturers and punctuate a dramatic about-face from the president’s recent push to oust the company’s CEO.

The ambitions that Lutnick confirmed in a televised interview with CNBC came the day after various news outlets reported on the negotiations between the Trump administration and Intel. The investment would be made by converting federal government grants previously pledged under President Joe Biden’s administration into a bushel of Intel stock that would turn the U.S. government into one of the company’s largest shareholders.

Obama backs California effort to redraw districts in response to Texas– www.politico.com

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Former President Barack Obama is supporting California’s mid-cycle redistricting effort as a “responsible approach” to Republicans drawing new maps in Texas.

Obama praised California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ballot measure proposal to redraw congressional districts and tilt at least five congressional districts in the state towards Democrats at a fundraiser on Tuesday for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.

“I believe that Governor Newsom’s approach is a responsible approach,” he said, according to excerpts obtained by POLITICO. “I think that approach is a smart, measured approach, designed to address a very particular problem in a very particular moment in time.”

Gov. Josh Shapiro Destroys Trump For Attacking Voting– www.politicususa.com

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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has been at odds with Donald Trump for years over issues related to elections and voting. Shapiro was one of the swing state AGs who fought to protect the integrity of elections after Trump launched his baseless attacks and conspiracies about the 2020 election.

Do voting machines delay election results? No, Trump’s wrong about paper ballot counting– www.politifact.com

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Resurrecting longstanding complaints about how U.S. elections are run, President Donald Trump this week reiterated that he wants faster election results, but doesn’t want voting machines.

In Aug. 18 remarks at the White House, Trump said that a forthcoming executive order will “end mail-in ballots” and change voting machines.

Trump continued, “The machines, I mean, they say we’re going to have the results in two weeks. With paper ballots, you have the results that night.”

How does US plan to take on China? By building a drone fleet inspired by Ukraine – but how well is it going?– timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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The Pentagon is betting heavily on autonomous maritime drones to counter China’s growing naval power in the Pacific. Inspired by Ukraine’s successful use of cheap, kamikaze-style sea drones against Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, US defense planners envision swarms of high-tech, AI-driven vessels patrolling the Taiwan Strait and deterring a Chinese advance. But a string of recent mishaps shows just how steep the learning curve may be.

Setbacks at sea

Six severed heads found on busy city street alongside ominous message– www.mirror.co.uk

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Shock killings in Mexico as six severed heads found on the road(Image: Anadolu via Getty Images)

Six severed heads have been found on a road in central Mexico, sparking a major investigation.

The discovery was made by local authorities early on Tuesday morning in an area that is usually peaceful and not associated with cartel violence.

The route where the severed heads were found links the central states of Puebla and Tlaxcala. Police have not yet provided a motive behind the killings, nor have they revealed any information regarding which criminal groups operating in Mexico could have been behind the horrific act.

Afghanistan bus crash kills more than 70 Afghans returning from Iran – National– globalnews.ca

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A bus crash in northwestern Afghanistan killed at least 79 people returning from Iran, including 19 children, an official said.

Two people were also injured in the crash, Ministry of Interior spokesperson Abdul Mateen Qani told The Associated Press.

Tolo News, citing the official, said the accident happened Tuesday around 8:30 p.m. local time in Herat province. The bus collided with a truck and a motorbike, causing a massive fire that killed many on the spot, the outlet reported.

<b>Israel begins invasion of Gaza City after calling up 60,000 troops to finally wipe out terror group Hamas</b>- <i> www.thesun.co.uk</i>

Israel begins invasion of Gaza City after calling up 60,000 troops to finally wipe out terror group Hamas– www.thesun.co.uk

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Israel begins invasion of Gaza City after calling up 60,000 troops to finally wipe out terror group Hamas – thesun.co.uk

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ISRAEL has begun its full invasion of Gaza City as it aims to completely wipe out Hamas, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Wednesday.

IDF troops now control the outskirts of the besieged city, one of the terror group’s last strongholds, Israeli military spokesperson Brig Gen Effie Defrin said.

Georgetown U. Democrats, student gov. upset about feds in DC: ‘concerning,’ ‘dangerous’– www.thecollegefix.com

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‘Nothing more than a fear tactic’ by Trump

The Georgetown University Student Association and College Democrats aren’t happy that federal agents “appeared to be present” on campus last week.

According to the student paper The Hoya, the presence of the feds appeared confirmed by photos “obtained and reviewed” by the paper, as well as a statement by the student government.

Trump’s “police federalization” and deployment of the National Guard in the nation’s capital began August 11. It includes roughly 850 federal officials to work with local law enforcement.

ICE Saves 27, Including 10 Children, From Human Trafficking– www.dailysignal.com

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Immigration enforcement authorities rescued 27 human-trafficking victims in Nebraska last week. Among the victims Immigration and Customs Enforcement rescued were 10 children under the age of 12, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

“Our brave ICE law enforcement rescued these children and women, who were being sexually exploited and trafficked,” said Tricia McLaughlin, assistant DHS secretary.

The human-trafficking ring was being run by illegal aliens, according to the DHS.

The Spectacular Narcissism of Trump’s Unsuccessful Peace Negotiations – Mother Jones– www.motherjones.com

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Amid starvation imposed by Israel on Gaza and deadly bombings in Ukraine, President Donald Trump’s narcissism is reaching new heights.

“I’ve done six wars, I’ve ended six wars,” he claimed on Monday in a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders, taking credit for settling conflicts that the US began or saw little to no American involvement in their resolutions. Elsewhere in the Oval Office meeting, Trump forced guests to a viewing of hats emblazoned with “4 more years.”

Such stunning self-regard was once again on display Tuesday as Trump praised accused war criminal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as a “war hero” over his approval of Israel’s June airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites, and then gave some love to himself. “I guess I am, too,” Trump told the conservative radio host Mark Levin despite having never fought in combat. “Nobody cares. But I am [a war hero] too. I mean, I sent those planes.” Similar omissions abounded throughout the conversation, with no mention of bone spurs or Trump’s public denigration of the late Sen. John McCain and Gold Star families.

Fascist tactic: Stephen Miller stands with National Guard as he calls D.C. protestors "crazy communists" (video)– boingboing.net

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Straight from the fascist playbook, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller stood with National Guard troops — along with JD Vance and Pete Hegseth — at Washington D.C.’s Union Station this morning, bashing the nearby folks protesting Trump’s police takeover as “crazy communists.” — Read the rest

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Grandma Saves Her 7-Month-Old Grandchild From a Late-Term Abortion– www.lifenews.com

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“We can still take care of this for you.”

These were the words a young woman heard from her obstetrician as they looked at an ultrasound image of her baby at about seven months’ gestation. The baby already weighed more than five pounds.

The conversation took place in Maryland, where there are no limits on abortion and where Medicaid foots the bill. It’s not possible to know why a doctor would make such a suggestion to a woman so far along in her pregnancy, but the price tag for a third-trimester abortion can be $10,000 or more.

Raddatz Roots Against Trump Efforts To Achieve Peace In Ukraine– thefederalist.com

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President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in Alaska in a historic attempt to end the more than two-year war between Ukraine and Russia. Since Russia’s 2022 invasion, tens of thousands have died, while millions have been displaced. The Alaska summit marked the first serious step toward direct negotiations between Moscow and Kiev.

But for ABC News’ Martha Raddatz and the rest of the propaganda press, a Trump-negotiated peace itself was a problem. Instead of acknowledging the significance of Trump’s diplomacy, Raddatz spent her Sunday segment disparaging the president for daring to treat Putin like a foreign leader who can choose to keep the war going rather than a pariah.

Bill Barr claims he never saw ‘anything that would implicate’ Trump in Epstein case– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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“What Attorney General Barr testified in there was that he never had conversations with President Trump pertaining to a client list,” said Comer. “He didn’t know anything about a client list.”

Moreover, according to Comer, Barr testified that he never had conversations with the president about an Epstein list and was never aware of such a list’s existence. Barr admitted that he “didn’t know anything about a client list.” He also emphasized that if there had been anything alarming about Trump in such files, it would most likely have been leaked by the Biden administration.

75% of Biden’s DOJ Civil Rights Division Left; Now Hiring for Real Enforcement– www.breitbart.com

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Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said that roughly three-quarters of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division staff have departed since she took office, citing a shift in enforcement priorities and a federal retirement package during a segment for Breitbart News Sunday.

Dhillon, who was sworn in earlier this year, noted that about 200 of the division’s 400-plus attorneys accepted a government-wide retirement package in her second week in office. She added that another 100 lawyers resigned in the following months, leaving the division down “75 percent” of its prior workforce. Dhillon explained the department is now working to rehire attorneys “who want to do the work as Congress wrote the laws and the courts interpreted the laws.”

Meta joins forces with conservative activist to keep woke bias out of AI– www.lifesitenews.com

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Facebook parent company Meta will be working with conservative activist Robby Starbuck to keep political bias out of its artificial intelligence (AI) project in perhaps the most significant sign yet that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg really does want to change the tech giant’s left-wing ways for good.

The Hill reported that Starbuck, best known for his work bringing public attention to corporations’ “woke” practices and marshalling public pressure on them to change, and Meta have reached a settlement in the former’s defamation suit against the latter over Meta AI falsely identifying Starbuck as a participant in the January 6, 2021 riots at the U.S. Capitol.

Scotland Drops Case Against Pro‑Life ‘Silent Vigil’ Grandmother– www.standingforfreedom.com

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In a win for free speech and the pro-life movement, the criminal case against a 75-year-old Scottish grandmother for holding a sign in a censored area has been dropped.

Rose Docherty, a native of Glasgow and a pro-lifer, was the first person arrested under Scotland’s newly enacted buffer zone law. She was detained on February 19, 2025, outside Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital for standing quietly with a sign that read: “Coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want.” The government characterized her actions as a “silent vigil” and an “anti-abortion protest,” though her sign said nothing about the topic.

Drop Box Camera Catches Ballot Stuffing In Michigan Town– thefederalist.com

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In the days before the August 5 primary election in the troubled city of Hamtramck, Michigan, surveillance videos caught several people allegedly stuffing the municipal ballot drop box with suspicious ballots.

An August 1 video shows two men in a car handling stacks of ballots and placing them into Hamtramck’s drop box during the day. In another video, a pickup truck arrives at the drop box after dark with three people inside. The driver gets out of the truck and crams stacks of ballots into the box but has trouble because the box is so full.

Stuffing drop boxes while no one watching for cheaters is a recipe for election corruption. That is why President Donald Trump announced this week he will lead a movement to get rid of mail-in ballots, which can be cast by using a drop box. Trump also wants to stop using voting machines and return to voting with paper ballots.

President Trump Promises No U.S. Boots Will Be On The Ground In Ukraine, Reveals Which European Nations Want To Send Troops– wltreport.com

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President Trump has set the record straight when it comes to possibly military intervention in Ukraine.

While being interviewed on Fox & Friends, Trump reassured Americans that he will not send U.S. troops to fight in the Ukraine-Russia war.

Trump did, however, note that two European nations are weighing in on the idea of sending soldiers to Ukraine for security assurances.

DeSantis Blames California’s Sanctuary City Policies For Deadly Crash in Florida Caused By Illegal Alien Truck Driver › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said Tuesday that California’s sanctuary state policies are to blame for a deadly collision that involved a semi-truck and a minivan on the Florida Turnpike in Fort Pierce, last week.

A commercial tractor-trailer driven by an illegal alien was heading northbound in the right lane of the turnpike as a Chrysler Town & Country minivan was traveling north in the Turnpike’s left lane, Fox-13 reported.

From the right lane, the semi-truck attempted to make a U-turn at an “official use only” turn-around area, crossing directly in front of vehicles in the left lane.

‘Big Beautiful Bill’ May Cause 50% Of Law Schools to Close– legalinsurrection.com

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There are some people who would argue that this is a good thing.

University Of Washington Dean: Student Loan Changes In Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill May Cause 50% Of Law Schools To Close

The One Big Beautiful Bill’s mandate to kill Grad PLUS Loans and impose strict limits on student borrowing has law school administrators scrambling to sort through the law’s restrictions as they dig into data, shift messaging, reconsider scholarship funding and determine how new outcome rules will impact their schools.

“The message that we’re trying to get out to schools is ‘Don’t panic,’” says Gisele Joach

U. Wisconsin med school admits black students at 6 times rate of Asians– www.thecollegefix.com

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The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health accepts black applicants at a rate six times higher than it does Asian applicants, despite lower average Medical College Admissions Test scores, a medical advocacy group recently reported.

However, the public university denied that it accepts applicants based on their race when contacted by The College Fix.

The report “Skirting SCOTUS Part III: How Medical Schools Continue to Practice Racially Conscious Admissions” by Do No Harm analyzed 2024 admissions data from 23 medical schools, including the University of Wisconsin’s.

At the Wisconsin medical school, it found that “a black applicant has nearly 10 times the odds of admission compared to an Asian or white applicant with the same MCAT score and GPA.”

Muslim Migrant Mohamed Mohamed Rapes Woman To Death on Steps of Nashville Church– gellerreport.com

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The victim repeatedly trying to push the jihadi away during the sexual assault.

The media is referring to the rapist as “Tennessee man.” I can assure you, Tennessee has nothing to do with this savage. He is from Somalia.

The Tennessee Star on Monday learned from Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) that its records indicate Mohamed Mohamed, the alleged rapist arrested last week, was born in Somalia. (Lara Logan)

Poll: President Trump Approval Surges Past 54 Percent After Meeting with Putin– gellerreport.com

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The most shocking data point in this poll is that over 15% of Democrats aren’t insane.

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Poll: Trump Approval Surges to 54 Percent After Meeting with Putin

By: Olivia Rondeau, Breitbart, 18 Aug 2025:

President Donald Trump’s voter approval rating surged to 54 percent following his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.

An InsiderAdvantage survey conducted over the weekend found that Trump “now has an advantage among every age group other than the most senior of voters,” and improved his numbers among black (23.7) and Hispanic voters (47.2). White voters are at a near-record high approval with 64 percent.

Over half of independents (50.4) are approving of Trump, while the vast majority of Republicans (92) and 17.9 percent of Democrats said the same