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Turkey school ‘shooting’: At least six injured ‘and one dead’ after ‘gunshots heard’ | World | News– www.express.co.uk

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At least six people were injured following a suspected shooting at a middle school in Turkey. The horror unfolded at Ayser Çelik Middle School in Kahramanmaraş in the south on Wednesday, in what is the second shocking school shooting in just two days.

It has been claimed that a lone attacker came to the school with five guns and seven magazines. Journalist Lokman Başçı has said the unidentified attacker entered a classroom at the school and opened fire, According to multiple publications in Turkey, two classrooms were actually targeted by the suspect, who is now reported to have been killed.

After the first reports emerged, emergency crews and ambulances rushed to the scene as chaos gripped the area. Independent Turkish news website T24 reports that upon arriving on scene, Kahramanmaraş Governor Mükerrem Ünlüer said there had been four fatalities and 20 people injured.

According to local news outlet Haber, one of the deceased was a teacher. An attacker is reoprted to have been apprehended, however their identity has not yet been released.

The markets are obsessed with the Strait of Hormuz. Why it matters less than you think– www.cnbc.com

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… The U.S. ‘blockade’ of Iranian ports around the Strait of Hormuz (SOH) is under a week old.  When the U.S. naval blockade was announced, some worried it would make things worse by further enraging Iran or the rogue Iranian military, who may then attack ship traffic, ports, or people.  Thankfully, it’s been relatively calm. However we may be just one drone strike, one stray Iranian missile, or one nasty Hormuz mine blast from an escalation.  An assault directly on an American warship would send oil prices soaring.  It’s a scary and tentative time.

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MY TAKE → The Strait of Hormuz is not as important to global energy as it was just a few weeks ago.  Here’s why.  Over the past few years, both Saudi Arabia and the UAE have very smartly built back-up pipelines. Those pipelines – a whopping 7 million barrels per day capacity in Saudi and about 1.5 million per day flowing across the UAE have – have cut the flow of shipborne oil out of the Hormuz by half.

We know the Strait matters massively to more than just oil.  I’ve been very clear on concerns about shortages of fertilizer, jet fuel, other refined products and even helium for semiconductor manufacturing.  Even if the Strait returns to pre-war shipping levels soon – by the way, something absolutely no one is counting on – it could take months to get back to any state of normal for energy and related supply chains.

Sexual abuse allegations are spurring calls for a broader reckoning in Congress– abcnews.com

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Resignations came quickly this week from two congressmen accused of sexual misconduct toward staff members. Yet for many of the women of Capitol Hill, the moment of accountability was years in the making — and far from enough.

Reps. Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat, and Tony Gonzales, a Texas Republican, both announced within hours of each other Monday that they were leaving Congress. Their decisions came the day before the House returned to Washington and as both faced the prospect of being expelled from the chamber by their colleagues.

It was a reckoning of sorts for Capitol Hill, the most striking since the careers of roughly a dozen male politicians were toppled during the heights of the #MeToo movement. Yet some congresswomen said that the pair of resignations took too long and proved what they’ve long been saying: that more must be done to rid Capitol Hill of sexual predation.

Trump calls Giorgia Meloni ‘unacceptable’ after she rebukes his Pope Leo XIV remarks– www.foxnews.com

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Tensions between Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni escalated Tuesday after the U.S. president publicly rebuked one of his closest European allies, accusing her of lacking “courage” and failing to support Washington’s efforts against Iran.

In a phone interview with Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera, Trump called Meloni “unacceptable” and said he was “shocked” by her stance, according to the outlet’s English-language version.

The dispute with Trump was further fueled by Meloni’s criticism of his recent remarks targeting Pope Leo XIV, which she called “unacceptable,” prompting Trump to respond that “she is the one who is unacceptable.”

In a scathing rebuke of the Vatican’s call for Middle Eastern de-escalation, President Trump took to Truth Social to blast Pope Leo XIV. Labeling the pontiff “WEAK on Crime” and “terrible for Foreign Policy,” Trump warned him to “focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician.” The post, which quickly went viral, accused the first American pope of “catering to the Radical Left” at the expense of global security.

Amazon workers told ‘back to work’ as ‘colleague lies dead on warehouse floor’ | US | News– www.express.co.uk

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An Amazon worker allegedly lay dead in a warehouse for more than an hour as his colleagues were told to carry on with their work, according to a new report. Workers in Amazon’s distribution centre in Troutdale, Oregon, were reportedly discouraged from helping a man dead on the floor in the warehouse, with one employee claiming a manager told them “just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work”.

An employee, identified under the pseudonym Sam, said he saw a body lying “lifeless” at his workplace but was told by a supervisor to “please get back to work”.

Sam, who is trained in CPR, added that multiple workers wanted to help a woman who ran to the person to perform chest compressions, according to The Western Edge.

An investigation by the outlet alleged Amazon attempted to prevent news of the worker’s death on April 6 from becoming public.

Sam said: “I started sobbing and said, ‘I want to help, please.I know she’s going to get tired and need to be subbed out.”

Swalwell scandal sparks fears of deeper rot on Capitol Hill– www.latimes.com

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WASHINGTON — Eric Swalwell’s downfall has raised the possibility of a broader reckoning on Capitol Hill as congressional staffers, reporters and opposition researchers race to verify long-standing rumors of a sordid underground culture among the city’s most powerful.

Former lawmakers across the political spectrum have warned for years of a hushed congressional bacchanal marked by inappropriate revelry and sexual misconduct. But a sense of growing momentum gripped Congress on Tuesday, as Democrats grappled with Swalwell’s resignation and Republicans called for other lawmakers to face scrutiny.

The 72-hour collapse of Swalwell’s political career has shifted attention not only to his closest associates in Congress, but also to a larger set of sitting lawmakers from both parties suspected of lurid sexual activity. Several members have claimed that Swalwell’s alleged behavior was an open secret amid a cacophony of rumors on social media of other potential offenders.

“I think that many people knew about this for a while,” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Republican, said in an interview with The Times.

New accuser says Eric Swalwell sexually assaulted her in 2018 – The Guardian– news.google.com

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  1. New accuser says Eric Swalwell sexually assaulted her in 2018  The Guardian
  2. New Eric Swalwell accuser Lonna Drewes says ‘he raped me,’ plans to file police report  CNBC
  3. Woman says Swalwell drugged and raped her; plans to file police report  MS NOW
  4. Accusers seek justice after unwanted explicit messages from Congressman Eric Swalwell  BBC
  5. Accuser speaks as Swalwell resigns from Congress, exits governor race  USA Today

AI Slop Is Making the Internet Fake-Happy– www.wired.com

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To anyone with a pulse and a smartphone, it’s obvious that the internet has an AI slop problem. The issue has grown more severe since ChatGPT launched in 2022, with some social platforms flooded with AI-generated writing. Now, there’s data to back up the anecdotal evidence.

A new preprint study published today from researchers at the Imperial College of London, Stanford University, and the Internet Archive found that approximately 35 percent of all new websites are either AI-generated or AI-assisted. The same study also found that online writing is “increasingly sanitized and artificially cheerful.” In other words, AI is making the internet fake-happy.

The research team tried four different approaches to AI detection before settling on tools from Pangram Labs after it delivered the most consistent results. (Though the team found it performed well on its tests, it is worth noting that all artificial intelligence detection tools are imperfect.) To compile a representative sample of websites, it tapped the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, which collects snapshots of webpages. In addition to quantifying how many sites created between 2022 and 2025 lean on AI-generated writing, the study also tested six different theories about the characteristics of slop.

Iran war already taking a toll on the global economy, IMF says in new forecast – The Washington Post– news.google.com

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  1. Iran war already taking a toll on the global economy, IMF says in new forecast  The Washington Post
  2. Middle East War Will Slow Global Economic Growth, I.M.F. Warns  The New York Times
  3. Citing fallout from the Iran war, IMF cuts the outlook for global growth, expects higher inflation  San Francisco Chronicle
  4. Joint Statement on 13 April by the Heads of the International Energy Agency, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank Group  IEA – International Energy Agency
  5. IMF warns global economy at risk of recession if Iran war persists  BBC

Pope Leo addresses ‘the arrogant’ in new message after Donald Trump’s tirade– www.mirror.co.uk

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Pope Leo has addressed “the arrogant” in another message about war after Donald Trump called him “weak” and refused to apologise.

The message comes amid a growing back and forth between the Pope and Trump, with the US president attacking the pontiff over his criticism of the Iran war, and the Pope responding that he has “no fear” of the Trump administration.

“God’s heart is torn apart by wars, violence, injustice and lies,” the Pope wrote on X today while on his first papal visit to Algeria. “But our Father’s heart is not with the wicked, the arrogant, or the proud. God’s heart is with the little ones and the humble, and with them He builds up His Kingdom of love and peace day by day. Wherever there is love and service, God is there.”

Scientists discover why bread can cause weight gain without extra calories– www.sciencedaily.com

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Bread has long been a dietary cornerstone, sustaining societies for generations. It is deeply woven into everyday life. But with obesity rates continuing to climb, researchers are beginning to question whether this reliance on staple carbohydrates still makes sense in modern diets.

Obesity increases the risk of many lifestyle-related diseases, making prevention a major public health priority. Traditionally, research has focused on high fat consumption as the main driver of weight gain. This is why many animal studies rely on high fat diets.

However, carbohydrates such as bread, rice, and noodles are consumed daily around the world, yet their role in obesity and metabolism has not been explored as thoroughly. While many people believe that “bread makes you gain weight” or that “carbohydrates should be limited,” it has been unclear whether the issue lies in the foods themselves or in how people choose and consume them.

Scientists just recreated a rare cosmic reaction never seen before– www.sciencedaily.com

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Scientists have reported a major experimental advance in understanding how some of the rarest elements in the universe are formed. These unusual atoms, known as p-nuclei, are proton-rich isotopes heavier than iron that have long puzzled researchers.

The new study, led by Artemis Tsantiri, who conducted the work as a graduate student at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Regina in Canada, achieved a milestone. For the first time, researchers directly measured how arsenic-73 captures a proton to form selenium-74 using a rare isotope beam. This result places new limits on how the lightest p-nucleus is created and destroyed in space.

The findings were published in Physical Review Letters (“Constraining the Synthesis of the Lightest Nucleus 74Se”) and involved more than 45 scientists from 20 institutions across the United States, Canada, and Europe.

China threatens Trump over Strait of Hormuz blockade: ‘Do not interfere’ | World | News– www.express.co.uk

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The strong warning reitrates that China has an energy agreement with Iran and therefore its ships will not be intercepted.

A spokesperson for the Chinese Defense Ministry said: “Chinese ships continue to move in and out of the waters of the Strait of Hormuz.

“We have trade and energy agreements with Iran, which we will respect and abide by.

“We expect others not to interfere in our affairs.

“Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, and has opened it to us.”

After the Attack on Sam Altman’s Home, Will AI CEOs Go On the Offensive? – Mother Jones– www.motherjones.com

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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, takes his seat before a meeting of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, in Washington.Alex Brandon/AP

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Sam Altman suggested that an investigative story describing him as someone “unconstrained by truth” with a “sociopathic lack of concern” for consequences caused an early Friday attack on his San Francisco home.

GOP lawmaker warns ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ will block independent journalists from uncovering fraud in CA | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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“California Democrats are trying to intimidate citizen watchdog journalists and protect waste and fraud happening in far-Left-wing NGOs.”

California Democrats have advanced a bill that aims to protect “designated immigration support services” from “threats or acts of violence.” Republican lawmakers have warned that the bill would silence citizen journalists such as Nick Shirley, who has recently released reports uncovering millions in fraud in the state.

California’s AB 2624 passed the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee in an 11-2 vote on April 7 and was referred to the Judiciary Committee. Republican Assemblymembers Alexandra Macedo and Carl DeMaio were the only ones to vote against it. The bill, which has been dubbed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” by DeMaio, was authored by Democrat Assemblymember Mia Bonta, the wife of California Attorney General Rob Bonta.

The bill would prohibit the posting of personal information or the image “of any designated immigration support services provider, employee, or volunteer, or other individuals residing at the same home address” online with the “intent” to “Incite a third person to cause imminent great bodily harm to the designated immigration support services provider,” or to “Threaten the designated immigration support services provider.”

Illegals Killed 13,000 Americans, That’s 64% of All Murder Cases – 660,000 Illegals with Criminal Records– gellerreport.com

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The Department of Homeland Security knows of at least 660,000 illegal immigrants in the U.S. with criminal records, including 13,000 convicted killers, nearly 16,000 sex assault convicts and 56,000 involved with dangerous drugs.

Illegal immigrants killed 13,000 Americans in 2024.

The total number of murder cases in the US in 2024 was 20,162.

That’s 64% of all murder cases.

And the Democrats want to abolish ICE.

And all in the name of the Democrats’ desire to win the election

15,000 killers, 20,000 sexual assault convicts, 60,000 robbers among illegal immigrants at large

Thousands of other migrants have been charged but not yet convicted of those and other crimes.

They are part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s “non-detained docket,” a list of more than 7 million illegal immigrants that ICE is supposed to be monitoring as they are awaiting final deportation decisions or, in some cases, are fugitives who are refusing to go. (Washington Times)

Eric Swalwell under investigation by Manhattan DA over alleged sex assault of staffer– nypost.com

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The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office confirmed on Saturday it is launching an investigation into Californian Rep. Eric Swalwell, over an alleged sexual assault involving a former staffer in 2024, according to a new report.

Swalwell’s former staffer — who has not been identified — told CNN that after a night of drinking with her former boss in April 2024, she was heavily intoxicated and woke up to him having sex with her in his hotel bed.