‘This right is fundamental’: Federal judges reject lawmakers’ bid to toss Utah’s new congressional maps The Salt Lake Tribune
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As agentic AI workflows multiply the cost and latency of long reasoning chains, a team from the University of Maryland, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Columbia University and TogetherAI has found a way to bake 3x throughput gains directly into a model’s weights.
Unlike speculative decoding, which requires a separate drafting model, this approach requires no additional infrastructure — just a single special token added to the model’s existing architecture.
JPMorgan admits closing Trump accounts after Jan 6 Capitol riot as $5B lawsuit alleges political ‘debanking’ Fox Business
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We’re not sure what the actual flex is for Courier Newsroom — a literal fake news organization heavily financed by the George Soros empire — to be co-hosting a supposed rebuttal to President Trump’s upcoming State of the Union address aimed at “bring[ing] together elected officials, cultural figures, journalists, veterans, and organizers for a live counter-address focused on defying Donald Trump’s abuses of power[.]”
Last week, the radical leftist anti-Trump group DEFIANCE.ORG put out a press release boasting of its supposedly star-studded speaker lineup for its boycott titled, “STATE OF THE SWAMP: The Rebuttal to the State of the Union.”
Mexico is awash in violence. And the country’s stringent gun control laws aren’t helping.
On Feb. 22, the Mexican military carried out an operation that killed Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, nicknamed “El Mencho,” the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). Mexican armed forces were reportedly trained by a small cadre of U.S. Navy SEALs who entered the country on a “training mission” approved by Mexico’s Senate.
CJNG responded to El Mencho’s death with wanton violence. The cartel murdered no fewer than 25 Mexican National Guard members and set up no fewer than 250 roadblocks. Schools were closed, and flights at airports were grounded. Dozens of buildings were burned. The savagery spanned multiple jurisdictions. By day’s end, at least 60 people had been slaughtered.
Last month, the Trump administration signed the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, which focused on replacing processed, low-fat substitutes with real food like whole milk. It was championed by dairy farmers and MAHA proponents alike as a much-needed change to American dietary guidelines.
But the Democrats, forever driven by their deep-seated Trump Derangement Syndrome, have decided whole milk is problematic. Why? Well according to Rep. Maxine Dexter of Oregon, the push to serve kids whole milk is “white supremacy dog whistling.”
Democrat Rep. Maxine Dexter calls the MAHA campaign to drink whole milk “white supremacy dog whistling.”
Democrats’ unhinged hatred for President Trump has broken their brains. pic.twitter.com/aYsVPafiI2
Occasional California Governor Gavin Newsom, who keeps turning up anywhere but California, has continued his highly calculated descent into vulgar and insulting behavior this week. The performance still has the awkwardness of the first week of acting school. It’s like watching a character play a character, many times removed from an identifiable real person. Whatever he’s doing, he’s definitely pretending.
If you’ve missed it, Newsom is back to doing subtext-heavy locker room kneepad jokes like the one he did in Davos, and he’s bragging to audiences that he’s stupid like them, “a 960 SAT guy.” He’s playing a towel-snapper, a mean jock, not above hard words or a fist fight. His relentlessly horrible director of communications got in on the act, responding to questions from a journalist like this:
🚨🚨EXCLUSIVE and BREAKING: What about that @GavinNewsom dyslexia disgnosis – can the gov. provide any paperwork related to his dyslexia diagnosis at any time of his life?
Newsom’s comms team just now tells me to “fuck off.”
Think @GavinNewsom’s comms team is losing it today? pic.twitter.com/oT3GoK5Cxi
— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) February 23, 2026
Sam Altman calls Elon Musk’s plan to run AI from space ‘ridiculous’ — says ‘we are not there yet’ Market Realist
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A day after the Mexican Army killed Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes in an operation in Jalisco, U.S. President Donald Trump called on Mexico to do even more to combat criminal organizations.
“Mexico must step up their effort on Cartels and Drugs!” Trump wrote on social media, reiterating a message he has conveyed on numerous previous occasions.
While the U.S. president didn’t explicitly refer to the operation that resulted in the death of Oseguera, other U.S. government officials did. Here is what they said.
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- Arcadia University has introduced a Racism and Antiracism Studies Minor aimed at training students in antiracist advocacy and action, reinforcing its commitment to diversity and inclusion.
- The minor requires students to complete 20 credits that explore various dimensions of race, racism, and advocacy strategies.
- Critics argue that DEI courses promote ideological conformity and reverse discrimination, suggesting that higher education should focus on critical thinking rather than prescriptive ideologies.
While congressional Democrats rail against a voter verification bill they claim is “voter suppression,” their rising socialist star is demanding multiple forms of identification to shovel snow.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani put a call out for help as a powerful snowstorm pummelled the Big Apple. His Sanitation Department is recruiting temporary workers to shovel out the city.
Applicants can earn up to $28.71 per hour, but to get the gig they have to show some ID, Fox News reported. That includes two photos, two original forms of identification and copies, and their Social Security card.
- Are you a Canadian in Puerto Vallarta right now? Reach out to us at shareyourstory@globalnews.ca with information on what you are experiencing and how we can get in touch with you.
There are currently more than 26,000 Canadians registered in Mexico as cartel violence hits the popular tourist area of Puerto Vallarta — and no plans for military or consular flights to assist Canadians getting out, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said.
Anand said the federal government is working on plans to “assist,” but did not share further details and said Mexican authorities have told her that they expect the situation to “normalize.”
Sometimes, fact really is stranger — and much more macabre — than fiction.
In a stunning development for a Utah mom and children’s book author, she’s now being accused of heinously murdering her own husband for profit.
According to the Associated Press, 35-year-old Kouri Richins had written a children’s book about grief following the death of her husband.
In May 2023, Richins had self-published the illustrated children’s book “Are You With Me?” which follows a father with angel wings looking after his young son after passing away.
Mali signals strategic shift with new Iranian and Chinese envoys APAnews – Agence de Presse Africaine
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President Donald Trump has declared that voter ID requirements will be in place for this year’s midterm elections, with or without congressional approval.
Posting on Truth Social, President Trump left little ambiguity about his intent:
“There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!”
In a separate post, the president said he had “searched the depths” of the legal arguments and would be “presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future” in the form of an executive order.
On May 6, 2023, the Leaders Academy in Philadelphia posted to its YouTube channel a video of a performance made by students of Palestinian heritage at the academy’s “One Ummah Day” event. In the video, schoolgirls are seen singing and acting out a song praising “brave” Palestinian girls who are the sisters and daughters of “real men.” In one part, the song describes a grandmother who arms her granddaughters with a stone and sells her jewelry in order to purchase firearms. Another part of the song describes a girl sending her brother off to battle and telling him: “I will saddle up your horse, and I will tie a dagger to your belt – enhance your resolve.” The video was also posted to the Facebook page of the Alhidaya Islamic Center in Philadelphia, with which Leaders Academy is affiliated.
It should be noted that the Philadelphia chapter of the Muslim American Society (MAS) has previously posted to its Facebook page videos from the Leaders Academy’s “One Ummah Day” events from 2017 and 2019, in which young students sang “Chop off their heads!” and expressed their will to become martyrs for the sake of Palestine and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. For more information, see MEMRI TV Clips Nos. 7201 and 7194. Following MEMRI’s exposure of these videos, the Facebook page of MAS Philadelphia was suspended, and the Philadelphia chapter no longer appears on the MAS website. See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 8054 for more information about the public response to these clips. Notably, on May 15, 2019, MAS Philadelphia and Leaders Academy issued a statement saying that a “process” has been put in place to prevent the repetition of such an “unintended mistake”.
Girls: “By Allah, I am a brave Palestinian, the sister and daughter of real men. I am Palestinian. My grandmother is a beautiful old woman, she armed us with a stone. She sold her Jewelry and bracelets, and bought guns from the money.
“By Allah, I am a brave Palestinian, the sister and daughter of real men. I am Palestinian.
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Amazon Web Services suffered a 13-hour outage in December after its internal AI coding agent determined that the optimal solution to a problem was to wipe and rebuild an environment in production. This was not a cyberattack. It was not foreign interference. It was an AI system operating with operator-level permissions inside one of the most economically critical cloud platforms in the world.
“The people said the agentic tool, which can take autonomous actions on behalf of users, determined that the best course of action was to ‘delete and recreate the environment’.”
Delete and recreate the environment.
That command halted a live cloud service for half a day. AWS accounts for roughly 60 percent of Amazon’s operating profits and supports payroll systems, logistics networks, enterprise back ends, and consumer-facing applications used by millions. Its reliability is not a bonus feature. It is the product.
Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown is suing the Trump administration over its plan to convert a vacant warehouse into an immigration detention facility.
The federal lawsuit, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, alleges the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to establish such a facility in Washington County is unlawful under the Administrative Procedure Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.
Brown argued the federal government needed to conduct an environmental review concerning the land on which the 825,000-square-foot warehouse lies.
Colorado’s Democrat state legislators want to force transgenderism on parents, requiring them to affirm their child’s “gender identity” or risk losing custody.
Radical lawmakers introduced “Concerning Legal Protections for The Dignity of a Minor” (SB 26-018) on Jan. 14, and the Senate Judiciary Committee passed the bill, referring it to the full Senate on Feb. 18.
In its intended form, the bill requires courts to consider whether parents embrace their child’s “gender identity” when determining custody. Courts must favor parents who support their child’s “preferred name and pronouns” and push their child to receive harmful and damaging “transgender” drugs, hormones, and surgeries.
A public high school teacher in upstate New York has been placed on paid administrative leave after agreeing to serve as faculty adviser for a student-led chapter affiliated with Turning Point USA.
Jennifer Fasulo, a Spanish teacher at Charles W. Baker High School in Baldwinsville, near Syracuse, has been out of the classroom since January 30.
The Baldwinsville Central School District confirmed her leave in a February 10 letter to parents, stating:
“The district can confirm that a staff member has been placed on paid administrative leave while a matter is under review.
Tucker Carlson Backtracks His Claims That Israel’s President Visited Epstein’s Island– wltreport.com
This is a rare move by Tucker.
Tucker Carlson has retracted his previous statements about Israeli President Isaac Herzog he made in a recent interview with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee.
Watch Tucker’s full apology here:
Statement on Israeli President Isaac Herzog pic.twitter.com/z2hIAO9ptY
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 21, 2026
Virginia Democrats are advancing two bills to extend deadlines for receiving and counting mail-in absentee ballots several days after Election Day.
Delegate Adele McClure and State Senator Barbara Favola, who represent Arlington, have introduced companion bills, HB 82 and SB 58, which will extend the deadline for counting absentee ballots in Virginia from noon to 5 p.m. on the third day after Election Day, reported ARL Now.
Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, also known as “El Mencho,” was the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).
The United States has reportedly played a role in the Mexican military operation that resulted in the death of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, also known as “El Mencho,” the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).
On Sunday, Oseguera Cervantes, who led one of Mexico’s most powerful criminal gangs and was a rival to the Sinaloa Cartel, was killed in the operation. The US State Department had previously offered a reward of up to $15 million for information leading to his arrest.
What more has to happen for the American people to get a clue?
Listen up, America. A Palestinian Islamic scholar in Chicago, Mohammad Nusairat, has a message for you all:
“We did not come here to coexist. We are superior to everyone else and will not be surpassed. No one is above us. If other religions want to live with us, they have to… pic.twitter.com/4jWuq1Yig0
— Chaya’s Clan (@ChayasClan) February 22, 2026
Listen up, America. A Palestinian Islamic scholar in Chicago, Mohammad Nusairat, has a message for you all:
Authorities have identified the armed intruder shot and killed early Sunday after breaching the secure perimeter at Mar-a-Lago as 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin of North Carolina, according to the Associated Press.
Martin had reportedly been listed as missing by his family just days before the incident. Investigators believe he traveled south and obtained the shotgun along the way. A box for the weapon was discovered inside his vehicle after the shooting.
According to the AP:
“The man, who was in his early 20s and from North Carolina, had a gas can and a shotgun, according to Anthony Guglielmi, the spokesman. He had been reported missing by his family a few days ago, and investigators believe he headed south and picked up the shotgun along the way.”
Fox News broke the name of the shooter on air.
🚨 BREAKING: Mar-a-Lago intruder IDENTIFIED as 21-year-old, Austin Tucker Martin, who breached the secure perimeter and was shot dead, reports Fox’s @pdoocy.
Tucker was reported missing by his parents and was LAST SEEN on Feburay 21st at 7:51pm. pic.twitter.com/xQv0kcAhJ4
— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) February 22, 2026
Activists have been recording exchanges with officers and uploading them online in a manner similar to anti-ICE activists who confront federal immigration agents.
Officers with the New York City Police Department are reportedly being harassed and doxxed by left-wing agitators who film encounters with them and post the footage on social media.
According to a report by the New York Post, activists have been recording exchanges with officers and uploading them online in a manner similar to anti-ICE activists who confront federal immigration agents.
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Democratic Minnesota state Rep. Leigh Finke claimed during a Thursday hearing that pornography could be “educational” for “queer” children while arguing against a law requiring age verification to access adult web sites.
The legislation HF 1434, would require age verification for sites deemed “harmful to minors,” with sites failing to do so being subject to civil action from the state attorney general and private citizens. Finke, a biological male who identifies as a transgender woman, claimed current sex education was not being provided for LGBT youth.
“The AGs in many states are, are very clear about that they’re almost jubilant about being able to use these laws to ban young people from accessing content that could be educational if they are queer,” Finke claimed during the Thursday hearing. “And you’re a principal, you have LGBT students in your school, and we also know that they’re not receiving sex education for queer kids. We know that. Prurient interest could be for many people the very existence of transgender kids. More and more people are saying there simply are no transgender kids.”