The Department of Justice under acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has announced plans to cancel the “anti-weaponization” fund aimed at compensating Americans who had been politically prosecuted by the Biden administration.
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For months, the loudest voices in artificial intelligence—including OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei—warned that entry-level white-collar jobs were headed for extinction. In recent weeks, both have walked back those statements.
And according to Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S., who oversees a workforce of more than 350,000 employees, the outcry wasn’t just a prediction gone wrong—it was fearmongering.
“There was a little bit of fearmongering from reading about the fact that there’s going to be a collapse of jobs,” Kumar said at Fortune’s COO Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona on Monday. “I think there will be more jobs.”
A U.S. Court of Appeals of DC panel ruled 2-1 that the President could not remove currently serving trans members of the military, but he could continue prohibiting trans people from joining. The response from the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, was “See you at SCOTUS.”
Restore Britian’s Rupert Lowe delivered a heartbreaking report on the national tragedy of the Pakistani child rape gang epidemic. Reform UK responded by calling the report foolish while the other political parties called it irrelevant and pointless.
After days of assaults on an ICE detention center in New Jersey called Delaney Hall, ICE officers were given the green light to execute mass arrests, which they did, ending interference with operations.
The British police arrived on a bloody scene in Hampshire, England. An Englishman, Henry Nowak, aged 18, had been stabbed by a Sikh man. The man accused Henry of being racist, so the police arrested the young man, not the Sikh who stabbed him.
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barret was swatted, according to a report by the Fairfax County Police in Virgina. Police say they responded to a call around 9pm on Wednesday May 27. Fortunately for Barrett, the protocol in this situation for local police is to contact the security assigned to protect Barrett. They quickly affirmed the call was a hoax.
California has passed its “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” which effectively creates extra civil liability for journalists exposing fraudsters through undercover journalism. The bill claims it would “prohibit a person from posting on the internet the personal information or image of a designated immigration support services provider, employee, or volunteer, or other individuals residing at the same home address.”
Two major AI security flaws have been revealed; corporations aren’t building safeguards into their AIs and there is a security vulnerability in the code itself.
The U.S. Fertility Rate for 2025 fell from the previous low in 2024 of 53.8 births per 1,000 females aged 15 to 44 to 53.1 births. The U.S. birthrate fell below replacement levels shortly after the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing pre-born human termination, or abortion, as it is commonly called.
The White House came under gunfire with the President working inside at the time of the shooting. The attacker was killed by secret service. One bystander was injured. The attacker was 21-year-old Nasire Best. He has a history of mental illness. He also has a history of violating White House property.
President Trump has settled his lawsuit with the Department of Justice over the prosecution of himself and others through what he alleges is lawfare. The settlement requires the DOJ to create a $1.9 billion fund that will be used to compensate those prosecuted by the Biden administration for “political reasons.
Three men were killed by two teen shooters in an apparent anti-Islamist attack on a mosque in San Diego. One gunman later killed the other gunman before killing himself. A suicide note confirms the anti-Islamist motivation behind the attacks, according to the police.
At the end of June of this year, the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, will no longer be serving in that office. Gabbard has announced her intention to resign to take care of her husband, Abraham, who has been diagnosed with a rare bone cancer.
The man who gained internet fame thanks to his “Trump House” has died after his neighbor punched him in the jaw. The Trump House owner was Terry Sherron, who was 69, and was also a veteran. He was murdered by 32-year-old Thomas Caleb Butler.
The motivation for the attack was not given, but Sherron had been complaining his flags were being stolen and vandalized. The police have not commented on the case beyond identifying the suspect and describing the event from the point of the punch being thrown and Sherron falling and hitting his head on the ground.
The Trump-Xi summit saw Chairman Xi claim the U.S. and China should be working together; while making it clear recognizing Taiwan was off the table. President Trump hinted at major business deals, and the progressive press largely covered the event as a victory for China over Trump.
The Supreme Court of the United States upheld a pause on a 5th Circuit Court ruling that would have halted mail-order sale of the abortion pill, mifepristone. The majority gave no reason for the decision, the two dissenters, Thomas and Alito, wrote their dissents.
Thomas wrote of the decision, “Applicants are not entitled to a stay of an adverse court order based on lost profits from their criminal enterprise. They cannot, in any legally relevant sense, be irreparably harmed by a court order that makes it more difficult for them to commit crimes.”
President Trump’s man, Kevin Warsh, is in as the new chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell is out. The transition happened officially on Friday, May 15, 2026. Warsh was easily confirmed by the Senate first as a Fed Governor and then as the new Federal Reserve chair.
Plans by corporate and state America to rapidly build AI data centers could meet stiff resistance is a recent Gallop poll is correct. The poll shows 70% of Americans oppose Data centers, ESPECIALLY in their local regions.
Not only do residents fear the tax on the resources, the taking of land, but also they fear the surveillance capacity of these data centers to enable the state to track the actions of citizens almost in real time.
After the Virginia Supreme Court threw out a new congressional district map that eliminated four GOP seats, progressives want to purge the court and replace it with more loyal progressives. The plan is to lower the mandatory retirement age of judges to below the youngest member of the VA Supreme Court so they can put progressive activists in to take their place.
The former Mayor of Arcadia, California has pled guilty to being a Chinese Communist Spy, Eileen Wang pled guilty to charges she cooperated with the Chinese Communist Party through a website called “US News Center.”
A mob of far-left progressive anti-Israel terrorists assaulted Jews as they were coming out of their synagogue. When cops arrived, the mobs attacked the cops. The response from Mamdani’s office has been tepid, with only three arrests announced as a follow-up.
New evidence has revealed Pakistan has been allowing the Iranians to park their warplanes in its territory for safekeeping. Pakistan is currently playing the role of mediator in ceasefire negotiations between Iran and the U.S. (and Israel).
Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) stands accused of exposing top secret information on CBS News’ Face the Nation. He was reacting after having attended a Pentagon classified briefing on the Iran War’s impact on stockpiled weapons. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is seeking legal counsel on whether charges can be brought against Kelly or not.
He told Face the Nation, “… the numbers are, I think it’s fair to say it’s shocking how deep we have gone into these magazines, because this president got our country into this without a strategic goal, without a plan, without a timeline, and because of that, we’ve expended a lot of munitions, and that means the American people are less safe, whether it’s a conflict in the western Pacific with China or somewhere else in the world, the munitions are depleted. You may have seen me ask the Secretary of Defense this question about how long it’s going to take to replenish. We’re talking about years.”
North Korea’s constitution has been changed to compel the nation to launch a nuclear attack should their leader, Kim Jung Un, get killed.
A Washington Post report claiming one CIA analysis gave Iran 4 months to withstand the blockade on its country. A senior intelligence official called those claims false. The unnamed official also claimed the blockade “is inflicting real, compounding damage, severing trade, crushing revenue, and aceleating systemic economic collapse.”
While the signals from Iran continue to be conflicting and often changing from one moment to the next, the U.S. stock market seems to have adapted to this uncertainty.
The Strait of Hormuz remains unopened, mostly, and the President does not seem hard-pressed to settle on a ceasefire or resume “offensive” actions.
There continues to be troubling signs for the world economy should the Strait of Hormuz continue to remain unopened, especially for Europe, but so far, the U.S. has yet to feel the pinch, save for at the gas pump.
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The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled 2-1 most illegals should get bond releases while awaiting deportation hearings.
North Korea is no longer seeking unity with South Korea. It was once a part of their constitution, but now that article has been dropped.
The separation from the South is now complete, at least for Kim Jung Un and his family business, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
America’s major AI companies, including Google and Microsoft, have agreed to submit all new AI models to the Federal government’s Commerce Department for a national security safety review/ This review will be conducted by the Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards.